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. 



#9
Going Away.tv: Hazel Brill, Ollie Dook, Jakob, Kudsk Steensen, April Lin and Jasmin Lin, Louise Ashcroft, William Crook, Wilf Speller



Thursday 12 March 2020, 8pm
Location: Mascara Bar

Programme:
A Commitment, Hazel Brill, 2019
Reflections on a Visit v2, Ollie Dook, 2017
RE-ANIMATED: Arrival, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, 2018
Reality Fragment 160921, April Lin and Jasmine Lin, 2017
Unicorns of Westfield, Louise Ashcroft, 2017
All that glitters is not gold, William Cook, 2019
Benjamin’s Orchid, Wilf Speller, 2019


Image description: Animated GIF of video stills from the screening ‘Going Away.tv’.  Video still 1: Animated CGI Jungle landscape. Video still 2: Man speaks to camera in a balaclava. Video still 3: Cartoon monkey speaks to camera in front of zoo display. Video still 4: Two naked people embrace in a bedroom. Video still 5: A T-shirt with the words ‘Being a Unicorn is Exhausting’ in a shop. Video still 6: Pink orchids in a laboratory.

This month we’re collaborating with Going Away.tv to present a screening of works selected from their online channel, examining how ecology, class and sexuality operate within virtual and digital spaces.

‘Going Away.tv’ is an online platform hosting live streamed artists’ moving image 24/7, combining work from a variety of localities and backgrounds. At once embracing and critiquing the democratic nature of streaming platforms such as ‘Twitch’ and ‘Youtube Live’, ‘Going Away.tv’ will continuously present the work of multiple artists working in moving image and broadcasting, randomised but presented sequentially twenty-four hours a day. On returning visits to ‘Going Away’ you may not see the same work twice.