Sarah Pucill’s latest film Double Exposure (2023) has been awarded Best Experimental Film at this year’s Toronto Women Film Festival. Double Exposure re-stages photographs of Pucill and her once partner, filmmaker Sandra Lahire that were made collaboratively shortly before Lahire’s death from anorexia in 2001. Set inside an otherwise quiet studio, black and white interior scenarios […]
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8 March 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain The ground-breaking films of Pratibha Parmar have been raising issues central to feminism over many decades: from the rights of marginalised women and the LGBTQ community, her work has made the voices and experiences of women of colour heard through feature film works, television documentaries and short films. […]
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28 February 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain Carole Enahoro’s rarely screened triple-screen film Oyinbo Pepper (1986), ‘uses archive footage and photographs from Nigeria and the UK to explore the experience of being biracial and bicultural, navigating between vigilance/obliviousness, entanglement/rupture. It ends by mapping hidden networks that exploit the effects of persistent uprooting and rerouting and drive the […]
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21 February 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain From legendary protest singer Peggy Seeger to contemporary artist filmmaker Sarah Wood, the experience of the women’s peace camp at Greenham Common is a secret thread running through British feminist art making. Club des Femmes set up camp at Tate Britain to learn from Greenham’s feminist art practices, histories […]
7 February 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain Riddles of the Sphinx, made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen in 1977, portrays the experience of motherhood through the prism of psychoanalysis, using experimental film techniques and staging to address the difficulties of affective labour, seen through the narrative of a mother caring for her young daughter. […]
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Affective Labour: confronting images of motherhood 31 January 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain Challenging the demands of reproductive labour has long been at the heart of the feminist struggle, and the basis for many arresting works by artists across the decades. This is also the case for feminist artist filmmakers. The ground-breaking exploration of women’s […]
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CREAM PhD researcher Lucy Rogers presents her paper ‘Landscapes of Myth, Memory and Imagination: Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s Memoryscapes’ at The International Conference on Photography Studies: Photography and Site on Wednesday 6 December. In this paper, Rogers explores the cold war or more specifically, the Soviet Union and its imperial ambitions, as one of multiple overarching narratives […]
Prof. Roshini Kempadoo and alumni Sunil Gupta are part of the group exhibition, The World that Belongs to Us opening on Thursday 24 November at The New Art Gallery Walsall in Birmingham. Curated by Aziz Sohail with Head of Exhibitions, Deborah Robinson, this exhibition brings together a constellation of intergenerational artists from the South Asian […]
Matthias Kispert’s 30-minute documentary The Social Life of Food: Movements for Justice & Local Resilience will be screened at cooperatively-run community hub The Hornbeam Centre in Walthamstow, London. The film features interviews with a number of London-based initiatives involved in non-capitalist food provision: Sutton Community Farm works along agroecological principles, which include respect for the land and […]
David Campany has edited and written ‘Very Pictorial Conceptual Art’, the first posthumous book of the work of Robert Cumming, an American artist who defied easy classification. A painter, sculptor, photographer, and printmaker he is perhaps best known for his painstakingly constructed conceptual photographs. This new publication explores Cumming’s highly influential photographic works from the […]
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