The Floating Cinema 2013: Extra-ordinary | A Weekend Of Anger: The Films Of Kenneth Anger | Robert Beavers | Brighton's Big Screen/The Duke's at Lewes House
*The Floating Cinema 2013: Extra-ordinary, London*
This cinema will come to you, if you're situated alongside a London canal. It's an appealing initiative, which began last year but returns with a new design, converting an old industrial barge into an eclectic touring show. You can step on to the boat for an intimate show of specially commissioned works and Michael Smith's new film about the River Lea plays later this month. There's also a horror weekend at Granary Square in King's Cross (9 & 10 Aug), and a fancy-dress screening of Tim Burton's Frankenweenie outside 3 Mills Studio, where it was made (23 Aug).
Various venues, Sat to 30 Sep
*A Weekend Of Anger: The Films Of Kenneth Anger, London*
That Anger is considered a pioneer of both salacious celebrity gossiping (via his cheeky Hollywood Babylon volumes) and avant-garde film-making (he's credited with having invented the music video) puts him in a unique category of movie provocateurs. And for an 86-year-old, he's still pretty active. Anger presents two screenings of his works this weekend, starting with influential early shorts, such as Fireworks, Scorpio Rising and Lucifer Rising, which forge a distinctive aesthetic from ingredients such as pop culture, the occult, psychedelia, Mick Jagger and the Manson family. Sunday sees a compilation of films he's made since 1995, whose subjects range from Mickey Mouse to the Hitler Youth, plus a Q&A with the counterculture legend himself.* *
ICA, SW1, Sat & Sun
*Robert Beavers, Newcastle upon Tyne*
One of the few surviving links to the golden age of avant-garde film-making, Beavers is an American who turned his back on the New York underground and headed to Europe instead, with his long-time partner, the late Gregory Markopoulos. As such, his sensibility could be described as classical. His preoccupations include art history, architecture, cinematic space and the acts of making, and his films are invariably finely crafted, rhythmic and lyrical. His From The Notebook Of…, for example, was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks. Beavers accompanies this rare screening of his work, and talks about his life, his career and his efforts to realise Markopoulos's vision for a permanent open-air cinema in Greece.
Star & Shadow, Wed
*Brighton's Big Screen/The Duke's at Lewes House, Brighton*
Brighton adds a free open-air cinema to its spread of seaside attractions for August, and it's not just re-runs of Quadrophenia. There are recent releases such as Life Of Pi (on Tuesday), The Hobbit, Oblivion and Les Misérables, plus children's matinees, classic comedies and themed weekends (including a mod special). And for a few quid more, you can get a covered seat in a grandstand. For an even more civilised time, head over to nearby Lewes, where you'll find (ticketed) screenings of film, theatre and opera on the lawn of Lewes House, starting with Some Like It Hot on Friday and a live stream of the Helen Mirren-starring play The Audience (3 Aug).
Brighton beach, Tue to 26 Aug; Lewes House, Fri to 31 Aug
Steve Rose
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Reported by guardian.co.uk 17 hours ago.
*The Floating Cinema 2013: Extra-ordinary, London*
This cinema will come to you, if you're situated alongside a London canal. It's an appealing initiative, which began last year but returns with a new design, converting an old industrial barge into an eclectic touring show. You can step on to the boat for an intimate show of specially commissioned works and Michael Smith's new film about the River Lea plays later this month. There's also a horror weekend at Granary Square in King's Cross (9 & 10 Aug), and a fancy-dress screening of Tim Burton's Frankenweenie outside 3 Mills Studio, where it was made (23 Aug).
Various venues, Sat to 30 Sep
*A Weekend Of Anger: The Films Of Kenneth Anger, London*
That Anger is considered a pioneer of both salacious celebrity gossiping (via his cheeky Hollywood Babylon volumes) and avant-garde film-making (he's credited with having invented the music video) puts him in a unique category of movie provocateurs. And for an 86-year-old, he's still pretty active. Anger presents two screenings of his works this weekend, starting with influential early shorts, such as Fireworks, Scorpio Rising and Lucifer Rising, which forge a distinctive aesthetic from ingredients such as pop culture, the occult, psychedelia, Mick Jagger and the Manson family. Sunday sees a compilation of films he's made since 1995, whose subjects range from Mickey Mouse to the Hitler Youth, plus a Q&A with the counterculture legend himself.* *
ICA, SW1, Sat & Sun
*Robert Beavers, Newcastle upon Tyne*
One of the few surviving links to the golden age of avant-garde film-making, Beavers is an American who turned his back on the New York underground and headed to Europe instead, with his long-time partner, the late Gregory Markopoulos. As such, his sensibility could be described as classical. His preoccupations include art history, architecture, cinematic space and the acts of making, and his films are invariably finely crafted, rhythmic and lyrical. His From The Notebook Of…, for example, was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks. Beavers accompanies this rare screening of his work, and talks about his life, his career and his efforts to realise Markopoulos's vision for a permanent open-air cinema in Greece.
Star & Shadow, Wed
*Brighton's Big Screen/The Duke's at Lewes House, Brighton*
Brighton adds a free open-air cinema to its spread of seaside attractions for August, and it's not just re-runs of Quadrophenia. There are recent releases such as Life Of Pi (on Tuesday), The Hobbit, Oblivion and Les Misérables, plus children's matinees, classic comedies and themed weekends (including a mod special). And for a few quid more, you can get a covered seat in a grandstand. For an even more civilised time, head over to nearby Lewes, where you'll find (ticketed) screenings of film, theatre and opera on the lawn of Lewes House, starting with Some Like It Hot on Friday and a live stream of the Helen Mirren-starring play The Audience (3 Aug).
Brighton beach, Tue to 26 Aug; Lewes House, Fri to 31 Aug
Steve Rose
© 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions
Reported by guardian.co.uk 17 hours ago.