Architecture
on Film: Beijing/Midtown + Sarah Morris Q&A
http://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/programme/2009/architecture-on-film/sarah-morris-beijingmidtown-qandaThurs 4 Nov 2010 6.15pm
The UK Premiere of Sarah Morris's latest urban portrait, Beijing, preceded by a screening of her very first film, Midtown. Accompanied by a Q+A with the artist.
Q+A chaired by Dr Andrea Phillips, Director of Research Programmes, Department of Art, Goldsmiths University.
Image: Sarah Morris, "Beijing," 2008, 35mm/HD. Courtesy the artist.
Beijing - UK PREMIERE
Celebrated artist Sarah Morris's latest film follows her earlier studies of Manhattan, Las Vegas, Miami, Washington and L.A with a glimpse of the Chinese centre of politics and culture at the time of its great global unveiling - the 2008 Olympic Games. Spectacularly seductive, the film operates as a feature length trailer for the megalopolis's ascension to the global stage, filtering the city's mass-televised self-portrait into a mesmeric tone-poem, in the style of Koyaanisqatsi.
Free of dialogue, an instrumental soundtrack pulses behind a rhythmic succession of images that level the Games' splendour alongside candid moments of a city in transition and its phantom players; from the President of China preparing for his Olympic address, to a channel-surfing architect Jacques Herzog, and workers packing sweets in a downtown store. Jackie Chan, Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster and Henry Kissinger also all make appearances.
Through a mise-en-scène of graphic moments and semiotic clues, Morris scripts the built environment in a contemporary update of the great 'city symphony' film. We are delighted to present the UK premiere of her latest work of art, and to host Morris in conversation following the screening.
USA 2008, Dir Sarah Morris, 86 min
Midtown
Establishing shots, cutaways, and architectonic form combine in a rhythmic collage of cinematic surveillance. Shot over a single day in New York, the film suggests a metropolis and its inhabitants on the perpetual brink of an event. A sunshine-noir urban document, playfully rendering New York's business district a site for abstracted and inferred narratives.
USA 1998, Dir Sarah Morris, 9 min
Architecture
on Film: Beijing/Midtown + Sarah Morris Q&A
http://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/programme/2009/architecture-on-film/sarah-morris-beijingmidtown-qandaThurs 4 Nov 2010 6.15pm
The UK Premiere of Sarah Morris's latest urban portrait, Beijing, preceded by a screening of her very first film, Midtown. Accompanied by a Q+A with the artist.
Q+A chaired by Dr Andrea Phillips, Director of Research Programmes, Department of Art, Goldsmiths University.
Image: Sarah Morris, "Beijing," 2008, 35mm/HD. Courtesy the artist.
Beijing - UK PREMIERE
Celebrated artist Sarah Morris's latest film follows her earlier studies of Manhattan, Las Vegas, Miami, Washington and L.A with a glimpse of the Chinese centre of politics and culture at the time of its great global unveiling - the 2008 Olympic Games. Spectacularly seductive, the film operates as a feature length trailer for the megalopolis's ascension to the global stage, filtering the city's mass-televised self-portrait into a mesmeric tone-poem, in the style of Koyaanisqatsi.
Free of dialogue, an instrumental soundtrack pulses behind a rhythmic succession of images that level the Games' splendour alongside candid moments of a city in transition and its phantom players; from the President of China preparing for his Olympic address, to a channel-surfing architect Jacques Herzog, and workers packing sweets in a downtown store. Jackie Chan, Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster and Henry Kissinger also all make appearances.
Through a mise-en-scène of graphic moments and semiotic clues, Morris scripts the built environment in a contemporary update of the great 'city symphony' film. We are delighted to present the UK premiere of her latest work of art, and to host Morris in conversation following the screening.
USA 2008, Dir Sarah Morris, 86 min
Midtown
Establishing shots, cutaways, and architectonic form combine in a rhythmic collage of cinematic surveillance. Shot over a single day in New York, the film suggests a metropolis and its inhabitants on the perpetual brink of an event. A sunshine-noir urban document, playfully rendering New York's business district a site for abstracted and inferred narratives.
USA 1998, Dir Sarah Morris, 9 min
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