Here is a reminder of some events coming up at Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image in the next few weeks:
May 28: Pierre Bourdieu Event: ‘Sociology Is a Combat Sport’
June 3: TV Research Event: Stuart Marshall—Queer History and Public Activism: the TV essay, the public sphere and the visibility of AIDS in 1980s television
June 4: TV Research Event: Stuart Marshall—Queer History and Public Activism: the TV essay, the public sphere and the visibility of AIDS in 1980s television
June 11: Broadcasting the Arts: Architecture on TV
June 17: Digital Animation Series: Sebastian Buerkner 3D Animation
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All events are free and open to all. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Michael Temple, Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, and Essay Film Festival
Matthew Barrington, interim BIMI Manager
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PROGRAMME DETAILS
Saturday 28th May 12.30-6.00pm
Sociology is a combat sport, and intellectualism isn’t a disease: a screening and symposium
Tim Markham (Birkbeck) introduces a rare screening of La Sociologie est un sport de combat [Sociology Is a Combat Sport], followed by a response from Professor Derek Robbins (UEL).
La Sociologie est un sport de combat
Pierre Carles, 2001, 146 minutes, French with English subtitles.
Pierre Carles’ 2001 documentary La Sociologie est un sport de combat (Sociology Is a Combat Sport), like the work of its subject, is intended more as a call to arms than a philosophical treatise. Made over three years spent following Pierre Bourdieu at work, on the lecture circuit and engaging with political movements, it paints a picture of his sociology as historical, ideological and above all active – a skill to be honed and practiced in everyday life. Influential and misunderstood, inspiring and misappropriated, Bourdieu’s work continues to reverberate fourteen years after his death across academia, activism and public discourse. This event will reflect on and challenge Bourdieu’s legacy, as well as asking a fundamental question about documentary itself: to what extent can a film transcend the exposition of intellectual ideas, and instead put them into practice?
Responding to the film will be the prominent Bourdieu scholar Professor Derek Robbins of the University of East London. Among Professor Robbins’ many publications are the influential books The Work of Pierre Bourdieu: Recognizing Society (1991), Bourdieu and Culture (2000) and On Bourdieu, Education and Society (2006); he also edited Sage’s four-volume boxed set of secondary articles, Pierre Bourdieu (2000). An open discussion will round out the event, asking what Bourdieu’s work can tell us about power and inequality in 2016, as well as what questions it raises about the role of the intellectual in public life.
To attend this event, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pierre-bourdieu-event-sociology-is-a-combat-sport-tickets-24452684638
Friday 3rd June and Saturday 4th June
TV Research Event: Stuart Marshall – Queer History and Public Activism: the TV essay, the public sphere and the visibility of AIDS in 1980s television
Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image/Essay Film Festival in collaboration with LUX Artists’ Moving Image, and with the support of Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (BIH)
Friday 3 June, 6:00-9:00pm, Stuart Marshall screenings, with introduction by Conal McStravick
Bright Eyes (Stuart Marshall, 1984, video, 80mins.) A Caught in the Act Production for Channel Four Television.
“Bright Eyes takes up the topic of AIDS but differs from previous coverage by examining the disease’s social and historical context. … Taking a newspaper article from the summer of 1983 as its starting point, Bright Eyes examines the way in which homosexuality has been described as a disease since the late-nineteenth century. … The final part of the programme uses interviews and drama to describe the anti-homosexual reporting of AIDS by the media and other contemporary threats to the gay community.” (LUXonline)
Comrades in Arms (Stuart Marshall, 1990, video, 48mins) Produced by Maya Vision.
“The Second World War is re-examined through the eyes of a group of gay servicemen and servicewomen, whose experiences range from ENSA-style entertainment to the River Kwai prison camp. Personal reminiscences, archive material and stage recreations of gay romances shot in the style of a 1940s back and white movie are combined in an humorous reclamation of a hitherto unrecorded history.” (Rebecca Dobbs, A Directory of British Film and Video Artists, ACE 1994)
To register for the Friday session, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tv-research-event-stuart-marshallqueer-history-and-public-activism-the-tv-essay-the-public-sphere-tickets-24988456145
Saturday 4 June, 10:30-5:30pm, Stuart Marshall symposium with screenings: the TV essay, the public sphere and the visibility of AIDS in 1980s television
In creative partnership with the LUX, this TV research symposium will offer a meditation on the TV video essay, with a particular focus on Stuart Marshall and his documentaries made for television broadcast on Channel Four. The event takes the opportunity to look at works that offer a critique of television and media practice, methods and the way TV represents sexuality and illness, queer histories and public activism. In identifying Marshall’s idea of a ‘committed television’ the symposium will explore issues of experimental TV, the public sphere and public service television, and the artist film on television.
10:30-12:30
Part One: Channel Four, Public Activism and the Public Sphere in the 1980s
Over Our Dead Bodies (Stuart Marshall, 1991, video, 50mins.)
Broadcast as part of the OUT series on Channel Four, 7 August 1991. Produced by Rebecca Dobbs, Maya Vision.
“This film documents the origins of the AIDS activist movement in the US and the UK and the day community’s growing anger and frustration with the totally inadequate response of the US political and medical establishment to the epidemic. While the film celebrates the real successes of this movement, it also examines the problematic debates within it concerning democracy, representation, power differentials, and the relationship between homophobia, racism and sexism. Finally the film describes the birth of groups such as Queer Nation in the US and Outrage in the UK, which have spring out of a newly politicized sense of pride and community fuelled by the AIDS activist movement.” (LUXonline)
Followed by a presentation by Rebecca Dobbs, producer at Maya Vision, with respondent,
Daniel Monk (School of Law, Birkbeck), chaired by Janet McCabe (FMACS)
13:30-15:30
Part 2: The TV essay, television art and the artist film.
The Love Show, Part One (Stuart Marshall, 1980, video, 23mins.)
“A narrator describes the beginning of a television programme. It sounds like a ‘made for TV’ movie. He then describes a series of seemingly disconnected scenes, which are illustrated by clichéd sounds effects. A memory test follows. A number of characters—writer, designer, make-up artist who are all played by the same actor—describe their part in the television production process. They seem to have trouble keeping their minds on the matter and their monologues slide away from a description (… the love of their craft to ideological statements about the representation of sexuality in Realist drama production).” (Video Artists on Tour catalogue, 1980, Arts Council)
Followed by discussion with Conal McStravick, artist.
The Love Show, Part Two (Stuart Marshall, 1980, video, 11mins.)
“The narrative of part one taken up and reworked. The gaps within and the limits of heterosexual representations of sexuality. The articulation of sexuality by the mode of the narration.” (Video Artists on Tour catalogue, 1980, Arts Council)
16:00-17:00
Part 3: Legacy, Preservation, Institutions
The Love Show, Part Three (Stuart Marshall, 1980, video, 12mins.)
“An illustrated news report of a rape. A simulation of ‘committed television’ which produces analysis rather than reportage. Text by Suzanne Brogger. What if the news were to be read differently? Would ‘committed television’ produce an analysis rather than a ‘reportage’? What kinds of images would it use?” (Video Artists on Tour catalogue, 1980, Arts Council)
Followed by a concluding roundtable chaired by Prof. Laura Mulvey (Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck).
To register for the Saturday session, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tv-research-event-stuart-marshallqueer-history-and-public-activism-the-tv-essay-the-public-sphere-tickets-24988512313
Saturday 11th June 10.30am-5.30pm
Broadcasting the Arts: Architecture on TV
In collaboration with BFI and University of Pittsburgh, and in conjunction with the London Festival of Architecture
This event explores and expands upon the Broadcasting the Arts: Architecture on TV season, ongoing throughout June at the BFI Southbank. Co-curators Matt Harle (Birkbeck, BFI) and Kevin M. Flanagan (University of Pittsburgh) will discuss the genesis of the project, the process of planning and organization, and will introduce the larger intellectual aims of the series. The day's events will consist of screenings of material that will not be shown at the BFI event, papers relating to architecture on British television, and discussion.
Speakers
Barry Curtis (Royal College of Art) on the mediation of architecture through documentary.
John Wyver (University of Westminster) on Kenneth Clark and architecture's arrival on screen in 1950s arts programming.
Kevin M. Flanagan (University of Pittsburgh) on Ian Nairn and the presenter-led architectural documentary.
Screenings
The Pacemakers (Central Office of Information, 1970, 10 mins)
COI short featuring critic Ian Nairn who discusses how modern urban developers can preserve a sense of community with reference to the the Churchill Gardens Estate and the Lillington Gardens Estate.
“Norman Foster/Boeing 747”, episode of Building Sights (Dir. Patrick Uden, BBC, 1991,10 mins)
First transmitted in 1991, architect Sir Norman Foster looks at the jumbo jet, a unique 'building' that flies.
Journey into a Lost World (Dir. Ken Russell, BBC, 1960, 22 mins)
Ken Russell directs John Betjeman, who reminisces on Britain's great historical exhibitions since the 1870s: Barnum and Bailey's circuses, Brighton fairgrounds, Crystal Palace, Alexandra Palace, the original White City pleasure ground, the Empire Exhibition at Wembley and the Festival of Britain.
Kids From The Flats (Dir. Julian Ashton, Thames TV, 1984, 30 mins)
Specially commissioned 1984 Thames Television documentary on the summer holidays of young people living in the World's End estate in Chelsea.
Visions of Britain: Brideshead and the Tower Blocks (Prod. Christopher Martin, BBC, 1988, 40 mins)
Patrick Wright looks at the country house and the tower block, two key architectural symbols, focusing on Sutton House and the high-rise flats of London's Hackney.
To attend this event, please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broadcasting-the-arts-architecture-on-tv-tickets-24564976506
Friday 17th June 6.00-9.00pm
Vasari Centre/BIMI Digital Animation Series
Sebastian Buerkner: Screening and Discussion
The Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology and the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) present the first in a series of events, curated by Joel McKim and Esther Leslie, exploring multiple dimensions of digital animation. We are very pleased to host the London-based German artist Sebastian Buerkner who will be screening, for the first time in London, his award winning 3D stereoscopic film The Chimera of M along with a selection of other short animated films. Buerkner’s work pushes digital animation into new aesthetic territory, bringing together the narrative and visual traditions of cinema, painting and sculpture in highly original forms. His innovative stereoscopic works explore the otherwise unrealized potential of 3D cinematic technology.
The film screening will be followed by a discussion between Sebastian Buerkner and Dr. Joel McKim (director of the Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology).
Sebastian Buerkner (born in Berlin, Germany) lives and works in London. He completed an MA at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2002 and was awarded their Fellowship Residency in 2003. From 2004, his art practice has shifted primarily to animation. Recent solo shows include Kunsthaus im KunstkulturQuartier Nuremberg, Germany; Tramway, Glasgow; Sketch, London; The Showroom Gallery, London; Whitechapel Project Space; London and LUX at Lounge Gallery, London; Art on the Underground, Screen at Canary Wharf, London. He has also participated in group shows and screenings at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, London; Tate Liverpool; Site Gallery, Sheffield; Barbican, Whitechapel Gallery, South London Gallery, London and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. His film Purple Grey (2006) was broadcast as part of AnimateTV on Channel 4. His recent film The Chimera of M won the Tiger Award for at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and was also was shortlisted for the European Film Awards.
To attend this event, please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vasari-centrebimi-digital-animation-series-tickets-24994688787
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