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See p.29 cornerhouse.org/sign-up All information is correct at the Cover image Double Indemnity time of going to press. WELCOME Inspired by Billy Wilder’s classic film noir of the same name, our exhibition Double Indemnity (p.4) explores questions of desire, power and complicity. The show features work by 12 international artists, including new commissions from Ming Wong and Anicka Yi. Curated with Double Indemnity ’s ill-fated insurance salesman Walter Neff in mind as the ideal audience, the exhibition uses contemporary art to explore the ways desire is structured by society. Double Indemnity is accompanied by My Noir (p.20-22), a season of the classiest, sexiest film noirs selected by artists, curators, filmmakers and musicians. My Noir continues into to December with films including Touch of Evil , Shock Corridor and Kiss Me Deadly . To coincide with Double Indemnity and My Noir , we’ve guest-edited a noir edition of Film International . This special issue brings together diverse responses to a wide range film noirs, from The Big Sleep and Insomnia to Hell is a City and Alphaville . This issue will be available from the bookshop in October, priced £6. The Manchester Weekender returns from 10 -13 October with four days of art, music, fashion, food, film, books, talks and walks. Events take place across the city, and include That Dame Upstairs (p.8), our life drawing and photography drop-in, with underground performance collective The Sisters Gorgeous. On Fri 29 November we present the international premiere of Rough Cut (p .1 6), a new feature film from conceptual artist Jamie Shovlin. This film-within-a-film explores the making of Hiker Meat , an imagined 1970s exploitation movie by fictitious Italian director Jesus Rinzoli. Artist/director Jamie Shovlin and writer Mike Harte, composter Euan Rodger and actress Agnes Aspen join us for a Q&A after this screening. Rough Cut shows on full release from Fri 6 December, and the genesis and delivery of the project will be captured in our January exhibition, Jamie Shovlin: Hiker Meat (p.5). This Christmas we present an alternative selection of films that have an eerie Christmas ambience (p.29). Selected by Cornerhouse Chief Projectionist Garry Watson, the season includes Curse of the Cat People , Dead of Night and The Queen of Spades . Of course, it wouldn’t be a Cornerhouse Christmas without It’s A Wonderful Life , so George Bailey and his celestial messenger Clarence also return to our screens in Frank Capra’s Oscar-winning classic. CONTENTS 04 l Double Indemnity 05 l Jamie Shovlin: Hiker Meat 06 l Cornerhouse Projects 07 l Article/ Within These Walls 08 l Art Events For more information 09 l Creative Industries about The Manchester 11 Young People Weekender visit l creativetourist.com/ 12 l Books weekender 13 l Food & Drink 14 l At A Glance 16 l New Releases 20 l My Noir 23 l Article/ The Enduring Appeal of Film Noir 24 l The French Connection? 24 l UK Jewish Film Festival 25 l Film Events 29 l The Other Side of Yuletide… An Alternative Christmas 30 l Courses 31 l Information ART Y T I Inspired by Billy Wilder’s classic film The video is presented on a custom- N noir of the same name, Double built ‘orientalised’ TV set, alongside E Indemnity explores questions of a full-scale movie billboard poster E desire, power and complicity through designed by the artist. R F work by a selection of international M — artists, including new commissions For her newly commissioned 3 by Ming Wong and Anicka Yi. installation Mutual Glaze (2 013), & E Anicka Yi has created a fragrance for 2 , Wilder’s film tells the story of the character of Phyllis Dietrichson. 1 insurance salesman Walter Neff The fragrance speaks to Phyllis’s s D e (Fred MacMurray); a man ruined by status as, in Yi’s words, “a hologram i r his desire for money, married which people project their desires e l l woman Phyllis Dietrichson (played onto.” Yi describes the fragrance as a N by Barbara Stanwyck) and the being like cold, icy desire with G approval of his co-worker, Barton metallic, menthol and floral notes — I Keyes (Edward G. Robinson). and boozy traces. n a J Curated with Neff in mind as its ideal, The exhibition also features recent 5 E n fictional audience, Double Indemnity and historic work by Sophie Calle, u explores how contemporary art Andrea Fraser, Emily Jacir, Jenny S l L i could alert Neff – and us – to the Holzer, Laurel Nakadate, Bunny t destructive power of desire as it is Rogers & Filip Olszewski, Frances n U structured by society. Stark, Hito Steyerl and Sharif Waked. B For his new commission Ming Wong Curated by Michael Connor. presents the definitive edit of After U Chinatown (2 013), a video work With thanks to Takasago and Ulrich inspired by Barbara Stanwyck in Lang New York Fragrances for their Double Indemnity , but also by support in producing Anicka Yi’s O versions of her character that fragrance. seemingly reappeared in later films including Roman Polanski’s Exhibition supported by D Chinatown (Evelyn Mulwray, played by Faye Dunaway) and Wong Kar- Image Ming Wong, After Chinatown wai’s Chungking Express (woman in (2 013) blonde wig, played by Brigitte Lin). 04/05 to the early 1980s as their makers, The exhibition will capture the intent on financial success, exploited genesis and delivery of the Hiker popular trends and lurid subject Meat project, with a straight-faced matter including sex, sensational presentation of the film alongside violence, gore, ‘freaks’ and drug use. costumes and background materials FROM in Gallery 1. Galleries 2 & 3 will reveal Set in an American summer camp the film’s imagined and in the 1970s, Hiker Meat is both an reconstructed nature and will 5 JAN affectionate homage to and an critically reconsider the wider genre, academic deconstruction of the presenting maquettes of the 2 013 exploitation genre. It includes a full set and the remains of the real thing. complement of horror and slasher film standards; from a hitchhiking Out of Hiker Meat also comes a heroine with a troubled past to a feature film Rough Cut , a ‘meta- Jamie Shovlin: Hiker Meat charismatic commune leader, and a mentary’ combining the filmed Galleries 1, 2 & 3 group of teens who disappear one sections of Hiker Meat with the Sat 18 Jan – Mon 21 Apr 2014 by one. equivalent of modern DVD extras, FREE including fly-on-the-wall production Based on a full screenplay created footage and interviews with cast and An exploitation film that never with writer Mike Harte, Shovlin crew. Rough Cut premieres at actually existed is at the heart of our created a prototype for the film in Cornerhouse on Fri 29 November. next exhibition – the biggest to date 2009 by collaging over 1500 found See p .1 6 for details. from conceptual artist Jamie Shovlin. clips. The beginning and end sections of this prototype, along Curated by Sarah Perks, The movie Hiker Meat and its 1970s with a Hiker Meat trailer, were Cornerhouse Artistic Director. Italian director Jesus Rinzoli have recreated shot-by-shot in June 2 013 been imagined by Shovlin to represent in an intensive shoot that Rough Cut is a co-commission an archetype of the exploitation incorporated pyrotechnics, a fleet of between Cornerhouse Artist Film genre. Low budget exploitation vintage vehicles, gallons of latex and and TIFF: Toronto International Film movies boomed from the late 1960s live action and voice-over casts. Festival. Production shot from Rough Cut . Image by Simon Webb David Chadwick We Were All Here, Once will be the We Were All Here, Once first time Chadwick’s unique Thu 3 Oct – Tue 5 Nov photographs have been displayed Café & Bar together in public.