6 April 2010: Under/Over – Part 1/3
| Presented by Close-Up and Transidency Time: 8pm. Doors open at 7.45pm Venue: The Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB Ticket: £5/£3 to Close-Up members |
| This season of films have been curated in conjunction with the Artist's collective,Transidency, whose latest show entitled UNDER/OVER runs at the FOLD Gallery during April 2010. |
| The programme aims to complement the themes investigated in UNDER/OVER, as well as to draw out the comparisons between the films themselves which collectively act as a body of enquiry into those same themes which include; [self & enforced] mythologising, ridiculous labour, over work/under work and the in-between, an ongoing investigation into the deceptive quality of the Earth's iconography and the spaces of war. |
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HOI-POLLOI Andrew Kotting UK | 1990 | 10 mins | Colour | 16mm |
| Artist and filmmaker Andrew Kotting part home movie/part diary featuring his friends and family's exploits in their home in the French Pyrenees. Kotting sites this as being an early example of a use of 'soundscaping' though cut ups and bricolage to create 'implied narratives', later investigated to a greater extent in his acclaimed feature film Gallivant. |
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THE MOON AND SLEDGEHAMMER Philip Trevelyan UK | 1971 | 65 mins | Colour | DV |
| The Moon And The Sledgehammer is a film about real people: Mr Page; his two sons, Jim and Peter; his two daughters, Kathy and Nancy. Mrs Page died long ago. Their ramshackle house is situated in six acres of woodland, which they own themselves, in the heart of the commuter-belt, 20 miles south of London. The trees cut the Pages off completely from the outside world, and isolated in their island clearing, they let the 20th Century slowly pass them by. As the film unfolds each member of the family spells out their personal fantasies and philosophies to the camera. For all their prodigious skills, they seem at first eccentric, quaint; their ideas tangential to our own. But in the end it emerges that they are in control of their world in a way that we can never be in control of ours. |
| For more information visit: http://www.themoonandthesledgehammer.com |
Transidency is a core but ever evolving group of artists, event organizers and film buffs; who set up and then dismantle exhibitions, events and texts on a rolling basis. The premise for the collective is that each member has an individual desire to respond to, and revolve around, the bright spark of an initial idea or context in a socially minded way.
