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.

Say hello ︎︎︎ mascarafilmclub@gmail.com

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.

#7:
Queer London 01: Annette Kennerly, Martine Thoquenne, Tom Stephen, Derek Jarman, John Samson, Andy Lipman and Phillip Timmis, Silvia Narizzano

Thursday 13 February 2020, 7pm
Location: Mascara Bar

Programme:
Sex Lies and Religion, Annette Kennerley, 1993
Catholic Guilt, Martine Thoquenne, 1986
21st Century Nuns, Tom Stephan, 1994
It’s a Sin, Derek Jarman, 1987
Dressing for Pleasure, John Samson, 1977
Watch Out — There's a Queer About!, Andy Lipman and Phillip Timmins, 1980
Oscar Wilde: On Trial, Silvio Narizzano, 1960

Image description: Animated GIF of video stills from the screening ‘Queer London 01’ Video still 1: Exterior shot of three men dressed as nuns walking through a crowded London street in the 1980s. Video still 2: Grainy black and white image of a women asleep with a crown of flowers surrounded by a a couple of small plants and an antique table.

Image description: Animated GIF of video stills from the screening ‘Queer London 01’ Video still 1: Exterior shot of three men dressed as nuns walking through a crowded London street in the 1980s. Video still 2: Grainy black and white image of a women asleep with a crown of flowers surrounded by a a couple of small plants and an antique table.

On the eve of the feast of St Valentine, Queer London Film Club presents six works on guilt, desire and sex. Abney Park becomes a site of Lesbian goth cruising, the Nuns of Perpetual Indulgence beatify Derek Jarman, the frog man applies talc to a rubber suit, the feds storm a bar and arrest Jimmy Sommerville, and Oscar Wilde takes to the dock.

Curated by Sam Dolbear, Helen MacKenzie & Ash Reid.

Mascara Film Club

Mascara Film Club

#7: Queer London 01: Annette Kennerly, Martine Thoquenne, Tom Stephen, Derek Jarman, John Samson, Andy Lipman and Phillip Timmis, Silvia Narizzano

#7:
Queer London 01: Annette Kennerly, Martine Thoquenne, Tom Stephen, Derek Jarman, John Samson, Andy Lipman and Phillip Timmis, Silvia Narizzano