CPRD EVENTS
Upcoming Events 2009
- The Factual and the
Fictive: A series of screenings/talks exploring
hybrid fiction/documentary film-making
Where: All dates - 309 Regent
Street, London W1B 2UW
(except June 4th: Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H
0PD)
Time: May 5th/7th/20th/26th at 6pm | June 4th @ 10am
Films are subtitled in ENGLISH where necessary and entry is FREE.
You can download the flyer here
Please email Simon Hipkins to indicate your
attendance.
Session 1 - 5th May
Lecture Theatre 4, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street,
6pm
The House is Black (Khaneh Aiah Ast), (Iran,
1963), 22mins, Directed by Forough Farrokhzad
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Salaam Cinema, (Iran, 1995), 75mins, Directed by
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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INFO
Discussion: ‘Life and Art in the cinematic language of Iran’
Rose Issa, Art curator and co-author, Life and Art: The New Iranian
Cinema, BFI, 1999.
Chair: Prof. Mitra Tabrizian, University of Westminster
Session 2 - May 7th
Lecture Theatre 4, University of Westminster, 309 Regents Street,
6pm
Import, Export, 141 mins, (Austria, 2007),
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
"Import, Export is a deeply moral and blackly funny film, one
that reveals unpalatable truths about the economic systems that
rule our lives." The Telegraph, Sukhdev Sandhu
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Discussion: ‘Simulated Stories: Seidl’s journey film-making and the
rebirth of documentary as a cinematic spectacle’; Mark Cosgrove,
Head of Programming, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
Chair: Simon Hipkins, PhD candidate, University of
Westminster
Session 3 - May 20th
Lecture Theatre 4, University of Westminster, 309 Regents Street,
6pm
In Vanda’s Room (No Quarto da Vanda), (Portugal,
Germany, Switzerland, Italy, 2000), 179mins, Directed by Pedro
Costa
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Discussion: 'The Immobile Resistance to the Law of Genre in Pedro
Costa's Films', Ana Balona de Oliveira, PhD candidate, Courtauld
Institute of Art, London
Chair: Luís Trindade, Birkbeck College, University of London
Session 4 - May 26th
Lecture Theatre 1, University of Westminster, 309 Regents
Street, 6pm
The Wild Blue Yonder, (UK, USA, France, Germany,
2005) 80mins, Director, Werner Herzog
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Discussion: ‘The Imagination and
Documentary’
André Singer, producer, West Park Pictures and anthropological
film-maker. André has produced several of Werner Herzog’s film, and
ran the BBC Documentary Department’s Independent Unit in the 1990s,
where he founded the award winning documentary strand, Fine Cut. He
is still best known internationally as the Editor of Granada
television’s famed Disappearing World series.
Chair: Prof. Joram Ten Brink, University of Westminster
Session 5 - June
4th
Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon
Square, London, 10am - In association with Birkbeck College
(School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media)
La
Commune (Paris, 1871) with Peter Watkins
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A rare opportunity to see Peter
Watkins’ most recent work, La Commune (Paris, 1871).
Peter Watkins will be in attendance to give a talk on his work and
what he has described as 'The Media Crisis'. He will explore
how he believes the methodology and position of the mass
audiovisual media (TV, cammerical cinema) is playing a huge role in
driving today’s consumer society, and how he has attempted with his
work to find alternative, pluralistic ways to challenge this. Peter
Watkins feels strongly that these issues should be debated publicly
and in the education sector.
Morning
Session
10am – 10.30am Introduction to Peter Watkins
and La Commune (Paris, 1871)
10.30am – 1.15pm La Commune (Paris, 1871)
(Part One), (France, 2000) 2hrs 45mins, Directed by Peter
Watkins
1.15 – 2.00pm Lunch break
Afternoon Session
2.00pm – 5.00pm La Commune (Paris,
1871) (Part Two), (France, 2000) 3hrs, Directed by Peter
Watkins
5.00pm – 5.15pm Short break
5.15pm – 7.00pm Talk/Discussion with Peter Watkins
After a short break, Peter Watkins
will lead a discussion on his work and what he has described as the
‘media crisis’.
Chair: Simon Hipkins, PhD
candidate, University of Westminster
Evening
7.00pm – 9.00pm Reception and a
continuation of informal discussion
Drinks and snacks will be provided
Please contact us, for further details
and to book a place for this event.
When: 7 March 2009, 2-6
pm
Where: At the cinema at Birkbeck, 43
Gordon Sq. WC1
- Polyphonic
China - A series of screening of Chinese new independent
documentary films
All films, apart from 'Though I am gone', are being
shown in the UK for the first time
1. Crime and punishment (2007), director
Zhao Liang, 122mins
Speaker: Prof. Chris Berry, Goldsmiths
College, University of London
"On the edge: Zhao Liang and the Chinese
Independent Documentary Scene"
10 February
2. Using (2007) director
Zhou Hao, 102 mins
Speaker:
Luke Robinson, University of Nottingham
"Liveness and Location
Shooting in Chinese Documentary from the 1990s"
24
February
3. Though I am gone (2006), director Hu
Jie
Speaker: Prof. Harriet Evans, University of
Westminster
10 March
4. Aoluguya. Aolugoya (2008) director Gu
Tao, 90mins
Speaker: Zhiguang Ying, University of
Cambridge
Alternative Venue: The
Boardroom, Regent Campus, 309 Regent Street
24 March
5. Taxi (2008), director Fan Jian,
59mins
Speaker: Tianqi Yu, University of
Westminster
31 March
For further information, please
download the programme poster here or
contact
Tianqi Yu for more
details
When: 10
Feb - 31 March 2009, Tuesdays, 6-9pm
Where: Lecture Theatre 1&2 (Old
Cinema), University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, W1B
2UW
- Conversation with the
German film maker Harun Farocki
German filmmaker and artist, Harun Farocki,
will discuss his work-in-progress, Immersion, with artist and
critic Kodwo Eshun (co-founder of the Otolith Group)
In Immersion, Farocki explores how virtual
reality is deployed within a sobering military reality -- how the
artificial images of computer games are deployed beyond their
self-contained fictional universes, both in the training of U.S.
troops prior to their deployment to combat zones, and in
psychological care for troops suffering battlefield trauma upon
their return.
Presented in association with the Goethe
Institute, Cubbit Gallery, and in collaboration with Michael
Uwemedimo and Roehampton University.
For
more information click
here or visit the Goethe
Institute Website
When: 19 February 2009, 7pm
Where: Goethe Institute, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road
Sceenings
take place at the Cubitt Gallery, 8 Angel Mews, London N1 9HH
between 17
January – Sunday 22 February 2009
- Screening of S21: the Khmer
Rouge Killing Machine followed by a discussion with filmmaker Rithy
Panh
In collaboration with the Institute
of Humanities, Birkbeck college
In his masterpiece, S21: the Khmer Rouge
Killing Machine (2003), Cannes prize winner Rithy Panh brings
together former torturers and survivors of the Tuol Sleng prison in
Phnom Penh (code named S21). S21is a tour of the site by those who
remember it as a working machine in which 17,000 people were
killed. Through meticulously staged re-enactments, the former
Œstaff¹ of prison guards, torturers and executioners go through the
motions of their daily routine in the now empty rooms and corridors
- they shout their orders, place phantom keys in phantom locks,
shout ideological threats to absent prisoners, slap the prisoners
in the face - all with an exactness too banal to be called
precision; it is recursive, routine. The guards run through each
motion in its proper place, yet the rooms are nearly empty, the
crowds of murdered prisoners evoked only by their absence. The
perpetrators' re-enactments are witnessed by the few prisoners to
survive S21, including the painter Vann Nath, who has spent the
last thirty years trying to remember life (and death) at the prison
through his paintings -- a labour to memorialise that stands in
stark contrast to the perpetrators' mechanical repetition.
After the screening, Rithy Panh will explore
the role of re-enactment and performance in remembering political
violence.
When: 7 February 2009, 2-6
pm
Where: At the cinema at
Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Sq. WC1