Friday 14 March 2008, 19.00

Kicking off the season is an evening of films about bodies, magic, movement, and how cinema transforms the material world. A short film by George Méliès - the renowned turn-of-the-century ‘cinemagician’ and pioneer of special effects – is joined by work from Etienne-Jules Marey, famed for the very earliest experiments in representing the human form on film, and recent work by video performance artists Klonaris and Thomadaki.

Etienne-Jules Marey, Georges Demenÿ et Lucien Bull, Chronophotographic films, 1892-1900, (films selected by Laurent Mannoni) 15' 35mm

Goldfish Bowl (Bocal aux poissons rouges) Louis Lumière, 1896, 1’, 35 mm

Living Soap Bubbles (Les bulles de savons vivantes), Georges Méliès, 1906, 5’, 35 mm

Series 7 (Bursting Soap Bubble) (Série 7 (Éclatements de bulles de savon)), Lucien Bull, 1907, 5’, 35 mm

Circulation of the blood: frog mesentery (Circulation du Sang: mésentère de la grenouille), Lucien Bull, 1904

Development of Liesegang rings (Développement des anneaux de Liesegang),Lucien Bull, 1904

Opening of lilies (L'Ouverture des fleurs de lys), Lucien Bull, 1904

Ex (Ex), Jacques Monory, 1968, 5’, 16 mm

Chromaticity I (Chromaticité I), Patrice Kirchhofer, 1977, 11’, 16 mm

Gradiva, 1977, Raymonde Carasco, 25’,16 mm

Waves at Collioure (Vagues à Collioure), Jean-Michel Bouhours, 1991, 6’, 16 mm

Pulsar, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, 2001, 14’, video

Programme duration 91 minutes

Presented by the curators

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
Treat yourself to a season ticket £50 (£40 concessions). For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888.

    

This event is related to the Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia exhibition