Michel/Ackers/Novakovic

ARIANE MICHEL / TOM ACKERS / RASTKO NOVAKOVIC
London Whitechapel Project Space
2-4 February 2007

Tri u dva ne ide (Rastko Novakovic, 2006)

ARIANE MICHEL
Rêve de Cheval (Horse Dream), 2004, 11 minutes
Here they are, sleeping. From one leg onto the other, strong and quiet, hidden in the winter. From far away, a rumour comes up. Ears straighten-up: all of them have heard. In their secret language, they all come to an agreement: they are scared and have to run away. A weird animal will appear in their panic, hybrid, worrisome like an enigma.

TOM ACKERS
Adult Education, 2006, 16 minutes
A series of scenarios present Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as a site for different levels of performing. Actors devise a range of roleplaying characters, and in various presentations of themselves arouse confusions of perception, self-knowledge and self-alteration around their use or avoidance of cliché.

RASTKO NOVAKOVIC
Sundays in Majdanpek: Tri u dva ne ide, 2006
Sundays in Majdanpek: Twice Shy, 2007, 32 minutes in total
Five shots of the town’s disused cinema present a fleeting document of the social space and history of Majdanpek, a devastated mining town in Eastern Serbia. The cyclical gesture of entering the cinema, the expectations in starting afresh, tracing the same route, but each time with different images and sounds, creates an accumulative intermingling of textual and visual historical records. They present simultaneously two contradictory conceptions of history: history as a narrative and history as that which is recorded in a particular medium.
A single uninterrupted shot of Majdanpek’s open mine in 4:3 aspect ratio is tilted so that its diagonal fits the 16:9 format - stretching the tension between home video and cinema, the public and private, the lived and the represented, off-screen space and the proscenium. The contradiction between place and sound, and the structurally warped projection of this industrial landscape, elicits an archaeological texture that shifts between dialectical materialism and spiritual meditation.

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Whitechapel Project Space
20 Fordham Street London E1 1HS
Nearest Tube: Aldgate East / Whitechapel
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Admission Free
Telephone: 077 4823 5428
www.whitechapelprojectspace.org.uk

Screenings begin on the hour
Friday 2 February 2007, from 7-9pm
Saturday 3 February 2007, from 1-6pm
Sunday 4 February 2007, from 1-6pm