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Phillip BergsonWriting about Films and Festivals. Film Critic, UK,Invited Member of The UK Critics' Circle FIPRESCI abd the European Film Academy. Visiting Lecturer, Prague Film School. Winner of the "Student Journalist of the Year" competition in the UK weekly New Statesman, as a Classics Scholar Phillip Bergson then founded the Oxford Film Festival and, on graduating, was selected by "The Sunday Times" as a 'New Critic' and in the same week began broadcasting on film for many BBC Radio programmes. A contributor to the "Times Literary Supplement", "TES",The Spectator,film critic on "The Sunday Standard", "Screen International",Variety, "Film Bulletin", "Film a Doba" inter alia, and on the FilmFestJOURNAL in Berlin and Screen Dailies at Cannes,he also worked for the "European Script Fund", has scripted shorts and features (that have been produced and released) and, fluent in eight-and-a-half languages, currently programmes and advises several international film festivals and is.Casting Consultant on several international features. At the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, in his native Yorkshire, he created the "Eurovisions" project, to promote classic and contemporary European cinema,which was inaugurated at the Cine Lumiere in London by His Excellency the President of Iceland. Presenter and Programmer,London Turkish Film Week, December 2018 Co=programmer, 2nd London Turkish Film Week, April 2019 Artistic Director, 3rd London Turkish Film Week, planned for 1-7 June 2020. As a FIPRESCI Jury Member
and a member of International Juries at Thessaloniki, Europa Cinema (Rimini), Munich Documentary, Manaki Brothers,Cine Jove (Valencia),Chicago, TIFF-ODA, SOFIA... Figures in a LANDSCAPE ExhibitionAs part of the celebrations marking its 250th anniversary as a teaching venue, the Royal Academy on London's Piccadilly has undergone some extensive, if not eccentric , renovations and refurbishing of adjacent parts of the building,sadly not equipping its new Lecture Theatre with adequate facilities for screening cinema productions that could enhance the changing art displays or become a destination in itself as that famous street is now utterly bereft of any public cinema. But wihin the newly,oddly connected galleries is one of the many exhibitions devoted to Tacita Dean, a very attractive show called Landscapes, the highlight of which is probably the most remarkable new film on show in London, a 56 minute,visually enthralling exploration/inspiration from the Antigone.It is a twin-screened panavision fllmed in locations as extraordinary as Bodmin Moor and Thebes (Illinois!) with one of our better actors Stephen Dillane taking on the mantle and modern sunglasses of the Sophoclean tragic hero wandering between the landscapes of the plays of the ancient Greek trilogy,in a complex and fascinating and occasionally playful (I refrain from using the term ludic) but often moving meditation on many themes, apparently prompted by the simple fact that Tacita Dean's own sister is called Antigone! There is more of this than meets the blinded eyes of Oedipus himself and I shall attempt to elucidate more after a second viewing.But meanwhile please make a pilgrimage yourself during the run of the exhibition.Screenings on the hour, and comfortable armchairs for first-comers. In the Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries 19 May-12 August 2018
Phillip Bergson www.royalacademy.org.uk 23.05.2018 | Phillip Bergson's blog Cat. : Mesmerising movie-installation on mythical themes inside the Royal Academy in London
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