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Sunday 6 June 2004 at 2pm
TATE BRITAIN Clore Auditorium
GARDEN PIECES
A programme on the theme of the garden covering almost 100 years of cinema,
curated and introduced by Peter Todd.
Birth of a Flower (Percy E Smith / UK / 1910 / 6 mins)
"F. Percy Smith (1880-1944) was world famous as a photographer of plant
life. Probably the first British example of time-lapse photography as
applied to the growth of plants."
All My Life (Bruce Baillie / USA / 1966 / 3 mins)
"This elegantly timed and ravishingly senuous little film."
(P. Adams Sitney)
Flight (Guy Sherwin / UK / 1998 / 4 mins)
"Flight is a four minute work made from a tiny fragment of film of pigeons,
semi-silhoutted in trees, shot with a long lens. The imagery has been
slowed-down and sometimes stopped, using an optical printer to rework the
original". (Nicky Hamlyn)
Elegy (Anthea Kennedy, Ian Wiblin / UK / 2002 / 3 mins)
A self made work made with Garden Pieces in mind. A film for a deceased cat.
Eaux D'Artifice (Kenneth Anger / USA / 1954 / 13 mins)
Filmed in [the gardens of the Villa D'Este] Tivoli, Italy, and accompanied
by the music of Vivaldi, Camilla Salvatore plays hide and seek in a baroque
night-time labyrinth of staircases, fountains, gargoyles, and balustrades.
The camera zooms into and away from the mask-like faces, water spirits
carved in stone, as the figure in eighteenth-century costume scurries
through the maze.
How to Dig (Jack Ellitt / UK / 1941 / 14 mins)
Made in co-operation with the Royal Horticultural Society and sponsored by
the Ministry of Information and Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
"Instructional. Different methods of digging over ground before sowing."
For You (Peter Todd / UK / 2000 / 3 mins)
A self made film with Garden Pieces in mind. Intertitles and images of a
suburban garden as a record of a relationship.
Garden Pieces (Margaret Tait / 16mm / 1998 / 12 mins)
"Looking at these (Garden) pieces again tonight, I see the beachcomber
artist, the searching, experimental spirit, so quintessentially Margaret,
and a poignant sense of her own mortality: the camera circles round a summer
garden, lush with life, seeking shadows within the light, pausing
momentarily as it passes over an empty chair." (Gerda Stevenson)
Mothlight (Stan Brakhage / USA / 1963 / 4 mins)
"Brakhage made Mothlight without a camera. He just pasted mothwings and
flowers on a clear strip of film and ran it through the printing machine."
(Jonas Mekas.)
Alice in Wonderland
(Percy Stow, Cecil M Hepworth / UK / 1903 / 7 mins)
It starts and ends in a garden in between.... "Alice
dreams she sees the White Rabbit and follows him down
the Rabbit-hole, into the Hall of Many Doors"
Ma: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji
(Takahiko Iimura / Japan / 1989 / 16 mins)
A Japanese concept of time/space is realised through the zen garden of
Ryoan-Ji. With text by Arata Isozaki and music by Takehisa Kosugi."
The Kiss (John Smith & Ian Bourn / UK / 1999 / 5 mins)
A prize winning work. "A depiction of the forced development of a hothouse
flower."
Free admission, no need to book.
Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG.
[Nearest tube: Pimlico]
Telephone 020 7887 8888
www.tate.org.uk/britain/artistsfilm/
www.lux.org.uk
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