Discussions 1 @ The Corridor

It rained, so we were inside...

...but it didn't matter...

Programme For 01.08.09

The Corridor is pleased to invite you to a film screening at 8.30pm on 01.08.09:



Places are limited, so please do RSVP to me here: sarah@thecorridor.co.uk, if coming.


We will be screening on two sites, one of which is external. We therefore request that you come along with a blanket and an umbrella, if you’d like to sit outside.

Discussions on Film – Atomic City




A nocturnal, filmic exploration into just how bleak it all is; sprinkled with dashes of humour; drawing on themes touched upon by novelist Michel Houellebecq, whose explorations into the development of humanity in the modern context present terrifying visions of dysfunctional relationships and alienated folk-Discussions on Film will be a film screening followed by conversation. Our line up is a mixture of films by filmmakers, video artists and architects who make films. 




8.30pm Reception

9pm

Short Shorts, Videos & Extracts:

Oppressed conditions & means of escape

Julie Mietz - Depression (2.08mins)

Madeline Duba - Living in a Box (2.04mins)

Dylan Thomas - Performance Extracts (TBC)

Ian Pons Jewell- Circus (TBC)

Ben Barton - Uphill for Jesus (3.24mins)

Julie Mietz - Coffee & Cigarettes (Re Edit) (3.09mins)

Madeline Duba - 80ies Skivving (4.22mins)

9.30PM

Shorts

Looking at the human condition at various scales and from various visual and political perspectives.

Alison & Craighead – Flat Earth (7mins)

Ian Pons Jewell - Seasons Greetings (TBC)

Alex Price –The Persecuted (4.36mins)

Carlos Ferrao – Introduction to the Theory of the Young Girl(5.12mins)

Adam Furman - Subjective Cartographies (TBC)

Anuk Chanyapak - Love At First Fight (6.35)

10 min Interval

Long Shorts

Narratives & Journeys - a series of visual essays and narrative films which explore our relationship to cities.

Alys Williams - Following Borromini (19.22mins)

Sarah Akigbogun &

AA Social Cinema - Policy 3 (19.52mins)

James Rumsey – Milk (15.5mins)

Ian Pons Jewell - TBC

11.30 PM Drinks & Conversation

Following the screenings we would like to invite people to join us in conversation about the films and the topics they raise.

Look forward to seeing you!




Akiko


Amita


Beatrice


Christoph


Vikrant




&

Sarah Akigbogun

Curator ‘Discussion On Films’

sarah@thecorridor.co.uk




...more films confirmed.

We take a nostalgic journey along a river, weaving back and forth in time; journey beyond neurosis to buy some Milk, cycle through vivid memories and get stuck in a box and are made to wriggle just a little…

...the corridor unveils more filmmakers for discussions on film.

James Rumsey

Milk Man

'Brian is a neurotic voyeur, trapped by fear in a routine existence. Fuelled by milk, each night he logs activities from outside his flat using a home-styled CCTV suite.

His neighbour, Marina, likes Brian. She sees beyond his neurosis, to a man she’d like to know better. Brian likes her too, but is rendered dumb during routine doorstep encounters and so can never accept her hopeful invitations to share a cup of tea.

Late on this night, Brian runs out of milk and must break his routine to venture out and get more.'

James Rumsey

Emory Ruegg's

Wriggle

Prejudice frames many an existence in our dense city environments, the unspoken presence in many an interaction, that it lurks in many a subconscious is the uncomfortable truth provocatively and humorously explored in Emory Ruegg's 'Wriggle'.

Madeleine Duba

Robbie Williams 80ies Skiving

Remembering an 80s, suburban teenagehood, and colourful days spent escaping family fractures and school dramas...

'Young teenager Robbie skirts the issues in England in the '80s on his BMX, skiving school down the memory lane.
Skiving is a reflective look at 'The 80's through Robbie Williams's eyes, based on his track from the album Rudebox.

We journey through his formative years in a decade where consumerism and the rave generation were born.'

Madeleine Duba

Living in a Box

'A surreal film about man's space, how we play with space, outside and inside a man's own mind.'

Madeleine Duba

Sarah Akigbogun & AA Social Cinema

Policy 3

'The aspects of change which relate to an urban river are many, there is the rhythm of its own daily tide, and then there are the relatively slow changes which occur as a result of urban re-organisation and resulting architectural intervention. Within the environment created by these dual forces exists several layers of human activity...these are the subject of this film...'

'The Thames has a familiar, iconic presence within the city of London; often cast in a supporting role within the cinema, and occasionally as the main subject, the river’s picturesque image appears repeatedly in films, such as ‘Waterloo Bridge’ in the 40’s, Hitchcock’s ‘Frenzy’ in the 70’s and in many more recent productions. Thus we are familiar with the form of that massive body of tidal water and with its statuesque bridges. It acts as a focal point, a draw for the transient tourist population; but of what significance is it to Londoners, in search of places to be? ...like children we are ineffably drawn to rivers but what do they offer us?

Sarah Akigbgoun for Social Cinema

...more filmmakers confirmed

Against the backdrop of our seemingly ever more secularised lives, evangelism is enjoying a resurgence; partly imported with arriving immigrant communities, it is now a familiar  part of the texture of cities such as London, with religious buildings and representations springing up around the city...does this growth also reveal something about where modern man finds himself? 

Ben Barton 

Uphill for Jesus

‘Uphill for Jesus’ is a visual poem captured on super 8 film. It follows a group of evangelical Christians as they carry a large wooden cross two miles uphill. 

Ben Barton is a poet who works on paper and film. He has published hundreds of poems in the small presses, and three poetry collections. His super 8 films have been screened at many festivals & film nights in the UK, USA, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Japan and beyond. Collectively they are known as ‘the cinema of small gestures’.

...more filmmakers confirmed

An attempt to palliate sollitude with food, though it could be drink,

drugs, sex - any form of consumption...we are taken into into bleak surroundings to glimpse an existence with seemingly only food for company; a richly choreographed venture across temporal lines in Rome leading to an encounter with the architect Francesco Borromini; and a shift in scale with a step into the bitter-sweet realm of romantic relationships and the extremes of emotion they generate...

The corridor adds more filmmakers to its bill for August 1st.

Anuk Chanyapak

Love at First Fight

In Anuk’s film we view intimate relationships at an intimate scale and explore the syntax of communication between lovers.

'The film tries to pose questions about conflict; the intention is to ask how much similarity there is between conflict and affection. One could say that the two halves facilitate each other. For there is no husband & wife that forever love or forever hate each other.

If the linguistic differentiation between the two has been unclear, as with the very meaning of the word 'love' - then the tensions and syntaxes of these relations couldn't be more alike.

This mode of communication could be viewed on various scales, like parallel lines cutting through society’s structure. Between one man and another, family, neighborhood, institution, countries - or inward looking like the relationship to oneself or with one's body. Even in inanimate things - through human uses - a pairing configuration is evident, and the same mode of semiotics is applicable. Are we such creatures of opposites that everything about us always is, and always must be, love and hate?’

Anuk Chanyapak

Alys Williams


Following Borromini


Shot on location in Rome and in the church San Carlino alle Quartro Fontaine

"I was looking to remap the city, encompassing my experience as a foreign settler and the rich and layered history that reflects itself in the architecture. Francesco Borromini, his life and work, became central to my journeys through the city and I began building a narrative through research, automatic writing and drawing, which manifested themselves into a visual story board, script and model sets." Alys Williams

www.alyswilliams.com

Vivien Peach

Malcom



















...one man and his food.

"When I was a little girl I thought objects could come alive. On growing up I have realized that sometimes they need a bit of wizardry.

Fusing the beautiful and the bizarre, combined with a sprinkle of sugar and spice (not always to taste), my works in stop-motion animation often touch on themes of innocence, mental illness and obsession. They are often closely related to my childhood experiences. Regardless of the depth of the issue at hand, I try to place emphasis on its playful side, believing it vital one can step back and laugh at oneself and the irony of the situation. I want an audience to share my objective view and laugh too, however black the comedy".

...and more to follow.




The response has been great, we've recieved films from as far afield as Thailand - so a huge thank you to all who have submitted or spread the word.




Join us and the conversation.

And the date will be...1st August

We can now confirm that the screening will take place on the evening of August 1st at  The Corridor: 

The Corridor
410 Hackney Road
London E2 7AP

http://www.thecorridor.co.uk/

first filmmakers confirmed

Re-edits of Jim Jarmusch’s exploration into relationships in the metropolis; filmmaking as a response to depression; zooming in to the city from beyond its limits to hear narratives of city life; exploring the disturbing consequences of isolation enforced by the city; quirky takes on romantic encounters and human disintergration…

…The Corridor unveils the first filmmakers to be confirmed for DiscussionsOnFilm:

Thomsom & Craighead

'Flat Earth is a desktop documentary, which takes the viewer on a seven minute trip around the world so that we encounter a series of fragments taken from real peoples' blogs. These fragments are knitted together to form a kind of story or singular narrative'. Thomsom & Craighead

Ian Pons Jewell

A day in the life of everyman trying to make connections within the city.

Julie Meitz

Julie

'One day while being depressed I decided to rise above it by forcing myself to make a video. So, I stepped outside my home with my video camera in hand and started shooting in my city of Detroit, Michigan. Then I came back, chose the music that appealed to my state of mind and forced myself to edit what I shot.

Thus I had no specific theme/narrative in mind, I just made a video based on my mood, a kind of Art Therapy process, one could say'. Julie Mietz

Cinematography/Editing/Effects: Julie Meitz

http://julie.meitz.free.fr

Music: Tadd Mullinix (Ghostly International)

Let’s meet for coffee…and a cigarette.

We share some of our the greatest intimacies during fleeting meetings in the semi -private world of the coffee house. Along with e-modes of communication, facebook, twitter etc it these meetings are an essential part of the social networking fabric.

But what do people talk about in that little zone of privacy…Tesla coils?

In her re-edit of Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes Julie Mietz mixes Tesla coil frequenies and coffee cup conversation...

'I love Jarmusch’s work... After watching the "Jack & Meg" sequence, I wanted to focus on the relationship aspect in a more direct manner and to also bring out indirect commentary that I read into the sequence. And since Jarmusch’s films focus on dialogue, and this being a visual remix, I cut-out most of the 'word' explication of the Tesla coil, and instead tried to show it’s important to Jack in a brief visual impression.' Julie Mietz

Video & Sound Re-edit: Julie Meitz

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