China Town (Raven, 2009) + Operation Beton (Godard, 1955): Barbican Cinema, 6.30pm
Barbican Cinema introduction:
Lucy Raven introduces a double bill of films that create a dialogue across decades – between materials and meaning, monumental structures and the people who build them. In China Town (2009), Raven follows the journey of copper from an open-pit mine in Nevada to China’s Three Gorges Dam, revealing how landscapes are transformed, exploited, repurposed and abandoned as global industries shift. Screened after is Opération Béton (1955), an early industrial film by a young Jean-Luc Godard. While working on the Grande Dixence dam, Godard documented its construction and layered the footage with his own voiceover, offering a wry, personal take on the labour behind the concrete.
Here (and above) is an extract.
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