A must-see: Nick Abrahams retrospective at the ICA
//Nick Abrahams (second left) with actor Aidan Gillen (left) and crew, fox and animal trainer shooting Ekki múkk in woods near Amersham, Bucks, last year. Photo: Eva Vermandel.//
Film-maker – and Bloke Of Britain – Nick Abrahams is the much-deserved subject of a retrospective at the ICA over the next two nights.
Tomorrow (January 24) there will be an evening of films and promos by Abrahams, who was recently nominated for the British Council best short for his magical Ekki múkk (which has already won best short film at the London Short Film Festival 2013). Made for Sigur Rós, this starred a snail (voiced by folk singer Shirley Collins), a fox and The Wire’s Aidan Gillen.
//Shirley Collins + Aidan Gillen. Photo: Eva Vermandel.//
//Filming the snail in a field in Buckinghamshire. Photo: Eva Vermandel.//
And on Friday there will be a screening of last year’s film about one of Britain’s most interesting artists, The Bruce Lacey Experience. This will be followed by a q&a with Abrahams and his collaborator on that project (as well as on the study of Depeche Mode fans The Posters Came From the Walls), artist Jeremy Deller.
This dreamy clip for Stereolab’s Cybele’s Reverie will be among the promos to be screened tomorrow:
Read Abraham’s answers to the Blokes Of Britain questionnaire here.
See Ekki Mukk here.
Visit photographer Eva Vermandel’s site here.
Read about the Depeche Mode/Barney Bubbles connection here.