Summer in London 2005 || flaneurtreks and cinesnacks!

FLANEUR TREKS & CINESNACKS
FLANEUR TREK 1
5 FlâneurTREK UNITS
DERRIDA documentary
Friday, May 27, 2005 --6:30
Cine Lumiere Institute Francais,
17 Queensbury Place
South Kensington, Nearest Tube: South Kensington
I will meet you in front of HYDE PARK GATE for the 10 minute walk to the
Theatre at 6-sharp! The film is £5 with the student concession; I will try
to get a better deal if possible. DERRIDA is an amazing documentary on the
most important and influential philosopher of the 20th century. DO NOT go
on this FLANEURTREK if you hate PHILOSOPHY as you will suffer! The
filmmakers are American, Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kaufman.

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FLANEUR TREK 2
WE WILL LEAVE FROM GLOUCESTER ROAD
STATION AT 9:30 SHARP FOR THIS CLUBBING FLANEURTREK
6 FlaneurTREK UNITS
A Taste of Sonar
@Fabric. Tonight
£10 plus, maybe share cabfare back
NOTE: this may end at 2am; you are of course free to go and then leave at
any time
Events in London > Music: Clubbing A Taste of Sonar
Fabric, 77a Charterhouse Street, EC1M 3HN
Barcelona's Sonar festival is the place to see and be seen this summer.
This preview night at the uber-trendy Fabric nightclub includes many of
the big stars who will be playing this June.
Room 1: Francois K, Miss Kittin, Durutti Column, MU, The Beautiful People,
Chris Coco
Room 2: Jamie Lidell, Hot Chip, Mark One and Virus Syndicate, Solo los Solo
Room 3: Mental Overdrive, Undo and Vicknoise
The CLUB scene is an essential part
of LONDON culture; tonight, curious
anthropologists in posh togs, we
emerge to study the dynamics of
urban london culture. while
not explicitly CINEMATIC, this tour
does take the pulse of visualondon NOW!

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not a FLANEUR TREK but worth going
may 29 sunday
meeting time? 10:30 on the steps
of FOUNDATION HOUSE
LATIN MASS at the LONDON ORATORY
the largest catholic cathedral
this side of the Vatican!
the mass starts at 11am; the ORATORY,
built in the 19th century is an
impressive building--it moves
one spiritually in ways that I have
found surprising.
this is a special latin mass
sung by a choir.

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flaneurTREK 3
ART and CINEMA
Sunday may 29, 2004
12:30pm
meet in the lobby of
GLOUCESTER ROAD TUBESTOP
we may leave a little bit
10 minutes, later, IF the LATIN MASS
runs long..
Our flaneurtrek 3 will take us to the
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY for a tour
of the FRIDA KAHLO exhibit; from there
we will walk or tube to the South Bank
where we are today, Friday, May 27, and
to the TATE MODERN for a film screening
and lecture featuring surrealist greats...
go here for more info:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/josephcornellandlarryjordanfasttrack3660.htm
at the tate modern site, you can also buy
tickets for this event in advance, which
is recommended by the museum staff. £2 for
students, i believe.

flaneurtrek 4 || Wordsworth and Shakespeare Walking Tour

note this, like all TREKS, is open to all of you in the program, not just
the anth 493 folks
flaneurtrek 5 The Spectacle of BRICKLANE || very informal || 3 cinesnack
units || launchpad--> FOUNDATION HOUSE steps @ 12noon
melissa deleon and katy jackson have generously invited me to join them
and invite all of you to join us for an informal afternoon of shopping,
eating, hanging out, etc. tomorrow, FRIDAY, at NOON. We will meet on the
steps of FOUNDATION house. to receive the 2 cinesnack tokens toward the 45
you need for the class you will need to spend some of your time prowling
through bricklane with the EYE of a movie director. take a picture or
sketch place you see that would work perfectly in a movie. describe the
movie in brief, the characters, the situation, etc and then in more detail
decribe the scene that will take place in the location that you have
chosen. I want this cinesnack writing to be on a hard copy and turned in
during our first class session, next WEDNESDAY at 10 at our first class
meeting.

postponed
flaneurtrek 6: Jack the Ripper TOUR | informal || 4 cinesnack units ||
launchpad--> GLOUCESTER ROAD STATION LOBBY @ 6:30 SUNDAY JUNE 5, 2005
donald the magnificent will lead this ghoulish tour!!! we will meet in
the GLOUCESTER ROAD TUBE lobby and leave at 6:30 sharp to make it to Tower
Hill tube stop in time to pay and leave on his tour at 7-30; to earn your
4 tasty CINESNACKS, you will have to listen carefully to his tour and
write about the case that would best make a feature film; you must
identify ONE of the individuals whose murder is described and then then
write a two page abstract of the scene. you can add sketches, pictures
etc, whatever makes it more ghoulishly fun for you... due Wednesday, June
15 in the IN-BOX marked CSU in the student lounge at Foundation House.

> flaneurtrek 8: sinematicPAINTERS: hockney and warhol
> SATURDAY MORNING JUNE 4, 2005 10:30am
> field trip to the Belgravia Gallery for a view of of their small
> exhibition on Warhol and David Hockney. 3 cinemasnacks for writing a
> review of the exhibit in the manner of a reviewer for artforum.com. go
> there, http://artforum.com for examples. 250-500
> words. that's 1 to 2 pages, double-spaced, 12point font.
> more examples here: http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=9014 and here:
> http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=9015
>
> http://www.belgraviagallery.com/Index2.html
>
> we will leave GLOUCESTER ROAD station at 10:30am
> for a quick trip to GREEN PARK station.
> the gallery opens at 11.
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> flaneurtrek 9 : European Movies in LONDON!
> chelsea cinema, kings road
> map: http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/chelsea-cinema.php
>
> JUNE 4 Saturday 6:35pm screening of
> THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE.
> If you want to walk there together, I will leave the FOUNDATION HOUSE
> steps at 5:30pm to get there in time, buy tickets and get good seats...
>
> 4 CINEMASNACKS: WRITE A TWO-PAGE, HARD-COPY REVIEW OF THE MOVIE. YOU ARE
> J. HOBERMAN'S REPLACEMENT MOVIE REVIEWER FOR THE VILLAGE VOICE--WRITE YOUR
> REVIEW IN THE STYLE OF HOBERMAN BUT WITH YOUR OWN TWIST! HOBERMAN
> EXAMPLES:
>
> http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0412,hoberman,52001,20.html
> http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0348,hoberman,48943,20.html
>
> don't forget about our sunday night jack the ripper tour! info
> for that is here: http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2005/summer/london/treks.html

FlaneurTREK 7 || casual || where? FOUNDATION HOUSE room C-21 || Wednesday
June 8, 2005 @ 10am sharp til 12 noon...
This Flaneurtrek is no big trek, but you do have to come to class
prepared!!!! That means you HAVE TO READ Ways of Seeing, the Ellen Strain
article on Exotic Bodies, and the Sophia Harvey Review....
For each piece, the book, the article and the review, HIGHLIGHT what you
view to be the most convincing paragraph, the most troubling/provocative,
and perhaps, a part of the writing you disagree with.
Remember to ADAPT in your mind all of Berger et al's conclusions in WAYS
OF SEEING to the world of Motion Pictures!
confused; the readings have been on your website for a week; you can find
them here:
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2005/summer/london/UKdiary.html

cheers~
happy reading, BILL
For now, the Hankins article on Iris Barry is optional!!!!