LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 15-21 October 2007

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. October 16. Arts on Film Archive Music and Performance Films, Tate  
Modern, London

2. October 19. Germaine Dulac Programme One, Tate Modern, London

3. October 21. Germaine Dulac Programme TWO, Tate Modern, London




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1.
Tuesday 16 October, 18.30
Arts on Film Archive: Music and Performance Films
Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended 020 7887 8888

Throughout the 1990s, the Arts Council collaborated with BBC  
Television on a number of successful series of imaginative short  
films bringing together creative filmmakers with dancers,  
choreographers, musicians and performance artists. Included in the  
programme are Blight made by John Smith with composer Jocelyne Pook,  
Jayne Parker's The World Turned Upside Down, David Hinton and  
Rosemary Lee's work of 'documentary choreography', Snow, as well as  
John Tchalenko's delightful tribute to step-dancer Sam Sherry.

Followed by a conversation with John Smith and Jocelyne Pook.




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2.
Friday 19 October, 19.00 & Saturday 10 November 2007, 19.00
Germaine Dulac: Programme One
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended 020 7887 8888

This programme includes The Seashell and the Clergyman, considered  
the first surrealist film. It is based on a scenario by Anonin  
Artaud, who said, 'To understand this film it is enough to look  
deeply into one's self.' A series of abstract shorts follows,  
presenting Dulac’s drive to produce a non-narrative cinema based on  
visual rhythms.

La Coquille et le clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman), France  
1928, 40 min.
Disque 957, France 1929, 6 min.
Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque, France 1929, 9 min.
Thèmes et variations, France 1929, 12 min.

Programme duration 67 min.



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3.
Sunday 21 October, 15.00 & Sunday 11 NovembeR, 15.00
Germaine Dulac: Programme Two
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended 020 7887 8888

Three films feature Dulac’s visually striking means of investigating  
romantic disillusionment, and the frustrations and fantasies of empty  
domestic life. L’Invitation au voyage is based on writings by Charles  
Baudelaire, and The Smiling Madame Beudet is a shining example of  
Dulac’s use of experimental techniques to convey psychological states.

La Fête espagnole, France 1919, 8 min.
La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet), 1922, 38 min.
L’Invitation au voyage, France 1927, 36 min.

Programme duration 82 min.