Event overview
How to change the world with your video camera... or create your own
A new film about artists using moving images to promote freakery and explore stranger regions of fantasy, incorporating brand new live video-interactive work by Dickie Beau.
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The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and performers. New worlds began to unfold: you could talk back to the mainstream by hijacking its images and upending its values; you could reach out, through the camera, to fellow freaks; and you could create dreamscapes to explore other ways of being.
Drawing on exclusive interviews shot in London, New York and Berlin, THIS IS NOT A DREAM charts a path across four decades of avant-garde experiment and radical escapism, following the influences of Andy Warhol, John Waters and Jack Smith to the perverted frontiers of YouTube and Chatroulette, taking in subverted talk shows and soap operas, streetwalker fashions and glittery magic penises along the way.
Interview and archive material will be complemented by brand new video-interactive live work from acclaimed drag fabulist Dickie Beau, in a unique performance specifically conceived and developed in conjunction with the film.
The film features interviews with Dickie Beau, Dara Birnbaum, Nao Bustamante, Vaginal Davis, Cole Escola, Vincent Fremont, Alp Haydar, Holestar, David Hoyle, Kalup Linzy, Glenn O’Brien, and Scottee.
THIS IS NOT A DREAM is directed by Gavin Butt, Reader in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Ben Walters, Cabaret Editor at Time Out London and programmer of BURN, the platform for moving images by cabaret artists. The film is edited by Tom Frederic and presented by BURN and Performance Matters.
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Dates & times
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27 Oct 2011 | 8:00pm - 11:00pm |
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