Len Lye Chronosome 6 December – 17 March at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. New Plymouth, New Zealand The film Tusalava will be projected on a floating screen in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition and synched to three different soundtracks on a loop, including Mutantis, the score originally produced by Big Bang Lab for [...]

Special screening featuring a live programme of new music scores created by Sergio López Figueroa to a range of classic avant-garde and experimental silent films commissioned by Tate modern / Dalí exhibition.       “Yes, live music set to film can be a joy”. The Guardian The scores for nine strings, piano, percussion, soprano [...]

Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of  Clonic Mutations programme. UN CHIEN ANDALOU Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, France 1929 (from Tate modern programme) Dalí and Buñuel wrote Un Chien Andalou in a matter of weeks in early 1929. It was shot in Paris and ready for viewing by June [...]

Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of  Clonic Mutations programme. EL HOTEL ELECTRICO Segundo de Chomón, Spain/France 1904 (from Tate modern programme) A couple -performed by the director and his wife Julienne Mathieu- arrive as customers to a hotel where everything works automatically. One of the best known films by [...]

Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of  Clonic Mutations programme. TUSALAVA Len Lye, UK 1929 (from Tate modern programme) This unique tribal dance animation by New Zealand-born film pioneer Len Lye was influenced by Australian aboriginal art and uses more than 4,400 drawings. The first of Lye’s films to be [...]

Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of  Clonic Mutations programme. L’ETOILE DE MER Man Ray,  France 1928 (from Tate modern programme) A classic surreal film staring Man Ray’s wife Kiki. L’Étoile de mer is based on Robert Desnos’s poem ‘la place de l’étoile’. Desnos and Man Ray shared a view [...]

Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of  Clonic Mutations programme. A PHANTASY Norman McLaren, Canada 1952 (from Tate modern programme) This is a very special film featuring hand-drawing landscapes inspired by surrealist artists such as Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy and René Magritte. It is the only non- silent film in [...]

Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of  Clonic Mutations programme. THE STRENGTH AND AGILITY OF INSECTS F. Percy Smith,  UK 1911 (from Tate modern´s programme) This early film by national history film pioneer F. Percy Smith observes real insects juggling and playing with objects in a bizarre manner. A major [...]