HEY! Work It Out For Yourself

HEY! WORK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF
London LUX Salon
Wednesday 21 February 2007, at 7pm for 7:30pm start

The LUX Salon returns with a new monthly series of guest curated screenings delving into the vaults of the LUX collection to show the classics; known, lost and forgotten ...

Two rarely seen films exploring the authenticity of production and interpretation, selected by Jackie Holt. Margaret Raspé’s Oh Death How Nourishing You Are explores issues of personal responsibility and death, through the lens of Raspé’s purpose-built ‘camera helmet’. Stephanie Beroes’ Debt Begins at 20, a semi-fictionalised record of the early years of the Pittsburgh punk scene. Oh Death How Nourishing You Are will be accompanied with a live musical performance from LORD JOHN.

Debt Begins at 20 (Stephanie Beroes, 1980)

OH DEATH HOW NOURISHING YOU ARE
Margaret Raspé, Germany, 1972-73, colour, silent, 15 mins (Super-8)
'I was interested in what death is. To know the moment where life breaks into it. I have never killed an animal before consciously. I wanted to feel the moment where the flowing change of life is interrupted by something I do, in order to eat. To realise the death, which is carefully hidden in our technical society. To confront this moment, with the total ignoring of the situation you are in, when you cook something, killed in an unknown sphere. The clash between these realities was a big shock.' (Margaret Raspé)

DEBT BEGINS AT 20
Stephanie Beroes, USA, 1980, b/w, sound, 40 mins (16mm)
With music by The Cardboards, The Snakes, Hans Brinker and The Dykes. "By combining semi-fictionalized and documentary material, this film is as definitive a record of the Pittsburgh punk scene during its nascent underground as anyone could hope for. Beroes' band footage is radical departure from the gimmickry of stereotyped rock band documentary in its use of pans and slow dollys, capturing small glimpses of the musicians at work that a PR film would have avoided at all costs. The cinematography demands a reconsideration of the rock band documentary's hoary technical vocabulary. From the time this film was made changes have already taken place in Pittsburgh punk-dom as the bands have moved from an insular salon society to more 'legitimate' venues. Some say things are better than ever, others mourn the passing of Pittsburgh punk's innocence. Beroes in Debt Begins at 20 has produced not only entertainment, but also a small and very precious time capsule." (W.T. Koltek, WYEP Pittsburgh.)

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