On Wednesday 16 May (6.45pm), the Greenwich Picturehouse will host the London Premiere of Michael Maziere’s LAFVA-funded Assassin. The work will be screened alongside a selection of works made by Maziere since 1980.

The screening forms part of a unique series of artist retrospectives entitled The Subjective Camera. The series presents the work of six artists whose work examines subjectivity with an analysis of film language.

Michael Maziere is currently best known for films that distil fragments from classical narrative cinema from the ‘50s and ‘60s with autobiographic and personal footage.

Personal and collective memory, fiction and autobiography are literally fused as clips, dialogue, music, and subtitle explore something in-between. This mosaic of film fragments discovers new cinematic territory, where suspension and loss pervades and the binding effects of explanation and closure are absent.

Maziere's films challenge assumed separations between outer and inner worlds, personal and meta-narratives, while offering a dislocated yet seductive cinematic space.

The screening will feature:

• The Bathers (1986, 6 mins, 16mm)
  Shot in Italy, the film captures fragments of a summer's afternoon; recorded, degraded and fixed, as instances transformed.
• Swimmer (1987, 7 mins, 16mm)
  Swimmer is a celebration of the body in motion. Within a synthesis of water, light, colour and sound a tension is created touching on pleasure, pain and desire.
• Untitled (1980, 18 mins, 16mm)
  Using a kaleidoscopic array of techniques to question the representation of space in film, Untitled can be read as an existential journey through interior spaces or as a phenomenological inquiry into the relationship between what is seen and the act of seeing.
• Delirium (2001, 10 mins, digital)
  Delirium is a psychopoetic study of elusive visions, which reveals a disturbing yet seductive world of beauty. The piece reworks archival film material combined with striking images of urban and desert landscapes.
• Blackout (2000, 10 mins, digital)
  Set in the cinematic world of desire, memory and beauty, Blackout is at once a love story and a dialogue of loss between a man and a woman. The struggle for communication and intimacy is conveyed through re-edited voices from a classic Hollywood film combined with Maziere’s own, and Hollywood, footage.
• Assassin (2007, 10 mins, digital)
  London Premiere screening
  Jean-Luc Godard has asserted that in cinema ...all you need is a girl and a gun. Assassin explores the seductive spectacle of crime as manifested in cinema, and the reality of violence, through the depiction of the archetypal character of the assassin.

Michael Maziere will be taking part in a Q&A session after the screenings.

Tickets for this screening are £6 and can be booked at www.picturehouses.co.uk or by calling the Picturehouse box office on 0870 755 0065.