LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 4 - 10 February 2008

Fri Feb 1 16:29:50 CST 2008

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. Wednesday 7th February. Catherine Yass: Artist in Conversation,  
Wellcome Collection, London

2. Wednesday 7th February. LUX SALON: Private Practice, LUX, London

3. Sunday 10th February. Imagined Futures Symposium, Camden Arts  
Centre, London

4. Sunday 10th February. BREAKING THE RULES: THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE  
1900 – 1937, Curzon Soho, London

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1.
Wednesday 7th February. 7pm
Catherine Yass: Artist in Conversation
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
To book, please call 020 7611 2222 or email   
events at wellcomecollection.org.
This event is free

Catherine Yass is one of Britain's foremost artists working with film  
and photography today. Previously nominated for the Turner Prize, she  
lives and works in London. Her works 'Sleep (Eye)' and 'Sleep (Mask)'  
feature in the 'Sleeping & Dreaming' exhibition.

Catherine has long been fascinated by ideas around sleep and dreams.  
She researched these areas with Mary Morrell at the National Heart  
and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, in a project called  
Waking Dream. It aimed to characterise the process of waking from  
sleep and its impact on the body and the mind. During the process of  
filming and photographing others in Mary's lab, Catherine was struck  
by the intimate nature of waking up. In an attempt to create a true  
distillation of this activity she turned the camera on herself.

Join us for the first opportunity to see a new film work that  
documents these waking moments and dream recollections. Catherine  
will be joined in conversation by Lucy Reynolds, art writer, curator  
and content manager at LUX online.

Waking Dream was funded by a Wellcome Trust Sciart award.

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2.
Wednesday 7th February. 7pm for 7.30pm start.
LUX SALON: Private Practice
LUX, Shacklewell Studios, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ

Return of the LUX Salon - a free screening salon featuring work from  
the LUX collection. more information to follow. part of First  
Thursdays. Booking essential - to book a place email salon at lux.org.uk

Private Practice
Four films that reveal the intimate and pleasurable process of  
looking; each filmmaker allowing the subtle use of intuition and play  
to create and inform their own individual personal language. curated  
by Jacqueline Holt.

KATY WOODS
DISTANT THINGS
UK (2006) 10mins, video
In her film Distant Things (2006) Katy Woods animates micro film by  
standing a video camera in front of the monitor and speedily flicking  
through thousands of images. She then pauses for a few seconds  
resting on an image she likes the look of. Woods has an eye for a  
satisfying image. She loves a bird. Images of birds are paused at  
frequently. In a world saturated with visual images How does one make  
a choice? Ones own intuition seems as successful as any.
Katy Woods is currently a LUX Associate Artist.

LEWIS KLAHR
DAYLIGHT MOON
USA, 2003, sound, colour, 14 mins, 16mm
There are things I could say about Daylight Moon but very few I want  
to before someone sees it. But I will say this: of all the films I’ve  
made using collage to muck around in the past, this one gets the  
closest to what I’m after. - LK

LAWRENCE JORDAN
CORNELL, 1965
USA, 1978, sound, colour, 9 mins, 16mm
‘In 1965 I worked as Joseph Cornell's assistant on boxes and films. I  
filmed his work extensively, and as much as I could of him. (It is  
the only film footage that exists of Cornell.) Until 1978 I couldn't  
edit the film. When I finally learned it would be a kind of personal  
journalistic tribute to the man who taught me so much, it fell  
together. What you see are the close-up interiors of many Cornell  
boxes, some collages, and a few shots of Joseph. You hear the things  
he said to me (as I recall them) and the thoughts I think about it  
all.’ LJ

STEVE REINKE
AFTERNOON (MARCH 22, 1999)
Canada, 1999, 23 mins, video
Home-movie-like video in which the maker films and 'lives' a specific  
afternoon from his life. The artist spends the afternoon in his tiny  
apartment listening to music he dislikes and ruminating on what it  
means to be an artist. All the edits are in-camera and the monologues  
and songs are largely improvised.

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3.
Sunday 10th February. 10am-5.30pm
Imagined Futures Symposium
Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG
www.camdenartscentre.org    Tel. 020 7472 5500
This event is free but places are limites, advance booking highly  
recommended.

A day of artist screenings, performances, talks, discussion and  
debate investigating ideas around potential futures for artists' film  
and video. With Malcolm Le Grice, Sonia Boyce, Andrew Kotting, Keith  
Piper, Karen Mirza, Guy Sherwin, Jean Fischer, Rachel Garfield,  
Katherine Meynell, Lucy Reynolds. www.myspace.com/ 
imaginedfuturesCamden Arts Centre

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4.
Sunday 10th February. 12 noon.
BREAKING THE RULES: THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE 1900 – 1937
Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5DY
Tickets £6.50 www.curzoncinemas.com Box Office 0871 7033 988

MINI-SEASON CONTINUES: BREAKING THE RULES: THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE  
1900 – 1937

To tie in with the new exhibition 'Breaking the Rules' at the British  
Library, Curzon Cinemas present four screenings tracing the rise of  
the avant-garde across Europe, with films from Germany, France,  
Russia and the UK and surveying a range of movements, including  
Expressionism and Surrealism.

Avant-Garde Sunday: After the double bill of avant-garde classics,  
there will be live music and visuals in the Soho bar.

BLOOD OF A POET (PG)

Dir. Jean Cocteau
Starring: Lee Miller, Enrico Rivero, Pauline Carton.
France 1930. 55 mins. French with English subtitles.
Jean Cocteau's first film started off as a bet, but has become one of  
his most accomplished experiments in visual surrealism, with dazzling  
special effects often discovered by accident. Dream like and  
mysterious, the film is filled with surreal scenes and suffused with  
homoerotic overtones.
&
BORDERLINE (12)
Dir. Kenneth Macpherson
Starring: Paul Robeson, Eslander Robeson, Hilda Doolittle.
UK 1930. 71 mins. Silent with score by Courtney Pine. Digital screening.
The first feature from Kenneth Macpherson, editor of the avant-garde  
film journal Close-Up, centres on an inter-racial love triangle that  
leads to disaster. Heavily influenced by the psychological realism of  
G.W. Pabst and Sergei Eisenstein's montage, Borderline is a forgotten  
classic of the British avant-garde, now accompanied with a new score  
by leading jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine.

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