LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK April 28 - May 4 2008

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LUX  UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK


1. Thursday 1st May. LUX SALON: Animals, curated by Ben Rivers. LUX,  
London

2. Friday 2nd May. Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-garde Cinema,  
1890–2008. Tate Modern, London

3. Saturday 3rd May. Between Categories: Music/Sound and the Moving  
Image’. Chelsea College of Art and Design, London




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1.
Thursday 1st May. 7 for 7.30pm
LUX SALON: Animals, curated by Ben Rivers. LUX, Shacklewell Studios,  
18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ
ADMISSION FREE to book a place email salon at lux.org.uk

Lux Salon is a free monthly screening series showcasing works from  
the LUX collection in context, this programme is curated by the  
filmmaker Ben Rivers and includes the following works: The  
Inhabitants - Artur Pelechian (1970, 10 mins), Mongreloid - George  
Kuchar (1978, 10min), Portrait of Ga - Margaret Tait (2min), Big  
Business - Laurel & Hardy (19min), The Mongrel Sister - Luther Price  
(8min) and Rehearsals for Retirement - Phil Soloman (10min)
LUX, 3rd Floor, Shacklewell Studios, 18 Shacklewell Lane, E8 2EZ.

George Kuchar - Mongreloid(1978, 16mm, 10 min.) A man, his dog, and  
the regions they inhabited, each leaving his own distinctive mark on  
the landscape. Not even time can wash the residue of what they left  
behind.

Margaret Tait Portrait of Ga (1955, 16mm, 4 min)
A Portrait of Ga was the first of many portraits made by the Orcadian  
artist Margaret Tait during her long life of filmmaking. A portrait  
of her mother, it was shot on a visit home from the Film School in  
Rome. It signals the beginning of her commitment to making simple  
films about real life and real people.

Laurel and Hardy - Big Business (1929, 16mm, 19 min)
The all-time classic Big Business – sometimes hailed as the greatest  
of all the L&H films – involves them in battle with irascible James  
Finlayson, following their attempts to sell him a Christmas tree.

Luther Price The Mongrel Sister (2007, 7 min)
Parallel worlds uncoil and ensnare with twisted logic.

Phil Solomon Rehearsals for Retirement (2007, 10 min)
The days grow longer for smaller prizes
I feel a stranger to all surprises
You can have them I don't want them
I wear a different kind of garment
In my rehearsals for retirement

The lights are cold again they dance below me
I turn to old friends they do not know me
All but the beggar he remembers
I put a penny down for payment
In my rehearsals for retirement

Had I known the end would end in laughter
I tell my daughter it doesn't matter...
—Phil Ochs, Rehearsals for Retirement




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2.
Friday 2nd May. 7pm
Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-garde Cinema, 1890–2008.
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended. For tickets book online or  
call 020 7887 8888.

Programme 15: May 68
Commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the revolutionary protest  
events of May 1968 in France, this programme reflects filmmakers’  
desire to document political events alternatively, taking direct  
revolutionary action through cinema and inventing new film forms  
along the way. Part of the season All Power to the Imagination! 1968  
and Its Legacies. For full details visit www.1968.org.uk

Cine-tracts 1-16, Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard, 1968, 35’, 16mm
Film-Tract number 1968 (Film-Tract n°1968), Gérard Fromanger (with  
Jean-Luc Godard), 1968, 3', 16mm
Red (Le Rouge), Gérard Fromanger, 1969, 3', 16mm
Sochaux 11 June 1968 (Sochaux, 11 juin 68),Sochaux Medvedkine Group,  
1970, 20', 16mm
Fast (Vite), Daniel Pommereulle, 1969, 30’, 35mm

Programme duration 91 minutes




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3.
Saturday 3rd May. 10am-5pm
Between Categories: Music/Sound and the Moving Image.
Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, Pimlico,  
London SW1P 4JU
Admission free

Images and sounds of the city; visual deconstructions of musical  
performances; the tradition of abstract filmmaking; film and sound as  
interpretative tools for social or political phenomena – these are  
some of the topics covered by this short symposium on the  
relationship of sound to image.  It brings together diverse  
practitioners: Filmmakers, William Raban and Simon Payne; musician/ 
filmmaker Anton Lukoszevieze and poet Sharon Morris; and artist/ 
musician David Ryan and documentary filmmaker Andrew Chesher.

10am  Improvisation and Structure
11.30 am  Events, Soundtracks and Social Analysis
2 pm  Representation and Self-Reflexivity
3.30 Discussion

This symposium is presented by Thinking Through Practice  
(www.thinkingthroughpractice.org.) and in conjunction with ‘Sonic  
Illuminations’ presented on May 10th at the BFI by the Society for  
the Promotion of New Music.







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