Flamin initiative, including Jarman award, will continue for the next four years.
Film London has been awarded £1.3m in funding for its work with artist filmmakers as part of Arts Council England’s 2018-22 National Portfolio.
The funding ensures that Flamin (Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network) will continue for the next four years.
Flamin programmes include Flamin Productions, Film London’s commissioning scheme for mid-career artists, and the Film London Jarman Award, which recognises UK-based artists working with the moving image.
The funding will also allow Flamin to develop new award schemes, training, touring programmes and partnerships.
Flamin Productions has backed films by Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea), Elizabeth Price (West Hinder), Sebastian Buerkner (The Chimera of M.), Sarah Turner (Public House) and Mark Leckey (Dream English Kid 1964-1999Ad).
Adrian Wootton, chief executive of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “We’re absolutely delighted that our Arts Council England funding has been...
Film London has been awarded £1.3m in funding for its work with artist filmmakers as part of Arts Council England’s 2018-22 National Portfolio.
The funding ensures that Flamin (Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network) will continue for the next four years.
Flamin programmes include Flamin Productions, Film London’s commissioning scheme for mid-career artists, and the Film London Jarman Award, which recognises UK-based artists working with the moving image.
The funding will also allow Flamin to develop new award schemes, training, touring programmes and partnerships.
Flamin Productions has backed films by Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea), Elizabeth Price (West Hinder), Sebastian Buerkner (The Chimera of M.), Sarah Turner (Public House) and Mark Leckey (Dream English Kid 1964-1999Ad).
Adrian Wootton, chief executive of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “We’re absolutely delighted that our Arts Council England funding has been...
- 6/28/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveriesNEWS© Bronx (Paris). Photo: Claudia Cardinale © Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Getty ImagesThe Cannes Film Festival has released the vibrant poster for their 70th edition. Beautiful, definitely, but how much longer are they going to rely on their glorious past rather than pointing to the present and future?We are excited to announce a collaboration with the Filmadrid festival in Spain to bring you films from their new section, The Video Essay, this June. Submissions are now open, so for video essayists new and experienced we encourage you to send in your work for consideration. Those selected will be screened both at the festival in Madrid and on the Notebook.Recommended VIEWINGWe adored Terence Davies' by turns witty and austere Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion when it premiered last year at the Berlinale. With its U.S. release coming soon, we finally have a local trailer.
- 3/29/2017
- MUBI
Flamin Productions backs new works from Uriel Orlow, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler and Charlotte Ginsborg.
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) has announced the latest round of Flamin Productions Development Awards for London-based artist filmmakers.
Uriel Orlow, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler and Charlotte Ginsborg will receive funding and bespoke mentoring to develop three new projects:
The King Against Mafavuke Ngcobo
Director Uriel Orlow recently received the Art Prize from the City of Zurich. Set against African landscapes, The King Against Mafavuke Ngcobo will explore medicinal plants as dynamic agents linking nature and humans and raise questions around issues such as the commercialisation of indigenous knowledge.
The Susurluk Scar
Winners of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Arts 2015, directors Karen Mirza and Brad Butler will explore Turkey’s Susurluk Scandal, which provoked speculation on the close relationship between the Turkish government, the armed forces and organised crime.
Damselfish
Tom Pietas holds the world record for holding...
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) has announced the latest round of Flamin Productions Development Awards for London-based artist filmmakers.
Uriel Orlow, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler and Charlotte Ginsborg will receive funding and bespoke mentoring to develop three new projects:
The King Against Mafavuke Ngcobo
Director Uriel Orlow recently received the Art Prize from the City of Zurich. Set against African landscapes, The King Against Mafavuke Ngcobo will explore medicinal plants as dynamic agents linking nature and humans and raise questions around issues such as the commercialisation of indigenous knowledge.
The Susurluk Scar
Winners of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Arts 2015, directors Karen Mirza and Brad Butler will explore Turkey’s Susurluk Scandal, which provoked speculation on the close relationship between the Turkish government, the armed forces and organised crime.
Damselfish
Tom Pietas holds the world record for holding...
- 12/17/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
New works from Beatrice Gibson, Sarah Turner and Larissa Sansour greenlit.
Three artist filmmakers have received commissions worth a combined $150,000 (£100,000) from Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin).
Beatrice Gibson, Larissa Sansour and Sarah Turner have received commissions through Flamin Productions, a fund aimed at nurturing talent and supporting artists with a combination of financial backing, bespoke training and professional mentoring. It is supported by Arts Council England.
Past recipients include Ben Rivers’ award-winning feature length Two Years at Sea, Elizabeth Price’s West Hinder, which formed part of her 2012 Turner prize-winning exhibition, and Sebastian Buerkner’s The Chimera of M, which won the Tiger Award for best short at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.
Chosen from an pool of 100 applicants, Flamin Productions’ three new commissions include Larissa Sansour, whose recent work has featured in solo shows internationally, has been greenlit for her sci-fi video essay In The Future, They Ate From the Finest Porcelain.
Sarah Turner, whose...
Three artist filmmakers have received commissions worth a combined $150,000 (£100,000) from Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin).
Beatrice Gibson, Larissa Sansour and Sarah Turner have received commissions through Flamin Productions, a fund aimed at nurturing talent and supporting artists with a combination of financial backing, bespoke training and professional mentoring. It is supported by Arts Council England.
Past recipients include Ben Rivers’ award-winning feature length Two Years at Sea, Elizabeth Price’s West Hinder, which formed part of her 2012 Turner prize-winning exhibition, and Sebastian Buerkner’s The Chimera of M, which won the Tiger Award for best short at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.
Chosen from an pool of 100 applicants, Flamin Productions’ three new commissions include Larissa Sansour, whose recent work has featured in solo shows internationally, has been greenlit for her sci-fi video essay In The Future, They Ate From the Finest Porcelain.
Sarah Turner, whose...
- 3/18/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Film London has been awarded almost £1m ($1.7m) to continue to deliver the Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin), offering artist filmmakers funding, training and mentoring.
National Portfolio Organisation funding will see the Film London Jarman Award continue, the annual prize which awards £10,000 ($17,000) to an artist who demonstrates exceptional creativity and resists conventional definition embodying the legacy of Derek Jarman.
Film London will again run Flamin Productions, a commissioning fund offering up to £40,000 ($70,000) production funding, plus development support for large scale, single screen works which represent a major step in an artist’s practice.
The Arts Council England funding will also enable Flamin to continue to develop partnerships with other organisations to deliver events, advice, training and other opportunities for artists, including international and domestic exhibition of their work.
Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “Over the past nine years we have established a successful framework, including core activity...
National Portfolio Organisation funding will see the Film London Jarman Award continue, the annual prize which awards £10,000 ($17,000) to an artist who demonstrates exceptional creativity and resists conventional definition embodying the legacy of Derek Jarman.
Film London will again run Flamin Productions, a commissioning fund offering up to £40,000 ($70,000) production funding, plus development support for large scale, single screen works which represent a major step in an artist’s practice.
The Arts Council England funding will also enable Flamin to continue to develop partnerships with other organisations to deliver events, advice, training and other opportunities for artists, including international and domestic exhibition of their work.
Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “Over the past nine years we have established a successful framework, including core activity...
- 7/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Although the latest Turner prize went to a video artist, the 12 Years a Slave director shows that the art form is just a finishing school for serious film-making
The rise of video and film art appears irresistible. The Turner prize has just been given to a video for the second year in a row.
Yet in spite of the successes of Laure Prouvost and Elizabeth Price, the triumph of video art is an illusion. It is not a stable, enduring art form; it may not even be an art form at all. It is in reality an experimental space at the margins of a much bigger culture of the moving image – a place for talented film-makers to mess around with a freedom they could never enjoy in commercial cinema or mainstream television, but which the true artists among them hunger to apply in those bigger, more important arenas.
For it...
The rise of video and film art appears irresistible. The Turner prize has just been given to a video for the second year in a row.
Yet in spite of the successes of Laure Prouvost and Elizabeth Price, the triumph of video art is an illusion. It is not a stable, enduring art form; it may not even be an art form at all. It is in reality an experimental space at the margins of a much bigger culture of the moving image – a place for talented film-makers to mess around with a freedom they could never enjoy in commercial cinema or mainstream television, but which the true artists among them hunger to apply in those bigger, more important arenas.
For it...
- 12/6/2013
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
The director talks artists' film and video, from advances in technology to moving-image art being taken more seriously
Hi Steven, can you tell us a little bit about Film and Video Umbrella?
Film and Video Umbrella (Fvu) produces, presents and promotes artists' work with the moving image. The projects we commission are made more for gallery exhibitions than the cinema circuit, and by people who probably went to art school rather than film school! But that distinction aside (and it's not an absolutely hard-and-fast one) our brief is pretty wide-ranging, stretching from the experimental fringes of the film avant-garde to the new horizons opened up by the internet, social media and digital technology.
I've been director for just over 20 years and, in that time, the organisation has grown from a small-scale two-person operation to become the leading commissioners of artists' film and video in the country, with almost 200 projects to our name now,...
Hi Steven, can you tell us a little bit about Film and Video Umbrella?
Film and Video Umbrella (Fvu) produces, presents and promotes artists' work with the moving image. The projects we commission are made more for gallery exhibitions than the cinema circuit, and by people who probably went to art school rather than film school! But that distinction aside (and it's not an absolutely hard-and-fast one) our brief is pretty wide-ranging, stretching from the experimental fringes of the film avant-garde to the new horizons opened up by the internet, social media and digital technology.
I've been director for just over 20 years and, in that time, the organisation has grown from a small-scale two-person operation to become the leading commissioners of artists' film and video in the country, with almost 200 projects to our name now,...
- 9/12/2013
- by Matthew Caines
- The Guardian - Film News
More than $200,000 (£135,000) Invested in London-based artist film-makers through Flamin Productions.
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) are investing $206,000 (£135,000) of production funding in four new moving image projects from London-based artists.
Mark Leckey, Simon Martin, Gail Pickering and Grace Schwindt have been commissioned through Flamin Productions, which provides artists with the opportunity to produce “ambitious and original moving image works”.
Supported by Arts Council England, Flamin Productions is dedicated to funding large scale, single screen works which represent “a significant step forward in an artist’s practice”.
It provides development and production funding as well as bespoke training, advice and professional mentoring.
To date the scheme has produced a range of artworks, including Ben Rivers’ award-winning feature length Two Years at Sea, which was released theatrically and recently acquired by Channel 4, Elizabeth Price’s West Hinder, which was part of the exhibition for which she won the Turner Prize in 2012 and Hilary Koob-Sassen’s Transcalar Investment Vehicles which...
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) are investing $206,000 (£135,000) of production funding in four new moving image projects from London-based artists.
Mark Leckey, Simon Martin, Gail Pickering and Grace Schwindt have been commissioned through Flamin Productions, which provides artists with the opportunity to produce “ambitious and original moving image works”.
Supported by Arts Council England, Flamin Productions is dedicated to funding large scale, single screen works which represent “a significant step forward in an artist’s practice”.
It provides development and production funding as well as bespoke training, advice and professional mentoring.
To date the scheme has produced a range of artworks, including Ben Rivers’ award-winning feature length Two Years at Sea, which was released theatrically and recently acquired by Channel 4, Elizabeth Price’s West Hinder, which was part of the exhibition for which she won the Turner Prize in 2012 and Hilary Koob-Sassen’s Transcalar Investment Vehicles which...
- 7/3/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 26th annual Images Festival will be taking over Toronto on April 11-20 with an epic series of experimental film screenings, media installations, expanded cinema performances, workshops, artist talks and tons more. With so much going on, the Underground Film Journal is just listing all the screening events below. For everything Images has to offer, please visit their official website.
Before the screenings list, here are some of the highlights:
Opening Night: Accompanying the documentary imagery of prolific filmmaker Robert Todd will be live music performed by electronic music deconstructionist Tim Hecker. Plus, there will be a new audiovisual work by SlowPitch called Emoralis, which pairs images of snails with crackly and droning rhythms.
Closing Night: Corredor will be a live performance piece combining South American imagery by artist Alexandra Gelis, accompanied by live music by drummer Hamid Drake and saxophonist David Mott.
Live Performances: Jodie Mack will provide live...
Before the screenings list, here are some of the highlights:
Opening Night: Accompanying the documentary imagery of prolific filmmaker Robert Todd will be live music performed by electronic music deconstructionist Tim Hecker. Plus, there will be a new audiovisual work by SlowPitch called Emoralis, which pairs images of snails with crackly and droning rhythms.
Closing Night: Corredor will be a live performance piece combining South American imagery by artist Alexandra Gelis, accompanied by live music by drummer Hamid Drake and saxophonist David Mott.
Live Performances: Jodie Mack will provide live...
- 4/11/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Documentary Makers To Pitch BFI For Funding The BFI Film Fund will dish out funding to documentaries via twice-yearly public pitch sessions, in London and at Sheffield Doc/Fest. Documentarians will pitch ideas to a panel of senior execs “from within the BFI Film Fund and wider documentary funding community”, with selected candidates benefitting from a day of expert-led development to help them focus pitches and strengthen ideas. Documentary filmmaking in Britain is on a high after a string of high-profile successes like Man On Wire and Senna, as well as this year’s Oscar- and BAFTA-winning Brit-produced Searching For Sugarman and the BAFTA-winning The Imposter. “Documentary is the punk of the film industry,” said the BFI’s Lizzie Francke. “We’re absolutely committed to supporting the UK’s visionary documentary filmmakers and we’re pleased to be working with Sheffield Doc/Fest on this new way to deliver support directly to the sector.
- 3/1/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
It's been called the 'dustbin of London' and the 'armpit of the world' – but there are efforts afoot, on TV and in the country's art galleries, to redeem Essex's reputation
We need to talk about Essex. Surely no county has been so systematically defined and reduced. Simon Heffer's now-infamous Daily Telegraph editorial published in 1990 named the vomiting Thatcherites he encountered at Liverpool Street station as examples of "Essex Man". At around the same time, Chigwell provided the setting for the upwardly mobile prison widows in Birds of a Feather. More recently, of course, there has been Buckhurst Hill and Brentwood's "structured reality" pantomime, The Only Way is Essex. And while Channel 4's Educating Essex, filmed in Harlow, was funny and sensitive, its title seemed to imply that to teach an Essex kid anything was a novel idea.
The fact that Essex is maligned is hardly news. "It has...
We need to talk about Essex. Surely no county has been so systematically defined and reduced. Simon Heffer's now-infamous Daily Telegraph editorial published in 1990 named the vomiting Thatcherites he encountered at Liverpool Street station as examples of "Essex Man". At around the same time, Chigwell provided the setting for the upwardly mobile prison widows in Birds of a Feather. More recently, of course, there has been Buckhurst Hill and Brentwood's "structured reality" pantomime, The Only Way is Essex. And while Channel 4's Educating Essex, filmed in Harlow, was funny and sensitive, its title seemed to imply that to teach an Essex kid anything was a novel idea.
The fact that Essex is maligned is hardly news. "It has...
- 1/24/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Cinema at London's Serpentine, Jim Shaw's imagination and Kevin Harman's subversive portraiture – all in your weekly art dispatch
Exhibition of the week: Jonas Mekas
The film-maker Jonas Mekas has been a hero of the New York art scene since the 1960s. He is not just an underground film-maker but the organiser and orchestrator of an entire cultural movement of alternative cinema that transformed ways of making art 50 years ago and still resonates today. Mekas helped Andy Warhol to become a film-maker and provided a personal record of Warhol and other avant garde figures, as well as of New York, in his own film diaries. Back then it seemed a strange idea for artists to make deadpan visual records of real life. Today the radical idea of everyday cinema that Mekas pioneered is everywhere in art galleries. Here is an artist who has truly shaped our time.
• Serpentine Gallery, London...
Exhibition of the week: Jonas Mekas
The film-maker Jonas Mekas has been a hero of the New York art scene since the 1960s. He is not just an underground film-maker but the organiser and orchestrator of an entire cultural movement of alternative cinema that transformed ways of making art 50 years ago and still resonates today. Mekas helped Andy Warhol to become a film-maker and provided a personal record of Warhol and other avant garde figures, as well as of New York, in his own film diaries. Back then it seemed a strange idea for artists to make deadpan visual records of real life. Today the radical idea of everyday cinema that Mekas pioneered is everywhere in art galleries. Here is an artist who has truly shaped our time.
• Serpentine Gallery, London...
- 12/7/2012
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Jude Law accused the government of "cultural vandalism" during Monday's (December 3) Turner Prize presentation. Law, who presented video artist Elizabeth Price with the £25,000 ($$40,260) prize during a ceremony at London's Tate Britain, attacked the coalition's proposed English Baccalaureate (EBacc) for a lack of arts provision. The actor said that he fears "fewer and fewer schools will provide learning opportunities in the arts, thanks to an act of government cultural vandalism". "We are blunting our leading edge in the arts," Law added. Price supported Law's view in her acceptance speech, saying that public funding for the arts had been crucial for her career. "It's incredibly depressing listening to comments made earlier that a young girl from Luton going to a comprehensive [school] might not (more)...
- 12/4/2012
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
Video artist Elizabeth Price has won the prestigious 2012 Turner Prize for her video installation "The Woolworths Choice of 1979." The announcement was made Monday at the Tate Britain in London, where actor Jude Law (right, with Price) presented the prize. Price will receive 25,000 pounds (about $40,000). Also read: MoMA Goes 8-Bit, Acquires 14 Videogames for Permanent Collection Price's winning artwork combines photos of gothic architecture, pop music performances and news footage from a fatal fire in Manchester in 1979. It was shown earlier this year at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary...
- 12/4/2012
- by Lisa Fung
- The Wrap
Gabielle "Gabby" Douglas earned the automatic bid for the U.S. women's gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by winning the Olympic trials meet over Jordyn Wieber by one-tenth of a point. The two of them, largely considered two of the best gymnasts in the world right now, were already thought of as shoo-ins for the five-person squad.
The other three spots were up for grabs at the trials. They went to Aly Raisman (left), who finished third at trials, Kyla Ross (middle), who finished fifth, and McKayla Maroney (right), who finished sixth. Elizabeth Price, who kind of came out of nowhere at the trials to finish fourth, was left off the team in favor of Maroney (going by the standings at trials), largely because Maroney's vaulting skill could increase the U.S. overall team score by 0.8, which is a huge amount at this level.
Price was named...
The other three spots were up for grabs at the trials. They went to Aly Raisman (left), who finished third at trials, Kyla Ross (middle), who finished fifth, and McKayla Maroney (right), who finished sixth. Elizabeth Price, who kind of came out of nowhere at the trials to finish fourth, was left off the team in favor of Maroney (going by the standings at trials), largely because Maroney's vaulting skill could increase the U.S. overall team score by 0.8, which is a huge amount at this level.
Price was named...
- 7/2/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
At the 2012 Olympic trials, Gabby Douglas topped the favored Jordyn Wieber for the automatic bid on the U.S. women's gymnastics team. Wieber had previously beaten Douglas at the 2012 VIsa National Champions and was leading Douglas by .3 after the first day of the women's trials.
But on the second day of the women's competition, Douglas bested Wieber, the reigning women's all-around champion, by one-tenth of a point, despite having had some fairly large balance checks on her beam routine.
So Gabby Douglas is headed to the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Wieber, despite not having an automatic bid, should also join her. The remaining three spots will be determined by head coach Martha Karolyi and her selection committee. If the committee went strictly by the way the women finished at the trials, it would go Douglas, Wieber, Aly Raisman, Elizabeth Price and Kyla Ross.
Douglas had this to say after her win,...
But on the second day of the women's competition, Douglas bested Wieber, the reigning women's all-around champion, by one-tenth of a point, despite having had some fairly large balance checks on her beam routine.
So Gabby Douglas is headed to the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Wieber, despite not having an automatic bid, should also join her. The remaining three spots will be determined by head coach Martha Karolyi and her selection committee. If the committee went strictly by the way the women finished at the trials, it would go Douglas, Wieber, Aly Raisman, Elizabeth Price and Kyla Ross.
Douglas had this to say after her win,...
- 7/2/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Jordyn Wieber was darn near perfect her first night at the U.S. women's gymnastics team trials, finishing in first place with a score of 61.7 points - an average of 15.425 on the four events, which is very high. Barring some kind of catastrophe on Sunday, July 1 during the second day of trials, Wieber is headed to London.
But will she get the automatic bid, which only goes to the first-place finisher? It's not a lock. Gabby Douglas is right on her heels with a 61.4 and that comes after an uncharacteristic falter on the uneven bars.
Past those two, who were generally considered locks for the Olympics before the trials even began, sits Aly Raisman, though she is at 60.2. Elizabeth Price also had a very solid night, finishing in fourth place, and so did Kyla Ross, who ended up in fifth. It remains to be seen if any other gymnasts crack that group of five.
But will she get the automatic bid, which only goes to the first-place finisher? It's not a lock. Gabby Douglas is right on her heels with a 61.4 and that comes after an uncharacteristic falter on the uneven bars.
Past those two, who were generally considered locks for the Olympics before the trials even began, sits Aly Raisman, though she is at 60.2. Elizabeth Price also had a very solid night, finishing in fourth place, and so did Kyla Ross, who ended up in fifth. It remains to be seen if any other gymnasts crack that group of five.
- 6/30/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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The 2012 U.S. women's gymnastics trials get underway Friday night (June 29) in San Jose, Calif., where head coach Martha Karolyi will choose the team for the London Summer Games. The girl who finishes first in the individual all-around scoring will automatically qualify and the remaining four spots (plus up to three alternates) will be chosen by Karolyi, Steve Rybacki and 2004 Olympian Terin Humphrey.
This is a departure from the size of the past Olympic squads. Up until the year 2000, seven girls made the team. Then from 2000-2008, it was six. Now it's down to just five - a particularly hard number to whittle down to this year because the team is so deep. In fact, it has been speculated the U.S. could field two teams of five girls that could both compete for a medal at the Olympics.
The 2012 U.S. women's gymnastics trials get underway Friday night (June 29) in San Jose, Calif., where head coach Martha Karolyi will choose the team for the London Summer Games. The girl who finishes first in the individual all-around scoring will automatically qualify and the remaining four spots (plus up to three alternates) will be chosen by Karolyi, Steve Rybacki and 2004 Olympian Terin Humphrey.
This is a departure from the size of the past Olympic squads. Up until the year 2000, seven girls made the team. Then from 2000-2008, it was six. Now it's down to just five - a particularly hard number to whittle down to this year because the team is so deep. In fact, it has been speculated the U.S. could field two teams of five girls that could both compete for a medal at the Olympics.
- 6/29/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The 2012 Visa Championships for women's gymnastics took place over the weekend and Marta Karolyi, the National Team Coordinator for USA gymnastics, has now chosen which girls will compete in the Olympic trials in just under three weeks.
Jordyn Wieber won the Visa national title with a final score of 121.9, narrowly beating out Gabby Douglas, who had a 121.7 after a fall on the beam took a full point off her score on that event. The top 8 women automatically get to compete at the Olympic trials and they are as follows:
1. Wieber, 121.9 points
2. Douglas, 121.7
3. Ali Raisman, 120.95
4. Kyla Ross, 119.95
5. Elizabeth Price, 118.1
6. Sarah Finnegan, 117.6
7. (tie) Kennedy Baker, 114.45, (tie) Sabrina Vega, 114.45
In addition to the top eight finishers, Karolyi has invited the 9th- and 10th-place finishers to the trial, Brenna Dowell and Bridget Sloan, plus event specialists Rebecca Bross, Anna Li, Nastia Liukin and Alicia Sacramone. They also accepted McKayla Maroney's petition and have invited...
Jordyn Wieber won the Visa national title with a final score of 121.9, narrowly beating out Gabby Douglas, who had a 121.7 after a fall on the beam took a full point off her score on that event. The top 8 women automatically get to compete at the Olympic trials and they are as follows:
1. Wieber, 121.9 points
2. Douglas, 121.7
3. Ali Raisman, 120.95
4. Kyla Ross, 119.95
5. Elizabeth Price, 118.1
6. Sarah Finnegan, 117.6
7. (tie) Kennedy Baker, 114.45, (tie) Sabrina Vega, 114.45
In addition to the top eight finishers, Karolyi has invited the 9th- and 10th-place finishers to the trial, Brenna Dowell and Bridget Sloan, plus event specialists Rebecca Bross, Anna Li, Nastia Liukin and Alicia Sacramone. They also accepted McKayla Maroney's petition and have invited...
- 6/10/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this weekTheatre
Wah! Wah! Girls
British musical meets Bollywood in new love-against-the-odds show set in the East End of London with a cast of 14, almost all British Asians and a Polish handyman. Peacock,London, Thursday to 23 June.
Posh
Laura Wade has updated her Royal Court hit to point the spotlight once again on the Oxbridge dining clubs that spawned the posh boys currently in power. Duke of Yorks theatre, London, until 4 August.
Betrayal
John Simm stars in Harold Pinter's semi-autobiographical play about an adulterous love affair. The power of the piece is that it works backwards from its bitter end to the moment the affair first sparked. Crucible, Sheffield, until 9 June.
Film
The Raid (dir.
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this weekTheatre
Wah! Wah! Girls
British musical meets Bollywood in new love-against-the-odds show set in the East End of London with a cast of 14, almost all British Asians and a Polish handyman. Peacock,London, Thursday to 23 June.
Posh
Laura Wade has updated her Royal Court hit to point the spotlight once again on the Oxbridge dining clubs that spawned the posh boys currently in power. Duke of Yorks theatre, London, until 4 August.
Betrayal
John Simm stars in Harold Pinter's semi-autobiographical play about an adulterous love affair. The power of the piece is that it works backwards from its bitter end to the moment the affair first sparked. Crucible, Sheffield, until 9 June.
Film
The Raid (dir.
- 5/20/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Artangel at Hornsey Town Hall, London; Baltic, Gateshead
And Europe Will Be Stunned is a deeply stirring and contentious film trilogy by the Dutch-Israeli artist Yael Bartana, soon to open in Britain on its European tour. Each film is enough to disturb; together they are peculiarly subversive. I do not know exactly what they might mean to Jewish, Israeli or Palestinian viewers, still less to a Polish audience watching some of the scenes unfolding on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto itself. But my sense is that an anxious concern for other people's reactions is at least part of the trilogy's content.
In the first film, Nightmares (2007), a political leader strides into a Warsaw stadium to rally the crowds. "Let the 3 million Jews that Poland has missed… return to Poland, to your country," he urges, acknowledging Poland's antisemitic history but arguing that Jews and Poles should come together once more to extinguish the hatred.
And Europe Will Be Stunned is a deeply stirring and contentious film trilogy by the Dutch-Israeli artist Yael Bartana, soon to open in Britain on its European tour. Each film is enough to disturb; together they are peculiarly subversive. I do not know exactly what they might mean to Jewish, Israeli or Palestinian viewers, still less to a Polish audience watching some of the scenes unfolding on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto itself. But my sense is that an anxious concern for other people's reactions is at least part of the trilogy's content.
In the first film, Nightmares (2007), a political leader strides into a Warsaw stadium to rally the crowds. "Let the 3 million Jews that Poland has missed… return to Poland, to your country," he urges, acknowledging Poland's antisemitic history but arguing that Jews and Poles should come together once more to extinguish the hatred.
- 5/12/2012
- by Laura Cumming
- The Guardian - Film News
Every week I'll round up the biggest arts stories from around the web, recommend a long read and look ahead at what's coming up
Each Thursday, I am going to round up the main arts stories of the week. Here's the first instalment.
• It was Turner prize shortlist week. Here's Adrian Searle's verdict on Spartacus Chetwynd, Paul Noble, Elizabeth Price, and Luke Fowler. Fowler is yet another Glaswegian – or, rather Glasgow-based artist. He studied in Dundee. (Trivia: Elizabeth Price was in the 1980s indie band Talulah Gosh, as was the philosophy editor of Oxford University Press and the chief economist and director of mergers at the Office of Fair Trading.)
• Arts Council England/the BBC launched the Space. The reports mostly focused on the fact that John Peel's record collection will gradually be made available to rifle through online, but perhaps you should think of it as a "YouTube...
Each Thursday, I am going to round up the main arts stories of the week. Here's the first instalment.
• It was Turner prize shortlist week. Here's Adrian Searle's verdict on Spartacus Chetwynd, Paul Noble, Elizabeth Price, and Luke Fowler. Fowler is yet another Glaswegian – or, rather Glasgow-based artist. He studied in Dundee. (Trivia: Elizabeth Price was in the 1980s indie band Talulah Gosh, as was the philosophy editor of Oxford University Press and the chief economist and director of mergers at the Office of Fair Trading.)
• Arts Council England/the BBC launched the Space. The reports mostly focused on the fact that John Peel's record collection will gradually be made available to rifle through online, but perhaps you should think of it as a "YouTube...
- 5/3/2012
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
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