Saturday 27 March 2010, 19.00

This programme investigates queer surrealist filmmakers’ engagement with space. It concentrates on films, made between the mid-1940s and the late 1960s, which create entirely imaginary locations by means of editing, superimpositions and camera tricks, or that uncover disorienting latencies and disturbing erotic pulses in everyday settings.

Curated by Juan A. Suárez, University of Murcia, Spain

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

  

Programme of films

The Dead Ones
Gregory Markopoulos, USA, 1949, 35 mm, 28 minutes
Print courtesy Temenos Inc.

Fragment of Seeking
Curtis Harrington, USA, 1946, 16mm, 16 minutes
Print courtesy the Academy Film Archive

Image in the Snow
Willard Maas, USA, 1948, 16mm, 29 minutes
Print courtesy The Film-Makers' Cooperative, New York

Chumlum
Ron Rice, USA, 1963-64, 16mm, 24 minutes
Print courtesy LUX

Hall of Mirrors
Warren Sonbert, USA, 1966, 16mm, 7 minutes
Print courtesy Canyon Cinema

Knocturne
George Kuchar, USA, 1968, 16mm, 10 minutes
Print courtesy Print courtesy The Film-Makers' Cooperative, New York

By Night with Torch and Spear
Joseph Cornell, USA, c1940s, 16 mm, 9 minutes at 18fps
Print courtesy Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Full programme running time: 123 minutes