Duncan Reekie: A Retrospective

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DESTROY ALL MOBSTERS (Duncan Reekie, 1993)Duncan Reekie: A Retrospective
Saturday, December 3, 19:30h
The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD

As part of the London Underground Film Festival, Duncan Reekie will present and perform a selection of work including early Super 8 films, recent digital video and the world premiere of a new performance. Duncan Reekie has been a malign influence on British Underground Cinema for over twenty years. He has produced a diverse body of work that explores a variety of styles, techniques and purpose including narrative drama, scratching and colouring celluloid, multiple superimpositions, video collage and lyrical visions. Reekie has developed a mongrel praxis that refuses the institutional separation between theory and practice. It is subjective and chaotic, it is enmeshed in a complex system of political contingencies : he is an agent in the narrative. He is perhaps most celebrated for his performance work which features projected images and scathing rhetoric which is often mistaken for irony. He is a founder member of the infamous Exploding Cinema Collective, a radical open access-screening group and he was the co-ordinator, producer and co-director of the international Underground feature film MALDOROR (2001) that has toured extensively throughout Europe and America. His highly acclaimed book ‘Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema’ was published by Wallflower Press in October 2007. 

Programme
- How We Are Born (1994, performance/music/Over Head Projector, 5 mins)
A doctor explains the facts of life

- DESTROY ALL MOBSTERS (Super 8 and performance, 1993, 9.5 mins)
A searing indictment of Avant Garde pretension.

- STICKLEBACK (Super 8, 1994, 3 mins)
Underexposed beach hi-jinx – scratched and hand painted.

- HAVELESS (performance/music/Super 8, 1992, 13 mins)
My life underwater

- THE CHAMP (Video, 1996, 8.5 mins)
A heartbreaking drama in which a man seeks to come to terms with the death of a beloved companion.

- FILM AGAINST FILM (Video, 2006, 8 mins)
The working class brainwashed by Avant garde film.
Starring Michael Caine and Malcolm le Grice.

- SON OF OEDIPUS #3 (Super 8, 2001, 10 mins)
A psychedelic romp through Freudian lust in scratched and hand coloured celluloid. Featuring a NEW score by the fabulous Dog Rack

- Lord of the Wasps (2005, performance/music/video, 5 mins)
The killer awoke before dawn

- ARGONAUT (Video, 2009, 7 mins)
A journey into the heart of your own eyes

- The King in Darkness (Video, 2008, 14 mins)
A psychedelic/materialist reworking of H.P. Lovecraft and his cult.

- The Silence of Oz (Video, 2011, 4 mins)
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain….

- My Arkive (2008, performance/music/video, 5 mins)
Into the golden dawn…

- From My Shadow Collection (Video, 2011, 6 mins)
Section 6. Sunlight through trees : wind

Advanced discounted tickets available for 3.50 GBP at: wegottickets.com or 5GBP at the door.

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