FRI 3 Sept POP UP CINEMA Artist Eye: Performance selected by Blek Le Rat and Holy Mountain selected by Dotmasters 6:30pm Holy Mountain selected/introduced by Dotmasters This movie is nuts! A visual, visceral feast! Jodorowsky has been many things, occult leader, a cartoon collaborator, director and artist, but it’s when he makes movies that i think he truly deserves the title of visionary. For me its a roller-coaster of religious barbaric beauty, meaning is secondary, i watched not even caring what it meant, i waited for the next assault and the next and the next and wasn't disappointed. A room of melting jesus’s, iguanas in costumes this film has it all. Not for the faint hearted, perhaps viewed best with a small dose of mushrooms, after all it was acted by loons on the stuff. As The Dotmasters, Leon has stencilled half toned masterpieces across the fronts of high profile galleries worldwide, poking fun at the sensibilities of the art world and the notions of vandalism. His work is always produced with an irreverent disregard for medium and wish for mischievous confrontation. There is no subculture, only subversion. www.c6.org 8:30pm Performance selected/introduced by Blek Le Rat I saw performance in 1970 for the very first time and maybe ten times in the years since. This avant-garde movie deals with all the topics young people cared about in the 1970’s. Forty years later, sex, drugs, violence, music and art are still challenging priorities (for young people). “Requiem For A Dream” is witness and could be a sequel of it. Blek le Rat was born Xavier Prou in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris in 1952. He is considered the godfather of stencil graffiti art. He studied painting and architecture. He began his artwork in Paris in 1981. Since then he has had a great influence on today's graffiti and “guerilla art” movements, his main motivation being social consciousness and the desire to bring art to the people. British graffiti artist Banksy has acknowledged Blek’s influence saying “every time I think I've painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well, only twenty years earlier”. back to overview