Long fascinated with Anderson’s place in British film and television, and praised for his film about Anderson’s relationship with Richard Harris, artist and filmmaker Stephen Sutcliffe is brilliantly well placed to craft an Experimenta Mixtape about the tensions, contexts and opportunities that flowed through Anderson’s life and work. As ever with the Mixtapes, no other information is provided in advance. Expect a richly provocative collage of highly textured film extracts, TV shows, and surprises from a tape compilation master.
Stephen Sutcliffe (b.1968, Harrogate) is an artist who lives and works in the UK. Recent solo exhibitions include, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2019), Talbot Rice Edinburgh, Hepworth Wakefield (2017), Rob Tufnell, London (2015), Tramway, Glasgow (2013). In 2018 he participated in the Manchester International Festival in collaboration with Graham Eatough on a film for the Whitworth Gallery, for which they won the Contemporary Arts Society Award. He has been shortlisted for the Jarman Award twice and in 2012 he won the Margaret Tait Award. In 2019 he had two books published, at Fifty (Sternberg Press) a monograph and Much Obliged (Book Works) a kind of autobiography. In 2019 he curated an exhibition of items from the Herbert Read Archive at the Brotherton Library in Leeds University with the arts group Pavillion, which was accompanied by a new video, City of Dreadful Something.
William Fowler is Curator of Artists’ Moving Image at the BFI National Archive where he acquires, restores and curates films and co-founded BFI Flipside. His projects have included Queer Pagan Punk: Derek Jarman, the largest ever UK retrospective of Jarman’s films; This Is Now: Film and Video After Punk which toured internationally in collaboration with artist moving image agency LUX and included over twenty restorations; and most recently the restoration of films by Lorenza Mazzetti which in January played at MoMA, New York. In 2023, he co-curated the Raven Row gallery show People Make Television, a major retrospective on open-access community TV. His co-authored book The Bodies Beneath: The Flipside of British Film and Television is available from Strange Attractor Press.
Lindsay Anderson Experimenta Mixtape Curated by Stephen Sutcliffe includes extracts from the following:
(Lindsay Anderson) Chariots of Fire, Hugh Hudson, 1981
Zero for Conduct, Jean Vigo, 1933
Black Magic: Taxi, Lindsay Anderson, 1964
Lois Sutcliffe
Meet the Pioneers, Lindsay Anderson, 1948
Lucky Man: A Portrait of Lindsay Anderson, Ken McMullen, 1995
Death in Leamington, Stephen Sutcliffe, 2003
The White Bus, Lindsay Anderson, 1964
September Song, Stephen Sutcliffe, 2023
O Dreamland, Lindsay Anderson, 1953
In Celebration, Lindsay Anderson, 1975
Monty Python’s Flying Circus, 1969
(Alan Price) O Lucky Man!, Lindsay Anderson, 1973
(Helen Mirren) Arts Bazaar, 1975
(Gavin Lambert) Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?, Becky Brazil, 2004
Graham Chapman
Britannia Hospital trailer, 1982
(Derek Jarman/David Puttnam), A Turnip Head’s Guide to British Film Industry, Alan Parker, 1985
(Lindsay Anderson), Free Cinema, 1985
John Sessions,1988
Lindsay Anderson talks to Christopher Logue, South Bank Show, 1981
Meet the Pioneers, Lindsay Anderson, 1948
Graham Crowden
Come to the Edge, Stephen Sutcliffe, 2003
Zero for Conduct, Jean Vigo, 1933
Twixt Cup and Lip, Stephen Sutcliffe, 2016
Is That All There Is?, Lindsay Anderson, 1992
Twixt Cup and Lip, Stephen Sutcliffe, 2016
(I am) For the Birds, Stephen Sutcliffe, 2019
The Old Crowd, Lindsay Anderson, 1979
In Conversation, Lindsay Anderson and Mamoun Hassan, 1973
Lucky Man: A Portrait of Lindsay Anderson, Ken McMullen, 1995
Twixt Cup and Lip, Stephen Sutcliffe, 2016
Lucky Man: A Portrait of Lindsay Anderson, Ken McMullen, 1995
Casting Through/Scenes from Radcliffe, Stephen Sutcliffe, 2017
The Old Crowd, Lindsay Anderson, 1979
Britannia Hospital, Lindsay Anderson, 1982
The Old Crowd, Lindsay Anderson, 1979
Is That All There Is?, Lindsay Anderson, 1992
Meet the Pioneers, Lindsay Anderson, 1948
O DREAMLAND! LINDSAY ANDERSON’S DARK BRITISH CINEMA
Lindsay Anderson Experimenta Mixtape, curated by Stephen Sutcliffe
Thu 30 May 18:10
If You Were There…
Fri 31 May 18:30
The Whales of August
Fri 31 May 20:30
With thanks to
The Lindsay Anderson Archive at the University of Stirling
O Lucky Lindsay Anderson!
4-week course from 7 May – 28 May, 2-4pm at City Lit, Keeley St. exploring the work and influence of visionary director, Lindsay Anderson, with course tutor John Wischmeyer. To book online www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/o-lucky-lindsay-anderson or call 020 3871 3111 and quote course code HF364
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