From: Mark Webber (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2007 - 04:17:00 PDT
THE TIMES BFI 51st LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
17 October 1 November 2007
The Festivalıs annual celebration of artistsı film and video returns on
27-28 October 2007 with an international programme of diverse and inventive
work. For the first time, Experimenta will also occupy BFI Southbankıs new
Studio over the weekend to present continuous installations of digital
videos by Ken Jacobs and Rachel Reupke.
This yearıs programme ranges from poetic journeys to unfamiliar locations to
works which question aspects of specific histories. Whilst video remains the
most accessible medium for independent artists, many are choosing again to
work with film, either for its visual qualities or physical attributes. Itıs
ironic, or perhaps inevitable, that this revival of interest comes at a time
when the future of celluloid seems to be constantly under threat. The
selection includes several works in which artists have worked directly on
the filmstrip to create striking and original imagery.
Carolee Schneemann did exactly that for her seminal film "Fuses", made
between 1964-67 and presented here in an astounding new preservation print.
Marina Abramovic, another eminent and challenging artist, is featured in a
hypotonic document of her Guggenheim Museum performance series. Guest
filmmaker David Gatten will lead a practical workshop on the use of text and
the moving image, and we are pleased to welcome Peter Hutton to present his
stunning new film "At Sea". Many other artists will appear to introduce and
discuss their work over the two-day event.
The avant-garde weekendı continues to be a unique occasion for London
audiences to experience innovative new visions from around the world.
Other festival highlights for 2007 include the documentaries "Black, White +
Gray: Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe" and "A Walk Into The
Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory" (plus a programme of Danny
Williams' Factory Films), Guy Maddinıs "Brand Upon the Brain!", and "Casting
A Glance", James Benningıs film of Robert Smithsonıs 'Spiral Jetty'.
Many thanks to everyone who advised me with suggestions for the programmes,
and to all those who sent in their work this year.
Mark Webber
THE TIMES BFI 51st LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
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EXPERIMENTA AVANT-GARDE WEEKEND
THUR 25 OCT 10.00-17.00 WORKSHOP
David Gatten: The Image & The Word
SAT 27 OCT 12.00-19.00 STUDIO [Free Admission]
Capitalism: Child Labor (Ken Jacobs/USA 2006/14 mins) (continuous loop)
SAT 27 OCT 14.00 NFT3
THE Iı AND THE WEı
Seeing Red (Su Friedrich/USA 2005/27 mins)
Je Suis Une Bombe (Elodie Pong/Switzerland 2006/7 mins)
I Just Wanted To Be Somebody (Jay Rosenblatt/USA 2006/10 mins)
Regarding The Pain Of Susan Sontag (Notes On Camp) (Steve Reinke/Canada
2006/4 mins)
Part Time Heroes (Mara Mattuschka & Chris Haring/Austria 2007/33 mins)
SAT 27 OCT 16.00 NFT3
PAST IMPERFECT
hysteria (Christina Battle/Canada 2006/4 mins)
Dangerous Supplement (Soon-Mi Yoo/USA-Korea 2006/14 mins)
Catalogue of Birds: Book 3 (Jayne Parker/UK 2006/16 mins)
His Eye On The Sparrow (Bruce Conner/USA 2006/4 mins)
Marguerite Duras/Alain Resnais (0.65, 0.85, 1.0 fps) (David Dempewolf/USA
2007/19 mins)
Helenes (Apparition of Freedom) (Christoph Draeger/Switzerland 2005/18 mins)
SAT 27 OCT 18.30 NFT3
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN PRESERVATIONS
Fuses (Carolee Schneemann/USA 1964-67/29 mins)
Kitchıs Last Meal (Carolee Schneemann/USA 1973-76/c.60 mins) (double screen)
SAT 27 OCT 21.00 NFT3
MYSTERIOUS EMULSION
Water Spell (Sandy Ding/USA 2007/42 mins)
Blue Monet (Carl E. Brown/Canada 2006/56 mins) (double screen)
SUN 28 OCT 12.00-19.00 STUDIO [Free Admission]
Now Wait for Last Year (Rachel Reupke/UK-China 2007/9 mins) (continuous
loop)
SUN 28 OCT 14.00 NFT3
OVER LAND AND SEA
The Ivalo River Delta (Patrick Beveridge/UK 2007/17 mins)
At Sea (Peter Hutton/USA 2007/60 mins)
SUN 28 OCT 16.00 NFT3
THE PERCIPIENT IMAGE
Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3 (Charlotte Pryce/USA 2007/4 mins)
The Sky Walks Me Home (Allen D. Glass II/USA-China 2005/24 mins)
The Crossing (Timoleon Wilkins/USA 2007/6 mins)
The Breath (Minyong Jang/Korea 2007/10 mins)
Pitcher Of Colored Light (Robert Beavers/USA 2007/24 mins)
SUN 28 OCT 19.00 NFT3 [also Tue 30 Oct 19.30 STUDIO]
Seven Easy Pieces by Marina Abramovic (Babette Mangolte/USA 2007/93 mins)
SUN 28 OCT 21.00 NFT3
THE ANAGOGIC CHAMBER
Film for Invisible Ink, Case No: 71: Base-Plus-Fog (David Gatten/USA 2006/10
mins)
Shadow Trap (Greg Pope/UK-Norway 2007/8 mins)
The Object Which Thinks Us: OBJECT 1 (Samantha Rebello/UK 2007/7 mins)
fugitive l(i)ght (Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof/Canada 2005/9 mins)
Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck (Emily Wardill/UK 2007/10 mins)
Victory Over the Sun (Michael Robinson/USA 2007/13 mins)
Today! (Jessie Stead, David Gatten/USA 2007/11 mins)
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