Time and Destruction

19th February '09

An evening of films including a short feature, some different kinds of cut-ups, and a very special trailer...

7.30pm

This event is free, but please book as space is limited.

The programme will include,

Christopher Maclaine, The End, 1952. USA, 35', 16mm
Beat poet Maclaine narrates the stories of six of 'our friends' as they pass their final hours, the day before the A Bomb drops. Photographed by Jordan Belson.

John Latham, Unedited Material from the Star, 1960. UK, 12', 16mm
An animated document of Latham's book relief painting Film Star (1960, Tate Collection). On a canvas covered with books, cut and singed pages are painted different colours and are wired at different places, so that the painting appears to be in a state of permanent flux: with every new configuration, the previous work is destroyed and a new work created.

John Latham, Speak, 1962. 11', 16mm
Latham's extraordinary coloured-disc animation anticipates the psychedelics of the high sixties. A retinal assault with a circular saw soundtrack.
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Plus one or two more, tbc...