Monday 17 December 2012, 8pm
Good Day Today is a new book by Daniel Neofetou about the films of
David Lynch and how they pose a radical challenge to conservative and
absolutist ideologies. In the book, Neofetou argues that - by
utilising the tropes of the Hollywood movie, but subverting their
accepted meanings and combining them with techniques from experimental
film praxis - Lynch's works might engender a mindset which resists
prescribed meanings and blind consensus with the dominant discourse.
Luke Dean & TH11d are members of the Birmingham-based experimental
electronic music collective Ostrich Box, who since 2011 have played
sets in art galleries, festivals, cathedrals, car parks and basements
all in the name of pushing experimental electronic music to new
places.
Daniel Neofetou is a filmmaker and writer living in London. He is currently working towards a Phd with the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College. He is a founding member of the documentary collective Reeling the Real and runs the netlabel Nude Defending a Staircase Recordings.
The book launch will feature a talk by Daniel Neofetou, followed by a
Q&A and performances from Luke Dean & TH11d
"Neofetou on Lynch is an original on an original. This book is a learned and lucid work in which Neofetou demonstrates how Lynch’s deeply entrancing filmmaking greatly destabilises the viewer into seeing and feeling outside the norm." ~ Jose Arroyo, Lecturer, University of Warwick Department of Film & Television Studies