Events

Lux Screening: Frieze Film

Lux Screening: Frieze Film
Thursday 6 October
7–9pm
Eastside Projects

Every year since 2005 Frieze Foundation has commissioned a series of new short films (including several co-commissioned with LUX and the ICO for the Artists Cinema project). The commissions have included work by an extraordinary range of leading contemporary artists, from those who had never worked with film before through to established filmmakers. The films have been premiered at Frieze Art Fair in London, and subsequently screened at cinemas and festivals around the world. The Frieze Film touring programme brings together a selection of these commissions for the first time. From Cannes Palme d’Or- winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s The Anthem (2006), a filmic ‘blessing’ for the cinema in which it appears, to Linder’s carnivalesque Forgetful Green (2010), it offers a unique snapshot of contemporary approaches to the moving image.

The programme includes work by Miguel Calderón, Bonnie Camplin, Jess Flood-Paddock, Linder, Shahryar Nashat, Elizabeth Price, Wilhelm Sasnal, Stephen Sutcliffe and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

The films were commissioned by the Frieze Foundation curators, Polly Staple in 2005 and 2006, Neville Wakefield in 2007 and Sarah McCrory in 2010. In 2005 and 2006, the films were co-commissioned with LUX and the ICO for the Artists Cinema project.