28 - 29 October 2017: pic.london festival
As part of their inaugural festival, pic.london presents a two-day film programme exploring the relationship between still and moving images. Beginning with film’s infancy at the end of the 19th Century – through the 1960s avant-garde – this programme investigates the ways in which artists and theorists have engaged the moving image to develop, challenge and critique photographic language.
The invention of photography unveiled the dream of fixing time and memory. The cinema offered a new experience to viewers but also opened up new ways for image-makers to interrogate the medium of photography through experimentation. read more
Sortie d'Usine Lumière à Lyon, Lumière Brothers, 1895, 1 min, B/W, Digital
Repas de Bébé, Lumière Brothers, 1896, 1 min, B/W, Digital
Démolition d'un Mur, Lumière Brothers, 1896, 1 min, B/W, Digital
Le Jardinier et le Petit Espiègle, Lumière Brothers, 1895, 1 min, B/W, Digital
Arrivée des Congressistes à Neuville-sur-Saone, Lumière Brothers, 1895, 1 min, B/W, Digital
Arrivée d'un Train en Gare à la Ciotat, Lumière Brothers, 1895, 1 min, B/W, Digital
Partie de Cartes, Lumière Brothers, 1895, 1 min, B/W, Digital
Barque Sortant du Port, Lumière Brothers, 1895, 1 min, B/W, Digital
Départ de Jérusalem en chemin de fer, Lumière Brothers, 1897, 1 min, B/W, Digital
Niagara, les chutes, Lumière Brothers, 1897, 1 min, B/W, Digital
As Seen Through a Telescope, George Albert Smith, 1900, 1 min, B/W, Digital
Room (Double Take), Peter Gidal, 1967, 10 min, Colour, 16mm
(nostalgia), Hollis Frampton, 1971, 36 min, Colour, 16mm
Programme 2: Abstraction vs Representation
What one sees in an image does not necessarily represent the truth of the subject shown. Photography and film inherently create a tension between representation and abstraction, expertly highlighted by Iimura and Ito. read more
Talking Picture (The Structure of film Viewing), Takahiko Iimura, 1981-2009, 15 min, Colour, 16mm
A Chair, Takahiko limura, 1970, 5 min, B/W, Digital
Blinking, Takahiko limura, 1970, 2 min, B/W, Digital
Spacy, Takashi Ito, 1981, 10 min, Colour, 16mm
Cinema takes photography's fetishistic characteristics and expands the voyeuristic nature of the medium. The resulting objectification is examined through Leth and Farocki's works, but the gaze itself is also the subject of the lens. read more
An Image, Harun Farocki, 1983, 25 min, Colour, Digital
The Perfect Human, Jørgen Leth, 1967, 13 min, B/W, Digital
Programme 4: Memory, Politics and Power
The politics and the power of the image are revealed through Godard's deconstruction of a photograph and Marker's construction of a film. read more
Letter to Jane, Jean-Luc Godard, 1972, 52 min, B/W, Digital
La Jetée, Chris Marker, 1962, 28 min, B/W, Digital
Two films which bring to life the artists searching for the meaning between frames. read more
Si J'avais 4 Dromadaires, Chris Marker, 1966, 49 min, B/W, Digital
Double-Blind (No Sex Last Night), Sophie Calle & Gregory Shephard, 1992, 76 min, Colour, Digital
pic.london is a non-for-profit public festival that is initiated, led and run by artists and photographers, launching its first edition in October 2017. It aspires to support emerging artists and engage the public in thinking about photography, through exhibitions, film screenings, talks, immersive installations, an art flea market and social gatherings.
More info: piclondon.org
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