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BFI – Essential Experiments – Marc Karlin, April 30, 2015. NFT3
Marc Karlin – Look Again. The Print Run
Designer, Roland Brauchli, recently traveled to Barcelona to sign off and supervise the printing of Marc Karlin – Look Again. Here are some behind the scene glimpses of the printing process.
What will become Marc Karlin – Look Again.
Some of the pages cut to size.
Marc Karlin – Look Again. First Edition. Edited by Holly Aylett. Liverpool University Press.
Pre-order now – Release 31 March 2015
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BFI – Essential Experiments – The Outrage + The Serpent, April 30, 2015. 8.40PM NFT3
Two unusual documentaries; one inspired by the paintings of Cy Twombly, and one an interesting portrayal of Rupert Murdoch.
1995 BBC2
Directed by Marc Karlin
50 min
The tactile, abstract canvases of celebrated painter Cy Twombly form the focal point of this unusual artist documentary. The fictional, mysterious M does the looking; reacting initially with rage and frustration, before asking why. Karlin reflects on our changing relationship to art while also considering its significance in our lives, revealing himself in the process. This is an inspiring example of how to challenge the formal, conventional limits of film and TV.
The Serpent
1997 Ch4
Directed by Marc Karlin
40 min
This decidedly bold drama-documentary sees Rupert Murdoch re-imagined as the Dark Prince from Milton’s Paradise Lost. Commuter Michael Deakin drifts off to sleep and dreams of destroying the Prince who has made England ‘a hard, sniggering, resentful, hard shoulder of a place.’ But the voice of reason has other plans, and Deakin himself is implicated in the Prince’s rise to power.
Joint ticket available for Essential Experiments £16, concs £12.50 (Members pay £1.70 less)
BFI – Essential Experiments – Between Times + discussion Apr 30, 2015 6:15 PM NFT3
1993 Ch4
Directed by Marc Karlin
50 min
Self-reflection, collaboration and debate were vital to Karlin, who was a member of the Berwick Street Collective and a key figure in the political avant-garde from the 1970s onwards. To launch new book Marc Karlin: Look Again, we present his insightful, far-reaching TV piece about the state of the Left after Thatcher. Join us as we also discuss with his friends and collaborators the work and legacy of this much-missed radical.
Joint ticket available for Essential Experiments £16, concs £12.50 (Members pay £1.70 less)
BIMI Essay Film Festival Prelude: the work of Marc Karlin, presented by Holly Aylett
Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image
Friday, 6 March 2015 from 18:00 to 21:00 (GMT)
In the third prelude to the Essay Film Festival (24-29 March 2015), Holly Aylett will present three films by Marc Karlin: For Memory (1982, 104 minutes [extracts]), A Dream from the Bath (1985, 22 minutes), and The Serpent (1997, 40 minutes).
On his death in 1999, Marc Karlin was described as Britain’s most significant “unknown” film-maker. For three decades, he was a key figure within Britain’s independent film community; a founding member of the Berwick Street Film Collective, active within the Independent Filmmakers Association, a vital voice in the creation of Channel 4 and a founding member of a group that published the independent film journal, Vertigo, in 1993.
His groundbreaking films for television in the 1980s and 1990s combine documentary and fiction film tropes to explore the themes of memory, history and political agency. Karlin was a committed political filmmaker, but his dense, yet subtle films are also rich meditations on the nature of filmmaking, the formation and collapse of ideologies, and the endurance of the human spirit.
Holly Aylett is a documentary filmmaker, a founder member of Vertigo, and co-founder of The Marc Karlin Archive (http://spiritofmarckarlin.com).
El cine enfrenta a Nicaragua con su historia
La ‘Nicaragua’ de Marc Karlin
La mirada de Marc Karlin
Return to Nicaragua 2015: Scenes for a Revolution premiere in Managua.
Carlos Fernando Chamorro presents a look back at the premiere of Marc Karlin’s Scenes for a Revolution (1991) in Managua last week, on his Esta Semana programme.
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