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SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: MALCOLM LE GRICE & THE LONDON FILM-MAKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE In late 1966, a manifesto announcing the formation of the London Film-Makers\u2019 Co-operative was published in the first issue of the organisation\u2019s magazine Cinim<\/em> :-<\/p>\n LONDON FILM-MAKERS COOP ABOUT TO BE LEGALLY ESTABLISHED STOP PURPOSE TO SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT STOP NEVER STOP NO BREAD NO PLACE TO LAY OUR HEADS NO MATTER JUST MIND IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY STOP IF YOU LIKE BRYAN FORBES STOP IF YOU READ SIGHT AND SOUND STOP IF YOU WANT TO MAKE FILMS I MEAN FILMS COME ALL YOU NEEDS IS EYES IN THE BEGINNING STOP GEN FROM 94 CHARING CROSS ROAD W.C.2 PARTURITION FINISHED SCREAMS BEGIN STOP<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This memo was dispatched from the LFMC\u2019s first base at Better Books, a shop on London\u2019s Charing Cross Road, where the organisation evolved from a film society into a distributor of experimental and non-commercial films. The ambition to stimulate the production of new work was there from the beginning, but it was to take a few more years for the Co-op to construct a workshop in which its filmmakers fashioned a radically new form of cinema.<\/p>\n Malcolm Le Grice played a fundamental role in this shift of focus towards production, and his participation in the organisation\u2019s management helped to ensure its on-going survival. As one of Britain\u2019s leading practitioners and theorists, his films and writings also helped to establish the LFMC as one of the centres of a worldwide network of avant-garde film culture in the mid-1970s.<\/p>\n In this illustrated talk, Mark Webber will explore the LFMC\u2019s emergence in the underground scene and the development of its unique structure as a collectively run facility that embodied a distribution office, cinema space and film workshop.<\/p>\n
\nThursday 9 March 2017
\nPlymouth Arts Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n