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26/9/2013

Highlights from the Montreal FIFA

ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

This September the ICA screens a selection of highlights from the 2013 Montreal International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), which consider key figures from the art world including John Cage, Sol LeWitt, Robert Frank and Gregory Crewdson. The films range from intimate portraits of the artists, who reveal the landscapes and people who shaped their practice, to archival footage and clips which give an insight into twentieth century masters.

Many of the screenings include introductions, Q&As and discussions with directors and other key figures - see the individual films below for full details.

This event is a collaboration between the ICA and the Montreal International Festival of Films on Art.

Festival Sponsored by Edwin Fox Foundation

FIFA: John Cage - Journeys in Sound, with Extended Introduction and Q&A with Susan Stenger
27 September 2013

John Cage - Journeys in Sound combines rare archival footage and concert excerpts with a series of short accounts by Cage associates and contemporary artists, playfully revealing the many different facets of one of the twentieth century's most revolutionary artists.

This screening includes an extended introduction and a Q&A with composer and performer Susan Stenger.

Susan Stenger was born in Buffalo, NY. After intensive flute studies in Prague and New York, she joined Petr Kotik's highly respected Brooklyn-based SEM Ensemble, performing their post-war experimental repertoire at art and music venues throughout the US and Europe. With John Cage's blessing and close consultation, SEM celebrated Cage's 70th birthday in 1982 with acclaimed presentations of his complete Song Books and Concert For Piano and Orchestra at New York's Whitney Museum and major European venues. Stenger also played in the autumn 1992 debut of the Orchestra of the SEM Ensemble in Carnegie Hall; this landmark event - a full realisation of Atlas Eclipticalis and Winter Music with the peerless David Tudor in a rare return to the piano - was meant to celebrate Cage's 80th birthday, but sadly became a memorial due to his sudden death some weeks before.

Stenger was a founder of seminal drone-rock guitar group Band Of Susans and all-bass band Big Bottom and has collaborated with an eclectic range of artists, including dancer/choreographer Michael Clark, fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, writers Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, and scrap-metal percussionist FM Einheit. She has created new work for MOCA Lyon, Aldeburgh's Faster Than Sound series and Newcastle's AV Festival, as well as several film soundtracks, and was recently granted an Appalachian Sound Archive Fellowship for research toward completion of a piece for the Kronos Quartet. She has continued to perform the music of John Cage, most recently as part of the Dancing Around Duchamp series during The Bride and The Bachelors exhibit at the Barbican Gallery.

John Cage - Journeys in Sound, dirs Paul Smaczny and Allan Miller, Germany 2012, 60 mins

FIFA: Frameworks, Images of a Changing World + Director Q&A
28 September 2013

We are immersed in images. But in the era of all things digital, do we still know how to look at them and understand their meaning, especially when looking at images of conflict? Frameworks, Images of a Changing World investigates an evolving practice, what the filmmaker calls rapporteurs — photographers, visual artists — propose new strategies and adopt different ways of presenting images that have meaning.

Followed by a Q&A with director Helen Doyle.

UK Premiere

Frameworks: Images of a Changing World, dir Helen Doyle, Canada 2012, 90 mins, English, French, English subtitles

FIFA: The Man who Invented Himself - Duane Michals + Director Q&A
28 September 2013

Through his emblematic themes — work, love, desire, death and immortality — this film follows Michals as he revisits favourite places: Pittsburgh, the industrial steel town of his childhood and his earliest discoveries, New York, a city that symbolizes creativity and desire, where he has lived for many years with his partner, Fred, and Vermont, for contact with nature and its changing seasons, and the derelict hotel where he works.

Followed by a Q&A with director Camille Guichard.

UK Premiere

The Man who Invented Himself — Duane Michals, dir Camille Guichard, France 2012, 85 mins, English, French subtitles

FIFA: Sol LeWitt + Director Q&A
29 September 2013

Despite fame and success, Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) remained a discreet and very private man, who refused prizes, didn’t want his picture taken and hardly ever gave interviews. What mattered was the work, and nothing else. This film explores the power of LeWitt’s conceptual philosophy, and this legendary artist comes to life through the recollections of his family members and colleagues.

Followed by a Q&A with director Chris Teerink.

UK Premiere

Sol LeWitt, dir Chris Teerink, Netherlands 2012, 72 mins, English, Italian, Dutch, English subtitles

FIFA: Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank + Director Q&A
1 October 2013

This year's FIFA festival featured a retrospective of the documentary work of British director Gerald Fox. In this rare screening of his 2005 Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank, the legendary American photographer and filmmaker looks back on his life and his photographic travels, and talks about his films.

Followed by a Q&A with director Gerald Fox.

Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank, dir Gerald Fox, UK 2004, 86 mins

FIFA: Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
3 October 2013

For ten years, American photographer Gregory Crewdson devoted himself to a series of haunting, surreal and highly elaborate portraits of suburban life. This documentary looks back over the epic adventure of one of the most influential artists of our time.

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, dir Ben Shapiro, United States and Netherlands 2012, 77 mins

All films are 18+ unless otherwise stated.

Festival Sponsored by Edwin Fox Foundation

£10 / £8 concessions / £7 ICA Members

Press Officer
Naomi Crowther
Tel: 020 7766 1407
E-mail: naomi.crowther@ica.org.uk

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