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Lucy Raven's China Town + Jean Luc Godard's Opération Béton

Lucy Raven: Rounds

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Lucy Raven China Town

A double-bill of films that create a dialogue across decades – between materials and meaning, monumental structures and the people who build them.

In China Town (2009), Raven follows the journey of copper from an open-pit mine in Nevada to China’s Three Gorges Dam, revealing how landscapes are transformed, exploited, repurposed and abandoned as global industries shift.

Screened after is Opération Béton (1955), an early industrial film by a young Jean-Luc Godard. While working on the Grande Dixence dam, Godard documented its construction and layered the footage with his own voiceover, offering a wry, personal take on the labour behind the concrete.

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Opération Béton, France, 1958, Dir Jean-Luc Godard, 20 mins

China Town, USA, 2009, Dir Lucy Raven, 51 mins

With thanks to Lucy Raven, The Cinémathèque française and Patrick Siegenthaler.

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Lucy Raven: Rounds

Coinciding with our exhibition in The Curve, Lucy Raven: Rounds, we bring together contrasting films which explore industrial landscapes and their histories of exclusion and violence.

Cinema 2

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