6 June 2006
Irrational Reels Film Night
If those cheeky Victorian rational recreationalists had invented film, we're pretty sure they'd have screened some. So we did. Eat popcorn and cake, join in the Sean Connery and Alfred Hitchcock quizzes and enjoy a night in with a DVD at Rational Rec.
Screening:
- Laura Malacart, Chameleon. A woman is able to escape from the confinement of a domestic jungle in the only way she knows how: through the flicker of her own eyes.
- Joanna Callaghan, Edgar Hinton's Fun Park. Ever dreamed of working in TV? Heres your chance to find out how it really works. Your behind the scenes guide in how to make a television program.
- Richard Squires, Control Group. A woman stands at the end of a hallway, an egg in one hand, balloon in the other. A man dreams he is sleeping next to the victim of a particularly virulent form of scabies. A woman receives a nighttime visitor with a rash on his neck. A dog's anus becomes a hypnotic communicator.
- René Clair, Entr'acte. Premiered as entr'actes (interludes) for the ballet Relâche in 1924. This short film was directed by René Clair with the music for both the ballet and the film composed by Erik Satie, the last music he composed. The cast includes cameo appearances of Francis Picabia, Erik Satie, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. Live musical accompaniment by Mark Knoop.
- Dave Ball, Swinging a loaf of bread around my head
- Emily Richardson, BLOCK. Day through night BLOCK is a portrait of a 1960’s London tower block, it’s interior and exterior spaces explored and revealed, patterns of activity building a rhythm and viewing experience not dissimilar from the daily observations of the security guard sat watching the flickering screens with their fixed viewpoints and missing pieces of action.
- David Brazier, What it looks like when two years pass you by and it feels like two second