PoetryFilm at Tate Britain

Friday 7 November 2008

19.00-19.30 Screening
20.00-20.45 Screening and Discussion - what happens behind the scenes  
of a film?
21.00-21.30 Screening

A selection of PoetryFilms including an animation based on 13 Ways of  
Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens; a film by Billy Childish  
celebrating the life of Dadaist and bicyclist Kurt Schwitters; and  
also go behind the scenes of a spying man with OCD who lives the same  
routine over and over - soundtrack by Aphex Twin. Plus, at 20.00, a  
discussion about the processes of making PoetryFilms with directors of  
some of the films screened, and editors and writers who have featured  
at Cannes, chaired by Malgorzata Kitowski, director of PoetryFilm.

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Tickets are free and available from the Rotunda information desk from 18.00

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Further Information about Late at Tate:

Half price entry to Francis Bacon and Turner Prize 08

Behind the Scenes Tours of Tate

Tate Archive
18.15, 19.15 and 20.15

See Tate's hidden gems in a rare behind-the-scenes tour of the  
extensive Tate Library and Archive store and view a selection of  
unusual and unique material from the Tate Library and Archive  
collections.

Gather by the Meeting Point near the main cloakroom where you will be met

The Prints and Drawings Rooms
18.30, 19.30 and 20.30

Did you know a staggering 80 percent of Tate's collection can be seen  
here? This tour provides a taster of Tate's vast collection of works  
on paper. It offers a chance to see Turner's earliest sketchbooks to  
his famous Venetian views, as well as his legendary Blue Rigi,  
acquired by Tate last year. In addition, you can see watercolours and  
drawings by William Blake, Stanley Spencer and Francis Bacon, among  
others, and some of the finest examples of modern and contemporary  
printmaking from David Hockney, to Richard Hamilton and Paula Rego.

Please meet in the Rotunda, you will be escorted to the Prints and  
Drawings Rooms

Please put bulky bags and coats in the cloakroom in advance of your  
tour. Please note that pens are not allowed in the print rooms  
(pencils will be provided).

Tate Stores
18.30 and 19.15

Only a fraction of the total artworks that Tate owns can be displayed  
at once. The rest, including paintings and sculpture by world-famous  
artists, are kept in the fabled Tate Store. Take this opportunity for  
insight into the behind-the-scenes workings of all the Tate galleries  
and find out how Tate cares for and manages its vast and important  
Collection.

Please meet on the Millbank Steps where the mini-bus will be waiting.  
You will be driven to and from the Stores

Frames Conservation
18.45 and 19.45

Please meet in the Rotunda, you will be escorted to the Conservation Studios

Encounter a gilded world in the frames conservation studio with gold  
leaf, carved wood and moulded ornament in this behind the scenes  
experience. In this practical demonstration by conservator Stephen  
Huxley you'll discover traditional and modern techniques used to treat  
important frames to fulfil their essential role for paintings in our  
collection.

Look out for the Frame Stories captions throughout the gallery - pick  
up a map for room numbers.

Alternative Talks on the Collection
Power: Richard Thomas
18.30, Room 4: Hogarth

Join Tate's artist-educator Richard Thomas for a tour and candid  
discussion on the power behind the early art markets through works  
such as Hogarth's O the Roast Beef of Old England.

Sight: Gillian Cutbill
19.00, Room 17: Image and Paint

Gillian Cutbill, a Tate guide who presents picture descriptions for  
visually impaired visitors, will be describing Freud's Standing by the  
Rags for the Late at Tate Britain audience and discussing the  
principals of picture description.

Outsider: Leon Wainwright
19.30, Room 24: Swinging 60s

Art Historian Leon Wainwright will be talking around the idea of the  
'authentic outsider' and how Kitaj and Hockney - in their different  
ways - communicated Britishness and notions of otherness in the age of  
Pop

Insider: Nivek Amichund
20.30, Room 8: Cecil Collins

Inspired by the recently opened Cecil Collins display in Room 8, Nivek  
Amichund, both a visitor services assistant and a member of Tate  
Forum, Tate's youth advisory panel, gives his view on the works from  
his unique insider's position

Frame Cleaning
18.30-19.15 and 20.00-20.45

Frame cleaning is a delicate activity which normally takes place  
before the gallery opens, but tonight members of the visitor services  
team will be frame cleaning in Rooms 14 and 15. Talk to them about the  
specialised equipment and the nature of the frames they're cleaning.

Film: Losing Her, (James Killough, 29 minutes, 2007)
North Duveens
19.00 on a loop

Written and directed by James Killough and shot after hours in Tate  
Britain, this award-winning short film explores memory and past as  
they collide when Helen desperately searches for her grandmother in  
the galleries and encounters visitors and staff. What unfolds is a  
surprising tale of loss, memory and art which leads to a devastating  
conclusion.

Stills from behind the scenes of the shoot will be projected in the  
North Duveens and watch out for a live recreation of one of the scenes  
from the film

With the kind support of ARRI

PoetryFilm
Auditorium
19.00-19.30 Screening
20.00-20.45 Screening and Discussion - what happens behind the scenes  
of a film?
21.00-21.30 Screening

A selection of PoetryFilms including an animation based on 13 Ways of  
Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens; a film by Billy Childish  
celebrating the life of Dadaist and bicyclist Kurt Schwitters; and  
also go behind the scenes of a spying man with OCD who lives the same  
routine over and over - soundtrack by Aphex Twin. Plus, at 20.00, a  
discussion about the processes of making PoetryFilms with directors of  
some of the films screened, editors and writers who have featured at  
Cannes, chaired by Malgorzata Kitowski, director of PoetryFilm.

Tickets available from the Rotunda information desk from 18.00

Music
18.00-21.40
Room 9

Hear the double life of Tate employees with DJ sets in Room 9 with  
live visuals by Joe Catchpole and artist Dan Dvisualist Fenton

18.00-19.15 Dark Emotions playing Dubstep and Electronica
19.15-20.30 Knappenwill be playing an eccelctic mix of sounds from the  
kingdom of rad
20.30-21.40 DJ Ferg Money with an early 90s Hip Hop set to end the night

Behind the Screen
South Duveens
18.00-20.00

During this summer's Street or Studio exhibition at Tate Modern, Tate  
partnered Flickr and Blurb to create an alternative catalogue of urban  
portraits, Street or Studio: A Photobook. The 100 photographs that the  
judges selected will be projected onto the walls of the Duveen  
galleries for the evening

Art Now: Rosalind Nasashibi & Lucy Skaer

Alongside their individual art practices, Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy  
Skaer have been making collaborative works since 2005. Their two films  
Ambassador 2005 and Flash in the Metropolitan 2006 focus on the act of  
looking and the transformative potential of film.

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