16 May 2007
Crackers by David Austen
Artprojx and Anthony Reynolds Gallery present
In association with Milton Keynes Gallery
Crackers by David Austen
Wednesday 16 May 2007
6.15-8pm
Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place, London WC2
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www.princecharlescinema.com
Tickets £7.50
£5 for Artists Curators, Students
Film introduced by David Austen
Screening organised by David Gryn
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Artprojx and Anthony Reynolds Gallery present
in association with Milton Keynes Gallery
Crackers by David Austen
Wednesday 16 May 2007
6.15-8pm
Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema
Crackers, 2007, 38 mins
Through the provocative and sometimes explicit nature of the language, the film resonates with many ideas that often resurface in Austen's work - love, sex, death and the ache of human impulse
This is the cinema premiere of the film Crackers, commissioned by Milton Keynes Gallery and the Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts, University of Brighton, with the support of Arts Council England. Written and directed by Austen, the film is set within the confines of a single space, the Drawing Room of The Regency Town House in Hove, once home to a sea captain and now undergoing a lengthy process of renovation. Sparsely furnished, the room is host to two protagonists, Tin and Heart (actors Toby Kebbell and David Leon), who engage in an exchange that reveals a dark, complex narrative, interjected with black humour and sharp wit. Through the provocative and sometimes explicit nature of the language, Crackers resonates with many ideas that often resurface in Austen’s work - love, sex, death and the ache of human impulse and emotion in which love lies complicit with fear, comedy complicit with tragedy. There is no resolution to the story being told, only ambivalence, an uneasy rhythm and profound uncertainty, as Heart poignantly remarks, ‘We are adrift. We have left our moorings’.
Milton Keynes Gallery
DAVID AUSTEN Austen was born in Harlow in 1960 and studied both at Maidstone College of Art and the Royal College London. His work is represented in many important collections including Tate, The British Council, Arts Council and the Government Art Collection, and in private collections as far reaching as Madrid and Alabama, Edinburgh and Sydney, Brussels, Los Angeles, Tokyo and New York. He has received major commissions in the City of London and in Cairo and has curated a number of exhibitions and publications including 'Exodus' at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge in 2004. In 2007 he has had a major solo exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery.
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