Event overview
Tickets: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/trashingtate.htm
A series of curated film screenings at Tate Modern of rare archival material documenting drag performance in New York City and feminist performance in Europe, and programmes exploring trash performance in the Americas, including the legacy of the Kuchar brothers.
12pm
introduced by Joe E. Jeffreys and Bettina Knaup
Drag Show Video Vérité & Re.Act Feminism: Works from the archives
Tickets: £5/£4
This programme features rarely seen film and video documentation of performance from archival projects in Europe and the USA. Drag Show Video Vérité offers a wild mash up of 50 plus years of rare footage of the New York drag show, capturing the faces and places, past and present, famous and forgotten, of the city's vibrant male and female impersonation scenes. Re.act Feminism, a travelling archive of East European performance from the 1960s and 1970s, presents rarely seen works which include laughing freaks, burlesque fashionistas and mimetic bodies.
3pm
Man Up, Two Examples of Transfiguration
curated by Inti Guerrero
Tickets: £5/£4
Man Up, Two Examples of Transfiguration brings together two geographically and temporally distant cinematic realms dealing in a witty and bizarre manner with sexual and social normatizations. Transgender theoretician Susan Stryker will present Tony Cayado’s We Who Are Sexy (Kaming Mga Talyada, 1962), an obscure camp archival treasure from the Philippines featuring U.S. transsexual celebrity Christine Jorgensen, who was then performing an extended run at a Manila nightclub. The zany plot, revolving around seven gender-bent siblings, zig-zags between genres as well as genders, swerving between romantic comedy, musical and war story. Jorgensen turns out to be the straightest part of this incredibly queer movie.
The programme continues with the first of the four-part Nigerian film 666 by director and pastor Kenneth Okonkwo, reflecting the trashy, extreme low budget soap opera aesthetics and religious fanaticism that have become the field of representation for extreme homophobia in many parts of contemporary Africa.
6.30pm
George Kuchar
curated by Marc Siegel & Stuart Comer
Tickets: £5/£4
‘The head, heart, and hairy area below the stomach is what should be stimulated at the cinema.' –George Kuchar
This tribute to George Kuchar, a towering figure in American underground cinema who passed away in August 2011, features films spanning his career and his collaboration with Curt McDowell.
With his twin brother Mike, Kuchar produced a prodigious body of Super-8 and 16-mm films in the 1960s and 1970s — idiosyncratic narrative psychodramas and pop cultural parodies that are charged with perverse humor and became a major influence on younger filmmakers such as John Waters. In the mid-1980s, Kuchar acquired an 8-mm camcorder and began producing an extraordinary series of video diaries, chronicling a singular, ongoing personal history. Exhibiting the rawness of video verité and the theatricality of fiction, his self- narrated tapes record close-up observations of the personal routines and social interactions of Kuchar's daily life.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 30 Oct 2011 | 12:00pm - 8:00pm |
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