This summer, from Friday June 26 until Monday August 31, British artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers' art installation The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers will be open to the public at the Television Centre in White City.
Set in the vacant Drama Block building, the film is a multi-projection, site-specific work; the abstracted footage is projected inside a sequence of found interiors and new structures built from redundant film sets.
The project will be the first public event at Television Centre since its closure in 2012.
Alistair Shaw, managing director of Television Centre, said: "We are delighted to host Artangel at Television Centre, reflecting both the cultural history and future of this historic site.
!It is particularly fitting that our first public event at Television Centre will animate a space that for many years was used by the BBC to create scenery and props for some of Britain’s favourite TV programmes.
"We look forward to opening the doors for members of the public to come and see Artangel's latest installation here in the heart of an evolving White City, a new centre of gravity for London."
Michael Morris and James Lingwood, co-directors of Artangel, said: "Ben Rivers' The Two Eyes are Not Brothers is a cinematic sequence of installations shot on location in the mountains and desert sands of Morocco. Its stories are told in fragments, much like the abandoned sets that still stand in the Sahara as testament to the countless films made there.
"Gathered together and shown in a place that still resonates with decades of scenic construction and set painting, the former Drama Block at Television Centre makes the perfect location in which to project Rivers' filmic fragments," they said. "Artangel is thrilled to be working in White City at such an exciting moment of transition."
The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers will also be released later in 2015 as a single-screen feature film.
BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, White City, W12 7RJ. For more information, head to the official website.
