LUXNEWSWIRE - you are invited to LUX Salon: HEY! Work It Out For Yourself

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you are invited to
LUX Salon: HEY! Work It Out For Yourself
on Wednesday 21 February 7pm for 7.30pm start

					The LUX Salon returns with a new monthly series of guest  
curated screenings delving into the vaults of the LUX collection to  
show the classics; known, lost and forgotten…

Two rarely seen films exploring the authenticity of production and  
interpretation, selected by Jackie Holt. Margaret Raspé’s ‘Oh  
Death How Nourishing You Are (1972-3, Germany, 15 min, Super-8)  
explores issues of personal responsibility and death, through the  
lens of Raspé’s purpose-built ‘camera helmet’. Stephanie  
Beroes’ ‘Debt Begins at 20’ (1980, USA, 40 min, 16mm), a semi- 
fictionalised record of the early years of the Pittsburgh punk scene.
‘Oh Death How Nourishing You Are’ will be accompanied with a live  
musical performance from
LORD JOHN.

LUX Salon takes place at LUX OFFICE, Shacklewell Studios, 18  
Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ. ADMISSION FREE. Places are  
extremely limited so booking is essential. To book a place send your  
name to salon at lux.org.uk, and please be on time - no late entry.
for directions to LUX see http://www.lux.org.uk/about/index.html

MARGERET RASPE
OH DEATH HOW NOURISHING YOU ARE
Germany, 1972-73, silent, colour, 15 mins, super-8
'I was interested in what death is. To know the moment where life  
breaks into it. I have never killed an animal before consciously. I  
wanted to feel the moment where the flowing change of life is  
interrupted by something I do, in order to eat. To realise the death,  
which is carefully hidden in our technical society. To confront this  
moment, with the total ignoring of the situation you are in, when you  
cook something, killed in an unknown sphere. The clash between these  
realities was a big shock.' MR

STEPHANIE BEROES
DEBT BEGINS AT 20
USA, 1980, Sound, B&W, 40 mins, 16mm.
With music by The Cardboards, The Snakes, Hans Brinker and The Dykes.  
'By combining semi-fictionalized and documentary material, this film  
is as definitive a record of the Pittsburgh punk scene during its  
nascent underground as anyone could hope for. Beroes' band footage is  
radical departure from the gimmickry of stereotyped rock band  
documentary in its use of pans and slow dollys, capturing small  
glimpses of the musicians at work that a 'PR' film would have avoided  
at all costs. The cinematography demands a reconsideration of the  
rock band documentary's hoary technical vocabulary. From the time  
this film was made changes have already taken place in Pittsburgh  
punk-dom as the bands have moved from an insular salon society to  
more 'legitimate' venues. Some say things are better than ever,  
others mourn the passing of Pittsburgh punk's innocence. Beroes in  
Debt Begins at 20 has produced not only entertainment, but also a  
small and very precious time capsule.' - W.T.Koltek, d.j. W.Y.E.P.  
Radio Pittsburgh.

LORD JOHN  http://www.myspace.com/lordjohnpaulholt3rd


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