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SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: THE LONDON FILM-MAKERS’ CO-OP The London Film-Makers\u2019 Co-operative was founded 50 years ago in October 1966. Inspired by the example set by Jonas Mekas and his colleagues in New York, the LFMC grew from its beginnings as a film-viewing group for London\u2019s intellectual counterculture to become of the major centers of a worldwide network of avant-garde film culture. In contrast to similar organizations, the LFMC\u2019s activity was not limited to distribution \u2013 within a few years it was also running a regular program in its own cinema and, most notably, democratized the means of production by establishing a film workshop in which filmmakers could control every stage of the creative process.<\/p>\n The work made in this supportive environment was diverse, though two tendencies came to dominate the discourse: structural\/materialism and expanded cinema. The materialist qualifier that distinguished British work from the American structural film refers both to Marxist philosophy and the physical presence of the medium that was foregrounded in films produced in the LFMC workshop. European expanded cinema largely eschewed the associations of psychedelia and expanded consciousness as formulated in Gene Youngblood\u2019s book and instead extended the formal exploration of film to the moment of its presentation. The term was used to describe a range of work including multi-screen films, live performances and continuous installations that made innovative use of the mechanics of projection.<\/p>\n Filmmakers associated with the LFMC during its early years include Stephen Dwoskin, Malcolm Le Grice, Peter Gidal, Annabel Nicolson, Sally Potter, Anthony McCall, Lis Rhodes, Guy Sherwin and John Smith. The organization survived in run-down premises, with little or no public funding, for more than thirty years until its enforced dissolution and merger with London Electronic Arts. Since 2002, LUX has distributed the former LFMC collection and promoted its legacy alongside the work of contemporary film and video artists. <\/p>\n
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