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produced 'travelled through the be over, but the plant for which the in Landscape observation, continuing William Raban and Anthea Hinds.
mails ... strange paste-ups Goethe Institute provided the frame with time-lapse, and other specific With kids' workshops, installations,
bordering on the forbidden flew is vigorous and it would be crass systems of 'sampling'. Of the eight, events and straight' multi-projection
across the Atlantic, boxes that irresponsibility to leave it to wither— tight and accomplished films which screenings from 11.00 am till 9.30 pm
rattled and wheezed were delivered if you care about its future make he showed, the two which I liked each day for the week, and work from
by bewildered mailmen'. Some your views known. Sigi Krauss must most were Running Film and the two over a dozen film-makers, it was an
recent manifestations in this genre have opportunity to continue their screen Wind Vane Film. The former is a eventful show. Mike Dunford's
have found their way to 'Feedback' venture, the need for which has been simple, four minute film shot in piece set the atmosphere. In it he
without confusing the postmen too amply demonstrated. Kensington Gardens. The camera is removed all his clothes and put them
much, including a pack of surprises CLIVE PHILLPOT started as Wellsby runs directly away back on again repeatedly, thus
from The Bay Area Dadaist, c/o from it into the trees ahead for ten emulating the complete repetition of a
daddaland, 3199 Clay Street, San seconds, then the camera is switched filmed loop.
Francisco, California 94115 no. 9, off. The action is repeated until the MALCOLM LE GRICE
USA, attn. Bill Gaglione. The packet VISION film is used up. Wind Vane Film is the
incorporated, among many other result of his search for a way in
curiosities, a certificate conferring Money for film making groups which the events in the landscape can
upon Bud Shark, Malcolm Le Grice The British Film Institute Production be used to determine the sampling GRAPHICS
and myself a third share each in the Board has allocated £7,500 of this system (as opposed to the application
degree of Master of Finds Art, year's budget to be used as the basis of a mechanical, imposed strategy of Editions Alecto have recently
courtesy Fat City School of Finds of a fund for assisting groups in a different order). In this case there published five monographs written by
Art. As it happens the first art that I establishing facilities and equipment. are two cameras, 50 feet apart, Charles Spencer, each monograph is
finds after that is ECART, 6 rue As yet the exact terms of reference for on tripods with loose pan heads. The concerned with one artist and the
Plantamour, ch-1201, Geneva, i.e. this fund have not been worked out, cameras are free to swing side to side, print or multiple he has done for the
John M. Armleder and Patrick though there is no reason why it which they do in response to wind Editions Alecto Collectors Club.
Lucchini, who sent three packages. should not go into action at once. direction, each being equipped with The artists included are Kenneth
All I can say, apart from thank you, More information as it becomes large wind vanes. Each camera has a Armitage, Tom Phillips, Colin
is what I found in the most colourful available. microphone from a stereo recorder, Langeley, Achilles Droungas, and
package : seven small pieces of and this is replayed along with the Ed Meneeley. The monographs are
paper, including a green numbered Film from Chelsea School of Art two films from the cameras, side by admittedly intended as drawing
cloakroom ticket counterfoil ( ?), the In spite of resistance from the side. cards for prospective members of the
discarded leaf from a mini-calendar Department of Education and Science, club (and are given to members on
for Lundi 6 Aoüt with a motto from and some conservatism in the schools Grants to London Film Makers joining). They contain background
J.-J. Rousseau, a piece bearing a themselves Film and Video are slowly Wellsby is one of a group of film- information, selections of writings by
thrice repeated image of a Bactrian becoming established as normal makers who have recently been and about the artists, and
camel, and a reproduction of a small aspects of the Fine Art course. In offered grants by the Arts Council. reproductions of work. The
child from a newspaper ad. ( ?) ; as London there is the course which I This is a further and welcome move impression one gets when reading
well as these a small cellophane pack am involved with at St Martin's, the in the inevitable direction of giving the brochures, is strongly one that
of alphabetti spaghetti (I'm still film-making course at the Slade, and grants to film-maker/artists, with no these are justifications for the
working on that), a scarlet spotted Anne Rees- Mogg has firmly subterfuge about their being artists in artists having been selected and for
pink bean, an almost black piece established that film-making is a other fields, 'just making a film'. the prints or multiples they have
from a jig-saw, a small round seed, serious alternative to painting or Amongst this group is Paul Botham produced. The intention of the
and a piece of string 12 centimetres sculpture at Chelsea. This year she has who earlier in the year put on one of club is to serve as a patron in
long. After reciting a list of images tutored (under the umbrella of the liveliest shows at the London selecting artists to produce prints and
Paul Nash once said 'In my art I complementary studies) an Co-op Cinema, including mime, multiples for the members of the
would solve such an equation', well, exceptional group of students. All of clowns, gags, improvised music, club. The selection is to include
here is another equation. I have a them — Savva, David Pearce, strip, food and drink. His own quite artists from all over the world, but so
feeling that it is its own solution. Christiane Sasportas, Chris Monger classic 'abstract' City Scape and far the Greek, Australian and
and Chris Wellsby—showed work Eifel Trifel (classic in the sense of American artists have all been
Affidavit: idea — process — document, which covered new ground. being what the early film work of London residents. The first artist to
by six Israeli artists, the post- Christiane Sasportas's The Android Moholy Nagy, Man Ray or Leger, actually come from overseas was
exhibition document relating to the Fish was the first animated film I have might have been, if the culture had Harald Becker from Germany who
show at Gallery House London at the enjoyed for some years, and Chris developed enough) were a little worked on his screenprint for the
end of 1972 costs £0.75 from Gallery Monger showed two narrative films, swamped by the variety show. club during the summer. The proof
House London, 50 Princes Gate, Narcissus and Cold Mountain which However, I have some sympathy with which I saw of Becker's print
Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PG make use of the limitations of his attempt to break down the showed him to be a facile artist but
or certain bookshops, and is a spiral producing a 'talkie' with no sync. rarefied context of avant-garde the print made little impression
bound volume full of good offset equipment. Both his films have an film. Another of the recent grants goes beyond that. Unfortunately most of
reproductions, texts, and information informal, poetic wit which make me to Peter Gidal. In many respects, the prints done for the club's members
about the artists. It was not just the feel he could have a new approach to Gidal's extreme austerity is the have all been rather polished but with
dutiful exhibition of a gallery funded a form which I tend to think of as a opposite of what Botham aims for. very little depth to them. Only
largely from Germany for it contained dead duck. However the films which I consider Gidal's films, film writing, Ed Meneeley in his screenprint
some lively work; the artists were were most 'complete', mature in the and art criticism (see his Becket and Louina's Dream seemed to
Druks, Gershuni, Geva, Grünberg, sense that they needed no Structuralism article June Art and understand and make use of the
Kadishman and Neustein. The concession on the basis of being Artists) perhaps the most printmaking process. For information
liveliness of Avital Geva's bookish student work, were those by Chris fundamentally interesting, certainly about the Editions Alecto Collectors
culture was immediately obvious, Wellsby. Most of his earliest work was most uncompromising, around, but Club contact them at 27 Kelso
for this culture was derived from the done jointly with William Raban, both pressure on space in this column Place, London, W.8.
placing of discarded books in an iron being involved in the use of time- makes it difficult to review his work
frame, allowing water to collect and lapse as an observational method. The fully, which is why I have preferred In April I mentioned a then
encouraging mushroom and mould main film which they made together not to mention him at all. The same forthcoming publication called the
to develop. His making of using this form was the six-week goes for other London film-makers, Compact Gallery. It is now
'cemeteries of very old books' (walls time-lapsed marathon, River. Yar. among them Mike Dunford who has available and on view at the Print
of books and mortar) seems a rather Since then Raban has developed in received an Arts Council grant. Workshop, 28 Charlotte Street,
ambiguous answer to pollution by some very different directions, London, WC1. It consists of a
over-publication, but he describes recording events in the projection North of Watford perspex box containing 10 prints by
and illustrates other more socially situation, and projecting these back, Mike Dunford precipitated the 5 English and 5 Japanese artists.
useful ideas, including one involving, for example, as in Two Minutes tension which was inevitable when The set sells for £10.00.
dare I say it, a librarian. Forty-five, on the following evening the Walker Gallery, Liverpool put on a Unfortunately I have been unable to
of a series of shows, again re-filming. seven-day show of English avant- see the prints yet so can't comment
By the time you read this, Gallery Wellsby, seems to have developed garde film and film events under the further.
House's short flowering will probably more closely to their original interest title of Filmaktion', organized by BUD SHARK
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