LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS 31 March - 6 April 2008
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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON
1. Monday 31st March. Tearoom. London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival,
BFI Southbank, London
2. Tuesday 1st - 6th April. DESIRE AND DEFIANCE: THE FILMS OF SU
FRIEDRICH. London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, BFI Southbank, London
3. Wednesday 2nd April. Whitechapel Laboratory - Daniel Pflumm.
Whitechapel, London
4. Wednesday 2nd April. George Kuchar: 100% Pure Beef Unleashed! Roxy
Bar & Screen, London
5. Wednesday 2nd April. FINAL THOUGHTS, SERIES 1 - Steve Reinke.
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, BFI Southbank, London
6. Thursday 3rd April. LUX Salon: the parents programme. LUX, London
7. Sunday 6th April. Promiscuous Pop. London Lesbian and Gay Film
Festival, BFI Southbank, London
8. Sunday 6th April. The SCOLT HEAD screenings : SERIES 3 PROGRAMME.
The SCOLT HEAD, London
9. Sunday 6th April. LUX EVENT: Wordland. Arcola Theatre, London
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1.
Monday 31st March. 6.10pm
Tearoom. London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival www.llgff.org.uk
BFI Southbank NFT 3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank SE1
Tickets £8.60 / £7.60 members £6.25 concessions / £5.25 members
concessions Box Office: 020 7928 3232
A demanding but rewarding programme which features an utterly
remarkable piece of film presented by artist William E. Jones as a
piece of found footage. Tearoom is the title given to a surveillance
film made by the police department of Mansfield, Ohio in a public
toilet in 1961. This silent film is literally a fly-on-the-wall view
of the comings and goings and occasional sexual encounters of a large
number of men. Most of the individuals in the film received a one-
year prison sentence on the basis of this evidence. Such films are
almost never seen outside of a courtroom and offer a unique picture
of a moment in gay sexual history.
Sex Manic USA 2007. Dir Charles Lum. 5min
Viril France 2007. Dir Damien Manivel. 9min
Film Montages (for Peter Roehr) USA 2006. Dir William E. Jones. 11min
Tearoom USA 1961-2006. Dir William E Jones. 57min
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2.
Tuesday 1st - 6th April.
DESIRE AND DEFIANCE: THE FILMS OF SU FRIEDRICH. London Lesbian and
Gay Film Festival www.llgff.org.uk
BFI Southbank NFT 3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank SE1
Tickets £8.60 / £7.60 members £6.25 concessions / £5.25 members
concessions Box Office: 020 7928 3232
Mixing narrative, documentary, and experimental forms, American
filmmaker Su Friedrich creates uniquely personal hybrid films
characterized by a formal elegance and a defiant spirit. This year
the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival celebrates 30 years of
filmmaking by this pivotal figure of
avant-garde, feminist, and queer cinema with a retrospective program
of her groundbreaking work.
Su Friedrich will be attendance for all screenings between 6-8 April
2008 and will participate in an extended discussion following the
screening of DAMNED IF YOU DON'T and COOL HANDS, WARM HEART.
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Tuesday 1 April 2008, at 8:40pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
SINK OR SWIM
Su Friedrich, USA, 1990, 48 min
A breathtaking synthesis of rigorous formal structure and human
emotion, Sink or Swim fearlessly analyses one daughter¹s desire for
connection with her emotionally estranged father.
TIES THAT BIND
Su Friedrich, USA, 1984, 55 min
Political responsibility and the limits of personal agency are
central to Friedrich¹s first feature, a heartfelt experimental
portrait of her German Catholic mother who came of age in the Nazi
regime.
...
Friday 4 April 2008, at 8:50pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
SEEING RED
Su Friedrich, USA, 2005, 27 min
Video diary outpourings, montages of red objects, and segments of
Bach's Goldberg Variations¹ co-mingle in this humorously blunt video
about midlife fury and restless desire for re-invention.
RULES OF THE ROAD
Su Friedrich, USA, 1993, 31 min
A love affair and its demise are symbolized by a couple¹s shared
station wagon. Shot almost entirely out of car windows, Friedrich¹s
first color film is both an exorcism of a past relationship and a
buoyant celebration of newfound freedom.
FIRST COMES LOVE
Su Friedrich, USA, 1991, 22 min
Four lushly filmed weddings capture the sentimental weight of a
timeless heterosexual social ritual in this poetic plea for gay and
lesbian equality.
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Saturday 5 April 2008, at 4:20pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
HIDE AND SEEK
Su Friedrich, USA, 1996, 60 min
Real and imagined memories of growing up lesbian weave together to
make a deeply truthful account of our pasts. Mixing traditional
documentary methods with a subtly told and well-acted narrative,
Friedrich includes a multiplicity of truths in one story.
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Sunday 6 April 2008, at 3:50pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
DAMNED IF YOU DON'T
Su Friedrich, USA, 1987, 42 min
A deconstruction of archetypal battle of Good Nun versus Bad Nun in
Black Narcissus lies at the heart of this sumptuous black and white
meditation on the possibility of narrative as a site for lesbian
desire. Not only a confrontation with Catholicism, Damned If You
Don't was also an ecstatic revolt against the orthodoxies of feminist
experimental filmmaking in its embrace of visual pleasure.
COOL HANDS, WARM HEART
Su Friedrich, USA, 1979, 16 min
Young women occupy a radical lesbian counter-public in the streets of
New York.
DISCUSSION WITH SU FRIEDRICH
Su Friedrich will join us for a discussion about her filmmaking career
directly after the screening.
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Sunday 6 April 2008, at 8:30pm
BFI Southbank Studio
LESBIAN AVENGERS EAT FIRE TOO
Su Friedrich & Janet Baus, USA,1993, 60 min
Institutional homophobia and the impact of the AIDS virus incited a
surge in queer activism in the early nineties (forming the backdrop
to New Queer Cinema's finest hour). But when we think of ACT UP! And
Outrage!, we should remember the Lesbian Avengers, an activist
network that struck a powerful blow for lesbian visibility. Founded
in New York in 1992, they fought overt and covert homophobia with
bold direct actions and street performance.
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3.
Wednesday 2nd April. Preview 6.30 – 9pm
Whitechapel Laboratory - Daniel Pflumm
Whitechapel, 80 - 82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
Open Weds - Sun, 11am - 6pm. Admission free
Musician, video-maker and graphic designer Daniel Pflumm has been
playing with advertising and corporate branding in his films for over
15 years. Images promoting television, airlines, fashion houses,
banks and utility companies are edited into a repetitive visual
stream, set to hypnotic techno rhythms. Taking clips he creates
montages that are part promotional, music video, abstract art and
pirate TV.
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4.
Wednesday 2nd April 7:30pm for 8pm
George Kuchar: 100% Pure Beef Unleashed!
Roxy Bar & Screen 128-132 Borough High St, SE1 1LB
FREE entry
Famed for his early outrageous melodramas with unforgettable titles
like Hold Me
While I'm Naked and Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof, Kuchar was adopted as a
hipster court jester by the 60's Avant Garde film crowd. These 8mm
and 16mm experimental gems influenced a generation of campy
outsiders, the most notable being John Waters who has never sought to
hide his debt.
For the past 20 or so years Kuchar has continued to plough his own
particular furrow with an unending torrent of video work. Sometimes
working alone, sometimes with the help of his willing students and
the San Francisco art school where he continues to teach, Kuchar has
managed to produce an astoundingly vast body of work. Scatological,
sometimes sacrilegious, always joyously irreverent and formally
inventive, this video work remains =
mostly unknown to UK audiences.
100% Pure Beef Unleashed! will offer the opportunity to catch up with
a small fraction of Kuchar's later output. Described by film
historian Gene Youngblood as 'one of the great artists in the history
of the moving image' Kuchar's videos have to be seen to be believed.
Weather Diary 3 (1988)
Metropolitan Monologues (2000)
The Stench of Satan (2000)
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5.
Wednesday 2nd April. 8.50pm
FINAL THOUGHTS, SERIES 1 - Steve Reinke. London Lesbian and Gay Film
Festival www.llgff.org.uk
BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank SE1
Tickets £8.60 / £7.60 members £6.25 concessions / £5.25 members
concessions Box Office: 020 7928 3232
Reminiscent of THE HUNDRED VIDEOS (1989-96), which catalogues his
early artistic output, poststructuralist experimental filmmaker Steve
Reinke¹s FINAL THOUGHTS, SERIES 1 is the first in a video archive
that he claims will be complete at his death.
Framed by Reinke¹s sardonic humour and crackling wit, these playfully
perverse essays juxtapose fragments video, theoretical musings,
audio, animation, found footage, text to disrupt normative visual
regimes and to queerly explore the discursive limits of identity,
autonomy, and desire. Part performance video, part political
inquisition, Reinke¹s brilliant lo-fi pop sketches take on small
objects and fantasies to ask radical questions about our entire culture.
Individual titles include Anthology of American Folk Song, Ghosts of
Gay Porn, Ask the Insects, The Mendi, Regarding the Pain of Susan
Sontag (Notes on Camp), Picnic, My Rectum is not a Grave (Notes to a
Film Industry in Crisis), Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love, Election
Defeat.
FINAL THOUGHTS, SERIES 1
Steve Reinke, Canada, 2004-07, 83 mins
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6.
Thursday 3rd April. 7 for 7.30pm
LUX Salon: the parents programme
LUX, 3rd Floor, Shacklewell Studios, 18 Shacklewell Lane, E8 2EZ.
ADMISSION FREE, booking is essential - to book a place email
salon at lux.org.uk
Works from the LUX collection in which artists' parents feature as
subjects and participants, willing and unwilling. Anthea Kennedy's
Bag of a Thousand Pockets (2002) is a touching portrait of her father
who's memory fails him as he remembers a long and eventful life. Carl
Callam's A Part of Me (1998) explores the complexities of his life as
a black man raised by a white foster parents through discussions with
his foster mother and ever absent biological mother. Neil Goldberg's
My Parents Read Dreams About Them (1998) is as the title describes,
Goldberg's parents read his comical and surreal dreams, visibly
affected by what they reveal about his relationship with them.
Finally, Marcin Koszalka's Such a Nice Boy i Gave Birth to (1999) is
a painful and hilarious portrait of a family in meltdown as the
filmmaker's bohemian lifestyle violently clashes with his mother's
expectations.
ANTHEA KENNEDY
BAG OF A THOUSAND POCKETS
UK, 2002, 8 mins, video
"My bag has a thousand pockets. In each one is a memory." So says my
father as he reels off brief and fragmented recollections of his life
in Germany. A work on video which reflects on memory, being old and
death.
CARL CALLAM
A PART OF ME
UK, 1998, 20 mins, video
'In this work, a young British black man observes how his white
foster family and his biological Jamaican mother squirm when
questioned about the cultural and racial complexities of his life.
Interviewing his foster mother and aunt in person, and his biological
mother on the phone, the artist upsets the delicate propriety of
these relationships, in both cases unveiling unspoken intentions and
decisions that have shaped his life.' Maria Troy. Wexner Centre for
the Arts
NEIL GOLDBERG
MY PARENTS READ DREAMS ABOUT THEM
USA, 1998, 9 mins, video
'As the title suggests, in this work I videotaped my parents reading
a series of dreams I've had about them. The dreams date from the past
several years and incorporate a wide range of imagery and subject
matter. I provided my parents with no direction except to read the
dreams in whatever manner they wished.' N.G.
MARCIN KOSZALKA
SUCH A NICE BOY I GAVE BIRTH TO (Poland, 1999, 25mins)
Koszalka's, Such a Nice Boy I Gave Birth to is a portrayal of the
sheer brutality of the filmmaker's relationship to his parents, one
of undying humiliation and abuse. It resorts to persistent, almost
insufferable repetition – repetitions only gradually undermined by
subtle narrative developments throughout the film – as a manner of
getting its point across.
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7.
Sunday 6th April. 1.50pm
Promiscuous Pop. London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival www.llgff.org.uk
BFI Southbank NFT 3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank SE1
Tickets £8.60 / £7.60 members £6.25 concessions / £5.25 members
concessions Box Office: 020 7928 3232
PYT USA 2004. Dir Tara Mateik. 4min
Compromise USA 2005. Dir Jillian Peña. 11min
No One USA 2008. Dir Marisa Olson. 4min.
The Quiet Storm - Dynasty Handbag USA 2006. Dir Jibz Cameron, Hedia
Maron. 10min
Artist Statement Canada 2006. Dir Daniel Barrow. 5min
KK Queens Survey USA 2006. Dir Kalup Linzy. 7min
Black or White USA 2006 Dir Marisa Olson. 4min
Excerpt from A Family Finds Entertainment USA 2004. Dir Ryan
Trecartin. 20min
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8.
Sunday 6th April. 7pm
The SCOLT HEAD screenings : SERIES 3 PROGRAMME
The SCOLT HEAD, 107a Culford Road, London N1 4HT
Screenings begin at 7pm, and are free. Seats are allocated on a first
come, first served basis.
The SCOLT HEAD screenings invite artists to present a selection of
their works
on film or video alongside a feature film of their choice,
irrespective of its influence on their practice.These Sunday
evening screenings at The SCOLT HEAD aim to encourage
an open dialogue about artists’ works on film and video.
6 April – Ursula Mayer presents
“Memories of Mirrors” (2008) with “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant”
(1972,R.W. Fassbinder)
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9.
Sunday 6th April. 7pm
LUX EVENT: Wordland
Arcola Theatre, Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ www.arcolatheatre.com
ADMISSION FREE, no booking
Wordland, Phil Coy
Language and property are seen to crumble in this quasi-documentary
film exploring the impact of coastal erosion on the people and
landscape of North Norfolk. Concentrating on the small villages of
Walcott and Cley next the Sea, the film combines interviews, field
recordings, archive footage and a specially commissioned sound score
from musician, Alexander Tucker.
Presented by City Projects in collaboration with LUX
Phil Coy
Phil Coy was born in Gloucester in 1971 and lives and works in
London. He studied at Liverpool John Moores University; L'École
Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes and The Slade, London.
Recent work has been included in the Hayward Touring Exhibition
Incommunicado at Cornerhouse Manchester (2004), Real Estate at the
ICA, London (2005), and Phil Coy: Test Signal; Hannah Rickards:
Thunder at The South London Gallery (2006). His recent work
Provincial Landscape (2007) was included in a survey show of digital
art in the Ars Nova Museum, Finland.
Alexander Tucker
Alexander Tucker began as the vocalist in post-rock hardcore 5-piece
'Unhome' who released one album "A Short History of Houses" (Unlabel)
and a split single with Papa M. Unhome split in late 1999 and Tucker
went on to tour with Detroit space-rockers 'Fuxa'. Simultaneously,
Tucker had been developing his interest in improvisation using
detuned guitars, tape loops, mini disc player and fx pedals. In early
2000 Tucker recorded a solo self-titled album of acoustic finger-
picking, experimental electronics, field recordings and spooked
vocals, which was picked up by Tom Greenwood of Jackie-O-Motherfucker
and released under his U-Sound Archives label.
Tuckers' ability to combine compositional song structures, drones,
layered vocals and improvisations culminated on his 2005 album "Old
Fog" (ATP/R), a collection of spectral moods, eerie landscapes and
fragile emotions.
His commanding live performance has led to collaborations which
include working with Stephen O'Malley (SunnO), Khanate) on his
Ginnungagap side project (Southern Records limited Latitudes series),
providing the soundtrack to Lali Chetwynd's performance piece at Tate
Britain and playing as a part of JOMF, Duke Garwood, and Little Wet
Horse.
Tucker has recently completed a new studio album "Furrowed Brow" (ATP/
R) recorded in his home county of deepest darkest Kent. For this new
recording Tucker has combined harmonised vocal patterns, layered
instrumentation and heavy sonic bliss riffs to create a cross-between
David Crosby, doom metal and Terry Riley to be released in Autumn 2006.
Alexander Tucker is also a visual artist, creating artwork for all of
his album covers and side projects, including ongoing drawings and
comic artwork for 'Sturgeon White Moss' (White Moss Press) and the
new cover for Nordic doom-master Wolfmangler'(Aurora Borealis).
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