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 3: Saturday 23 November 10.00-16.30, 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
Part 3 :Programme
10.00 : Prof. Mandy Merck (Royal Holloway) discusses the editorial approach to the design and politics of ‘Out on Tuesday,’ including screening of the first episode of the series broadcast on February 14, 1989, and extracts from ‘White Flannel’ (Tx 3 April 1990. Series 2, episode 5).
12.00-noon: Screening: Khush (Pratibha Parmar, 1991. UK, 27 minutes. Tx. 13 August 1991. Series 3, episode 8) followed by an interview with Pratibha Parmar.
13:00-14: 00 : lunch (own arrangements)
14.00: In conversation with Richard Kwietniowski (series director), discussing his contribution to the series, with Prof. Catherine Grant (Birkbeck), with extracts and artwork material.
15: 00 Closing panel chaired by Prof. Catherine Grant , with Caroline Spry, Mandy Merck), Richard Kwietniowski (series director), Frances Dickenson (director). Elaine Drainville, Chris Woods, Alan Warburton (Birkbeck) and Dr Khulraj Pullar (Royal Holloway)
This event will conclude at 16: 30.
Event Description
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 Saturday 23rd November, 10.00-16.30, for the third 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 screenings, presentations and discussions about the series as a whole and what we may learn from it today. All of the events (including the earlier screening and discussion events on Friday 22nd, 14.00-17.00 and 18.00-21.00) 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/
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