Sunday 28 March 2010, 17.00

Featuring the first public screening of Derek Jarman’s long lost first film, Electric Fairy (1971), this programme investigates the myths, vanities, masquerades and rituals that take many queer surrealist films into magical worlds on both sides of the mask. 

Curated and presented by Stuart Comer, Tate Curator of Film

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

  

Programme of films

Oblivion
Tom Chomont, USA, 1969, 16mm, 5 minutes
Print courtesy UCLA Film & Television Archive, restored in 2009 by the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation, a collaboration between Outfest and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, with funding in part by the National Film Preservation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant

The Liberation of Mannique Mechanique
Steven Arnold, USA, 1967, 16mm transferred to DVD, 15 minutes
Film courtesy Steven Arnold Archives

Mes Jambes (Legs)
Pierre Molinier, France, 1964, DVD, 10 minutes
Film courtesy Maison Européenne de la Photographie

Electric Fairy
Derek Jarman, UK, 1971, Super-8 transferred to video, 10 minutes
Film courtesy James Mackay

Plan of Brussels
Robert Beavers, USA/Belgium, 1968/2000, 16mm, 18 minutes
Print courtesy Robert Beavers

Jerovi
José Rodriguez-Soltero, USA, 1965, 16mm, 12 minutes
Print courtesy The Film-Makers' Cooperative, New York

Cinema Guide for Young People
Shuji Terayama, Japan, 1974, 16mm, 3 minutes
Print courtesy Image Forum

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Ulrike Ottinger, Germany, 1975, 35mm, 50 minutes
Print courtesy Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.

Full programme running time: 123 minutes