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Louis Benassi curated mixed-media events in galleries, cinematheques and squats. Photograph: Damien Sanville GarethEvans Tue 16 Mar 2021 14.05 EDT Last modified on Tue 16 Mar 2021 14.06 EDT Louis Benassi, who has died aged 59 from cancer, was a distinctive artist/film-maker and countercultural event producer. In his work, and life, he drew on experimental and radical movements such as Dadaism, Fluxus, Lettrism, Situationism and Expanded Cinema. His films – single and multiscreen collages combining Free Cinema-style heightened realism with radical graphics, found footage and sonic interventi...

'A Listening Eye: The Films of Mike Dibb' on view online at Whitechapel Gallery John Berger filming Pig Earth, 1979. Courtesy Mike Dibb. LONDON .-Whitechapel Gallery announced the launch of ‘A Listening Eye: The Films of Mike Dibb’, a series of online film screenings and events celebrating the work of multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker, Mike Dibb (b. 1940, UK). Launched online, the series features over 50 of Dibb’s films and provides a rare opportunity to explore the work of a maker for whom culture and society, art and life are indivisible Dibb is perhaps best known for Ways of See...