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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. 

#6:
free.yard, Bronte Dow, Patrick Staff, Kathryn Elkin, Richard Whitby



Thursday 19 December 2019, 8pm
Location: Mascara Bar

Programme:
Untitled (A Momentation 4 Saul), free.yard, 2019
Bathynomus, Bronte Dow, 2019
Weed Killer, Patrick Staff, 2017
Why La Bamba, Kathryn Elkin, 2015
The Lost Ones, Richard Whitby, 2019


Image description: Animated GIF of video stills from the screening ‘06’ Video still 1: A camera phone image of typical London high street Video still 2: A hand reaches into a tank containing giant preserved insect. Video still 3: A thermographic image of a woman facing the camera with sunglasses on. Video still 4: Close up image of shredded paper Video still 5: A man with glasses is the screen of a movie theatre with a couple of rows of red cinema seats in the front of the image.

What sleeps in the mouth of the ventriloquist's dummy? Mascara Film Club presents five artists’ shorts that speak through relayed voices, as pointed power plays surface across expanded testimonies. Turnpike Lane sings karaoke, a printer interrogates and John McKeown is fed lines from a Dustin Hoffman interview. Including films by free.yard, Bronte Dow, Patrick Staff, Kathryn Elkin and Richard Whitby.