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The Last American Freakshow
Documentary Screening + Q&A
Tuesday 23 March 2010
6:30pm: Doors & Bar
7:00pm (PROMPT): Screening
followed by Q&A/Debate
At: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington St, Brighton BN1 4AJ
Entry: FREE
Spaces are Limited. To pre-book a place please contact Emma here: mail@lighthouse.org.uk
If you might require access assistance please let us know in advance by contacting Emma here: mail@lighthouse.org.uk
Come along to a special screening of ‘The Last American Freak Show’, as recently screened on More4 - a provocative and controversial feature length documentary made by director and cinematographer, Richard Butchins.
A film about disabled people who chose to be part of a Carnivalesque show that travels America.
Richard Butchins describes his work:
…. “I filmed the elephant man, the dwarf, a giant, a pair of lobster people, the half woman, a clown and a jumble of jug band musicians. On tour in a 20 year old school bus, travelling 2500 miles across America, the 'freaks' worked their way through the wild west. Laughing, crying and drinking – a carnival of the damned – searching for a home…"
…“Blair Witch meets Animal House”
…“This film is meant to make the watcher question their own concepts of disability and to cause debate …….. I make no apologies for the discomfort factor.”
Richard will introduce his film and contribute to a post-screening discussion that will explore various issues including:
• Exploitation - the blurry line between what is and isn’t acceptable?
• The profile of disabled filmmakers in both documentary and fictional narrative filmmaking today. Opportunities or tokenism?
• Representation – disability on screen.
• The documentary makers’ lot in the age of the jaded, the distrustful and the 'what's in it for me?" brigade.
This event has been enabled by Screen South and the RIFE lottery funding programme.
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10150116564525401&index=1
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