LFMC Demolition

In memory of the disused old railway building, the palace of delights in Gloucester Avenue, Camden, which was home to the London Film-makers Co-operative and London Musicians Collective for over fifteen years.Commissioned for a Century of Artists’ Film at TATE Britain, 2003/4, 16mm reels are intercut from the opening of BROKEN PIECES for the Co-operative, an expanded double screen projection where rhythmic fragments and in camera superimpositions of movies that we saw there from Lumiere to Vertov, Hans Richter, Stan Brakhage, Fernand Léger, Joseph Cornell, Maya Deren, Peter Kubelka, Jean Genet, Friedrich Murnau, Jack Smith, Anne Rees-Mogg, Germaine Dulac and Fleischer’s Betty Boop, resonate to a myriad of sounds from musicians of the LMC. So the spirit of the underground lives on… and on. The peeling screen, demolished doorways, the old café and film archive are a pile of rubble haunted by a mirage of flickering frames…A.T.