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## [animate! Rogue Talents 1 at Riverside Studios London](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/09/animate-rogue-talents-1-at-riverside-studios-london/)

**Thursday 5 October 2006 18:45**

In the first of a unique monthly series, experimental animation project animate! presents features, shorts and documentaries that take life beyond live action into a delirious, unsettling, inspiring and stunningly imaginative realm, where the visual meets the visionary. Guest directors, onstage discussions and live music events accompany the series.

**animate! Rogue Talents double bill 1: Future Self**
Two films about consciousness and crisis set in very different worlds.

**The Falconer** 15 **6.45pm**
(Iain Sinclair/Christopher Petit, UK, 1998) 56m
With Kathy Acker, Steven Dilworth, Stewart Home
Sinclair and Petit’s rarely seen docudrama [The Falconer](http://www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk/filmsaf/falconer.htm) is a dazzling, multi-layered pursuit of the life and myths of 1960s underground filmmaker, falconer and novelist Peter Whitehead ([Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonite_Let's_All_Make_Love_in_London)). [Dave McKean](http://www.dreamline.nu/)’s text, graphic and animation overlays add an extra level to this stunning seminal collage of consciousness in crisis and permanent revelation.

![The Falconer, still](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/wp-content/falconer05.jpg)

**The Falconer** (1998) by Iain Sinclair & Chris Petit

Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair are in onstage conversation immediately after **The Falconer**.

[Chris Petit](http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/587422/index.html), one of Britain’s most distinctive and ambitious film-makers, shot to fame with his remarkable feature debut [Radio On](http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A3689364) (1979). Recent collaborations include a series of visionary digital projects (**The Falconer**, **Asylum**, **London Orbital**) with writer Iain Sinclair. His latest film is [Unrequited Love](http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/eng/programme/atoz/film.aspx?id=40934&year=2006) (2006).

[Iain Sinclair](http://www.complete-review.com/authors/sinclairi.htm) is poet, filmmaker and one of Britain’s most respected authors. He is perhaps best known for his books of [psychogeographic](https://web.archive.org/web/20061205050647/http://forteantimes.com/articles/147_iainsinclair.shtml) exploration such as [Lights out for the Territory](http://www.granta.com/shop/product?product_id=30) and [London Orbital](https://web.archive.org/web/20070203141051/http://www.londonist.com/archives/2005/06/the_iain_sincla.php). He has edited a major anthology of writings on London, *City of Disappearances*, due in October 2006.

**The Man Who Fell to Earth** 18 **8.40pm**
(Nicolas Roeg, UK, 1976) 138m
With David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark
Roeg’s astonishing, elegiac, sci-fi parable about longing, loss and the constant search for love, whatever the cost, is one of the great visions of the fragility and beauty of life on earth, with [David Bowie](http://members.ol.com.au/rgriffin/GoldenYears/mwfte.html) brilliantly cast as the alien who loses a planet but, briefly, finds a kind of human happiness. A cult masterpiece that transforms the everyday through luminous fractured narrative.

Upcoming animate! Rogue Talents evenings at Riverside Studios include: *Future City* in November, *Future Worlds* in December and *Future Sex* in January.

Riverside Studios
Crisp Road
Hammersmith
London W6 9RL
box office: (020) 8237 1111
nearest tube station: Hammersmith
admission: £6.50 / £5.50 (concessions) for each half or the whole of the animate! double bill

**Thursday 5 October 2006 18:45** [Riverside Studios website ›](http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/cgi-bin/cinemalist.pl)[Map ›](http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.pl?p=findus01)

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