Skip navigation
Tate Logo
Shop
Become a Member

Main menu

  • Art and artists
    • Our collection
      Artists
      Artworks
      Art by theme
      Explore
      Videos
      Podcasts
      Short articles
      In depth
      Art Terms
      Tate Research
      Student resources
      Make art
      Create like an artist
      Kids art activities
      Tate Draw game
  • What's on
  • Plan your visit

Main menu additional

  • Shop
  • Become a Member
Expand
  • What's On
  • Tate Modern
  • Science, Body, Anatomy
Tate Modern Film

Science, Body, Anatomy Day Two

25 November 2023 at 18.00–20.00
Black and white film still of girls cotton thrashing

Jyoti Mistry, Cause of Death 2020, video still. Courtesy of Jyoti Mistry and sixpackfilm, Vienna

  • Programme
  • Biography
  • Accessibility
  • Related events

This programme of artists’ films invites us to reflect on the interplay of anatomy and cinema

Following from Tate Modern’s 2022 Counter Encounters series titled Several Encounters over Plants, Science, Body, Anatomy explores the intersection of film and medical technology. Curated with Sonia Epstein, from the Museum of the Moving Image, New York, the second day of our programme includes two short films by Ana Mendieta and Jyoti Mistry, as well as the premiere of Sasha Litvintseva's and Beny Wagner's feature film, My Want of You Partakes of Me.

Both Ana Mendieta's and Jyoti Mistry's films are uniquely situated within bodies.

In a rarely-screened, untitled short film completed in the 1970s, Mendieta displays her body through the use of X rays, raising awareness of the policing of women's bodies, across time and space.

Forty-five years later, Mistry's Cause of Death revisits the theme, highlighting feminicide and the recurrence of violence against women. Through the filmmaker's masterful handling of archival film footage and animation, structural violence is exposed. The film is structured in five short vignettes, and moves along to the rhythm of spoken word poetry by South African artist Napo Masheane.

Another set of five short stories close the series. In My Want of You Partakes of Me, Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner source snippets from different moments in history to narrate a fundamental change in perception. Through the feature, the filmmakers elucidate how the physical and perceptual boundaries of our bodies have never ceased to evolve. From the poet Dante Alighieri to a Chinese molecular biology lab, from the science fiction author Octavia Butler to the late nineteenth century French physiologist Claude Bernard, the duo of filmmakers weave a fragmented narrative exploring how self-recognition emerges from different historical models of the body.

The first day of the programme will take place as part of Tate Modern Lates on Friday 24 November 2023.

Supported by In Between Art Film and organised in collaboration with Museum of the Moving Image, New York.

18.00 Introduction

18.05 Jyoti Mistry, Cause of Death 2020, video, black and white, 19 min

18.25 Ana Mendieta, X-ray c. 1975, 16mm transferred to video, black and white, 2 min

18.27 Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, My Want of You Partakes of Me 2023, video, colour, 55 min

19.25 Conversation and Q&A with Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

Sonia Shechet Epstein

Sonia Shechet Epstein is Curator of Science and Technology and Executive Editor, Sloan Science & Film at Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. She is a trustee of the On the Water Chapter of the Awesome Foundation, was recently selected to be part of Berlinale Talents, and was a founding mentor of the New Museum’s incubator NEW INC. She lectures internationally on the intersection of science and cinema.

A combined ticket is available for Convulsive States and Science, Body, Anatomy Day Two - £15 for both events.

Call 020 7887 8888 to book (10.00-17.00 daily)

This event will be BSL interpreted.

All Tate Modern entrances are step-free. You can enter via the Turbine Hall and into the Natalie Bell Building on Holland Street, or into the Blavatnik Building on Sumner Street.

There are lifts to every floor of the Blavatnik and Natalie Bell buildings. Alternatively you can take the stairs.

  • Fully accessible toilets are located on every floor on the concourses.
  • A quiet room is available to use in the Natalie Bell Building on Level 4.
  • Ear defenders can be borrowed from the Ticket desks.

To help plan your visit to Tate Modern, have a look at our visual story. It includes photographs and information about what you can expect from a visit to the gallery.

Download Tate Modern map PDF

For more information before your visit:

  • Email hello@tate.org.uk
  • Call +44 (0)20 7887 8888 – option 1 (daily 09.45–18.00)
Check all Tate Modern accessibility information

Tate Modern

Starr Cinema

Bankside
London SE1 9TG
Plan your visit

Date & Time

25 November 2023 at 18.00–20.00

Supported by

Tate Film is supported by Fondazione In Between Art Film

Related events

  • Tate Modern
    Film

    Science, Body, Anatomy: Day One

    24 Nov 2023

    Join us for the first of our two-day programme exploring the intersection of film and medical technology

  • A figure walking in front of a grid in black and white

    Tate Modern
    Talk

    Overexposed: Anatomy and Cinema

    25 Nov 2023

    Hear from Sonia Epstein about the historical and contemporary ways filmmakers have engaged with the body through medical imaging

Close

Join in

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
Sign up to emails

Sign up to emails

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Tate’s privacy policy

About

  • About us
  • Our collection
  • Terms and copyright
  • Governance
  • Picture library
  • ARTIST ROOMS
  • Tate Kids

Support

  • Tate Collective
  • Members
  • Patrons
  • Donate
  • Corporate
  • My account
  • Press
  • Jobs
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • Contact