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LISTINGS
Friday 31 - Thursday 6 November
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EXTRA
TALK:
Tue 28 Oct, 7pm
THREE VERY BIG COMIC ARTISTS
Comic books
are one of the most exciting creative forums of the moment, collapsing
the boundaries between visual art and literature. Tonight Steven Appleby,
Tom Gauld and Simone Lia will be talking about cartooning and their work
as comic artists. Gauld and Lia are at the cutting edge of the next generation
of graphic artists; they publish together as 'Cabanon Press' and, next
month, the quirky and surreal collection, Both, is published by Bloomsbury.
Tom also creates the comic strips 'Move to the City' for Time Out and
'The Writer at Work' for the Guardian. Appleby is one of this country's
leading cartoonists whose work currently appears in the Guardian, The
Times and The Sunday Telegraph; his forthcoming book is Jim: Nine Lives
of a Dysfunctional Cat. Chair: editor and co-publisher of Escape and curator
of the ICA festival Comica, Paul Gravett. £8, £7 Concs. £6
ICA members
THIS
WEEK'S HIGHLIGHT:
HALLOWEEN PARTY
Fri 31 Oct, 9pm
CRACKIN SKULLZ: STRICTLY FOR MY P.U.M.P.K.I.N.S
With a creak of the trapdoor and some rustling of chains, the zombie remains
of Crackin' Skullz return from the dead to the ICA (after their Chuck
Norris tribute) for a Halloween special. Having spent the last six months
playing chess with the ghosts of Aleister Crowley, 2Pac and Linda Lovelace,
South Wales' finest practitioners of black arts and cameo records have
come back to wreak their terrible vengeance on the capital. With a line
up including Zongamin (live), Marco Pirroni (ex-Adam & the Ants, DJ
set), Gonga (live) expect banging electro-soul and hip-hop joints, pumpkin-related
stunts, a psycho from Doncaster reading ghost stories, phantasm girls
in bikinis, and the obligatory spooky movie. £8, £7 Concs.
£6 ICA Members
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 31 - Thursday 6 November
FILM @ THE ICA
31 Crimson Gold Cinema 1 4.30, 6.30, 8.30pm
Fri Sweet Sweetback... Cinema 2 6.30pm
L'Eclisse Cinema 2 8.30pm
1 Crimson Gold Cinema 1 2.30, 4.30, 6.30, 8.30pm
Sat Derrida Cinema 2 4.30pm
Lemonade Joe Cinema 2 6.30pm
The Oil, The Baby and The Transylvanians Cinema 2 8.30pm
2 Crimson
Gold Cinema 1 2.15, 7, 9pm
Sun BFM: Angie LeMar Cinema 1 4.30pm
Derrida Cinema 2 4.30pm
Lemonade Joe Cinema 2 6.30pm
The Oil, The Baby and The Transylvanians Cinema 2 8.30pm
3 Crimson
Gold Cinema 1 4.15, 6.15pm
Mon Lemonade Joe Cinema 2 6.30pm
LFF Halloween Cinema 1 8.30pm
The Oil, The Baby and The Transylvanians Cinema 2 8.30pm
4 Crimson
Gold Cinema 1 4, 9pm
Tues Sons of the Great Cinema 2 6.30pm
White Sun of the Desert Cinema 2 8.30pm
5 The Sons
of the Great Mother Bear Cinema 2 9pm
Wed Crimson Gold Cinema 1 4.30, 6.30. 8.30pm
Memories of Underdevelopment Cinema 2 6.30pm
6 The Sons
of the Great Mother Bear Cinema 2 9pm
Thurs Crimson Gold Cinema 1 4.30, 6.30. 8.30pm
Memories of Underdevelopment Cinema 2 6.30pm
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 31 - Thursday 6 November
FILM @ THE ICA
ICA PROJECTS/Arts council
CRIMSON GOLD (Talaye Sorgh)
'A quietly brilliant film ... poetic and precise, witty and profoundly
compassionate' Time Out Starting from the point at which a thief trapped
by the security system in a Tehran jewellry store commits murder and suicide,
Panahi's new film brilliantly unwinds to show what pushes a man to such
an extreme. Hussein (Hussein Emadeddin) is a taciturn loner, a war veteran
once lauded but damaged and now working as an ageing pizza delivery boy.
Full of suppressed hilarity and unexpected observations, Abbas Kiarostami's
script provides a stunningly eloquent and moving account of a society
split between privilege and desperation. From the director of The White
Balloon and The Circle, the film won the Un Certain Regard Jury Award
in Cannes this year and has been hailed as a brave new direction in Iranian
cinema. Dir Jafar Panahi, Iran 2003, 97 mins, subs, 12A
Signed posters on sale in ICA bookshop
The Times
bfi London Film Festival
The ICA is again delighted to host a week of screenings as part of this
year's Festival. These highlights represent the best of independent cinema
from around the world. Documentaries include Bukowski: Born to This and
Bus 174. The Return of Caglisotro, by Italian iconoclasts Cipri and Maresco.
From Iran, Abolfazl Jalili's The First Letter. Eastern Asian highlights
include Love is Not a Sin (Hong Kong); Save the Green Planet! (South Korea)
and Welcome to Destination Shanghai (China). Plus the controversial Indian
domestic satire, A Nation Without Women. Previews of ICA Projects' own
upcoming releases include Kitchen Stories and Osama, the first film to
be made in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban. For information
on LFF films screening at the ICA, please see www.lff.org.uk or www.ica.org.uk
Tickets: £8 available through the LFF box office tel 020 7928 3232
HALLOWEEN @ THE LFF: DOMINO
Halloween celebrates 10 years of Domino, the indie label with a roster
of bands that ranges from Stephen Malkmus, to Four Tet, Clinic and Franz
Ferdinand, and one that has also prioritised new talent in film making
and animation for its promo videos. Showing as part of the London Film
Festival, tonight's screening features work by Shynola, Scott Lyons and
Delicious 9, and will be followed by a panel discussion. £8.50,
£7.50 Concs, £6.50 ICA Members
ICA/Leeds
International Film
Festival
RED WESTERNS
A rare chance to see an Eastern take on the mighty American film genre,
the Western. Produced in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries,
the 'Red Westerns' provide a fascinating counterpoint to a familiar mythology.
Thanks to Sovexport Film.
LEMONADE
JOE
Lemonade Joe is the clean living gunfighter who drinks only Koca-Loca
lemonade and takes on a town full of whisky drinking hoodlums. It's an
exuberant musical comedy parodying the old silent westerns with colour
tinting, speeded up fight scenes and even a few digs at American consumerism,
made as it was at the height of Communist rule. Apparently Henry Fonda
was among its international admirers.
Dir Oldrich Lipsky, Czechoslovakia 1964, 99 mins, subs
THE OIL,
THE BABY AND THE TRANSYLVANIANS
This exuberant tale of three brothers who come to America from Transylvania
is shot in the style of a gunslinging Western. The eldest brother, Traian,
strikes oil when he looks for water on his farm. We're delighted to welcome
actress Dania Filip to introduce the screening on Saturday 1st November,
and discuss her role in this film.
Dir Dan Pita, Romania 1981, 108 mins, subs
THE SONS
OF THE GREAT MOTHER BEAR
The first of the wildly successful series of 'native American' films from
East Germany's DEFA Studios, Sons made a star of Yugoslavian teacher Gojko
Mitic. Here he plays chief Tokei-itho of the Dakota tribe, driven from
their reservation by corrupt and sadistic white invaders.
Dir Josef Mach, East Germany/Czechoslovakia, 1966, 93 mins, subs
WHITE SUN OF THE DESERT
This legendary 'Ostern' (or 'Eastern') is one of the most popular films
in the history of Soviet cinema. Set on the shores of the Caspian Sea,
Red Army soldier Sukhov is ordered to protect a guerrilla leader's harem.
Combining action, drama, music and comedy, many of its best lines have
become Russian catch phrases, the theme song was a hit for decades and
the film was even ritually viewed by cosmonauts before embarking on space
missions.
Dir Vladimir Motyl, Soviet Union 1970, 85 mins, subs
The Idea
of the Film
In collaboration with Middlesex University's MA in Film and Visual Culture,
the ICA presents an ongoing exploration of 'The Idea of the Film'. Before
each Wednesday screening, lecturers will present short introductions to
an eclectic selection of titles, addressing the issues of what constitutes
film and the moving image, materially and culturally. Everyone welcome.
MEMORIES
OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Memorias del Subdesarrollo)
'Dazzling' Time Out
The diary of a prosperous man who chooses to stay behind in Havana when
his family leaves for the US in 1961. Rejecting his bourgeois upbringing,
he is nonetheless unable to shake off either his sexual neurosis or his
European-based intellectual paralysis. Perceptive and witty. Dir Tomas
Gutierrez Alea, Cuba 1968, 104 mins, subs
BFM Film
Club
ANGIE LE MAR - THE MOVIE
Award-winning comedienne Angie Le Mar, loud and proud in her first film
outing. Hot comedy, standing up and dripping in chocolate. Dir Angie Le
Mar, UK 2002, 90 minutes We're delighted to welcome Angie Le Mar to take
part in a discussion following the show.
ICA
PROJECTS
DERRIDA
'Blissful ... a pleasure to watch' New York Times 'Inspirational and unexpectedly
moving' Film Comment 'A potent and profound investigation' Rolling Stone
This award-winning film is an intimate portrait of the brilliant, controversial
philosopher and intellectual icon Jacques Derrida, whose theory of 'deconstruction'
has indelibly marked the intellectual landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Dir Kirby Dick/Amy Ziering Kofman, US 2002, 85 mins www.derridathemovie.com
L'ECLISSE
The third part in Antonioni's trilogy on doomed relationships, Monica
Vitti plays the woman who becomes involved with a young stockbroker following
a traumatic bust-up with her bookish partner.
Dir Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy/France 1962, 125 mins, subs
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 31 - Thursday 6 November
EXHIBITIONS @ THE ICA
5 Nov 2003
- 18 Jan 2004
FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS: BREEDING ARCHITECTURE
'Gracious, thoughtful, sensitive to other cultures and yet original and
strong-willed' Guardian 'coolest architects in the world' The Times This
is the first UK exhibition of the acclaimed architects, Foreign Office
Architects (FOA), on their tenth anniversary. Based in London, they have
a global reach with projects commissioned or realised in cities as varied
as London, New York, Tehran, Barcelona and Yokohama. FOA, founded by Farshid
Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera Polo, is an international practice of architecture
and urban design, dedicated to the exploration of contemporary urban conditions
and construction technologies. FOA's diverse projects include, among many
others, an international port terminal, an urban and coastal park, a pier,
a theatre, a police headquarters and a proposed replacement for the World
Trade Centre. FOA present a groundbreaking, visually stunning, exhibition
exploring their ambitious projects, the particularities of each city in
which they've built, and the extraordinary range of influences on their
work. It also provides, uniquely, a critical insight into the office's
internal 'operating system'.
The lower galleries feature twenty architectural models placed upon a
vivid diagram covering the entire gallery floor, making clear connections
across projects. The walls are covered with related drawings lit by UV
light, as well as a large scale projection of their buildings. The concourse
gallery features samples of the surface textures of their projects, creating
a dramatic shift in scale for the viewer. The upper galleries explore
client relationships and the outside influences on FOA's architecture
through projected images and floor laminated aerial photographs. The galleries
feature revealing interviews with some of FOA's clients around the world,
allowing a rare insight into how their projects were commissioned and
developed. At the 8th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2002, FOA represented
Britain at the British Pavilion, with their designs for the Yokohama Port
Terminal. In May 2003, the BBC announced FOA as one of five architects
short-listed to design their new Music Centre in White City, London. In
August 2003 FOA were chosen as part a multi-national consortium asked
to create London's master-plan in its bid for 2012 Olympic Games host.
Free with Day Membership.
Lower, Concourse, Upper Galleries
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 31 - Thursday 6 November
CLUBNIGHTS & LIVE MUSIC @ THE ICA
HALLOWEEN
PARTY
Fri 31 Oct, 9pm
CRACKIN SKULLZ: STRICTLY FOR MY P.U.M.P.K.I.N.S
With a creak of the trapdoor and some rustling of chains, the zombie remains
of Crackin' Skullz return from the dead to the ICA (after their Chuck
Norris tribute) for a Halloween special. Having spent the last six months
playing chess with the ghosts of Aleister Crowley, 2Pac and Linda Lovelace,
South Wales' finest practitioners of black arts and cameo records have
come back to wreak their terrible vengeance on the capital. With a line
up including Zongamin (live), Marco Pirroni (ex-Adam & the Ants, DJ
set), Gonga (live) expect banging electro-soul and hip-hop joints, pumpkin-related
stunts, a psycho from Doncaster reading ghost stories, phantasm girls
in bikinis, and the obligatory spooky movie. £8, £7 Concs.
£6 ICA Members
Sat 1 Nov,
8pm
BATMACUMBA
You're last chance of the year to catch those Brazilian Beats and Samba
Sways before Cliffy packs his bags for the Christmas period. Hosted by
the silver haired legend DJ Cliffy and guests. £6, £5 Concs,
Free to ICA Members Bar
Mon 3 Nov,
7pm
JIM MORAY PLUS DR FAUSTUS
'This is where the folk tradition turns left and hits the mainstream'
Independent
Celebrating new innovation in English traditional music, the ICA presents
two acts that re-define folk music. Jim Moray's effortless blending of
traditional songs and 21st century technology has been cited as the most
significant new development in folk music for the last thirty years. Tonight
Jim and his band present a unique multi-media performance drawn from his
acclaimed album Sweet England, mixing video, electronics and live performance.
Support from Dr Faustus: a band which truly flies the flag for English
music.
£10, £9 Concs, £8 Members, Theatre
Please note this performance is seated and tickets are limited
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 31 - Thursday 6 November
TALKS @ THE ICA
Tue 28 Oct,
7pm
THREE VERY BIG COMIC ARTISTS
Comic books are one of the most exciting creative forums of the moment,
collapsing the boundaries between visual art and literature. Tonight Steven
Appleby, Tom Gauld and Simone Lia will be talking about cartooning and
their work as comic artists. Gauld and Lia are at the cutting edge of
the next generation of graphic artists; they publish together as 'Cabanon
Press' and, next month, the quirky and surreal collection, Both, is published
by Bloomsbury. Tom also creates the comic strips 'Move to the City' for
Time Out and 'The Writer at Work' for the Guardian. Appleby is one of
this country's leading cartoonists whose work currently appears in the
Guardian, The Times and The Sunday Telegraph; his forthcoming book is
Jim: Nine Lives of a Dysfunctional Cat. Chair: editor and co-publisher
of Escape and curator of the ICA festival Comica, Paul Gravett. £8,
£7 Concs. £6 ICA members
Comica Event
Tues 4 Nov, 6.45pm
ART SPIEGELMAN AND PHILIP PULLMAN
Tonight Pulitzer prize-winning artist, Art Spiegelman discusses his work
with acclaimed novelist Philip Pullman. Best known for the Holocaust narrative,
Maus, Spiegelman is also co-founder and editor of the avant-garde comics
magazine, RAW, and edits Little Lit, a series of comics anthologies for
children. He is currently working on an opera, Drawn to Death about the
history of comics, and has recently published a series In the Shadow of
No Towers in several papers and magazines. Last year Philip Pullman's
The Amber Spyglass won the Whitbread Book of the Year, the first book
for children ever to achieve this feat; the book is part of the famous
Dark Materials fantasy saga, a great success with adults and children,
the latest tale of which, Lyra's Oxford, is just out.
£9, £8 Concs. £7 ICA Members
Cinema 1
Whatdoyouwanttodowithit?
Thurs 6 Nov, 7pm
EXPLOSIVE TECHNOLOGY
It is well known that wars drive economies, but do they also drive innovation?
The latest technological masterpieces were on display in Iraq - from night-vision
goggles to 'smart bombs'. Was the war just a shop window - and military
planning a surreal video game? How important are the symbolic dimensions
of technology and weaponry in their effectiveness on the battleground?
When military research is subject to such tight secrecy, how do we maintain
some sort of democratic control? Speakers: Andrew Sleigh, MD Knowledge
and Information division at QuinetiQ; General Sir Rupert Smith Field Commander
of British forces in the Gulf and the Balkans; and Patrick Wright, cultural
historian and author of Tank. In the chair: Gwyn Prins, Alliance Research
Professor, LSE and Columbia, author of Heart of War. £8, £7
Concs. £6 ICA members Nash Room
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 31 - Thursday 6 November
DIGITAL STUDIO @ THE ICA
22 Oct - 1 Nov (Wed-Fri, 4-8pm; Sat 2-6pm)
MARTIN WATTENBERG & MAREK WALCZAK
SURVEY OF WORK (PART 1)
PLUS - Wed 22 Oct, 7pm: Talk by Marek Walczak. FREE with entry ticket.
Martin Wattenberg and Marek Walczak have recently had a show at the Whitney
Museum of American Art. The ICA is delighted to provide a survey of their
collaborative new media works. Based on ongoing conversations, their collaborations
blend Wattenberg's expertise in the visualization of data with Walczak's
interests in architecture as an interactive space that can be extended
by an audience's interaction. The work ranges from WonderWalker, which
extends the 'Bookmark' feature of the Web browser into a collective, online
map of users' shared interests to Third Person, a site-specific work interpreting
the audience's location and activity and depicting the invisible layers
of human interaction by adding an imaginary 'third person' to a 'mirror'
image of visitors. These works are complemented by Wattenberg's algorithmic
studies and his software Shape of Song, which visualizes the structure
of musical compositions.
Mon-Fri £1.50, £1.00 Concs, FREE with ICA membership; Sat
£2.50, £1.50 Concs, FREE with ICA membership
Whatdoyouwanttodowithit?
LANGUAGE & TECHNOLOGY
Thu 6 - Wed 12 Nov, 2-8pm daily
WATTENBERG & WALCZAK (PART 2): APARTMENT
Walczak's and Wattenberg's installation Apartment is a software-based
reconfiguration of the Memory Palace a mnemonic technique refined by the
Roman orator Cicero who imagined inscribing a speech in the rooms in a
villa, and then delivering that speech by mentally walking from space
to space. Apartment establishes connections between language and space
that offer a dynamic view of how we construct architectures for meaning
and context. Free with Day Membership Digital Studio
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 31 - Thursday 6 November
EDUCATION @ THE ICA
1-4 Nov,
3-8pm
LITTLE DIFFERENCE
Little Difference presents an objective image of youth culture by accurately
reporting youth influence, attitude, and conditions from the perspective
and language of Westminster's youth. The project brings together talented
young people, creative professionals and multi-media students to identify
and express issues of difference within youth culture through performance
and digital arts.
Free with Day Membership
Digital Studio
Emma Pettit
ICA Press Office
020 7766 1406
www.ica.org.uk
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