FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA AND DIGITAL CULTURE
Highlights in October 2010 in venues across Manchester
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
marxism today , Phil Collins
Phil Collins is the master of sardonically revealing political impotence and for October he starts the ambitious journey of introducing Marxism into Secondary schools, in Manchester. Collaborating with ex-Marxist teachers from East Germany, twenty years on from the re-structuring of Britain from a manufacturing base to a service industry, we revisit the currency of socialism.
Commissioned with Berlin Biennale, Cornerhouse, Berliner Künstlerprogramm / DAAD, Film and Video Umbrella and Shady Lane Productions.
PERFORMANCE
Shrink
Lawrence Malstaff
Lawrence Malstaff’s work is an intriguing contradiction between science and technology often creating sensory experiences for audiences that bypass intellectual analysis. This award winning performance of Shrink invites us to consider the human form as participants will be shrink-wrapped in a PVC cocoon that signals both protection and a threat to survival.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Pulse Room, 2006, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, exhibited at LABoral, Gijon, Spain.AND is thrilled to be working with one of the most ambitious electronic artists to date, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s work oscillates between seduction, participation and the Orwellian sense of preservation. Forming part of a solo show this new commission will turn the gallery space into one of the world’s most advanced scanners compiling a database of behaviours using high-resolution surveillance cameras with face recognition and 3D tracking.
Co-commissioned with Manchester Art Gallery part of the Recorders 18 September 2010 – 30 January 2011.
LIVE CINEMA
Midnight Mass,
Peaches Christ
Midnight Mass is all about the love of bad cinema, a genre that respects no rules! Hosted by the outrageous drag queen Peaches Christ aka Joshua Grannall will launch the European premiere of his black comedy ‘All About Evil’. In true Peaches Christ style the audience will be the focus wallowing in sex, blood and scatalogical references. An experience not for the faint hearted...
Empire’s Borders II
Western Enterprises Inc
Chen Chei Jen
Chen Chieh-jen’s haunting film examines the history of Taiwan within the larger context of globalization. For AND Chen presents a newly commissioned work entitled Empire’s Borders II, which searches for the identity of western Enterprises. Inspired by his own difficulties in acquiring a visa to enter the United States he investigates borders and boundaries within a shifting geopolitical landscape while reflecting on the ongoing heated debates on the “One China” policy and the legacy left behind by the Cold War.
UnSpooling – Artists and Cinema
AND’s paean to cinema!- UnSpooling invites artists and spectators to join in the act of navigating cinema, exploiting our collective memory and immersing the spectator with cumbersome analogue devices and absurd performances that supplant slick bite sized digital video and software. We wait in anticipation for the UK Premiere of Ming Wong’s Death in Venice, in which he plays the entire cast through rehearsal and reinvention.
INTERNATIONAL FILM PREMIERE Self-Made, Gillian Wearing.
LIAN STEWART in Self Made, photo credit: Mark Chapman
Self Made is the first feature film from Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing’s. Filmed on location in Newcastle she submitted newspaper and job centre adverts that simply asked members of the public: “If you were to play a part in a film, would you be yourself or a fictional character?”. This social experiment, will expose the seamless blurring of reality and fiction, exposing how real people see their own lives as a movie -Are we all playing a role, consciously or unconsciously?
UK Film Council and Northern Film & Media present, In association with Arts Council England, Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and Abandon Normal Devices, A Fly Film Production, In association with Third Films
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Abandon Normal Devices (AND) returns this October in Manchester. Cornerhouse is producing this year's programme and the team is searching for enthusiastic volunteers from all backgrounds. If you're friendly and reliable we would love to hear from you. Volunteering is a perfect opportunity to enhance your CV while making new friends in a fun festival environment. Deadline is Monday 30 August 2010.
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