Time: wednesday April, 8 pm.
Location: WORM, Boomgaardsstraat 71
Admission: 5 euro (Free for PZI students)
Tickets via: https://worm.stager.nl/web/tickets/12723
Tune in this Wednesday to the gauzone melody of Chris Petit's remarkable 1979 debut film 'Radio On'.
Mythic landscapes and a stalled, broken down UK rendered starkly and beautifully unlovely in an
existential road movie that was said at the time to be a film without a (national) cinema to belong to.
Check the misty Bowie soundtracked trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_hiwawjts
Petit was 'in love with the sensual delight of a camera moving forward through space. The film is
peppered with long, coldly stirring shots from B's clappedout Rover, moving through a series of
defamiliarised, Ballardian English landscapes the Westway at night, the M4, Hopperesque filling
stations in deepest Wiltshire, and what Petit's collaborator Iain Sinclair refers to as “typically featureless
Petit fields”. Between them Petit and Schafer attempt to remake our understanding of British
urban space, much as Godard discerned contemporary Paris's futuristic foreignness in Alphaville. The
opening shot… passes a handwritten sign reading, “We are the children of Fritz Lang and Wernher von
Braun” and comes to rest… to the sound of David Bowie singing Heroes/Helden, half in English, half in
German. Already we are are in unfamiliar territory.' John Patterson The Guardian
After the screening there will be a Q&A hosted by filmmaker (and Piet Zwart Institute course
director) Simon Pummel with Keith Griffiths, UK cinema's 'great facilitator' and producer of 'Radio On' as
well as countless other standout films such as Laura Mulvey/Peter Wollen’s 'Riddles of the Sphinx',
Peter Strickland’s 'Berberian Sound Studio' and Apichpatpong Weerasethakul's 'Uncle Boonmee Who
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To close the evening we'll screen Chris Petit's 1998 Radio On Remix where he refilmed some of the
films original locations, reflecting poetically on a different time and vastly changed cultural and physical
landscape.
Radio On is programmed by Niek Hilkmann and presented with Piet Zwart Institute's Master in Media
Design & Communication (Lens Based Media / Networked Media) as one in a series of events devoted
to the compact cassette tape at WORM.
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