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LONDON FILM FESTIVAL EXPERIMENTA TOUR 2007 An essential part of The Times BFI London Film Festival each year, Experimenta is the place to discover innovative and challenging cinema. It explores a wide range of personal expression through the work of international film and video makers, from unconventional narrative features to contemporary artists\u2019 moving image. The 2007 edition of the annual Experimenta Tour presents some of the highlights from last year\u2019s programme.<\/p>\n The Festival\u2019s 50th anniversary was an appropriate moment to celebrate the work of Kenneth Anger, one of the most distinctive and distinguished artists in the history of cinema, who made his first film, Fireworks<\/em>, as early as 1947. For the touring programme, Anger\u2019s recent video Mouse Heaven<\/em> joins four of his classic films in \u201cCinema as Magick Weapon,\u201d a selection that spans six decades of extraordinary and uncompromising creativity. In the documentary portrait Anger Me<\/em>, the aker tells his own story, enhancing an already legendary mythology with anecdotes on his life and work.<\/p>\n With a theme of adolescent longing and sexual awakening reminiscent of Anger\u2019s debut, Wild Tigers I Have Known <\/em>is the first feature by director Cam Archer. This highly stylised film charts the coming of age of a young gay teenager in a haze of colourful reverie, replete with dreamy visuals and atmospheric music.<\/p>\n \u201cTravelling Light\u201d, a programme of 16mm films in which three artists respond to diverse locations, demonstrates that the film medium is not yet defunct, despite widespread migration towards digital and new media. Nick Collins documents a lush valley in the South of France, whilst Ben Rivers ventures to the Scottish Highlands. Bill Brown traces the border between the USA and Mexico, often fixing his camera on the vast expanse of desert. The landscape is infused with political tension, a subject addressed by the undocumented immigrants and border activists that are heard on the soundtrack of this illuminating essay film.<\/p>\n ANGER ME CINEMA AS MAGICK WEAPON: THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER WILD TIGERS I HAVE KNOWN TRAVELLING LIGHT Selections from these programmes screened at Edinburgh Filmhouse, Glasgow Film Theatre, Manchester Cornerhouse, and London ICA. 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":[52],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london-film-festival-2006","tag-london-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547","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=5547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/b>April\u2013June 2007<\/strong>
\n UK touring programme
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\nEllo Gelmini, Anger Me, Canada, 2006, 72 min<\/b><\/p>\n
\nKenneth Anger, Fireworks, USA, 1947, 15 min<\/strong>
\nKenneth Anger, Rabbit’s Moon, USA-France, 1950-79, 7 min
\nKenneth Anger, Scorpio Rising, USA, 1963, 29 min
\nKenneth Anger, Mouse Heaven, USA, 2005, 10 min<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nCam Archer, Wild Tigers I Have Known, USA, 2005, 81 min<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nNick Collins, Across The Valley, UK, 2006, 20 min
\n<\/strong>Ben Rivers, This is My Land, UK, 2006, 8 min
\n<\/strong>Bill Brown, The Other Side, USA, 2006, 43 min<\/strong><\/p>\n
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