LUX Event - Film Circus: Whitechapel Gallery - 10th & 11th May 2008

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Weekend 10th & 11th May 1pm onwards
Film Circus - a weekend of free films for children

Whitechapel Gallery showcases a weekend of inspirational artists’  
films that offer families an alternative to mainstream children’s  
entertainment.

During the Film Circus weekend the Whitechapel Gallery will open a  
video lounge to give children the opportunity to view the works and  
make a selection of their favourite films and share their thoughts on  
them. These will be incorporated into a special screening in the  
cinema later the same day.

The Film Circus weekend will present classic films from the Russian  
animator Yuri Norstein, Calder’s Circus by the American sculptor  
Alexander Calder and La Belle et la Bête by Jean Cocteau as well as  
films from Animate Projects.

This weekend of films made by artists are suitable for children aged  
4 – 11 and is part of Whitechapel’s Children’s Film Library  
project.  Whitechapel is developing a library of artists’ films sent  
to us through an open submission.  The final library of works is  
being selected and curated by children to be available from public  
libraries in East London.  The aim of the Children’s Film Library is  
to provide families in East London with an alternative to mainstream,  
commercial films and a new way of approaching and appreciating  
artists’ films and video.

Families are invited to drop in between 1 - 3pm. Booking is  
recommended for the 4pm screenings only Tickets at whitechapel.org

Programme

Saturday 10 May
1-3pm            Children’s special viewing lounge
3pm         	Children’s hour – screening of chosen artists' films  
in the cinema
4pm             	Heron and Crane, Yuri Norstein, Russia 1973, 10mins
                         Hedgehog in Fog, Yuri Norstein, Russia 1975,  
11mins
Sunday 11 May
1-3pm             Children’s special viewing lounge
3pm                 Children’s hour – screening of chosen artists'  
films in the cinema
4pm                 La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast), Jean  
Cocteau, France 1942, 96mins


Whitechapel, Whitechapel High Street London E1.
Entry via a new visitor entrance at Angel Alley. www.whitechapel.org  
T +44 (0) 20 7522 7888

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