LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 8-14 October 2007

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. October 8-10. Invitation to a Dream: A Season of Avant-Garde  
Cinema. Ciné lumière, London

2. October 12. INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILMS. Zoo Art Fair, London

3. October 12. NUEVA DIMENSION. Hats Plus, London

4. October 14. LUX EVENT: The Wayward Canon Presents: Simon and the  
Radioactive Flesh-Dalston. Arcola Theatre, London




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1.
October 8 - October 10
Invitation to a Dream: A Season of Avant-Garde Cinema
Ciné lumière at the Institut francais, 17 Queensberry Place, London  
SW7 2DT
T. 020 7073 1350 www.institut-francais.org.uk

This October, Ciné lumière invites you into the world of early avant- 
garde filmmakers in France and America. A broad survey of avant-garde  
fi lmmaking in both countries from the 20s through to the 50s, with  
examples drawn from all three of the dominant trends – Abstraction,  
Dada and Surrealism, the season offers rare archival screenings of  
milestone fi lms by (among others) Jean Epstein, Man Ray, René Clair  
and Robert Florey, many with live musical accompaniment. The season’s  
centrepiece is an evening-long tribute to feminist filmmaker Germaine  
Dulac, a key fi gure in the French Impressionism movement of the  
1910s and 20s devoted to promoting film as the ‘seventh art’. In an  
exceptional cinematic event, Ciné lumière will screen a selection of  
her early masterpieces to live piano accompaniment by Errollyn  
Wallen, and evocative contemporary soundscapes by French band  
L’Inquiétant suspendu and English band Minima.

mon 8 oct 6.30pm Buñuel Programme
mon 8 oct 8.30pm Man Ray Programme
tue 9 oct 7.00pm City Symphonies
tue 9 oct 8.30pm Abstract Shorts
wed 10 oct 6.45pm Le Chant des poètes
wed 10 oct 8.30pm Avant-garde Miscellaneous


Prices:
1 programme: £7, conc. £5
2 programmes (the same night): £9, conc. £7 or £10, conc. £8
3 programmes (the same night): £12, conc. £10



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2.
October 12–15
no.w.here present:
INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILMS
Zoo Art Fair (booth A4), Royal Academy of Arts, London, W1S 3EX
For tickets and directions visit http://www.zooartfair.com/

For Zoo Art Fair no.w.here have initiated a new project called  
Instructions For Films. Instructions For Films investigates how a  
film could be made, using only the idea of film. Over forty  
international artists who use the moving image, were sent a white  
card with the following invitation: 'On the card enclosed propose  
instructions for a film. You may render the instructions by any means  
and appendages.' The cards will be exhibited on no.w.here's stand  
during the fair, and a published edition will be available for purchase.

Contributors:
Yann Beauvais, Juliette Blightman, Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, Abigail  
Child, Pip Chodorov, Mary Helena Clark & David Gatten, Tony Conrad,  
David Cunningham, Will Docherty & Vanalyne Green, Benedict Drew &  
Emma Hart, Amit Dutta, Sonya Dyer, Gill Eatherley, Bradley Eros,  
Morgan Fisher, Thorsten Fleisch, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder, Peter  
Gidal, Nicky Hamlyn, James Holcombe, Andrew Lampert, Maurice  
Lemaître, LoVid, Rose Lowder, Bruce McClure, Antonio Muntadas,  
Rosalind Nashashibi, Pat O’Neil, Yoko Ono, Lisa Oppenheim, Jayne  
Parker, Simon Payne, Laure Prouvost, William Raban, Jürgen Reble,  
Joost Rekveld, Daïchi Saïto, Carolee Schneemann, Guy Sherwin, Michael  
Snow, Surekha, Peter Tscherkassky, Chris Welsby, Robert Whitman.

Curated by William Rose for no.w.here
http://www.nowhere-lab.org/



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3.
Friday October 12
NUEVA DIMENSION
Hats Plus, 101b Kings Cross Rd. WC1
Opening Friday 12th October 2007 6-9pm

Adham
Markus Amm
Hany Armanious
Anders Clausen
Steve Claydon
Maya Deren
Luke Dowd
Michael Fullerton
Seb Patane
Audrey Reynolds
Patrick Ryan
Fergal Stapleton

Organised by Dick Evans

Opening Friday 12th October 2007 6-9pm
After Party Djs and Band at Carpenters Arms next door, till late.  
07814682439

Open Sat, Sun 12-6pm Sat 13th Oct - Sun 4h Nov



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4.
Sunday 14 October
LUX EVENT: The Wayward Canon Presents: Simon and the Radioactive  
Flesh-Dalston
Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola Street, London E8 2DJ
TICKETS £5 from Arcola Theatre - booking recommended  020 7503 1646  
(box office)


A film and intermittent art video screening that transcends into a  
purgatorial nightclub setting.

Simon and the Radioactive Flesh uses Louis Bunuel's 45 minute film of  
an ascetic, Simon, a devotee of Simon Stylites, who proclaims his  
faith through standing on a column in the desert. The devil visits on  
several occasions to lure him from his duty, eventually succeeding in  
transposing him to purgatory; an existential beat nightclub in 1960's  
New York. In this reworking of the original film, each time the devil  
appears the narrative is interrupted by the insertion of a  
contemporary video art work. The interruptions continue throughout  
the film until finally we too are spatially interrupted, finding  
ourselves in a parallel to the purgatorial nightclub setting of the  
film's last dance, Carne Radioactivo (the Radioactive Flesh).

with work by
Luis Bunuel
Sophie Brown & Cathrine Evelid
Dirk Bonn & Bernhard Willheim
Pablo Bronstein
Ben Callaway
Omer Ali Kazma
Mark Leckey
Assume Vivid Astro Focus

Total screening time approx 1 hour, dancing thereafter.

The Wayward Canon, founded by artist Mark Aerial Waller in 2001, is a  
shifting platform for the re-evaluation of cinema. Wayward Canon  
events include: My Kleine Fassbinderbar, a 15 hour monument to  
Fassbinder's 'Berlin Alexanderplatz', installed in a site specific  
bar with a mirror reflecting the screen, The Sun Set, an invitation  
for artists, poets and writers to respond to the disjointed  
temporality and epic theme of Aaron Spelling's Hollywood soap,  
'Sunset Beach' and La Societé des Amis de Judex, the  
recontextualisation of Apollinaire's pre-surrealist attentions to the  
early popular cinema of Louis Feuillade, where a smoke machine acts  
as a spatial and temporal agent.

In Giles Round's work geometric shapes, minimal structures and  
monochrome planes are combined with objects such as plants, lights or  
three-dimensional texts. The relationships between these constituent  
parts together with their intended allegorical interpretations alter  
the seemingly formalist concerns of the work to partially reveal  
possible fictions, unspecified histories and scientific theories. The  
landscape of the city at night, filmic narratives and concepts of  
quantum physics are all suggested through the use of architectural  
materials, layers of cross-cultural referencing and coded geometric  
language. The reflective, often emotive undertone to Round's work  
often seeks not only to deal with grand overriding theories of  
everything but also heightened yet fleeting moments of existence such  
as isolation, emptiness, joy or hope.

Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola Street, London E8 2DJ

Tube: Highbury & Islington, then bus 30 or Liverpool Street, then bus  
149
Rail: Dalston Kingsland Station (North London Line)
Bus: 30, 38, 67, 76, 149, & 243






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