Coming to the Barbican in November is a specially curated programme experimental films and spoken word looking at the human body as a place of pleasure, illness, and as a site for transcendental experiences.
Efforts of Nature VI is the sixth and final iteration of an expanded screening programme arranged by Morgan Quaintance, that both includes and expands from his film of the same name.
This version of the combined programme, featuring moving image and spoken word work by Marthe Peters, Jerry Tartaglia, Marlon Riggs, Xiaolu Wang, Pedro Pietri and Anne Charlotte Robinson, considers the human body as both grounded locus for affects, pleasures and illnesses; and as a vessel through which carnal realities lead to transcendental experience.
Together these works explore what encases the body, what sets the mind free, and how these two conditions may not be as separate as we think.
Programme
- Pixillation (1976, USA, dir Anne Charlotte Robertson, 3 minutes, DCP)
- RIP (2022, UK, dir Morgan Quaintance, 3 minutes, DCP)
- Affirmations (US, 1990, dir Marlon Riggs, 10 minutes, DCP)
- Telephone Booth Number 905 1/2 (Spoken word - Pedro Pietri, 1 minute)
- Kalkapje (Belgium 2023, dir Marthe Peters, 24 Minutes, DCP)
- 1 AM At All Times (Spoken word - Pedro Pietri, 2 minutes)
- Efforts of Nature (UK, 2023, dir Morgan Quaintance, 19 Minutes, DCP)
- Telephone Booth Number 23 (Spoken word - minute)
- Ecce Homo (USA, 1989, Jerry Tartaglia, 7 minutes, 16mm)
- I Wish You Happy Moon Festival (China, 2021, dir Xiaolu Wang, 3 minutes, DCP)
Full details: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/experiments-in-film-efforts-of-nature-vi