Programme
Thu 19 January 2012
Fri 20 January 2012
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Performance
The Museum of Non-Participation
Karen Mirza, Brad Butler, Nabil Ahmed19:30–20:10 Fri 20 Jan/ CCAThis performance brings together different materials (film, text, speech) and temporarily constructs a filmic space to think through questions of resistance, and the choice and consequence of action vs. inaction: what does it mean to choose to not take part?
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Film
Kino Beleske (Film Notes)
Lutz Becker20:30–22:00 Fri 20 Jan/ CCARecently rediscovered but still very pertinent, Kino Beleške was produced in 1975 with young artists, curators and critics in Belgrade. It presents a series of speech acts and performative gestures by protagonists of the new artistic practice in former Yugoslavia: each a personal take on the role of art in society.
Sat 21 January 2012
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Film
Argument
Anthony McCall & Andrew Tyndall13:00–15:00 Sat 21 Jan/ CCAArgument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.
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Talk
Argument - We would argue: an ante/post discussion group
Ian White & Gil Leung15:15–17:15 Sat 21 Jan/ CCAIan and Gil will host a discussion on the Argument project’s social and political commentaries, and with you try and maybe think through whether and how they might still have some currency today: what’s changed and what’s stayed the same?
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Talk
Nina Power discusses November by Hito Steyerl
Nina Power & Hito Steyerl16:00–17:30 Sat 21 Jan/ CCANina’s going to talk about November, by Hito Steyerl: what and how the film thinks, or about what and how it might makes us think (which is connected, but not the same thing), by watching, and it discussing (with you?).
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Film
Aluminium: Beauty, Incorruptibility, Lightness and Abundance, the Metal of the Future
Graham Harwood18:00–19:00 Sat 21 Jan/ CCAAluminium…is a kind of film/ software/ book hybrid: it takes ‘The Futurist Cinema' manifesto from 1916 and turns it into software that tracks ‘aluminium’ online and traces the relationships companies with interests in the aluminium industry had to each other and governmental agencies.
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Performance
I want to go without you: fiction in the absence of proper names
Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri20:00–23:00 Sat 21 Jan/ CCAAn open-ended moment in their ongoing series of films, notes, performances, diagrams and drawings which trace the questions Ayreen and Rene share. An attempt to give form to, and make public, the intellectual and affective movements which constitute a life. A kind of “porous space between cinema time-space and lived time-space.” They are frequent contributors to the 16 Beaver group.
Sun 22 January 2012
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Workshop
Data as Documentary - a workshop with Graham Harwood
Graham Harwood11:00–12:30 Sun 22 Jan/ CCADatabases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.
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Film
Hartmut Bitomsky's B-52, and a chat
Hartmut Bitomsky13:00–15:45 Sun 22 Jan/ GFTHartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.
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Film
Too Soon, Too Late
Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet16:30–19:15 Sun 22 Jan/ CCAOpening with one of the most memorable shots ever filmed, and screened a year after the initial successes of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Too Soon, Too Late is a search for the traces left on the landscape of past revolutions in France and Egypt.
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Film
The Songspiels of Chto Delat?
Chto Delat?20:15–22:15 Sun 22 Jan/ CCAThe Songspiels take on a mode of musical theatre developed by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill in the early twentieth century, presenting political and social concerns through the accessible and (often funny) form of song.
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