On Wednesday 3 October (8.30pm) BFI Southbank will host the London premiere screening of Miranda Pennell’s 2006 LAFVA-funded Drum Room. The event is the latest in an ongoing series of Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) supported artist screenings at BFI Southbank which have previously included Hannah Collins and Andrew Kötting.

Drum Room reflects on the relationships between the individual and the group, as young rock musicians express their collective and individual identities against the ordered conventions of the institution they inhabit. The film deconstructs the architecture of a music school and plays on the unexpected sound relationships contained within it.

Contrasting the cool distance of the formal architecture against the intimacy of human performance, the film draws attention to the viewer’s distance to and identification with the performers’ imaginative world.

Miranda Pennell’s films and videos have centred on a diverse range of human subjects that include stunt men, adolescent skaters, soldiers and a marching band. The people in these films seem to participate in games whose rules remain hidden from the viewer. Young men and women appear bound together by an uncertain logic, their actions forming ambiguous rituals.

The programme will include You Made Me Love You (2005) and Tattoo (2001), and presents a short performance by master drummer and legendary improviser, Steve Noble. A discussion between the artist and Helen de Witt, Festivals Producer, BFI will follow the screening.

Tickets for the screening are available from the BFI Southbank online box office.