An evening of misremembering… In conversation and in performance: Simon Fisher Turner. In sound and vision: Alexander Tucker. Their live debut: Stonecirclesampler. On the big screen: Stanley Schtinter’s Journey to Avebury. All hosted by Travis Elborough.
Doors: 7pm
Tickets: £10
Simon Fisher Turner is renowned for his film soundtrack work which began in collaboration with Derek Jarman, for whom he scored many feature films, from Caravaggio (1986) through to Jarman’s final work Blue (1993). Caravaggio began a long relationship with the BFI, with Fisher Turner composing the score for restorations of three silent films, Un chant d’amour (dir. Jean Genet, 1950) The Great White Silence (dir. Herbert Ponting, 1924), and The Epic of Everest (dir. Captain John Noel, 1924), for which he won a prestigious Ivor Novello Award. His most recent work is the live score for Blue Now (2023), in collaboration with Russell Tovey, Travis Alabanza and Neil Bartlett. Simon will be in performance and then in conversation with Travis Elborough.
Alexander Tucker is a multidisciplinary artist working across music, assemblage, painting, comics, collage, sculpture, film and live performance. Formally trained as a painter at the Slade School of Fine Art, Tucker went onto produce a series of critically acclaimed solo albums for renowned Chicago based record label Thrill Jockey and All Tomorrow’s Parties before recording as MICROCORPS for Alter Records. He also has a number of collaborative projects including avant-pop, electronic duo Grumbling Fur (with Daniel O'Sullivan); the Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra, who have improvised with Charlemagne Palestine, Mark Titchner and Neil Campbell, and tape loop radiophonic project Imbogodom (with Daniel Beban), recorded at BBC Bush House. 2023 saw the release of Fifth Continent (Subtext), a posthumous collaboration with the late Keith Collins who was Derek Jarman’s partner and collaborator for the last seven years of his life. Recorded in Jarman’s Prospect Cottage on Dungeness, Kent and using Collins recorded archive of spoken word pieces and environmental recordings. Accompanying the LP is the publication Fifth Quarter: Derek Jarman, Keith Collins and Dungeness, an anthology of new writing, artworks and photography edited by Tucker.
Stonecirclesampler is the solo project of London based electronic musician Luke J Murray, fusing a sound of post ice age ambient electronics that conjure images of sub-zero noir wastelands full of rain soaked stone circles and megalithic despair. Recent projects include the albums The Drift (Industrial Coast) and Deep Blue Aquatic Creatures (The Tapeworm). Luke is also one third of the drone trio NONEXISTENT with Alexander Tucker and previous Memorex performer Opal X. The show at The Horse Hospital will be the first ever live performance of the Stonecirclesampler project.
Stanley Schtinter’s 2021 film Journey to Avebury is a shot-for-shot iPhone recreation of Derek Jarman’s 1971 incidental 8mm film, A Journey to Avebury, made with James Norton. In 1971, Jarman took an 8mm camera to the ancient landscape of Avebury, filming henges and standing stones as he walked. In 2021, fifty years after Jarman’s trip and during a global pandemic, Schtinter attempted to replicate the journey, re-shooting the film as closely as possible with an iPhone. At once a critique of capitalism’s culture of reproduction; an indictment of its canonisations; and an attempt to subvert the insistence of a dystopian ‘present’ for an experience of place without the constraints of time.