A screening of seven 16mm analogue films curated by Nina Porter and Martlesham Walk
[ID: film still, b+w. High contrast. Small campfire of books over bracken.]
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Doors: 7pm [the screening will start at 7.30pm sharp]
Tickets: £6-£15 [sliding scale] available via link below
A screening of films by Friedl vom Gröller and John Smith, alongside new works by Nina Porter and Kobby Adi.
l’avenir? de F.v.G?, dir. Friedl vom Gröller [2018]
"In l´avenir? de F.v.G?, language is made visible. Language is a craft and serves to interpret what is and what might perhaps be. What arises before our eyes is a silent film from a mythical universe, a realm of women who ask questions — and patiently and ironically question everything".
- Sylvia Szely
Meine psychoanalytischen Notizen, dir. Friedl vom Gröller [2012]
In Meine psychoanalytischen Notizen, fire ravages relentlessly through paper. Individual words, ragged sentences, loose thoughts have broken free of their contexts and flare up once again before melting away forever: “unfaithful,” father,” “on 17 October, K. complained of overwork,” “I also think about incest and wanting to save sister.” The clearly legible handwriting on white sheets of paper has given up its search for meaning and surrenders to the flames. Artist Friedl von Gröller hands over several-page-long psychoanalytical protocols from her professional practice as psychoanalyst to the funeral pyre flaring in the middle of a snow-covered landscape.
- Alexandra Seibel
Leading Light, dir. John Smith [1975]
“Leading Light uses the camera-eye to reveal the irregular beauty of a familiar space. When we inhabit a room we are only unevenly aware of the space held in it and the possible forms of vision which reside there. The camera-eye documents and returns our apprehension. Vertov imagined a ‘single room’ made up of a montage of many different rooms. Smith reverses this aspect of ‘creative geography’ by showing how many rooms the camera can create from just one.”
-A.L. Rees
Atlantic Sequence, dir. Kobby Adi [2022]
This film contains flashing lights
Revisiting Area of Origin, dir. Kobby Adi [2022]
Finding Language, dir. Nina Porter [2022]
Finding Language is metaphoric. It is also silent.
It has dark with light, above and below, inside and outside.
Filming started spontaneously one day and was finished quickly the next.
a haiku for Finding Language:
scatter between rooms
but pause to ponder the fruit
you keep under foot
Warm Wardrobe, dir. Nina Porter [2022]
Warm Wardrobe was made through a promise to meet. The film is housed within The Contemporary Wardrobe Collection, which exists directly above The Horse Hospital screening space.
Nina Porter (b. 1994) lives and works in London.
Kobby Adi was born, lives and works in London.
Friedl vom Gröller (b. 1946) founded the School for Artistic Photography in 1990 and the School for Independent Film in 2006, both in Vienna.
John Smith (b. 1952) lives and works in London.