M+ Screenings in July presents This is Now: Film and Video After Punk

M+, the museum for visual culture at the West Kowloon Cultural District, presents M+ Screenings: This is Now in partnership with the British Film Institute (BFI) National Archive and London-based artist film agency LUX. Showcasing a diverse range of independent moving image productions from the UK in the 80s, the screenings will take place from 8 to 10 July at Broadway Cinematheque in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong.

Consisting of six individual thematic programmes under the title This is Now: Film and Video After Punk, M+ Screenings in July includes twenty Super 8 and 16mm films restored by BFI, the majority of which are being screened for the first time in over three decades. The six thematic programmes, namely Performing the Self, Home Taping, Just Images, Before and After Science, Through a Glass, Darkly, and Video Killed the Radio Star, present an extraordinary collection of British artists’ moving image works during the post-punk era (1978–1985), many of which used inexpensive domestic technologies and developed dynamic aesthetics that challenged the then mainstream idea of moving image-making.

“A large number of these works have been out of circulation for over three decades, making their presentation here a momentous occasion and a great testament to the continuous effort undertaken by various institutions to preserve, digitise, and distribute historically important analogue material,” said Doryun Chong, Acting Director of M+. “The films and videos helped to define a generation on the verge of a technological and aesthetic breakthrough. I hope that by showcasing some of the remarkable works that grew out of that remarkably creative period in our new digital age, we can all find ways to imagine and realise new methods of creative dialogue with the world, just as these works have done.”

New ways of thinking about identity, the self, and the body were all part of punk’s powerful legacy to challenge mainstream society. The unlikely mix of visionary experimental films and bright, brash pop videos, inclusive of moving image works by renowned British filmmakers John Maybury, Cerith Wyn Evans, Isaac Julien and Grayson Perry, shows how visual culture changed radically at the start of the 1980s.

Tickets are available now. Programme details are available on the website: www.westkowloon.hk/mplusscreenings.

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About West Kowloon Cultural District

Located on Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, the West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the largest cultural projects in the world. Its vision is to create a vibrant new cultural quarter for Hong Kong. With a complex of theatres, performance spaces, and M+, the West Kowloon Cultural District will produce and host world-class exhibitions, performances, and cultural events, as well as provide 23 hectares of public open space, including a two kilometre waterfront promenade.

About M+

Hong Kong’s museum for visual culture – encompassing twentieth and twenty-first century art, design and architecture, and moving image from Hong Kong, China, Asia, and beyond – M+ will be one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world. Located adjacent to the park on the waterfront, the museum building is scheduled to open in 2019.

M+ Screenings: This is Now

Venue:

Broadway Cinematheque (Prosperous Garden, 3 Public Square Street, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon)

Tickets:

Standard Tickets - HK$85 per screening;

Concessions (Children, Seniors and Students) - HK$65 per screening;

bc VIP Member Tickets - HK$68 per screening.

How to book:

Online - www.cinema.com.hk;

Telephone - 2388 3188;

In Person - Tickets are available at the cinema’s box office and self-service ticketing machines.

(Concessions and bc VIP Member Tickets are not available for telephone bookings.)

For online and telephone bookings, a handling fee of HK$8 (Mondays to Fridays) or HK$10 (Weekends and Public Holidays) per ticket will be levied.

Screenings:

Date	Time	Programme (Director/ Year of production
8 July 2016 (Fri)	7.50pm	Performing the Self Still Life with Phrenology Head (Cerith Wyn Evans/1979)   Human League: Don’t You Want Me (Steve Barron/1981)   Chat Rap (John Scarlett-Davis/1983)   Adam Ant: Stand and Deliver (Mike Mansfield and Adam Ant/1981)   Adam Ant: Prince Charming (Mike Mansfield and Adam Ant/1981)   The Modern Image (John Maybury/1978)   Solitude (John Maybury/1981)   Bungalow Depression (Grayson Perry and Jennifer Binnie/1981)   The Private View (The Neo-Naturists/1981)
8 July 2016 (Fri)	9.30pm	Home Taping The Attitude Assumed: Still Life with Still Born (Cerith Wyn Evans/1980)   Skinheads and Roses (Jill Westwood/1983)   Pop Dolphin (Jeffrey Hinton/1983)   Tilt (George Barber/1984)   Branson (George Barber/1983)   Blue Monday (Duvet Brothers/1984)   The Commander in Chief (Gorilla Tapes/1984)   Art of Noise: Legs (George Barber and George Snow/1985)   Passion Triptych (Cordelia Swann/1982)
9 July 2016 (Sat)	2pm	Just Images The Court of Miracles (John Maybury/1982)   Glory Boys? (Vanda Carter/1983)   Territories (Isaac Julien/1984)   Psychic TV: Unclean (Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury/1984)
9 July 2016 (Sat)	3.40pm	Before and After Science Lost for Words (Anna Thew/1980)   The Green Witch and Merry Diana (Grayson Perry/1984)   Men Without Hats: Safety Dance (Tim Pope/1982)   Catherine De Medicis Part 2 (Steven Chivers/1984)
10 July 2016 (Sun)	2pm	Through a Glass, Darkly The Wound (Jill Westwood/1984)   Winter Journey in the Hartz Mountains (Cordelia Swann/1983)   Liquid Video (Michael Kostiff/1983)   The Branks (Akiko Hada/1982)   All Veneer and No Backbone (Holly Warburton/1980–84)   23 Skidoo: F.U.G.I. (Richard Heslop/1983)   Grayson/Flowers/Jewels (Jennifer Binnie/1985)   Lyrical Doubt (Judith Goddard/1984)
10 July 2016 (Sun)	3.30pm	Video Killed the Radio Star Echo and the Bunnymen: Shine So Hard (John Smith/1981)   The Miners’ Campaign Tapes: The Lie Machine (Various/1984)   The Greatest Hits of Scratch Video Volume 2 (Various/1984)