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Scratch Projection / December 3, 2019

SIMON PAYNE: SYSTEMS CINEMA IN COMPANY

Screening in the presence of the filmmaker

Simon Payne has been committed to making abstract cinema for twenty years. His videos are predominantly orientated around bold graphic forms and highly structured sequences that produce unexpected colour combinations and conflicting planes. Sometimes there are contingent elements in his work, which correspond with incidental indications of the artist’s hand, but his approach to cinema is primarily objective. The systems that underpin Simon Payne’s videos involve the entirety of the screen and every edge, while the effect of these systems often spill out of the screen, to illuminate the cinema in remarkable ways. This unique programme for Scratch Projections includes 16mm films by three friends and colleagues: Nicky Hamlyn, Neil Henderson and Jennifer Nightingale. Despite the difference in medium, there are several shared principles that span their work. Each of them sees explicit processes and time-based structures as the essence of cinema.

SIMON PAYNE: SYSTEMS CINEMA IN COMPANY

Tuesday December 03, 2019, 20:30



EDGES: WAVES
by Simon PAYNE
2018 / DCP / b&w / sound / 6' 00
COLOUR BARS
by Simon PAYNE
2004 / DCP / color / silent / 8' 00
NEW RATIO
by Simon PAYNE
2007 / DCP / color / sound / 1' 40
IRIS OUT
by Simon PAYNE
2008 / DCP / color / sound / 10' 00
CUT OUT
by Simon PAYNE
2013 / DCP / color / sound / 3' 33
PRIMITIVE CINEMA
by Simon PAYNE
2015 / DCP / color / silent / 2' 00
WEST WINDOW / EAST WINDOW
by Jennifer NIGHTINGALE
2013 / 16mm / color / silent / 10' 00
MATRIX
by Nicky HAMLYN
1995 / 16mm / color / silent / 7' 00
CANDLE
by Neil HENDERSON
2018 / 16mm / b&w / silent / 3' 00
SET THEORY I-IV
by Simon PAYNE
2018 / DCP / color-b&w / sound and silent / 19' 00

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address Luminor Hôtel de Ville
20 rue du Temple
75004 Paris
France
metro Hôtel de Ville (lines 1 & 11) / Châtelet (lines 1, 4, 7, 11 & 14) / Les Halles (RER A, B & D)
tel +33 (0)1 46 59 01 53
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Simon Payne's films in Light Cone's catalogue
rates full rate: 9.50 €
reduced rate: 7.50 €
CIP rate: 5.00 €
card Luminor 5 screenings: 31.00 €
card Luminor 10 screenings: 54.00 €
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