The Politics in the Room
We are pleased to announce Anja Kirschner's public event in London which forms part of her contribution to ‘The Politics in the Room - In Eight Chapters'.
Saturday the 21st March, 2pm
Rio Cinema, E8.
London
DON'T TOUCH THE WHITE WOMAN
(Touche Pas à la Femme Blanche) (18) (France 1974) dir. Marco Ferreri. 108m. Subtitles. Digital. With Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret.
In the 1970s, in the name of the inexorable development and urban renewal, Les Halles, the ancient Parisien market quarter popularly referred to as “the belly of Paris”, with all the architectural and mythic implications for its patrons, was demolished, sanitized and rebuilt as a commercial complex and railway station.
In this deadly funny Western, Ferreri, a master of satire and allegory, used the demolished Les Halles' crater with its jagged precipices, sculpted by excavation machinery and dynamite as a stand-in for the canyons of the American West, in which a vainglorious Custer (Mastroianni) mounts a disastrous campaign to wipe out the natives.
Combining histories by overlapping alternate times and spaces, Ferreri reflects not only on American history but also on Vietnam and the Algerian War, the machinations of power and the price of urban social cleansing.
Writer and filmmaker Neil Gray will introduce the film and there will be a post screening discussion with Anthony Iles, Neil Gray and Anja Kirschner
£6/£5 Concs
Our second series of video double-bills will be announced on Monday 23rd March – work by Rachel Reupke and Katy Woods.
The Politics in the Room is the public project of the first year of the LUX Associate Artists Programme. It takes the form of eight video episodes, loosely structured around a comment by the American artist Gregg Bordowitz (a guest speaker on the programme) that questioned not what constitutes politics in general but rather what are the politics of the room you are in. Each of the episodes reflects on the experience and content of the programme from the separate yet interlinking perspectives of its eight participants.