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MOVING MOUNTAINS:
IKON'S RETURN VISIT
The best Brum snow-fall we’ve seen this year wreaked appropriate amounts of havoc at 1am on Saturday. All evidence had evaporated by the morning. In case you missed it, above is basically how it looked, save for the get-me-on-a-ski-trip-immediately mountain top and one of Norway’s most prominent artists (pictured). A K Dolven’s new exhibition please return opened at IKON this week and between now and 19 April, we seriously suggest you take a look. Through a multi-sensory attack including film, sound and painting, Dolven takes an ethereal approach to the majesty of natural forces. And the results are damn right awe-inspiring. Don’t miss Vertical on my own (2011). Made with 16mm film, the video installation depicts a long eerie Arctic shadow, cast against gleaming white snow.
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MOVIE OF THE WEEK:
SELMA
It’s easy to forget that Martin Luther King Jnr, however exceptional, was a flesh and blood man as much as he was a saintly civil rights icon. This terrific look at one of his key campaigns is at pains to stress the backroom deals that made him a hero as much as the soaring rhetoric that made him a legend - although there is plenty of that, in speeches that crackle off the screen. Sadly relevant now as much as ever, this is a bracing, powerful film that educates as much as inspires, cleverly demystifying King’s achievements but somehow making them all the more impressive. Brit David Oyelewo (pictured) delivers a likely career-defining performance as King, as compelling taking out the bins as he is at the pulpit, and with luck BAFTA will correct the ludicrous oversight of him being denied an Oscar nod.
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