Saturday 27 November 2004, 19.00

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE TO THE ONE PUBLICIZED

Programme duration 74'

radio on (remix)
Chris Petit, UK 1998, b/w & col, 24’
In 1998 Chris Petit, accompanied by editor Emma Matthews, returned to the locations of his groundbreaking road movie Radio On (1979).  Whilst Radio On anticipated the significant political transitions of the 1980s, its remix signposts the millennium and catalogues the subsequent shifts in topography and architecture, as well as changes in the medium. An intense highway meditation, it collages distressed video with super 8, archive material with contemporary footage and original text with Bruce Gilbert’s radical disruption of the original’s soundtrack.

Negative Space
Chris Petit, UK 1999, 39’
'A film about, among other things, RW Fassbinder, Manny Farber, Las Vegas, Robert Mitchum and 'the death of cinema'.'
A sustained meditation on the implications of looking - at cinema, art and landscape - built around the work and words of pivotal American film critic turned painter Manny Farber. A split screen polaroid styling leads to provocative juxtapositions of the world with its image.

Dead TV
Chris Petit, UK 1999, 11'
Dead TV includes two recent iconic TV moments; the Ian Hislop and Paula Yates head-to-head from Have I Got News For You and the Wright/Schmeichel penalty area collision. Petit refilms both of these to make them a drama of pixellation and texture; in deconstructing them, he remakes them anew.

 

Notes by Gareth Evans and Chris Darke

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£3.50 (£2 concessions), booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Robert Frank: Storylines exhibition