The Horse Hospital

Saturday 4th July
Doors 7:30pm
£5

The Ginger Light is a unique collaboration between acclaimed poet and writer Jeremy Reed and sonic soundscaper Itchy Ear. Bored by the staid glow of light that poetry recital currently bathes in, Jeremy and Itchy have collaborated to shine some Ginger Light onto the world of performance in an attempt to blur the boundaries that exist between spoken word, music, sound design and song.

This Ginger Light event on the evening of July 4 will feature peep show images from Machines are Gonna Kill Us and Jamie Mcleod, specially invited guest performers, djs and films by Esther Planas

THE GINGER LIGHT

JEREMY REED

ITCHY EAR

MACHINES ARE GONNA KILL US

JAMIE MCLEOD

ESTHER PLANAS

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Monday 20th July
KINO #7
Doors at 7pm £4

London's open-mic film night returns to the Horse Hospital on Monday 20th July for our next night of shorts, sushi and song.

Born at this year's London Short Film Festival, Kino is London's most inclusive screening experience, offering a truly open platform in an exciting, non-comp

HOW IT WORKS
For those new to Kino, there's no pre-selection - filmmakers book themselves in on a 'first-come first-served' basis. You then turn up with your film on the night, ready to pop into the player!

Follow our rules for a pleasant screening:

- films must feature 'Kino London' logo (or simply the words) + screening number (7) at the end
- films must be under 6 minutes
- films must be presented on DVD

FREEBIES
The night also features free popcorn, free sushi, and a live performance from one of London's best emerging artists. Alongside that, all filmmakers screening on the night will be entered into a prize draw to win a selection of giveaways from the BFI - books, dvds and IMAX tickets, but to mention a few.

WANT TO SREEN?
If you want to screen at Kino #7 email submissions co-ordinator Laura at: screen@kinolondon.com
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Please note: All films screened remain the property of the filmmakers. The inclusion of the Kino London logo or text is for this screening only.
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To screen: screen@kinolondon.com

Enquiries: info@kinolondon.com

Web: www.kinolondon.com

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Monday July 27th - Friday 31st July

'If I could only make a movie as textured and evocative as John Foxx's music I would be a happy man,' says Alex Proyas, the director of I,Robot, The Crow, Dark City and Knowing - this year's Number 1 box office hit in the UK and America.

Proyas is the first contributor to be announced for the forthcoming DNA exhibition curated by ArtHertz, which celebrates John Foxx's influence on a wide selection of musicians, film-makers, visual artists, graphic designers and even Manga comics. The Australian director's film, GROPING is one of a number of short films that will be shown through the week-long event.

According to Proyas: 'The film I made at film school, inspired by John's music - really from a mainly stylistic and atmospheric perspective - is called GROPING. When it was shown at the Sydney Film Festival in the early '80s, I used a section of lyrics from the early Ultravox track, 'The Quiet Men' in the programme... 'Waiting, we were waiting, as the traffic moved...' etc, which I found strangely fitting to the narrative... actually I almost called the film Waiting at one point. The film is about the brutal rape/murder of Kitty Genovese in NYC in the '60s but done in a very post-modern style.'

'John Foxx's 'Underpass' is an absolutely seminal inspiration to me,' he adds. 'While making GROPING, I actually heard 'Underpass' for the very first time - I remember it clearly - it was actually on my little bedside radio alarm very late one night - the only soure of music I had in my share household room and I used to play an alternative music station here in Sydney while writing my scripts. This incredible piece of music came on and it captured me from the first riff - it seemed someone had made music from the sounds of the city traffic, that struck me immediately. I turned up the radio and listened enthralled and waited to hear who the artist was. The vocals seemed familiar but I didn't recognise them. When they announced John Foxx I was so excited as I obviously recognised him from Ultravox, the band I was so impressed with.

'I think there's definitely a link with John's music to my film Dark City (and probably to anything I make!). Dark City had its origins in an early script I wrote at film school at the time I was particularly enthralled by Ultravox's Systems of Romance. I imagined the opening titles would be underscored by 'Slow Motion'. And 'Dislocation' featured in a sequence where the detective hero is slipped a drug and has an hallucinogenic episode. So while Dark City was not specifically influenced, I think the spirit of early Ultravox and John's Metamatic album is definitely in there.

'I think apart from his incredibly cinematic lyrics - John's music has always conjured entire movies in my head when I listen to it - I think it is his mastery of atmosphere that has stayed with me through the years. If I could only make a movie as textured and evocative as John's music I would be a happy man.'

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Hiring The Horse Hospital Screening Room/Gallery

The Horse Hospital Arts Venue
Built in 1797 as stabling for cabby's sick horses, The Horse Hospital is now a unique Grade II listed arts venue situated in an unspoilt mews in the heart of Bloomsbury, midway between the West End and the art district of East London, with easy access from Russell Square underground, buses, and Kings Cross and Euston mainline stations.

Situated on the first floor of this evocative building, the stable room offers a convivial and unusual environment suitable for a wide range of creative presentation, from book & magazine launches to film & TV previews & premieres, artists receptions, product presentations, fashion shows, album launches, educational talks, lectures, creative think tanks, networking evenings, photo shoots, anniversary, birthday and Christmas parties, this versatile space offers something for everyone.

Original features such as the horse ramp entrance, tethering rings, cast iron pillars, barred windows and an amazing cobbled floor, make this an intriguing space with which to impress important clients.

This is a selected list of prestigious organisations who have hired the space for their event, many on a regular basis.

AOG Films Ltd · Allied London · Angel Eye Productions · Artangel · Atlantic Books · BFI · Birkbeck, University of London · Book Works · Camden Arts Centre · Camden Council · Camden LGBT Forum · Central St Martins · Channel 4 · CND · Current TV, LTD · Dalkey Archive Press (UK) · Dedalus Press · Faber & Faber · Fright Nights · Fashion in Film Festival · Granta Books · Haiti Support Group · Kerrang Magazine · Last FM · London International Animation Festival · London College of Fashion · Metro Media Ltd · Murphy Phillips · NFT · One World Broadcasting Trust · Penguin Books · Plan B Publishing Limited · Quadrille Publishing Ltd · Raindance Film Festival · Royal College of Art · Salt Publishing · Sanctuary Publishing · Screen Republic · Serpents Tail · Shash Media · Simon & Schuster · Sound UK Ltd · Slingshot Films · The School of Cinema and Performing Arts · The British Library · The Italian Film Society · Transworld Publishers · Turnaround PSL · The Greater London Authority · 12foot6 · Universal Records · Verso

Available to hire by the evening, day, week or month, we offer seating for up to one hundred people, with a comfortable standing capacity (no seats) of around one hundred and fifty. The Horse Hospital has a bar area, but no in-house caterers, or kitchen facility however customers are welcome to bring in there own pre-prepared refreshments.

The Horse Hospital is a Grade II listed building, that has operated a Not For Profit policy for over 13 years, when considering hiring the venue all visitors are asked to kindly respect the integrity of this historical building.

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Sunday 28th June
4pm £5

Apocalypto + The Passion of The Christ

A round table discussion exploring the themes in 'Apocalypto', Mel Gibson's bloody epic about the waning days of the Mayan empire and his other more controversial bloody epic 'The Passion of The Christ'.
With speakers Amanda Beech, Pil and Galia Kollectiv and Emily McMehen.

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Saturday 27th June
Doors 7:30pm
£5

The Church of Late Night Sinners presents...
HOMOCCULT & OTHER ESOTEROTICA
Curated by Daniel McKernan & Richie Rennt

Curses, Hexes & Boots
SUPERM (Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny)
2006, USA
Featuring Masterboy Tom Dura & Joakim Andreasson in an erotic ritual involving a roomful of boots. With a voice-over by Scott Treleaven: "I live in a haunted house."

Boyfriend #3
Todd Verow
2005, USA
A couple, having been together for years, must come up with twisted, exciting new
sexual scenarios to keep their relationship interesting.

Self_Love
Roberto Ratti
2007, Italy
In collaboration with Black Sun Productions for their new album, Chemism. Featuring Emiliano Pesenti and Massimo & Pierce masked, in an abandoned art school (Juventus Schule) in Zurich where they were squatting at the time. This work is set in an urban reality and touches on the last man's crash encounter with himself, where he is his own nemesis.

GOD (Episode 6 of 21)
Terence Koh
2007, Switzerland/Germany
Documentation by Michel Balague of a art/sex ritual/performance of the same title which just happened at De Pury in Zurich. "My Path to Heaven; Are you Blind, Bastard?"

As Doors Open Into Space
Peter Christopherson/The Threshold Houseboys Choir
2003-2006, Thailand
Documentation of the GinJae Festival, where a series of rituals are performed in which the participants (all young males, mostly tattooed tearaways or troublemakers) were in trance or possessed states, induced into such by their leader or "Holy Man." In such states, the boys seemed not to feel pain. "We all get the gods we deserve.

Veneration X
Daniel McKernan & Richie Rennt
2007, USA
An homage & attempt to reach each other. Ghost-like images of the two of us fade in & out of static & seem to always just miss each other. Set to Black Sun Productions' "Veneration X." Sing me that love song again.

Uncle Billy
Black Sun Productions (Massimo & Pierce)
2007, Switzerland
A tribute to William S. Burroughs. Filmed in Barcelona in February 2007. In collaboration with Lukas Beyeler & Carlotta Steinemann. Featuring Ennio Nobili and Othon Mataragas (of Current 93).

Ordeal by Roses
Lee Adams
2003, UK
Inspired by one of Eikoh Hosoe's photographs of Yukio Mishima, who in 1970 committed ritual suicide by disembowelment. "Hell has degrees, so does love, and I reached its lowest circle and its heights." — Jean Genet.

S/HE IS HER/E
Morrison Edley/Edward O'Dowd
2007, USA
The drummer of Psychic TV/PTV3 gives an amusing personal look at Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

Pantelia
Micki Pellerano
2006, USA, video, 10 min.
An examination of the mystical and erotic significance of the number ten.

Ecstatic (from Self-Obliteration)
Ron Athey
2007, UK
A stand-alone performance of Ron's which starts out somewhat absurd & campy and soon twists into an intense, bloody & compelling work.

The Pandrogeny Manifesto
Breyer P-Orridge, Dionysos Andronis and Aldo Lee
2006, USA / France
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge explore the “third mind” as in Antony Balch's 1950's film, Bill & Tony, using the cut-up to reject the cultural and biological anathema of fixed and fictional identity and gender. By using cosmetic surgery, body language and art they are becoming two parts of one new "third being": the pandrogyne.

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Thursday 25 June
Exhibition, screening, in conversation, DJ set.
Doors 7.00 - 11.30pm
Exhibition continues 26 , 27 June, 11-7pm & 28 June 12-6pm.

Tickets £10 available online at www.stomper.org.uk/ianemes

Stomper presents Ian Emes: It Was a Thursday Night
Unseen Pink Floyd 'Dark Side of the Moon' animation and artwork to be exhibited.

Art/Music collective STOMPER present a one night event, Ian Emes: It Was A Thursday Night, showcasing the work of filmmaker Ian Emes. This is a rare opportunity to view the works of Ian Emes, one of Britain's foremost animators. Ian Emes is a pioneer in the visualisation of music and his internationally renowned work helped usher in the era of the music video. The evening will feature a screening of his groundbreaking 1970s music inspired animation, an exhibition of his artwork, and an in conversation with Emes and writer/theorist Mark Fisher a.k.a. k-punk (The Wire, Frieze Sight & Sound), on Thursday 25th June at London's The Horse Hospital art space.

This is the first event of its kind dedicated to the work of Ian Emes, a filmmaker and artist who at age 21 in the early 70s, developed a futuristic style of hand drawn cell animation that prompted Pink Floyd to commission him to create the iconic animation for their Dark Side of the Moon tour and launched a decade of work with such artists as Mike Oldfield, Roger Daltry and Linda McCartney among others. It Was A Thursday Night, title of the event is taken from the opening lyric of Linda McCartney's song 'Oriental Night Fish' which inspired Emes' haunting cult music video.

Emes' screening will feature the video and focus on his 70s period of animation, from its genesis and show the progression of his interpretation of music through his creation of intricately animated artificial worlds. Emes refers to these films as "dreams, imagined in detailed response to music."

A charismatic character himself, he describes this period of DIY discovery: "To begin with, I wasn't attracted to the medium of animation, dominated by bouncy characters. I had no animation tutors, only practicing painters and sculptors to encourage me. I was entering the unknown, doing everything
through trial and error, fumbling along and inventing my own techniques." Along with rare 70s animation, the screening will also include new work including a collaboration with artist/musician John Foxx.

Ian Emes: It Was A Thursday Night exhibition illustrates the filmmaker's process of creation. Emes' has always had a passion for drawing and his meticulous and painstaking technique of hand drawn animation is revealed through his original drawings, story boards and animation cells, which themselves stand alone as works of art.

The evening will also include a rock/left field disco DJ set by Greg Poole and an interpretive dance performance choreographed by Pat Garrett.

www.stomper.org.uk

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