//Screening No. 15 Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mépris, 1963)\\\

Screening No. 15

We'd like to invite you all to our third in the series 'In The Event of a Catastrophe', Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mépris, 1963). Although this film needs little introduction you may be wondering why we have chosen to screen it as part of the 'In The Event of a Catastrophe', series. Well we feel the the film has real tension, predominantly felt in the protagonists marriage, that tension which one feels in the event of a looming catastrophe. Another dynamic along this theme is the references made to Homer's Odyssey that perhaps in relation to Theodore Adorno's 1947 essay entitled "Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment" (a piece that became popular in the 60's), which explains the theory of the "enlightenment myth" which claims to found all western society in that of the ancient Greek's reinforcing chosen laws and systems of hierarchy. It is this entrapment that looms over us as a catastrophe that has already happened, one that we cannot escape from.

See the legendary Fritz Lang playing himself as an exiled Hollywood director and Bridget Bardot as the Siren temptress. Set on the Italian coast the cinematography is mesmerising and romantic.

Hope to see you there.

Rachel and Lydia

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A photo from the first film night....

Setting up for the first time at Franks Campari Bar, all the way back in September...

Photo by Lydia Skawinski-Shearer (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skawinska/)

// Film Screening Tuesday 8th of December, Tsai Ming-Liang's 'The Hole' (1998) \\

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Screening No. 12

WHEN :: Tuesday 8th December. Drinks - 7.30pm, Screening - 8pm
WHERE :: Sassoon Gallery, (Behind Bar Story, under Peckham Rye train station arches // (FIND US HERE: http://www.thesassoongallery.co.uk/SASSOON_GALLERY/CONTACT.html)
PRICE :: FREE

WHAT :: Tsai Ming-Liang's 'The Hole' (1998)

Dear All,

We'd like to invite you all to our second in the series 'In The Event of a Catastrophe', Tsai Ming Liang's The Hole.

A virus has hit Taiwan causing people to behave like cockroach's. Quarantined areas have been established, but some people refuse to go. We follow the lives of two (verging on voyeuristic) people living above and below each other in this uninhabitable land. A bleak and dark film, cut with short campy sequences; The Hole won the FIPRESCI award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

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Hope to see you there.

Rachel and Lydia

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Screening No. 12

WHEN :: Tuesday 1st December 7.30pm
WHERE :: Sassoon Gallery, (Behind Bar Story, under Peckham Rye train station arches // (FIND US HERE: http://www.thesassoongallery.co.uk/SASSOON_GALLERY/CONTACT.html)
PRICE :: FREE

WHAT :: Micheal Andersons 'Logan's Run' (1976)

Hello everyone!

We would like to invite you all to the film screening of the classic Logan's Run. This is the first in the third series In the Event of a Catastrophe. In the series we would like to explore the notion of catastrophe, what is the actual perceived notion of it and depicted reactions to it. We hope you all can join us for the classic 1969 film Logan's Run. Based on the novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, the story is set in post apocalyptic times around an underground based society in which your days are literally numbered! See the protagonists attempt to escape the regulatory death sentence placed upon them in true 1960's sci-fi style.

A classic, not one to be missed!

Hope to see you there.

Rachel and Lydia

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// INVITE AND CHANGE OF DATE // Screening No. 11 :: On the Silver Globe - Andrzej Żuławski (Poland 1977 - 1987) //

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Dear All,

Please find attached an invite for tomorrow's opening at the Hayward Gallery --- >> Basso are a Berlin film collective, who are in residency for a week at the Hayward. The opening is free for all - but most importantly, make sure you come on Sunday for Basso's not-to-be-missed key performance....!

Because of this - we will be moving our film night to Wednesday for this week - big apologies for the very very late notice, but we really hope that you will be able to make it to all of the events.

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Screening No. 11

WHEN :: Wednesday 25th November, 7.30pm - Drinks, 8pm Film Screening
WHERE :: Sassoon Gallery, (Behind Bar Story, under Peckham Rye train station arches // (FIND US HERE: http://www.thesassoongallery.co.uk/SASSOON_GALLERY/CONTACT.html)
PRICE :: FREE

WHAT ::On the Silver Globe - Andrzej Żuławski (Poland 1977 - 1987)

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Hope to see you there for our last screening under this month's title 'Subversion and Censorship in Eastern European Cinema,'

Rachel and Lydia

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And for the Hayward opening and Sunday's event --->>

ROOMS WITHOUT WALLS:

SILBERKUPPE AT THE

HAYWARD GALLERY PROJECT SPACE]

25 NOVEMBER – 17 JANUARY

basso / Juliette Blightman / Martin Ebner / Isa Genzken / Janette Laverrière / Matthew Lutz-Kinoy / Motherland / Nicolas Siepen.

PRIVATE VIEW: TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER, 7-9PM (PERFORMANCE BY MOTHERLAND, 7:45PM)

Rooms Without Walls is an exhibition guest-curated by Silberkuppe, an innovative independent space for contemporary art founded in Berlin in early 2008 by Dominic Eichler and Michel Ziegler. The show features a selection of visual artists, a collective, a Pop band and an interior designer, and reflects on the history of project-based independent and collective cultural production in Berlin since the fall of the Wall.

ROOMS WITHOUT WALLS EVENTS:

Friday 27 – Sun 29 Nov, 10am – 6-pm: basso in residence, Waterloo Sunset Pavilion, the Hayward Gallery.

Sun 29 Nov, 1-5pm: basso drop-in performance, beneath the Hayward Gallery west sculpture terrace.

ROOMS WITHOUT WALLS IS SUPPORTED BY THE GOETHE-INSTITUT, LONDON

Hayward Gallery

Southbank Centre

Belvedere Road

London

SE1 8XX

Tel: 0871 663 2509.
Open daily 10am-6pm, late Fridays until 10pm.

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

// Screening No. 10 :: Ucho (The Ear) by Karel Kachňya //

Screening No. 10

WHEN :: Tuesday 17th November, 7.30pm
WHERE :: Sassoon Gallery, (Behind Bar Story, under Peckham Rye train station arches // (FIND US HERE: http://www.thesassoongallery.co.uk/SASSOON_GALLERY/CONTACT.html)
PRICE :: FREE

WHAT ::Karel Kachyna's 'The Ear' (1970 Czechoslovakia)

Hello everyone, just a a quick reminder that tonight we will be showing the third film in the 'Subversion and Censorship in Eastern European film' series. The film will be Karel Kachyna's 1970 film The Ear.

Please check our blog, www.skawinskiandmarshallfilms.blogspot.com, for futher info.

Hope to see you there.

Rachel and Lydia

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// Poster Designs by Lia Satzinger //

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// Screening No. 9 :: The Party and the Guests by Jan Němec //

Screening No. 9

WHEN :: Tuesday 10th October, 7.30pm
WHERE :: Sassoon Gallery, (Behind Bar Story, under Peckham Rye train station arches // (FIND US HERE: http://www.thesassoongallery.co.uk/SASSOON_GALLERY/CONTACT.html)
PRICE :: FREE

WHAT ::Jan Němec's, The Dinner Party and the Guests (1966 Czechoslovakia)

Hello everyone,

A reminder for tomorrow's film screening; Jan Němec's, The Dinner Party and the Guests (1966 Czechoslovakia). This film was "banned forever" by the Czech government due to its apparent attack on the communist regime. There is no doubt that Němec presents a satire of totalitarianism, critiquing it's superficial alluring appeal and it's eventual pitfalls. However, rather interestingly, Němec denied (and still to this day denies) that the film is critical of the communist regime, rather it is about the 'kind of mafia' (Hames) that exist in every society. Yet it is impossible to deny the unequivocal analogies towards the authoritarianism Czechoslovakian society that he was existing and producing films under.

The film follows a group of bourgeoisie pic-nickers that are rounded up and interrogated by a group of smartly dressed men (reminiscent of the secret police) however, all is forgiven when the the party's host (reminiscent of Lenin) makes the bourgeoisie special guests at his party. The person that resists does so by not speaking, slipping out unnoticed from the party to the irritation of the host.

"It was one of four films that was listed as being banned forever... some were politically subversive, or seen to be critical of the system, others were simply banned because they were considered to be elitist or incomprehensible and yet others were banned simply because the film makers were not approved of. And in the case of the party and the guests it came under all three categories." (from the Party and The Guests special features section)

The imagery lives up to the usual standard of the Czech New Wave. Set entirely outside in the Czech countryside Němec based the romantic imagery on Renoir's paintings. Also you may spot a familiar face, Jan Klusák seen in previous film screenings Daisies, as the obsessive lover, and Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, as the slightly repulsive priest.

The Party and the Guests, is a hugely critically important film which has earned it itself a place firm both in the canon and within cult cinema, and really is not one to be missed.

We will be showing a short alongside the main screening, as a reminder of the East German peoples rebellion against the government that had split a city in two, which lead to the collapse of the Berlin wall twenty years ago. This is largely inspired by the recent film series Generation Berlin Wall, that screened underground anti-establishment films from East and West Germany before the collapse of the wall.

Hope to see you there.

Rachel and Lydia

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Series 2 // The Subversive and Censored Cinema of Eastern Europe

Dear All,

Thank you to everyone who made it to our first series 'Gender and Differentiation.'

Our second themed four weeks is running under the title 'The Subversive and Censored Cinema of Eastern Europe.' Under this theme we hope to explore the very serious issue of how the moving image can be considered such an extreme form of artistic anarchy; and as a result, the films we are showing have been considered either too political to be shown or have created a grave question-mark over the integrity of their films. These issues have often concluding in the film-maker not being able to work in his or her own country. Due to the nature of these films and the fairly-recent lifting of their ban it is with great shame that they still have not been widely distributed. We believe that the quality of these films, due to both the highly political atmosphere in which they were made, combined with being spawned during the experimental 60's - 70's new-wave-film era, have produced some of the most engaging, exciting and captivating works.

This series is truly not one to be missed, and we hope to see you there!

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Where :: Sassoon Gallery (Behind Bar Story, Under Peckham Rye Train Station Railway Arches)

When :: Every Tuesday, 7.30pm

Price :: Free

Tuesday 3rd November - The Round-Up Miklós Jancsó (1965 Hungary)

Tuesday 10th November - A short to be shown marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall followed by: The Party and the Guests by Jan Němec (1966 Czechoslovakia)

Tuesday 17th November - The Ear - Karel Kachyna (1970 Czechoslovakia)

Tuesday 24th November - On the Silver Globe - Andrzej Żuławski (Poland 1977 - 1987)

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Hope to see you there!

Lydia and Rachel

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// Screening No. 7 'At Five in the Afternoon' //

Screening Outside Sassoon Gallery

Screening No.6 // Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Czech: Valerie a týden divů) by Jaromil Jireš

Dear all,

We'd like to invite you to the 6th in our film series---->>

WHEN :: Monday 19th October, 7.30pm
WHERE :: Sassoon Gallery, (Behind Bar Story, under Peckham Rye train station arches // (FIND US HERE: http://www.thesassoongallery.co.uk/SASSOON_GALLERY/CONTACT.html)
PRICE :: FREE
WHAT :: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Czech: Valerie a týden divů) by Jaromil Jireš (cert. 15)

About the film....

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a dark and fantastical story: Heavily imbued with Freudian symbolism, we are presented with a young girl (Valerie) who faces unprecedented challenges, often surreal and disturbing as we follow her passage into adulthood. Going hand-in-hand with the underlying and uncovering of Freudian sexual desires that are central to the theme of the film, voyeurism is also key to her perception and position. However, as we follow this film through the eyes of the protagonist, it therefore differs from our usual defined idea of what this means; as this young girl watching is far from the scopophilic gaze. This film is less about male fantasies, rather we could read it as an act of a passive, almost "virginal," curious contemplation.
There are points of course, when the idea of the scopophilic gaze is largely at play - and aimed at Valerie. Yet, we are led to believe that her naivity lends itself towards her ability to explore the world of sexuality.

The film is held in high critical acclaim and has earned its place as a cult classic; the imagery and cinematography are truly spectacular. This is not one to miss!



See you there,

Lydia and Rachel

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Screening 5: Michael Powell's 'Peeping Tom'

Hello all you film lovers!

We would like to invite you all to our second film screening at the new location of the Sassoon Gallery, Peckham Rye on Monday the 12th of October at 7.30pm. We will be screening Michael Powell's 1960 film Peeping Tom as the second in the series on the theme of Gender and Differentiation. Under this theme we hope to explore representations of gender, sexuality, sexual difference and categorization as well as the nature of the presentation of the other. Not forgetting the importance of film as a medium in contributing to the selected archive of cultural knowledge.

The Series will consist of four films, one screened each Monday evening at 7.30pm. Alongside each series we hope to hold an event and discussion on relevant themes to be held at the end of each month. To give you a taster; future series titles will be; 'Censorship in Eastern European Film,' 'Colonialism and Notions of the Post' and ‘Baroque and Further Symbolism.'

The nature of each event will be fairly open, featuring both artists and theorists in order to attempt to cover such wide-ranging topics. We will establish a cultural and critical hub for all that wish to participate. The initial thought being to establish something with intent in the critical and cultural realm, which will be a result of a contribution from all.

And about the film...

Powell's psycho thriller has become a cult classic in the spectrum of horror. So you may be asking why we have chosen this title under the 'Gender and Differentiation' series. The clue is in the title...as Laura Mulvey points out the sadistic and voyeuristic themes explored present an outlandish example of the male gaze on the female body reducing the female 'form' to a mere surface shine promoting a culture of self blame for the feminine. The protagonist records each of his victims murders because he likes to watch.





Hope to see you there.

Lydia and Rachel

Screening 4: A Funeral Parade of Roses

Toshio Matsumo’s 1969 film A Funeral Parade of Roses gives a rare portrayal of Japanese gay subculture. Using a quasi-documentary approach the film investigates themes of sexuality, traditional hierarchies, censorship, drugs and the traditional role of film uniting in a dreaming and alluring portrayal of the existential experience.

Regarding the question of the traditional role of film it seems important to mention the role of Kabuki theatre in Japan. Kabuki’s all male theatre ethos meant that men would take on female roles not only on stage but in a all consuming manor, method acting per se. Not surprisingly Kabuki was outlawed in 1912 by Japans newly appointed power, the Japanese National Party on the view that the actors were encouraging and ‘naturalising’ effeminate behaviour and disturbing the traditional family unit…let the censorship begin!

A censorship on sexuality is what this film outwardly does not have. There is an open display of nudity, sex and drugs. This film may be claiming to glimpse into the gay ‘underworld’ however, I cannot help but be distracted by the pleasing avant-garde sheen. This film is indeed guilty of glamorising its subjects and making a spectacle of them as the Other (as is the viewer, which is perhaps what the film is getting at!). The drag queen subversion produced does not give the protagonists a greater sense of sexual freedom as they seem to take on the traditional submissive role of woman in sexual acts and otherwise in order to ‘live in drag’. The men at the center treat the queens as a currency in their economy, ‘a man loves a man as a queen.’

In the end the defiance of sexual norms and incest ends in death. The transsexuals behaviour is justified through violent pasts and a drug fueled present. Ultimately traditional values prevail and the protagonist is punished. However, besides this the film does attempt to portray gender as a mask in its avant-garde nature producing a vital part of the edifice that shakes the heterosexual binary.

Series 1: Gender and Differentiation

We would like to invite you all to our first film screening at the new location of the Sassoon Gallery, Peckham Rye on Monday the 5th of October at 7.30pm. We will be screening Toshio Matsumo’s 1969 film A Funeral Parade of Roses as the first in the series on the theme of Gender and Differentiation. Under this theme we hope to explore representations of gender, sexuality, sexual difference and categorization as well the nature of the presentation of the other. Not forgetting the importance of film as a medium in contributing to the selected archive of cultural knowledge.

The Series will consist of four films, one screened each Monday evening at 7.30. Alongside each series we hope to hold an event and discussion on relevant themes to be held at the end of each month. To give you a taster future series titles will be; 'Censorship in Eastern European Film,' 'Colonialism and Notions of the Post' and ‘Baroque and Further Symbolism.'

The nature of each event will be fairly open, featuring both artists and theorists in order to attempt to cover such wide-ranging topics. We will establish a cultural and critical hub for all that wish to participate. The initial thought being to establish something with intent in the critical and cultural realm, which will be a result of a contribution from all.

Hope to see you there.

Lydia and Rachel

Final Rooftop Screening :: Fritz Lang 'Metropolis'

Dear all,

Thank you to everyone who has made it over the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, due to a mix-up of dates, next week will be the last screening on the car-park roof due to the fact that Franks Bar will officially be no more after the 27th September.

With this in mind, we have decided to change the schedule and play our original last-in-the-car-park series; Fritz Lang 'Metropolis' (1927). We think that this film is not to be missed given the surroundings in which it will be screened. Of course invite your friends, but make sure you bring plenty of blankets / cushions / hot toddy's etc; anything to keep you warm.

Again, due to the bar being closed, please send us an email to rachelandlydia@gmail.com (if you don't already have our phone numbers) so we know you are coming and can let you in at the gates.

Place :: Franks Campari Bar, Peckham (above Peckham Multi-Plex)
Time :: Monday 21st September, 8.00 pm
Price :: Free

We will let you know where we will be moving to; alternatively keep checking our blog for more info.

See you there,

Lydia and Rachel

Věra Chytilová 'Daisies' :: via youtube

Here is a short youtube with clips from the forthcoming film in our series; Věra Chytilová's 'Daisies' (1966). Unfortunately the youtube posted here doesn't have any English subtitles, but you can get the gist of the nature of the film without...

More info to be posted soon ----->>

Věra Chytilová 'Daisies'

Thank you to everyone who came to our first film night, was a great success - we thought it looked great and were more than happy with the way everything panned out. A huge thank you goes to Rupert and Dave who helped set everything up and let us pinch their sound system and projector for the evening....

So with that, we would like to invite you all to the next in our film series; Věra Chytilová 'Daisies' (1966). The screening will be at the same place (Frank's Campari bar), on the 14th September at 8.00 pm. As before, due to the bar being closed, please email us at rachelandlydia@gmail.com (if you don't already have our phone numbers) so we know you are coming and can let you in at the gates. Again, feel free to bring friends, but we are required to keep numbers to a minimum, so perhaps not too many.

Hope to see you there, bring blankets (it may get cold) and a hot flask of whatever you like,

See you there,

Lydia and Rachel


**Please note this event is free**

Tati's 'Playtime'

In Tati’s 1967 film ‘Playtime’ we see once again Tati himself take up the role of Monsieur Hulot, a character that dominates much of Tati’s works. Set in a purpose built version of Paris, ‘Playtime’ is characteristically consistent with Tati’s earlier films with the usual well-choreographed physical humour and minimal dialogue. However, where Playtime seems to differ is in its lack of focus on Monsieur Hulot and Tati’s avoidance of close up shots on the characters. At first its seems that Hulot’s individual actions are not central to the plot he appears as just another robotic character that responds to his controlled, sterile environment that regulates his movements through the city, resulting in the opening scene being encompassed by a dull methodical tone. Tati’s visual presentation of his regulated society is again humorous and meticulously planned. Impressive shots of rows upon rows of identical buildings and offices, as well as a standard blue print for homes reinforce Tati’s satire of capitalism and its consumerist nature. The Eiffle Tower can only be glimpsed in rare reflections in the pristine glass covering the set’s buildings.

Tati delivers a heavy critique on consumerism and the French petit-bourgeoisies along with bureaucracy and behavioural regulation. Themes of which coincide with many critical thinkers in France of the time and are apparent in Roland Barthes essays; The ‘Blue Blood’ Cruise and Myth Today (‘Mythologies,’ 1972). Although perhaps many dub this “big brother” theme as overdone and dated, Tati’s approach is refreshing, comical, and poignant.

Reminiscent of Foucauldian power-knowledge or biopower the films penultimate and epic scene sees Hulot and a group of American tourists leaving their scheduled paths and causing a playful disruption in a restaurant as the set falls apart around them. After all, the very nature of power-knowledge allows rebellion to co-exist, something which Tati reminds us not to overlook.

Screening No.1

Hello hello all you film lovers!

We would like to invite you to the first roof top cinema event, join us at Frank's Campari bar for our selected series of films. Beginning Monday the 7th of September at 8.00pm with the screening of Jacques Tati's 'Playtime' (1967). More info about the films in the series can be found at skawinskiandmarshallfilms.blogspot.com (please bear with us regarding updates!).

Due to the fact that Frank's is closed on Mondays it would be handy if you could rsvp if you are attending by emailing rachelandlydia@gmail.com (where we will give you a phone number to call) so we can let you in at the gates. Feel free to bring friends, however we are required to keep numbers to a minimum so perhaps not too many.

We hope you all can make it...bring some blankets and a hot flask of whatever you like.

See you there.

Lydia and Rachel

Any queries please don't hesitate to send us an email at the above address. Cheers!