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Offscreen Film Festival, RITS School of Arts, ULB and Maastricht University present Wednesday 19 March and Thursday 20 March CONFERENCE – IMAGINING THE PAST: KEN RUSSELL, BIOGRAPHY AND THE ART OF MAKING HISTORY EN The international conference Imagining the Past: Ken Russell, Biography and the Art of Making History seeks to show how Russell's work helps us to understand how cinema (re)constructs narratives about ourselves and the past. There will be discussions of Russell’s approach to biography, his documentaries on artists, and the feature films in which he imaginatively presents the lives of artists. NL De internationale conferentie Imagining the Past: Ken Russell, Biography and the Art of Making History wil aantonen hoe Russells werk ons helpt om te begrijpen hoe cinema verhalen over onszelf en de geschiedenis (re)construeert. De conferentie biedt analyses van Russells benadering van biografie, zijn documentaires over kunstenaars, en de langspeelfilms waarin hij de levens van kunstenaars op een creatieve manier herinterpreteert. De voertaal van de conferentie is Engels. FR Le colloque international Imagining the Past: Ken Russell, Biography and the Art of Making History propose de montrer comment l'oeuvre de Russell nous aide à comprendre les stratégies artistiques dont se servent certains cinéastes pour élaborer des narrations sur l'humanité et sur l'histoire. Les conférenciers se pencheront sur la façon singulière dont Russell a créé ses biographies, ses documentaires d'artistes et ses grands films dans lesquels il (ré-)imagine la vie de quelques artistes. Les présentations seront en anglais. Wednesday 19 March > 9:30 – 18:00 Thursday 20 March > 10:00 – 18:00 Cinema Rits, Rits Erasmus Hogeschool 70, Rue A. Dansaertstraat 1000 Brussels Participation is free but registration is required due to the limited seating capacities. Please confirm your participation at: [email protected] IMAGINING THE PAST Ken Russell, Biography, and the Art of Making History Conference Programme – Day One Wednesday 19 March 09:30 Registration and Coffee 09:45 Welcome and Introduction – Christophe Van Eecke (UM), Karel Vanhaesebrouck (ULB) and Muriel Andrin (ULB). Session 1: The Gentle Art of Biography 10:00 Approaches to the Ken Russell Biography – Paul Sutton 10:30 Ken Russell as a Challenge to the Theory of Biography – Maaike Meijer 11:00 Break 11:30 Filming Artists' Lives - But How About the Art? – Sandra Kisters 12:00 Plenary discussion 13:00 Lunch Session 2: Early Russell in Context 14:00 The Russell of Film: The Role of 35mm – Roger Crittenden 14:30 The Origins, Hallmarks and the Development of the Ken Russell Film Style – Paul Sutton 15:00 Break 15:30 Blurring the Boundaries between “Fact” and “Fiction”: Ken Russell, the BBC and “Monitor” – John Hill 16:00 Ken Russell’s “Pop Goes the Easel”: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy in “Swinging London” – John Wyver 16:30 Experiments in Television and Biography: Ken Russell's Work for the BBC and the Challenge to Public Service Broadcasting – Matt Melia 17:00 Plenary discussion IMAGINING THE PAST Ken Russell, Biography, and the Art of Making History Conference Programme – Day One Thursday 20 March Session 3: Devils Above! The Masterpiece in Context 10:00 Ken Russell: Paracinema and Cult – Xavier Mendik 10:30 “The Devils” in Britain: Cult, Culture and Controversy – Jamie Sexton 11:00 Break 11:30 “The Devils” as Theatrum Mundi – Christophe Van Eecke 12:00 Plenary discussion 13:00 Lunch Session 4: Phantasmagoria! Themes and Images 14:00 Russell's Wartime Imagery – Kevin Flanagan 14:30 Altered Titles - Typography in Ken Russell's Title Sequence for “Altered States” (1980) – Jack Post 15:00 Break 15:30 “Mahler”: Musical Phantasmagoria – Pascal Vandelanoitte 16:00 Music and Mental Spaces: “Savage Messiah” and “Mahler” Revisited – Dominique Nasta 16:30 Plenary discussion 17:00 Concluding Remarks – Christophe Van Eecke Offscreen Film Festival: KEN RUSSELL RETROSPECTIVE THU 13.03 21:30 | CINEMATEK TOMMY UK, 1975, 35MM, 110’ The musical odyssey of a deaf, dumb and blind kid that makes it to pinball champion, rock star and the new Messiah of a religious cult. Ken Russell transforms The Who's classic concept album to a purely sensory experience which can best be described as an LSD version of “Jesus Christ Superstar”. FRI 14.03 21:00 | CINEMATEK THE MUSIC LOVERS UK, 1970, 35MM, 123’ Russian composer Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) struggles against his homosexuality. He marries in order to obtain social acceptance, but unfortunately chooses a nymphomaniac (Glenda Jackson) whom he cannot satisfy. A lavish film filled with brilliant music selections. SAT 15.03 21:00 | CINEMATEK THE BOY FRIEND UK, 1971, 35MM, 109’ – US VERSION Fashion icon Twiggy makes her screen debut in this colourful tale of theater hopefuls with stars in their eyes. An affectionate screen adaptation of Sandy Wilson’s London/Broadway stage hit, which director Russell turns into an extravagant homage to the kaleidoscopic stagings of Busby Berkeley. SUN 16.03 17:00 | CINEMATEK VALENTINO UK, 1977, 35MM , 127’ Ballet-dancer-turned actor Rudolf Nureyev stars as Rudolf Valentino, the adored silent screen actor of early Hollywood. The film begins at his funeral in 1926 and backtracks to his glory-days when the former ballroom dancer used his good-looks and charm to become one of the first male screen idols. TUE 18.03 19:00 | CINEMA RITS THE DEVILS – THE ORIGINAL “X” VERSION UK, 1971, DIGIBETA, 111’ In 17th-century France, Father Grandier uses his powers to protect the city of Loudun from destruction at the hands of the establishment. Soon, he stands accused of the demonic possession of Sister Jeanne, whose erotic obsession with him fuels the hysterical fervour that sweeps through the convent. TUE 18.03 21:00 | CINEMATEK SAVAGE MESSIAH UK, 1972, 35MM, 103’ Henri Gaudier is a young Parisian sculptor of enormous talent but prone to rash,exuberant behavior. He begins a platonic but emotionally intense relationship with Sophie Brzeska, a cultured Polish woman 20 years his senior, whose air of intelligent refinement positively impacts his life and work. WED 19.03 17:00 | CINEMATEK LISZTOMANIA UK, 1975, 35MM, 103’ One of Russell’s most outrageous films: an audacious, vulgar, freewheeling fantasy about the life of pianist Franz Liszt, rock star, circa 1840. Featuring Roger Daltrey as the composer, a cryogenic Viking and machine-gun wielding robot Nazis, a finale out of Flash Gordon and Ringo Starr as the pope. WED 19.03 19:00 | CINEMA RITS SONG OF SUMMER: FREDERIC DELIUS UK, 1968, VIDEO, 73’ Russell's BBC adaptation of Eric Fenby's biographical memoir on the life of composer Frederick Delius tells the story of his twilight years in a simple, elegiac way. This deeply moving story of sacrifice, artistic struggle and endurance is among the greatest pieces of television ever made. WED 19.03 21:15 | CINEMATEK CRIMES OF PASSION US, 1984, 35MM, 107’ By day, Joanna (Kathleen Turner) is a prim fashion designer. At night she becomes China Blue, a kinky hooker on the streets of LA. But when she finds herself being stalked by a fanatical preacher (a truly over-the-top performance by Anthony Perkins), her depraved double life threatens to explode. THU 20.03 20:00 | CINEMA NOVA CLOUDS OF GLORY (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner & William and Dorothy) UK, 1978, DIGIBETA, 106’ An idiosyncratic two-part mini-series on the relationship between poet William Wordsworth and his beloved sister Dorothy, and the battle with laudanum faced by his friend and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Long considered lost, (re)discover this TV drama for the first time on the big screen. FRI 21.03 10:00 | CINEMA RITS THE BIG SMALL SCREEN: KEN RUSSELL AT THE BBC (YEARS 1962-1965) 14:00 | CINEMA RITS THE BIG SMALL SCREEN: KEN RUSSELL AT THE BBC (YEARS 1965-1967) Ken Russell made a name for himself during 1960s by directing a series of iconoclastic TV dramatizations of the lives of famous composers and dancers. On Friday March 21 at Cinema Rits we present a small selection of his early work, made for the BBC, which set new standards in documentary filmmaking. 10:00 - BBC YEARS 1962 TO 1965 ELGAR (1962, 50') A partly dramatized account of the life of classical composer Sir Edward Elgar. THE DEBUSSY FILM (1965, 82') An impression of the music and life of French composer Claude Debussy. 14:00 - BBC YEARS 1965 TO 1967 ALWAYS ON SUNDAY (1965, 45') An interpretation of the life of French primitive painter Henri Douanier Rousseau. ISADORA DUNCAN, THE BIGGEST DANCER IN THE WORLD (1966, 67') A dramatized biography of the American dancer Isadora Duncan. DANTE'S INFERNO (1967, 90') A film showing the private life of the emotional poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. FRI 21.03 19:00 | CINEMATEK MAHLER UK, 1974, BETA SP, 111’ Robert Powell stars as Mahler, the great Jewish romantic from 19th-century Vienna, drafting enormous symphonic works in the midst of rising antisemitism. An excursion into the cinema of pantheism, mixing lyrical tableaux and comic fantasy that adds up to a stirring, dream-like experience. FRI 21.03 22:00 | CINEMA NOVA ALTERED STATES US, 1980, 35MM, 103’ Research scientist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) believes other states of consciousness are as real as everyday reality. Using sensory deprivation, then adding powerful, hallucinogenic drugs, he explores these altered states... and endures experiences that make madness seem a blessing. FRI 21.03 24:00 | CINEMA NOVA THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM UK, 1988, 35MM, 93’ Russell uses “Dracula” author Bram Stoker’s final novel as the basic springboard into a surreal, campy and dark-humored tale concerning a bizarre cult and a series of sacrificial murders in honor of an ancient pagan god. He also manages to pack in enough phallic imagery to make a Freudian's head swim. SAT 22.03 22:00 | CINEMATEK SALOME’S LAST DANCE UK, 1988, 35MM, 86’ Russell’s extremely outlandish and visually startling adaptation of the notorious Oscar Wilde play, a fetishist retelling of the John the Baptist and Salome story from the Old Testament, with a few dollops of sexually perverse imagery thrown in for good measure. SUN 23.03 17:00 | CINEMATEK WOMEN IN LOVE UK, 1969, 35MM, 132’ Glenda Jackson garnered an Oscar for her role in this adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s classic novel. Russell captures the author's radical and uncouth thoughts about love and marriage in 1920s England and shocks 1970s England with a nude wrestling scene between manly men Alan Bates and Oliver Reed. RITS Rue Dansaertstraat 70 Brussels CINEMA NOVA Rue Arenbergstraat 3 Brussels CINEMATEK Rue Baron Hortastraat 9 Brussels Organization Conference: Muriel Andrin (ULB), Christophe Van Eecke (UM & ULB), Karel Vanhaesebrouck (ULB) Contact Festival: Dirk Van Extergem // [email protected] // 0032 (0)477-782316 www.offscreen.be Met de Steun van / With the support of / Avec le soutien de