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Mascara Film Club


Mascara Film Club is an artist-run film club, which mostly takes place in North-East London. Taking place outside both film festival circuits and institutional art spaces, we screen artists’ moving image in more convivial contexts. We understand film screenings defined less as the relation between film and spectators in hushed rooms, but rather as performative and social events where the critical intimacies of friendship and community can come to the fore. Through our programming we seek to bring into conversation films and people, and foster a self-organised infrastructure for moving image practitioners.

Mascara Film Club is organised by Rufus Rock,  Daisy Smith and Katarzyna Łukasik.

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Mascara Film Club



Mascara Film Club is an artist-run film club, which mostly takes place in North-East London. Taking place outside institutional art spaces, we screen artists’ moving image in more convivial contexts. We understand film screenings defined less as the relation between film and spectators in hushed rooms, but rather as performative and social events where the critical intimacies of friendship and community can come to the fore. Through our programming we seek to bring into conversation films and people, and foster a self-organised infrastructure for moving image practitioners.


Mascara Film Club is currently organised by Katarzyna Łukasik, Rufus Rock and Daisy Smith. 

#4:
Cyrus Hung, Keren Cytter, Sid Smith, Charlie Fegan, Geraldine Snell, Callum Hill, Mikhail Karakis, Harriet Rickard



Thursday 10 October 2019, 8pm
Location: Mascara Bar

Programme:
Sean Scully 'Uninsideout' Press Release MV, Cyrus Hung, 2019
Continuity (based on Continuity of Parks by Julio Cortazar), Keren Cytter, 2005
Extension (For Len Blavatnik), Sid Smith, 2018
No Black Magic?, Charlie Fegan, 2018
Overlove Episode 1, Geraldine Snell, 2018
Crowtrap, Callum Hill, 2018
No Ordinary Protest, Mikhail Karikis, 2018
People of the Town, Harriet Rickard, 2018


Image description: Animated GIF of video stills from the screening ‘04’. Video still 1: An underwater view looking down on a pair of hands with the bottom of a swimming pool in the background Video still 2: A group of children wearing patterned glow in the dark masks look at the camera in a darkened room Video still 3: An older man holds a paint brush close to the camera. His hand holding the paint brush is so close it is out focus. Video still 4: A feminine presenting person wearing a sexy cop is holding a script, revealing a part of her breast with her second hand as she looks to the camera, Video still 5: Close up image of a Preying Mantis with a light green border surrounding the image and a caption that says ‘And the beast.’ Video still 6: Overlaid images of a persons eyes and nose and a drum kit. Video still 7: Nighttime shot of a deserted subway with grey and blue tiles.

‘And the children? She gave them the power of the noise. She gave them information. The disease!’

A series of shorts that turn on fictive hinges (they creak). We present eight works in which absurd worlds rooted in the familiar offer estranged viewpoints, interrupted translations and weird protests. Including films by Cyrus Hung, Geraldine Snell, Sid Smith, Keren Cytter, Harriet Rickard, Callum Hill, Mikhail Karikis and Charlie Fegan. Hacked documents, pirated myths and stolen diaries make for sh-sh-shaky systems.