[Frameworks] BFI London Film Festival 2012

[Mark Webber]

ARTISTS’ FILM AND VIDEO AT THE 56th LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2012
 
This year’s London Film Festival presents its largest ever series of artists moving image programmes, culminating in the annual Experimenta Weekend from 19-21 October 2012. www.experimentaweekend.org
 
In collaboration with the ICA, the Festival will also present several screenings of artists’ films to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair, from 10-13 October 2012. Our alternative opening night programme features the latest long-form work by Turner Award nominee Luke Fowler and a portrait of artist Carolee Schneemann. Further programmes at the ICA include the launch of our focus on special guest Peter Kubelka.  
 
From his earliest film, Kubelka recognised that cinema could be so much more than a medium for telling stories, and he has been one of the most tireless advocates of film as an art form. His new work "Antiphon" (2012) will screen with the legendary "Arnulf Rainer" (1960) in an expanded projection event "Monument Film" on Sunday 21 October. Both films will also be exhibited on the walls of the BFI Southbank Atrium for the duration of the Festival. Martina Kudlacek’s epic documentary on Kubelka will screen at the ICA, along with a programme of his complete works to date.
 
The extraordinary presentation of "Monument Film" in the grand NFT1 cinema forms the centrepiece of an Experimenta Weekend full of outstanding visions. Thom Andersen, Nathaniel Dorsky and Laida Lertxundi return with new films, whilst Mati Diop introduces her award winning work in London for the first time, and Beatrice Gibson premieres "The Tiger’s Mind".
 
The weekend begins appropriately at zero point, with Isidore Isou’s "On Venom and Eternity" (the unabridged 1951 version, screening in a brand new print): a film that radically rejected convention in its attempt to liberate cinema from the industry.
 
Curated by Mark Webber, with thanks to Shama Khanna and Steven Cairns. 

www.experimentaweekend.org
www.bfi.org.uk/lff

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PETER KUBELKA INSTALLATION
 
Wed 10 - Sun 21 Oct 2012, 12pm-9pm, BFI Southbank Atrium
Peter Kubelka, Monument Film, Austria, 2012
 
 
EXPERIMENTA AT THE ICA
 
Wed 10 Oct 2012, 6pm, ICA Cinema 1
THE POOR STOCKINGER ...
Luke Fowler, The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott, UK, 2012, 61 min 
(with extended introduction by Dr Tom Steele)
 
Wed 10 Oct 2012, 8pm, ICA Cinema 1
BREAKING THE FRAME WITH CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
Marielle Nitoslawska, Breaking the Frame, Canada, 2012, 100 min
 
Thur 11 Oct 2012, 6pm, ICA Cinema 1
PETER KUBELKA: THE ESSENCE OF CINEMA
Peter Kubelka, Mosaik im Vertrauen, Austria, 1955, 17 min
Peter Kubelka, Adebar, Austria, 1957, 1 min
Peter Kubelka, Schwechater, Austria, 1959, 2 min
Peter Kubelka, Arnulf Rainer, Austria, 1960, 6 min
Peter Kubelka, Unsere Afrikareise, Austria, 1966, 13 min
Peter Kubelka, Pause!, Austria, 1977, 12 min
Peter Kubelka, Dichtung und Wahrheit, Austria, 2003, 13 min
 
Thur 11 Oct 2012, 8pm, ICA Cinema 1
OCCUPY THE CINEMA
Ben Russell & Guillaume Cailleau, Austerity Measures, Greece-Germany, 2012, 9 min
Ken Jacobs, Seeking the Monkey King, USA, 2011, 40 min
Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, Deep State, UK, 2012, 44 min
 
Sat 13 Oct 2012, 1pm, ICA Cinema 1
FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA
Martina Kudlacek, Fragments of Kubelka, Austria, 2012, 232 min
 
 
EXPERIMENTA WEEKEND 2012
 
Fri 19 Oct 2012, 6:30pm, BFI Southbank NFT3
ON VENOM AND ETERNITY
Isidore Isou, Traité de bave et d’éternité (On Venom and Eternity), France, 1951, 120 min
 
Fri 19 Oct 2012, 9:00pm, BFI Southbank NFT3
BREAKING THE FRAME WITH CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
Marielle Nitoslawska, Breaking the Frame, Canada, 2012, 100 min
 
Sat 20 Oct 2012, 2pm, BFI Southbank NFT3
NANANIEL DORSKY & JEROME HILER
Nathaniel Dorsky, August and After, USA, 2012, 19 min
Nathaniel Dorsky, April, USA, 2012, 26 min
Jerome Hiler, Words of Mercury, USA, 2011, 25 min
 
Sat 20 Oct 2012, 4pm, BFI Southbank NFT3
TWO ARCHITECTURE STUDIES
Catalina Niculescu, Along the Lines, Romania, 2011, 16 min
Thom Andersen, Reconversão, Portugal-USA, 2012, 65 min
 
Sat 20 Oct 2012, 7pm, BFI Southbank NFT3
MATI DIOP
Mati Diop, Atlantiques, France-Senegal, 2009, 16 min
Mati Diop, Big in Vietnam, France, 2012, 29 min
Mati Diop, Snow Canon, France, 2011, 33 min
 
Sat 20 Oct 2012, 9pm, BFI Southbank NFT3
RITES OF PASSAGE
Steve Reinke, Great Blood Sacrifice, USA, 2010, 4 min
Hayoun Kwon, Manque de preuves, South Korea-France, 2011, 10 min
Gabriel Abrantes, Birds, Portugal-Haiti, 2012, 17 min
Ben Russell & Jim Drain, Ponce de León, USA, 2012, 26 min
Ben Russell, River Rites, USA-Suriname, 2011, 12 min
 
Sun 21 Oct 2012, 2pm, BFI Southbank NFT1
PETER KUBELKA PRESENTS MONUMENT FILM
Peter Kubelka, Monument Film, Austria, 2012, 90 min
 
Sun 21 Oct 2012, 4pm, BFI Southbank NFT3
THE POOR STOCKINGER ...
Luke Fowler, The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott, UK, 2012, 61 min
 
Sun 21 Oct 2012, 7pm, BFI Southbank NFT3
WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS
Peter Miller, Ten Minutiae, Germany, 2012, 5 min
Shumona Goel & Shai Heredia, I am Micro, India, 2011, 15 min
Kevin Jerome Everson, Rita Larson’s Boy, USA, 2012, 11 min
Erin Espelie, True-Life Adventure, USA, 2012, 4 min
Nick Collins, Dark Garden, UK, 2011, 9 min
Robert Todd, Within, USA, 2012, 9 min
David Gatten, By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging, USA, 2012, 8 min
Ben Rivers, The Creation as We Saw It, UK-Vanuatu, 2012, 14 min
 
Sun 21 Oct 2012, 9pm, BFI Southbank NFT3
FLY INTO THE MYSTERY
Laida Lertxundi, A Lax Riddle Unit, Spain-USA, 2011, 6 min
Beatrice Gibson, Agatha, UK, 2012, 14 min
Lewis Klahr, Well Then There Now, USA, 2011, 11 min
Mary Helena Clark, The Plant, USA, 2012, 8 min
Janie Geiser, Arbor, USA, 2012, 7 min
Beatrice Gibson, The Tigers Mind, UK, 2012, 20 min

Further information at www.experimentaweekend.org
Booking details at www.bfi.org.uk/lff