1.45 pm
Serpentine Cinema: CINACT is a series of monthly artists’ film screenings and events at The Gate cinema in Notting Hill. CINACT takes its name from American artist Henry Flynt’s 2007 cinema manifesto. Each programme focuses on two artists who investigate and experiment with the medium of cinema. Amy Granat will premier two new films and we are delighted that William Raban will be joining us to perform Take Measure and discuss Under the Tower Trilogy.
Amy Granat
Concurrently with the presentation of her new feature film based on 1949 Paul Bowles novel The Sheltering Sky at The Kitchen, New York, Serpentine Cinema will present two new short films by American artist Amy Granat.
Amy Granat lives and works in New York. She is an artist and co-founder of Cinema Zero. Working primarily with sound, photography and film, her work has been exhibited widely in the US and Europe, including Dublin Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland (2007); Le Confort Modern, Poitiers, France (2007); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007); Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (2007); Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati (2006/7); and PS1, New York (2006). Her work will be included in the upcoming 2008 Whitney Biennial and in solo projects including Beijing, China; and Frankfurt, Germany. She has curated an exhibition entitled ‘Catawampus’ with Matt Keegan for Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, 2007, that will travel to Midway Contemporary Art, MN, in 2008. This February she will organize two nights of screenings as Cinema Zero for The Kitchen, New York.
William Raban
TAKE MEASURE 1973, Variable Colour 35mm, a film performance For this short film event, the film is removed from the film feed reel and unwound, spanning the space between the projector and screen. The projector starts, and the film snakes back through the audience as it is consumed by the projector. The screen image is a film footage counter that measures the 'throw' of the cinema.
William Raban will also present Under the Tower Trilogy shot in London between 1992 and 1996. This series of videos form a lyrical response to the turbulent recent history of east London under the Thatcher government and includes Sundial, shot at the then bankrupt Canary Wharf Tower, whose sweeping camera juxtaposes the gleaming capitalist monument with the sprawling architecture of the ‘old’ east end. A13 utilises the sound and images of this infamous ‘city’ artery around the Isle of Dogs, an area again explored in Island Race, which documents the complex social and political tensions of the area, weaving local government elections with the nationalism of VE Day celebrations and the funeral of east end gangster-hero Ronnie Kray.
William Raban, born 1948, Fakenham. BA painting, Saint Martins School of Art 1971; MA (Fine Art) Reading University 1974. Manager of London Filmmakers Co-Op Workshop 1972-6. Published bi-monthly Filmmakers' Europe 1977-81. Part-time senior lecturer in Film at Saint Martin's School of Art 1976-89. Reader in Film at University of the Arts, London. Member of editorial board Vertigo film magazine.
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