Secret Cinema in Elephant and Castle..

Mark Webber, who organises Lux Film showings (secret cinema) and curates the experimental film weekend at the LFF, is bringing 2 film programmes to the beloved concrete land mass which I call home-from-home. For £3. This is a great thing.

"RITE WORDS, ROTE ORDER"
2 / 6 / 5

"Expect to be subjected to the sounds of
Alvin Lucier, William Burroughs, John Cage, Gertrud Stein, concrete poets,
dial-a-poets, Futurists, Dada's, mothers and children, the obscurely wilful
and the wilfully obscure."

ANAEMIC CINEMA
Marcel Duchamp, France 1925, b/w, silent, 7 minutes

ASSOCIATIONS
John Smith, UK 1975, colour, sound, 7 minutes

SYNTAX
Martha Haslanger, 1974, colour, sound, 13 minutes

PICTURES ON PINK PAPER
Liz Rhodes, UK. 1982, colour, sound, 35 minutes

RATLIFE AND DIET IN NORTH AMERICA
Joyce Weiland, Canada, 1968, colour,
sound, 16 minutes

SO IS THIS
Michael Snow, Canada, 1982, silent, colour, 45 minutes

FIRST HYMN TO THE NIGHT - NOVALIS
Stan Brakhage, USA, 1994, colour, silent,
4 minutes

3 / 6 / 5
PATTERNS OF SPEECH

"Four Videotapes which each explore variations in spoken language.  
"Mesostics" are poems in which a string of vertical letters, one from each
line, spells a name or word.  John Cage's calm and sage delivery of these
phrases sits in stark contrast with the deranged performance by actor Tim
Thompson, in Paria, which is based on workshops conducted with prisoners at
a correctional facility.  Taped by video pioneers the Vasulka's, these
disturbing monologues are further unhinged by their technological distortion
of the image. The second half of the programme features tapes by Peter Rose,
who has conducted a deep investigation of language and text throughout his
work, whilst demonstrating an incisive sense of humour.  He often uses
invented words, subtitles, sign language and direct address to spin yarns
that examine syntax an patterns of speech, while simultaneous exploring the
nature of film and video media itself.  This is a rare screening of two
seminal videotapes that are practically unknown in the UK."


36 MESOSTICS RE. AND  NOT RE. DUCHAMP
John Cage/Soho TV, USA, 1978,
videotape, 26 minutes

PARIAH
Woody & Steina Vasulka,. USA 1984, videotape 26 minutes

THE PRESSURES OF THE TEXT
Peter Rose, USA, 1983, videotape, 17 minutes

DIGITAL SPEECH
Peter Rose, USA 1984, videotape, 13 minutes