The Kitchen
1978
S.8mm. Colour, sound. 4mins, 7secs.
Extract.
The Kitchen is a film of Langlands & Bell’s first collaborative artwork. The film explores their installation of two kitchens constructed side by side. The visitor enters a decrepit old Kitchen replete with rotten floorboards, peeling wallpaper, dirty crockery, and rusty pots and pans. The New Kitchen, a mirror image of the old, is physically inaccessible but lit with prismatic coloured light, and viewed though a fixed window in the wall that divides the two spaces.
Exhibitions: Nikki Bell & Ben Langlands, Oh La La Les Legumes & The Kitchen, New Films by Young Film Makers, London Film Makers Co-op, London, UK. 1978.; Nikki Bell & Ben Langlands, Degree Show, Middlesex Polytechnic (aka Hornsey College of Art), Alexandra Palace, London, UK. 1980; Langlands & Bell Films & Animations 1978-2008, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. 2008.
Catalogues: Langlands & Bell Films & Animations 1978-2008, pub. Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2008.
Collection: Langlands & Bell Archive.
View The Kitchen installation here.
