Capital Celluloid 2012 - Day 264: Fri Sep 21

CINEMA AS A SUBVERSIVE ART: An All-Night Filmic Wake for Amos Vogel
The Cinema Museum, Kennington. 11pm-7.30am

This is film programming at its very best, and possibly the highlight of the Scala Beyond season, a tribute to one of radical cinema's great pioneers, Amos Vogel.

Here is the introduction to tonight's event: As part of the nationwide Scala Beyond season, Little Joe is teaming up with LUX, the international arts agency and artists’ moving image archive, to commemorate and celebrate the life and legacy of Amos Vogel, founder of the legendary film society Cinema 16 and author of the indispensible guide ‘Film as a Subversive Art’, who passed away in April 2012. 

In tribute to a true champion of radical cinema, we will present selected programmes of films from Vogel's book throughout the night at the Cinema Museum, including works by Kenneth Anger,Maya Deren, Dusan Makavejev, Paul Sharits, Carolee Schneemann and Stan Brakhage, many screening from original 35mm and 16mm prints.

Here is the brilliant programme: 

11.15pm Introduction

11.30pm PART 1: SUBVERSION OF FORM
Razor Blades (Paul Sharits, 1965-1968, 25mins) 2 x 16mm
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943, 14mins) 16mm
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev, 1971, 84mins) 35mm

INTERVAL

1.45am PART 2: SUBVERSION OF CONTENT
The Secret Cinema (Paul Bartel, 1968, 30mins) 16mm
Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971, 88mins) Blu-ray

INTERVAL

4.00am PART 3: FORBIDDEN SUBJECTS OF THE CINEMA
Fuses (Carolee Schneemann, 1965, 18mins) 16mm
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage, 1971, 32mins) 16mm
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger, 38mins) 16mm

INTERVAL

5.45am PART 4: TOWARDS A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
Lapis (James Whitney, 1966, 10mins) 16mm
Free Radicals (Len Lye, 1979, 4mins) 16mm
Off/on (Scott Bartlett, 1970, 10mins) 16mm
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957, 81mins) DVD

Ends 7.30am

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