'Join us in this painful battle'

others words...

Screening spaces weblink

Might show Ways of seeing 40 with L's film in Nov.
Link of other places based on seating available SCREEN ROOM
Mostly bigger venues but still good.

Technique or emotion?

Walked into this darkly...later than I wanted to. And it was, is a moving, depressing but actually thoughtful film. I sat at the back and could see and could hear the silence, we were thinking, we were there, emotionally engaged.

To talk about this film as genre, authenticity and lies was not enough, I think we needed to, should have allowed for the emotional response to it and then moved to how was that done and what are the challenges with that.

Part way through he opened up a personal reason why he wouldn't be around, and cried. A collective hug and warmth was there... you don't have to perform your way through this, today, tomorrow or yesterday.

Representing Resistance? Performing Resistance

Representing Resistance
(Doing it)
By Representing are you Performing
But can you, can I represent resistance whilst performing it?

Representing Resistance? PERFORMING RESISTANCE

Lobby of Government

Today I should be off to a TUC organised lobby of government.. it was only promoted by email a few weeks ago, they are so slow in leading. The energy from others, from us, has pushed them a little harder but its interesting to see that only an email from the leadership can ignite an interest, leadership matters.

I might go later but not for the indoor rally... though depends on some of the networks and organisations I work with now. Will you all be there?

And as I text others... I get a call to come along.. its funny I am being egged on to attend by stewards from 1111

Triptych

Chris E had said I should consider the form and its history in art. So on Sunday, whilst searching for loo to use between films and walking, I went into the National Gallery and asked, any triptchs. She sent me to the Sainsbury wing and said most were from 1400ish religous pieces.

Here is a little more from wiki. and I didn't realise till I got to some of them that they were panels in churches... whilst I looked around I wandered, if they took away the two sides what would be left? What do we loose without those panels.

One panel I looked at had a prayer on a side and just reading the wiki in 1944 Fracis Bacan, a dark but very interesting artist I like, did one, 'Three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixation'. Of this he said, "I could not paint Agamemnon, Clytemnestra or Cassandra, as that would have been merely another kind of historical painting…Therefore I tried to create an image of the effect it produced inside me."[32]