Afterimage Revisited: Wind from the East/Le Vent d'Est (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1970)
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
Afterimage Revisited
BIMI celebrates during 2024 the radical British film journal Afterimage, which ran from 1970 to 1987, with a selection of its contents now available in The Afterimage Reader, published by Mark Webber’s Visible Press. Afterimage was launched amid an explosion of radical and experimental cinema, which included revolutionary new work from Latin America as well as avant-garde films from artists and co-ops on both sides of the Atlantic. Its subsequent path through many kinds of avant-garde cinema would include rediscovering early film as an inspiration for contemporary filmmakers, original writing by Peter Wollen and Laura Mulvey, Noel Burch and Michael O’Pray, and the celebration of filmmakers ranging from Hollis Frampton, Yvonne Rainer and Michael Snow to Raul Ruiz, Derek Jarman, Jan Svankmajer and the Quay brothers. These screenings revisit some of Afterimage’s enthusiasms and inspirations.
Wind from the East/Le Vent d’Est (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1970)
Godard’s post-’68 experiment in making a revolutionary film based on a deconstructed Western (with Gian-Maria Volonte and Glauber Rocha) inspired one of Peter Wollen’s most famous essays, ‘Counter Cinema’, published in Afterimage in 1972. Wollen hailed the achievement of this pioneering avant-garde work, while looking beyond it for more effective forms of radical filmmaking. Also: Godard: History: Passion, a 1983 film for Channel Four’s Visions, featuring interviews about the impact of Godard of British filmmakers and critics. Guests to be announced.
Contact name:
Matthew Barrington