ELLEN CANTOR PRESENTS 'PINOCHET PORN' AT SERPENTINE CINEMA

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outside the cinema, Ellen and friends Nigel Coates, Gregorio Magnani, Simon English, Katherine Hamnett...


Serpentine Cinema Presents: Ellen Cantor
Sunday 5 July
3.30pm

ELLEN CANTOR
Pinochet Porn (a film in progress) - Directed and Presented by Ellen Cantor

"Pinochet Porn is an epic soap opera about five children growing up during the Pinochet regime, and their subsequent development into adulthood. This film is being created directly from an 83-page hand-drawn story/film script Circus lives from hell" Ellen Cantor, 2009

Pinochet Porn Trailer, 2009
5 mins, Super 8
Trailer for Pinochet Porn, a film in progress (2009, Super 8)

The Dictator & The Maid, 2009
21 mins, Super 8
Excerpt from Pinochet Porn (rough footage) a film in progress (2009, Super 8)
Director of Photography: John Brattin
Art Director: Jay Kinney

Starring: Lia Gangitano, Michel Auder, Patrick Blumer, Ellen Cantor, Jim Fletcher, Francesca Gangitano, Andrew Haynes, Jay Kinney, Harri Kupiainen, Danny McDonald, Spencer Sweeney, John Thomson, Sofia Elisabeth Von Herrlich, and Stephen Ward
Narrated by: Pablo Leon de la Barra
Assistant Editor: Simon Popper
Editing Advisors: Nikos Pantazis, John Cussans, Pablo Leon De La Barra

Ellen Cantor currently lives and works in London and New York. She has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions and screening including Participant Inc, NY; White Cubicle, London; 1000000mph, London; Sketch, London; Kunsthalle Wien; Transmission, Glasgow; Delfina, London; Feigen, Chicago; Cabinet, London and Postmasters, New York as well as at Edinburgh International Film Festival and Rotterdam’s International Film Festival amongst many others. Cantor is a Cubitt artist.

Serpentine Cinema
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Guy Debord

Serpentine Cinema is a series of monthly screenings and events at The Gate cinema in Notting Hill which give an opportunity to view rarely seen artists’ films in a cinema context. Presented in association with Sketch.

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87 Notting Hill Gate
London W11 3JZ
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