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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
1 2.30, 6.30pm
17 A Time To Live... Cinema 2 6.30pm Documentary 1 + Nick Broomfield Cinema
1 8.30pm The Conversation Cinema 2 9pm Spun Cinema 1 10.45pm Sat Crimson
Gold Cinema 1 2, 4, 6pm 18 Aziz Taleb Cinema 2 3pm The Conversation Cinema
2 4.30pm The Terroriser Cinema 2 6.45pm Larry Sider Cinema 1 8pm A Time
to Live... Cinema 2 8.45pm Fiction 1 Cinema 1 9.15pm Shottas Cinema 1
10.45pm Sun A Time to Live... Cinema 2 2pm 19 Crimson Gold Cinema 1 2.30,
4.30, 6.30pm Fiction 2 Cinema 1 4.30pm The Terroriser Cinema 2 4.30pm
The Conversation Cinema 2 6.45pm Derrida Cinema 2 9pm Mon Crimson Gold
Cinema 1 3.30, 5.30pm 20 Experimental Video Art & Music Cinema 2 6pm David
Puttnam Cinema 1 7.30pm A Time to Live... Cinema 2 8pm Comrade Boykenjayev
Cinema 1 8.45pm Tues Crimson Gold Cinema 1 4pm 21 Animation Cinema 2 6.30pm
The Terroriser Cinema 2 8.30pm Mahamat Saleh Haroun Cinema 1 9pm Wed Crimson
Gold Cinema 1 4.30, 6.30pm 22 Sweet Sweetback... Cinema 2 6.15pm Documentary
2 Cinema 1 8.30pm The Terroriser Cinema 2 8.30pm Thurs Crimson Gold Cinema
1 4pm 23 Derrida Cinema 2 6.30pm Shortend Winners Cinema 1 8.30pm Sweet
Sweetback... Cinema 2 8.30pm
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 17 - Thursday 23 October
FILM @ THE ICA
DJ Saved My Life
Jo Whiley presents Spun - Exclusive Preview Screening A hilarious and
horrifying look at the lives of a ragged bunch of speed freaks unleashed
and way out of control on a monster 3-day run. The first feature from
music video wunderkid Jonas Akerlund (The Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up,
Madonna's Ray of Light ). Dir Jonas Akerlund, 2002,
100 mins £5, £4 Concs. £3
ICA Members
DJ Saved My Life Dreem Teem present Shottas Shottas (the Jamaican term
for gangsters) tells the true story of two young men growing up in Kingston,
Jamaica, where they run hustles and drugs between Kingston and Washington
D.C.. Starring Ky-Mani Marley, Wyclef Jean, Lennox Lewis and Spragga Benz.
Dir Cess Silvera,
95 mins, No UK cert £5, £4 Concs. £3 ICA Members
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 Comrade Boykenjayev
Set in the dying years of the USSR, Boykenjayev is a lowly - and lonely
- member of the Communist Party whose one recreation is taking the part
of Lenin in amateur theatre productions. But when he is assigned to manage
the building of an international cemetery where people from different
religions and nationalities will be buried, Boykenjayev undertakes the
task with diligence and absurd enthusiasm. All goes well until the bureaucratic
opening ceremony when there are no suitable corpses to be found. What
can Boykenjayev do to fulfil the plan? Dir Yusup Razykov, Uzbekistan 2002,
77 mins, subs We are delighted to welcome Yusup Razykov to take part in
a Q&A following the show. 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
Short Ends World Film Schools Festival A cultural and educational exchange
between new global film communities.
Some of the best international student work will show daily alongside
a programme of key figures in the film industry discussing their work.
The festival will culminate in a compilation of the winning films. www.shortendsfilmfestival.com
Short Ends Documentary 1 + Nick Broomfield Outsidein (Alessandro Pepe,
UK); Landsdowne Street (Luigi Scarcelli, US); Not Only Knocks (Juan Prado,
Chile); Lisa (Handrey Correa, Colombia); Listen (Mandeeep Ahira, UK).
Following the screening, the prolific and influential documentary film-maker
Nick Broomfield will discuss his extraordinary career. RT: 120 mins
Short Ends Aziz Taleb Moroccan visual artist Aziz Taleb presents his videos
and discusses how the cultural, social and political landscapes of the
Middle East and North Africa have shaped his work. RT: 60 mins
Short Ends Larry Sider The highly influential and imaginative film editor
and sound designer Larry Sider will discuss the use of sound with films
that have a very distinctive visual style. RT: 60 mins
Short Ends Fiction 1 Good Night (Chun Sun-Young, UK); Under the Rainbow
(Dean Blumberg, South Africa); Omnibus (Pablo Bergamin, Uruguay); Sorry
(Jad Abi Khalil, Lebanon); Little Noel Wants to Fly (Nassiem Vlamanesh,
Australia); Dietrich Sequence (Ruben Fernandez, Colombia); The Noise of
the Music (Riccardo Belluci, Italy). RT: 75 mins
Short Ends Fiction 2 Mboutoukbu (Victor Viyuoh, Cameroon/US); Murmuring
Sound of Running Water (Kourosh Taheri, Iran); A Package (Alan Minas,
Brazil); The Chair (Cynthia Schoucair, Lebanon); A Little Crime (Hugo
Martins, Portugal). RT: 80 mins Short Ends David Puttnam One of the UK's
leading producers, David Puttnam will discuss the role of the producer
and how this has changed through new digital technologies. RT: 60 mins
Short Ends And the Winners Are... A compilation of the best of the festival.
RT: 120 mins Short Ends Experimental, Video Art & Music Videos 20 Seconds
(James Bailey, UK); Einstein Playground (Matthew Heckerling, US); London
Details (Timo Schaedl, UK); Russian Style (GFS Student Team, Germany);
Mining for Muybridge (Tim Cole, UK); Lapsus (Ana Vila, Spain); Tic Tac
(Carlos Arturo Ramirez, Colombia); Interphone (Antony Cairns, UK); The
Trip (Marcelo Gaete, Chile); Wake Up (Eva Vall, Chile). RT: 70 mins Mahamat
Saleh Haroun & Friends The director of Abouna is joined by two other international
directors to discuss cultural differences in the world of film-making.
RT: 60 mins
Short Ends Animation The Pledge (B Bardon and team, France); 1+1 (Grigoris
Leontiades, UK); Danse de Cable (Thomas Bittner and team, Germany); The
Collection (Josep Maixenchs, Spain); Beauty of Life (Germany); Chicken
Race (Luka Brajovic and team, Spain); Dog and Duck (Tim Frost, UK); Wish
(Yong Seok Cho, Korea); Springtime of Sakura's Life (YL Carpene, France/Japan);
The Treasure of the Salted Tadpole (Amandine Fredon, France); Coming Home
(Gemma Carrington, UK); Bios (GFS Students Team, Germany); D.R.O.N.E.Z
(Leif Arne Petersen and team, Germany). RT: 75 mins Short Ends Documentary
2 To Be a Woman (Hsiu-Wen Cheng, US); The Hunt (Stephen Nugent, UK); A
Society Without Drugs (Amhed Al-Shaalan, Saudi Arabia); One Word (Julia
Mosua, Bolivia); Invisible (Ronaldo Robles, Brazil); The Cocks on the
Rink (Chile). RT: 75 mins Halloween Shorts: Back to School A powerful
selection of dramas that pull no punches in their depiction of teenage
life. Rape rears it's ugly head in The End And Back Again (Lee Jane),
and the single parent family is explored in Just Like My Dad (Laura Smith).
From Scotland, two strong issue-driven dramas: Daddy's Girl (Irvine Allen)
and Donna (Rowen Walker). The sweet love story Veronique (Paul Burgh),
and two rather more surreal depictions of young people's lives; Peg Leg
Man (Nick Gordon Smith) and Duck Children (Sam Walker), the most bizarre
school play that you'll ever see! RT: 70 mins BFM Film Club Cinema 1:
5 Oct, 4pm
Black Into Light An exciting selection of UK shorts by black film makers
plus a Q&A session with the writers and directors. Uncut The independent
forum for screening and debate before an active audience. Programmed and
presented by Joel Karamath.
£4, £3 Concs, £2 ICA Members
The Idea of the Film In collaboration with Middlesex University's MA in
Film and Visual Culture. Before each Wednesday screening, lecturers will
present short introductions to an eclectic selection of titles. All welcome.
The Conversation 'Devastatingly brilliant' Time Out Gene Hackman and John
Cazale star in this extraordinary study of a surveillance expert whose
inner life reflects his profession. A mesmerising film. Dir Francis Coppola,
US 1974, 113 mins
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
ICA PROJECTS Derrida 'Blissful ... a pleasure to watch'
New York Times This award-winning film is an intimate portrait of the
brilliant, controversial philosopher and intellectual icon Jacques Derrida,
whose theory of 'deconstruction' has influenced the studies of literature,
philosophy, ethics, architecture and law, indelibly marking the intellectual
landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries. Dir Kirby Dick/Amy Ziering Kofman,
US 2002, 85 mins Taiwan Trio Back by popular demand, the three most sought-after
titles from this year's earlier London/Taipei season. The Time to Live
and the Time to Die (Tongnian Wangshi) 'Wonderful' Time Out Autobiographically-based
but also depicting the wider dynamics of society, Hou's wonderful film
is a subtle, deeply moving picture of Taiwanese history seen through the
eyes of a boy whose family has recently emigrated from the Mainland. Dir
Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan 1985, 137 mins, subs The Terroriser (Kongbufenzi)
'Masterly' Time Out Taking as its starting point a girl whose prank phone
calls spark off crises in the lives of other characters, Yang's film sustains
numerous and equally suspenseful parallel plot strands and dovetails them
together into a composite picture both plausible and shocking. Dir Edward
Yang, Taiwan/Hong Kong, 1996, 109 mins, subs
ICA LISTINGS Friday 17 - Thursday 23 October
EXHIBITIONS @ THE ICA
Until Sun 19 Oct, daily 12-7.30pm
VIDEO ACTS: SINGLE CHANNEL WORKS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF PAMELA AND
RICHARD KRAMLICH AND NEW ART TRUST 'Go, be mesmerised and spread the word'
Guardian Guide 'I've never seen a more beautifully installed exhibition
of video art' Daily Telegraph Video Acts comes to the ICA after its critically
acclaimed reception at P.S.1 in New York. This immersive exhibition offers
a rare opportunity to see gathered together more than eighty landmarks
in the development of video art. Each work is shown continuously and simultaneously
on separate monitors or projectors. Video Acts provides the indispensable
historical context within which the explosion of contemporary video art
can be understood. In the lower gallery, Marina Ambramovic's extreme performance
videos test the limits of her body's endurance, and the fraught dynamics
of personal relationships. Joan Jonas explores symbolic gestures through
the evocative use of masquerade, mirrored images, drawings, and objects.
The concourse gallery contains irreverent and darkly comic videos by William
Wegman, Tony Oursler, Mike Kelley/Jim Shaw and Paul McCarthy. The upper
galleries feature Bruce Nauman's elegant and absurd Beckett-like studio
performances to camera and Vito Acconci's confrontational, psychologically
intense work. Also included are major pieces by John Baldessari, Dara
Birnbaum, Dan Graham, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler, Richard Serra and
Bill Viola.
Mon-Fri £1.50, £1.00 Concs, FREE with ICA membership; Sat £2.50, £1.50
Concs, FREE with ICA membership
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 17 - Thursday 23 October
CLUBNIGHTS & LIVE MUSIC @ THE ICA
Tue 21 Oct, 8pm
SIMPLE KID + THE MOUNTAINEERS
'He's angling to become the postmodern Bob Dylan. And you know what? Simple
Kid might just have the smarts' NME Highly exciting solo project from
new Irish wunderkid Ciaran McFeely playing this rare London headline show
with his band to coincide with the release of his astonishing first album
SK 1. A top showman and proud recipient of two Radio One Singles Of The
Week, Simple Kid has already been compared to Dylan, Beck and the Super
Furry Animals.
£7, £6 Concs. £6
Members Theatre
DJ Saved My Life Fri
17 Oct, 9pm
JO WHILEY PRESENTS: THE THRILLS
This laid-back Dublin band played their first London gig at the Royal
Albert Hall and have been taking the music industry by storm ever since.
A relaxed style of music with a sunshine vibe which evokes the spirit
of the sixties west coast. Plus very special guests. £15, £14 Concs.
£13
ICA Members DJ Saved My Life Sat 18 Oct, 8.30pm |
DREEM TEEM PRESENT: BIG BROVAZ, LEMAR & NIO
A unique fusion of hip hop and R&B, Big Brovaz is one of the most original
R&B groups to date. Lemar is hailed by the R&B community as a truly great
thing. Plus Nio from the ragga/garage/hip hop hotspot of North West London.
£15, £14 Concs. £13
ICA Member 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 Video Acts Talk
Sat 19 Oct, 1.30-4.30pm
GALLERY SCREENING: WITH DAVID ELLIS
Writer and performer David Ellis' 'Animated Lecture' will mirror selected
70s performance and video works notion of 'play' as they attempt to arrive
at a state of abandonment. Ellis will present an assemblage of extracts
from Richard Serra's A Prisoner's Dilemma alongside a full screening of
Spalding Gray's 'Swimming to Cambodia'. £2.50, £1.50 Concs, FREE with
ICA membership
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 17 - Thursday 23 October
TALKS @ THE ICA DJ Saved My Life Fri 17 Oct,
6.30pm JO WHILEY PRESENTS: COMMUNITIES IN THE CROSSFIRE
Policing violent armed criminals can lead to violent and unlawful policing,
with communities often caught in the crossfire. Communities around the
world are facing daily armed violence at the hands of the military, police,
security forces and armed criminal gangs. The unregulated supply of weapons
fuels the problem. Tonight, we explore state and community responses to
armed violence, focusing on Jamaica and the UK. How can we make our communities
safer? Speakers include: Yvonne Sobers, Families Against State Terrorism
(FAST), from Jamaica and Lucy Cope from Mothers Against Guns (a UK-based
organisation).
£8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA Members
Cafˇ Scientifique
Mon 20 Oct, 7pm
SHOULD WE BE SCREENING FOR BREAST CANCER?
Over 40,000 women in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer each year
- and the rate is still increasing. Nonetheless mortality rates are falling,
at least partly due to the NHS screening programme. But is screening leading
to the over zealous treatment of some women, with surgeons removing pre-cancers
that might never develop? Should limited resources be focused on detection,
prevention or treatment? Tonight's speaker, leading breast cancer surgeon,
Michael Baum, looks at the politics and ethics of breast cancer screening.
Professor Baum chairs one of the largest breast cancer trials worldwide
and set up the NHS Breast Screening Programme in 1987; after leaving the
programme, Baum became an outspoken critic of mammography screening. In
the chair is Daniel Glaser, neuroscientist at UCL.
£5, £4 Concs. £3 ICA members
Tues 21 Oct, 6.45pm
ORIGINAL FAKES: ALISON JACKSON'S MASTERCLASS
Artist Alison Jackson earned a cult following through BBC2's Double Take,
which placed celebrity look-a-likes in compromising situations. Among
her subjects have been the royal family, movie stars, sports and pop-music
personalities and politicians. She first gained notoriety when she portrayed
Princess Diana, Dodi Al Fayed and their love child living on happily in
a parallel universe. A real photo, but phoney image, using the existing
conventions of news photography, without any manipulation but that of
our minds. In this masterclass-cum-stage-show, Jackson will show some
of her early work and discuss how 'our fixation with celebrity and celebrity
culture have led us to believe things via a set of images. This is about
the gap between the mythology and the real thing...'
£8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA members
The ICA/Economist
Debate
Thurs 23 Oct, 6.45pm CONGO:
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Congo's
civil war has left millions dead and a nation in ruins. Can it recover?
Africa's second largest nation, we hear little about it in the European
press: is this because the country is of no strategic interest - or because
it is seen as a hopeless case?In a struggle with so many factions can
the West help - or should it be left to African nations? Speakers: John
Prendergast, Special Advisor, ICG; Muzemba Charles Kukwila, former deputy
Congolese ambassador to the EU; Baffour Ankomah, editor of New African
magazine; and Anneke van Woudenberg, Senior Researcher, Congo, for Human
Rights Watch. Chair: Robert Guest, Africa Editor at The Economist. Award
winning photojournalist Marcus Bleasedale will start the event with a
presentation of recent photos of the Congo.
£8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA members
ICA LISTINGS Friday 17 - Thursday 23 October
DIGITAL STUDIO @ THE ICA
Tue 14-Sat 18 Oct, 4-10pm
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: DJ SAVED MY LIFE DIGITAL MIX For DJ Saved My
Life, digital artists Olimax have created a stark virtual replica of the
ICA populated by animated characters, powered by Artificial Intelligence
engines, with the ability to freely converse. The visitor, who can join
this world at the venue or online, stalks the eerie galleries, encountering
various personalities including the event DJs. The only weapon is the
dialogue through which the player must engage, rather than destroy, others,
to no end other than discourse.
Mon-Fri £1.50, £1.00 Concs, FREE with ICA membership; Sat £2.50, £1.50
Concs, FREE with ICA membership
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
Emma Pettit ICA Press Office 020 7766 1406
ICA LISTINGS: Friday 17 - Thursday 23 October
TICKETS & BOX OFFICE INFORMATION: 020 7930 3647 / www.ica.org.uk
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