LUXNEWSWIRE - LUXNEWSWIREapril2007

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LUXNEWSWIREapril2007

[LUX NEWSWIRE is a monthly e-newsletter covering UK and international  
artists' moving image news. Contributions are welcome under any of  
the following headings, send information for inclusion to news[at] 
lux.org.uk]

Contents
1. UK/International openings (festivals, gallery shows, screening  
series)
2. Calls (festivals, open shows, competitions, conferences)
3. Opportunities (funding, residences, employment)
4. Publishing (books, online journals, videos, DVD, CD)
5. LUX news

1. UK/INTERNATIONAL OPENINGS

LUX LONDON EVENTS CALENDAR the most comprehensive daily listing of  
artists' moving image events, screenings and exhibitions in London  
http://www.lux.org.uk/resources/calendar.htm

UK

Wael Shawky, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. 31 March – 21 April.  
http://www.collectivegallery.net/

Per Speculum, Adrian Paci. Milton Keynes Gallery. 4 April – 13 May.
http://www.mk-g.org

Histrionics, Roderick Buchanan, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. 5  
April – 28 October. http://www.glasgowmuseums.com

Bachelor Machines Part 1, Rosalind Nashashibi, Chisenhale Gallery,  
London. 12 April – 27 May. http://www.chisenhale.org.uk

Kill Your Timid Notion, DCA, Dundee, Scotland. 12 - 15 April http:// 
www.arika.org.uk

New Life and the Dream Garden, Lakis and Aris Ionas, Andro Semeiko,   
Alicia Paz Mathijs Lieshout,  Nick Goulis,  Sheena Macrae,  Yu-Chen  
Wang, Mauricio Lupini,  Toine Klaassen,  Jorge Rivera, Gordon Cheung.  
Fieldgate Gallery, London. 13 April – 6 May. http:// 
www.basementartproject.com/newlife

Riccardo Iacono, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. 20 April – 27 May.
http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk

Haluk Akakçe, The Approach, London. 26 Apr – 27 May
http://www.theapproach.co.uk

Matthew Buckingham, Camden Arts Centre, London. 27 April - 01 July  
2007. http://www.camdenartscentre.org

The Ghost of Songs, A Retrospective of the Black Audio Film  
Collective. Arnolfini, Bristol. 28 April – 24 June.
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk

Chinese Video Now, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. 2 May – 16  
June. http://www.hansardgallery.org.uk

INTERNATIONAL

Images Festival Toronto, Canada. 4 – 14 April. http:// 
www.imagesfestival.com

IndieLisboa, Portugal. 19 – 29 April. http://www.indielisboa.com/

European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany. 25 – 29 April.  
http://www.emaf.de

2. CALLS
CALL FOR ENTRIES
* denotes entry fees

Scanners. New York Video Festival, USA. Deadline: 6 April. http:// 
www.filmlinc.com

Aurora, 6th norwich international animation festival, UK. Deadline:  
29 April http://www.aurora.org.uk

d/Art/07 Festival, Sydney, Australia. Deadline: 30 April. http:// 
dlux.org.au/dart07

Festival Internacional de curtas-metragens de São Paulo, Brasil.  
Deadline: 20 May. http://www.kinoforum.org.br

Fantoche - Internationales Festival für Animationsfilm, Baden,  
Switzerland. Deadline: 31 May. http://www.fantoche.ch

Brief Encounters, Bristol, UK. Deadline: 31 May. http://www.brief- 
encounters.org.uk/

Interfilm Berlin, 23rd. International Short Film Festival Berlin,  
Germany. Deadline: 13 July. http://www.interfilm.de

Xperimental Film Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus. Deadline: 31 July. http:// 
www.pantheonxperimental.org

3. OPPORTUNITIES

Residency. MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA.  
Deadline: 15 April. http://www.macdowellcolony.org

Residency. Leeds Rugby Foundation, UK. Deadline: 20 April. http:// 
www.leedsrugby.com/ click on ‘Leeds Rhinos’ then ‘jobs’.

Commission. Animate! tv, UK. animate!tv seeks proposals from UK based  
artists and animators for risk taking and experimental films for  
television. Deadline: 27 April. http://www.animateonline.org

Employment. Visiting Lecturer, Department of Film, San Francisco Art  
Institute, USA. Deadline: 1 May. http://sanfranciscoart.snaphire.com/

Fellowship. Stanley Picker Fellowship 2007, Kingston University, UK.  
Deadline: 4 May. http://www.kingston.ac.uk/picker/fellowships/2007/ 
index.htm

4. PUBLISHING

MediaArtHistories, Edited by Oliver Grau. Book published in US by MIT  
Press with contributions by Rudolf Arnheim, Andreas Broeckmann, Ron  
Burnett, Edmond Couchot, Sean Cubitt, Dieter Daniels, Felice Frankel,  
Oliver Grau, Erkki Huhtamo, Douglas Kahn, Ryszard W. Kluszczynski,  
Machiko Kusahara, Timothy Lenoir, Lev Manovich, W. J. T. Mitchell,  
Gunalan Nadarajan, Christiane Paul, Louise Poissant, Edward A.  
Shanken, Barbara Maria Stafford and Peter Weibel.
http://www.mediaarthistories.org/pub/mediaarthistories.html

The ZANZIBAR Films and the Dandies of May 1968
by Sally Shafto. Book published in France by Paris Experimental.
Bilingual (french-english). 256 p. 89 ill., 30 Euros
The Group of films produced under the flag of Zanzibar has been for  
me the greatest discovery in French cinema. It’s a group of films  
that nobody seriously interested in cinema can afford to miss. It’s  
an exciting bridge between the Nouvelle Vague and the avant-garde,  
between poetry and narrative. None of these films has lost anything  
in time: just the opposite. They have grown in their intensity of  
personal, poetic and cinematic vision’. Jonas Mekas
http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr

5. LUX NEWS

LIGHTCONE, PARIS UNDER THREAT
Lightcone, one of LUX’s sister organisations in Paris is under threat  
of closure due to a major cut in their government funding. Lightcone  
has existed for 25 years and is one of the major libraries of  
experimental film in Europe. They need help so please register your  
support at http://www.lightcone.org/petition/index.php?langue=uk

SCREENINGS AND EVENTS

Wednesday 18 April 7pm for 7.30pm start
LUX SALON: WHAT DO WE GET OUT OF IT?
IS THAT IT?, Wilf Thust / Four Corners (UK 1985 16mm)
Three selected episodes, 43 min
Three episodes from a rare film made by Wilf Thust for Four Corners  
film workshop, based in Bethnal Green. Four Corners was one of  
several workshops throughout the UK which benefited from funding by  
the nascent Channel 4, as well as a relaxation of broadcast union  
laws, to work with people and audiences outside of the normal context  
for film and video practices in the 1980s. Produced from material  
gathered during a series of Monday workshops with young people in  
Tower Hamlets, Is That It frames the relationship between the film  
maker and the workshop participants as it develops over a two-year  
period. Photographs, plays, drawing and writing by the group are cut  
together with socio-economic statistics on the borough, and  
reflections on the workshop process. Open ended and at times  
problematic, the film can be seen as a treated document of an attempt  
to open up communication “in a group where different classes, races,  
ages meet”. (W.T.)
The screening will be accompanied by an audience discussion with the  
film-maker [and other guest to be announced]. The discussion will  
centre on the implications of the historical model of ‘integrated  
practice’ for contemporary film and video institutions, and the  
recent shift toward top-down policy models for social inclusion.  
Selected and chaired by Tom Roberts.
LUX Salon is a monthly event showing rare works from the LUX  
collection, it 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

21 – 22 April
Whitechapel Gallery and LUX present A WEEKEND WITH ALFRED LESLIE
Whitechapel Gallery, London http://www.whitechapel.org
Alfred Leslie is a pivotal American artist-painter-filmmaker whose  
work spans the past fifty years. A celebrated contemporary of the  
Abstract Expressionists and a key figure in the extraordinary social  
milieu of downtown New York from the 1950s and 60s to the present,  
his own canvases were amongst the most revered of his peers. In 1964  
he made Pull My Daisy with the photographer Robert Frank and in 1966  
collaborated with the inimitable poet Frank O’Hara on The Last Clean  
Shirt. In 1960 he edited and published the amazing collection of  
texts and drawings that form the “one shot review” The Hasty Papers –  
in and of itself a summation of cultural activity with contributions  
from Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery and Fidel Castro amongst may others.
Leslie dramatically moved away from abstraction to make giant almost  
hyper-real portraits, the majority of which were destroyed in the now  
infamous fire that ripped through his studio and its neighbouring  
blocks on October 17 1966. This utterly devastating event, that  
completely destroyed paintings, films and manuscripts, continues to  
inform his practice today. Invariably articulated by an initial  
process of reconstruction Leslie’s recent work makes memory new  
through its radical re-imagining. He lives and works in New York.
This weekend-long season is the first major presentation of Alfred  
Leslie’s films in the UK. It is introduced and discussed by Leslie  
who is an extraordinary orator and includes two exclusive screenings  
of works in progress. Full programme details available on the LUX  
calendar at http://www.lux.org.uk/resources/calendar.htm

Thursday 26 April
The LUX/ Whitechapel Gallery new work showcase returns inviting guest  
curators to select the best of new British artists’ moving image work:

NEW WORK UK: PASTORAL. STEPHEN SUTCLIFFE/ EMILY WARDILL, curated by  
Michelle Cotton at Whitechapel Gallery, London. http:/ 
www.whitechapel.org
Pastoral is a programme of recent work by Stephen Sutcliffe and Emily  
Wardill.
Stephen Sutcliffe combines sound and footage from an extensive  
archive of material recorded from television and radio broadcasts.  
English poetry is read with thespy precision and meshed with streams  
of music and spoken word to emphasise or undercut another story told  
on film. Collaging ideas from traditions in literature, encountered  
in neo-romantic cinema or excerpts of rogue video Sutcliffe reworks a  
received version of familiar, native territory recounted in a  
cultural heritage.
  Stephen Sutcliffe was born in 1968 and studied at Glasgow School of  
Art and Cal Arts, he lives and works in Glasgow. Recent exhibitions  
include solo presentations at Tart Contemporary (San  
Francisco),Tramway (Glasgow) and group exhibitions Art Now Lightbox  
Tate Britain, Pass the Time of Day Gasworks Gallery (touring  
exhibition), Zenomap, Venice Biennale 2003, Electric Earth: Film and  
Video from Britain, a British Council touring exhibition.
  Emily Wardill’s work is concerned with the communication of ideas  
and agency implicit in the structure of language and formulation of  
material by the media. Her 16mm films isolate detail from a complex,  
metropolitan vernacular edited with a syntax of absences in sound and  
image. Structured in reference to a single metaphor or motif,  
Wardill’s films construct a formal investigation of the social and  
psychological implications of the media she employs for formulation  
of consciousness and the construction of self.
  Emily Wardill was born in 1977 and studied at Central St Martins  
College of Art & Design, she lives and works in London. Recent  
exhibitions include solo presentations at Fortescue Avenue and group  
exhibitions Art Now Lightbox Tate Britain, Among the Ash Heaps and  
Millionaires Ancient & Modern, London and Romantic Detachment PS1 New  
York, Chapter Arts Cardiff and Q Arts Derby. Wardill is represented  
by Fortescue Avenue, London and her films are distributed by LUX.

COMING SOON

Friday 4 May 8pm (NB time change from 9pm)
SELECT: ROSALIND NASHASHIBI. Select is an ongoing LUX/ Tate Britain  
series inviting British artists to select films that inspire them as  
part of Late at Tate. More information to follow. http:// 
www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/film/8366.htm

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