Duncan Campbell has taken Chris Marker and Alain Resnais’ 1953 film Les Statues meurent aussi (Statues also Die) as both source and artefact, to pursue a meditation on the life, death and value of objects. It for Others is a social and historical examination of cultural imperialism and commodity. Marker and Resnais’ film connects the death of statues to the commercialisation of African art, arguing that colonialism compelled African art to appeal to Western consumers. Campbell expands these ideas into a segmented essay-film that includes sections on African art, footage of contemporary commodities, and a performance made in collaboration with Michael Clark Company that seeks to illustrate the principle of exchange value. Regional Premiere. 2013.

This event includes a screening of both Duncan Campbell's It for Others and Chris Marker and Alain Resnais 1953 film Les Statues meurent aussi.

Campbell’s film works blend archive footage and documentary material with fictional elements. It for Others was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2013 as part of Scotland + Venice. Other recent solo exhibitions include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Artist’s Space, New York; Tramway, Glasgow; Chisenhale Gallery, London and Tate Britain, London. 

Curated by AV Festival as part of the Postcolonial Cinema Weekend. Part of AV Festival 14: Extraction, www.avfestival.co.uk

£5/£3.50. Tickets available on the door

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