Gunvor Nelson’s formative ‘MOONS POOL’ will be part of the experimental film programme In The Warm Room at Mackintosh Lane Gallery. The programme explores works that deal with nature, sensuality, the body and romantic love. Doors open at 19:00. The programme is curated by Matthew Berka.
Programme:
Work distributed by Filmform
MOONS POOL
Gunvor Nelson
1973, 00:15:00
About the programme:
This program brings together films that explore sensuality, nature, the body and romantic love, and their expression through the haptic medium of 16mm film.
Featuring a thought-to-be-lost film by Ronald Chase, one of the earliest gay films after Stonewall that “refused to see touch, affection, and sensuality only in pornographic terms”; a film by Chick Strand that explores exoticism and desire when observing the other; a seminal work by Stan Brakhage that reinterprets the Garden of Eden into something live, rotting, and visceral; a new work by Matthew Berka inspired by Constantine P. Cavafy and memories held within the body and recovered through touch; an anthropomorphised Lily by John Smith and Ian Bourn that presses itself against the screen’s surface; and a dream-like exploration of the female body by Gunvor Nelson, illustrative of the liberation of the body in the 1970s.
Programmed by Anna Higgins.
16mm prints and films from FILMFORM and LUX.