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The nude has long been a litmus test for the artist. But the nude was never a human body; it was always symbolic or allegorical,
The nude has long been a litmus test for the artist. But the nude was never a human body; it was always symbolic or allegorical,
In 1994, an episode of the BBC television documentary strand Arena focused on the queer English filmmaker Derek Jarman. It served as the premiere of
sometimes I find myself wondering if the castle is a castle at all a place apart, or merely the castle that every snail must carry
German writer Martin Arz recently initiated a project to memorialize Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Freddie Mercury with a decorated pissoir on Holzplatz in the Glockenbachviertel
Et maintenant par la grâce de l’imaginaire, bon voyage! – Guy Hocquenghem, Le Gay Voyage Picture a scene: young sportsmen at the end of a
It is relatively easy to distil the political to a cool academicism, to view it only via the lens of historiography or to abstract it
Having championed the ‘new romantic’ filmmakers such as John Maybury, Holly Warburton and Cerith Wyn-Evans that emerged at the end of the 1970s, Michael O’Pray
“The relationship between the absence of use, of activity, and the sense of freedom, of expectancy, is fundamental to understanding the evocative potential of the
Writing about art requires a subtraction—suspending my own assumptions about a work of art in advance of the encounter. How do I avoid attributing veracity
As the LFMC 50th anniversary year comes to an end, we have asked artist-filmmaker, and former Co-op worker, Nicky Hamlyn to reflect on the Co-op’s workshop and
Throughout the year, marking the 50th anniversary of the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative, LUX has celebrated the LFMC’s legacy with a series of screenings, performances, talks, commissions and
The following text was written by A.L. Rees in 2002 as an overview of the work produced during the first decade of the London Film-Makers’
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative (LFMC), a ground-breaking organisation that inaugurated a tradition for the production, distribution, and exhibition
A photograph of five men standing in front of a concrete wall, somewhere in Beirut. Four hold rifles. One looks toward the camera while the
In this previously unpublished text from 2002, Barry Miles surveys some of the activities in London’s counterculture at the time that the LFMC was formed.
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