Cinema and fiction.  Unusual circumstance, comedy and error.  Currently on exhibition at Rokeby is a photographic series by the artist Doug Fishbone.  Made concurrently to a feature-length film of the artist's recently closed at Tate Britain, Elmina places Fishbone as the lead role in a drama, with the white, Jewish, New Yorker playing a Ghanian farmer fighting corruption and exploitation of the village by a Chinese multinational corporation.

Written and produced by a leading Ghanian production company and starring a cast of famous Ghanian and Nigerian actors, the film brings together two disparate communities and economies - the Western art world and the African film industry.  Fishbone is known for producing philosophical comedies of the absurd, performances and installations to disorient the audience and this film and series of parallel photographs expands on this to bring the almost-surreal to what is a mainstream potboiler.

Made in Ghana, the film will be released in Africa as a DVD and VCD and as an editioned artwork alongside the photographs in the mainstream (Western?) art world.  Fishbone says that he hopes for the film to be and do 'something interesting'.  And if you haven't heard a bigger understatement already this year, I doubt you will.

Elmina by Doug Fishbone is at Rokeby Gallery, London until 15 January, 2011.

all images from Elmina, Doug Fishbone (2010).

Since its release in 1982, Tron has lived at least three or four lives.  The first was as an attempt to cash in on the craze for arcade games; the second was as the (then) pinnacle of computer generated design; the third was after a re-evaluation of early '80s retro fashion and its fourth incarnation is through what could be called Son of Tron, but will be in cinemas as Tron Legacy.

Don't worry about plot, what you're getting from this film is a throwback to one of the most iconic films ever made.  Jeff Bridges (reborn as Hollywood's cult-hero leading man du jour since his titular (?  Perhaps) turn in The Big Lebowski), mind-bendingly special effects - think neon blues and reds against a backdrop of the deepest black - and a synth-prog-europop-dance soundtrack by everyone's favourite faceless boppers Daft Punk.  Best of all?  It's the fantasy world that 3-D film was made for.  Frankly, don't we all just want to see those motorcycles in action again?

As they state with pride, no two performances by Rambert Dance Company are the same.  As they undertake a national tour of their latest work, Awakenings, based on the true story documented in the eponymous book by Dr. Oliver Sacks (once adapted into a Major Hollywood Motion Picture Event starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams), you wonder how this helps the dancers and the choreographers adapt to the atmosphere of each city and each audience, the weather that they bring with them and news of the day.

Awakenings documents through contemporary dance 'the sleeping sickness', where in the early twentieth century, a significant number of people across the world fell victim to a neurological disorder that left them in a state of paralytic slumber.  Their subsequent awakenings drew some extraordinary responses.

'Wait - you mean to tell me that this is a dance piece about being paralysed?'  Yes, okay, that sounds off but the inherent movement of minds that are alive and re-learning how to move beyond the awakenings anchor this piece, and a beautifully heartbreaking piece it is.

Rambert this week were made recipients of a £7million grant to develop a new state-of-the-art HQ.   Strange, perhaps, given the extent of the cuts at the current time?  No.  Not if it's for Rambert.