Events (W.C. 24 April)
1. Derek Jarman: BLUE NOW
May 2023 | Various venues, UK
Derek Jarman’s Blue tours the UK in a series of special live screenings, read by a cast of four including actor Russell Tovey, writer and theatre-maker Travis Alabanza, artist Jay Bernard and poet Joelle Taylor. The performances will be directed by Neil Bartlett, with a live score by Simon Fisher Turner, the film’s original composer. To accompany the live programme, WePresent commissioned a series of tributes in response to Jarman’s legacy from the artists involved in the project.
Find out more, here.
2. Michelle Williams Gamaker in conversation with May Adadol Ingawanij
7pm, 17 May 2023 | South London Gallery
Join Michelle Williams Gamaker and curator, writer and teacher May Adadol Ingawanij for a live conversation at the South London Gallery exploring Williams Gamaker’s latest film, Thieves. Co-commissioned by FLAMIN Productions, the South London Gallery and Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Thieves is a fantasy adventure retelling of The Thief of Bagdad. Imagining a radical moment of ‘fictional activism’, Thieves sees two marginalised characters from the original films enact revenge on set and reclaim the story as their own. Watch the trailer here.
3. Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
From 10 May
BFI Southbank — preview and Q&A with Nina Menkes
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power is a mesmerising visual journey through cinema’s sexist bloodstream that will forever change the way you see and make films. Director Nina Menkes compels the casual moviegoer and cinephile alike to confront how the visual language of cinema is used to disempower women at the most fundamental level. Using more than 175 film clips from canonical Hollywood favourites and cult classics as well as interviews with filmmakers and scholars, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power reveals a sinister framework of misogyny and paternalism that, from early cinema to the present day, infiltrates some of our favourite movies.
Find out more about the screenings, HERE
4. Sanaa + intro and Q&A with Sudhanshu Saria and lead actor Radhika Madan
Thursday 04 May 2023 17:45; BFI Southbank: NFT1
- DirectorSudhanshu Saria
The biggest weekend of her professional life gets more complicated when Sanaa, a 28-year-old financial advisor in Mumbai, finds out she is expecting. She’s absolutely clear in her decision to terminate her pregnancy, but the actual process of getting the abortion will force Sanaa to re-evaluate her life and consider whether the choices she has been making are her own. Saria’s sensitive script combines with impressively controlled direction and a riveting central performance from Madan.
Tickets £14, concessions £11 (non-Members pay £2 more)
Find out more about the screenings, HERE
5. Enys Men with live score by The Cornish Sound Unit
Monday 01 May 2023 18:40; BFI Southbank: NFT1
The Cornish Sound Unit perform a live score to Mark Jenkin’s unsettling coastal chiller.
To coincide with the BFI Player and dual format release of Enys Men, BFI is thrilled to be presenting the film with a live score that sonically reimagines its source material. It will be performed by writer-director Mark Jenkin and Dion Star, known under the banner of their collaborative music project ‘The Cornish Sound Unit’, who employ improvised and composed pieces using tape machines, analogue synths, feedback and field recordings.
Find out more about the screenings, HERE
6. The Headless Woman + intro by Zeina Durra
Thursday 04 May 2023 20:30; BFI Southbank: NFT2
In Argentine writer-director Lucrecia Martel’s disquieting psychological thriller, a woman collides with something while driving her car. She initially believes she hit a dog, but paranoia grows that the incident may have been more serious. Zeina Durra, the director of Luxor and The Imperialists Are Still Alive!, will introduce this immersive, unsettling film, highlighting Martel’s influence on her own work.
Find out more about the screenings, HERE
7. Mukhrijat: Arab Women Filmmakers
Garden Cinema; Thu 4 – Fri 19 May
Join Garden Cinema for Mukhrijat: Arab Women Filmmakers an exciting season of feature films made by Arab women directors that, offer a rich and diverse introduction to filmmaking from the region. Films that tell every day, very human stories, away from sensationalist and reductionist portrayals too often offered up by depictions of the Arab world.
8. Genesis Cinema 24th Birthday: Happy Together
Genesis Cinema; Tue 16 May, 6:45pm
- Price: £2.50
- Age Guidance: 15
- Running Time: 93mins
Join Genesis for a special screening of Happy Together. Wong Kar-Wai’s classic tells the story of a couple that takes a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions. Screening as part of Genesis Cinema’s 24th Birthday! Join Genesis as they celebrate with a selection of some of their favourite films all birthday screenings tickets are £2.50.
9. Seeing and Being Seen: A Trio of Films
Barbican; Thu 11 May, 7:00pm
Join the Barbican for a screening of three films by Camille Billops and Fronza Woods, two pioneering African American female filmmakers. These short films expand themes recurrent in the painter Alice Neel’s work from addiction to the elderly female body, from sex work to morbidity, while questioning the dynamics that Neel’s artistic practice raises: cross-cultural and intergenerational encounters and the act of depicting trauma
10. Sans Soleil by Chris Marker
Ciné Lumière; Thu 4 May, 3:45pm
Join Ciné Lumière for a special screening of Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil. Sans Soleil is a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory, and how, as a result, the perception of personal and global histories is affected. Screening as part of Ciné Lumière’s Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time season of French and Francophone titles.