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	Subject: [secretcinema] Film Poems 4: Messages, 7 April 2004

	

	



	Wednesday 7th April, 2004 at 6:30pm

	

	FILM POEMS 4: MESSAGES

	at The Other Cinema

	

	Introduced by Peter Todd, followed by Q+A with Gareth Evans

	

	Work by Stan Brakhage, Guy Sherwin, Margaret Tait, amongst others in a

	programme of archive and artists' work which explores how films can be

	letters, essays, records and poems.

	

	Eriskay, A Poem of Remote Lives

	Dir: Werner Kissling UK 1935 18m

	A study of Eriskay's crofting life, filmed by Kissling during a sailing

	holiday.

	

	Messages

	Dir: Guy Sherwin UK 1981-3 34m

	Made over a 3-year period when my daughter Maya was first learning to talk

	and write. (Guy Sherwin)

	

	Anaemic Cinema

	Dir: Marcel Duchamp Fr 1926 7m

	Spiralling and multi-punning epigrams.

	

	Colour Poems

	Dir: Margaret Tait UK 1974 12m

	A poem started in words is continued by the picture. (Margaret Tait)

	

	An Office Worker Thinks of Their Love, and Home

	Dir: Peter Todd UK 2003 3m

	Images of home, and city, and a written message. (Peter Todd)

	

	First Hymn to the Night Novalis

	Dir: Stan Brakhage US 1994 4m

	A hand-painted film whose emotionally referential shapes and colours are

	interwoven with words from Novalis. (Stan Brakhage)

	

	Film Letter from New Zealand Boy. Travels With Stick

	Dir: Gordon Brouncker NZ 1988 3m

	What, I wondered, would it be like to grow up in NZ ... What would you hear?

	Would the nursery rhymes be the same? (Gordon Brouncker)

	

	Kokoro is for Heart

	Dir: Philip Hoffman Canada 1999 7m

	Features poet Gerry Shikatani ... The irregular, yet rhythmic sound of the

	cameras inner working echoes Gerry's phrasing, and re-phrasing. (Philip

	Hoffman)

	

	Curated by Peter Todd. Supported by Arts Council England.

	For more information visit www.lux.org.uk/filmpoems

	

	...

	

	screening at

	

	The Other Cinema, Rupert Street, London

	nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus

	Box Office: 020 7734 1506

	

	

	

	

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