EMILY WARDILL
Mar 27, 2010 3:00pm talk/event
In this seminar, Emily Wardill will discuss her new feature-length film, Game Keepers Without Game (2009).
Game Keepers Without Game is based on the seventeenth-century play Life is a Dream (La Vida es Suena) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The film takes Calderón's story of an imprisoned prince and translates it into the context of contemporary London. The original's themes of morality, incarceration and truth resurface in Wardill's present-day narrative of a violent child, put up for adoption at an early age, who re-enters the family home as a teenager and a stranger.
Emily Wardill is a London-based film-maker. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including solo projects at Spacex, Exeter (2009); ICA, London (2008); Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (2005 and 2006); and STANDARD (OSLO) (2008). Her work has been screened at the Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain; the International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and the London Film Festival. In 2008, Wardill was nominated for the Jarman Award and performed Life is a Dream at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2007.
£5 entrance fee.

LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN: AURAL CONTRACT - THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH ITSELF
Feb 1 - Mar 17, 2012
New commission, 'The Freedom Of Speech Itself', is a radio documentary looking at the UK’s controversial use of voice analysis to determine the origins of asylum seekers without travel and identity documents. It contains the testimonies of legal scholars, phonetic experts, refugees, interpreters and Home Office officials, amongst others. The work will be shown alongside excerpts from Abu Hamdan's audio archive containing material gathered through workshops with local young people, a wide range of interviews, and recordings from real-life trials.
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SARAH PIERCE
Apr 18 - Jun 8, 2012
Private view Tue Apr 17 6pm - 8pm
An exhibition of newly commissioned work produced as part of a year-long project. Commissioned by Book Works and The Showroom as part of Book Works' touring exhibition Again, A Time Machine.