Rent Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows (2017)
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1h 38min
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- Synopsis:
- The incredible, untold story of the British artist Penny Slinger and the traumatic events that led to the creation of her masterpiece, the 1977 photo-romance, 'An Exorcism'. Coming of age against a backdrop of post-war austerity and the subsequent explosion of colour that characterised the 1960's counterculture, Slinger embraced her generation's quest for personal freedom and sexual liberation, and channelled these desires into her ground-breaking collages, sculptures, and films (including collaborations with Jane Arden and Peter Whitehead). So powerful was her vision that fifty years later her work is still influencing contemporary artists.
- Actors:
- Maria Blum, Tim Blum, Jack Bond, Michael Bracewell, Susanka Fraey, Anke Kempkes, Antony Penrose, Penny Slinger, Tot Taylor, Peter Whitehead, Jane Wilson, Louise Wilson, Maxa Zoller
- Directors:
- Richard Kovitch
- Producers:
- Richard Kovitch, Michael J. Mattes
- Writers:
- Richard Kovitch
- Genres:
- Documentary, Music & Musicals, Performing Arts, Special Interest
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 28/09/2020
- Run Time:
- 99 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
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- Bonus:
- Audio commentary with director Richard Kovitch (2020)
- Conversations in the Desert: An Audience with Penny Slinger (2019, 50 mins): the artist in conversation with writer and critic Chris Campion, recorded in Joshua Tree, California
- Return to Lilford Hall (2020, 5 mins): short film by Kovitch, detailing Slinger's return to the inspiration for her acclaimed book of collage pieces, An Exorcism, following a fifty-year absence
- An Exorcism: A Private View (2020, 21 mins): video presentation of the groundbreaking series of collages first published in Slinger's 1977 limited edition book
- Lizzi Bougatsos + Kim Gordon x Penny Slinger (2019, 34 mins): live improvised music performance against a backdrop of Slinger's early experimental 16mm films, recorded at Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
- Theatrical Trailer
- Live from Miskatonic trailer: promo for Slinger's 2019 appearance at the Miskatonic Institute, Los Angeles
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Reviews (1) of Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows
The power of collage and surrealism - Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows review by TE
Fascinating documentary which will hopefully go some way towards making Penny Slinger's art much better known.
The film concentrates on her work in the late 1960s through to the early 1980s, when she was very much part of the avant garde in the UK art world. Her surreal collages from that period hold just as much power today as when they were created, and, unlike some work from that time, they have not dated in content. Her politically committed feminist stance is also just as necessary and as provocative as it was in the 1970s.
The film is mercifully fairly short on 'talking heads' and long on examples of Slinger's work.
The disc contains lots of good material in the extras too.
Slinger dipped out of the art world life in the mid-1980s. At first it felt a little frustrating that the film skates over her life since then. However, from the extras, and from a look at her publications over the last 20 years or so, it does appear that her early work is decidedly her best.
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