Check Strand: New Repeat Screening

GOOD NEWS !

A repeat screening of the Chick Strand programme has been added to the festival schedule for Thursday 27 October 2011, at 9pm, in BFI Southbank NFT3.

Link to details of INTIMATE VISION: THE FILMS OF CHICK STRAND here

Link to book tickets for CHICK STRAND here

2011 Weekend Introduction

The Experimenta Weekend is the BFI London Film Festival‘s annual survey of artist’s film and video. Over three days, from 21-23 October 2011, a unique sequence of programmes will offer a curated selection of outstanding work made around the world. This new indpendent website contains full details of the screenings and will be regularly updated with articles and additional information.

Phil Solomon, renowned for his exquisite 16mm films, will make his first appearance in the UK to introduce the epic American Falls. In a triptych of images, waves of chemically treated celluloid reflect the aspirations and tragedies of the American dream.

Two festival regulars return with debut features: Lewis Klahr’s elliptical narrative The Pettifogger further develops his distinctive cut-out animation techniques; Ben Rivers’ Two Years at Sea mixes fact and fantasy in an extended study of a marginal outsider. Observational filmmaker Robert Fenz and Portuguese artist Gabriel Abrantes are featured in solo screenings.

Contemporary moving image owes much to the pioneering generation of avant-garde filmmakers that appear in Pip Chodorov’s documentary Free Radicals. Jonas Mekas, a central figure in that movement’s history, will present two new works of his own: Sleepless Night Stories and Correspondence (in collaboration with José Luis Guerin). The visionary films of West Coast pioneer Chick Strand, which combine experimental, collage and ethnographic styles, can be rediscovered in newly preserved prints.

The Experimenta Weekend is curated by Mark Webber, with assistance from Adam Pugh and Marina Ribera.

SEE THE FULL PROGRAMME HERE

Booking Information

For further information on the BFI London Film Festival, visit www.bfi.org.uk/lff or pick up a festival brochure at BFI Southbank and locations in central London.

Standard ticket price: £10.50
Weekday screenings before 5pm: £7.00
Concessions for weekday screenings before 5pm: £6.00

Advance booking is highly recommended:
- By post to BFI Southbank from 14 September (BFI members only)
- By telephone on 020 7928 3232 from 19 September (BFI members) / 26 September (public)
- Online at www.bfi.org.uk/lff from 19 September (BFI members) / 26 September (public)
- In person at BFI Southbank from 26 September

If all advance tickets for films are sold out, keep trying as remaining seats will be released daily after 7 October. A few tickets or returns are usually available on the day or immediately before a screening begins.