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From: Ben Cook LUX [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: LUX SALON: MATTHEW NOEL-TOD/ 15 JUNE 7pm/ + CALL FOR ARTISTS


1. LUX SALON: MATTHEW NOEL-TOD
2. CALL FOR ARTISTS: PROBLEMATISING RACE

1. you are invited to:

LUX SALON: MATTHEW NOEL-TOD
Tuesday 15th June 2004 7 for 7.30pm
British artist filmmaker, Matthew Noel-Tod presents his recent works, Jetzt Im Kino (2003) and Ulysses Italian Cinema (2002)  and selected films, Peter Gidal's Hall (1968) and David Lamelas' Time as Activity, Berlin (1998) 
LUX SALON take place at LUX office. Admission is FREE but booking is essential as space is very limited, please don't book unless you are definitely coming as this deprives others of a place. For Directions see http://www.lux.org.uk/directions.html. To book a place email [log in to unmask]

Peter Gidal
HALL
UK, 1968-69, 10 mins, B&W, 16mm
"Hall manages, in its ten minutes, to put our perception to a rather strenuous test. Gidal will hold a static shot for quite a long time, and then make very quick cuts to objects seen at closer range. There is just a hallway and a room partially visible beyond, pictures (one of Godard) on a wall, fruit on a table, and so forth. The commonplace is rendered almost monotonous as we become increasingly familiar with it from a fixed and sustained viewpoint, and then we are disoriented by the closer cuts and also by the sudden prolonged ringing of an alarm. But even at the point of abrupt disorientation we remain conscious of the manipulation applied." Gordon Gow, "Focus on 16mm", Films and Filming, August 1971
"Demystified reaction by the viewer to a demystified situation, a cut in space and an interruption of duration, through (obvious) jumpcut editing within a strictly defined space. Manipulation of response and awareness thereof: through repetition and duration of image. Film situation as structured, as recorrective mechanism. (Notes from 1969). Still utilising all that time potent (signifying, overloaded) representations. (1972). In 1972 had more response on Belgian T.V. then anything they'd ever screened." - P.G.

Matthew Noel-Tod
ULYSSES ITALIAN CINEMA
UK / Italy, 2002, 18 mins, colour, video
"The image in Ulysses Italian Cinema is a train journey in Italy from Pordenone to Venice. Accompanying the objective edited/unedited image of the landscape is a soundtrack of semi coherent voice comprising the artist's directions to actors whilst dubbing previous videos, music from two European singing divas, Edith Piaf and Maria Callas, plus a re-reading of an interview with Michelangelo Antonioni from 1968 concerning Blow Up, Red Desert and the future of a cinematic language. The fluid image and disjointed audio converge and diverge, creating a journey through Italy, through cinema, through image technology, through history, through time, and through the artist's process of making a new video." MN-T

David Lamelas
TIME AS ACTIVITY, BERLIN
Germany, 1998, 29 mins, colour, 16mm
"Time as Activity, Berlin consists of shots from several helicopters, and of filmed aerial shots of large-scale Berlin construction sites from the year 1998. The topographical aerial photography releases the juxtaposed historical as well as current, political and economic representations of power from their inherent verticality, and presents the city as a graphic, two dimensionally active surface made up of traffic arteries, variations on reconstruction practices, and the patterns of areas with trees and greenery. Edited one onto the other, the sequences are preceded by precise dates whereby the viewer's attention is drawn to yet another level. Projector, light, and screen merge to a time-projection revealing a time totally unlike real time." 3rd Berlin Biennale

Matthew Noel-Tod
JETZT IM KINO
UK / Germany, 2003, 12 mins, colour, video
"Jetzt Im Kino (literally, "Now In Cinema") brings together adapted texts from Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's 'Painting, Photography, Film', Rudolf Arnheim's 'Film As Art', David Cooper's polemical psychology book 'The Grammar of Living' and writings from and around Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film 'The Marriage of Maria Braun' into a hybrid narrative floating across the cityscape of modern Berlin." MN-T
"In Jetzt Im Kino, Matthew Noel-Tod takes a city enclosed in a single structure as a platform for several interconnected bodies of work. The cinematic structure is modeled on the sprawling city landscape of modern Berlin and focuses on the urban exterior as theatrical space and the movement through this environment as a montage encompassing residential, retail, manufacturing, commercial industry, government and entertainment in a solitary focus on the condition of mankind." Odie Rynell Cash 2004


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2. CALL FOR ARTISTS 

Saturday 17th July, 3pm Whitechapel Gallery

INGE BLACKMAN for LUX: PROBLEMATISING RACE
The Hollywood narrative, and mainstream films have always been problematic 
in how they represent both white people and people of colour. Do white 
filmmakers make assumptions about identification? Is it that filmmakers of 
colour are forced to carry the burden of representing the marginal whether 
they like it or not? Can different film and video-making practices create a 
new language?
Submissions are invited from people making non-narrative film/video which 
problematise race.

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PART OF The Whitechapel Gallery East End Academy Film Programme: OPEN
http://www.whitechapel.org