Plenty: Ägypten

PLENTY: ÄGYPTEN (EGYPT)
London Event Gallery
Tuesday 30 November 2010, from 7pm

PLENTY proposes a new way of looking at artists’ films by showing only a single work, regardless of its duration. Each film is given the freedom to unfold on its own terms, and the viewer is given the time and space to consider it.

Ägypten (Kathrin Resetarits, 1997)

Tuesday 2 November 2010, from 7pm
ÄGYPTEN

ÄGYPTEN (EGYPT)
Kathrin Resetarits, Austria, 1997, 10 minutes

Ägypten takes viewers on a journey into the silent world of sign language, exploring visual communication between people of all ages. Children recount movie scenes and an expedition to the pyramids, a woman signs a traditional Viennese ballad and a group of pensioners socialise. The film uses the power of cinema to explore this theme with humour and compassion.

Kathrin Resetarits (born 1973) is a Viennese writer, actress and filmmaker. Her other films include Fremde (1999) and Ich Bin Ich (2006). She played a leading role in Barbara Albert’s Fallen (1997) and has worked as an assistant to Michael Haneke.

PLENTY is a free monthly screening series selected by Mark Webber, and forms part of the Brief Habits programme curated by Shama Khanna.


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E:vent Gallery
96 Teesdale Street, London, E2 6PU
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Nearest Tube: Bethnal Green
FREE ADMISSION
Small space. Arrive early.

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Plenty: The End

PLENTY: THE END
London Event Gallery
Tuesday 2 November 2010, from 7pm

PLENTY proposes a new way of looking at artists’ films by showing only a single work, regardless of its duration. Each film is given the freedom to unfold on its own terms, and the viewer is given the time and space to consider it.

The End (Christopher Maclaine, 1953)

Tuesday 2 November 2010, from 7pm
THE END

“Ladies and gentlemen. We asked you before to insert yourself into the cast, now we ask you to write this story. Here is a character. Here is the most beautiful music on earth. Here are some pictures. What is happening?”

THE END
Christopher Maclaine, USA, 1953, 35 minutes

The End follows the last day on earth for six of ‘our friends’ living in the shadow of the atomic bomb. Cryptic camerawork and disjointed cutting conspire to salvage narrative from unrelated images, accompanied by a barely coherent rant of existential despair. An anti-film infused with dark, ironic humour; deliciously inept and inadvertently glorious.

Christopher Maclaine (1923-75) was a marginal figure in the early beatnik scene of North Beach, San Francisco. He wrote poetry and prose, and made four films. Maclaine’s heavy use of amphetamines ultimately rendered him debilitated, resulting in hospital internments and early death.

PLENTY is a free monthly screening series selected by Mark Webber, and forms part of the Brief Habits programme curated by Shama Khanna.


at

E:vent Gallery
96 Teesdale Street, London, E2 6PU
MAP OF AREA

Nearest Tube: Bethnal Green
FREE ADMISSION
Small space. Arrive early.

www.eventnetwork.org.uk