May 01, 2006
THE HORSE HOSPITAL / MAY 2006
HIP SURVIVAL BULLETIN 57
HORSE HOSPITAL TAKEOVER LONDON SHOCK!
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SNOWBOOKS SEX & DRUGS NIGHT
featuring BRUCE BENDERSON
Wednesday, 3rd of May
doors 7.30pm
The Horse Hospital presents the official launch party for The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, by acclaimed queer author, Bruce Benderson, who will read selections from the work. There'll almost certainly be a Q&A too, which should be something. His interviews rock.
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STUMPTOWN SHOW & TELL
Thursday, 4th of May
doors 7.30pm, UKP 7 / 5 members / concessions
All the way from Portland, Oregon, USA: Proprietress, Raconteur, and Chanteuse, Chloe Eudaly, presents a selection of some of her favorite Portland based authors, artists, and filmmakers. She will be speaking about independently produced literature and her own role in that world with her famous store, Reading Frenzy. Readings by Bee Lavender & Diswasher Pete, plus a presentation of experimental short films made by various filmmakers, co-curated by Vanessa Renwick of the Oregon Dept. of Kickass. Also, the Acteon at Home VLADMASTER.
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kinoKULTURE is proud to present the UK premiere of
THE DEAD BROTHERS: DEATH IS NOT THE END
Friday, 5th of May
doors 7.30pm, UKP 7 / 5/ members / concessions
The portrait of one of the worlds stranger bands - The Dead Brothers, a Psycho Slavic Country & Eastern funeral band that knows where to find the death in humour and the humour in death. In the company of the director and DJ Scratchy!!
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ENTERTAINMENT IS DEAD ALIVE
Saturday, 13th of May
doors 7:30pm, UKP 10.00 / 6 concessions
HORSE HOSPITAL RADIO play a live audio/visual meltdown at the Battersea Arts Centre launch of new label MUSICBRUT. Reflecting notions of outsider and the visionary from the visual arts, Mark Webber presents an evening of performance in celebration of musicians working on the margins of musical culture. Unclassifiable and unpredictable, the event promises an eclectic and diverse mix of styles.
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FASHION IN FILM FESTIVAL
Fashion in Film Festival will premiere in London in May 2006 with its very first edition titled Between Stigma and Enigma, a retrospective showcase of film and video work on fashion. It is screened at three unique London venues: Cine lumiere (French Institute), the Horse Hospital, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). Featuring a mix of early and classic cinema, contemporary art, as well as documentary, instruction and propaganda film, it will send viewers on blissfully satisfying and fickle journeys peppered with fine clothes and foxy attitudes.
Fashion in Film Festival is delighted to host a special screening of the rarely seen cult film Qui etes-vous, Polly Maggoo? and to welcome its director William Klein as the Festivals 2006 Guest of Honour. Film screenings will be followed by lectures, informal talks and Q&A sessions with filmmakers, artists, critics and fashion designers including Anna-Nicole Ziesche, Jean-Francois Carly, Penny Martin and Shelley Fox. Films will also be accompanied by music especially composed for the occasion, including an exclusive collaboration with The WOLFMEN (Marco Pirroni and Chris Constantinou) on soundtracks for two silent films that form part of the Shoes, Eroticism and Fetish programme.
Tickets and venue information:
Cine lumiere, French Institute 17 Queensberry Place LONDON SW7 2DT
www.institut-francais.org.uk box office: 0207 073 1350
The Horse Hospital Colonnade Bloomsbury London WC1N 1HX www.thehorsehospital.com
box office: 0207 833 3644
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) The Mall London SW1Y 5AH www.ica.org.uk box office: 0207 930 3647 Ticket prices Full Price 7 Concessions 5UKP
The films we're showing are :
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WARDROBE EMERGENCIES: FASHION & THE WWII CONFLICT
Saturday, 20th of May
Doors 8pm, UKP7 / 5 members / concessions
Includes the following:
Fashion for Shelter (Mode pour abris). Pathé Gaumont Archives, France 1939.
Fashion Inspired by the War (La mode inspirée de la guerre). Pathe Gaumont Archives, France 1939.
Berlin Fashion School. UFA. Germany 1940.
Tin Hats for All. Pathe News. GB 1941.
Germ Masks for the Crowds. Pathe News. GB 1941.
Safety Styles, U.S. News Review. USA 1942.
Stockings. Pathe News. GB 1941.
Day-to-Day Frock. Pathe News. GB 1943.
Evening and Day Frock. Pathe News. GB 1943.
How To Make Do and Mend. Warwork news. GB 1943.
Rationing in Britain. Ministry of Information. GB 1944.
Clothes distribution to children in Athens, Greece. Ministry of Information. GB 1945.
Shoes distribution to Greek Refugees in the Middle East. GB 1944.
Clothes and the Man. RAF/Analysis Films. GB 1941.
Fashion show of recycled garments. Deutsche Wochenschau. Germany 1944.
Clothing for War and Peace. War Pictorial News. GB 1945.
Fashion show for WAAF women. GEN Special. GB 1945.
Stockholm: a fashion show in miniature, Welt in Film. Germany 1945.
Lady with a Hat (En Dame med hatt), dir. Elsa Kvamme. Norway 1999.
Running time: approx 68 mins.
Focusing on European and American newsreels, instruction and documentary films made in the Second World War (19391945), the first part of this programme looks at the rhetorical shift that occurred in fashion during this time of widespread conflict. Confronted with the War, fashion responded by entering into a dialogue with politics. Suspending its autonomy, it rearticulated not only its own logic and purpose but also those of society and the world around. (Programmed in collaboration with Imperial War Museum, London). War footage is followed by the Norwegian film director Elsa Kvamme presenting her 1999 documentary Lady with a Hat. The film is a staggering journey through the life and career of the Jewish hat maker May Aubert, with a special focus on the Second World War period. During this time the resourceful Aubert applied her millinery skills to the subversive use of smuggling 100, 000 Norwegian Kroner from Sweden to Canada.
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ASSUMING A POSE
Sunday, 21st of May
Doors 5pm, UKP 7 / 5 members / concessions
Includes the following:
Four Beautiful Pairs, dir. A.E. Weed for American Mutoscope and Biograph. USA 1904. (Archival film from the collections of the Library of Congress.)
Smooth with the Rough. Pathe News. GB 1944.
School for Mannequins. Pathe News. GB 1944.
I Feel, dir. Jean-Francois Carly / Showstudio. Belgium, UK 2005 .
How Mannequins Are Made (Come si fabbricano i manichini), Giornale Luce. Italy 1941.
Shelley Fox 14, dir. Shelley Fox in collaboration with the Showstudio. UK 2002.
It's Like Being (C'est comme etre), dir. Marie France and Patricia Martin. Belgium 2003.
Photo Shooting, dir. Jen Wu. UK 2001. Volume, dir. Jean-Pierre Khazem. France 2000.
Music composed by Richard A. Janssen. Running time: approx 40 mins.
Screening will be followed by fashion photographer JeanFrancois Carly and fashion designer Shelly Fox in conversation with Penny Martin, Editor-in-Chief of Showstudio. At the heart of this programme is cinema's preoccupation with moments where reality meets fiction. For this fashion's acts of posing, dressing up, staging and masking offer ideal material. In a number of languages the word pose connotes not only a position or posture of the body but also artificiality and falsity in ones conduct, in other words, pretence. By imitating cultural norms, models who pose become oddly reassuring fabrications. The collective observer moulds them as if they were inanimate objects. Similarly in this programme, a rich source of fascination is the confusion between the artificial body of a shop dummy, and the real one of a poser who is shown in the moving image as momentarily immobilised and thus conspicuously exposed.
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LOVING THE ALIEN
Saturday, 27th of May
doors 3pm, UKP 7 / 5 members / concessions
Paris is Burning
dir. Jennie Livingston. USA 1990
Liquid Sky
dir. Slava Tsukerman. USA 1982
Running time: 183 mins.
doors 7:10pm, UKP 7 / 5 members / concessions
The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield
dir. Charles W.Broun Jr. & Joel Holt. USA 1968
True Stories
dir. David Byrne. USA 1986
Running time: 189 mins
Movies about alien beings from other worlds are generally seen as good box office. This programme, in complete reversal, looks at the work of four diverse directors who dared to turn the camera on the sub-species of fashion aliens who exist within our society. Covering everything from high glamour to lowlife, and cult to couture, each film brilliantly integrates into its storyline a completely outlandish fashion strand of its day, whilst also clearly illustrating how fashion in its extreme sits uncomfortably in the real world. (Loving the Alien is guest-curated by Roger K. Burton.)
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kinoKULTURE presents
WILHELM HEIN: PERFEKT! YOU KILLED THE UNDERGROUND FILM
Friday 19 May 2006
doors 7:30pm, UKP 5 / 4 members & concessions
Wilhelm Hein (Germany), 2002-06, bw & colour, sound-on-cd, 120 mins
Wilhelm Hein, punk pioneer of the German underground, presents You Killed The Underground Film, or The Real Meaning of Kunst Bleibt, Bleibt, a diaristic odyssey that slides from the sublime to the ridiculous, between document and performance. Jack Smith, Nick Zedd and others appear in the film, which transcends nostalgia to become a pure and progressive affirmation of independence. Defiant, didactic and polemical, this sprawling opus is a kick in the teeth for convention.
WILHELM HEIN: PERFEKT! continues at the Goethe Institute (South Kensington) on Saturday 20 May. 4pm: Wilhelm Hein & Malcolm Le Grice screening and informal discussion on Materialist filmmaking in the 60s & 70s. 7:30pm: Wilhelm Heins Secret Cabinet including films by Andy Warhol, Kurt Kren, Dieter Roth, Tony Conrad, Peter Weibel, Viennese Aktionists Gunther Brus and Otto Muehl, and from the German underground: Annette Frick, Die TÃdliche Doris and Lukas Schmied.
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KATHY IZZO LOVE ARTIST LECTURE
Wednesday, 31st of May
doors 7.30pm, UKP 7 / 5 members / concessions
In conjunction with www.wildgift.org.uk
"I am a conceptual artist that utilizes performance and installation. My interest is the border between everyday relationships and theater/ art. I call myself the Love Artist. Usually I build small houses, forts, or lounges inside of galleries and museums, as well as hotel and theater lobbies and department stores. The audience makes appointments with me for anywhere from 15 - 90 minutes and I "love" them as performance art. I often live in the space, sometimes without leaving for up to 2 weeks at a time. I profess to truly love my audience or love patrons, although this is always a heated debate -- therefore it is "real" and not theater, and yet the whole experience is at once theatrical and highly intimate. Although there are always sexual insinuations that come from the term Love Artist, the work is fairly innocent yet quite intense. I have "performed" all over the states and Europe over the last 5 years and the response has been moving. I am currently deep in a memoir about these experiences.
"I would start the lecture by discussing the boundry between art & life and give a brief description of conceptual art, participatory art, installation art and their connections to experimental theater. I have a slide show (or Power Point) presentation of my installations as well as portraits of a variety of of my love patrons. I also include some examples of other artists doing similar work, both now & historically. I read some excerpts from my book, although I do like to leave enough time for discussion and questions . . . there will be a lot, and it is really through the questions that things become clear."
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
Vincent Van Gogh
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posted by James on May 1, 2006 01:05 PM