Resolutely non-verbal, the films in this programme rely on the power of the moving image to give visible presence to profound, intangible inner feelings. The desires, fears and fantasies that constitute subjective experience are externalised both onto the performers’ bodies and into the filmic space, which becomes at once intensely personal and symbolic. Most of these films lend flesh to the ambivalent emotions involved in the relationship to an ‘other’.
Jayne Parker, K, 1989, film still. Courtesy the artist and LUX
Jayne Parker, The Pool, 1991, film still. Courtesy the artist and LUX
Programme
Jayne Parker, K, UK, 1989, 16mm, black and white, sound, 13 min
Jayne Parker, The Pool, UK, 1991, 16mm, black and white, sound, 10 min
Moira Sweeney, Looking for the Moon, UK, 1995, 16mm, black and white, silent, 7 min
Tanya Syed, Delilah, UK, 1995, 16mm, black and white, sound, 11 min
Tanya Syed, Chameleon, UK,1990, 16mm, black and white, sound, 4 min
Sarah Pucill, Swollen Stigma, UK, 1998, 16mm transferred to digital, colour, sound, 21 min
Cordelia Swann, Phantoms, UK, 1986, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, sound, 18 min
The screening is followed by a discussion with Jayne Parker, Tanya Syed and Cordelia Swann, moderated by Cécile Chich, independent researcher and former board member of LFMC/LUX.
Supported by LUMA Foundation, FLUXUS and LUX.