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THE BFI 55th LONDON FILM FESTIVAL The Experimenta Weekend is the London Film Festival\u2019s annual survey of artist\u2019s film and video. Over four days, from 21-24 October 2011, a unique sequence of programmes will offer a curated selection of outstanding work made around the world.<\/p>\n Phil Solomon, renowned for his exquisite 16mm films, will make his first appearance in the UK to introduce the epic American Falls<\/em>. In a triptych of images, waves of chemically treated celluloid reflect the aspirations and tragedies of the American dream.<\/p>\n Two festival regulars return with debut features: Lewis Klahr\u2019s elliptical narrative The Pettifogger<\/em> further develops his distinctive cut-out animation techniques; Ben Rivers\u2019 Two Years at Sea<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n Contemporary moving image owes much to the pioneering generation of avant-garde filmmakers that appear in Pip Chodorov\u2019s documentary Free Radicals<\/em>. Jonas Mekas, a central figure in that movement\u2019s history, will present two new works of his own: Sleepless Night Stories<\/em> and Correspondence<\/em> (in collaboration with Jos\u00e9 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.<\/p>\n The Experimenta Weekend is curated by Mark Webber, with assistance from Adam Pugh and Marina Ribera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Artists\u2019 film & video weekend of five screenings, plus installations by Laure Prouvost and Victor Alimpiev. Including Gustav Deutsch, Oliver Husain, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Mara Mattuschka, Paul Abbott and Greg Pope in person, a live performance by Mantler, plus recent preservations of films by Hollis Frampton. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london-film-festival-2011","tag-london-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n21\u201424 October 2011<\/strong>
\n London BFI Southbank<\/strong><\/p>\n