The London premiere screening of Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone’s 2006 LAFVA-funded Proposal, for an unmade film (set in the future) will take place on Tuesday 10 July (6.10pm). The event forms part of the Artists’ Moving Image Networks ongoing series of artists’ screenings at the newly reopened BFI Southbank.

Shot on the island of Lanzarote Proposal for an unmade film (set in the future), a 20 minute piece shot on 16mm, weaves together the extraordinary, shattered, volcanic landscape of the Timonfaya National Park and the ‘retro-futuristic’ utopian architecture of artist César Manrique.

Proposal... implies that it is assembled from ‘location recce’ and audition footage; the by-product of a pre-production process for a low budget science fiction film/architectural documentary, developed this far, abandoned, and only later discovered in an archive.

The suggested narrative that emerges from this found footage is that of a visitor attempting to create a paradise on earth – a story apparently influenced by Nick Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth – in which volcanic bubbles become time capsules, buildings become space ships and sculptural mobiles become radio antenna.

The programme will also include a single-screen version of the artist’s recent twelve channel video installation Motion Path which was filmed in the buildings of Erich Mendelsohn and shown last year at the De La Warr Pavilion.

The screenings will be introduced by Chris Darke, author of 'Alphaville' and 'Light Readings; Film Criticism and Screen Arts', and followed by a short discussion with the artists.

Tickets for the event can be booked through the BFI Southbank box office.