LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 22-28 October 2007

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. no.w.here : Light Reading Series 7 - Marcel Schwierin and Stuart  
Comer - On America, Bethnal Green Road, London

2. LUX EVENT: NWUK: Trust Yourself, Whitechapel Gallery, London

3. AVANT-GARDE WEEKEND DAY 1, THE TIMES BFI 51st LONDON FILM  
FESTIVAL, BFI Southbank, London

4. AVANT-GARDE WEEKEND DAY 2, THE TIMES BFI 51st LONDON FILM  
FESTIVAL, BFI Southbank, London



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1.
Wednesday October 24, 7pm
no.w.here : Light Reading Series 7 - Marcel Schwierin and Stuart  
Comer - On America
3rd Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 OAG
Tickets £5 on the door or £4 advance.
To book please call 0207 372 3925 or email courses at nowhere-lab.org

The Berlin-based curator Marcel Schwierin invited Stuart Comer  
(curator of film at Tate Modern) as an American living and working in  
London to discuss anti-Americanism, American culture and its  
counterculture. The discussion will be based on the work of two  
artists: Marcel Schwierin will present ‘America Sells’ and an excerpt  
of ‘Auto Center Drive’ by the German video artist Bjørn Melhus, who  
works nearly exclusively on U.S. American media in a very personal  
way, reflecting the huge influence of this culture in Germany after  
1945. Stuart Comer will present the rarely seen 'ITSOFOMO' by David  
Wojnarowicz, which is a personal and highly political statement from  
the New York underground.

Films:
America Sells, Bjørn Melhus, Germany 1990, U-Matic, colour, sound, 7 min
Auto Center Drive, Bjørn Melhus, Germany 2003, 16mm,  colour, sound,  
28 min
[an excerpt will be presented on video]
ITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion), David Wojnarowicz (in
collaboration with Ben Neill), US 1991/2004, 22 min



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2.
Thursday October 25, 7.30pm
LUX EVENT: NWUK: Trust Yourself
Whitechapel Art Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
Tickets £5  020 7522 7888

New Work UK:  TRUST YOURSELF
Curated by Lina Dzuverovic
Michelle Deignan, Chia-En Jao, Yaron Lapid, Flávia Müller Medeiros,  
Harold Offeh, Uriel Orlow,

What is new work? Was I to look for recently completed work? Or work  
new to the audience, new to LUX, new to Whitechapel? I decided that  
the most meaningful way forward was to look for work that was new to  
me, challenging the idea of curators’ expected ‘stable’ of artists,  
as well as my own patterns of working. The criteria became that the  
work shown had to be previously unseen by myself, made by artists I  
had not worked with before (and as it turns out, never met).

I wanted the screening to reflect the process of putting such a  
programme together. What are the channels that curators use when  
asked to compile a project like this? How do artists reach those  
curators and what means do curators have for moving beyond what they  
already know?

The resulting programme comprises work made between 2003 and 2007 by  
six UK based artists. It takes us on a geographically dispersed  
journey on which we encounter fictional and real characters whose  
stories and messages introduce a range of storytelling modes. Taking  
risks in their delivery, the works range from intimate accounts of  
personal experiences, pseudo reportages delivered by ‘official’  
voices to oddly conveyed political messages and performative public  
actions. The works in the programme shake up our expectations of how  
narratives are communicated making us suspend our trust in the  
narrator and our immediate responses. These works cause the viewer to  
re-think assumed positions and examine how the delivery of  
information affects the reading of the content.

Lina Dzuverovic is the Director of the London based contemporary arts  
agency ELECTRA.

Programme:

Yaron Lapid – You Have Not Found His Riddle (2003), 12’ 39’’
Chia-En Jao – Father’s Tongue (2007), 5’ 33’’
Uriel Orlow – The Visitor (2007) 15’ 58’’
Flávia Müller Medeiros – Fight The Enemy Abroad So We Don’t Have To  
Face Them at Home (2005), 1’20’’
Michelle Deignan – Red Cheeks (2006), 9’ 26’’
Harold Offeh – Haroldinho (2003), 12’
Michelle Deignan-  Il Cittadino (2007) 8’ 46’’

Total Running Time: 65 minutes
followed by a discussion with artists and the curator.



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3.
Saturday 27 October
AVANT-GARDE WEEKEND DAY 1, THE TIMES BFI 51st LONDON FILM FESTIVAL,  
BFI Southbank, London
£8.60 / £6.25 (BFI Members pay £1 less) For tickets contact the BFI  
Box Office on 020 7928 3232.
DAY ONE

Sat 27 Oct 12.00-19.00 STUDIO [Free Admission]
CAPITALISM: CHILD LABOR
Ken Jacobs / USA 2006 / 14 mins (continuous loop)

...

Sat 27 Oct 14.00 NFT3
THE ‘I’ AND THE ‘WE’

SEEING RED
Su Friedrich / USA 2005 / 27 mins
JE SUIS UNE BOMBE
Elodie Pong / Switzerland 2006 / 7 mins
I JUST WANTED TO BE SOMEBODY
Jay Rosenblatt / USA 2006 / 10 mins
REGARDING THE PAIN OF SUSAN SONTAG (NOTES ON CAMP)
Steve Reinke / Canada 2006 / 4 mins
PART TIME HEROES
Mara Mattuschka, Chris Haring / Austria 2007 / 33 mins

Total running time approximately 85 mins

...

Sat 27 Oct 16.00 NFT3
PAST IMPERFECT

HYSTERIA
Christina Battle / Canada 2006 / 4 mins
DANGEROUS SUPPLEMENT
Soon-Mi Yoo / USA-Korea 2006 / 14 mins
CATALOGUE OF BIRDS: BOOK 3
Jayne Parker / UK 2006 / 16 mins
HIS EYE ON THE SPARROW
Bruce Conner / USA 2006 / 4 mins
MARGUERITE DURAS / ALAIN RESNAIS (0.65, 0.85, 1.0 FPS)
David Dempewolf / USA 2007 / 19 mins
HELENÉS (APPARITION OF FREEDOM)
Christoph Draeger / Switzerland 2005 / 18 mins

Total running time approximately 80 mins

...

Sat 27 Oct 19.00 NFT3

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN PRESERVATIONS
Newly preserved prints. Carolee Schneemann is a multi-media artist  
whose films, performances, installations and writings are a radical  
discourse on the body, sexuality and gender.

FUSES Carolee Schneemann / USA 1964-67 / 29 mins
KITCH’S LAST MEAL Carolee Schneemann / USA 1973-76 / c.60 mins

Total running time approximately 80 mins

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Sat 27 Oct 21.00 NFT3
MYSTERIOUS EMULSION

WATER SPELL Sandy Ding / USA 2007 / 42 mins
BLUE MONET Carl E. Brown / Canada 2006 / 56 mins (double screen)

Total running time approximately 100 mins



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4.
Saturday 27 October
AVANT-GARDE WEEKEND DAY 1, THE TIMES BFI 51st LONDON FILM FESTIVAL,  
BFI Southbank, London
£8.60 / £6.25 (BFI Members pay £1 less) For tickets contact the BFI  
Box Office on 020 7928 3232.
DAY TWO


Sun 28 Oct 12.00-19.00 STUDIO [Free Admission]
NOW WAIT FOR LAST YEAR
Rachel Reupke / UK-China 2007 / 9 mins (continuous loop)

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Sun 28 Oct 14.00 NFT3
OVER LAND AND SEA

THE IVALO RIVER DELTA
Patrick Beveridge / UK 2007 / 17 mins
AT SEA
Peter Hutton / USA 2007 / 60 mins

Total running time approximately 80 mins
Note: Peter Hutton will present a screening of his early work at Tate  
Modern on Monday 29 October 2007.

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Sun 28 Oct 16.00 NFT3
THE PERCIPIENT IMAGE

DISCOVERIES ON THE FOREST FLOOR 1-3
Charlotte Pryce / USA 2007 / 4 mins
THE SKY WALKS ME HOME
Allen D. Glass II / USA-China 2005 / 24 mins
THE CROSSING
Timoleon Wilkins / USA 2007 / 6 mins
THE BREATH
Minyong Jang / Korea 2007 / 10 mins
PITCHER OF COLORED LIGHT
Robert Beavers / USA 2007 / 24 mins

Total running time approximately 70 mins

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Sun 28 Oct 19.00 NFT3
[also Tue 30 Oct 19.30 STUDIO]

SEVEN EASY PIECES BY MARINA ABRAMOVIC
Babette Mangolte / USA 2007 / 93 mins


…

Sun 28 Oct 21.00 NFT3
THE ANAGOGIC CHAMBER

FILM FOR INVISIBLE INK, CASE NO: 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG
David Gatten / USA 2006 / 10 mins
SHADOW TRAP
Greg Pope / UK-Norway 2007 / 8 mins
THE OBJECT WHICH THINKS US: OBJECT 1
Samantha Rebello / UK 2007 / 7 mins
FUGITIVE L(I)GHT
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof / Canada 2005 / 9 mins
SICK SERENA AND DREGS AND WRECK AND WRECK
Emily Wardill / UK 2007 / 10 mins
VICTORY OVER THE SUN
Michael Robinson / USA 2007 / 13 mins
TODAY!
Jessie Stead, David Gatten / USA 2007 / 11 mins

Total running time approximately 75 mins

Note: Festival guest David Gatten will lead a practical workshop on  
the use of text in 16mm filmmaking on Thursday 25 October 2007. See  
separate announcement for details.





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