Club des Femmes is excited to announce a further workshop event at Four Corners Gallery, following on from the Oct 1st screening of archival 16mm film at the Rio Cinema.
This event celebrates and continues the work of the Women’s Media Resource Project, a feminist media collective running out of the Rio Cinema’s basement in the 1980s! With this workshop and archival screening, we seek to draw together not only the work of the WMRP, but of many feminist film and curating projects at the time, including Circles and Four Corners. This workshop in particular continues the ethos of the screening by delving deeper into the archive of both Four Corners and the Rio Cinema. Come and create a zine or collage using scanned materials from the Rio Cinema's poster and programme archive, and watch a selection of experimental short films by Bev Zalcock. These films share an important connection to the Four Corners' archive as Bev Zalcock was instrumental to Four Corners’ history of filmmaking and programming.
Come along to meet us and the archivists for a conversation about the history behind the films and a chance to reconstruct your own archival reimaginings alongside us!
This event is curated independently by Lucy Peters and Kat Haylett and the zine-making workshop is brought to you by Kareyni Davis, founder of Backronym Films – a film community producing films, events, and zines, aimed at support marginalised and underrepresented filmmakers – and Fiona Quadri, founder of Zinetopia – a graphic illustrator facilitating workshops and inclusive spaces for critical discussions and community building, which have been featured at events at the Tate Modern. The tickets for this event are pay-what-you-can, either £3 or £5, with all profits going towards paying our collaborators.
About Four Corners:
Founded originally in 1972, the original Four Corners Film collective was a community arts movement which sought to develop independent filmmaking and bring films and filmmaking to those who had previously been excluded from the whole practice. They created a cinema and production workshop, screening films to local audiences, and it resulted in films like Nighthawks (1979) which was Britain’s first gay feature film, and East London filmmaker Ruhul Amin’s short film Purbo Lodon, which is screening in our programme at the Rio. Amin made the first Bangladeshi feature film in Britain.
Four Corners is now a gallery and training centre, running projects that enable underrepresented people to gain skills in creative media. They work with local communities and engage broad audiences through film and photography training, continuing the ethos of the original Four Corners as well as the Womens' Media Resource Project in their approach to skill-sharing and community-led approach to the arts.
This programme is presented in collaboration with Club des Femmes, Rio Cinema, Four Corners and Birkbeck, University of London with a grant from Open Society University Network (OSUN) Experiential Learning Institute, “From Communities into Audiences: Changing Lives through Film”.