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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. 

 #12:
José Mario Dellow



7 January - 3 February 2021
Location: online

Programme:
Extract from a conversation between three Guatemalan adoptees, José Mario Dellow, 2020


Image description: Animated GIF of 4 video stills from the screening of ‘Extract from a conversation between three Guatemalan adoptees’ by José Mario Dellow. The photos are all sourced from a scrapbook made by the artist’s father, and include images of the adoption process, including photos of the artist as a baby with his newly adopted parents, a children’s party with other children adopted from Guatemala, as well as images of traditional Guatemalan fabrics.

We’re pleased to share the third film in our new series of monthly online screenings.

Extract from a conversation between three Guatemalan adoptees (2020) by artist and educator José Mario Dellow explores international adoption, drawing from the artist’s own experience of being adopted from Guatemala.

The video presents recordings from a conversation between José Mario Dellow and two other Guatemalan adoptees. Now in their mid-twenties, they discuss their evolving feelings towards their own adoptions.

Underscoring the conversation are a series of images taken from an album made for José Mario Dellow by his father when he was a small child, which he calls his ‘archive.’

This film was part of body of work exploring adoption and family exhibited in a solo exhibition The Only Guatemalan Adoptee in Essex at TOMA Project Space, Southend at the end of last year.

Video courtesy of the artist.