Friday 16 March 2007, 19.00

Gerald Fox, UK 1999, 104 min

This BAFTA award-winning film made for The South Bank Show to mark the unveiling of The Fundamental Pictures, a huge group of pictures by Gilbert & George based on bodily fluids. It traces their history to their first meeting in 1967 at St Martin’s School of Art and back to their childhoods. Going behind the Georgian façade of their East End house to watch them in their studio creating the new work, the film follows them through their everyday lives: meals at the Market Café, walking through the streets of Spitalfields, reviewing their collections of erotic literature and Arts and Crafts pottery and drinking champagne at home with Shere Hite. They talk about their compulsion to ‘take art to the edge’ and to reveal the viewer’s innermost thoughts.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5, booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition exhibition