The Wayward Canon Presents: Simon and the Radioactive Flesh
A film and intermittent art video screening that develops into a purgatorial nightclub setting with DJs and disco balls. The performance uses Luis Bunuels’ 1965 film of an ascetic Simon, a devotee of Simon Stylites, who proclaims his faith through standing on a column in the desert. The devil visits on several occasions to lure him from his duty, eventually succeeding in transposing him to a purgatory, beat nightclub in 1960s New York. Every time the devil appears, the narrative is interrupted by the insertion of contemporary video art, by Benjamin Callaway, Sophie Brown and Catherine Evlid, Nasan Tur, Mark Leckey, Omer Ali Kazma and Pablo Bronstein.
Also in this combined programme
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The Art of Overhead Presents……
Rudimentary, groovy overhead-projections from Berlin artist Katrin Bethge and Mikomikona replace traditional smooth visuals, accompanying DJ sets f
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De anti-Sade kalender
A non-stop digital vortex. Visual artist Annemie van Kerkhoven intercuts The AntiSade Press Calendar for 2007 with notes and snapshots and other ki
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Clear to Engage
A careful deconstruction of one of the most revealing recordings made during the most recent Iraq war, the elimination of a couple of soldiers via
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Engaging with Keith Sanborn (Artists’ Talk)
Media artist and theoretician Keith Sanborn expands on his current book on Dziga Vertov and on film projects in progress: Labyrinth of Solitude, Cl
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Film Electrocution
A semi-scientific experiment to expose film by electrocution, involving a Tesla Coil, medical lubricant and buckets of film developer. Results will
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In the Room 2
Narrative musical performance by the Korean visual artist and performer Sung Hwan Kim and American musician David Michael DiGregorio. Based on the
Film details
- Country of production
- UK
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 180"
- Medium/Format
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- Premiere status
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