Artists at Sea Thursday 18 October, 7pmArtist Film-maker Peter Huttonchronicles the life and death of a container ship in At Sea (2004-2007), charting its passage from South Korea to Bangladesh. Chosen and introduced by Shanay Jhaveri to accompany the new commission by Matt Stokes in Gallery 5. More | Open Screenings Sunday 21 October, 4pm See four artists present their short film work and discuss it with peers and Adjunct Film Curator Gareth Evans. For emerging and established filmmakers. Take part:film@whitechapelgallery.org More
| Altered States: Artists' Science Fiction Saturday 27 October, 11.30am Exploring the way in which artist film-makers have engaged with sci-fi, dystopia and alternative futures, we present a day of screenings and discussion about speculative futures with artists, writers and critics. Advanced booking essential. More
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Film Screenings in November
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Film London Jarman Award 2012 Saturday 3 November, 11.30am A day of events profiling the artists shortlisted for the 2012 Film London Jarman Award: Brad Butler & Karen Mirza; Aura Satz; Ben Rivers; Benedict Drew; James Richards; Shezad Dawood; Nathaniel Mellors; Matt Stokes; Marcus Coates and Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead. More
| Tonino Guerra & Michelangelo Antonioni: Red Desert Sunday 4 November, 3pm Poems by the legendary screenwriter and arborealist Tonino Guerra (1920–2012) read in Italian and English by Cristina Viti and Stephen Watts, followed by a screening of Antonioni’s influential and newly restored 1964 masterpiece scripted by Guerra.More
| Videobrasil em Contexto: Mahmoud Khaled and Claudio Bueno Thursday 8 November, 7pm The winners of this year’s Videobrasil em Contexto Prize present films from the Videobrasil archive, produced during their residencies at Delfina Foundation and Casa Tomada, São Paulo. More
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Mel Bochner: Madness! Sex! Failure! Death! Painters in Film The Horse’s Mouth; The Agony and the Ecstasy Sunday 11 November, 2pm Classic films selected by artist Mel Bochner and filmmaker Lizbeth Marano. More
| Performance Matters: Hélène Cixous with Adrian Heathfield: Writing Not Yet Thought Thursday 15 November, 7pm Screening of an intimate conversation on writing with the great French author. More
| Tareque Masud: Matir Moina (The Clay Bird) Sunday 18 November, 3.30pm Cannes Film Festival prizewinning drama of childhood, faith and political upheaval, followed by discussion between artist Matt Stokes and Film Curator Gareth Evans. More |
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