Program

The gallery space will be open from midday to midnight every day between 25 December 2014 and 7 January 2015.

Films will be screened at 8pm. Informal discussions will follow.

Each afternoon Jonathan will host seminars discussing various aspects of his project and show footage.

December 2014

SAT 27^th

SCREENING: Dziga Vertov, Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Don Basin (USSR, 1931, 1 hr 5 mins)

and Laura Mulvey, Disgraced Monuments (UK, 1996, 55 mins)

SUN 28^th

DEBATE following the first official meeting of the Facebook discussion group to found a new centre-left Romanian political party/movement (Discuții pentru înființarea unui partid/mișcare de centru-stânga)

SCREENING: Michael Haneke, The Seventh Continent (AU, 1989)

Note: the gallery will be closed 15.00 – 19.00 whilst we attend the meeting.

MON 29^th               

16.00 DEBATE: Freedom, state and democracy

20.00 SCREENING: DVD 1 of Alexander Kluge, News from Ideological Antiquity (1hr 56mins)

Kluge’s version of Eisenstein’s unmade film of Marx’s Capital.

TUE 30^th                 

SCREENING: DVD 2 of Alexander Kluge, News from Ideological Antiquity (1hr 13 mins)

and Dziga Vertov, Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Don Basin (USSR, 1931, 1 hr 5 mins)

WED 31^st               

SCREENING: DVD 3 of Alexander Kluge, News from Ideological Antiquity (2hrs)

January 2015

THU 1^st                    

SCREENING: DVD 4 of Alexander Kluge, News from Ideological Antiquity (1hr 20mins)

and Mahmoud Khaled, A Memorial to failure (2012, 20mins)

and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, The Lives of others (GER, 2006, 2h17mins)

FRI 2^nd                     

SCREENING: DVD 5 of Alexander Kluge, News from Ideological Antiquity (1hr 57mins)

SAT 3^rd                    

SCREENING: DVD 6 of Alexander Kluge, News from Ideological Antiquity (1hr 6mins)

and Laura Mulvey, Disgraced Monuments (UK, 1996, 55 mins)

SUN 4^th                   

SCREENING: Alexander Kluge, News from Ideological Antiquity (GER, 2008)

The film is 570 minutes long. We plan to screen it from midday to midnight with breaks.

MON 5^th

SCREENING: Andrei Ujică, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu (ROM, 2010, 3 hrs)

TUE 6^th                             

SCREENING: Jean-Luc Godard, Film Socialisme (FRA, 2010, 1 hr 37 mins)

and Ben Lewis, The King of Communism (UK, 2002, 59 mins)

WED 7^th

Jonathan has been invited to intervene at Nick Herman’s opening Obiectiv Pozitiv at Seneca ArtCafe, an exhibition of his never before seen photographs of the Romanian revolution.