The Silver Screen

Program

• Friday 19 September 2014

  7:30 PM

  

  True Stories

  David Byrne

  True Stories is a 1986 American film that spans the genres of musical, art, and comedy, directed by and starring David Byrne of the band Talking Heads. It co-stars John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, and Spalding Gray. Byrne has described the film as, "A project with songs based on true stories from tabloid newspapers. It's like 60 Minutes on acid."

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Past Events

• Friday 27 June 2014

  5:30 PM

  

  Liquidity

  Hito Steyerl

  Berlin-based artist and writer Hito Steyerl is one of the most critically acclaimed artists working in the field of video today. Steyerl’s work focuses on contemporary issues such as feminism and militarisation, as well as the mass proliferation and dissemination of images and knowledge brought on by digital technologies.

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The Silver Screen is a not-for-profit, patent-pending, artist-run space dedicated to videos with one silver screen.

Future considerations

• Workers Leaving The Googleplex by Andrew Norman Wilson
• Soft Cinema by Lev Manovich
• Corvo Branco by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass
• Hostage: The Bachar Tapes by Walid Raad
• November by Hito Steyerl
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