BFI Shop Event: Filmarmalade Presents - Anomie, Ontology and the Slow Death of Authenticity
BFI Blue Room, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XT Sunday December 2nd, 4.30 pm, £5 For the fourth year running Filmarmalade teams up with the BFI Shop to celebrate their 2012 artists' film and video DVD launch of Let Me Feel Your Finger First's 'Ontologically Anxious Organism', James Lowne's 'Our Relationships Will Become Radiant' and the world premier screening of Maia Conran's 'Term'. The launch will also include a public discussion with the artists and founder of Filmarmalade, Gordon Shrigley. Filmarmalade is a publishing and DVD label project specialising in contemporary artists' film and video works, supported by IMT Gallery, London Films in the programme: Maia Conran's split screen work Term, mirrors a series of still and tracking video shots of the interior spaces of a disused school with its animated monochrome copy, that mimicks scene for scene the original video footage. Throughout the work Conran invites us to consider what is more real, the video of the school or its animated reconstruction, leading to a progressive condensation of reality, as the animated version slowly invades the authentic space of the video. Let Me Feel Your Finger First's Ontologically Anxious Organism, narrates the experience of an animated character, who, nervous about the very concept of character itself, disquises himself as a boulder. The three episodes follow the boulders progress through a series of reconstituted cartoon scenes whilst he grapples with existence, meets his maker and finally slips outside of the space of the picture plane to seek the ultimate reference. James Lowne's Our Relationships will become Radiant, invites us to experience a digital dream, a suffocating demonic landscape where a horse runs without moving, a man vomits black bile, a plate of food oozes with it own sense of purpose, whilst a godlike visage hovers beneficently in the sky. Such uncanny occurence allow Lowne to map out a space of oblique anomie, a world were ephemeral gestures attain meaning only by being endlessly repeated. To book tickets call BFI Box Office on 020 7928 3232 or book online at: https://whatson.bfi.org.uk<https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=EA7DE5DA-9BD9-4799-95A5-4952227E4483&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=B8AF22BD-93B2-43BC-92FF-10BFA9BD74FA> To pre-order the DVDs go to: http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/BFI_Shop_Artists__Film___Video_35.html Elizabeth Frey BFI Shop BFI Southbank Belvedere Road London SE1 8XT +44 20 7815 1350 http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/ The BFI is the lead organisation for film in the UK and since 2011 has combined a creative, cultural and industrial role as a Government arm's length body and distributor of National Lottery funds. Its key priorities are to support a vibrant UK film culture by investing in film education, audience access, filmmaking and film heritage. Founded in 1933 the BFI is a registered charity governed by Royal Charter. Visit bfi.org.uk for more information on BFI activities and to get involved. The British Film Institute is a charity registered in England and Wales number 287780 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, kindly notify the sender that you have received this message in error and immediately delete it. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not forward this e-mail to anybody, nor make any use of its contents. _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
