16mm Film Screening | Emily Beaney
Wednesday 7 May, 5:30pm
This is a unique opportunity to see the original 16mm version of Emily Beaney’s film Deviant. An intimate screening of the film (14 minutes) will be followed by a short discussion between the artist and James Clegg, Curator at Talbot Rice Gallery, with a Q&A providing opportunity to ask questions about the film.
Deviant was made in collaboration with women who live with endometriosis (EndoWarriors and the specialist endometriosis research team EXPPECT) and is filmed on a beach near Dunbar, where participants shared their embodied experiences. Emphasising the physicality of the medium, Beaney drew connections between the analogue film, the subject matter and the landscape by washing the film in brine and sand, creating complex abstract interruptions in the final work. It is part of a broader investigation into how art might help to translate and give voice to women’s experience of chronic illness.
The talk will focus on the process of making the film and what it meant to the participants involved. It will think about the value of using an analogue medium in relation to collaborative projects that centre on embodied experience. It will also provide an opportunity to learn more about Beaney’s broader practice and the other projects she is currently working on.
