The (London Film) festival’s annual celebration of artists’ film and video will take place on 25-26 October 2008, presenting a diverse selection of international work in eight screenings that open a window onto a wide range of creativity.
This year’s selection includes special programmes devoted to the work of Nathaniel
Dorsky, Alina Rudnitskaya, Ben Rivers and Michel Auder. Films by the radical French theorist Guy Debord will be shown in new 35mm prints. New approaches to documentary and ethnography recur throughout the weekend, which presents established and emerging artists in a curated survey of innovation in the moving image. Several makers will be present to discuss their work and two continuous installations will be shown in the BFI Southbank Studio.
Curated by Mark Webber for The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival.
Full details online at www.secretcinema.co.uk
THE TIMES BFI 52nd LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
EXPERIMENTA ARTISTS’ FILM & VIDEO
25-26 October 2008
SAT 25 OCT 12.00-19.00 STUDIO [Free Admission]
- Pneuma Monoxyd (Thomas Köner/Germany-Serbia 2007/10 mins)
SAT 25 OCT 14.00 NFT3
A SENSE OF PLACE
- Four Toronto Films (Nicky Hamlyn/UK 2007/18 mins)
- 21 Alleys (Robert Todd/USA 2007/9 mins)
- Last Days in a Lonely Place (Phil Solomon/USA 2007/22 mins)
- Lossless #2 (Rebecca Baron, Douglas Goodwin/USA 2008/3 mins)
- Trilogy: Kettle’s Yard (Jayne Parker/UK 2008/25 mins)
- The Miracle of Don Cristobal (Lawrence Jordan/USA 2008/12 mins)
SAT 25 OCT 16.00 NFT3
GUY DEBORD
- Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps (Guy
- Debord/France 1959/18 mins)
- In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (Guy Debord/France 1978/105 mins)
SAT 25 OCT 19.00 NFT3
ALINA RUDNITSKAYA
- Amazons (Alina Rudnitskaya/Russia 2003/20 mins)
- Besame Mucho (Alina Rudnitskaya/Russia 2006/27 mins)
- Bitch Academy (Alina Rudnitskaya/Russia 2008/29 mins)
SAT 25 OCT 21.00 NFT3
WHEN LATITUDES BECOME FORM
- In the Kingdom of Shadows (Francisca Duran/Canada 2006/6 mins)
- How to Conduct a Love Affair (David Gatten/USA 2007/8 mins)
- The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly (Charlotte Pryce/USA 2008/4 mins)
- Deep Six (Sami van Ingen/Finland 2007/7 mins)
- De Tijd (Bart Vegter/Netherlands 2008/9 mins)
- Horizontal Boundaries (Pat O’Neill/USA 2008/23 mins)
- Easter Morning (Bruce Conner/USA 2008/10 mins)
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SUN 26 OCT 12.00-19.00 STUDIO [Free Admission]
- Kempinski (Neil Beloufa/Mali-France 2007/14 mins)
SUN 26 OCT 14.00 NFT3
NATHANIEL DORSKY IN PERSON
- Winter (Nathaniel Dorsky/USA 2007/19 mins)
- Sarabande (Nathaniel Dorsky/USA 2008/15 mins)
- Triste (Nathaniel Dorsky/USA 1978-96/19 mins)
SUN 26 OCT 15.45 NFT3
& TUE 29 OCT 19.00 STUDIO
- The Feature (Michel Auder, Andrew Neel/USA 2008/177 mins)
SUN 26 OCT 19.00 NFT3
THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST
- Small Miracles (Julia Hechtman/USA 2006/5 mins)
- Kempinski (Neil Beloufa/Mali-France 2007/14 mins)
- Tjúba Tén (The Wet Season) (Brigid McCaffrey, Ben Russell/USA-Suriname 2008/47 mins)
- Remote Intimacy (Sylvia Schedelbauer/Germany 2008/15 mins)
SUN 26 OCT 21.00 NFT3
BEN RIVERS AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
- Ah Liberty! (Ben Rivers/UK 2008/19 mins)
- Recordando el Ayer (Alexandra Cuesta/USA 2007/9 mins)
- Astika (Ben Rivers/UK-Denmark 2007/8 mins)
- Singing Biscuits (Luther Price/USA 2007/4 mins)
- New Surprise Film (Ben Rivers/UK 2008/c.7 mins)
- Origin of the Species (Ben Rivers/UK 2008/17 mins)
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