SCREENING
Sport, Sport, Sport: A Screening Programme of Soviet-Era Cinema and Artist Moving Image
Artists: Věra Chytilová, Isaak Fridberg, Elem Klimov, Phil Collins, Laura Horelli, Jo Longhurst, Craig Mulholland, Salla Tykkä.
The final in a series of four events, ‘Sport, Sport, Sport’ is a screening programme event of cinema and artist moving image, curated in collaboration with Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and with presentations from artist Susan Pui San Lok and curator Tiffany Boyle.
The programme is structured around three Soviet-era cinema works, all of which feature gymnastics: Elem Klimov’s ‘Sport, Sport, Sport’ [1970], Věra Chytilová’s ‘Something Different’ [1963], and perestroika-era ‘Little Doll’ [1988] from Isaak Fridberg. Rarely or never seen before in the UK, translated and subtitled especially for the programme and all early-career works, the programme engages with the lack of critical material surrounding these films. This lack is mirrored in the absence of attention to sporting themes in artist moving image, and the programme as a whole draws upon the long running ties between sport, the body in motion and early experiments in film. Through the juxtaposition of the works, the programme examines the relationship between sport in cinema and artist moving image, and the influence of this particular period of film-making and its aesthetics in contemporary art.
Sport, Sport, Sport : Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, London
Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square | 28 February 2015 | 09:30-18:00
Work screened, Present [excerpt]
Artists: Věra Chytilová, Isaak Fridberg, Elem Klimov, Phil Collins, Laura Horelli, Jo Longhrust, Craig Mulholland, Salla Tykkä
Sport, Sport, Sport : Transmission Gallery / Kinning Park, Glasgow
Glasgow Film Theatre, and Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, 2014
Work screened, Present
Artists: Laura Horelli, Jo Longhurst, Elem Klimov