Friday 4 July 2008
Artprojx and Matt's Gallery present
THE LAST SILENT MOVIE
by Susan Hiller
Friday 4 July 2008
Artprojx at Late at Tate Britain
Doors Open 6pm
3 Screenings from 6.30
Tickets are FREE (on a first come basis)
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1
www.tate.org.uk
Susan Hiller
The Last Silent Movie - screening over 3 weekends
12 & 13, 19 & 20, 26 & 27 July 2008
at Matt's Gallery
42-44 Copperfield Road
London E3 4RR
t 020 8983 1771
www.mattsgallery.org
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Artprojx and Matt's Gallery
at Late at Tate Britain present ...
THE LAST SILENT MOVIE (21 mins)
by Susan Hiller, 2007
An old man confronts us with some truths about language. The strangeness of his voice merges with the buzzing and humming artifacts of an archaic recording mechanism. A young girl repeats words she is trying to memorize in what sounds like French. Several men exuberantly chant fragments of a creation myth. Their creation myth is rhythmic and compelling. Next, an elderly woman tells a story of jealousy and murder to an appreciative listener. Then a gruff voice enquires about fishing conditions ...
The Last Silent Movie, opens the unvisited, silent archives of extinct and endangered languages to create a composition of voices that are not silent. They are not silent because someone is listening. The work sets free some of the ghosts and spectres haunting the unacknowledged unheimlich of sound recording which allows us to hear the words and voices of people mostly now dead in The Last Silent Movie, some of them sing, some tell stories, some recite vocabulary lists and some of them, directly or indirectly, accuse us, the listeners, of injustice. The film has been selected by David Gryn, Artprojx.
Friday 4 July, 2008
Artprojx at Late at Tate Britain
Millbank, London SW1
Doors open at 6pm
3 screenings from 6.30pm
Tickets FREE (on a first come basis)
www.tate.org.uk
The Last Silent Movie and a series of etchings by Susan Hiller will be shown at Matt’s Gallery over three weekends in July. This is the first time the prints will be shown in the UK.
Susan Hiller
The Last Silent Movie - screening over 3 weekends
12 & 13, 19 & 20, 26 & 27 July 2008
at Matt's Gallery
42-44 Copperfield Road
London E3 4RR
t 020 8983 1771
www.mattsgallery.org
There aren't many artists whose every new work you would want to see and Hiller is one of them.
Laura Cummings,The Observer,2008
Susan Hiller amplifies archived voices speaking in near-extinct languages, translations of which appear on a screen slung from the ceiling. It is a cinema of the unseen and the no-longerheard. There are snatches of song and folk myth, exhortations and lamentations, last voices no one can understand speaking languages in which no new thing will ever again be said. The voices echo and mingle with all the other voices, objects, films and images in this gigantic room.
Adrian Searle, The Guardian, Apr 8, 2008
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