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FILM SCREENINGS AT THE SHOWROOM
Thursday 24 January 7pm
Maija Timonen: Aune, or On Effective Demise (2013, 57 mins)
Friday 1 February, 7pm
Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager: Two Russians in the Free World (2012, 30 mins) and Cloud Cuckoo Land (2008, 17 mins)
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Aune, or On Effective Demise (2013).
Film still courtesy Maija Timonen
The Showroom presents the first London screening of Finnish artist Maija Timonen’s latest film Aune, or On Effective Demise (2013, 57 mins). The film will be introduced by the artist and screened on Thursday 24 January at 7pm. Following this evening premiere, the film will be screened on the hour, from 12–6pm, this Friday and Saturday (25 and 26 January). A publication that accompanies the film will also be available to buy (exhibition price £7).
Aune is a 19th century girl confined to her bed, living under the threat of amputation. She has dreams of a park that are both premonitions of the future and the site in which its absence is played out. An escalating sense of timelessness collapses Aune's two realities, as her body takes on significance as a cipher of a larger process of dismemberment. A love story turns into a film about sex, death and the economy.
The film is a loose adaptation of 1896 novel Aune by Finnish writer Immi Hellén.
To watch a trailer and view some film stills please
Aune was produced with the support of Arts Council England, AVEK (The
Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture), The Elephant Trust and Alfred Kordelin
Foundation.
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Two Russians In The Free World, 2012 (30 minutes).
Film still courtesy Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager
Cloud Cuckoo Land (2008, 17 mins) explores the difficulties of living collectively through a confrontation with contemporary American commune. In Two Russians in the Free World (2012, 30 mins), a conversation between a maverick Russian billionaire and an impoverished performance artist develops into a meta-dialogue on narration and collaboration. Both will be screened at The Showroom on Friday 1 February, from 7pm.
The single channel videos of Eric Moskowit and Amanda Trager are extracted from elaborate installations designed for exhibition. Since 2008, their work has explored the extimate dimension of the voice in its discrepant relation to projected images, reading bodies, anti-illusionist scenery and deprofessionalised performance. Ventriloquised characters, occupied by intimate voices that slide from decelerated speech to timestretched song, perform abstracted yet quotidian gestures. Themes of mental slippage and psychic mastery are played out in dramas whose only distant co-ordinates are the vernacular television opera of Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives (1984) and the dubbed recitations of R. Kelly’s online serial Trapped in the Closet (2005-2012).
This special screening of Cloud Cuckoo Land and Two Russians in the Free World is the latest event in the Images Sometimes Tremble screening series conceived and initiated by The Otolith Collective at The Showroom in 2009. In Chris Marker’s essay film A Grin Without A Cat (1977-1993), a trembling camera records demonstrations in Prague in 1968. This document is intercut with words that form that combine to form the sentence: 'Why, sometimes, do images begin to tremble?’ This question, adressed by text to an event by way of image and sound, provides the inspiration for the Images Sometimes Tremble screening series.
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