LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 3- 9 March 2008
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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK.
1. Tuesday 4 March. Kirk Palmer and Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
in conversation with David Campany. The Gate Cinema, London
2. Wednesday 5th March. Picturehouse ArtSpace - Workplace Gallery.
The Gate Cinema, London
3. Friday 7th March. Conference: Against the Grain: Learning from
Derek Jarman's Cinema. Birkbeck College, London
4. Friday 7th March. Portraits of Artists - Gregory J Markopoulos.
Tate Modern, London
5. Friday 7th March. Artprojx Presents...Tate Britain, Millbank, London
6. Friday 7th March. Pantropa. E:vent, 96 Teesdale Street, London
7. Saturday 8th March. The Illiac Passion.Tate Modern, London
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1.
Tuesday 4 March. 6.15pm
Kirk Palmer and Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin in conversation with
David Campany.
The Gate Cinema, 87 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JZ Tel 0871 704
2058 www.picturehouses.co.uk
Tickets £6 full-price / £4 concession / £3 members
Screening of Artist's Films and Talk
Kirk Palmer and Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin in conversation with
David Campany
Paradise Row and Picturehouse ArtSpace.
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2.
Wednesday 5th March. 6.15pm
Picturehouse ArtSpace - Workplace Gallery.
The Gate Cinema, 87 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JZ. Tel 0871 704
2058 www.picturehouses.co.uk
Picturehouse ArtSpace collaborates with top galleries to bring video
art into the cinema. Workplace Gallery at the Gate presents... Marcus
Coates, Radio Shaman; Matt Stokes, Cipher; Discussion and Q&A.
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3.
Friday 7th March. 10.30 am – 6 pm
Conference: Against the Grain: Learning from Derek Jarman's Cinema.
Birkbeck College, Malet Street, WC1
Tickets £10/£8 available from TicketWeb www.ticketweb.co.uk, 08700
600100 or at the Gallery Lobby Desk
Derek Jarman never intended to be a filmmaker, but over twenty years
he made an astonishing variety of films which won an international
following and offer an inventory of possibilities for today. This
conference will explore how Jarman synthesised radically different
practices, reinvigorated stale genres and became an inspiration to
younger artists. Focusing on what we can learn from him for today and
tomorrow, speakers will include former Jarman collaborators, artists,
filmmakers and scholars.
The format will consist of mediated sessions throughout the day and
invited speakers include: John Maybury, Sally Potter, Chrissie Iles
and Colin MacCabe, Ian Christie, Mark Aerial Waller.
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4.
Friday 7th March. 7pm
Portraits of Artists - Gregory J Markopoulos.
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended 020 7887 8888.
Markopoulos made many extraordinary film portraits, which often
incorporate an activity or object with personal significance to the
subject. This screening presents a selection of portraits featuring a
variety of cultural and art world luminaries.
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill Gregory J Markopoulos, USA,
1967, 15 min
Political Portraits Gregory J Markopoulos, Switzerland/Italy/West
Germany, 1969, 15 min excerpt (Ulrich Herzog, Marcia Haydee, Rudolph
Nureyev, Giorgio di Chirico, Hulda Zumsteg, Bruno Bischofberger)
The Olympian Gregory J Markopoulos, USA, 1969, 23 min
ENIAOIS (Cycle III, 1st Reel) Gregory J Markopoulos, Greece, undated,
15 min
Portrait of Gilbert & George Gregory J Markopoulos, Gilbraltor, 1970,
15 min
ENIAOIS (Cycle II, 4th Reel) Gregory J Markopoulos, Greece, undated,
23 min (Hans-Jakob Siber, Franco Quadri, Giorgio Frapoli, Klaus
Schönherr and family)
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5.
Friday 7th March. 7.30pm
Artprojx Presents...Tate Britain Auditorium, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Free admission. Tickets available on the night. Seated on a first-
come, first-served basis
The launch night of a new series of artists’ film programmes compiled
by Artprojx especially for Late at Tate Britain. Selected and
introduced by Artprojx’s director David Gryn, these unusual and
inspiring films are linked to Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group.
Featured artists include Breda Beban, Aura Satz, Alia Syed and Louise
Stern.
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6.
Friday 7th March. 7pm - 10pm
Pantropa. E:vent, 96 Teesdale Street, London E2 6PU
Following the development of a work in progress ‘Europapoint’ by
Samuel Stevens this series of screenings is a collection of films and
videos that have influenced the project. The last of the screenings
in the series being the film Pantropa itself.
Screening:
Europlex, Ursula Biemann and Angela Saunders
2003, 20 minutes
The fourth in Ursula Biemann's critically acclaimed series of video
essays that investigates migration across borders, EUROPLEX,
collaboration with Angela Sanders, tracks the daily, sometimes
illicit, border crossings between Morocco and Spain- a rare
intersection of the first and third worlds. Paying off officials to
look the other way, workers smuggle contraband across the border,
sometimes crossing up to 11 times a day. In a now common scenario of
global economics, Moroccan women work in North Africa to produce
goods destined for the European market. And in perhaps the most
surreal example of border logic, domesticas commute into a Spanish
enclave in Moroccan territory, losing two hours as they step into the
European time zone. With a mesmerizing soundtrack and a dizzying
blend of video footage, digital graphics and text, the film exposes a
fascinating, often hidden layer in the cultural and economic
landscape between Europe and Africa- revealing the new rules and
profound implications of globalization.
Passage, Samuel Stevens
2007, 5’25 minutes
The film depicts cargo ships off the shore of Istanbul, in the
Marmara Sea, and later their cargo being transported by lorry through
the border-post at Kapikule, which is a main entry point into Europe
on the border between Turkey and Bulgaria. This path, along what is
historically known as part of the Silk Road, has been a major trading
route for thousands of years and in today’s reality a main route
followed by people wishing to illicitly pass into Europe. The use of
text in the film not only relates to the transport of the goods
cargos that turns the the global economy it also alludes to this
precarious journey taken by hundreds who cross borders to find work
every month.
Eugene Tsui en Tarifa
2006, 14 minutes
United States architect, Eugene Tsui, has designed the longest bridge
in the world spanning the Strait of Gibraltar and connecting the
continents of Europe and Africa. This revolutionary design does not
resemble any existing bridge and features an original floating and
submerging concept while creating a three mile wide floating island
in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Spanning about 9 miles the
14.5 kilometre floating bridge would contain 150 windmills and 80
underwater tidal turbines generating 12 billion kilowatt hours of
electricity. Here Eugene Tsui presents his utopian designs to
officials in Tarifa, Spain.
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7.
Saturday 8th March. 7pm
The Illiac Passion.
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended call 020 7887 8888. Book
tickets online at www.tate.org.uk/modern
Throughout his life, Markopoulos remained closely connected to his
family background, and ultimately saw the Greek landscape as the
ideal setting for viewing his films. The Illiac Passion (Gregory J
Markopoulos, USA, 1967, 92 min), one of his most highly acclaimed
films, is a visionary interpretation of ‘Prometheus Bound’ starring
mythical beings from the 1960s underground, including Andy Warhol,
Jack Smith and Taylor Mead.
The soundtrack of this contemporary re-imagining of the classical
realm features a reading of Thoreau’s translation of the Aeschylus
text and excerpts from Bartók. The preceding film, Sorrows (Gregory
J Markopoulos, Switzerland, 1969, 6 min) is a lyrical portrait of the
crystalline interior of the Swiss house built for Wagner by King
Ludwig II.
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