Friday 3 December 2004, 19.00
Friday 3 December 2004, 21.00
Saturday 4 December 2004, 19.00
Saturday 4 December 2004, 21.00
Sunday 5 December 2004, 15.00
Saturday 18 December 2004, 19.00
Saturday 18 December 2004, 21.00
Sunday 19 December 2004, 15.00

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Robert Frank, USA 1972, 16mm, 90'

With Cocksucker Blues, Frank bids a final adieu to the utopia of the Beat generation. What did the Rolling Stones expect when they hired him to make a film about their 1972 North American tour? There are scenes of groupie sex in private jets, cocaine snorting, and even a masturbation scene in which Jagger reveals himself to be the cameraman in a reflected image. But ultimately Frank focuses on the lonely spaces that permeate the rock and roll machine. This is the ultimate direct cinema. The camera movement infects the images with an unbelievable filmic energy, and Frank ignores all orientation guidelines. Populated by the living dead, Cocksucker Blues is a zombie film with no refuge.

Susan Steinberg, the Editor of Cocksucker Blues, will introduce the 19.00 screening on 3 December.

The film is screened as part of the Robert Frank film series in connection with the Tate Modern exhibition. The 3 December screening follows a day-long symposium What We Think of the Americans.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£3.50 (£2 concessions), booking recommended
Contains adult content

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This event is related to the Robert Frank: Storylines exhibition