Artist’s Film Events – Try Something Different!

There are two artist’s film events taking place this week in Picturehouse cinemas. First is TONIGHT ONLY at Ritzy Brixton, 7pm where we have a selection of films by artist Ruth Maclennan followed by a Q&A. The films include:

Dialogue #5 (It’s not your problem) about a man undergoing a personal crisis in response to the financial, climatic, and economic crises that he is tuning into in the media and his surroundings.

Three Short Films on Hawks and Men – on the practice of falconry, shows three perspectives on relations between humans, birds of prey, and their habitats

Capital – set in Kazakhstan’s new capital Astana. A woman traveller, a stranger, addresses the founder-ruler of a city under construction, one that promises a glossy but oppressive future by
erasing the past.

The Hawk and the Tower – A miniature camera is attached to a trained Harris hawk and flies around the Archway Tower and shopping mall.

Ruth Maclennan’s work is shown internationally in exhibitions and film festivals. Her collaborative art project Polytechnical Institute for the Study of the Expanding Field of Radical Urban Life interrogates the present of the city and speculates on its future through writing, performance, film, and events.
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On Sunday at the Gate in Notting Hill, we have our regular artist film event Serpentine Cinema: CINACT, presented as a collaboration between the Serptentine Gallery, sketch and Picturehouses. (CINACT takes its name from American artist Henry Flynt’s 2007 cinema manifesto – more on that later) Each month there is a fantastic programme of films. I’ve been to each one and have never been disappointed as they’re always stimulating and inspiring. Often the programme includes brand new films so there aren’t always many details available about the programme in advance other than the artists names, but they are all guaranteed to be interesting.

Serpentine Cinema: CINACT
Laure Prouvost and Cara Tolmie – Sunday 11 July, 2pm

Laure Prouvost
Monolog 2009, 9mins, HDCAM, colour, sound
Recent winner of the 56th Oberhausen Short Film Principal Prize, Monolog is a playful interrogation of the relationships between director, performer, audience and the architecture of viewing. Experimenting with the notion of a captive cinema audience, its wry humour and fast paced editing directly, whilst not didactically, explore the structures of spectatorship.
www.laureprouvost.com

Cara Tolmie
An Evening Group And The Faceless Forefathers 2009, 4:32mins, video, colour, sound
As well as video, Tolmie’s practice also spans installation, performance, music, text and spoken word, constructing fictional narratives that deliberately create an interpretive slippage.

An Evening Group And The Faceless Forefathers, the camera pans slowly around a model house, while a questioning voice-over explores the protagonists subjective values of community and belonging, projecting an ambiguous sense of identity onto the empty imagined architecture.

Room Studies 2010, 18mins, video, colour, sound
Camera: Steven Cairns

I can tell you now that there will be

1. Sounds
2. Words
3. Actions
4. Rooms

Shot by Steven Cairns, Room Studies is new video that again utilises architectural models to create evocative environments upon, which she overlays spoken word and music.

A series of interior ‘sets’ are projected as images on stage, while Tolmie performs corresponding texts and sound tracks for each, creating multiple imagined interpretations and observations.

For tickets visit picturehouses.co.uk