‘A Hundred Parts, A Hundred Faces’
is a curated series of events and screenings about self-portrait in film.
After Michel De Montaigne. 
EVENTS:
TALK: ‘Michel de Montaigne and Self-Portrait in Film.’
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery – Durbar Hall
NOVEMBER 23rd 2014. 1.30pm
Free Entry
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Montaigne was one of the most influential writers of the 16th Century, who tried to create an honest self-portrait including all the strengths, weaknesses, fears and joys of his daily life experiences.
His fascinating and deeply human writing includes titles: Of Age,’ ‘The Force Of The Imagination,’ ‘Of Experience,’ ‘Of Dying,’ and ‘Of Drunkenness.’
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Considering Montaigne’s attempt at honesty, including his sense of uncertainty about the truth itself, Rebecca will talk about his work and look at self-portraits in film, a hard to define genre that sometimes falls between documentary and fiction.
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Screening of excerpts include:
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Jonas Mekas, ‘As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses Of Beauty’ 2000
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Rebecca E Marshall, ‘1995-2013, excerpts from personal archive.
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Jonathan Caouette, ‘Tarnation’ 2003.
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Agnes Varda, ‘The Gleaners And I’ 2000 and ‘The Beaches Of Agnes’ 2008.
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Chris Marker, ‘Sans Soleil.’ 1983.
FOLLOWED BY SCREENING: ‘Of Joy’
Super 8, MiniDV & HD / 11 mins / Rebecca E Marshall / 2014 / UK
2.30pm / 2.45pm / 3.00pm
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Drawing from her personal archive and diary material, this is an invocation of joy from glowing gut warmth, to slap in the face surprise. In collaboration with composer Liam Taylor-West.
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SCREENING: ‘Of Joy’ – with live Quartet
Kings Place, London
Monday 3rd November 2014. 8pm
A New Dots Event
new short film by Rebecca Marshall
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TALK: ‘Michel de Montaigne and Self-Portrait in Film.’
Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
Saturday 8th March 2014. 2pm
Tickets £4
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Montaigne was one of the most influential writers of the 16th century, who tried to create an honest self-portrait including all the strengths, weaknesses, fears and joys of his daily life experiences.
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His fascinating and deeply human writing includes titles: Of Age,’ ‘The Force of the Imagination,’ ‘Of Experience,’ ‘Of Dying,’ ‘Of Drunkenness’ and ‘That We Taste Nothing Pure.’
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Considering Montaigne’s attempt at honesty, including his own sense of uncertainty about the truth, Rebecca will talk about his work and look at techniques used by filmmakers to make self-portraits, a hard to define genre of moving image that sometimes falls between documentary and fiction.
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Screening of excerpts include:
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Jonas Mekas, ‘As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’ 2000 (excerpt).
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Rebecca E Marshall, ‘This That Happens’ 1995-2013, excerpts from personal archive.
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Jonathan Caouette, ‘Tarnation’ 2003.
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Agnes Varda, ‘The Gleaners and I’ 2000 and ‘The Beaches of Agnes’ 2008, (excerpts).
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Chris Marker, ‘Sans Soleil’ 1983, (excerpt).
BOOK A TICKET
SCREENING: ‘Sans Soleil’
Sunday 9th March 2014, 8pm
Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings
Chris Marker / 1983 / France / 100mins / subtitles / 15
A narrated journey through the thoughts, pictures and memories of a young female woman’s travels in Japan, Iceland and San Francisco. Visionary director Chris Marker brings this story to life with an idiosyncratic meditation on time and place, memory and image in our post-modern universe.
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With an introduction by Rebecca E Marshall looking at Marker’s exploration of how memory serves to constitute an individual’s sense of self and the collective process of forging an official version of history.
Doors open at 7.15pm
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Exhibition: Six Moving Image works
Feb 13th – March 16th 2014
Thurs – Sun, 7.15pm – 8.00pm
Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings
Free entry
Six moving image works by Rebecca that draw from her personal archive.
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The films’ titles are inspired by the work of Michel de Montaigne, one of the most influential writers of the 16th century, who tried to create an honest self-portrait including all the strengths, weaknesses, fears and joys of his daily life experiences;
‘Of Age,’
‘The Force of Imagination,’
‘Of Experience,’
‘Of Dying,’
‘Of Drunkenness,’
‘That We Taste Nothing Pure.’
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SCREENING: ‘Glitterbug’
Saturday 7th December 2013, 8pm
Electric Palace Cinema
15 / 60mins / Derek Jarman / 1994 / UK
A stunning collage of ecstatic Super-8 fragments, this is a loving tribute to Derek Jarman posthumously assembled from his proli lific filming of everyday events. Jarman’s vibrant photography combined with dynamic cutting reveals glimpses into his life, from London streets to Spanish countryside—with visions of dances, performances, intimate moments and quiet observations set to a mesmerizing score by Brian Eno.
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Especially touching are the sequences with longtime muse Tilda Swinton, her joyful, intimate interaction with the camera a testimony to their devoted friendship.
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Followed by Q&A with Ben Gibson (producer of ‘Wittgenstein’), Richard Heslop (filmmaker and camera operator on ‘The Last of England’) and Rebecca E Marshall to discuss ‘ film as diary.’
SCREENING: ‘Dear Diary’
Sunday 8th December 2013, 8pm
Electric Palace Cinema
15 / 100mins / Nanni Moretti / 1993 / Italy
Nanni Moretti plays himself in this wry look at life. Presented in three chapters, he uses the experiences of cruising on his moped around remote islands in search of peace to finish his new film and consulting doctor after doctor to cure his annoying rash, to cast a humorous look at his life and those around him.
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There’s poetry as well as comedy in his depiction of an artist struggling to make the next big leap, only to be caught singing along to an old TV film in a grocer’s. . Where the narration falls away, we follow Moretti in vast swooping takes behind his Vespa into the Italian countryside, with ecstatic piano by Keith Jarrett.
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With intro by Rebecca E Marshall.
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