Shoot Shoot Shoot: The London Film-Makers’ Co-op

Date: 24 November 2016 | Season: Shoot Shoot Shoot 2016 | Tags: Shoot Shoot Shoot

SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: THE LONDON FILM-MAKERS’ CO-OP
Thursday 24 November 2016, at 7pm
Brighton Sallis Benney Theatre

The LFMC was founded in October 1966 as a non-commercial distributor and film laboratory for avant-garde cinema. Within this unique facility, film-makers were able to control every aspect of the creative process. Many explored the material aspects of celluloid, whilst others experimented with multiple projection and performance-based ‘expanded cinema’. This artist-led organisation asserted the significance of British work internationally, and anticipated today’s vibrant culture of artists’ moving image. This programme features 16mm film works by Malcolm Le Grice, Lis Rhodes, Jeff Keen, Guy Sherwin, Gill Eatherley, Annabel Nicolson and others.

Malcolm Le Grice, Berlin Horse, 1970, 9 min
Lis Rhodes, Dresden Dynamo, 1971-72, 4 min
Jeff Keen, Marvo Movie, 1967, 5 min
Guy Sherwin, At the Academy, 1974, 5 min
Peter Gidal, Hall, 1968-69, 8 min
Annabel Nicolson, Slides, 1971, 12 min
Sally Potter, Play, 1970, 7 min, 2 screen
William Raban, Diagonal, 1970, 5 min, 3 screen
Gill Eatherley, Hand Grenade, 1971, 8 min, 3 screen

The book Shoot Shoot Shoot: The First Decade of the London Film-Makers Co-operative 1966-76 (LUX, 2016), edited by Mark Webber, has been published by LUX to celebrate the LFMC’s 50th anniversary, it brings together texts, interviews, images and a large number of archival documents in exploring the history of the early years of the organisation.

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