Syndicate: Perspectival days in Budapest - this week...

[Adele Eisenstein <adele@caesar.elte.hu>]

The Mûcsarnok (Kunsthalle Budapest) and the Soros Foundation C3 Center for
Culture & Communication have the pleasure to invite you to the lecture and
screening presentation of

John Wyver
Illuminations Television (London)

a special presentation of the Projected Perspective screening series
and the Perspective on Perspective scientific symposium
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 6 pm
in the lecture hall of the Mûcsarnok

Illuminations Television is celebrated for an extensive range of entertaining
and analytical programmes about film, television, computers and digital
culture. Moreover, the company is helping to invent a new media form 
?inhabited television?.

Looking to the media past, Illuminations? work in the libraries of the
broadcasters in the early 1990s demonstrated the extent of hidden riches and
established new standards for the use of archive material. Looking to the media
future, Illuminations Television has made numerous programmes about the digital
world, many of which have also made imaginative use of the Internet to extend
the possibilities of broadcasting.

John Wyver, writer and producer with the independent production company
Illuminations, is Chairman of the company, which he co-founded in 1983. He has
a strong interest in the creative possibilities of new technologies, and in
addition to his television work, he has initiated development projects with
interactive multimedia applications.
He has written and lectured extensively about television and new media
technologies, and is the author of The Moving Image: An International
History of Film, Television and Video (Blackwell/BFI Publishing, 1990).
His writings have been published in the Guardian and the Independent,
Sight and Sound, The Listener, Art Monthly and Screen.

Mûcsarnok (Kunsthalle Budapest), Budapest XIV., Hõsök tere

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The Mûcsarnok (Kunsthalle Budapest) and the Soros Foundation C3 Center for
Culture & Communication, in collaboration with the Orokmozgo Filmmuseum of the
Hungarian Film Institute, have the pleasure to invite you to the screening of

 Der Tag des Malers (The Day of the Painter)
A film by Werner Nekes (1997)

within the framework of the Projected Perspective screening series
followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.
Friday, 6 August 1999, 8.30 pm
(preceded by a screening of Peter Greenaway?s The Draughtsman?s Contract at
6.30 pm)
at the �rökmozgó Cinema of the Hungarian Film Institute

Budapest VII., Erzsebet krt. 39, tel.: 36.1/ 342.2167


Der Tag des Malers (The Day of the Painter)
A film by Werner Nekes (1997)

The painter gazes at his female model, or how voyeurism is transformed into
culture. An erotic adventure film where the theme is the viewer himself.

The Day of the Painter shows what "La Belle Noiseuse" does not want to
show: the enclosed "Unknown Masterpiece". It is a walk through the picture
world of the painter that directs the gaze to the unveiled female model.
Associations with the picture world of Dürer, Marey, Matisse, Seurat, to the
"Origin of the World" by Courbet, to "L?étant donnés" by Duchamp and to
many other works of art are evoked.

The Day of the Painter amalgamates the artistic expressive possibilities of
painting, video and computer images as film. Unusual ways of showing make the
film an adventure film for the viewer?s gaze. The art of painting melts into
the film.

The author?s five-part media history film series, MEDIA MAGICA (1986-97),
enjoys a repeat screening at the Mûcsarnok on 22 August 1999, the
concluding day of the Perspective exhibition.

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Adele Eisenstein
Perspektiva/Perspective
Symposium/Screening Series/International project coordination
C3: Center for Culture & Communication
Pf. 419, H-1537 Budapest, Hungary
(Budapest 1014, Orszaghaz u. 9)
Phone: +361 214 6856  Fax: +361 214 6872 
http://www.c3.hu/perspektiva


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