Remembering Channel 4’s Out on Tuesday
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Remembering Channel 4’s Out on Tuesday
About this event
A three-part event taking place on 22 and 23 November 2019
Part 1: SCREENING Friday 22 November 14.00-17.00, Birkbeck Cinema
Hosted by Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI), and co-sponsored by Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality (BIGS) and Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London
Programme:
* Empire of the Senses dir. Karen Alexander. 11 minutes. 1989 episode 7 - on Inter-racial lesbian/gay relationships
* Talking Hairs dir. Susan Ardill. 12 minutes. 1991 episode 3 - on lesbians, gays and the way we like our hair
* Stand on your Man dir. Susan Ardill. 21 minutes 1991 episode 1 - lesbians on their love for country and western music
* Flames of Passion dir. Richard Kwietniowski (1989). 17 minutes. Broadcast in 1991 episode 9 - a gay reworking of Brief Encounter
* After Stonewall dir. Frances Dickenson. 22 minutes. 1989 episode 7 - a survey of lesbian, gay and queer politics in 1989 on the 20th anniversary of the origin of the modern LGBT movement
* Desire dir Stuart Marshall. 99 minutes. Feature-length recut version of a shorter film shown in 1989 episode 4 - a moving history of the lives of lesbians and gays in Nazi Germany
(5 minute comfort break before Desire)
2019 sees the 30th anniversary of the inaugural transmission by the UK’s Channel Four Television Corporation of the world’s first public service, free-to air broadcast television series aimed at what was defined at the time as a lesbian and gay audience. The channel’s ground-breaking Out on Tuesday (later OUT) series ran between 1989 and 1994 and set about giving new, often radical representation to diverse queer sexualities, cultures, experiences and histories on our TV screens.
Join us at Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) on Friday 22nd November, 14.00-17.00, for this, the first of three free events revisiting this pioneering and influential UK television series, co-sponsored by Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality (BIGS) and Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London. This session is devoted to a screening of programmes and film segments from the series. The subsequent two events will combine screenings, presentations and discussions (Fri 18.00-21.00 and Sat 10.00-16.30). The events will feature the programme's commissioner and some of its series producers and filmmakers, alongside other key contributors involved in making the programmes for the series.
For further information visit: http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/bimi/remembering-channel-4s-out-on-tuesday/
Free ticket booking links for the other two parts of the event:
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