Crafting Resistance

Friday June 29th
6.00 - 9.00
FREE, BOOK HERE

Crafting Resistance is a new documentary made by Jasmine Gideon, the film aims to challenge the idea of political prisoners as 'passive victims' which fails to recognise the degree of agency many prisoners retain despite the horrific circumstances they endure. During the military dictatorship of General Pinochet in Chile (1973-1990) hundreds of political prisoners were held in concentration camps throughout the country. In a number of these camps, prisoners organised themselves and crafted items from the very limited materials and improvised tools available to them.

Vasari Digital Animation Series: Herb Shellenberger

In this edition of the Vasari Digital Animation Series we invite curator Herb Shellenberger to deliver an illustrated lecture on the subject of curating experimental animation, discussing past projects and approaches to working with animated moving images across media. He will focus on the series "Independent Frames", a five-program survey of American experimental animation in the 1970s and 1980s which premiered at Tate Modern in 2017 and has toured internationally to venues like the Irish Film Institute (Dublin), Lightbox Film Center (Philadelphia) and Quad Cinema (New York). Discussing the research, selection, film print sourcing, communication with artists and aspects of the series that have changed between exhibitions, the lecture will provide a detailed practical and theoretical discussion of mounting a major series of rarely-shown experimental films, acknowledging the many steps taken from conception of the project to its exhibition. 

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Chamisso's Shadow: A Journey to the Bering Sea in three chapters by Ulrike Ottinger

 

Friday July 20th - Sunday July 22nd

REGENT STREET CINEMA

Tickets are £7 for each part, and will automatically discount to £20 total if you purchase all 4 parts together.

BOOK HERE: Chapter 1 – Alaska and the Aleutian Islands (193 min)

BOOK HERE: Chapter 2 –Part 1: Chukotka (192 min)

BOOK HERE: Chapter 2 – Part 2: Chukotka and Wrangel Island (156 min)

BOOK HERE: Chapter 3 – Kamtchatka and Bering Island (177 min)

 

Adelbert von Chamisso accompanied the Romanzow research expedition on the Rurik from 1815 to 1818 as a botanist. Inspired by his descriptions as well as those of the other great explorers such as Forster and Anderson with Captain Cook, Steller with Bering and Humboldt I came up with the idea to create a cinematic evocation of these travel experiences, both past and present. I believe the past and the present of these journeys belong together and can’t be separated just like poor Schlemihl and his shadow in Chamisso’s ‚Wondrous Story’, where Schlemihl seeks to recover and reinstate his lost shadow as he travels through the world.

„But there on the sunny sands, a human shadow, not unlike my own, slid past, wandering alone and seemingly strayed from his Master. This sight awakened in me a powerful drive: shadow, thought I, are you looking for thy Master? Your Master I will be.“

(From Schlemihl by Adelbert von Chamisso)

 

This screening has been organised by the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving (BIMI), The Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), the Goethe-Institut and LUX. With support from the Open City Documentary Film Festival, and in association with the German Screen Studies Network

 

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