Dec
8
12:29 am00:29
Kinokulture

Chinese Film Festival

kinoKULTURE in conjunction with the Red Mansion Foundation presents two days of film in celebration of the Chinese New Year Of The Monkey, including three films by China's answer to Ken Loach, the acclaimed independent director Jia Zhangke, and a world premiere of Yang Maoyuan 's stunning artist's film 'Midway Law'. Saturday 24th January Doors 7.30pm "Platform" (Zhantai) by Jia Zhangke ( 2000 ) 154 min "Unknown Pleasures" by Jia Zhangke ( China, 2002 ) 113 min Sunday 25th January Doors 7.30pm "Midway Law" by Yang Maoyuan ( China, 2002 ) 40 min "Xiao Wu" by Jia Zhangke ( China, 1997 ) 105 min

Saturday 24th January Doors 7.30pm Tickets

View Event →
Sep
8
4:11 pm16:11
Chamber of Pop Culture

The Spirit Of Ecstasy

The Spirit Of Ecstasy visits The Horse Hospital presented by Anne Pigalle Thursday 13th November 2003 Doors 7.30pm "It's as if Edith Piaf was booked into the bar in Star Wars" - Hollywood Music Connection SCREENING "Les Vampires" "La Bague qui Tue ( The ring that kills )" Louis Feuillade, France 1915 Suck the blood out of sleeping bourgeois society. Steal their jewels in novel ways. "Le Vampire" 14 minutes b/w documentary by Jean Painlev

View Event →
Sep
8
4:00 pm16:00
Live

Hard Boiled Hollywood

Wednesday 10th December 7.30pm No Exit Press and The Horse Hospital present the launch of Max Decharne 's latest meisterwork Hard Boiled Hollywood with presentation by Mr. Decharne himself and a screening of the 1973 Hardboiled classic featuring Warren Oates DILLINGER

Entrance to presentation, launch and screening is

View Event →
Sep
8
12:53 pm12:53
Chamber of Pop Culture

Silent Spaces by Vanilla Beer

Monday the 8th December 2003 6.30pm The Horse Hospital is honoured to present the launch of a series of audio CDs in celebration of the 100th exhibition of artist Vanilla Beer.

"If only art could accomplish the magic act of its own disappearance! But it continues to make believe it is disappearing when it is already gone." Baudrillard. In celebration of her 100th exhibition, Vanilla Beer launches a series of audio CDs at The Horse Hospital, London, on Monday the 8th December 2003. Having exhibited internationally through scupture and painting over the past twenty-five years, Vanilla Beer

View Event →
Sep
8
12:40 pm12:40
Kinokulture

It Came From Memphis

SUNDAY OCTOBER 26TH, 2003. Doors 7.30pm The second in our two evenings of films of, in, about, by and surrounding the cultural phenomena that is MEMPHIS, kinoKULTURE presents to you : IT CAME FROM MEMPHIS An evening of film from John Michael McCarthy, curated by Paul Duane Featuring specially recorded video introduction by director John Michael McCarthy! PLUS PLUS PLUS Elv*s meets the B*atles Superstarlet AD AND the pilot for It Came from Memphis directed by Paul Duane and Robert Gordon.

Superstarlet A.D. is a feature length romp packed with the sex and violence of a soap-bath opera. It picks up early in the post-apocalyptic next millenia in the lost city of Femphis, where the world has returned to the order of nature. All men have de-evolved into deadly Neanderthals, whereas womankind has gained a chromosome - all women are physically beautiful, but wear only vintage undergarments (other clothes not having withstood the disaster). All gay men are dead and there are no gay cavemen so it will take millions of years for the clothing industry to evolve. The women have no desire to construct geometric shapes, prefering to make the best of what has been left for them. Gifted with style and intuition, but cursed with a gossip & hatred for other hair colors, women have banded into beauty cults! Armed with machine guns, dumb platinum blond PHAYRAYS, ruthless brunet SATANAS and ill-tempered redheaded TEMPESTS battle each other among the ruins of Femphis, over a dissipating supply of lipstick and ammo. All try to stay out of the reach of the deadly skulking cavemen. Except for one Beauty Cult who had to be different: SUPERSTARLET A.D.: A multi-haircolored force of three enlightened starlets who love all haircolor. Brunet leader Naomi loves her naive blond girlfriend Rachel but their beloved rehead Sarah was killed by another redhead member, Jezebel. Killing another woman being the worst crime, Jezebel is exiled forever from Superstarlet A.D. and the beauty cult finds itself without a redhead. As direct descendants of 1950's burlesque stars, the Superstarlets wear their grand- mothers film reels mounted on their backs like halo's. The story concerns Naomi's quest in life: to find and watch her ancestral film. Naomi and Rachel search ancient movie theatres bearing only the title "Funny Pages" to guide them. Most theatres house only cavemen and intrigue. Jezebel becomes the 13th leader to rule The Tempests, worshippers of rusted sewing machines. Living in a Berlin-esque night- club, The Tempests accept blond victims whom the Satanas have captured and traded for lipstick. The victims are sacrificed for their blood, which is used to enrich the redness of their hair color. "First there was Nature, then animals, and then Woman! Woman gave birth to Man and he follows us to this very day. She survives because she is closer to Nature. She looks natural in animal skin; painted, clawed, and heeled. Since time began Man has evolved but WOMAN has always looked the same! So why be equal when you are born SUPERIOR? Blood Ritual gives us power! RED the first color to be named! Any woman can be a Tempest who dies her hair in the blood of a blond or a brunet. Blood is what the Tempests worship now! TO HELL WITH RUSTY MACHINES!" The balance is disrupted when the hotheaded Tempests take a Satana hostage and convert her, via the brutal conditioning of Jezebel's personal domantrix/lover Cathy X. This infuriates Verona, leader of The Satanas who swears revenge, even if it means joining forces with the blondes. Constantly searching for her Grandmothers film, Naomi discovers a new redhead. Her name is Valentine. She was a starlet who fell asleep in her hotrod and awoke in the apocalyptic present day. Valentine even lives in a vintage clothing store and invites Naomi and Rachel to stay with her. Soon she becomes the next member of Superstarlet A.D. "My name is Valentine, or so my story goes. I was conceived in a drive-in and it took a Man. We are all conceived by Man I suppose. But it takes a woman to deliver the goods. But who can remember and what does it matter? Is it that much of me that is evil? That part of me made by Man. Well I intend to rub-it-out. I wanted a brute, not a neanderthal. So I kill a Man (if I'm lucky enough to find one). ... then I am aroused. And when I am aroused I am better. So I have to wonder out loud... I want to kill a Man and love a Woman. Maybe one will lead to the other. After all, woman turns to woman when man turns to ape." The lost film "Funny Pages" is found by UltraMame, leader of the PhayRays. Now the Phayrays are in control of Naomi's quest, bribing her to give up Rachel (because blondes are almost extinct.) This pushes Naomi to the brink of everything she holds dear as she struggles to control the murderous urges that before she thought only belonged to Man. Fleeing from a thousand gothic mansions of her imagination, Naomi murders UltraMame which seems to solve everything, but only for a moment. This act of selfishness forever changes the lives of those who kiss and tell and kill for Superstarlet A.D.! "What kind of society destroys its church? Later I wrote what a cool place the Lamar Theatre must of been. Through lawsuits, riots, and hard-ons, Lamar Theatre uber alles. The church cannot compete with the sin cinema, where children suffer ratbite screaming to a monster movie. Closed for good when the heard the end was coming. They had already seen the end of every movie."

====

E*VIS MEETS The BEAT*ES (or Elvis is Alive, Paul is dead, and I ain't feeling so well) An Unpopular movie about the most popular icons of our time Questions asked and answered by EMTB: SEE & HEAR what was REALLY on their minds the night of August 27, 1965 when Elvis met The Beatles! What Lennon meant to say was "The Beatles are more popular than Elvis." Why is a culture obsessed with keeping Elvis alive and Paul dead? Why was Elvis' best friend and guru a "hairdresser"? And why the obsession with salons, hair length, and Ringo's nose? Brian Epstein dies two years to the day he meets Elvis. What is the secret message in the Charlie Rich song they jammed to that night: "Mohair Sam" with it's "IS WHAT AM" matching the metaphysical thrust of Elvis' favorite religious book "The Impersonal Life". Why did Elvis shoot catfight videos with Priscilla and others dressed only in her white underwear? (supposedly destroyed by Vernon Presley upon Elvis' death!) Did George Harrison provide the LSD for Elvis' first (and only?) trip? Were young women cruised for at Shoney's parking lots? When Chapman shot Lennon did he speak with a Southern accent? Why does everything end with assasination and suicide? Can you imagine Revolver being recorded at Stax in 1966? It almost happened .... HELVIS SKELVIS: Everything comes back to Memphis: Elvis hated The Beatles yet covered their songs. Memphis band The Gentrys are originally slated to play The Monkees, who are based on The Beatles. Manson auditions to be a Monkee in 1966. Elvis' paranoia begins during the Manson trials when he receives anonymous death-threats. Memphian Tommy Boyce wrote The Monkees theme, later commits suicide in Gnashville. Like Manson, Elvis ordered a 'hit' on someone and also blamed The Beatles for his bad karma. The Beach Boys cover the Manson-penned ditty "Cease to Exist (Learn to Love)". Paul McCartney hangs out with Mike Love in India writing songs for the White Album. Alex Chilton slept in Manson's bed while on tour with the Beach Boys in 1968. 22 minute movie with a new trailer for the April release of Superstarlet

====

IT CAME FROM MEMPHIS - trailer Written/Produced/Directed by Robert Gordon and Paul Duane, based on Robert Gordon's legendary book of the same name. Running time 10' 42' We're living in the last days - the last chance to listen to those who learned from the original Delta blues players, and who in turn warped and bent this music and turned it into what we now call rock and roll. Memphis is the southern Shangri-La where the roots of this apocalyptic music are there to be seen by those who know where to look. Our guide through the wild and unpredictable history of Memphis is Jim Dickinson - veteran producer, performer, songwriter, agitator and orator. And our interpreter is Robert Gordon, writer of It Came From Memphis, which unlike previous books about Memphis, doesn

View Event →
Sep
1
5:46 pm17:46
Kinokulture

Kranky Klaus

Thursday 27 November 7:30pm Cameron Jamie in conversation with Alex Farquharson plus premiere London screening of Kranky Klaus with soundtrack by The Melvins.

Jamie's practice encompasses films, drawings and apartment wrestling performances. He has a band, Gobbler, with Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley. He collects suicide notes and amateur videos. His vampire alter-ego is said to haunt the LA suburbs where he grew up. He recently opened a cavernous installation at de Vleeshal in Middleburg and his work has generated critical acclaim across Europe. Curator, critic and West Coast aficionado Alex Farquharson talks with Jamie about his fascination with pathological manifestations from the valleys of LA to the mountains of Old Europe. The event begins with a premiere screening of Kranky Klaus. Tickets

View Event →
Aug
23
2:05 pm14:05
Chamber of Pop Culture

Gone To Texas

In dark times, know your demons. October 31st...they're here... Halloween Extravaganza! Gone To Texas Goth To Texas! GTT, the Western artist magazine, gets resurrected in time for Halloween. Come join the ghost riders in the sky! The Whiskey! The Women! The Priest! The Fickle Finger of Fate! The Sinister Voodoo Crew! The Scarily Sacral St Silas! The Pale Impaler! The Cavorting Zombies! The Bone Daddy!

To enter into our state of limbo you MUST bring 2 pound coins for the ferry man (one for each eye). Our numbers are limited. Ring James B.L. Hollands, the Angel of Death, on 0207 833 3644 to put your name on the door. Dress accordingly

View Event →
Aug
22
5:54 pm17:54
Kinokulture

Twang

Saturday 8th November Doors 7.30pm DO NOT MISS Jonny Crash : It Came From Outer Cunt : Pixelvision : Mounties : Genre Noir The Horse Hospital is honoured to present TWANG : a performance based act working with film/video and live sound, featuring the stories and films of Pablo Fiasco; performer, and filmmaker. Live voice and laptop soundtrack is provided by Jamie Lidell. Guitar by Mike Denny. The evening will also feature screenings of film works by PABLO FIASCO, MATT McCORMICK and ARTHUR LIPSETT

TWANG EXPRESS Twang are a performance based act working with film/video and live sound. Featuring the stories and films of Pablo Fiasco; performer, and filmmaker. Live voice and laptop soundtrack is provided by Jamie Lidell. Guitar by Mike Denny. Twang cross the old world with the new

View Event →
Aug
8
3:46 pm15:46
Kinokulture

The Nihilist Spasm Band / Roughage / (sic)

Wednesday October 8th, doors 7.30pm kinoKULTURE presents an exclusive London screening of "What About Me? - The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band" directed by Zev Asher, alongside a multimedia collage performance by Roughage and [sic] .

About the film What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band Canada, 2000 Zev Asher 79 mins. What About Me is an energetic celebration of The Nihilist Spasm Band, Canada's legendary experimental noise-music group. What About Me traces the development of the group, from its origins as a response to ultra-conservative London Ontario, to the tragic death of one of its founding members, artist Greg Curnoe, to the band's recent tour of Japan, where they enjoy a rabid cult following (and where their performances include a bizarre appearance on a Japanese variety show). Made for less than $20,000 and edited entirely on a Macintosh G3, it blends digitized 16 mm and super-8 film of recent and archival footage with mini-DV, Beta, and even VHS formats to give the film a unique, rich texture that reflects the band's multi-layered, improvisational style. About the band. The Nihilist Spasm Band emerged from Canada's avant-garde art scene in the 1960s, and its founding members include three of Canada's most prominent artists: the late Greg Curnoe, painter John Boyle, and sculptor Murray Favro, all of whom have work in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. The other members of the group are (retired) high-school teacher Bill Exley, physician John Clement, (retired) librarian Hugh McIntyre and (retired) commercial artist Art Pratten. This eccentric ensemble has built many of their own instruments and played together almost every Monday night for the past 35 years. Their raucous and riotous cacophony of sound has only recently earned them worldwide attention. The band previously recorded for Steven Stapleton's United Dairies label and have since moved on to the Japanese imprint Alchemy. The New York Times calls The Nihilist Spasm Band "a droll, clattery ensemble [that] has maintained the sly humour and casual provocation of 1960's art movements like Fluxus," and described one of its performances as sounding like "cracked hoedowns, hyperactive barnyards, misfiring truck engines or the magnified gnawing of beavers." About the director and the performance Director Zev Asher is a Montreal-born film-maker and musician. He is a founding partner of Sub Versive Media Arts, and has performed all over North America and Japan with his bands Nimrod and Roughage. He was artist-in-residence at the Vancouver Film School's multimedia centre in 1995-96 and a resident at the Canadian Film Centre's new media lab in 1998-99. His first documentary, RAT ART: Croatian Independents, was about the impact of the Yugoslav civil war on Croatian artists. It has screened at Cinematheque Ontario, the Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver, the University of Chicago, and the Visible Evidence Documentary Conference at UCLA, among others. What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band is his first feature-length documentary. [sic] is the solo project of Montreal sound manipulator Jennifer Morris. Originally a visual artist, Jen moved on to a number of film and video projects as well as soundtrack work. Her music is often created from samples derived from her original digital field recordings. Haunting and atmospheric, CD's released by [sic] have been very well received in the media and on radio, internationally. Her recent performance at Montreals celebrated MUTEK festival drew rave reviews and an enthusiastic response. Jen started Squirrelgirl Productions/Royk Recordings in 2000 to release her own work along with CD's from other artists. Upcoming projects include the third [sic] CD and the debut from the Canadian/Norwegian schmaltz damage duo Sleazy Listeners. For more information please visit http://www.squirrelgirl.com/ recent shows [sic] recent solo audiovisual performances MUTEK in Montreal in June 2003 http://www.mutek.ca/index-en.html Maid in Cyberspace in February 2003 http://www.htmlles.net/2003/e/index.html The Vancouver Underground Film Festival (site now defunct) Presented my rotating projection installation called disorientationat the Place Ville Marie in march 2003 http://www.champlibre.com/cime/framesetglobal_uk.htmAnd have played many more shows in smaller venues in Montreal. ROUGHAGE + [sic] European Tour October 2003 This fall tour in Slovenia, Italy and England features the first international duo performances by Zev Asher (ROUGHAGE) and Jen Morris aka [sic]. They first performed together in Montreal and discovered a common approach to working with sound and images. In these performance settings, the visual element is as important as the sound and the duo positions the work as an experimental video screening with a live soundtrack. 'Natural Clutter', is a brooding collage of images and sounds that stem from the fertile De Lanaudiere region of Quebec. The imagery touches on issues of exhibitionism, loneliness and dentistry. The live soundtrack is created through the gentle manipulation of related audio files created specifically for this tour. This piece will never be performed publicly again. oct3rd - Ljubljana, Slovenia at Gromka http://www.metelkova.org/gromka/gromkprogram.php

====

Reviews from VARIETY magazine What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band (Docu -- Canada) A Sub Versive Media Arts production. (International sales: Sub Versive Media Arts, Toronto.) Produced by Zev Asher, Richard Bingham, Phil Saunders-Arratia. Directed, edited by Zev Asher. by DENNIS HARVEY A charming, if attenuated, valentine to a 35-year-old Canadian "joke," "What About Me" charts the woolly saga of the Nihilist Spasm Band, musical pranksters whose weekly cacophony sessions have gone on so long, they now find themselves objects of international cult admiration. Catching subjects' wry spirit, Zev Asher's docu will be more a curio than a must-see outside Maple Leaf terrain. But it could pick up some gigs among arts-oriented fest, campus and broadcast programmers. Seven-member NSB was assembled in '65 by late painter Greg Curnoe to provide soundtrack for his experimental film project. None were musicians, but they made a scary din -- amusing themselves, if few others, in London, Ontario. Nonetheless, boho unit persevered, building eccentric instruments, releasing obscure records and honing a unique sound while maintaining "the purity of amateurs." Now solid bourgeois citizens with grown kids and retirement funds, the men have been nonplussed of late to find NSB truly "big in Japan," sought for tours, celebrated by punk/avant-garde musicians, etc. Subjects are disarmingly unpretentious; sometimes hilarious perf segs span their history. Only debit is vidpic's sometimes repetitive, meandering focus; trim-down for hourlong tube slots wouldn't hurt. Camera (color, video), Asher; music, Nihilist Spasm Band, Baku. Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival (Perspective Canada), Sept. 13, 2000. Running time: 79 MIN. from the catalogue of the PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVES: What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band Canada, 2000 Zev Asher These guys are from swingin' London-swingin' London, Ontario, that is. The other Guy from London was Guy Lombardo, born in 1902, exactly sixty-three years before the birth of the Nihilist Spasm Band, an antidote to all the Guys of this world. When the NSB was born, allegedly to create a soundtrack for the film No Movie, they had between them not an iota of musical training. But an innate sense of anarchy, some scavenged instruments, and a desire to pierce the din of Canadian complacency turned them into a seven-member ensemble of clockwork chaos. Noise, boisterous roiling noise, was what they produced-it wasn't a style or a movement, but more an allegation. Regular Monday-night gigs at a local swill-pit have continued unabated for more than three decades, and as of late, the Nihilist Spasm Band has become the sound c

View Event →
Jul
17
5:45 pm17:45
Kinokulture

Trent Harris Retrospective

DO NOT MISS kinoKULTURE and The Horse Hospital in conjunction with Chris Campion are proud to present a two day retrospective of the films of TRENT HARRIS. Underground and cult filmmaker extraordinaire, Harris' work will be screening on Saturday August 2nd and Sunday August 3rd 2003.

" The real lesson to be learnt from Harris' journey as a film-maker is that if you dedicate yourself to following your passions they will lead you on a spiralling path that inevitably circles back to where you came from, forcing you to confront the 'I' enclosed in the pyramid of the world. " Chris Campion Saturday August 2nd Rubin & Ed 82 min / The Wild Goose Chronicles 25 min Sunday August 3rd The Beaver Trilogy 83 min / The Cement Ball of Earth, Heaven, and Hell 54 mins Rubin and Ed stars Crispin Glover & Howard Hesseman and Karen Black, while the Wild Goose Chronicles tells the real life story of the inspiration behind the film. The Beaver Trilogy ( BEAVER KID, BEAVER KID 2, and ORKLY KID ) stars Crispin Glover, Sean Penn and Groovin' Gary. Los Angeles Critics Association awarded Beaver Trilogy BEST INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM OF 2001 What the critics are saying... "A rivetingly strange, multilayered inquiry into celebrity, obsession and serendipity." New York Times - A.O. Scott "By far the most exciting and heart-breaking piece of cinema this critic has seen in years." IndieWIRE - Aaron Krach "Filmmaker Trent Harris is a genuine maverick who has poisted his first piece of genius." The Times London - James Christopher "Both guileless found art object and beautifully crafted pop fantasia...Beaver Trilogy is destined to go down as the coolest footnote to any number of careers." Filmmaker Magazine "Of all the films that have ever been or will be, nothing compares to Beaver Trilogy." Sundance Film Festival "A stunning and complex exercise, an elaborate karaoke-upon-karaoke that snaps right into place with contemporary obsessions." New York Press - Ed Halter "I would strongly recommend your taking a look at Trent Harris's Beaver Trilogy, a work that's as strange and rare as a fire-dwelling salamander." The Nation Magazine - Stuart Klawans "Beaver Trilogy is so perfect, so odd, and so affecting that you will feel you're in the presence of a minor miracle or some strange form of beatitude." New York Video Festial - Lincoln Center Article from Film Comment magazine New York Video Festival: Cover Versions: Fact and fiction are up for grabs in Beaver Trilogy, an authentic one-of-a-kind video oddity by Chris Chang The remake is a tricky thing. On the one hand it raises the issue of an absence of ideas in the culture industry. On the other it paves the way for projects that provide a modicum of perverse fascination. (Think Terry Gilliam remaking La Jet

View Event →
Jun
14
1:45 am01:45
Kinokulture

D.I.Y. OR DIE

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH Doors 7.30 pmIN THE PRESENCE OF THE FILMMAKER D.I.Y. OR DIE HOW TO SURVIVE AS AN INDEPENDENT ARTIST A film by MICHAEL W. DEAN A celebration of the Underdog FEATURING: In-Depth Interviews including: Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), Lydia Lunch, Mike Watt (Minutemen), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), Jim Rose (Jim Rose Sideshow), Jim Thirlwell (Foetus), Richard Kern (Filmmaker), Ron Asheton (Stooges), Madigan Shive (Bonfire Madigan), Dave Brockie (Gwar) and more.

Director Michael W. Dean has a new book out on no-budget, drive-by filmmaking and promotion called $30 Film School. www.30dollarfilmschool.com CONTACT Michael W. Dean Director md@kittyfeet.com

View Event →
Jun
13
8:38 pm20:38
Kinokulture

Barbaria - An Evening Of Post-Zionist Video

SATURDAY 30TH AUGUST 2003DOORS 7.30PM Curated by Tai Shani UK PREMIERES OF FUCKIN PUNK ROCK ART FILMS FROM TEL AVIV Within this project, UK based artist Tai Shani gives an alternate voice to young people living or who have lived in Tel Aviv. All the films are personal projects; extremely low budget films made without professional conditions, without the aid of college assistance, and produced and edited upon domestic equipment. Although the works discuss Israeli culture, and what it is like to be in and from one of the most politicised countries in the world, these discussions are secondary to their discussion of culture, and their attempt to form some kind of cultural identity with the personal as politic. In Shani

View Event →
Jun
12
7:59 pm19:59
Kinokulture

Step Across The Border

Thursday September 18th Doors 7.30pm kinoKULTURE in conjunction with Harmonia Mundi UK and Ian Fenton present STEP ACROSS THE BORDER A 90 minute celluloid improvisation by Werner Penzel and Nicolas Humbert, featuring music and appearance by Fred Frith.

Step Across the Border Awards: European Film Award 1990 Hessischer Filmpreis 1990 Bundesfilmpreis 1991 Nomination Grand Prix International "Images&Documents" Figuera da Foz 1990 Uppsala Filmkaja - Best Documentary Film: Uppsala 1990 Innovative Cinema Prize 1991 Golden Gate Award - Special Jury Award: San Francisco 1991 Qualit

View Event →
May
28
12:40 pm12:40
Live

Hip Survival Bulletin #27

Your print out and keep guide to the finest of events. THE HORSE HOSPITAL MAY / JUNE 2003 THURSDAY MAY 29TH 6.30pm Born Under Punches by Martyn Waites Book launch in the company of the author. "One of the brightest stars in the British crime writing firmament " John J. Connolly MONDAY JUNE 2ND 6.30pm A F

View Event →
Apr
1
1:51 am01:51
Kinokulture

Hymn To Thanateros

Last chance to see the World Premiere Installation of this work in progress by Tasman Richardson and Jubal Brown.Sampling over 90 films from Anal Virgins to Titanic through Scanners and Necromantik, Brown and Richardson have created an epic of reconstructed horror, taking the viewer through a 23 minute history of classic imagery combined with digital editing. Merging narrative collapse with form, Hymn To Thanateros is the future of film, video, music and fear combined. Installation Wed 16th April / Thurs 17th April 12 - 6 Viewing by appointment 020 7833 3644 Entrance free.

The Hymn to Thanateros 2003, Jubal Brown & Tasman Richardson, colour/b&w The Hymn to Thanateros is an experimental abstract narrative video based on montage, juxtaposition and rhythmic editing. It is designed to invoke the feelings in the viewer sympathetic to the subject matter. Thanateros, a unification of the Gods of Love and Death, represents the constant conflict of Love vs. Death as a sensational clash. Throughout the development of the piece the interdependence of these two apparently disparate elements will be made clear: elucidating their necessity to each other

View Event →
Mar
23
12:52 am00:52
Live

Hip Survival Bulletin #21


hip survival 21

Continuing the story with our diverse and challenging events list for March and April, featuring work from all corners of the damn planet. By the way, you can now sign up here or scroll down to the bottom of this page and enter follow the 'contact' link to receive more information about how to become Horse Hospitalised and have the Hip Survival Bulletin sent to you each and every month by diligent robots. Yes, that's right, you can. Current subscribers to the Bulletin need do nothing at all. Let's get to it...

Untitled Document

 

EVENTS MARCH & APRIL 2003

 

THURSDAY MARCH 13TH

THE RETURN OF POP QUIZ!!

FRIDAY 21st = MARCH

WEIRDSVILLE ! 13 -The Salon Of Exotic Reason

SATURDAY 22nd MARCH

TRANSFORMERS - ( Robots In Disguise )

Ken Hollings / Simon James / Cathi Unsworth / Darius James and Stewart Home

SATURDAY 29th MARCH

American Pimp / Mondo Mod

THURSDAY 3rd APRIL

Jubal Brown / Tasman Richardson present Thanateros

SUNDAY 13th APRIL

Invocation to Kathy Acker

( we reserve the right to make as many additions and changes to the above as we like )

 

 

IN DETAIL

Thurs 13th Mar

popquiz

POP QUIZ II

7.30pm

hosted by THE QUEENS OF THE HORSE AGE!!

 

 

After the HUMUNGOUS face off between rival teams THE RUTTING STAGS and POP SNIPER at the last event, we can only ask : how many more people can POP SNIPER recruit -and when does a TEAM become a GANG?

 

Fri 21st Mar

13 - The Salon Of Exotic Reason

thirteen

7.30pm

featuring specially commissioned Spring Equinox webcast live out of Northhampton, Massachusetts by Erik Amlee from the world=92s best internet radio station

www.weirdsville.com

 

 

Sat 22nd Mar

TRANSFORMERS

7.30pm

ROBOTS IN DISGUISE
hosted by CATHI UNSWORTH

Shape-shifters are loose in literature. Like a computer virus they will wipe out everything you perceive to be real and safe and reveal to you the true workings behind the mainframe of existence. They are not authors, they are word alchemists. You will know them by their code names :

KEN HOLLINGS reading from DESTROY ALL MONSTERS accompanied on electronics by SIMON JAMES, plus rare screening of FEVERHOUSE, the 1985 Factory film made by KEN HOLLINGS and BITING TONGUES.

STEWART HOME reading from 69 THINGS TO DO WITH A DEAD PRINCESS with the celluloid backing of THE GOLEM plus screenings of the promo films for his works NO PITY and RED LONDON.

DARIUS JAMES reading from THAT BLAXPLOITATION, VOODOO STEW and NEGROPHOBIA.

Transmission will end with a discussion followed by a screening of the ultra-rare DARKTOWN STRUTTERS ( 1975 ) - directed by William Witney.

 

 

Fri 28nd Mar

koreakinoKULTURE

7.30pm

ATTACK THE GAS STATION

Directed by Sang-Jin Kim South Korea 113 min = (1999)

A quartet of disaffected Korean youths take over a = Seoul gas station, a complete willingness on the part of the film makers to throw = in whatever they think would be cool or fun. Assault On Precinct 13 meets = Porkys.

VOLCANO HIGH

Directed by Tae-gyun Kim 120 minutes South Korea (2001)

Not a movie that should be watched, but a panorama that should be felt and touched by your sixth sense. Korean kung fu high school!

 

 

Sat 29th Mar


subbakinoKULTURE

7.30pm

AMERICAN PIMP

The Hughes Brothers USA I hr 27 mins ( 1999 )

Is that your chick? This intimate portrait of mack-daddies has the clothes, the cars and the girls to give a Grade A primer on the craft of pimp culture.

MONDO MOD

Peter Perry USA 72 mins ( 1966 )

A lunatic look into the Neon Neverland of Sunset Strip, with photography by Laszlo Kovacs ( Easy Rider ) and Vilmos Zsigmond ( Close Encounters ). Hep.

 


TASMAN RICHARDSON & JUBAL BROWN

aggressive machine gun sex and death video style



Thurs 3rd April

7.30pm

TASMAN RICHARDSON

&

JUBAL BROWN

UK PREMIERE SCREENING

3rd APRIL 2003

Doors 7.30pm

=A36 / =A35 members / concs

INSTALLATION

FRIDAY APRIL 4th =96 SATURDAY APRIL 19th

12 =96 6

Entrance is free but Donations Are Welcome.

 

The Horse Hospital is honoured to present the first UK = showings of the work of Toronto=92s luminary art / videotech composers :

Tasman Richardson and Jubal Brown

The logical next step and natural heirs within the Burroughs / Leary / Throbbing Gristle / Psychic TV analysis into the destruction and re-contextualisation of mainstream media, Brown and Richardson are the founders of the JAWA style of video and co-curators of the infamous FAMEFAME movement.

In conjunction with a premier UK retrospective screening of the duo's milieu, The Horse Hospital will be running Richardson / Brown=92s latest work

 - The Hymn to Thanateros =96

as an installation for the two weeks following the screening.

THURS 3rd APRIL P R O G R A M M E

7.30pm

The Blob

2000, Jubal Brown, 9 min, colour / b&w

Paranoid science fiction obsessing over the television and radio waves, wireless communications in our very midst, in us and around us " a rock n=92 roll fantasia, joining 50=92s horror flicks, swamp guitar and rave beats in a juiced up look at the roots of TV."

Architecture of Doom

2001, Tasman Richardson, 3 min 5 sec, colour

Cross-product compatibility equated with the fascist enforcement of uniformity. The social implications of life as product placement.

Apollo Shrapnel : Part 3

2001, Tasman Richardson, 5 min 1 sec, colour

Offers atomically inspired tribute to the perfect = beauty in the countenance of the god as he defends heavenly order in the face of = assault.

Apollo Shrapnel : Part 5

2001, Jubal Brown, 2 min, colour / b / w

Elaborate video dedication to the god of war. Perfect = control and directed will represented with cold, mechanical clarity. "Precise = control" .

WAR

2001, Jubal Brown, 3 min, colour / b/w

An opus on the nature of lifestyle commercialism. = Images of war and ballet, issues of class and cultural refinement as a form of = fascism. An anthem to beauty, power, and danger.

The Adversary

2002, Tasman Richardson, 1 min 30 sec, colour

Reordering the pre-established language of vengeance = and failure to resonate with a new call to arms. Glorious praise for fanatical = passion and the endless, unquenchable conflict perpetuated by adversarial polarities = unified only by their blind hate.

Operation

1999, Jubal Brown, 10 min, colour

Referencing early video art this performance by the = artist in a room with a camera, Home operation to remove unwanted fat. Body vs. = image, male feminism vs. female patriarchy, personal body control vs. the social = stigma of body image, individual body ownership vs. the institution of the medical = profession.

THURS 3rd APRIL PROGRAMME CONT.

7.30pm

Mother May I Sleep with Danger?

2001, Tasman Richardson, 1 min 3 sec, colour

A raging deathmetal satire of the teen death media = obsession.

Teletubbies Rising

2001, Jubal Brown, 3 mins, colour

The popular children=92s characters are = re-contextualized as the hippie cult known as the "Manson Family". The idea of TV babies, young = peoples manifestation of popular culture as reality, the Manson Family's = realization of Hollywood movie fantasy and the Teletubbies internalization of the television.

Vader Lives

2002, Tasman Richardson, 3 min, b & w

A thundering ode to a cultural icon that has become = greater than the sum of its parts. The themes of which have become holographic, that = in short samplings have instant meaning and gratification for viewers.

--- I n t e r m I s s I o n ---

I.A.O.

2001, Tasman Richardson & Jubal Brown, 13min, colour / b & w

Video mantra invoking Tiphareth (solar perfection, balance of force, beauty)

Isis, the phallic I, ego, forward projection of = the procreative force.: Appophis, violent and chaotic destruction of that = which has been created by the I. Osiris, the void, the space left in the wake of the previous destruction and an opening allowing for further creation. = This cycle is repeated.

The Hymn to Thanateros

2003, Jubal Brown & Tasman Richardson, 6min 66sec colour/b&w

The Hymn to Thanateros is an experimental abstract = narrative video based on montage, juxtaposition and rhythmic editing. It is = designed to invoke the feelings in the viewer sympathetic to the subject matter. = Thanateros, a unification of the Gods of Love and Death, represents the constant = conflict of Love vs. Death as a sensational clash. Throughout the development of the = piece the interdependence of these two apparently disparate elements will be = made clear: elucidating their necessity to each other'ss existence and the tragic beauty resulting from their harmonious or discordant unification. Images are treated as musical elements of melody and rhythm. Love is melody and = death is rhythm. Through complex looping and layering these are interwoven and revealed to be indispensable to one another. Images of lush sensuality are = co-mingled with images of death and decay.

 

Sponsor a Cobble

 MAKE YOUR MARK ON LONDON AND BECOME PART OF THE HORSE HOSPITAL WALK OF FAME.

 We are in phase one of a scheme to implement an all = new Membership Programme featuring your chance to participate in in London's version of Hollywood Boulevard by sponsoring your own unique Horse Hospital Cobble!!

gossip never leads to revolution.

View Event →