QUAD PRESENTS
Choreographing the City
Film Screenings and Q&A with Charlotte Ginsborg & Melanie Manchot
Saturday 18th May at 3:00pm, the Box at QUAD. Cost: £3
Choreographing the City is a screening featuring films by three prominent artist filmmakers whose work addresses how disparate social groups interact and use public space. The films all subvert the documentary format, working with non-actors but including staged, scripted and fantastical events alongside observed behaviour.
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Charlotte Ginsborg, Melior Street, 65mins, 2011
The film, a musical documentary, is set in a small London Street and features eight individuals all linked to the street through work, religion or homelessness. Within the film Ginsborg explores experiences of community, transience and belonging within the city as people start to sing about their thoughts in a score developed in collaboration with the composer Gabriel Prokofiev.
Melanie Manchot, Celebration (Cyprus Street), 10mins 20secs, 2010
Based on the rich history of public street parties in London’s East End, the film pivots around a group portrait. Manchot worked with the residents of Cyprus Street in Bethnal Green collaborating on preparations for a party and inviting active participation in the film. Through an extended, visually arresting, continual tracking shot the piece investigates the relation between still and moving images, photography and film.
Adam Vackar, Improvement, 5mins, 2009
A long-line of people are waiting in a large warehouse setting for what appears to be a casting call. The film brings together homeless people who undergo a set of transformative procedures turning them into ‘normal’ people. After their changeover is completed, Vackar's actors remain motionless under the spotlights, modeling their
‘normality’.
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