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Serpentine Gallery Film Programme

It’s A Sin:

The Films and Inspirations of Derek Jarman

24 February – 13 April

Tickets: £11/£9 for Picturehouse members and concessions

Available from: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk

and 0871 704 2068

It’s a Sin, is a season of feature-length films by Derek Jarman as well as films that influenced his practice. In addition, an exciting short film programme has been selected by installation artist and film-maker Tina Keane, featuring works by Jarman’s contemporaries as well as younger film-makers. Screened at The Gate Picturehouse, Notting Hill, Greenwich Picturehouse and The Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton, the series celebrates the work and legacy of this pioneering film-maker.

Shorts Programme 2: Derek Jarman’s Film Poetry of the Small Medium Lives On (Advisory Certificate for Programme 15)

12pm Sunday 23 March 2007

GREENWICH PICTUREHOUSE, 180 Greenwhich High Road, London, SE10 8NN

12 pm Sunday 13 April

GATE PICTUREHOUSE, 87 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JZ

Black Palms

A reference to cinema and its relationship with enchantments and magic. Miliani’s film fuses illusions with hallucinations, using the absence and presence of a magician in front of the sea as an allegory of intimate sensations and the melancholy of past moments.

Director: Jacopo Miliani, Italy, 2007, 2 mins, DVD

The Storm

A car makes its way through the storm, lost in a recollection of memories.

Director: Tina Keane, UK, 2007, 1 min, DVD

Summerhouse

Filmed by a lake in Finland, Summerhouse is a semi-performative piece featuring squares of perspex and their reflection of the natural environment, both framing and dramatically contrasting its setting.

Director: Laura Buckley, Finland, 2007, 2 mins and 2 secs, DVD

Plot

A visual diary of the passing moments of daily life using the languages of the artist’s Gallic childhood and Anglo adulthood, as she travels back and forth to Switzerland to visit her sick mother. Avoiding any straightforward narrative intention, causation or chronological structure, the plot takes the form of a film fragment.

Director: Julia Dogra- Brazell, UK, 2006, 4 mins and 38 secs, Super-8

Empathy with Trees

A personal reflection on Anderson’s experience of school, which forms part of a series of script-led self-portraits.

Director: Seraphina Anderson, UK, 2006, 3 mins, BETA SP

Get Me a Mirror

A linear description of unfolding mental events through images of decaying femininity.

Directed by: Bonnie Camplin, UK, 2005, 5 mins 55 secs, BETA SP

This is not an AIDS advertisement

Artist and film-maker Isaac Julien’s short film looks at the survival of sexual desire during the height of society’s fears around AIDS. The pulsating soundtrack and hot-pink visual tinting places men as objects of desire in this unashamedly erotic and stylish video.

Director: Isaac Julien, UK, 1987, 11 mins, BETA SP

Loverfilm

Excerpts from the director’s journals and statute books of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Director: Michael Brynntrup, Germany, 1996, 22 mins, video

Swan

A seductive look at a white swan preparing for flight, flexing and caressing, extending and folding its wings as if in preparation for a lengthy journey. At once both graceful and strong, the viewer becomes aware of the uncomfortable closeness to this creature and its underlying power.

Director: Alia Syed, UK, 1986, black and white, 4 mins, video

Assasin

An exploration of the archetypal character of the assassin in crime cinema. Taking as it starting point the plotting of a murder by a couple in love, the film creates a new text in which the binding effects of narrative have been dissolved. Part picture puzzle, part fragmented image-sequence the film operates as a form of inner speech, often disconnected and incomplete.

Director: Michael Maziere, UK, 2006, 10mins, video

The Space Between

A shattering of time and space into shards of light. Featuring footage shot in India and reworked in the optical printer into a rigorous, flickering duality.

Director: Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, UK, 2005, 12 mins, 16 mm and video

Paris – FRANPRIX

The unsolicited social and economic networks that surround a supermarket in the crumbling 20th arrondissement in Paris, become a site for looking at memory, respect, hope and despair as the product is followed from its 8 am bulk delivery to its 8 pm disposal and eventual consumption.

Director: Mark Aerial Waller, UK, 2003, 11 mins, video