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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The British Film Designers Guild (BFDG) and the University of Westminster present this special feature film screening of Atonement. The event is part of International Production Design Week 2023, organized by the Production Designers Collective, a group of over 1100 colleagues dedicated to mutual support through sharing knowledge, encouragement and experience. The 2007 British romantic World […]
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Mitra Tabrizian‘s ‘Film stills’ is part of the exhibition, Life is More Important than Art, at Whitechapel Gallery from 14th June until 3rd September. Film stills are often photographs of the main character(s) taken on or off the set to introduce/publicize the film. The main purpose of such publicity stills is to help promote the film and stars. […]