{"id":1041,"date":"2012-10-14T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2012-10-18T12:23:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T11:23:48","slug":"two-films-by-beatrice-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/2012\/10\/14\/two-films-by-beatrice-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Films by Beatrice Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Agatha<\/em> is an intimate account, filmed and narrated by\u00a0Beatrice Gibson<\/a>, of an expedition to a planet without speech and and the protagonist\u2019s memories of the people he encountered there . The film starts with a description of the story as a \u2018sexual reminiscence\u2019 and the role of \u2018Psychometric Suggestibility Counter Class AMM\u2019 which the narrator feels unqualified for. Information is given about the planetary \u2018system\u2019 as an erratic soundtrack of string and wood instruments hums and strains away alongside. Tiny insects are detected amongst the flora. This polyphony of sensations provides counterpoint to the detailed narration which alludes to the locals\u2019 nuanced forms of identity, perception and communication.<\/p>\n

Gibson’s film is based on a dream recorded by Cornelius Cardew, the British composer who founded the Scratch Orchestra, an ensemble that famously privileged participants\u2019 pure expression over their formal musical technique. Here, through the narrator\u2019s psycho-sensual-geography, conventional understanding is gradually given up to an alternative logic, approaching an equivalence between movements and sounds: where walking is language and where Agatha\u2019s \u2018colour-changing\u2019 are both forms of response and influence.<\/p>\n

The Tiger\u2019s Mind<\/em>, another new film by Gibson showing in the Fly into the Mystery<\/em><\/a> screening, uses Cardew\u2019s 1967 text-based composition of the same title to structure the film. Six artists were invited to interpret the score through conversation. Exploring themes such as the meaning of interpretation and the capacity of text and image to activate thinking and participation, the group collaboratively formed the subject of their discussion, and the film, through its own production. Following the reflexive nature of her working process, as well as the film, Gibson finally returned the live score of the conversation to print for a forthcoming publication of the same name, which is being produced for Sternberg Press in collaboration with Will Holder.<\/p>\n

Shama Khanna
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Agatha<\/em> and The Tiger’s Mind<\/em> by Beatrice Gibson will be screened in the mixed programme FLY INTO THE MYSTERY, alongside works by Mary Helena Clark, Janie Geiser, Lewis Klahr and Laida Lertxundi.<\/p>\n

Link to more info on FLY INTO THE MYSTERY here<\/a><\/p>\n

FLY INTO THE MYSTERY screenings :-<\/p>\n

Sunday 21 October 2012, at 9pm, BFI Southbank NFT3<\/p>\n

Link to book tickets for ALTERED STATES here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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