LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS 7 April - 12 April 2008

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON


1. Wednesday 9th April. Desire and Defiance: The Films of Su  
Friedrich. BFI Southbank NFT 3, London

2. Wednesday 9th April. Digital Auteurs, The Fleapit, London

3. Thursday 10th April. Seamus Harahan. Gimpel Fils, London

4. Thursday 10th April. Screening of Blow Job by Andy Warhol. Tate  
Modern, London

5. Thursday 10th April. Jennifer Allen presents a selection of works  
from the Zabludowicz and LUX Collections. 176 Gallery, London

6. Friday 11th February. Suky Best & Rory Hamilton: Rodeo. Danielle  
Arnaud, London.

7. Sunday 12th April. It’s A Sin: The Films and Inspirations of Derek  
Jarman. Gate Picturehouse, London

8. Sunday 12th April. Serpentine Gallery Talks In conjunction with  
the DEREK JARMAN exhibition. Serpentine Gallery, London

9. Sunday 12th April. The SCOLT HEAD screenings : SERIES 3 PROGRAMME.  
The SCOLT HEAD, London




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1.
Wednesday 9th April. 6.40 pm
Desire and Defiance: The Films of Su Friedrich.
BFI Southbank NFT 3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank SE1
Part of the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
www.llgff.org.uk Box Office: 020 7928 3232
£8.60 / £7.60 members £6.25 concessions / £5.25 members concessions

Mixing narrative, documentary, and experimental forms, American  
filmmaker Su Friedrich creates uniquely personal hybrid films  
characterized by a formal elegance and a defiant spirit. This year  
the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival celebrates 30 years of  
filmmaking by this pivotal figure of avant-garde, feminist, and queer  
cinema with a retrospective program of her groundbreaking work.

THE ODDS OF RECOVERY
Su Friedrich, USA, 2002, 65 min
Asked if she is Œmarried, single or divorced¹ by a hospital  
receptionist, Su Friedrich¹s reply of Œdomestic partner¹ reflects her  
position on many levels. Beset by a litany of health problems she  
finds herself at odds with the medical establishment and at risk of  
damaging her home life. Using the things she has at hand - her  
filmmaking skills being one of them, her garden another - she pieces  
together a poetic response to the monotony of hospitals, textbooks  
and forms. Firmly situated in the tradition of feminist film-making  
this is, despite Friedrich¹s justified anger, a funny, tender and  
ultimately soothing piece.

THE HEAD OF A PIN
Su Friedrich, USA, 2004, 21 min
A spider¹s slow entrapment of a fly suggests larger concerns.




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2.
Wednesday 9th April. 7 pm
Digital Auteurs, The Fleapit, 49 Columbia Road, E2 7RG,
9th April 2008, 7pm - 11pm, Entry Free (Suggested Donation £3).

The screening program “Digital Auteurs” explores a trajectory of  
contemporary Austrian filmmaking that could be described as DIY  
Experimentalism, featuring artists that share a fresh, intimate and  
individualistic approach to the medium.The first part of the  
screening program has been compiled by David Muth, and includes video  
works by Lia, Dextro, Annja Krautgasser, reMI, Billy Roisz and others.
The second part consists of the screening program “Sonic Fiction -  
Synaesthetic Videos from Austria”, distributed through the Vienna  
based organisation Sixpackfilm.“Despite all aesthetic and conceptual  
differences the works assembled in this selection share a high  
awareness of formal style, the courage to experiment, and the will to  
seek out new and radical paths in order to follow them without  
compromise.” (Barbara Pichler, Norbert Pfaffenbichler)




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3.
Thursday 10th April.
Seamus Harahan.
Gimpel Fils, 30 Davies St, W1K 4NB www.gimpelfils.com
Mon-Fri 10-5.30, Sat 11-4

The artist and filmmaker Seamus Harahan collects everyday material of  
(street)life and magnifies these small non-events into short films.




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4.
Thursday 10th April. 6.30 pm
Screening of Blow Job by Andy Warhol.
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended. Price includes drinks  
afterwards

Afterall Books are pleased to invite you to Tate Modern next  
Thursday, 10 April, for a special screening of Andy Warhol's Blow Job  
(1964, 36 min). This legendary film presents a young man as he  
apparently experiences the act named in the title. Only the actor’s  
head and shoulders are shown, and his face reveals little more than  
distant reverie or boredom. The ennui, voyeurism and static camera  
are all hallmarks of Warhol’s radical and influential filmmaking,  
renowned for creating a provocative tension between the serious and  
the absurd. In Blow Job the film process itself is inseparable from  
the act of the viewer's viewing.

This screening is held to mark the release of Andy Warhol: Blow Job,  
an examination of the work by the pioneering experimental filmmaker  
Peter Gidal, who will be in attendance. Gidal deciphers the  
structures, abstract and concrete, of Warhol’s crucial film in the  
latest publication in Afterall Books' One Work series.

Peter Gidal is the author of seminal books on Samuel Beckett, Andy  
Warhol, Gerhard Richter and avant-garde film. Retrospectives of his  
film work have been held at Centre Pompidou, the Institute of  
Contemporary Arts (London), the London Filmmakers Co-op, LUX and the  
National Film Theatre.




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5.
Thursday 10th April. 7 pm
Jennifer Allen presents a selection of works from the Zabludowicz and  
LUX Collections. 176 Gallery, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3PT
Admission free to members. Annual Membership £5.
Booking recommended. Contact info at projectspace176.com

Visionaries: Love, Hate, Narcissism, Mortality, Fetish and Taboo, a  
selection of works from the Zabludowicz Collection, the LUX  
Collection and private collections. Please note this screening is  
restricted to over-18s only.




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6.
Friday 11th February.
Suky Best & Rory Hamilton: Rodeo. Danielle Arnaud, 123 Kennington Rd,  
SE11 6SF.
11 April - 11 May 2008 Fri-Sun 2-6 or by appt www.daniellearnaud.com

Rodeo is a series of three animations and five silk prints,  
continuing Suky Best & Rory Hamilton's collaboration exploring cowboy  
films. In 2005 they presented Wild West, five animations based on  
generic scenes extracted from these films. Unlike this previous work,  
where the action is described by the black silhouettes of the  
protagonists against a white background, Rodeo features the rider and  
bull or horse in vibrant, primary colour: red, yellow and blue. The  
power and emotion of the struggle between man and beast is heightened  
by the strong bold visuals. Also, in keeping with the traditional  
depictions of the rodeo, the animation either takes place in  
powerful, elegant slow motion or frantic real time. Eight seconds is  
the amount of time a bull rider must stay on to achieve a score.

Suky Best is an artist working with print, animation and video. She  
has recently exhibited at Baltic, Gateshead and Art Now Lightbox at  
Tate Britain (a collaboration with Rory Hamilton). She had a solo  
show and publication , The Return of the Native, (commissioned by  
Film & Video Umbrella) at BCA, Bedford and the Pump House Gallery,  
London. In 2004 she completed a Wellcome Trust funded SCIART project  
making animations for hospital outpatient areas. She has just  
completed a moving image commission for The Great North Run (an  
annual half marathon in Newcastle); a permanent sculptural piece for  
the Devils Glen in Ireland and an animation for the main reception of  
University College Hospital, London. In recent years she has had  
commissions from English Heritage at Cleeve Abbey in Somerset; she  
made a 40 second film for Travellers' Tales, an Iniva commission, and  
a series of video to print works as part of Dartmoor Insight for AHA/ 
Da2. She was a Fellow in Printmaking at the University of  
Wolverhampton (funded by the Henry Moore Foundation) 1998-2000.

Rory Hamilton has worked on digital screen based and installations  
projects for over ten years. In 2002 he completed Generic Sci-Fi  
Quarry with Jon Rogers as part of the TV Swangsongs project. For many  
years he was course leader in Interaction Design at the Royal College  
of Art. He is now head of Insight for the service design company  
Livework, as well as being the creator of EverythingIknow.co.uk , a  
site about the practice of art and design.




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7.
Sunday 12th April.
It’s A Sin: The Films and Inspirations of Derek Jarman.
Gate Picturehouse, 87 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JZ
Buy one ticket, get one free Tickets: £11/£9 for Picturehouse members  
and concessions

Shorts Programme 2: Derek Jarman’s Film Poetry of the Small Medium  
Lives On

Black Palms. Jacopo Miliani, Italy, 2007, 2 mins, DVD
The Storm. Tina Keane, UK, 2007, 1 min, DVD
Summerhouse. Laura Buckley, Finland, 2007, 2 mins and 2 secs, DVD
Plot. Julia Dogra- Brazell, UK, 2006, 4 mins and 38 secs, Super-8
Empathy with Trees. Seraphina Anderson, UK, 2006, 3 mins, BETA SP
Get Me a Mirror. Bonnie Camplin, UK, 2005, 5 mins 55 secs, BETA SP
This is not an AIDS advertisement. Isaac Julien, UK, 1987, 11 mins,  
BETA SP
Loverfilm. Michael Brynntrup, Germany, 1996, 22 mins, video
Swan. Alia Syed, UK, 1986, black and white, 4 mins, video
Assassin. Michael Maziere, UK, 2006, 10mins, video
The Space Between. Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, UK, 2005, 12 mins, 16  
mm and video
Paris – FRANPRIX. Mark Aerial Waller, UK, 2003, 11 mins, video




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8.
Sunday 12th April. 3pm
Serpentine Gallery Talks In conjunction with the DEREK JARMAN  
exhibition.
Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA.
Entrance to talks free

Serpentine Gallery Talk with film producer James Mackay.




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9.
Sunday 12th April. 7 pm
The SCOLT HEAD screenings : SERIES 3 PROGRAMME.
The SCOLT HEAD, 107a Culford Road, London N1 4HT
Screenings are free. Seats are allocated on a first come, first  
served basis.

The SCOLT HEAD screenings invite artists to present a selection of  
their works on film or video alongside a feature film of their  
choice, irrespective of its influence on their practice.These Sunday  
evening screenings at The SCOLT HEAD aim to encourage an open  
dialogue about artists’ works on film and video.

13 April – Declan Clarke presents
“Tonight” (2004), “Metempsydoughsis” (2003) and “Trauma and  
Romance” (2006) with“Letter to Jane” (1972, Jean-Luc Godard)










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