LUX Salon: A HOME IN THE EAST/ Thursday 6 March 7 for 7.30pm start

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Thursday 6 March 7 for 7.30pm start
LUX Salon: A HOME IN THE EAST
To celebrate the current East festival http://www.findeast.co.uk LUX  
presents 4 films of East End home life. Ian Bourn's The End of the  
World (1982) features Ian and Helen Chadwick enjoying a quiet  
afternoon of domestic bliss, Guy Sherwin's Views From Home  
(1987/2005) is a nostalgic invocation of sunlight and street sounds  
and secret life of his East End flat circa 1980s.  John Smith's  
Hackney Marshes (TV Version) (1978) is a rarely seen film commission  
from Thames Television documenting the lives of the inhabitants in a  
tower block overlooking Hackney Marshes, unravelling the TV  
documentary format with John Smith's usual style and wit. Finally  
William English and Sandra Cross's What did you eat today?(2001)  
follows a culinary day in the life of Hugh de la Cruz, then back home  
to have spaghetti for tea.
	
LUX Salon takes place at LUX, 3rd Floor, Shacklewell Studios, 18  
Shacklewell Lane, E8 2EZ. see http://www.lux.org.uk/about/index.html  
for directions. ADMISSION FREE, booking is essential - to book a  
place email salon at lux.org.uk

IAN BOURN
THE END OF THE WORLD
UK, 1982, 8mins, video
A cup of tea is called for.
The heaven and hell of surburban domesticity is put in the spotlight  
in this tape involving a video game, a cup of tea and a Sunday  
afternoon. 'He is in the still undecorated back room. She is in the  
garden, soaking up the sun. A cup of tea is called for." Featuring  
Ian Bourn and Helen Chadwick.

GUY SHERWIN
VIEWS FROM HOME  (2005/1987), 10 mins)
Filmed from my flat in east London, it shows sunlight passing through  
rooms in the course of the day, and across buildings seen from the  
windows. Sometimes I would set the time-lapse camera running and  
leave the house while the camera recorded light moving through the  
empty rooms.
The downstairs flat was used for rehearsal by saxophone player Alan  
Wilkinson. The soundtrack comes from recordings made while walking  
from room to room as he was playing, mixed with sounds of music from  
the street.
G.S.
“Light and shadow in (Sherwin’s) East London apartment perform a  
gloriously elegant jazz ballet as apples and limes wither, puddles  
dry and tea grows cold”.
Caroline Avery. Toronto Images Festival 2006

JOHN SMITH
HACKNEY MARSHES (TV Version) (1978 30mins Colour 16mm to video)
"Explicitly challenging all the accepted forms of the TV documentary,  
John Smith's important film is extraordinary as the product of a  
major institution. The dual subjects are the inhabitants of tower  
blocks in Hackney and the components and conventions of film-making.  
Interviews with the former are cut against a limited sequence of  
compositions which illustrate and question the soundtrack in a number  
of distinct ways. Repetition, sharp editing, unlikely images (chalk  
lines, lift doors closing) and the deliberate reversal of normal  
devices all work to disorientate the viewer and to force a  
reconsideration of his or her relationship to the film... The overall  
result is, perhaps surprisingly, given the theoretical concerns, a  
strangely intimate picture of the subjects. Importantly, its success  
demonstrates the necessity for many TV film-makers to re-think their  
safe approaches and accepted techniques." John Wyver, "Time Out"  
magazine, 1978.
Commissioned by Thames Television.

WILLIAM ENGLISH WITH SANDRA CROSS AND HUGH DE LA CRUZ
WHAT DID YOU EAT TODAY?
2001, UK, 16mm, 10 mins, col, sil
Number one in an ongoing project in collaboration with Sandra Cross.  
The subject of this silent film/portrait is Hugh de la Cruz and shows  
what Hugh ate on one typical day.
Extract from a taped interview:
Sandra: "Would you have known what you were eating if you had been  
blindfolded?"
Hugh: "Erm, I would have known what some of it was, yes. The chicken  
and the bread of course, but I... it wasn't (laughter) I don't think it
was so bad that (laughter) I would have been completely mystified  
(laughter). Yes, I suppose that's a good test isn't it?"
Sandra: "What did you eat as a child?"
Hugh: "As a child? Well it was, yeah. Yes, I, erm. Again, it was just  
ordinary English food really... and erm. I mean, I erm, spent  
quite... a certain amount of my childhood in children's homes and um,  
they went to the trouble of preparing the food well. It wasn't, it  
wasn't um, prepackaged or anything like that you know and there  
wasn't anything like as much pre-prepared, pre-packaged food then and  
um and they would do things like steak and kidney pie from scratch  
and what have you and um it was very nice food. I remember liking it  
very much."






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