ICA LISTINGS

Friday 23 July - Thursday 29 July 2004

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THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHT:

Cinema 1: 23- 29July

CONTROL ROOM
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2004
Winner, Grand Jury Prize for Best Film, 2004 Full Frame Documentary Festival "One of this year's most significant films" San Francisco Chronicle "You are likely to emerge from Control Room touched, exhilarated and a little off-balance, with your certainties scrambled and your assumptions shaken." New York Times
"Absolutely bracing and transcendent." Screen Daily
A startling documentary look at the workings of the Al Jazeera satellite news network, which provides a view of the Arab world - and, most controversially, the Iraq War - far removed from that offered by Western outlets (and subsequently condemned as liars by Donald Rumsfeld). Director Jehane Noujaim offers a fly-on-the-wall look inside the newsroom, placing the viewer right at the heart of a series of complex situations faced by the Al Jazeera staff. Interviews with the network's reporters and producers reveal their take on issues of freedom of speech, media manipulation and criticism from the West, balanced by comments from American journalists who face their own particular pressures. A seminal documentary that explores how Truth is gathered, presented, and ultimately created by those who deliver it. Dir Jehane Noujaim, USA/ Egypt, 2003, 89 mins

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 23 July - Thursday 29 July 2004

FILM @ THE ICA

Friday 23 July
CONTROL ROOM
(Cinema 1) 4, 5.45, 7.30, 9.15pm
ABEL FERRARA: NOT GUILTY
(Cinema 2) 5, 6.30, 8.30pm

Saturday 24 July
CONTROL ROOM
(Cinema 1) 2, 4, 5.45, 7.30, 9.15pm
ABEL FERRARA: NOT GUILTY
(Cinema 2) 5, 6.30pm
MS. 45 - ANGEL OF VENGEANCE
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm

Sunday 25 July
CONTROL ROOM
(Cinema 1) 2, 4, 5.45, 7.30, 9.15pm
ABEL FERRARA: NOT GUILTY
(Cinema 2) 5, 6.30pm
MS. 45 - ANGEL OF VENGEANCE
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm

Monday 26 July
CONTROL ROOM
(Cinema 1) 4, 5.45, 7.30, 9.15pm
ABEL FERRARA: NOT GUILTY
(Cinema 2) 6.30pm
MS. 45 - ANGEL OF VENGEANCE
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm

Tuesday 27July
CONTROL ROOM
(Cinema 1) 4, 5.45, 7.30, 9.15pm
ABEL FERRARA: NOT GUILTY
(Cinema 2) 5, 6.30pm
KING OF NEW YORK
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm

Wednesday 28July
CONTROL ROOM
(Cinema 1) 4, 5.45, 7.30, 9.15pm
ABEL FERRARA: NOT GUILTY
(Cinema 2) 5, 6.30pm
KING OF NEW YORK
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm

Thursday 29July
CONTROL ROOM
(Cinema 1) 4, 5.45, 7.30, 9.15pm
ABEL FERRARA: NOT GUILTY
(Cinema 2) 5, 6.30pm
KING OF NEW YORK
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 23 July - Thursday 29 July 2004

FILM @ THE ICA

Cinema 1: 23- 29July

CONTROL ROOM
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2004
Winner, Grand Jury Prize for Best Film, 2004 Full Frame Documentary Festival "One of this year's most significant films" San Francisco Chronicle "You are likely to emerge from Control Room touched, exhilarated and a little off-balance, with your
certainties scrambled and your assumptions shaken." New York Times
"Absolutely bracing and transcendent." Screen Daily
A startling documentary look at the workings of the Al Jazeera satellite news network, which provides a view of the Arab world - and, most controversially, the Iraq War - far removed from that offered by Western outlets (and subsequently condemned as liars by Donald Rumsfeld). Director Jehane Noujaim offers a fly-on-the-wall look inside the newsroom, placing the viewer right at the heart of a series of complex situations faced by the Al Jazeera staff. Interviews with the network's reporters and producers reveal their take on issues of freedom of speech, media manipulation and criticism from the West, balanced by comments from American journalists who face their own particular pressures. A seminal documentary that explores how Truth is gathered, presented, and ultimately created by those who deliver it. Dir Jehane Noujaim, USA/ Egypt, 2003, 89 mins

Cinema 2: 23 - 29 July
ABEL FERRARA: NOT GUILTY
'An eccentric road movie, with the restless Ferrara as a charming, seedy guide' Rotterdam International Film Festival
>From the French series of filmmaker profiles Cinema de Notre Temps
>comes this intimate, revealing portrait of maverick American independent director Abel Ferrara. Shot over the course of five years, the film follows Ferrara as he haunts the New York streets that are both his home and the backdrop to many of his troubling, controversial and radical pictures. With no film clips or talking-heads to get in his way, the charismatic, unpredictable Ferrara dominates the frame at all times,
unleashing the full force of his larger-than-life personality on those who cross his path. A frank, fascinating character-study and an illuminating insight into the world of one of cinema's most misunderstood artists.
Dir Rafi Pitts, France, 2003, 80 mins

Cinema 2: 24 - 26 July, 8.30pm
MS. 45 - ANGEL OF VENGEANCE
'Ball-breaking entertainment' Time Out
Ferrara's follow-up to The Driller Killer is an exploitation classic about a young mute woman (the late Zoe Tamerlis, née Lund) who is raped twice on the same night (the first time by a character played by Ferrara himself) before turning the tables on her second assailant. She kills him, cuts up his body and proceeds to dump the parts around town, before going on a killing spree from which no man is safe. Tamerlis is a sensation in the title role, becoming an underground icon thanks largely to the nun's habit she wears during the film's climactic massacre.
Dir Abel Ferrara, USA, 1981, 80 mins

Cinema 2: 27 - 29 July, 8.30pm
KING OF NEW YORK
One of Ferrara's best films, as well as one of the great contemporary crime movies. Christopher Walken plays Frank White, a drug kingpin recently released from prison who returns to his old territory intent on regaining his position of power and setting up a hospital for the poor. However, gangland rivalry and some persistent cops threaten his dubious good intentions. Walken rules the film, but a cast including Lawrence Fishburne, Steve Buscemi and Wesley Snipes offers strong support.
Dir Abel Ferrara, USA, 1990, 103 mins

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 23 July - Thursday 29 July 2004

EXHIBITIONS @ THE ICA

Act 1: Until 23 July, 2004
Galleries: 12-7.30pm
ARTISTS' FAVOURITES: AN EXHIBITION IN TWO ACTS
Which artworks do artists consider important and influential? Which pieces would artists like to see exhibited? What artworks had an effect on the practice of other artists? Conceived as an exhibition in two acts, Artists' Favourites will investigate these questions while examining the different criteria that determine the way in which art is understood, judged and how it is in fact classified.
Over thirty of the foremost international artists have each been invited to select and introduce one of their favourite works of art made between 1947 (the year the ICA first opened) and today. The result is a subjective and multifarious selection of artworks revealing aspects of the invited artists' own practice, influences on their work and personal preferences in art, whilst mirroring the wide spectrum of contemporary artistic practice created during the fifty-seven years that the ICA has existed.
The invited artists are: Act 1: Pawel Althamer, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Victor Burgin, Maurizio Cattelan, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Liam Gillick, Nan Goldin, Brian Jungen, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Tim Lee, Paul McCarthy, Jonathan Monk, Mariko Mori, Gabriel Orozco, Yvonne Rainer, Anri Sala, Yinka Shonibare, Rirkrit Tiravanija. Act II (30 July -5 Sept): Art & Language, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Ghada Amer, Daniel Buren, Janet Cardiff, Martin Creed, Olafur Eliasson, Ceal Floyer, Liam Gillick, Eberhard Havekost, Susan Hiller, Koo Jeong-A, Gustav Metzger, Cildo Mereiles, Vik Muniz, Rivane Neuenschwander, Cornelia Parker, Tino Sehgal, Luc Tuymans, Gillian Wearing Act I will be followed by a short intermission with a series of talks and discussions. Act II will commence on 30 July and last until 5 September.
Mon-Fri £1.50, £1.00 Concs. FREE to ICA Members; Sat & Sun £2.50, £1.50 Concs, FREE to ICA Members Lower/Upper Galleries, Concourse

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 23 July - Thursday 29 July 2004

TALKS @ THE ICA

Sat 24 July, 4pm
BORIS GROYS: HOW DO WE JUDGE ART?
What is a 'favourite'? What does it mean to have a favourite artwork? Is it a piece that has inspired us; one we would wish to hang in our homes; or an expression of artistic skills that we admire? In this lecture, acclaimed art theorist and philosopher Boris Groys examines the criteria with which we judge art. He is currently Professor for Philosophy and Media Theory at the School for New Media in Karlsruhe, and Vice Chancellor of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Influential texts by Groys include: Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin, 1988; About the New, 1992; The Logic of Collecting, 1997. £8, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members Nash Room

Sun 25 July, 4pm
HANS BELTING: WHAT IS A MASTERPIECE?
Hans Belting is among the most respected art historians living today. His book The End of the History of Art?, 1987, radically questioned art history's relevance to contemporary artistic concerns and triggered an unparalleled debate on the methods and structures of his discipline. Other publications include: Likeness and Presence. A History of the Image Before the Era of Art, 1994; and The Invisible Masterpiece. The Modern Myths of Art, 2001. In 2000 he set up a Ph.D. programme, 'Kunstwissenschaft and Medientheorie', at the newly founded School for New Media in Karlsruhe, which is linked to the Centre for Art and Media Technologies (ZKM). For this lecture, Belting will explore the notion of the masterpiece and its relationship to the 'favourite'. £8, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members Nash Room

Tue 27 Jul, 7pm
CSR: GREENWASH OR A MOVEMENT TO CHANGE CAPITALISM?
In the aftermath of various disasters - including the Exxon oil spill and Shell's involvement in Nigeria - major corporations implemented corporate social responsibility strategies and began looking more closely at the environmental and social impact of their activities. But do corporations cynically exploit social responsibility to 'launder' their tarnished image? Speakers: Deborah Doane, chair of CORE Coalition; Mallen Baker, Development Director, Business in the Community; Andrew Pendleton, Senior Policy Officer at Christian Aid, co-author of Behind the Mask: the real face of corporate social responsibility; and Chris Gribben, associate director, Ashridge Centre for Business and Society. Chair: Nick Robins, Head of Socially Responsible Investment, Hendersons Global Investors. £8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA Members Nash Room

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 23 July - Thursday 29 July 2004

DIGITAL @ THE ICA

1-29 July 12pm - 7.30pm daily
SIMON FAITHFULL: HARD DRIVE
Simon Faithfull's practice over last 6 years has focused on an open-ended mapping process. An essential tool within this mapping process has become the use of a palm-pilot. It has become a kind of psycho-geographer's tool, enabling Faithfull to map a personal reaction to a place, rather than an infatuation with digital media to indulge, Faithfull has been attracted to the awkward, stuttering aspect of technology - the gap between reality and digital representation and the tendency of both human and digital systems to collapse. For this show Faithfull will remove the monitors, replacing them with a stream of drawings output by a single printer. The piece will manifest the entire collection of drawings amassed over the last 5 years from places as exotic or mundane as Marrakesh, Leamouth, Venice, Reading, Amsterdam and New Cross. 13, commissioned by Channel4 and the Arts Council, is a five-minute film built from hundreds of drawings made whilst walking down the A13 road from Whitechapel to Barking. A13 Wall Drawing. Moving out from the New Media Lab, Faithfull will use tiny plastic mirror tiles to recreate a drawing from the A13 series pixel by pixel. The horizon of this drawing will stretch around the lower bar area enveloping the viewer or drinker in a crude pixelated, glittering landscape. Free with ICA Day Membership Digital Studio, Bar