The Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne celebrates LGBT history month this weekend, February 20-21, with Pride and Prejudice: Queer Lives on Film, a mini festival of LGBT films.
A weekend of diverse films is scheduled with lively discussions and a late bar on Saturday night, February 20.
This 2007 American documentary chronicles the lifelong relationship between author Christopher Isherwood and his much younger lover, artist Don Bachardy, including archival footage shot by the couple from the 1950s, excerpts from Isherwood’s diaries, and playful animations to recount their romance.
Event: Chris and Don: A Love Story: 91 min: not rated
When: Saturday, February 20
Time: 2pm
Entry: £4/£3 conc. and members
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A selection of six LGBT short films exploring the theme of Love from the Iris Prize archive. 63 min in total.
Programmes include:
Aban + Korshid (12A) Dir: Darwin Serink
Bald Guy (12A) Dir: Maria Bock
Barrio Boy (12A) Dir: Dennis Shinners
Daniel (U) Dir: Vincent Fitz-Jim
It’s Consuming Me (15) Dir: Kai Stanicke
Private Life (PG) Dir: Abbe Robinson
Event: Love Bites: 63 min: not rated
When: Saturday, February 20
Time: 4pm
Entry: £4/£3 conc. and members
Terence Stamp Double Bill (late bar until 11pm)
Eyes Wide Open Cinema, Brighton’s popular LGBT film strand have curated an evening double bill, with Terence Stamp as the leading man. Towner’s top floor bar will be open throughout so you can make a night of it.
Teorema pre-screening talk with Jacob Engelberg
Event: The destructive and irresistible force of bisexual desire(ability) in Teorema
When: Saturday, February 20
Time: 6pm
Entry: Free for Teorema ticket holders
When a visitor arrives in a bourgeois Italian household and begins to serially seduce each member of its family, the very fabric of their beings is indelibly changed. Who is this bisexual figure and what threat do they pose to the traditional family structure?
Through a consideration of the figure of the bisexual in late nineteenth and twentieth century discourse and culture, we begin to see how artistic representations of bisexuality speak to larger questions of shame and desire, boundary and fluidity, order and chaos.
Jacob Engelberg is the Programmer of Eyes Wide Open Cinema, a queer film strand based in Brighton. He recently completed a Masters degree in Sexual Dissidence.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 art-house classic Teorema features Stamp as the mysterious and seductive stranger who insinuates himself into the home of a wealthy Italian family.
Event: Teorema
When: Saturday, February 20
Time: 6.45pm
Entry: £4/£3.50 conc. or £7/£6 conc. for both films
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Terence Stamp plays an ageing transgender woman in Stephan Elliot’s delirious exercise in ultra-camp meets outback macho. Bring your friends…and your feather boa.
Event: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.99 min running time
When: Saturday, February 20
Time: 9pm
Entry: £4/£3.50 conc. or £7/£6 for both films
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In this moving documentary filmmaker and artist Isaac Julien looks back on the life and work of Derek Jarman, showing how his works continue to influence and resonate with future generations. Both archival and newly recorded interviews are used to shine a light on Jarman’s professional and private life.
Event: Derek: 76 min: rated 18
When: Sunday, February 21
Time: 11am
Entry: £4/£3 conc. and members
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In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato – Uganda’s first openly gay man – and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives.
Event: Call me Kuchu: 90 min: rated 12A
When: Sunday, February 21
Time: 2pm
Entry: £4/£3 conc. and members
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