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FILM WEEKEND AT THE KUNSTHALLE ZÜRICH
Friday/Saturday, 9/10 October 2009


Friday, 9 October, 6.30 pm: Jarman Award 2009

An evening of artists’ moving image work by the Jarman 2008 awardee Luke Fowler, and the Jarman Award 2009 shortlist: Lindsay Seers (winner of the Jarman Award 2009), Anja Kirshner & David Panos, Simon Martin and Stephen Sutcliffe. Presented by Film London and Channel 4, the Jarman Award recognises artists’ image work which, like Jarman’s, resists conventional definition, encompassing innovation and excellence.
With a short introduction by Rose Cupit, Manager FLAMIN-Film London Artists’Moving Image Network, Film London.

Saturday, 10 October, 3 pm: “Romancing the Frame” (artist films from London between 1976 and 1986)

James Mackay, producer, artistic executer and close friend of Derek Jarman, presents artist films from London between 1976 and 1986. Punk, New Wave and “New Romanticism” formed this decade and the post-structuralist opulent-voluptuous or serial films by Steve Farrer, Cordelia Swann, Roberta M. Graham, Cerith Wyn Evans, Dick Jewell and Richard Heslop. With a short introduction by James Mackay.

Saturday Programme:

3.00 to 4.30 pm:
Steve Farrer, “Silk Screen Films” (1974-1975), 16-mm-film, 15 min
Ian Kerr, “Persisting” (1975), 16-mm-film, 10 min
Cordelia Swann, “The Ten Commandments of Love” (1979), 16-mm-film, 3 min
Derek Jarman, Cerith Wynn Evans, Michael Kostiff & John Maybury, “The Dream Machine” (1983), 16-mm-film, 32 min

4.30 to 5.00 pm: BREAK

5.00 to 6.15 pm:
Roberta M Graham, “Fallen Angel” (1984/1986) & “The Fire is Still Mine” (1983), slides, approx. 60 min

6.15 to 7.00 pm: BREAK

7.00 to 8.45 pm:
Ian Bourne, “The End of the World” (1982), DVD, 8 min
Dick Jewel, “The Jazz Room” (1983-1987), DVD, 40 min
Derek Jarman, “Imaging October” (1989), 27 min
Richard Heslop, “The Child and the Saw”(1986), 29 min


Admission:
Friday: Free entry
Saturday: CHF 10.00 / CHF 8.00 students (with ID
Free entry for members of Verein Kunsthalle Zürich!