-Film: Thomas
Pynchon - a portrait of the enigmatic writer, against a backdrop of US
paranoia provoked by the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam war and government
LSD experiments
-Exhibitions: Beck's Futures 2003: still a chance to see this year's controversial
entries
-Talks: focus on Iraq - readings by Iraqi poets and a debate on war and
the media
-Music: Homesleep records: Top UK signings to the Italian label - Yuppie
Flu, Empire of Sponge, Meets Guitar plus special quests Quickspace
-Clubs: Batmacumba - the Brazilian summer has returned!
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ICA LISTINGS
Friday 2 May - Thursday 8 May
TICKETS & BOX OFFICE INFORMATION: 020 7930 3647 / www.ica.org.uk ICA
LISTINGS Friday 2 May - Thursday 8 May
FILM @ THE
ICA
2 Beck's Futures screenings Cinema 2
12.30-6pm
Fri In This World Cinema 1
4.30,6.30pm
Thomas Pynchon Cinema 2 6.30,8.30pm
Wings Cinema 1
8.15pm
3 Beck's
Futures screenings Cinema 2
12.30-4pm
Sat In This World Cinema 1
2.30,4.30,6.30,8.30pm
Derrida Cinema 2
4.30pm
Thomas Pynchon Cinema 2 6.30,8.30pm
4 Beck's
Futures screenings Cinema 2
12.30-4pm
Sun Cavalcade Cinema 1
2.15pm
BFM: Black British Shorts Cinema 1
4.30pm
Derrida Cinema 2
4.30pm
Thomas Pynchon Cinema 2 6.30,8.30pm
In This
World Cinema 1
7,9pm
5 Beck's
Futures screenings Cinema 2
12.30-6pm
Mon In This World Cinema 1
4.30,6.30,8.30pm
Thomas Pynchon Cinema 2 6.30,8.30pm
6 Beck's Futures screenings Cinema 2
12.30-6pm
Tues In This World: Educational Intro Cinema 1
4pm
In This World Cinema 1
4.30,6.30,8.30pm
Thomas Pynchon Cinema 2 6.30,8.30pm
7 Beck's Futures screenings Cinema 2
12.30-6pm
Wed In This World Cinema 1
4.30,6.30,8.30pm
Thomas Pynchon Cinema 2 6.30pm
Halloween Shorts Cinema 2
8.30pm
8 Beck's Futures screenings Cinema 2
12.30-6pm
Thurs In This World Cinema 1
4.30,6.30,8.30pm
Thomas Pynchon Cinema 2 6.30,8.30pm
PLEASE NOTE
THE ICA CINEMA SHOWS FIRST RUN RELEASES AS WELL AS REP FILMS. PLEASE CAN
YOU ENSURE THESE ARE LISTED IN THE MAIN WEST END CINEMA NEW RELEASE SECTIONS
OF YOUR PUBLICATION.
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 2 May - Thursday 8 May
FILM @ THE
ICA
**First Run
Release**
ICA PROJECTS
In This World
'Extraordinary...I urge you to get a ticket' Observer 'astonishing ' Daily
Telegraph 'A film of raw power'
**** Total Film
Winner Golden Bear - Berlin Film Festival 2003
Torn from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling new film follows
Jamal, a young Afghan, as he embarks on a hazardous overland trip from
the refugee camp at Peshawar through Iran, Turkey, Italy and France to
Sangatte and into the heart of London where he becomes 'M1187511'. Winterbottom
and his brilliant writer Tony Grisoni have struck a fine balance between
the fictional and documentary elements of the film and they give us cause
to see behind the headlines at the broader political and moral concerns.
Dir Michael Winterbottom UK 2002, 89 mins, English subtitles
**First Run
Release**
ICA PROJECTS
Thomas Pynchon: A Journey into the Mind of [P.]
'One of American literature's true masters' Rick Moody Unravelling the
enigma of the reclusive Thomas Pynchon (b.1937), one of the most influential
but least public writers of our time, the Dubinis' compelling documentary
makes spirited use of archive photographs, historical documents, news
footage and interviews with Pynchon's friends and fanatics. Spiralling
around themes of paranoiac conspiracies and mind-control experiments,
culminating in an account of an extraordinary lookalike event and the
devastating CNN news footage of Pynchon snatched on the streets, the film
presents a wonderful feast of Pynchonalia served up with a sense of humour
and a generous helping of music by the Residents. Dir Fosco & Donatello
Dubini, Germany 2001, 92 mins
**First Run
Release**
ICA PROJECTS/DOCUMENTA
Derrida
'Blissful ... a pleasure to watch' New York Times 'Inspirational and unexpectedly
moving' Film Comment This award-winning film is an intimate portrait of
the brilliant, controversial philosopher and intellectual icon Jacques
Derrida, whose theory of 'deconstruction' has deeply influenced the studies
of literature, philosophy, ethics, architecture and law, indelibly marking
the intellectual landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries. Combining rare
private footage of Derrida with his reflections on deconstruction, violence,
love and death, the film investigates the concept of biography and explores
the relationship between the public and the private.
Dir Kirby Dick/Amy Ziering Kofman, US 2002, 85 mins
Wings
'A classic justifying almost every adjectival extravagance ... spectacular'
Time Out The first - and only silent - Best Picture winner is presented
here accompanied by Carl Davis' extraordinary orchestral score. Distinguished
by matchless aerial photography, logistically detailed dogfights and a
unique blend of European directorial flair with Hollywood pacing, this
First World War classic stars the fantastic Clara Bow as a volunteer ambulance
driver whose true-love performs death-defying air-borne manoeuvres. The
film also features a telling early appearance by Gary Cooper. With thanks
to UIP and Photoplay Productions for this restored print. Dir William
A Wellman, US 1927, 131 mins
Cavalcade
'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times
Based on the enormously popular stage play by Noel Coward, this tale of
two London families was released in the States during the moral, political
and financial upheaval of the Depression, its themes clearly resonating
with audiences of the day. The film now is fascinating for its portrait
of class differences and the epic 30-year span of its story. The interpolated
war footage was the work of William Cameron Menzies. With thanks to Twentieth
Century Fox and the Academy Film Archive for this newly restored print.
Dir Frank Lloyd, US 1933, 110 mins
Bfm Film
Club: Black British Shorts
Vivienne Gibson-Forbes: A Portrait of a Film Extra, a spoof documentary
about the doyenne of film extras, whose life is explored in frank contributions
from colleagues and relatives who paint a vivid picture of a complex yet
creative woman (dir Abi Fisher UK 2002 15 mins); Circles When a builder
enters the isolated world of a woman who cares for her depressed mother,
Lorna's own deeply buried emotions come to the fore (dir Sonia Castang,
UK 2001, 11 mins); Perfect Girl follows three South Londoners, witnessing
the ups-and-downs of love and the topsy-turvy experiences they face (dir
Wayne G. Saunders UK 2001, 60 mins). Total running time 86 mins A Q&A
session will follow the screening
SHORT FILM
SHOWCASE
Halloween @ the ICA
Charles Bukowski (The Man With Beautiful Eyes), Andrew Motion (The Lines)
and Philip Larkin (The Old Fools) are all writers that film-makers have
turned to inspiration for in this programme of shorts and animations themed
around poetry and prose to celebrate this month's release of Thomas Pynchon.
Plus personal narration about growing up in the 70s in the award-winning
animation Home Road Movies and Daniel Saul's funny but moving short story
about Anglo-Indian life in Calcutta: Morris Jelly House of Fashion. The
event also includes Kate Taylor's study of the writings of John Berger
in Frankie Checks Out.
Total running time c.70 mins
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 2 May - Thursday 8 May
EXHIBITION @ the ICA
5 Apr-18 May 12-7.30pm daily (13 Apr, 4.30-7.30pm; closed 29 Apr) BECK'S
FUTURES 2003 'Dedicated to the support of developing artists, Beck's Futures
has established itself as one of the country's premier art prizes' Independent
The ICA is delighted to present Beck's Futures 2003, featuring an eclectic
mix of some of the most exciting artists now working in the UK. It includes
an internet 'cyber globe' under constant bombardment created by Nick Crowe,
public interventions by Lucy Skaer and the artist-collective Inventory,
work exploring the tools of corporate marketing by Carey Young, performance-derived
videos by Alan Currall, David Sherry and Bernd Behr, a short film by Rosalind
Nashashibi examining cultural displacement, and a vibrating and moaning
mummy by Francis Upritchard. Much of the work in this year's exhibition
explores the points at which art grapples with and appropriates everyday
routines and public spaces, blurring the boundaries between reality and
fiction. As well as photographs, drawings and sculpture, many works have
a presence beyond the gallery through interventions and performances in
the public realm, engagement with broadcast media and the internet. This
year's selection was made by the curators Russell Ferguson (Chief Curator,
UCLA Hammer Museum); Maria Lind (Director, Kunstverein Munich); Hans Ulrich
Obrist (Independent Curator); and the artist Michael Landy, who is the
Chair of the panel. Beck's Futures is the result of an ongoing collaboration
between the ICA and Beck's and has established a reputation for identifying
and supporting the work of the most promising artists in the UK. Each
of the participating artists will receive a share of the £40,000
awards-fund that goes towards making Beck's Futures the UK's most generous
arts awards. One artist will be selected for a further overall award of
£20,000. The exhibition is accompanied by a limited-edition publication
with contributions from J G Ballard and Hans Ulrich Obrist, and art historian
and writer Michael Archer. A free newsprint exhibition guide will also
be available. Beck's Futures 2003 subsequently travels to the CCA, Glasgow
and Southampton City Art Gallery. Mon - Fri: £1.50, £1.00
Concs. FREE with ICA Membership; Sat & Sun: £2.50, £1.50
Concs. FREE with ICA Membership
25 Apr-15
May 12-6pm (except 26 Apr 4-6pm and 14 May)
Beck's Futures 2003: Student Prize for Film and Video
Film and video are at the heart of our culture, and this annual event
offers and outstanding opportunity to sample the best student work. This
year's selection was made by the artist Sam Taylor-Wood and the designer
Peter Saville. The selected works will be shown over a long weekend during
Beck's Futures. Exhibiting artists will receive a share of £5,000.
The programme will subsequently be shown at further venues across the
UK. Mon - Fri: £1.50, £1.00 Concs. FREE with ICA Membership;
Sat & Sun: £2.50, £1.50 Concs. FREE with ICA Membership
Cinema 2
Wed 7 May,
7.15pm
Beck's Futures Talk: Commodifying Dissent
Beck's Futures artist Carey Young will be discussing her work - which
explores notions of identity, strategy and progress within an information-based
society - alongside presentations by Craig Cohon, Deborah Doane and Peter
Osborne. Craig Cohon is founder and Chief Executive of Globalegacy, an
organisation that aims to create a new business segment whose mission
is the elimination of poverty. Deborah Doane is Head of the Corporate
Accountability Programme at the New Economics Foundation, a leading not-for-profit
think-tank. Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at
Middlesex University and editor of Radical Philosophy, he is the author,
most recently, of Conceptual Art (Phaidon). £6, £5 Concs.
£4 ICA Members Brandon Room
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 2 May - Thursday 8 May
TALKS @ the
ICA
Mon 5 May, 7pm
I Sing Iraq
Saadi Simawe, guest editor of the new anthology, Iraqi Poetry Today, describes
his work translating Iraqi poetry and publishing it in English, as "a
desperate effort to save what remains of Iraqi humanity and culture in
the face of a brutal dictatorship and war... Although I lost faith in
politics long ago.... I still believe in the power of the word...".
Tonight three Iraqi poets, Fadhil Assultani, Hashem Shafiq and Sa'adi
Yousef read from Iraqi Poetry Today, published by Modern Poetry in Translation.
English translations will be read by Stephen Watts.
£5, £4 Concs. £3 ICA Members
Nash Room
Tue 6 May,
7pm
War and the Media
The media's role in this war far exceeds that in any previous conflict.
Embedded journalists, 24 hour coverage, Arabic as well as western media
available to home viewers, the media sophistication of both the coalition
and Iraqi forces - these are just a few of the issues that mark out this
war. What exactly do we want from the media and what are their responsibilities,
in a conflict which has riven the UK? Speakers include: Jonathan Higgins,
expert in the technology of current news reporting; Philip Knightley,
journalist and author of The First Casualty-From the Crimea to the Falklands:
The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker; Mark Damazer,
deputy director for news, BBC; as well as representatives from the Arabic
media and other broadsheet and tabloid British press. £8, £7
Concs. £6 ICA Members Nash Room
New Economics
Foundation/ICA
Thur 8 May, 7pm
Regime Change in the UK: What Future for Democracy?
With a heavily opposed Iraq war conducted in the name of 'democracy',
many are losing faith in Government's ability to represent their views.
Cynicism and alienation are widespread, debate is polarised, and politicians
are perceived as in thrall to powerful interests. How do we counteract
this? How do we construct a genuinely participatory democracy? What would
'power to the people' actually look like? Speakers include: Lord Adebowale,
Chief Executive, Turning Point and 'people's peer'; Simon Hughes MP, Liberal
Democrat candidate for London mayor; Polly Toynbee, Guardian columnist;
and Perry Walker, author of We The People. In the chair: Andrew Simms,
policy director at the New Economics Foundation. £8, £7 Concs.
£6 ICA Members Nash Room
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 2
May - Thursday 8 May
EDUCATION
@ the ICA
Sun 4 May,
12.30-3.30pm
Public & Social Art Forum
This forum aims to rethink the current status, strategy and affect of
participatory art. Today artists can be active in both community and visual
arts. Artists Jeanne van Heeswijk and Kathrin Bohm will present their
experiences, whilst critically reflecting upon the issues of artist intention,
affect, the role of the artist and the position of the participating public.
It is expected that the audience will engage and contribute in the ongoing
search to identify the criteria and working model for the ideal participatory
art project.
£8, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members
Brandon Room
Tue 6 May,
4-6.15pm
Education Screening : In This World
In This World is a powerful film aiming to dispel prejudice by presenting
the reality of asylum seeking from a child's perspective. This education
event will identify ways in which the film's core topics can be developed
for curriculum, not least for Refugee Week 16-23 June. The event will
support teachers, refugee advisors and project workers, ethnic minority
achievement co-ordinators, learning mentors and connections personal advisors.
Led by Bill Bolloten, Lewisham EMAS Refugee Education Advisor and Lucy
Crompton National Co-ordinator for Refugee Week. Please book in advance
quoting reduced education rate.
Your ticket for the educational introduction must be reserved through
Alexis Johnson in advance. Please email alexisj@ica.org.uk
£3.50
Cinema 1
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 2 May - Thursday 8 May
CLUBS AND
MUSIC @ the ICA
Homesleep records
Fri 2 May, 7pm
Yuppie Flu, Empire of Sponge, Meets Guitar
'Yuppie Flu plough the angular furrow to the town of Twisted Pop' NME
Arrive early for an evening of leftfield guitar pop from Italy's Homesleep
Records. Yuppie Flu, return to play their first show in London in nearly
two years, with their third and most accomplished album to date Days Before
The Day. Empire of Sponge is ex-Quickspace drummer Chin Keeler with a
new and refreshing collective. Meets Guitar is the vocal outlet of Billy
Mahonie's Gavin Baker, delicately picking his guitar strings. Plus very
special guests Quickspace, who open up the event with their joyously chaotic
and unpredictable live show.
£8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA Members
Theatre, Bar
Sat 3 May, 8pm;
Cinema 2 11pm-1am
Batmacumba
Batmacumba has a double-headed night of music and video from Brazil. In
recent years the Brazilian dance music scene has gained international
respect. 10 Years of Electronic Music in Brazil (Ruth Slinger, 64 mins,
cinema 2) treats the movement as a whole, interviewing pioneers and detailing
the evolution of the scene. Back in the bar DJ Cliffy is joined by DJ/producer
Mark Robertson of the Spiritual South collective. Expect bombastic bossas,
scintillating sambas and future jazz-steppas mixed up in true carnival
style.
£6, £5 Concs. Free to ICA Members
Cinema 2, Bar
Wed 7 May, 7-10.30pm
The National Music Network presents: New Music Underground
Meet the people who make the music industry tick. A superb line up of
speakers will be taking part in a demo review session of the best unsigned
acts in the country, followed by a discussion on the subject of 'how to
get a record deal'. The Demo Review: an A&R panel will listen to your
demo tapes and explain why they work or why they don't. The best songs
will be released on CD. Speakers and guests include; Dean Marsh, leading
music industry lawyer who's worked with artist such as Paul Weller, Ms
Dynamite, Fat Boy Slim, Sugar Babes, as well as Skint, Ministry of Sound
and Avex. Please bring Demo's with you on the night. £5, £4
Concs. £3 ICA Members Theatre
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 2 May - Thursday 8 May
NEW MEDIA
@ the ICA
23 Apr-11
May; Wed, Thurs, Fri 4-8pm, Sat 2-6pm
Tina Frank, Fuzzy Motion: Pictures Without Legs 1995-2002
Best known for her design and video work for Austrian record label Mego,
Tina Frank has become a leading figure operating at the intersection of
music, graphic design and the moving image. Frank has collaborated with
the likes of Mathias Gmachl of Farmers Manual with whom she formed Skot
- an audiovisual 'band', Chicks on Speed, Christian Fennesz, Hecker and
labels such as Chocolate Industries, Idea Recordings and Staubgold. The
Digital Studio presents the London premiere of Fuzzy Motion - Pictures
Without Legs, a collection of Frank's works released on DVD by the Japanese
label GAS. A mélange of Frank 'classics' and adventures in new
media and the moving image, this is a unique opportunity to sample over
twenty works from 7 years of Frank's work on Mego and other projects.
The exhibition includes works ranging from the well-known 'Aus' (music
by Christian Fennesz) to Skot vs. Hecker - a 30 minute live videowork,
characterised by shredded type and crude pixel magnifications - the look
of data gone wrong.
Wed-Fri: £1.50, £1 Concs, Free with ICA Membership; Sat: £2.50,
£1.50 Concs, Free with ICA Membership Digital Studio
Sat 3 May,
3pm
Geert Lovink: Uncanny Networks
'If you want to know what media theory will say five years from now, then
read Uncanny Networks' Bruce Sterling The days of cyberutopia are over.
After the dotcom crash and 9/11, an atmosphere of general uncertainty
has taken over the Internet. What effect do surveillance and hacktivism
have on cyberculture at large? Geert Lovink, founder of the nettime mailing
list, co-founder of the online community server Digital City and author
of Dark Fiber - essays on Internet Culture and Uncanny Networks published
by MIT Press, discusses the similarities between information warfare and
net art strategies and the impact militarised discourses are having on
virtual communities. Are collaborative weblogs modelled on sites such
as Slashdot and Indymedia an answer? How to balance the right to filter
and freedom of speech? £7, £5 Concs. £4 ICA members
Theatre
Thur 7 May,
7pm
Talk: Artist by Choice, Agent by Default
What does it mean to be a content label and a VJ agency? The team behind
VJ label Microchunk gathers for a closing discussion of their ten day
Digital Studio residency. MD Irena Levy and the Microchunk team discuss
the nature of balancing art and business, and address the growing demands
on artists to manage themselves inside independent business structures.
Using examples that other entertainment industries can provide to VJs,
the Microchunk team host a show and tell session.
Limited space available - please book in advance.
Free with ICA Day Membership
Digital Studio
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