From Oscar Micheaux to Melvin Van Peebles this survey highlights films by Black Directors from Africa, Europe and North America. This series will include a lecture by Black filmmaker, critic and curator Cameron Bailey.
Three films to complement the exhibition Sargent to Freud: a drama, a comedy and a documentary, all featuring early British Modern painters, real and imagined.
13 January - Carrington
Christopher Hampton, Britain, 1995, 122 minutes
Playwright Christopher Hampton catches the spirit of Bloomsbury in this film biography of the painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and her companion, the eccentric and gay Edwardian writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce).
Ali Cherri, The Digger, 2015. Single-channel video, 24 mins, colour, sound. Courtesy of the artist and Imane Farès Gallery, Paris.
