Screening
The Voices Film Programme: Aleksandra Karpowicz
7 Dec 2022
Regular hours
- Wed, 07 Dec
- 19:00 – 21:00
Cost of entry
General admission £5
Free tickets available for people aged 16 - 30
Address
- 183-185 Bermondsey Street
- (adjacent to White Cube Bermondsey)
- London
England - SE1 3UW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- C10 Victoria to Canada Water (Stop F Bermondsey Street)
- London Bridge - Borough
A screening of three films by award-winning artist Aleksandra Karpowicz followed by a Q&A. Part of The Voices Film Programme
About
This December The Voices Film Programme presents a series of screenings focusing on female identifying film makers
Join us for a screening of three short films by award-winning director Aleksandra Karpowicz. The event will include a Q&A with the artist.
Aleksandra Karpowicz is an award-winning artist working with video, photography, and performance.
In her art she explores themes of relationship to body, psychology, sexuality, and identity, and how those aspects of human nature are expressed and oppressed in our society and politics.
A great diversity of over 600 people from a range of social backgrounds, genders, sexuality, and ages appear in her work. She often performs and models for her own art, exposing struggles and personal journeys of healing. She sees her art as an empowering platform of expression for herself and the communities she works with.
Doors 7pm
Screeening: 7.30 - 8pm
Q&A: 8 - 8.30pm
Drinks: 8.30 - 9pm
Featured Films:
Body as Home
Body As Home' was launched during the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. The film explores the concept of ‘home’ in terms of public, social and personal identity. The notion of our bodies being our ultimate home is expressed as a nude cast migrates through Cape Town, London, New York and Warsaw.
Breakdown
Breakdown is an unedited 3,5 minute recording of the artist’s expression of agony, despair, hopelessness and pain at the deepening sense of overwhelming loneliness as the global pandemic took its toll on humanity’s mental health.
School Reading
School Reading’ is a direct response to Poland’s restrictions on sexual health education and abortion rights. Drawing parallels to her personal experience of a childhood in a conservative Catholic country, Karpowicz exposes flaws in her native country as well as commenting on the damaging effects of ideology driven education on the younger generation.
The Voices Film Programme is supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery
