
Booking fees
£1.50 booking fee per online/phone transaction.
No fee when tickets are booked in person.
Booking fees are per transaction and not per ticket. If your booking contains several events the highest booking fee will apply. The booking fee may be reduced on certain events. Members do not pay booking fees.
Programme
1/48”, Jorge Lorenzo Flores Garza, (2008) Mexico, 1’,35mm, Silent
Meissen Porcelain! The Diodattis’ Living Sculptures at the Berlin Conservatory (fragment), Gaumont, Germany/ France, 2’, 35mm, Silent
The Case of Lena Smith (fragment), Josef von Sternberg (1929) USA, 5’,35mm, Silent
Mosaik Mécanique, Norbert Pfaffenbichler, (2008), Austria, 9’, 35mm, Sound
HA.WEI. March 14, 1938 (archival title) Anonymous, (1938), Austria,13’,16mm, Silent
Spare Time, Humphrey Jennings (1939), UK, 15’, 35mm , English spoken
Yours, Jeff Scher, (1997), US, 4’, 35mm, Sound Recreation (original French version)
Robert Breer, (1957), USA, France, 2’, 16mm, Sound
Schwechater , Peter Kubelka, (1958), Austria,1’, 16mm, Sound Anthem
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, (2006), Thailand, 5’, 35mm, Sound
Roller Coaster Rabbit , Rob Minkoff, (1990), USA, 8’, 35mm, Sound
The Present, Robert Frank, (1996), USA/Switzerland, 24’, 35mm, English spoken
Film is a clockwork, a metaphor that was given some publicity by the most talked-about non-film of the last decade, Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2011). As opposed to the latter, however, the works in this program have some relation to life: they end. Before doing so, they exude madness, mystery and joy at a rate of 16, or 18, or 24 times per second.
Another way of looking at this film selection is through the eyes of Amos Vogel, born in Vienna in 1921, who passed away in New York in 2012. I hope that the programme can also serve as a tribute to Amos. Among his many achievements in film culture was a new approach towards placing films with each other in an evening’s programme, freed from their traditional grouping according to era, genre, aesthetic, etc. In addition, the Vienna amateur film shown here – Ha.Wei. March 14, 1938 – is a document of the historical moment that turned 17-year-old Amos Vogelbaum into an exile.