{"id":4332,"date":"2006-10-13T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=4332"},"modified":"2018-01-25T14:55:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:55:59","slug":"nothing-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2006\/10\/13\/nothing-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing in Common: 40 Years of the London Film-Makers&#8217; Coop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><b>NOTHING IN COMMON: 40 YEARS OF THE LONDON FILM-MAKERS&#8217; COOP<br \/>\nFriday 13 October 2006, at 5pm<br \/>\nLondon Frieze Art Fair<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The London Film-Makers\u2019 Co-operative (LFMC) was established 40 years ago today, on 13 October 1966. An artist-led project, it incorporated a distribution collection, screening room and film workshop. It grew from an informal film society into one of the major international centres of avant-garde cinema and its films form the basis of the current LUX collection. Many LFMC filmmakers experimented with projection techniques, creating expanded cinema performances, installations and multi-screen films, with artists such as Malcolm Le Grice prefiguring much of contemporary practice with his remarkable body of work. In <em>Castle One<\/em>, made from scraps of footage found outside commercial film labs, a photoflood light bulb is hung directly in front of the screen and flashed intermittently during projection, bleaching out the image, illuminating the screening room and breaking down the relationship between film and audience. Gill Eatherley\u2019s <em>Aperture Sweep<\/em>, from her \u2018Light Occupations\u2019 series of film related activities, is a double screen performance in which Eatherley, armed with a broom (amplified to be both seen and heard), appears to sweep the screen clean for future projections. Both pieces attempt a kind of erasure of the onscreen image, conceptually and physically challenging the roles of maker and spectator.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Malcolm Le Grice, Castle One, UK, 1966, 16mm\/performance, 20 min<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Gill Eatherley, Aperture Sweep, UK, 1973, 16mm\/performance, 10 min<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Nothing in Common\u2019, curated by Mark Webber, is a special presentation of The Artists Cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alina Rudnitskaya\u2019s humanistic approach to documentary filmmaking often brings out the humour in her chosen subjects. As an introduction to her work, this programme depicts three diverse groups of contemporary Russian women.<\/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":[132],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-4332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shoot-shoot-shoot-2006","tag-shoot-shoot-shoot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332","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=4332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}