This programme features works in which the exploration of the materiality of film – its physical presence as both an object and an apparatus – relates to an investigation of the body. Not only do the filmmakers reinscribe the messiness and transience of the body’s materiality as a way to relate themselves to their medium and challenge the primacy of vision in cinema; they also conceive of the film itself as a body, one that is exposed in its fragility and subjected to the same intrusive interventions as the female body in our patriarchal culture.
Programme
Gill Eatherley, Lens Hand Screen (part of Light Occupations series), UK 1973-1974, 16mm double screen, black and white, silent, 3 min
Gill Eatherley, Lens Hand Foot (part of Light Occupations series), UK 1973-1974, 16mm double screen, black and white, silent, 3 min
Gill Eatherley, Hand and Sea Film and Lens and Mirror Film (part of Light Occupations series), UK 1973-1974, 16mm triple screen, black and white, silent, 3 min
Jeanette Iljon, Focii, UK 1974, 16mm transferred to digital, colour, sound, 6 min
Marilyn Halford, Footsteps, UK 1975, 16mm, black and white, sound, 7 min
Annabel Nicolson, Slides, UK 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 16 min
Sandra Lahire, Edge, UK 1986, 16mm transferred to digital, colour, sound, 8 min
Sarah Pucill, Milk and Glass, UK 1993, 16mm, colour, sound, 10 min
Vicky Smith, Rash, UK 1997, 16mm transferred to digital, colour, sound, 7 min
Sandra Lahire, Terminals, UK 1986, 16mm transferred to digital, colour, sound, 18 min
The screening is followed by a discussion with Gill Eatherley, Jeanette Iljon, Sarah Pucill and Vicky Smith, moderated by Felicity Sparrow, former LFMC distribution worker and co-founder of Circles.
Annabel Nicolson Slides 1976, film still. Courtesy the artist and LUX
Sandra Lahire, Edge, UK 1986, film still. Courtesy LUX
Sandra Lahire Terminals 1986, film still. Courtesy LUX
Sarah Pucill Milk and Glass 1993, film still. Courtesy the artist and LUX
Supported by LUMA Foundation, FLUXUS and LUX.