Alice Theobald screens I’ll Finally Lose the Plot for the final part of the Flat Time House, The Best Scene is Off-Screen – a monthly programme of film, performance and discussion, off-site at the nearby Peckham Plex. Drawing on a wide range of moving image work, the programme ends by considering the home as the final, and most private, site for a potential theatre of the everyday.
Films from Lucy Clout and Alice Theobald explore the limits of domestic space as a site for drama, from Clout’s deadpan analysis of a cookie-cutter suburban American house’s ‘success’ in multi-million dollar American sitcoms, to Theobald’s glitched soap opera that loops into a mid-century theatre of the absurd (via a musical number). Other featured films include a selection from Erica Scourti’s year-long “Life in Ad Words” project which updates Paul Bartel’s science fiction, and Vicki Thornton’s “The Remembered Film” – a double portrait of the striking Château-de-Sacy and its owner, Hermine Demoriane.
Responding to research conducted for The Movie Movie Show (The Pneuwritten)by John Latham and by the Eventstructure Research Group led by Jeff Shaw, the four-month programme looks at the potential for a theatre of the everyday in four spaces: the cinema, the street, the square and the home. In each space, as audience, pedestrians and public are re-cast as performers and engage consciously or unconsciously with their new role, theatre is further mediated or reproduced by cinema. This programme asks how the moving image can work formally to capture, distort or take us beyond a theatre of the everyday.
Scene Four: Home
7pm, Wednesday 10 June 2015
Flat Time House
Peckham Plex cinema
95A Rye Lane
London SE15 4ST
020 7207 4845 (Flat Time House)
0844 567 2742 (Peckham Plex cinema)