THIS
WEEK'S HIGHLIGHT:
Multi-media
theatre
23 - 26 Oct, 7.30pm
CEREMONY BY WANG JIANWEI
A unique opportunity to see multi-media theatre from Beijing, written
by one of China's major artists. Ceremony has been seen recently at the
Centre Pompidou. Celebrity is not a new phenomenon. But how did most well
known historical figures imagine they would be recorded for posterity?
In Ceremony Wang Jianwei looks back at the records of a much maligned
scholar, Mi Heng, whose penchant for speaking his mind a thousand years
ago cost him his life. How he came to be executed and the nature of his
crime crop up in three major classical Chinese texts upon which Ceremony
draws. Each offers a different perspective engendered by the socio-political
mood of the period in which they were written.
In this visually stark performance, the four main actors switch between
roles and time periods as they debate the merits of historical remembrance:
why this person over that?
£9, £8 Concs. £7 ICA Members
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 17 - Thursday 23 October
FILM @ THE ICA
Fri Crimson Gold Cinema 2 6.30, 8.30pm
24 LFF Films Cinema 1 2, 4.15, 6.30, 9pm
Sat
Crimson Gold Cinema 2 4.30pm
25 Uncut Cinema 1 1pm
LFF Films Cinema 1 2, 4.30, 6.30, 9pm
LFF Films Cinema 2 6.15, 8.30pm
Sun
Crimson Gold Cinema 2 2pm
26 LFF Films Cinema 1 2, 4.15, 6.45, 9pm
Sweet Sweetback... Cinema 2 4pm
LFF Films Cinema 2 6.15, 8.30pm
Mon
Crimson Gold Cinema 2 6.30, 8.30pm
27 LFF Films Cinema 1 2, 4.15, 6.45, 9pm
Tues
Crimson Gold Cinema 2 6.30, 8.30pm
28 LFF Films Cinema 1 2, 4.15, 6.45, 9pm
Wed
Crimson Gold Cinema 2 9pm
29 L'Eclisse Cinema 2 6.30pm
LFF Films Cinema 1 2, 4.15, 6.30, 8.30pm
Thurs
Crimson Gold Cinema 2 6.30pm
30 LFF Films Cinema 1 2, 4.15, 6.30, 9pm
L'Eclisse Cinema 2 8.30pm
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 17 - Thursday 23 October
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
Uncut
The independent forum for screening and debate before an active audience.
Programmed and presented by Joel Karamath. £4, £3 Concs, £2
ICA Members
Sweet
Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
'The most important black American film of its age ... one of a kind'
Time Out The story of stud Sweetback's fight back against a racial attack
by a pair of white cops on a political activist and his subsequent odyssey
on the run. This seminal shoestring movie flouts Hollywood conventions
with unexpected shafts of bizarre humour and psychedelic images.
Dir Melvin van Peebles, US 1971, 97 mins
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 17 - Thursday 23 October
CLUBNIGHTS & LIVE MUSIC @ THE ICA
Black History Month
Wed 29 Oct, 8pm
BLACKTRONICA
Blacktronica teams up with Uncut for a celebration of Black History Month
at the ICA. Legendary Duncan Brooker joins Charlie Dark behind the turntables
with live performances from Blackteria and the infectious Pilgrim Sisters,
plus a collection of African LP cover art. In Cinema 2 Uncut showcase
a selection of short films.
£6, £5 Concs. Free to ICA members
Bar, Cinema 2
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 17 - Thursday 23 October
THEATRE @ THE ICA
Multi-media
theatre
23 - 26 Oct, 7.30pm
CEREMONY BY WANG JIANWEI
A unique opportunity to see multi-media theatre from Beijing, written
by one of China's major artists. Ceremony has been seen recently at the
Centre Pompidou. Celebrity is not a new phenomenon. But how did most well
known historical figures imagine they would be recorded for posterity?
In Ceremony Wang Jianwei looks back at the records of a much maligned
scholar, Mi Heng, whose penchant for speaking his mind a thousand years
ago cost him his life. How he came to be executed and the nature of his
crime crop up in three major classical Chinese texts upon which Ceremony
draws. Each offers a different perspective engendered by the socio-political
mood of the period in which they were written. Which, if any, was factually
correct is not the question Wang Jianwei sets out to answer. In the manner
of a Shakespearean tragedy, Wang merely revisits the inevitable: the duplicitous
facts of recorded history.
In this visually stark performance, the four main actors switch between
roles and time periods as they debate the merits of historical remembrance:
why this person over that? Ceremony is a simple drama presented in a complex
and intrinsically Chinese fashion. A quick read through the Romance of
the Three Kingdoms will be of enormous help in grasping the nature of
classical Chinese 'spin' upon which Ceremony pivots.
£9, £8 Concs. £7 ICA Members
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 17 - Thursday 23 October
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
Monday
3 November, 7pm
JIM MORAY + 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
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1
Box Office/Info: 020 7930 3647
Please note this performance is seated and tickets are limited.
TICKETS
& BOX OFFICE INFORMATION:
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