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XXXVI: Derek Jarman, Imaging October (1984)
One of the few Jarman films I haven't seen - leaving aside odd Super8 stuff, his segment of Aria and all the pop promos - I had the chance to correct this at Tate Britain. Tate Britain has something called The Light Box, a dedicated space for showing moving images. Given how many British artists now work in the medium about bloody time. Whereas at the Serpentine the equivalent room featured bean bags, this had seating for five and not enough space. Get a grip people. Enter the late nineteenth century.
The film is a short, made I suspect at the time that Jarman was trying to get funding for Caravaggio and before Channel 4 threw him a series of life line. Jarman and others were invited to Russia, and as well as visiting Einsenstein's house with filmmaker/theorist Peter Wollen, he went off and shot a load of Super8 actualite. The film has three distinct phases which interconnect: a painting of embracing semi-naked soldiers (by Hobbs, who was to paint Caravaggio), a gay wedding feast and a series of political slogans which put Thatcherism alongside Stalinism and make a case for political personal film making.
Fascinating - and the cast includes Peter Doig, shown elsewhere in the Tate, and the Crew, Sally Potter. Arguably too short to include, mind, at 27 minutes, and pushes the April total and projection up - 108.
XXXVII: Angela Robinson, Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)
I'm a sucker for this kind of crap - which they stuck on when someone realised Madeline wasn't appropriate to show as it might upset... well groups of friends who can't organise baby-sitting.
The Old VW is now inherited by girl racer Maggie Peyton who accidentally races and beats champion TripDastardly Murphy (Matt Dillon, in desperate need of acigar to chew). A second race sees her lose Herbie - but she rescues him from a demolition derby and is entered into a NASCAR race for the team run by her mourning father (Michael Keaton, underused). The good old triumph of the plucky little trier has me reaching for the tissues; meanwhile Justin Long (Galaxy Quest, Ed, etc) steals the movie.
I missed the start, but only in a not seeing it way.
Totals: 37 [Cinema: 13; DVD: 22; TV: 2]
XXXVI: Derek Jarman, Imaging October (1984)
One of the few Jarman films I haven't seen - leaving aside odd Super8 stuff, his segment of Aria and all the pop promos - I had the chance to correct this at Tate Britain. Tate Britain has something called The Light Box, a dedicated space for showing moving images. Given how many British artists now work in the medium about bloody time. Whereas at the Serpentine the equivalent room featured bean bags, this had seating for five and not enough space. Get a grip people. Enter the late nineteenth century.
The film is a short, made I suspect at the time that Jarman was trying to get funding for Caravaggio and before Channel 4 threw him a series of life line. Jarman and others were invited to Russia, and as well as visiting Einsenstein's house with filmmaker/theorist Peter Wollen, he went off and shot a load of Super8 actualite. The film has three distinct phases which interconnect: a painting of embracing semi-naked soldiers (by Hobbs, who was to paint Caravaggio), a gay wedding feast and a series of political slogans which put Thatcherism alongside Stalinism and make a case for political personal film making.
Fascinating - and the cast includes Peter Doig, shown elsewhere in the Tate, and the Crew, Sally Potter. Arguably too short to include, mind, at 27 minutes, and pushes the April total and projection up - 108.
XXXVII: Angela Robinson, Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)
I'm a sucker for this kind of crap - which they stuck on when someone realised Madeline wasn't appropriate to show as it might upset... well groups of friends who can't organise baby-sitting.
The Old VW is now inherited by girl racer Maggie Peyton who accidentally races and beats champion Trip
I missed the start, but only in a not seeing it way.
Totals: 37 [Cinema: 13; DVD: 22; TV: 2]
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