MOVED, Queer Film is a Portal

Margate Pride Launch Event

Turner Contemporary

5.30-9pm, Wednesday 10 August 2022

Part of the Pride Art Map (PAM)

Join us for the opening night of MOVED, Queer Film is a Portal; a group exhibition of films by queer artists and directors, curated by PAM. 

Resonant / Radical / Melancholy / Disturbing / Vibrating / Cellular / Pixellated / Jostling / Embodied / Emotional / Materiality / Answering / Otherness / Liquid / Experimental / Choreographed / Ambient / Abstract / Spoken /  Broken / Affirmed / Strutting / illuminated / Transformative / Erotic / Smacking / Haunting / Fab /  Messy /  Amplified / Proclaimed /  Screamed / Lived / Chaotic / Transcendent / Erruptive / Vibrating 

The opening event features live performances and interventions including ‘Falling-Live Show’, poetry from Ash Mukherjee and a queer rendition of Simon Stephens ‘Sea Wall’ featuring Laura Wyatt O’Keeffe. 

Proudly showing films from Tolu Oshodi, Alex Matraxia, Robert George Sanders and Harry Evans, Lo Lo No and Joseph Wilson.

The line-up:

Film listing

Remnants, Tolu Oshodi 

Is It Dirty, Alex Matraxia

Hallow Road,Robert George Sanders and Harry Evans 

Proclaimer, Lo Lo No

Isn’t It a Beautiful World, Joseph Wilson.

Programme

Films play in a repeated sequence from 5.30 – 8pm

5.30 Doors open

5.57 Falling Live Show (Foyle Rooms)

6.10 Films sequence 1 (Foyle Rooms)

6.37 Falling-Live Show (Foyle Rooms)

6.50 Films sequence 2 (Foyle Rooms)

7.17 Falling-Live Show (Foyle Rooms)

7.30 Films sequence 3 (Foyle Rooms)

7.50 Quantum Storm, Ash Mukherjee      (foyer)

8.10 Sea Wall, Laura Wyatt O’Keeffe      (Foyle Rooms)

8.50 Thanks and good night

9.00 End

Performances

Falling-Live Show

Falling is a site specific extension of Joseph Wilson’s featured film ‘Isn’t It a Beautiful World’, which sees elements of the film come to life within the gallery.

Quantum Storm 

Written and performed by Ash Mukherjee

Seawall by Simon Stephens 

Reimagined as a Queer production for the first time, Sea Wall becomes a story of faith, hope and Queer love. For one performance only, Sea Wall plays the Turner Contemporary in partnership with Margate Pride.  

Join us as the sun sets and her story begins. 

Sea Wall was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, on 6 October 2008.

Directed by Sophie Drake

Written by Simon Stephens

Performed by Laura Wyatt O’Keeffe

Curated as a part of the Pride Art Map

Book your place now

Exhibition runs 10 – 13 August 2022.

With thanks to Turner Contemporary and Kent County Council #crowdfundkent