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Thursday 18 February, 7pm

American artist Sharon Lockhart’s films are an exhilarating act of sustained looking. They propose a radical, minimal cinema that looks back to the pivotal interest in gesture and the ‘everyday’ of the late 1960s and examines contemporary manifestations of ‘work’ through highly crafted, rigorously structured and staged portraits. Goshogaoka, Lockhart’s major early film, is a study of the exercise routines and drills of a girls’ basketball team in suburban Japan. Six ten minute long takes, shot from a fixed camera in the school gymnasium develop into a mesmerising account that hovers between the otherwise opposing impulses of documentary filmmaking and aesthetic formalism.

It is shown here with an early film of the dancer Trisha Brown’s astonishing 1978 solo Water Motor by the acclaimed filmmaker and cinematographer Babette Mangolte, with a series of videos by a younger generation of artists that also propose a reassessment of the relationship between realism and spectacle. Works by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz (featuring Wu Ingrid Tsang and Yvonne Rainer), Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Oliver Husain reinvestigate and renew an interest in choreography as political and personal expression and radical, theatrical artistic practice.

The Film Programme is curated by Ian White, curator, writer, artist and facilitator of the LUX Associate Artists Programme. He has worked on projects including The Artists Cinema at Frieze Art Fair, the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and Kino Arsenal, Berlin and as an artist has performed at Tate Modern, MoMA, New York and De Appel, Amsterdam.

Advance bookings for tonight's film have now closed. Tickets can be purchased and collected from the Information Desk from 6pm tonight (subject to availability).