Screening of experimental film: Lady Blackshirt
On Friday 22nd October 2021, the Intellectual Forum hosted a screening of the new experimental film Impermanence: , followed by a Q&A session with the creative team.
Directed by Roseanna Anderson and Joshua Ben-Tovim, LADY BLACKSHIRT was born out of the research project . Working with the , Impermanence commissioned 100 artists to respond to extracts from early modernist magazines. The film, featuring multi-artform work by 30 of those artists, is an abstract-dance collage work with new material filmed on the Bristol Old Vic stage during lockdown.
The film takes its name from one of the featured stories, that of Suffragette Mary Richardson. In 1914 Richardson vandalised a painting of Venus in the National Gallery in protest at Emmeline Pankhurst鈥檚 imprisonment, but later went on to lead the Women鈥檚 Section of the British Union of Fascists. The film scours through the political ambiguity that existed then and is mirrored today, where a fraternisation of opposites emerges when the status quo or centre ground becomes eroded.
鈥淧owerful and beautiful鈥 鈥 The Stage
鈥淎 polemical bombardment of images鈥 鈥 British Theatre Guide
鈥淟ady Blackshirt surveys the fragility of society鈥 鈥 Bristol 24/7
鈥淎bsorbing, challenging, never boring and always surprising鈥 鈥 Dance Tabs
鈥淔illed with moments of brilliance鈥 鈥 Exeunt
