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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK. 1st-7th October
2007
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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK
1. 2 October. Arts on Film Archive: Richard Hamilton and Claes
Oldenburg. Tate Modern, London
2. 3 October. Arts on Film Archive: Bill Brandt, Shadow from Light.
Tate Modern, London
3. 3 October. Hold Everything Dear: John Berger and Pasolini's La
Rabbia. Curzon Mayfair, London
4. 3 October. Drum Room / Miranda Pennell. BFI Southbank, London
5. 5 October. New Video Works from the V22 Collection. V22, Dalston,
London
6. 5 October. Invitation to a Dream: A Season of Avant-Garde Cinema.
Ciné lumière, London
7. 5 October. Dara Birnbaum. Tate Modern, London
8. 6 October. The Return of the Real, Phil Collins. Victoria Miro
Gallery, London
9. 6 October. Saskia Olde Wolbers. Maureen Paley, London
10.7 October. Subversion & The Cinema. Curzon Soho, London
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1.
October 2, 6.30pm
Arts on Film Archive: Richard Hamilton and Claes Oldenburg.
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
£5 (£4 concessions), booking required 020 7887 8888
Richard Hamilton James Scott, UK 1969, 25mins
Made in collaboration with the artist Richard Hamilton, this
documentary remains vivid and surprising nearly forty years on.
Fragments of Hamilton’s works are integrated with newsreel images,
movie trailers and much else. The artist offers an audio-only
commentary, but this too is layered and disrupted. From this
disorienting and often funny patchwork emerges a perceptual analysis
that avoids conventional explanation, yet reveals key ideas that
shaped Hamilton's art.
The Great Ice Cream Robbery James Scott, UK 1971, 35 mins
This rarely seen film, projected on two screens, was produced to run
with the Claes Oldenburg’s major retrospective at the Tate Gallery in
1970. The film portrays Oldenburg’s visit to London and his
preparations for the exhibition.
Followed by a conversation between Richard Hamilton and James Scott.
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2.
October 3, 6.30pm
Arts on Film Archive: Bill Brandt, Shadow from Light.
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
£5 (£4 concessions), booking required 020 7887 8888
Bill Brandt, Shadow from Light. Steve Dwoskin, UK 1983, 59 min
‘A cinematographic journey through the photographic atmospheres of
Bill Brandt’ by renowned experimental filmmaker Steve Dwoskin. Many
of the photographer's most famous images are presented, along with
Brandt himself, who died in December 1983. Much of the film is a
succession of glistening, high contrast monochrome frames, echoing
Brandt’s style and blurring the boundary between the photographs and
the film’s photography. There are quotations too, about photography,
from Man Ray, Susan Sontag, Edward Steichen, plus a child reading
fragments from Alice Through the Looking Glass. Shadows from Light,
like Lewis Carroll, is mysterious and haunting, innocent yet
rewardingly complex.
Followed by a conversation with Steve Dwoskin.
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3.
October 3, 6.30pm
Hold Everything Dear: John Berger and Pasolini's La Rabbia.
Curzon Mayfair Cinema, 38 Curzon Street, London W1.
£10. www.curzoncinemas.com TEL. 0870 756 4621
John Berger is a storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter,
dramatist and critic, whose body of work embodies his concern for, in
Geoff Dyer's words, "the enduring mystery of great art and the lived
experience of the oppressed." He is one of the most internationally
influential writers of the last fifty years, one who has explored the
relationships between the individual and society, culture and
politics, and experience and expression in a series of novels,
essays, plays, films, photographic collaborations and performances,
unmatched in their diversity, ambition and reach. His television
series and book Ways of Seeing revolutionised the way that Fine Art
is read and understood, while his engagements with European peasantry
and migration in the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours and A Seventh
Man stand as models of empathy and insight.
Following its screening, John Berger will be in conversation with
Gareth Evans, editor of Vertigo magazine and curator of 'Here Is
Where We Meet', a 2005 celebration of Berger's work.
Every audience member will receive a free copy of a 96 page, fully
illustrated exploration of John Berger's life and work, with original
writing by Berger, Geoff Dyer, Michael Ondaatje and Anne Michaels,
among many others.
Hold Everything Dear is published by Verso Books, one of the most
impressively intellectual and politically committed publishers of our
times (www.versobooks.com). It will be available to buy on the night.
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4.
October 3, 8.30pm
Drum Room / Miranda Pennell.
NFT 3, BFI Southbank, London
£8.60 / £6.25 (BFI Members pay £1 less) For tickets contact the BFI
Box Office on 020 7928 3232.
Drum Room reflects on the relationships between the individual and
the group, as young rock musicians express their collective and
individual identities against the ordered conventions of the
institution they inhabit. The film deconstructs the architecture of a
music school and plays on the unexpected sound relationships
contained within it. Contrasting the cool
distance of the formal architecture against the intimacy of human
performance, the film draws attention to the viewer’s distance to,
and identification with, the performer’s imaginative world.
The programme will include You Made Me Love You (2005) and Tattoo
(2001), and presents a short performance by master drummer and
legendary improviser, Steve Noble.
A discussion between the artist and Helen de Witt, Festivals
Producer, BFI will follow the screening.
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5.
October 5.
New Video Works from the V22 Collection.
V22, 10-16 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
Private view Friday, 5th October. Dates: 5th October - 11th November
2007
www.v22ashwinstreet.com Tel. +44 (0)207 159 6790
The V22 Contemporary Art Collection is pleased to announce the launch
of its video art collection with an exhibition of new works. To form
this collection, V22 relies on its advisory panels, but most
particularly on the expertise of Pryle Behrman who continues to
source outstanding works in this medium from artists around the world.
Pryle is a critic and curator who lives and works in London. He
regularly contributes to many of Britain’s leading art magazines on a
wide range of topics, gaining particular recognition for his writings
in Art Monthly about video art, art from non-Western centres and the
proliferation of biennales around the world.
Since 2005 he has been the lead curator of the Art Projects section
of the London Art Fair, which comprises around 20 exhibitions by
cutting-edge artists produced specifically for the event, as well as
curating London Art Fair's annual Video Booth, with past exhibitions
including 'Recent Trends in Latin American Video Art' and 'Video Art
& Drawing'. Other notable exhibitions curated by Pryle include
‘Nothing If Not Satirical: satire in video art’ at The Nunnery
Gallery, East London in 2004, which secured record attendance figures
for the gallery and was widely featured in the national press.
Pryle has been the lead advisor in video art acquisitions for the V22
Collection since March 2007.
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6.
October 5 - 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.
fri 5 oct 6.15pm Jean Epstein Programme 1
fri 5 oct 8.30pm Jean Epstein Programme 2
sat 6 oct 6.00pm Germaine Dulac Programme 1*
sat 6 oct 7.30pm Germaine Dulac Programme 2*
sat 6 oct 9.00pm Germaine Dulac Programme 3*
sun 7 oct 4.30pm René Clair Programme
sun 7 oct 6.30pm Man Ray Programme
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
* please note: the three Germaine Dulac programmes will tour to the
Barbican Cinema on Sunday 7 October;
please see www.barbican.org.uk/fi lm for details
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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7.
October 5.
Dara Birnbaum. 7pm
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
£5 (£4 concessions), booking required 020 7887 8888
Acclaimed video pioneer Dara Birnbaum presents a programme of her
work, as originally screened at New York’s The Collective for Living
Cinema in 1980. An experiment in ‘reverse engineering’, 16mm
kinescopes of her well-known early video works are shown, including
(A)Drift of Politics: Laverne & Shirley (1978), a two-screen video/
film comparison.
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8.
October 6.
The Return of the Real, Phil Collins.
Victoria Miro Gallery, 16 Wharf Rd, London N1 7RW
Dates: Oct 6 - Nov 10, 2007. Tue-Sat 10-6. www.victoria-miro.com
New video & photographic installation.
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9.
October 6.
Saskia Olde Wolbers.
Maureen Paley, 21 Herald St, London E2 6JT
Dates: Oct 6 - Nov 11, 2007. Wed-Sun 11-6 and by appt.
www.maureenpaley.com
New film by Saskia Olde Wolbers.
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10.
October 7, 12 noon.
Subversion & The Cinema
Curzon Soho, Shaftsbury Avenue, London
Tickets £6.50
To mark the publication of Subversion: The Definitive History of
Underground Cinema Wallflower Press have joined forces with Curzon
Cinemas to host a rare afternoon screening of subversive film in all
its forms. The author of the book, Duncan Reekie, will introduce an
exciting programme of contemporary underground film, protest video,
countercultural cinema, Agit-Prop, Beat cinema, Surrealist film and
early cinema. As Underground Cinema activist and founder of Exploding
Cinema, Reekie, will also be talking about his own film, Destroy All
Mobsters, which will be screened at the event.
Copies of the book will be on sale after the screening. To book
tickets, please call 0870 850 6928 or visit www.curzoncinemas.com
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