LUX Salon: Animals/ Thursday 1st May 7 for 7.30pm

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The Mongreloid - George Kuchar (1978)

Thursday 1st May 7 for 7.30pm start
LUX Salon: Animals, curated by Ben Rivers
A programme of animals and the sub-species, humans. I was choosing a  
handful of films by filmmakers who have inspired me to make my own  
films, starting with Laurel + Hardy, and one of the great comedies of  
primal human conflict, then on to The Mongoloid by George Kuchar,  
Margaret Tait and Lewis Klahr, who all showed me that there were  
other kinds of films to find. The Pelechian and Price films are more  
recent discoveries, which continue, with much violence and melodrama,  
investigations into human/animal relationships on film. Essentially  
these are films that came to mind as favourites at this point in  
time, so any thematic links are happily accidental.
Includes 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).
[This screening is organised to coincide with If: people and places  
in recent film and video. Mark Boulos, Dwight Clarke, Stephen  
Connolly, Ben Rivers, Stephen Sutcliffe at Bloomberg SPACE, 50  
Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1HD from 28 March – 10 May 2008]

LUX, 3rd Floor, Shacklewell Studios, 18 Shacklewell Lane, E8 2EZ.  
ADMISSION FREE to book a place email salon at lux.org.uk

Artur Pelechian - The Inhabitants (1970, video, 10 min)
A look at the creatures with which we share the planet and the  
atrocities we commit against our natural surroundings. Filmed in a  
stunning wide-screen format, the film presents the whole of human  
history without even so much as one shot of a human being.

George Kuchar - The 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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