event listings
Burroughs Live
GSK Contemporary at the Royal Academy of Arts 6 Burlington Gardens
The Burroughs Live film programme:
Saturday 13 December
6pm: The Source (Chuck Workman, 1999);
Certificate U
9pm: Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, 1989);
Certificate 18
Sunday 14 December
6pm: Naked Lunch (David Cronenburg, 1991); NOTE TIME CHANGE
Certificate 18
From 8 December, GSK Contemporary at the Royal Academy of Arts will feature Burroughs Live, an exhibition paying tribute to the American novelist, beat artist and film maker William S. Burroughs. By means of video footage, film and artistic collaborations, this exhibition will aim to establish the presence of William S. Burroughs the man and the influence the beat artist had, and continues to have on several generations of artists. This exhibition will feature film work such asThanksgiving Prayer and Towers Open Fire, and a film screening supporting the exhibition including David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch and Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy. The exhibition will also feature a series of photographic portraits by Annie Leibovitz (pictured), David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe and Damien Hirst.
Naked Lunch directed by David Cronenberg will be screened on Sunday 14 December. Feel free to check out the new Wallflower Press title, The Cinema of David Cronenberg: Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero, available at a discount from our website.
Club Deluxe
ICA presents
Club Deluxe
40 Years of ICA Cinema
Celebrating 40 years of the ICA Cinema on The Mall, The Institute of Contemporary Arts is proud to mark this cinematic milestone with Club Deluxe; a month of films that exemplify our thrilling history of imaginative, experimental and informed programming. Join us, as we toast the spirit of our past and present, and look forward to another 40 years of championing the very best in independent and world cinema.
Club Deluxe will present a carefully selected banquet of 18 films from artfully deranged classics to uncompromising celluloid treats; a selection of truly inventive and stylish films by the world's most visionary, provocative and exciting directors all of whose work has been seen and celebrated at the ICA.
Opening Club Deluxe will fittingly be Herostratus the first film ever to be screened at the ICA's own cinema in May 1968. Other highlights include Akira, Chungking Express and Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner. As a special treat there will be weekend double bills with the likes of Goddard's Weekend + Sympathy for the Devil, Akira + Irma Vep, The Trip +Candy and many more.
THE SCHOOL OF SOUND
Exploring the art of sound with the moving image
THE SCHOOL OF SOUND presents a stimulating and provocative series of masterclasses by practitioners, artists and academics on the creative use of sound in film, the arts and media. Directors, sound designers, composers, editors, and theorists working at the highest levels of sound production reveal the soundtrack from unexpected perspectives. They explore the methods, theories and creative thinking that lie behind the most effective uses of sound and music. If you work in film, television, commercials, radio or multimedia - whether in entertainment or the arts - this event will convince you of the extraordinary potential of the soundtrack.
For programme and registration information: www.schoolofsound.co.uk | sos@schoolofsound.co.uk
For more information take a look at Soundscape: The School of Sound Lectures from 1998-2001 edited by Larry Sider.
