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Studio Voltaire: SPANKY CHAFFINCHE�S FILM FESTIVAL - 27 Apr 2008 to 27 Apr 2008 Current Exhibition |
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SPANKY CHAFFINCHE�S FILM FESTIVAL, Dedicated people making a difference Sunday April 27th 2008, from 3pm FREE, NO BOOKING REQUIRED, FIRST COME - FIRST SEATED! Spanky Chaffinche's Film Festival, Dedicated people making a difference, is a film club organized by Spartacus Chetwynd and Studio Voltaire. The club aims to showcase a variety of feature films and documentaries in social and discursive atmosphere. The programme will include live MC'ing/ fan's commentary throughout, fast-forwarding to the best bits and popcorn. This year there will be a special service provided by girls - pinching and slapping - to maintain 'awake debate'. PROGRAMME: 3pm : Spanky Chaffinche presents The Call of the Wild (2007), a film made with Zoe Brown for The One Mile Programme, The Collective Gallery + Les Maitres Fous (Jean Rouch, 1954) - both projected on 16mm + clips from Walkabout (Roeg, 1971) and Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975) and if we have time... Turning (Diane Cilento) 4.30pm : Brian Moran The Science Fiction of Dr. John C Lilly Dr. John C Lilly and a human-dolphin communication themed slide show. As the inventor of the isolation tank and pioneer of human-dolphin communication, Lilly's research work and counter-culture reputation quickly attracted attention from fiction and screenplay writers.... By 1980, two feature films were made based on his experiments with interspecies communication, sensory deprivation and psychedelic substances. ... These works of science fiction inspired by Lilly inspired in turn new, amateur, inquiries into the nature of human cognition, animal cognition, and their place in the cosmos... With John C Lilly Artifacts Slide Show And Excerpts From: The Simpsons, Day of the Dolphin (Mike Nichols, 1973), Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980) 6pm : Hugh Chapman Lecture Series part 1 Gangster flicks and the American Success Myth A search amongst the grit of early American crime movies (James Cagney/Edward G. Robinson) and the concept of American Individualism... self made men... self made mad men... self made money... Then showing a film that �individuals� can stay to see or head off and conquer the future. |
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