LAURA MULVEY & PETER WOLLEN : URGENCY AND POSSIBILITY

29 Sep-7 Oct 2017

Overview

The two-week screening programme, Urgency and Possibility: Counter-Cinema in the 70s and 80s, presents the collaborative films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen. The screening programme at Cooper Gallery, selected with Laura Mulvey, features Mulvey and Wollen’s first film Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974), which represents an experimental British venture into territory pioneered by the likes of Jean-Luc Godard and explores concerns central to Mulvey's writings: the position of women in relation to patriarchal myth, symbolic language and male fantasy. The screening programme presents their most influential film, Riddles of the Sphinx (1977), considered a key work of avant-garde film to have emerged from Britain during the 1970s for its visual accomplishment and intellectual rigour. The screenings also include the rarely seen films; AMY! (1980), Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1981) and Crystal Gazing (1982).