Trees Plants Flowers – Lives
dal 21/7/2004 al 22/7/2004
Segnalato da
21/7/2004
Trees Plants Flowers – Lives
Museum of Garden History Lambeth, London
A programme of 16mm artist's films especially commissioned for the exhibition Tempered Ground. Trees Plants Flowers - Lives explores how trees, plants and flowers have been filmed and reflects on their, however fleeting, impact on our lives.
curated by Peter Todd
Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 July 2004
A programme of 16mm artist's films especially commissioned for the exhibition Tempered Ground. Trees Plants Flowers - Lives explores how trees, plants and flowers have been filmed and reflects on their, however fleeting, impact on our lives.
Each evening will be introduced by Baerbel Freund (film maker and photographer), Sukhdev Sandu (film critic and writer of London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City) and Peter Todd (film maker and curator of Garden Pieces and the sequence Film Poems www.lux.org.uk/filmpoems )
Tronco Luxurioso Olivier Bougnot, 1992, 12mn, France – Images of flowers and whispered words.
L’Arbre Bleu Marcelle Thirache, 2001, 2mn, France – A plane tree filmed from a window, then painted on.
Landscape (for Manon) Peter Hutton, 1986/87, 11mn USA– Black-and-white homage to the Hudson River School of American landscape painting.
The Flower Fairy Pathe Freres, 1910, 1mn, France– The Pathe stencil-tinting colour process involved the brushing of coloured tints onto each copy of the film, frame by frame, each colour being a separate application.
Im Garten Ute Aurand & Baerbel Freund, 2002, 29mn, Germany– Portrait of a garden, which the gardener and philosopher of nature Karl Foerster
designed in 1910 in Potsdam-Bornim, filmed in monthly intervals to show how the garden changed over a year.
The Garden of Earthly Delights Stan Brakhage, 1981, 2.5mn, USA– A collage of mountain zone vegetation.
An Office Worker Thinks of Their Love, and Home Peter Todd, 2003, 4mn, UK– A reflection on the varied cycles of daily life.
Portrait of Ga Margaret Tait, 1952, 7mn, UK– Unwrapping a sweet, digging in the garden, a portrait of the filmmaker’s mother at home on Orkney.
Fur Frau Foerster Ute Aurand & Baerbel Freund, 2002, 5mn, Germany – Clearing snow from plants, Frau Foerster seen in her garden.
Valentin de las Sierras Bruce Baillie, 1967, 10mn, USA– Skin, eyes, horses, sun, earth, and a song.
Quiproquo Rose Lowder, 1992, 13mn, France– Nature and industry (filmed at Mount Ventoux and Berre L’Etang).
Doors open at 8:30pm
Admission free - booking essential. Please call 020 7735 8292 to book or email danielle@daniellearnaud.com
Running time approx 100 mins Projection by David Leister Curated by Peter Todd
Works on 16mm film from the collections of bfi London, Light Cone Paris, LUX London and Friends of the German Cinematheque Berlin.
Supported by
Danielle Arnaud contemporary art
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