LFMC50: 1966 Better Books

14 January, 2016
– 14 January, 2016
6:10pm
BFI Southbank
Better Books Basement Image taken for Town magazine, 1967. (left to right) Stephen Dwoskin, Andy Meyer, Simon Hartog, Bob Cobbing and Harvey Matusow

2016 marks the 50th anniversary of experimental film centre the London Filmmakers Co-operative (LFMC, now LUX) which was founded in 1966. To celebrate, the BFI Southbank monthly Experimenta strand will be programmed throughout the year by the original programmers of the LFMC Cinema.
This first programme reflects the state of artists’ moving-image culture in Britain at the moment of the Co-op’s founding in October 1966. Selector David Curtis (rare survivor of the founding membership) will introduce the screening and describe the Coop’s role at Better Books and the Arts Labs, the ‘Spontaneous Underground Festival’ and the founding of its all-important film-workshop.

Programme

The Autumn Feast,  UK 1961. Dir Jeff Keen & Piero Heliczer. 14min
Speak, UK 1962. Dir John Latham. 10min
Love Love Love, UK 1964. Dir Michael Nyman. 5min
Don Levy Programme aka Five Short Film Poems, UK 1967. Dir Don Levy. 9min
Soliloquy, USA-UK 1964. Dir Stephen Dwoskin. 8min
La couleur de la forme, USA 1960. Dir Hy Hirsh. 8min
Yantra, USA 1957. Dir James Whitney. 5min
6/64 Mama und Papa, Austria 1964. Dir Kurt Kren. 5min
Hugh MacDiarmid – A Portrait, UK 1964. Dir Margaret Tait. 7min

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