Still: Tiny Furniture, dir: Lena Dunham, US, 2010
“Oh, you look so pretty!”
“Oh, are you serious? I feel like this outfit just screams, like, ‘I’ve been living in Ohio for four years – take me back to your gross apartment and have sex with me.’”
Lena Durnham captures the conflicted emotions of returning to home after college, to enter the confusing world of adulthood in Tiny Furniture. Continue reading
Simon Denny, Those who don't change will be switched off, 2012. Digital collage from transmission switchover advertising
This week members of our Student Forum talk to artists Simon Denny and Ira Schneider. Schneider is a pioneer of experimental video, and since 1969 has played a major role in the politics of video distribution. Denny was responsible for part of the gallery installation in our current exhibition Remote Control; the massive television signal Hub – an exhausted bit of grey equipment which was the engineering behind the distribution of the TV signal for the whole of North East London. Continue reading
Still: Damsels in Distress, Whit Stillman, 2011
“He’s lying. I find that very attractive”
Whit Stillman’s latest film plays all this week. The wonderful Greta Gerwig is Violet, a do-gooding Samaritan with a martyr complex, who, along with her friends Rose, Lily and Heather bravely fights a spate of suicides on her college campus by offering doughnuts, tap dancing and hand wrapped soap packages to the heartbroken and depressed.
Luke Fowler, Rotating Sine (for Eric) 2011. C-Type Print 67.3 x 67.3 x 3.3 cm framed. Courtesy the artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow.
Our first artist in residence, Glasgow-based Luke Fowler has been nominated for the Turner Prize 2012. We presented the London premier of Luke Fowler’s All Divided Selves (2011), for which he has been nominated, as part of Artists’ Film Club on 28 March 2012. Continue reading
To celebrate the brand new ICA week, we have ticket deals on all Tuesday screenings.