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THE TIMES bfi 48th LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
AVANT-GARDE WEEKEND
30-31 October 2004
DAY ONE
Sat 30 Oct 14:00 NFT 3
VIDEO VISIONS
PRESERVING CULTURAL TRADITIONS IN A PERIOD OF INSTABILITY
Dir fordbrothers/Austria 2004/3 mins
fordbrothers explode the visual field as a strangely familiar, but
unidentified, voice rails against computer technology and modern society.
AMONGST THE PERSUADED
Dir Fred Worden/USA 2004/23 mins
The digital revolution is coming, and an old-school film-maker is trying to
come to terms with it. OEThe human susceptibility to self-delusion has, at
least, this defining characteristic: Easy to spot in others, hard to see in
oneself.ı (F.W.)
ICH BIN TRAURIG
Dirs Didi Bruckmayr & Michael Strohmann/Austria 2004/5 mins
An aria for 3D modelling, transformed and decomposed using the cultural
filters of opera and heavy metal.
ANOXI
Dir Robin Dupuis/Canada 2003/4 mins
Effervescent digital animation of vapours and particles.
KILVO
Dir Michaela Grill/Austria 2004/6 mins
Minimal is maximal. A synaesthestic composition in black, white and grey.
NUÉE
Dir Myriam Bessette/Canada 2003/3 mins
Bleached out bliss of dripping colour fields.
SET-4
Dir Jan van Nuenen/Netherlands 2003/4 mins
Endless late night cable television sports programmes, remixed into deep
space: from inanity to infinity.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND OR WHO IS GUY DEBORD?
Dir Robert Cauble/USA 2003/23 mins
Alice longs for a more exciting life away from Victorian England, but is she
ready for the Society of the Spectacle? Conventional animation is subverted
to tell the strange tale of Alice and the Situationists.
Total running time c80 mins
S
Sat 30 Oct 16:00 NFT 3
TRAVEL SONGS
WHAT GOES UP
Dir Robert Breer/USA 2003/5 mins
A volley of rapid visual associations from the mind of Robert Breer,
animating collage, drawings and snapshots in a playful, but rigorous manner.
What goes up must come down.
TRAVEL SONGS 1967-1981
Dir Jonas Mekas/USA 2003/24 mins
In short bursts and single frames, memories of European journeys rush by
like landscapes through train windows. This ebullient album of previously
unseen footage contains songs of Assisi, Avila, Moscow, Stockholm and Italy.
LITTLE B & MBT
Dir Frank Biesendorfer/USA-Germany 2003/30 mins
An intimate journal featuring the film-makerıs family in their daily life,
contrasted with audio recorded at one of Hermann Nitschıs actions in his
Austrian castle. Despite their diverse sources, the sound and image weave a
tangled spell around each other.
MEDITATIONS ON REVOLUTION V: FOREIGN CITY
Dir Robert Fenz/USA 2003/32 mins
The Meditations series comes home for a journey through New York, viewed as
a place of immigration and displacement. The urban environment, shot mostly
at night in ecstatic black-and-white, becomes an almost exotic locale.
Fenzıs incandescent cinematography reveals images of great beauty and
compassion on the sidewalks and subway, as the film subtly shifts from
anonymous street scenes into a sensitive portrait of jazz legend Marion
Brown, who reminisces on his life and career as he convalesces in hospital.
Total running time c95 mins
S
Sat 30 Oct 19:00 NFT 3
PUBLIC LIGHTING
Dir Mike Hoolboom/Canada 2004/76 mins
Public Lighting is a meditation on photography and the creation of images
that can capture, replace and outlive our experiences. Itıs a videofilm in
seven parts, related in both subject and sentiment to the wonderful
Imitations of Life, which screened in last yearıs festival. Each chapter is
a case study of the different types of personality that have been identified
by the young author who guides us through the prologue. The first, a gay
male, takes us on a tour of the bars and restaurants where his affairs have
ended, recounting ironic stories of his many lovers. An homage to composer
Philip Glass is incongruously followed by OEHey Madonnaı, a confessional
letter to the singer from a fan who is HIV positive. Amy celebrates another
birthday, but concedes that she has lost her memory to television. At least
she has a camera: OEI take pictures not to help me remember, but to record my
forgetting.ı Hiro lives life at a distance, rarely venturing out beyond the
lens, and an anxious young model recounts poignant events from her past. Few
film-makers use re-appropriated footage in such an emotive way: At once
humorous and incisive, these chains of images inevitably lead us back to
parts of ourselves. Hoolboomıs recent work is in such profound sympathy with
the human condition that it speaks directly to our hearts.
S
Sat 30 Oct 21:00 NFT 3
POETRY AND TRUTH
ENID'S IDYLL
Dir Larry Jordan/USA 2004/17 mins
An animated imagining of Arthurian romance based on Gustav Doréıs engraved
illustrations for Tennysonıs OEIdylls of the Kingsı, accompanied by the music
of Mahlerıs OEResurrection Symphonyı.
I BEGAN TO WISH
Dir Julie Murray/USA 2003/5 mins
Mysterious events unfold in a potting shed S A jewel of found footage,
mysterious and profound beyond its imagery, and with an almost deafening
aural presence, despite its lack of soundtrack.
THINGS WE WANT TO SEE
Dir Rebecca Meyers/USA 2004/7 mins
An introspective work that obliquely measures the fragility of life against
boundless forces of nature, such as Alaskan ice floes, the Aurora Borealis
and magnetic storms.
DICHTUNG UND WAHRHEIT
Dir Peter Kubelka/Austria 2003/13 mins
In cinema, as in anthropological study, the ready-made can reveal some of
the fundamental OEpoetry and truthı of our lives. Kubelka has unearthed
sequences of discarded takes from advertising and presents them, almost
untouched, as documents that unwittingly offer valuable and humorous
insights into the human condition.
( )
Dir Morgan Fisher/USA 2003/21 mins
OEI wanted to make a film out of nothing but inserts, or shots that were
close enough to being inserts, as a way of making them visible, to release
them from their self-effacing performance of drudge-work, to free them from
their servitude to story.ı (M.F.)
T:O:U:C:H:O:F:E:V:I:L
Dir Ichiro Sueoka/Japan 2003/5 mins
Like Fisherıs film, Sueokaıs video also uses cutaways, but this time the
shots are from 60s spy dramas, and retain their soundtracks.
Stroboscopically cut together, it becomes a strange brew, like mixing The
Man from U.N.C.L.E with Paul Sharitsı T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G.
LUKE
Dir Bruce Conner/USA 2004/22 mins
In 1967 Bruce Conner visited Dennis Hopper, Paul Newman and others on the
set of Cool Hand Luke and shot a rarely seen roll of silent 8mm film of the
production. Almost forty years later, he has returned to this footage and
presents it at three frames per second, creating an almost elegiac record of
that time. Patrick Gleeson, Connerıs collaborator on several previous films,
has prepared an original soundtrack for this new work.
Total running time c90 mins
S
THE TIMES bfi 48th LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
20 October 4 November 2004
www.lff.org.uk
Box office 020 7928 3232 or in person at the NFT
If all advance tickets for films are sold out, queue for late ticket
releases and returns. It is usually possible to get tickets at the last
minute.
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