Double Negative presents
Landscape and technology: Films of Chris Welsby
Saturday, March 30 2013, 21h
Sunday, March 31 2013, 19h (repeat screening)
Cinémathèque québécoise
335, De Maisonneuve Blvd East
Montréal, Québec, H2X 1K1

Artist in attendance

Vancouver-based media artist Chris Welsby emerged in 1970s as a major figure in the experimental cinema scene in the UK where he was associated with the London Filmmakers’ Co-op. Welsby developed a unique process of filmmaking in which the interaction between cinematic apparatus and various forces of nature became an important determinant of the shape of his films.

This program surveys Welsby’s outstanding achievements in landscape film during this period, including much-acclaimed Seven Days and River Yar, which was co-made with William Raban, one of the foremost proponents of British expanded cinema. Welsby makes his first appearance in Montreal with this retrospective.

For more info: www.cinematheque.qc.ca/en/programmation/projections/cycle/double-negative-chris-welsby

Environmental Agency: A Landscape Film Programme
Tuesday March 5 2013, 18:20h
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT

The awe-inspiring power of nature and its associated weather systems as explored across a range of groundbreaking works by renowned artist filmmakers. Subtle shifts in natural light, delicate tidal movements and the terraforming power of seasonal change determine the shape and structure of several of the films here. Others reflect with great beauty on the impact that nature has on our lives as an alchemical, elemental force. A timely programme for today’s changing world.

Breath (1975. William Raban. 16min); Colour Separation (1976. Chris Welsby. 2min); Colours of This Time (1972. William Raban. 4min); Water Wrackets (1975. Peter Greenaway. 12min); Three Short Landscape Films (1979. Renny Croft. 6min); Walk (1975. Jenny Okun. 5min); Bridge (1980. John Woodman. 4min); Aerial (1974. Margaret Tait. 4min); Aspect (2004. Emily Richardson. 9min); Proximity (2006. Inger Lise Hansen. 4min)

Introduced by artist John Woodman and BFI National Archive curator William Fowler.

The programme will be followed by a launch in the BFI Shop of two new LUX titles on DVD: Trilogy (Inger Lise Hansen) and Landscape Films 1977-1982 (John Woodman).

Tate Modern: To Be Is To Be Perceived
17-26 September 2010
Tate Modern Starr Auditorum
Bankside, London, SE1 9TG, UK

In conjunction with Tate Modern’s exhibition Exposed: voyeurism, surveillance and the camera (until 3 October 2010), this film programme explores ways in which artists have used the camera to draw attention to a society mediated by permanent observation. It looks at how the camera has been used as a weapon, as a tool to reveal moments of privacy, and as a means of creating cultural icons.

Featuring the premiere of William Raban’s About now MMX, as well as work by Javier Aguirre, Peggy Ahwesh, Fikret Atay, Michel Auder, Samuel Beckett, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Jean Colom, Harun Farocki, Coco Fusco, William E Jones, Helen Levitt, Yoko Ono, Chris Petit, Nicolas Provost, Julia Scher and Andy Warhol.

Curated by Cristina Camara and Stuart Comer.