BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2828@xyzbrighton.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190426T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190426T210000 DTSTAMP:20191122T030134Z URL:https://xyzbrighton.com/events/trojan-horse-rainbow-flag-lgbt-film-scr eening/ SUMMARY:Trojan Horse / Rainbow Flag - LGBT Film Screening DESCRIPTION:The Marlborough Pub      \n6:30pm doors and bar\, 7pm scre ening\nSam Ashby\, Rob Crosse\, Ian Giles\, Mathew Parkin\, Hannah Quinlan &\; Rosie Hastings Presented in partnership with Fabrica and Brighton LGBTQ+ History Club\nAddress: 4 Prince’s St\, Brighton BN2 1RD\nPrice: Free – booking required\nBooking link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tr ojan-horse-rainbow-flag-tickets-58676438808\n \;\n“The Joiners Arm s melt\, tasted\, sounded and felt like freedom” Dan Glass\, 2018\n Troja n Horse / Rainbow Flag is a program of artist films about LGBTQI+ spaces\, presented by videoclub and Fabrica at The Marlborough Pub &\; Theatre. At a time when queer spaces are increasingly under threat from gentrifica tion the selected films variously configure a range of environments as pla ces of resistance\, community\, desire and historical significance. By pre senting both urban and rural spaces\, the artists encourage us all to view our environment through a queer lens.\nArtist Ian Giles’ newly commissi oned film Trojan Horse / Rainbow Flag\; about the closure of LGBTQI+ pub t he Joiners Arms on Hackney Road\, provides the conceptual springboard to s how works by Sam Ashby\, Rob Crosse\, Mathew Parkin and  Hannah Quinlan & amp\; Rosie Hastings. Supported by Arts Council England.\nA publication fe aturing a text by Paul Clinton alongside the transcript from Giles’ film will be distributed at the screening.\nFollowing the screenings there wil l be an informal discussion about queer spaces with local leaders and orga nisers.\nThe program is produced by videoclub and supported by Arts Counci l England. Touring with the support of Gasworks\, London\; HOME\, Manchest er\; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art\, Gateshead and Fabrica\, Brighton . With thanks to Film and Video Umbrella.\n \;\nAbout the films\nWithi n his filmmaking process\, Ian Giles continues his employment of first-han d research\, and participatory workshops as structures to produce a social network. By working directly with members of Friends of the Joiners Arms (a community campaign group)\, Giles’ film Trojan Horse/Rainbow Flag exa mines the campaign to save the Joiners Arms – an iconic LGBTQI+ space. T he film’s title was inspired by campaigner Amy Roberts\, when describing the cynical approach of property developers seeking to push through propo sals to erase queer spaces by disingenuously claiming that their LGBTQI+ s tatus would remain unchanged post-development. His films have been screene d at MoMA PS1\, New York and Stedelijk Museum\, Amsterdam.\nSam Ashby’s The Colour of His Hair is based on an unrealised 1964 film script written by The Homosexual Law Reform Society – a British organisation that campa igned for the decriminalisation of male homosexual relations. Ashby’s fi lm draws on oral histories and news clippings to create a crucial meditati on on queer life before and after the UK partially legalised homosexuality in 1967. Sam’s film was co-funded by the BFI and Wellcome Trust and pre miered at International Film Festival Rotterdam.\nRob Crosse’s Prime Tim e (2017) follows a group of older gay men as they travel together on an or ganised trip on a cruise ship. Crosse’s incisive eye sensitively follows the group on their journey\, and the vast ocean is an omnipresence here t oo – adding to the sense that Prime Time is\, more than anything\, a vit al meditation on the passing of time.\nMathew Parkin filmed Kake on a camc order during visits to his lover’s farm in rural Scotland. The resulting work is intensely personal – a quietly yet all-pervasively erotic conte mplation of queer rural life that invites us to recontextualise queer bodi es beyond the usual urban centres that tend to dominate LGBTQI+ narratives .\nPink Room presents an empty gay bar drawn from Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings’ self-compiled moving image archive – an urgent strategy of resistance against the gentrifying forces that are rapidly erasing the UK ’s LGBTQI+ spaces. By filming spaces devoid of revellers\, the artists r eveal the complex visual language they employ in their self-representation as gay.\n \;\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://xyzbrighton.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/ 03/Trojan-Horse-Rainbow-Flag-Ian-Giles-2018_Still.jpg CATEGORIES:Arts LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190331T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR