+ Q&A with Jenny Okun and Graham Stevens

BFI Southbank
Fri 15 June, 20:45
Tickets available here

This programme reflects on how notions of performance, experimental sound and the body could be explored through film. Includes world premiere of new 2K scan of 1978 Throbbing Gristle film After Cease to Exist.

Drawing on extremely rare experimental works from the 1970s, this programme reflects on how notions of performance, experimental sound and the body could be explored and presented through film. The status of art changed in the wake of the Sixties happening, a phenomenon that had centred on process and live experience, and these titles contributed to new ways of thinking about creativity, notably referencing change, decay and time. Infused with dark counter-cultural energy and constructed with palpable DIY directness, they connect to a London that was run down, yet changing. See films by The Lacey Family, Peter Dockley, Jules Baker, Graham Stevens, Jenny Okun and COUM Transmissions/Throbbing Gristle. All the artists had studios with SPACE which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Outside In (1973)
Dir John Lewis & Dennis Lowe (extracts), 11min

Atmosfields (1971)
Dir Graham Stevens, 17min

Cast (1971)
Dir Peter Dockley 13min

The Lacey Rituals (1973)
Dir The Lacey Family (extract), 10min

Tiger (1975)
Dir Jenny Okun, 10min

After Cease to Exist (1978)
Dir COUM Transmissions/Throbbing Gristle 20min. (New 2K transfer from the original 16mm film with restored stereo soundtrack)

We look forward to welcoming artists Jenny Okun and Graham Stevens for a Q&A with BFI curator William Fowler after the screening.

Copies of the new book Artists in the City: SPACE in '68 and beyond will be on sale and can also be bought through the BFI Filmstore.

This event is kindly supported by