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Single Shot
Lumen | 21 March 2007

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Super 8 films and performance by John Porter

Lumen | 6 February 2007

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Cinema of Prayoga

Lumen | 2 December 2006

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Big Screen launch event hosted for Cornerhouse by Lumen

Lumen | 13 September 2006
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Gastronomy
Lumen | 13 February 2006
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David Lamelas: Time is a Fiction
Lumen | 21 January 2006
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Something of the Night: Five film screenings curated by Lumen
Leeds City Art Gallery | 22 October - 26 November 2005
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Found Footage
Leeds Central Library | 3-13 November 2005
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Lillian Schwartz: A Beautiful Virus Inside the Machine
Ocularis, New York | Lillian Schwartz in person | 18 September 2005 | Further information »

3 Films by Stan Brakhage
Leeds Central Library | 13 August 2005 | Further information »

3 Films by Michael Snow
Leeds City Art Gallery | 30 July 2005
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LoVid at Lumen
Lumen, Monarch House, Queen Street, Leeds | 19 July 2005
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Patrick Keiller:
The City of the Future

24 May 2005 | The Leeds Club
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Karen Mirza / Brad Butler / no.w.here
23 April | Leeds Central Library | 7pm
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Margaret Tait:
Subjects and sequences
20 & 27 March 2005 | Leeds Central Library
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Reverence: The films of Owen Land
25 & 26 February 2005 | Leeds Central Library
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Lillian Schwartz:
A Beautiful Virus Inside the Machine

21 January 2005 | PureScreen, Salford
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Antenna by Robert Whitman
29/30 October 2004 | Leeds
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Evolution 2004
1-6 November 2004 | Leeds
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It's all here and now and the future
5 March 2004 | Leeds
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Evolution 2003
9-11 October 2003 | Leeds
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Artists talk: Bill Fontana
22 May 2003 | Leeds
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Karen Mirza / Brad Butler / no.w.here
Presented by Lumen in collaboration with Gregory Kurcewicz
23 April | Leeds Central Library, LS1 3AB | 7pm | £4.50/3.50
film still: Interior of a room with two wiindows looking out onto the street. One window had a blind pulled down.

Karen Mirza and Brad Butler have been making films together for seven years. They are the co-founders of no.w.here, a new centre for artist film production in London. They regularly curate screenings of artists' film and video in the UK and co-programme the first ever experimental film festival in India - Experimenta. This screening will feature three of the artists recent 16mm films that - in the tradition of structural filmmaking - explore the process, material and construct of film itself; and will include their two-screen projection, 'Where a straight line meets a curve'. The programme will conclude with a selection of 60 second films made by international artists to celebrate the launch of no.w.here.
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Films
Where a straight line meets a curve
2003, Karen Mirza/Brad Butler/David Cunningham, 30 mins. 16mm, 2-screen projection, sound, colour
"A multi-layered work of expanded cinema, a film which we can sit to or walk around while forming personal mappings through the visual descriptions of a single room. Fragments in compressed time that reside in a wide field of universal enquiry made accessible, through this familiar yet unrecognisable
space" (Lous Benassi E-M Arts Naples)

Inertia (provisional title)
2005, Karen Mirza /Brad Butler, 5 mins 16mm, silent, b/w
This is a work in progress, a single screen version of a three screen installation. The image of the sea filmed from under a pier. The pier's structure and framing evokes the apparatus of the early camera while the frozen sea refers to the final image of Wavelength by Michael Snow.

Bombay Heights (provisional title)
2005, Karen Mirza/Brad Butler, 8 mins, 16mm, colour
This film is composed of three seperate100ft rolls of 16mm film, the first roll was shot entirely in camera on location in Mumbai (Bombay). The second roll is a re-working of this material on the optical printer. Roll three is a combination of rolls one and rolls two. This is a work in progress about representation and re-presentation of, the space between buildings. no.w.here

60 second films

To celebrate the launch of no.w.here over 60 Uk and International artists were invited to make new work (1 minute films). This programme will also feature a selection of some of these films and videos from the new forthcoming no.w.here DVD.

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