LUX Weekly News 8th- 14th January 2007
EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK
 

1.	Norman McLaren: War and Peace, NFT3, Monday 8th Jan 6.10pm & Sunday 14th Jan 8.40pm 
2.	The Best of Norman McLaren. NFT3, Monday 8th Jan, 8.30pm 
3.	Halloween Film Festival: New shorts - Leftfield and Luscious ICA, Monday 8th January 6.30pm 
4.	Halloween Film Festival: Live: 7 Inch Cinema, ICA, Monday 8th January, 8pm 
5.	Norman McLaren: The Dancer, NFT3, Tuesday 9th January. 6.10pm 
6.	Norman McLaren: Beginnings, NFT3, Wednesday 10th January, 8.30pm 
7.	Jacco Oliver, Victoria Miro, Fri 12th January - 10th February 
8.	Norman McLaren: The Art of Motion, NFT2, Fri 12th Jan 6.20pm 
9.	Norman McLaren: Painting with Light, NFT2, Fri 12th Jan 8.40pm
	
10.	Norman McLaren: The Musician Animator, NFT2, Sat 13th Jan 4.00pm 
11.	Halloween Film Festival: Retrospective: Matt Hulse "Now I am yours" ICA, Sunday 14th January, 12.15pm 
12.	Fischli & Weiss: Rat & Bear, Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, Sunday 14th January, 3pm 
13.	Norman McLaren: Surrealism, NFT3, Sun 14th Jan 3.50pm 
14.	Halloween Film Festival: The Audible Picture Show, ICA, Sunday 14th January, 4pm 
15.	LUX presents an evening of film and performance dedicated to inclement weather. IN THE COLD, COLD NIGHT at Arcola Theatre, Sunday 14th January 2007, 7pm


 

LUX LONDON EVENTS CALENDAR the most comprehensive daily listing of artists' moving image events, screenings and exhibitions in London www.lux.org.uk/resources/calendar.htm <http://www.lux.org.uk/resources/calendar.htm> 
 
1.
Monday 8th Jan 6.10pm & Sunday 14th Jan 8.40pm
Norman McLaren: War and Peace
NFT3
National Film Theatre
Belvedere Rd, South Bank
London, SE1 8XT
Non members: £8.50, £6.25 conc 
Book online at www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film or 020 7928 3232
The young McLaren was very troubled by the hostilities of WW2, and a pacifist strain appeared in his work. Although he made films designed to support the troops and promote the war effort, McLaren also became interested in the nature of conflict, as seen in works such as A Chairy Tale and the famous Neighbours. Underneath the humour lies a deep concern for the state of the world. Programme includes: News for the Navy (1938); Hell Unltd (1936; co-dir Helen Biggar); Keep Your Mouth Shut (1944); V for Victory (1941); 5 for 4 (1942); Dollar Dance (1943); A Chairy Tale (1957; co-dir Claude Jutra); Neighbours (1952).Part of Norman McLaren at the NFT

2.
Monday 8th Jan, 8.30pm 
The Best of Norman McLaren
NFT3
National Film Theatre
Belvedere Rd, South Bank
London, SE1 8XT
Non members: £8.50, £6.25 conc 
Book online at www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film <http://www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film>  or 020 7928 3232
Norman McLaren's masterpieces - lovingly restored by the NFB's artisans, and presented in 35mm - shine with a new brilliance. The works were restored using elements conserved at the NFB, the National Archives of Canada, and the Cinémathèque québécoise. While cleaning the film and the soundtracks, the restorers were careful to respect McLaren's work by ensuring that the traces of his artisanal approach remained in evidence. Programme includes: Stars and Stripes (1940); Hen Hop (1942); Begone Dull Care (1949; co-dir Evelyn Lambart); A Chairy Tale (1957; co-dir Claude Jutra); Lines Horizontal (1962; co-dir Evelyn Lambart); Blinkity Blank (1955); Le Merle (1958); Neighbours (1952); Synchromy (1971); Pas de deux (1968). 


3.
Monday 8th January 6.30 pm 
Halloween Film Festival: New shorts - Leftfield and Luscious 
ICA
The Mall, London SW1 
Tickets: £8 / £7 / £6 box office: 020 7930 3647 www.ica.org.uk 
Eye opening innovations from an abstract viewpoint, including work by Dave Griffiths, Ben Rivers, Inger Lise Hansen, Richard Fenwick, Simon Ellis, Chris Oakley, Zan Lyons, Sebastian Buerkner, and Matthew Murdoch. Includes the LUX Award for Best Experimental Film www.lux.org.uk 

4.
Monday 8th January, 8 pm
Halloween Film Festival: LIVE: 7 INCH CINEMA
ICA
The Mall, London SW1 
Tickets: £12 / £11 / £10 box office: 020 7930 3647 www.ica.org.uk <http://www.ica.org.uk> 
www.7inch.org.uk 
With live guests BLACK GALAXY (featuring Simon Mabbutt and Nicholas Bullen, formerly of NAPALM DEATH andSCORN). 7 Inch Cinema have been invading fields, pubs and railway-arches with their box of filmic and musical tricks since 2003, and this special Halloween outing includes a mixtape medley of shorts, animation and internet oddities, including Man Ray's L'ETOILE DE MER and Watson & Webber's LOT IN SODOM, two indelible avant-garde films with live accompaniment by BLACK GALAXY. ZX SPECTRUM ORCHESTRA entertain in the bar afterwards.

5.
Tuesday 9th January. 6.10pm
Norman McLaren: The Dancer
NFT3
National Film Theatre
Belvedere Rd, South Bank
London, SE1 8XT
Non members: £8.50, £6.25 conc 
Book online at www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film or 020 7928 3232
McLaren's passion for movement drew him to the world of dance. Those close to him say he would often attend the ballet, and that he would have loved to have been a dancer. Some of McLaren's films seem like frenzied dances filled with abstract motifs, while others make more explicit reference to dance - including the ballets of the various creatures in the McLaren bestiary (such as hens, blackbirds and other birds). McLaren also created three dance films, including the sensual and spellbinding masterpiece Pas de deux. Programme includes: Hen Hop (1942); Two Bagatelles (1952; co-dir Grant Munro); Ballet Adagio (1972); Narcissus (1983); Pas de deux (1968).

6.
Wednesday 10th January, 8.30pm
Norman McLaren: Beginnings
NFT3
National Film Theatre
Belvedere Rd, South Bank
London, SE1 8XT
Non members: £8.50, £6.25 conc

Book online at www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film or 020 7928 3232

In 1936, in Scotland, the young Norman McLaren took part in an amateur film festival. His work was noted by John Grierson, who was a member of the jury. Grierson gave McLaren a job at the GPO Film Unit in London, where he directed innovative and inventive works. McLaren then began experimenting with camera-less animation, both in the UK and the US (Love on the Wing is his first masterpiece). Meanwhile, John Grierson had gone on to found the NFB, and he recruited McLaren to the institution in 1941. The rest, as they say, is history. Programme includes: 7 Till 5 (1933); Camera Makes Whoopee (1935); Polychrome Fantasy (1935); Book Bargain (1937); The Obedient Flame (1939); Love on the Wing (1938); July 4th 1941 (1941; co-dir Guy Glover); Stars and Stripes (1940).

 

7.
Fri 12th January - 10th February 2007
Jacco Oliver 
Victoria Miro 
16 Wharf Road
London N1 7RW
www.victoria-miro.com <http://www.victoria-miro.com> 
020 7336 8109 
Opening hours Tuesday - Saturday 10.00am - 6.00pm
Angel or Old Street tube (Northern Line)
Buses 43,214 and 394 stop on City Road

Jacco Olivier is both a painter and a filmmaker who fuses painting and moving image to create short, intimate animations. Painted as simply as possible, in lush, casual strokes each painting is repeatedly reworked and systematically photographed at each stage of development. The resulting films are enigmatic and experiential - moving in and out of abstraction they reveal the traces and decisions made by the artist in the process of painting. 

"I imagine the exhibition to be about a guy behind a window of his house looking at the things outside, mixing them with his own memories and desires, with the whale upstairs representing his thoughts. That's all I need to make it work in my head, but is not necessarily something the viewer sees, or even has to see." 

8.
Fri 12th Jan 6.20pm
Norman McLaren: The Art of Motion
NFT2
National Film Theatre
Belvedere Rd, South Bank
London, SE1 8XT
Non members: £8.50, £6.25 conc 
Book online at www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film or 020 7928 3232
McLaren began his career scratching and drawing directly on to film stock, The films that he directed using this technique demonstrate his peerless sense of movement. Viewers watching these films are transported by the sheer dynamism that the photograms transmit. We owe to McLaren this famous aphorism from 1975: 'What happens between each frame is more important than what happens in each frame.' Programme includes: Begone Dull Care (1949; co-dir Evelyn Lambart); Lines Vertical (1960; co-dir Evelyn Lambart); Lines Horizontal (1962; co-dir Evelyn Lambart); Mosaic (1965; co-dir Evelyn Lambart); Spook Sport (1940; co-dir Mary-Elllen Bute); Fiddle-de-dee (1947); Le Merle (1958); Hoppity Pop (1946); Mail Early for Christmas (1959); New York Light Board Record (1961); Short and Suite (1959).
Part of Norman McLaren at the NFT

 

9.
Fri 12th Jan 8.40pm & Sat 20th Jan 4.00pm
Norman McLaren: Painting with Light
NFT2
National Film Theatre
Belvedere Rd, South Bank
London, SE1 8XT
Non members: £8.50, £6.25 conc 
Book online at www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film or 020 7928 3232 

The films McLaren made with pastel (La Poulette grise) and chalk (Là-haut sur ces montagnes) demonstrate remarkable effects with light. Their origin lies in his fascination with the play of light that accompanies the movement of clouds in the sky. For McLaren, movement is sometimes suggested by subtle variations in the light on objects or landscapes. In other films, like Blinkity Blank, his work with light is more reminiscent of pyrotechnics. Programme includes: La Poulette grise (1947); Là-haut sur ces montagnes (1945); Spheres (1969; co-dir René Jodoin); Blurr Test (1957); Serenal (1959); C'est l'aviron (1944); Blinkity Blank (1955). Part of Norman McLaren at the NFT

 

10.
Sat 13th Jan 4.00pm & Mon 22nd Jan 6.30pm
Norman McLaren: The Musician Animator
NFT2
National Film Theatre
Belvedere Rd, South Bank
London, SE1 8XT
Non members: £8.50, £6.25 conc 
Book online at www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film or 020 7928 3232
Music was one of the arts that most deeply influenced McLaren. In a film like Canon, the film-maker gives a visual equivalent to musical structure. The result is not without humour or inventiveness. McLaren was also a pioneer in the field of electronic music, experimenting with synthetic sound and creating soundtracks directly on film by using three different techniques: sound painted on to clear film, sound scratched on to black film, and sound photographed on film. Programme includes: Loops (1940); Pen Point Percussion (1951); Neighbours (1952); Canon (1964; co-dir Grant Munro); Mosaic (1965; co-dir Evelyn Lambart); Synchromy (1971).

Part of Norman McLaren at the NFT

11.
Sunday 14th January, 12.15 pm 
Halloween Film Festival: RETROSPECTIVE: MATT HULSE "NOW I AM YOURS"
ICA
The Mall, London SW1
Tickets: £8 / £7 / £6 box office: 020 7930 3647 www.ica.org.uk www221.pair.com/mhulse/index2.html
Part masterclass, part retrospective and part safari through an eclectic, subversive and creative mind, this career-spanning event will explore the themes, influences and eccentricities of one our favourite experimental filmmakers. Edinburgh-based Hulse will treat us to a survey of his Super8 gems and award-winning short films. Expect an inspiring, revealing and entertaining session of oddities, rarities, sketchbook readings and more 

12.
Sunday 14th January, 3pm
Fischli & Weiss: Rat & Bear
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
Bankside, London SE1 
£5, booking recommended

Peter Fischli and David Weiss assume the characters Rat and Bear in these two picaresque films about unlikely travelling companions. Mining both art and artlessness, The Least Resistance (1981) and The Right Way (1983) are key moments in the early work of the artists, from which many of the themes that recur in their practice begin to unfold.

13.
Sun 14th Jan 3.50pm & Thu 18th Jan 8.40pm
Norman McLaren: Surrealism
NFT3 
National Film Theatre
Belvedere Rd, South Bank
London, SE1 8XT
Non members: £8.50, £6.25 conc 

Book online at www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film or 020 7928 3232

In the 30s, McLaren discovered both Émile Cohl's Fantasmagorie and A Night on Bald Mountain, by the duo of Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker. Both films are built on a series of bold, passionate, transformations. McLaren was also influenced by the French surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, and adopted a surrealist aesthetic on many occasions - transferring on to film the images inhabiting his unconscious. In addition, some of his abstract and semi-abstract works share a similar sensibility. Programme includes: A Little Phantasy on a 19th Century Painting (1946); A Phantasy (1952); Serenal (1959); Begone Dull Care (1949); Love on the Wing (1938); Hen Hop (1942); Boogie-Doodle (1940); Fiddle-de-dee (1947); Dots (1940); Scherzo (1939); Loops (1940); Short and Suite (1959).

Part of Norman McLaren at the NFT

14.
Sunday 14th January, 4pm 
Halloween Film Festival: THE AUDIBLE PICTURE SHOW
ICA
The Mall, London SW1 
Tickets: £8 / £7 / £6 box office: 020 7930 3647 www.ica.org.uk www.audiblepictureshow.org.uk 

Original works for dark cinemas curated and presented by Matt Hulse. Jaded by a world bombarded with images? Let The Audible Picture Show remind you of what cinema is capable of. This is a growing collection of works by a diverse range of people responding to the challenge of creating short audio works for a darkened cinema 

15.
Sunday 14th January 2007, 7pm

LUX presents an evening of film and performance dedicated to inclement weather

IN THE COLD, COLD NIGHT

at Arcola Theatre
27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ see http://www.arcolatheatre.com for directions.
Doors 7pm for 7.30pm start, Tickets: £5
Advance bookings www.arcolatheatre.com/index.php?action=showtemplate&sid=210 

with performances by: Heather Jones X, Andrew Gaston, Susan Turcot, Dirty Snow and Viralux and a screening of Michael Curran's LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE

"The white bees are swarming," said Grandma.

"Do they have a queen too?" asked the little boy, for he knew that real bees had such a ruler.

"Yes," replied Grandma, " she always flies right at the centre of the storm"

IN THE COLD, COLD NIGHT will invoke the chill in winter tales, ice crystals, battles of love and silence of snow. Crossing the boundaries between music and art a focused constellation of performances will introduce this special screening of LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE.

Taking the form of a fractured journey LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE explores notions of coldness, the act of storytelling and loneliness, all haunted by the spectre of Hans Christian Anderson's Snow Queen. Whilst seeking the actress Natayla Klimova, who played the role of the Snow Queen in Gennadi Kazinski's 1966 LENFILM production, Curran drifts through a series of episodic encounters which all strangely reflect upon his concerns. Comprised of telephone recitations, fairy story, chance meetings and weather changes Love in a Cold Climate emerges as an essay in love and longing.