Friday 17 October 2008

Artprojx and Bupa Great North Run Cultural Programme present
Run for me by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard

and in conversation with Andrew Graham-Dixon

and featuring other films by:

Jane & Louise Wilson, Suky Best, Ravi Deepres and Michael Baig-Clifford

 

Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, London WC2
Box Office: 020 7494 3654 (open 1-9pm)
www.princecharlescinema.com

www.artprojx.com

www.greatnorthrunculture.org

www.iainandjane.com

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Artprojx and Bupa Great North Run Cultural Programme present


Run for me
by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard

Friday 17 October 2008
Brunch screening (10-12noon)

Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, London WC2

and ... Iain and Jane in conversation with Andrew Graham-Dixon

and featuring other films by:

Jane & Louise Wilson, Suky Best, Ravi Deepres and Michael Baig-Clifford


 

Run for me is a film about hope, fear, chafed nipples and free Mars Bars. Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard are the recipients of the 2008 Great North Run Moving Image Commission. Charting the course of the run, this major new work is a dynamic collage of talking heads involving dozens of runners, their supporters and spectators.

Filming in the week leading up to the 2007 run and at the start and finish lines on the day itself, Iain and Jane talked to race veterans and novices, the man who devised the course, the manager of the information kiosk and even Superman, as the fabric of the event is unpicked by those who participate.

From the endurance of training through to nerves on the starting line, finding your rhythm to trying to overtake Scooby Doo in the last mile, then crossing the all-important finish line with your head held high - ultimately, Run for me reveals, with crushing honesty, what makes us who we are, runners or not.

 

Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, London WC2
Box Office: 020 7494 3654 (open 1-9pm)
www.princecharlescinema.com

www.artprojx.com

www.greatnorthrunculture.org

www.iainandjane.com

 

Tickets £10 (£5 for artists, curators and students)

Event produced by David Gryn / Artprojx

More information on all the films:

Jane and Louise, broken time, 2005

broken time by the Turner Prize nominees was the first film to be commissioned by the Bupa Great North Run Cultural Programme, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the world’s largest half-marathon. The film explores the Bupa Great North Run’s route through Tyneside, the presence of the runners and their journeys through these urban spaces. This haunting and absorbing work charts human endeavour against the backdrop of one of the world’s most successful and best loved sporting events.

 

Michael Baig-Clifford and Ravi Deepres, Runner, 2006

Runner takes its audience as close as possible to the mental and physical experience of running a half-marathon through sound and the moving image.

Using material from the Bupa Great North Run in England and combining this with specially shot sequences of a single runner, it follows the journey of a man, one soul in the flood of 50,000. The film also features an original sound composition by :zoviet*france:

Suky Best, ABOUT RUNNING, 2007

Best created a hand-drawn animated film showing runners’ stark silhouettes with all background details removed. Using a process called occlusion, figures are made visible only as they pass each other. With just this basic visual information, the viewer is able mentally to recreate the imagery by recognition, concentrating on the shapes, rhythms and pace of the figures.

This animation technique focuses on the singular effort of one person defined against others. ABOUT RUNNING features a layered soundtrack based on interviews with runners from across the spectrum, from elite to fun-runners, professionals to first-timers.