LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 19 - 25 November 2007

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. November 20 Extraordinary Lives. THE WIRE 25: FILM The Roxy Bar and  
Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1LB

2. November 21. Radical Contact Tate Modern, London

3. November 22. Patrick Keiller The City of the Future BFI Southbank  
Gallery BFI Southbank Belvedere Road London SE1 8XT

4. November 23. SHIFTING THE LANDSCAPE- an evening of artists? films  
Screen at 43 Gordon Square Birkbeck College, WC1H 0PD

5. November 25. Scolt Head Screenings (Series 2) The Scolt Head,107a  
Culford Road, London N1 4HT




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1.
Tuesday November 20. 8pm
Extraordinary Lives. THE WIRE 25: FILM
The Roxy Bar and Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1LB
All screenings are free admission, arrive early to avoid disappointment.

EXTRAORDINARY LIVES
Luke Fowler?s ?Bogman Palmjaguar? is a portrait of its namesake, a  
former patient of radical psychologist R.D. Laing who now lives a  
hermetic life in the Flow Country of the Scottish Highlands.  
Documenting the environment of the surrounding landscape as much as  
its human focus, the images are accompanied by Lee Patterson?s  
evocative field recordings. Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye are the  
subjects of Marie Losier?s diary/documentary, which pursues the  
pandrongynous partners at home, visiting MoMA?s Dada exhibition, and  
on tour with Thee Majesty and Throbbing Gristle.
BOGMAN PALMJAGUAR, Luke Fowler, UK, 2007, 30 minutes
A BALLAD WITH GENESIS P-ORRIDGE AND LADY JAYE, Marie Losier, USA,  
2007, 37 minutes




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2.
Wednesday November 21. 6.30pm
Radical Contact
Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium Bankside London SE1
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

This programme presents films of contact: technological contact,  
cultural contact, and historical contact.  Selected from a variety of  
places and times, they are valuable resources for their content alone,  
but the contexts of their filming in far-away places and their  
reception in the first world ? along with question of what they might  
mean for us today ? make them treasure troves for those interested in  
the power of cultural difference and the meaning of history. The films  
were made for audiences that were in thrall to a burgeoning technology  
in which notions like development and modernisation were all but  
sacred. Today, these cinematic curios document the magnitude of the  
fascination societies ? which took themselves to be above all  
scientific and rational ? had with cultures whose defining feature was  
their perceived lack of those very qualities. To view these films  
today is not only to imagine the different contexts of their filming  
and reception but also, with the large span of time now embedded in  
the very grain of the celluloid, to retouch, in a sensate way, the  
strange and familiar longing for the archaic past which lies at the  
heart of the modern dilemma. As Walter Benjamin has suggested, when we  
delve into the secrets of modernity (represented here by loving filmic  
attention to technology) the archaic is never that far off.  So too  
the very viewing of these time-worn films.

Pope Leo XIII, William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, UK 1897, 7 min

Latha (original title Indonesian Psychiatric Hospital), 1925, 2 min

Bedaja Dancing, J C Lamster, Netherlands 1912-13

Tea Cultivation in Sumatra, 1917

A Bird?s Eye View of Hawaii, 1916, 5 min

Curated and introduced by Rachel Moore, Lecturer in International  
Media at Goldsmiths Unversity of London
Programme duration 60 min




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3.
Thursday November 22. 6.30pm
Patrick Keiller The City of the Future
BFI Southbank Gallery BFI Southbank Belvedere Road London SE1 8XT
23 Nov. 07 - 03 Feb. 08 Tue - Sun 11-8 and Bank Holiday Mondays
Private View, 22.Nov.07, 18:30 - 21:00
Admission free

The City of the Future is an exploration of urban landscape at the  
turn of the twentieth century, an assembly of 68 early actuality films  
arranged in the space of the gallery on a network of maps from the  
period.

Until the mid-1900s, most films were between one and three minutes  
long and comprised one or very few relatively lengthy takes. Many were  
street scenes and views from moving vehicles, so that early films  
offer unusually extensive views of the city of their time ? a space  
that was being transformed by technological, political and economic  
developments ? in a period which suggests some striking comparisons  
and parallels with our own.

Keiller?s identification of previously unknown locations has enabled  
him to locate the films in the spatial array that is the exhibition?s  
concept. Visitors are invited to explore this landscape, both by  
walking among its several screens, on each of which a sequence of  
films is displayed, and by departing from its programmed sequence to  
create an individual journey, using the ?menu? functions of a DVD to  
move from film to film across the landscape represented by the maps.


Talks

Patrick Keiller in conversation with Roger Luckhurst, Senior Lecturer,  
Birkbeck
Tue 27 Nov 18:20 Studio

What is Cinema?: Space in Time
Rachel Moore, Lecturer in International Media at Goldsmiths,  
University of London, will address how Patrick Keiller?s work prompts  
a reconsideration of material space in moving images.
Thu 10 Jan 18:10 NFT3

Why Did Early Films Move?
Bryony Dixon, Curator of Silent Film, BFI National Archive, considers  
the reinterpretation of early film devices in the digital imagery.
Sat 1 Dec 16:00  Studio




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4.
Friday November 23. 7.30pm for 8pm
SHIFTING THE LANDSCAPE- an evening of artists? films
Screen at 43 Gordon Square Birkbeck College, WC1H 0PD
Free but booking essential via www.createkx.org.uk events.

Specially commissioned for Arrivals. www.arrivals2007.org.uk
Passage
Andrew Cross
Passage is a voyage through landscape music and cultural history which  
plots the unseen landscape literally above and below High Speed 1 as  
it passes from the English Channel to St Pancras. This journey is set  
in parallel with the rehearsal of a harpsichord suite by George  
Frederick Handel and contemplation on tunnels in French. Passage is a  
commission by Camden Arts and Tourism Services for Arrivals.

King?s Cross Stories
Minnie Weisz
The Coal and Fish Offices, the Great Northern Hotel and the Stanley  
Buildings are the central characters in Minnie Weisz's film piece,  
which forms three chapters, each a meditation, each an ode to the  
buildings. Weisz takes us on a magical and mysterious journey through  
the interiors combining Camera Obscura and moving image and crossing  
time, memory and place.

Time out of Place
Semi Conductor & Red Snapper
This film from Semiconductor responds to the new St Pancras Station  
and draws upon its local history and industrial heritage.  
Semiconductor are renowned for their ?sound films? revealing a  world  
in flux and shifting landscapes, and for this commission they have   
collaborated with Red Snapper, inventive and pioneering remixers. The  
film is a Big Chill commission for Arrivals.





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5. Sunday November 25. 7pm
Scolt Head Screenings (Series 2)
The Scolt Head,107a Culford Road, London N1 4HT
Screenings are free. Seats are allocated on a first come, first served basis.

SCOLT HEAD SCREENINGS (Series 2) invites artists to present a  
selection of their works on film or video alongside a feature film of  
their choice, irrespective of its influence upon their practice. These  
Sunday evening screenings at The Scolt Head aim to encourage an open  
dialogue about artists' works on film and video.www.thescolthead.com

Sunday 25th November
Mark Aerial Waller presents "The Sons of Temperance" (2000) &  
"Midwatch" (2001) followed by "Les Yeux Sans Visage" (1960), directed  
by Georges Franju.