EXHIBITION, previously referred to as ‘Joanna Hogg’s London Project’, will receive its World Premiere at the Locarno Film Festival on 9 August 2013 as part of the International Competition section.
EXHIBITION stars Viv Albertine (former guitarist of the influential punk band The Slits) and Liam Gillick (conceptual artist) in their first feature film performances, and co-stars long-standing collaborator Tom Hiddleston in a supporting role following his performances in Joanna’s previous feature films, Unrelated and Archipelago.
Explaining the thinking behind the new title, Joanna Hogg has said:
“I am delighted that the film will premiere at the Locarno Film Festival. The word ‘Exhibition’ struck me after we’d finished the final cut. There’s a very obvious level that it works on for the film, but I was also interested in coming from the word ‘inhibition’ – D, the character I’m telling the story about, is inhibited. The film can be read as being about her coming out of herself and finding a more exhibitionist side of herself.”
EXHIBITION will be released in the UK by Curzon’s film distribution label, Artificial Eye, in early 2014. Further international sales will be handled by Visit Films.
FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT
For Locarno enquiries and international press:
Claire Gascoyne: +44(0)7515 587 173 / Claire.Gascoyne@premiercomms.com
Jamie Sheehan: +44(0)7545 401 832 / Jamie.Sheehan@premiercomms.com
For UK press enquiries:
Jon Rushton: +44(0)207 438 9508 / Jon.Rushton@Artificial-Eye.com
For Visit Films and sales enquiries:
Ryan Kampe: +1 646 548 4700 / rk@visitfilms.com
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT ‘EXHIBITION’:
EXHIBITION is the third feature by Joanna Hogg, the acclaimed British writer-director who made her name with Unrelated in 2007, and went on to refine her craft in 2010’s Archipelago. Both films established Hogg’s skill at directing ensemble casts, her acute observational style and her ability to get beneath the skin of the British middle class – to explore their manners, their anxieties, their silences and social embarrassments. Unrelated and Archipelago were both raw emotional dramas and brittle social comedies of unease, and they announced the arrival of a distinct and original new voice in British cinema.
When D and H decide to sell the home they have loved and lived in for two decades, they begin a process of saying goodbye to their shared history under the same roof. The upheaval causes anxieties to surface, and wife and performance artist D, struggles to control the personal and creative aspects of her life with H. Dreams, memories, fears, have all imprinted themselves on their home, which exists as a container for their lives and has played such an important role in their relationship. Exhibition stars Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick and co-stars Tom Hiddleston.
Joanna Hogg’s first film to be set in London, EXHIBITION is at once a development and a departure. Where her earlier features focused on tensions among groups of people on holiday, EXHIBITION is about two people in their own home environment – shown together in a state of intimacy that’s as much apartness as togetherness, in an enclosed space that feels at once like comfort and confinement. Working without a conventional script, and pushing her cast to challenging degrees of self-exposure, risk and play, Hogg has come up with something distinctly different in the field of British cinema, and that pushes her own cinematic exploration into exciting new territory.
EXHIBITION is a Wild Horses Film Company production and will be released in the UK in early 2014. The release date will be announced soon.
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT ‘CURZON’:
Curzon is an integrated cinema and content distribution group. We pride ourselves on the quality of our cinemas, our ideas and our content.
Curzon Cinemas is the UK’s leading independent cinema group with seven venues across the country, combining luxury venues and an innovative home cinema offering with a passion for high-quality film programming. We offer the very best in film, events and alternative content for a discerning audience.
The virtual venue in our cinema group, Curzon Home Cinema, offers the opportunity to watch specially selected films from the same day as their physical cinema release. Curzon Cinemas also operates an expanding number of franchise cinemas in arts centres across the country, and works in partnership with Manchester Cornerhouse on their programming.
Curzon has three distribution labels: Curzon Film World Releasing, our long-established and much-loved film label Artificial Eye, and our genre label Chelsea Films. The Artificial Eye label has released more winners of the Cannes Palme d'Or than any other UK distributor, with titles including ‘The Class’ (2008), ‘The White Ribbon’ (2009) and ‘Amour’ (2012).
Curzon Film World, through its Curzon Film Rights 2 funding vehicle, recently produced its first film, ‘Le Weekend’, directed by Roger Michell and starring Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jeff Goldblum. ‘Le Weekend is set for release later in 2013.
Fusion Media Sales is a wholly owned subsidiary of Curzon World, offering an independent home cinema sales service to more than fifteen labels including Curzon Film World and Artificial Eye.
Locarno Press Activities:
Press screening: Friday 9 August / 9.00am / Kursaal
Official Press Conference: Friday 9 August / 11.30am / Palazzo Morettini
Official Screening: Friday 9 August / 4.30pm / Fevi Theatre
Talent attending Locarno: Joanna Hogg (Director) / Viv Albertine (actor) / Liam Gillick (actor) / Gayle Griffiths (Producer)
International interviews: Friday 9 August (12.00-1.00pm) / Saturday 10 August (various times) / Venues TBC