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WEDNESDAY
Westbourne Studios
6–11pm
ART NIGHT
When Bad Things Happen To Good People
Mani Nasry & Thomas Lieu 7 minutes 12
Professor Steven E. Jones of BYU which accuses the Bush
adminstration of deliberately allowing the 9/11 attacks
to happen and placing explosives in three of the world
trade Centre to make sure they would be totally destroyed.
Nothing was the same for middle easterns after 9/11
“Brown Skin People”, crossing the border,
being on a plane, walking down the street, here is the
experience of one individual. Art Canada
Conscientious Objector
Colin Stevens 10 minutes 12
A powerful and emotional montage of voices and faces
united in the words of the anti-war poem by Edna St.
Vincent Millay. Art Britain
Camouflage With White Shirt Stuart Pound 10 minutes
12
Most of the source footage for “Camouflage With
White Shirt” is selected from “Man with
a Mission”, a TV documentary about Tony Blair.
For the first six minutes, image and sound are cut and
alternated to create a flicker effect with a rhythmic
soundtrack, only snatches of it intelligible. The second
part offsets Blair inspecting troops against Hugh Grant
making his famous speech from “Love Actually”.
In the third part, Peter Mandelson’s voice is
heard praising Blair, against a shot of a wall in Berlin
with an anti US/UK slogan painted on it in English.
Art London, England
Chez Pigeon Stuart Pound 3 minutes 12
Monsieur and Madame Charles Pigeon at home in Montparnasse.
The image is a motion path across a still photograph
and the soundtrack is a Sardinian choir singing in Latin.
Art London, England
She’s Not There Stuart Pound 3 minutes 12
A video interpretation of the sixties pop classic.The
size of the image responds to the loudness of each note.
Art London, England
Life On Mars Stuart Pound 5 minutes 12
“Life On Mars” is a digital mix from three
different sources, two of them still photographs and
the third a moving image. Together they create a space
of their own, the ‘Mars” of the title. The
soundtrack is composed of sound elements from a spoken
poem, about a solitary artist who survives by creating
a Mars of the imagination, populated with drawings of
its inhabitants. Art London, England
Hotel Sevilla Stuart Pound 5 minutes 12
One of the many Hotel Sevilla, this one in Las Palmas,
Gran Canaria, though the sound is Cuban. A woman’s
portrait passes back and forth, changing in response
to the loudness of music. Comedy London, England
Bus Stop Stuart Pound 5 minutes 12
The sky is nice / I negotiate / with its gauzy clouds
on blue / for an immediate bus. /Remarkable that years
/ of my bad temper at / missed buses (for example) /
is absorbed by these streets / and has no effect / on
the blamelessness of the blue sky / or its little wings
of cloud. The framing of the image, clouds in the blue
sky, changes with the loudness of the soundtrack, a
composition made entirely of elements from the spoken
poem, which is best listened to on stereo headphones.
Art London, England
Abyss of soul
Cristina Pinheiro & Andre Scucato 13 minutes 15
The poet, play writer, director and actor, Antonin Artaud,
lived nine years of his life in sanatoriums in France.
It is believed that during this time he could have undergone
more than fifty electroshock sessions. Art Brazil
57 Production Collection Poetry Films Various 60 minutes
15
Featuring top poets Jean Binta Breeze, Patience Aggababi
and top street poets. Art London, England
8–9pm
Michael Horovitz
Michael Horovitz will
read, sing and perform jazz poems, sound-poems, songs
and chants from various New Departures anthologies and
his books 'Wordsounds & Sightlines' and 'Midsummer
Morning Jog Log', and also from his latest and most
political book, 'A New Waste Land: Timeship Earth at
Nillennium'.
He will also play some music, and be open to Q &
A, and haggling.
Dance Selection:
Shelter Kevin Kane 25 minutes 12
Shelter, an abstract narrative dance film, explores
a world of displacement and survival through movement,
gesture and various dance forms; with a cast of twenty-one.
Dance USA
In Stone Margaret Williams 7 minutes U
In Stone is the second collaboration between dancer,
Maria Munoz and filmmaker Margaret Williams. In 2006,
La Pedrera Educacio asked Maria to make a short film
for La Pedrera’s web site. The brief for this
film was to use Antonio Gaudi’s building La Pedrera
in Barcelona as inspiration and starting point. Dance
London, England
Plaza De Toros – Birmingham Margaret Williams
7 minutes U
Plaza de Toros is a metaphor for modern urban living.
A ‘road’ movie where Joel finds his way
around an exhausted city. Cpmpared with the car and
the architecture of contempoary road systems we are
all small and vulnerable, but Joel takes the bull by
the horns and with grace and imagination is masterful
over the urban sprawl. Dance London, England
You Cuba Margaret Williams 13 minutes U
The many different qualities of Cuba provided motivating
starting points for the film You Cuba: the people and
its many poetic metaphors, the culture; the politics,
physical location and environment. The dance itself
is abstract yet passionate and emotional. Shot on DVcam,
it was filmed entirely on location in Havana and on
Santa Maria beach. Dance London, England
Impulse Passia Pandora 2 minutes U
Impulse was an excercise for Passia during the ‘Dance
for the camera” program 2005. Her skill with the
camera in capturing the choreographer intention make
for a satisying experience of reflection on movement.
Dance Canada
Into The Light Christin Keeler 3 minutes 12A
An experimental, evocative illustration of the experience
of woman going through what is now called “perimenopause”.
Dance Canada
Tunnel Vision Pamela Millar 5 minutes 12
A dramatic... of shape, light, and movement in another
dimension. Dance Canada
Back Space
Morgan Runacre-Temple & Jessica Wright 5 minutes
U
The film is a documentation of an interactive performance
of live dance and film performed at the Ballet Perljocaj
Theatre. Dance London, England
Extreme Art:
In Suspense (In Sospeso)
Antonella Pintus 50 minutes 18
Through “improvisation and provocation”
Freaks’ bloody tricks – A group of performers
based in Italy – sets up extreme and hard shows,
where we see and feel an interesting and deep approach
to life and pain. Art Documentaries Germany
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