LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 12 - 18 May
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LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK
1. Wednesday 14th May. Emotion Machine, Sebastian Buerkner. The
Showroom, London
2. Wednesday 14th May. Helke Sander Retrospective. Goethe-Institut,
London
3. Friday 16th May. Helke Sander Retrospective. Goethe-Institut, London
4. Weekend 17th & 18th May. 'One Minute' (a programme of artists'
video). The Hornsey Town Hall, London
5. Saturday 17th May, Swedish outsiders – Festival of experimental
sounds. ICA, London
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1.
Wednesday 14th May.
Emotion Machine, Sebastian Buerkner.
The Showroom, 44 Bonner Road, London E2 9JS www.theshowroom.org
Exhibition 14 May - 22 June 2008. Open Wed-Sun 1-6
The Showroom is delighted to announce that it is working with Animate
Projects on a co-commission of new work by Sebastian Buerkner.
Buerkner is one of the most innovative artists working with animation
today. His visual language, elaborately drawn in Flash animation, is
preoccupied with the creation of parallel or fantasy worlds that
often defy logic, challenging our understanding of space and time.
Sebastian Buerkner studied painting in Germany then moved to London
to complete his fine art education with an MA at Chelsea College in
2002, where he was awarded a Fellowship residency the following year.
His work has been exhibited in several group and solo shows
internationally. Since 2004 his art practice has shifted exclusively
to animation, a recent film Purple Grey was shown as part of Channel
4s Animate! Programme.
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2.
Wednesday 14th May. 7pm
Helke Sander Retrospective.
Goethe-Institut, 50 Princes Gate; Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH
Tickets £3 T. 020 7596 4000 www.goethe.de/london
Known as much for her films as for her involvement in the women's
movement, Helke Sander (*1937) made her first films at the
radicalised Berlin Film and Television Academy collaborating with
fellow students like Harun Farocki, Hartmut Bitomsky or the later RAF
terrorist Holger Meins. Struggling as a single mother within a male
dominated protest movement, she started various initiatives to
challenge the exclusion of women and their issues from the protest
movement and has since then continued to question the division
between private life and public politics. She co-organised the first
International Women's Film Seminar (1973) in Germany and founded the
journal "Women and Film" (1974), which is still published. She made
her first long feature film The Allround Reduced Personality –
Redupers in 1977. Many of her prize-winning films address the social
and political concerns of women and children. She was a professor at
the Film Academy in Hamburg (1981-2001), taught in many other
countries, and her many written publications include journalistic and
critical texts as well as short stories. "The Three Women K." was
published in 1991 by Serpent’s Tail, London.
Subjectitude
Germany 1966, 16mins.
Sander's first short which captures the chance meeting of a woman and
two men at a Berlin bus stop.
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Break the Power of the Manipulators
Germany 1967 / 68, 48mins.
Part essay, part agitprop manifesto, this combines documentary
material and staged scenes to reflect on the student protest campaign
against the right-wing Springer Press Concern, which used its power
to support the USA policy in Vietnam, contested government policies
in West Germany and to discredit the APO (Extra-Parliamentary
Opposition). A collaboration with other students at the Berlin Film
and Television Academy including Harun Farocki.
The screening will be followed by a conversation between Helke
Sander, film historian Julia Knight (Sunderland University) and
Rachel Millward, Director Bird's Eye View Film Festival.
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3.
Friday 16th May.
Helke Sander Retrospective.
Goethe-Institut, 50 Princes Gate; Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH
Tickets £3 T. 020 7596 4000 www.goethe.de/london
Known as much for her films as for her involvement in the women's
movement, Helke Sander (*1937) made her first films at the
radicalised Berlin Film and Television Academy collaborating with
fellow students like Harun Farocki, Hartmut Bitomsky or the later RAF
terrorist Holger Meins. Struggling as a single mother within a male
dominated protest movement, she started various initiatives to
challenge the exclusion of women and their issues from the protest
movement and has since then continued to question the division
between private life and public politics. She co-organised the first
International Women's Film Seminar (1973) in Germany and founded the
journal "Women and Film" (1974), which is still published. She made
her first long feature film The Allround Reduced Personality –
Redupers in 1977. Many of her prize-winning films address the social
and political concerns of women and children. She was a professor at
the Film Academy in Hamburg (1981-2001), taught in many other
countries, and her many written publications include journalistic and
critical texts as well as short stories. "The Three Women K." was
published in 1991 by Serpent’s Tail, London.
IN THE MIDST OF THE MALESTREAM –
DISPUTES ON STRATEGY IN THE NEW WOMEN’S MOVEMENT
Germany 2005, 92mins.
Scenes from a recent discussion among eight feminists and a
historical review of the West German women’s movement using rare
visual documents constitute this film-essay that revisits central
issues and campaigns of the movement such as the politics of
motherhood and the restriction of abortion rights.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Helke
Sander, social historian and feminist Sheila Rowbotham (Manchester
University) and art historian Rosa Nogués (Middlesex University).
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4.
Weekend 17th & 18th May.
'One Minute' (a programme of artists' video).
The Hornsey Town Hall, London, N8
from 11am - 6pm.
Programme includes work by Gordon Dawson, Katherine Meynell, Steven
Ball, Kerry Baldry, Erica Scourti, Deklan Kilfeather, Steve Hawley,
Lynn Loo, Philip Sanderson, Andy Fear, Phillip Warnell, Riccardo
Iacono, Claire Morales, Unconscious Films, Laure Prouvost, Claudia
Digangi, Eva Rudlinger, Fil Ieropoulos , LillyZinan Ding, Stuart
Pound, Tina Keane, Leister/Harris, Nick Herbert, Hilary Jack, Martin
Pickles, Mark Wigan and Esther Johnson.
curated by Kerry Baldry www.kerrybaldry.moonfruit.com
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5.
Saturday 17th May 3.30 pm onwards
Swedish outsiders – Festival of experimental sounds.
ICA, The Mall, SW1Y 5AH
Box Office: 020 7930 3647 www.ica.org.uk
3.30pm - Opening Talk & Film Projection #1
Legendary composer Folke Rabe will present a tape work and his film
’Ship of Fools’ Folke Rabe - SHIP OF FOOLS (Beta, stereo, 43 minutes)
Video version 1986 of the stage work by the New Culture Quartet: Jan
Bark, Fuzzy, Thord Norman, Folke Rabe (Sweden/Denmark). The stage
version has been performed widely in Europe (but not in U.K.), Canada
and the U.S. in the 1980s and 90s. “When I witnessed the New Culture
Quartet in 1986 ("Ship of Fools) the pure musicality, let alone the
astonishing visuals, were potent and strong evidence of a sound
artistic endeavor. "Narrskeppet" offers prime evidence of NCQ's sheer
delicacy, energetic rhythms, and outright exuberance” Stuart Dempster
4.30pm – Experimental Short films, part #2
4.30pm – Experimental Short films, part #2
Leif Elggren / Kent Tankred – The power is yours, 7 min, 2003, Digibeta
Christine Ödlund – Level, 3:35 min, 2004, Digibeta
Lina Selander – 27 Kilometer Drawing, 7 min, 2002, Digibeta
Johan Svensson – Deep Forest, 4:26 min, 2006 (Sound: Ronnie Sundin)
Digibeta
Petra Lindholm / Lars Åkerlund – Iris, 7:20 min, 2006 (Sound: Lars
Åkerlund) Digibeta
Olle Bonniér - Tesevs, 10 min, 1965, Digibeta
Olle Hedman - Dialogue, 5 min 1974, 16 mm
Peter Weiss - Studie II / Hallucinationer, 5 min, 1952, 16 mm
Åke Karlung - Homo ludens, 11 min, 1964, 16 mm.
Gunvor Nelson - My Name is Oona, 10 min 1969, 16mm
Anna Linder – cum pane, 8 min, 2002 (Sound: AALY; Mats Gustafsson,
Ken Vandermark, Peter Janson, Kjell Nordeson, 35 mm
Curated by Eric Namour with thanks to Film form.
Total Program Duration: 77 minutes
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