Part of Ladies Night

‘The process of making a film in general is curious in the way that it combines what someone might call ‘flesh and fantasy’. It begins in dreamy way, then becomes almost unbearably heavy during production and finally ends up as an ethereal beam of light in a darkened room. I wonder whether this projected beam of light has something in common with the phenomenon of psychological projection: a powerful mental image anchored to something to physical’ – Daria Martin, ICA, 2004

Flesh and Fantasy is the first Tate/LUX collaboration inviting British-based artists to curate a film programme. Daria Martin has selected works that articulate film's unique capacity to both capture and dissolve solid material. The films in the programme all play with the tension between opacity and transparency – giving body to dream images and questioning the barriers between physical and mental space. Films are alternative kinds of ‘virtual realities’ dwelling on the erotics of physical form through a medium made of light.

Full Programme

Hoop Dance  Oskar Schlemmer
Lightplay: Black, White, Gray  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy 6'
Divine Horsemen  Maya Deren 47'
Eaux d'Artifice  Kenneth Anger 13'
Fuses  Carolee Schneeman 25'

In collaboration with LUX

Tate Britain Auditorium
Free, no bookings taken

  Film