TIME, A HESITANT SMILE Film, broadcast and time travel Hackney Picturehouse, London, E8 1HE 20th November, 27th November, 4th December, 11th December 2014: 6.30pm David Blair, Patrick Bokanowski, Judith Goddard, Johan Grimonprez, Louis Henderson, John Latham, Mark Leckey, Laida Lertxundi, Angela Melitopoulos, Haroon Mirza, James Richards, Ben Rivers, Anri Sala, Semiconductor, Apichatpong Weerasethakul Curated by Jacqui Davies and Joseph Constable Time, a Hesitant Smile considers filmmaking and broadcast as contained and compressed moments of time travel. Taking its title from Fernando Pessoas The Book of Disquiet - itself a kaleidoscopic collection of temporal fragments - a bold selection of experimental, cult and ground-breaking artists film looks at how multiple voices, narratives and histories are synthesised and disseminated in present moments of fact and fiction. The programme looks at the various apparatuses that humans utilise in order to enact different methods of time travel. Technological prostheses such as the microphone, the mixing desk, the iPhone and the film camera, become tools with which to manipulate our experience of time, duration and dimensionality. Time, a Hesitant Smile then continues with a series of three curated programmes: I Thursday 27th November, 6.30pm The first programme of Time, a Hesitant Smile contains multiple channels of broadcast and (mis)communication. Temporal stability is thrown into question as voices and images appear through windows - the Internet browser, the television screen or the satellite transmission – conveying enigmatic messages from the past and the future. Haroon Mirza, This content was transmitted to this date in 1987, 2013. 3min James Richards, The Misty Suite, 2009. 7min Louis Henderson, All That Is Solid, 2014. 15min Laida Lertxundi, Cry When It Happens, 2014. 7min John Latham, Erth, 1971. 25min II Thursday 4th December, 6.30pm The second programme of Time, a Hesitant Smile explores the gaps that lie between science fiction and reality. Three films feature a series of surreal landscapes that appear strangely familiar. These warped realities, apparently located in an alien time and place, act as subtle warnings in their picturing of our human fascination with technology, appropriation, and progress. Angela Melitopoulos, The Language of Things, 2006. 33min Semiconductor, Some Of Us Will Have Become, 2012. 3min Ben Rivers, Slow Action, 2011. 40min III Thursday 11th December, 6.30pm The concluding programme of Time, a Hesitant Smile takes as its starting point the material processes of filmic editing as contained moments of time travel. From the disembodied voice and sonic spectres that echo in the present, to the layering and fragmentation of image and duration, the hesitant smile of time is revealed as an uncertain reality. This closing event will feature a special 35mm screening of Patrick BokanowskiʼʻLaʼ. Plage Mark Leckey, Pearl Vision, 2012. 3min Anri Sala, Mixed Behaviour, 2003. 8min Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sakda, 2012. 6min Judith Goddard, Lyrical Doubt, 1985. 17min James Richards, Raking Light, 2014. 9min Johan Grimonprez, I may have lost forever my umbrella, 2011. 3min Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Cactus River, 2012. 10min Patrick Bokanowski, La Plage, 1992. 14min Programmed in collaboration with Vdrome and with the support of LUX, London Random Acts, Channel 4. Commissioned by Jacqui Davies and FACT, Liverpool (2011-2013) Tickets: picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/Time_A_Hesitant_Smile_Film_Broadcast_And_Time_Travel_I/ picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/Time_A_Hesitant_Smile_Film_Broadcast_And_Time_Travel_Ii/ picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/Time_A_Hesitant_Smile_Film_Broadcast_And_Time_Travel_Iii/
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