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Serpentine Cinema curated by Lucy Raven, session 2: Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Solidarity - with an introduction by Esther Leslie
Event
Serpentine Cinema curated by Lucy Raven. Session 2
20 Dec 2016
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Kensington Garden
- London
- W2 3XA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- South Kensington/Lancaster Gate
Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Solidarity - with an introduction by Esther Leslie
About
On the occasion of Lucy Raven’s solo exhibition, the artist has curated a series of screenings taking place in the evenings at the Serpentine Gallery and transforming the Gallery into a pop-up cinema. Produced in collaboration with MUBI. The second session features Solidarity (Joyce Wieland, 1973, 11’) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988, 104’). This session is introduced by Prof. Esther Leslie.
Lucy Raven’s art focuses on the marginal spaces in image production – what happens behind the camera or between the frames of a film. With a true aficionado’s eye, she has handpicked a film programme spanning nine decades of cinema, pairing classic shorts and rarities with cult features and animations guaranteed to appeal to those in search of new discoveries as well as the opportunity to enjoy old favourites in this rare gallery setting.
Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. She has research interests in Marxist theories of aesthetics and culture, with a particular focus on the work of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. Further research interests include the poetics of science, European literary, visual modernism and avant gardes, animation, colour and madness. She is the author of several books including Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism (2000); Hollywood Flatlands, Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant Garde (2002); Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry (2005); Walter Benjamin (2007), Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage (2014); Walter Benjamin: On Photography (2015); and Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form (2016). Her translations include Georg Lukacs, A Defence of 'History and Class Consciousness' (2002); Walter Benjamin: The Archives (2007); and Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller (with Sam Dolbear and Sebastian Truskolaski) (2016). She is the editor of three journals: Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory; Radical Philosophy; and Revolutionary History.
