ECONOMY Film Lounge Programme

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Clik here to view. Francesco Jodice, Dubai_Citytellers (2010), Courtesy of GalleriaMichelaRizzo

19 Jan 2013 - 21 Apr 2013

The ECONOMY Film Lounge includes moving-image works that demonstrate the diversity of creative responses to capitalism’s global dominance since the 1990s. Addressing four of the ECONOMY keywords (work, spectres, crisis, exodus), the selected works have been produced by artists, documentarists, activists and curators. They tackle subjects as varied as obsolescence, alternative economies, social processes of radicalisation, the contribution of intellectuals to anti-capitalist struggle and much more.

Film Lounge is a purpose-built screening room which provides a comfortable environment for the viewing of moving-image works. Visitors are invited to select from a menu of films which can then be seen from start to finish. As part of the ECONOMY project two Film Lounge screening evenings will also be presented in CCA’s cinema. Please see the events pages and website for further details.

Film Lounge will be open seven days a week, 11am - 6pm*.

WORK

Michael Glawogger (Austria) Workingman’s Death (2005) 122’ Courtesy of Paul Thiltges Distributions	We have been told that we increasingly labour with our minds rather than our bodies. Michael Glawogger’s epic and visually compelling documentary tells a different story, one where body and mind become enmeshed in the everyday struggle to remain alive, both by securing work and by managing to avoid death at work. Workingman’s Death is part of Glawogger’s extraordinary trilogy on how people work around the world and an in-depth investigation into the inescapable biopolitical and embodied dimension of labour. As The New York Times put it: ‘is this for real, and is it ok to like it?’

Francesco Jodice (Italy) Dubai_Citytellers (2010) 57' 45'' Courtesy of GalleriaMichelaRizzo, Venice	Dubai_Citytellers offers a shocking portrait of the Middle East’s key tourist destination and business city. What really powers Dubai’s exemplary growth and is everyone there happy, enjoying the good life? The film offers an incisive critique of ‘development’ as a condition that actively generates cheap labour. The documentary indicates that capitalism routinely requires such hyper-exploitable labour irrespective of the local characteristics of the development context.

Maria Ruido (Spain) Real Time (2003) 43’ Courtesy of the artist	Maria Ruido is one of Spain’s new generation of politically engaged artists whose work is focused on the ongoing transformation of labour. Ruido’s video Real Time brings forth the issue of women working in precarious conditions and can be associated with the rise of a new feminist aesthetic in the wake of globalisation – an aesthetic woven around uses of the document and documentation. Real Time makes connections between the persistent gendering of work in contemporary capitalism and the more ethereal and elusive gendering of time as such, inviting us to rethink how notions of ‘the real’ are constructed and to what effect.

SPECTRES

Jeremy Deller and Mike Figgis (England)
The Battle of Orgreave (an Injury to One is an Injury to all) (2001)
62’

Courtesy of Artangel

A now legendary film based on the re-enactment of the clash between the miners on strike and the Thatcher police in 1984, The Battle of Orgreave revisits an important moment in the labour history of the late 20th century. Making the traditional working class obsolete has been a sustained project of the West’s assumed de-industrialisation, the rise of a service economy but also the creation of zones of cheap industrial labour in other geographies.

Yevgeniy Fiks, Olga Kopenkina, Alexandra Lerman (USA)
Reading Lenin with Corporations (2012)
60’

Courtesy of the artists/producers

This work started life as a seminar at Gallery P.S. 122 in New York City in 2008. As the US financial crisis was shaking the world, the seminar brought together artists, writers and businessmen to discuss the intersections of politics, economics and Lenin’s theory expounded in his famous book Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. In 2011/12, the organisers continued the previous discussions around the ideas in Lenin's book, documenting them on film. What, then, do we all think of Lenin? Are we even aware of his role in shaping the 20th century? And how would the spectral glow of a revolutionary active 100 years ago become relevant to imagining the 21st century?

CRISIS (Focus:Greece)

Yorgos Zois (Greece) Casus Belli (2010) 11’ 11” Courtesy of the artist	The austerity measures that have been breaking down the Greek economy and society since mid-2010, when the country was delivered to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have generated a formidable crisis-focused visual culture. Described by the press as ‘an ingenious cinematic allegory’, Yorgos Zois’s popular short manages to move and entertain by showing the inviolability of the ‘no man is an island’ principle.

Christos Georgiou (Greece/UK) Children of the Riots (2011) 52’ Courtesy of the artist	On 6th December 2008, 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot dead by police in central Athens while on a night out with his friends from school. News of his death spread at the speed of light through social media resulting in massive demonstrations against police brutality and, as Georgiou’s film suggests, in the radicalisation of an entire generation in Greece. The 15-year old teenagers of 2008 are today’s 20-year old students and young unemployed. They are technologically adept, experienced in organising for protest and have a mindset of profound distrust against state apparatuses. They are a strong reason to start thinking about the future and the transversal relations connecting social struggles.

Ernest Larsen and Sherry Millner (USA) Rock the Cradle (2012) 55' Courtesy of the artists	In September 2009 American filmmakers Ernest Larsen and Sherry Millner took part in a demonstration in the Greek city of Thessaloniki. The material they shot during this protest would later provide the core to a video essay setting out to ‘grasp what has been happening in Greece, which, as we see it, amounts to a kind of laboratory or test-case for what global capital is attempting to force upon the world’. (From an interview to Lia Yoka, Kaput 12, 2012). An emotionally engaging and reflective document on the continuity of anarchism and its aspirations, Rock the Cradle offers hope of universal solidarity and a vision of how art can both be in, and about, history.

EXODUS

Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler (Austria) Comuna under Construction (2010) 94’	A collaboration between a political scientist and documentarist (Azzellini) and an artist (Ressler), Comuna under Construction offers an example of active disidentification from the capitalist economy and its model of organised society. The film documents and reflects on the building – literal and metaphorical – of a self-organised community in Venezuela though the establishment of ‘community councils’. In doing so, Comuna under Construction responds to a much broader, transnational effort of breaking free from the socio-economic logic of contemporary capitalism by working out locally meaningful and immediately applicable alternatives.

Marcelo Expósito & Nuria Vila (Spain/Argentina) Tactical Frivolity + Rhythms of Resistance (2007) 39’	Vila, a journalist and activist, and Expósito, an artist, collaborated in the making of a film that, in the words of its makers, ‘literally narrates the journey across Europe of “tactical frivolity” mode of protest, which turned into the “pink line”, one of the three main (front)lines in Prague, which successfully broke the police cordon made to protect the international congress centre’. The filmmakers refer to the Prague of 2000, when thousands of protesters flooded the historic city in opposition to the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank. Paying particular attention to excessive femininity as an embodied protest condition, Vila and Expósito’s narrative also draws a connection between contemporary movements and the legacy of feminist revolt as witnessed in the suffragists.

Jesper Nordahl (Sweden) Anti-capitalist Feminist Struggle, and Transnational Solidarity: Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2007/2011) 77’ Courtesy of the artist	Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Professor of Women’s Studies and Dean’s Professor of Humanities at Syracuse University, NY. She is also an activist and the author of a famous 1984 essay entitled ‘Under Western Essays: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’ which she re-visited and rewrote after 2000 to articulate the new conditions brought about by globalisation. Jesper Nordahl, whose work is generally concerned with systems of power often involving sexual politics, offers an engaging interview-based portrait of a rare voice: that of a feminist and anti-capitalist public intellectual committed to a project of transborder solidarity.

*Please note that on few occasions the Film Lounge will be closed due to courses. Please phone ahead to check 0131 622 6200

Image Francesco Jodice, Dubai_Citytellers (2010), Courtesy of GalleriaMichelaRizzo, Venice

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ECONOMY Film Lounge Programme

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