On Thursday 17 March (7pm) Whitechapel Gallery will host the latest in FLAMIN’s ongoing series of screening events with a special screening of Anja Kirschner and David Panos’ FLAMIN Productions commissioned film, The Empty Plan.
Following the screening, the artists will be joined on stage by Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London, to discuss the film.
Bertolt Brecht’s experiences in 1940s Hollywood are the starting point of an exploration that looks at his changing relationship to artistic production in a period where theatre was superceded by cinema and the revolutionary movements that informed his work were defeated or betrayed. Part documentary, part historical reconstruction and part investigation into different modes of performance, the film looks at the relationship between theory and practice, representation and politics, and examines the supercession of art as the unrealised dream of modernism.
The Empty Plan was commissioned through by FLAMIN Productions, co-produced with City Projects and supported by Focal Point Gallery, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Kunsthall Oslo.
The Empty Plan is currently showing as part of British Art Show 7 at the Hayward Gallery, until 17 April.
More information about the screening and how to book your place is available on the Whitechapel Gallery website.
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
