Friday 9 April 2010, 19.00

In the 44th minute of James Benning’s film One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Years Later (2004), two workers cross the frame carrying a large reproduction of a painting by Mondrian. This is one of the film's series of 60 one-minute static shots presenting an inventory of the industrial decay of Milwaukee. Images and sounds gradually give way to rich colour and dynamic, abstract compositions. Screened with Viking Eggeling's pioneering abstract animation, Diagonal Symphony (1921).

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

    

Programme of films

Viking Eggeling
Diagonal Symphony
1921, 8 min, 16mm, B/W, sound

Robert Breer
Form Phases IV
1954, 3 min, 16mm, col., sil.

James Benning,
One Way Boogie Woogie (1977) – 27 Years Later (2004)
2004, 120 min, 16mm, color, sound

This event is related to the Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World exhibition