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| From Proximity, Trilogy, Inger Lise Hansen |
Environmental Agency: A Landscape Film Programme and DVD launch
To celebrate the launch of two new landscape film DVDs from LUX: Trilogy, Inger Lise Hansen and Landscape Films 1977-1982, John Woodman, the BFI Southbank is presenting a special screening followed by a reception at the BFI Shop.
The awe-inspiring power of nature and its associated weather systems as explored across a range of groundbreaking works by renowned artist filmmakers. Subtle shifts in natural light, delicate tidal movements and the terraforming power of seasonal change determine the shape and structure of several of the films here. Others reflect with great beauty on the impact that nature has on our lives as an alchemical, elemental force. A timely programme for today’s changing world.
Breath (1975. William Raban. 16min); Colour Separation (1976. Chris Welsby. 2min); Aerial (1974. Margaret Tait. 4min); Water Wrackets(1975. Peter Greenaway. 12min); Three Short Landscape Films (1979. Renny Croft. 6min); Walk (1975. Jenny Okun. 5min); Bridge(1980. John Woodman. 4min); Colours of This Time (1972. William Raban. 4min); Aspect (2004. Emily Richardson. 9min); Proximity(2006. Inger Lise Hansen. 4min)
Introduced by artist John Woodman and BFI National Archive curator William Fowler.
The programme will be followed by a drinks reception at the BFI Shop where there will be an opportunity to purchase the LUX DVDs Trilogy, Inger Lise Hansen and Landscape Films 1977-1982, John Woodman at special discounted price. The reception is organised with the generous support of the Norwegian Embassy in London.
Trilogy, Inger Lise Hansen DVD
Inger Lise Hansen is a visual artist with background in experimental film and animation who for the last two decades has produced a distinctive and acclaimed body of moving image work. This publication presents her recent film trilogy, Proximity (2006), Parallax (2009) and Travelling Fields (2009); a series of spatial deconstructions using disorientating perspective and animation to foreground landscape and architectural elements across a series of diverse locations, from a shopping centre in Linz to the deserted landscapes of north-western Russia. The films are accompanied by specially commissioned texts by Nicole Hewitt, Stefan Grissemann and Trude Schjelderup Iversen.
“Hansen’s films are fundamentally simulations; feigning naturalness, continuity and movement, (...): In them, the sky becomes sea, a low point, a base. They quite literally portray a world on the brink, a realm of condensed time and strained space.” Stefan Grissemann
Published by Fjordholm filmproduksjon and LUX, with support from Arts Council Norway (Norsk kulturråd), Audio and Visual Fund (Fond for lyd og bilde), OCA: Office for Contemporary Art, Norway, NFI - Norwegian Film Institute
Inger Lise Hansen is a visual artist with background in experimental film and animation who for the last two decades has produced a distinctive and acclaimed body of moving image work. This publication presents her recent film trilogy, Proximity (2006), Parallax (2009) and Travelling Fields (2009); a series of spatial deconstructions using disorientating perspective and animation to foreground landscape and architectural elements across a series of diverse locations, from a shopping centre in Linz to the deserted landscapes of north-western Russia. The films are accompanied by specially commissioned texts by Nicole Hewitt, Stefan Grissemann and Trude Schjelderup Iversen.
“Hansen’s films are fundamentally simulations; feigning naturalness, continuity and movement, (...): In them, the sky becomes sea, a low point, a base. They quite literally portray a world on the brink, a realm of condensed time and strained space.” Stefan Grissemann
Published by Fjordholm filmproduksjon and LUX, with support from Arts Council Norway (Norsk kulturråd), Audio and Visual Fund (Fond for lyd og bilde), OCA: Office for Contemporary Art, Norway, NFI - Norwegian Film Institute
