Riddles of the Sphinx Screening and in-conversation
Laura Mulvey and Margaret SalmonOn 21 May Cooper Gallery presented an online event focusing on Riddles of the Sphinx (1977), Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s 1977 landmark of British Avant-Garde and experimental feminist filmmaking. The heart of the event was a screening of Riddles of the Sphinx, bracketed by an artist’s response from filmmaker Margaret Salmon and a live in-conversation between Laura Mulvey and Margaret Salmon, followed by audience Q&A.
Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti
In 1982, Mulvey and Wollen curated an exhibition of Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti’s work at the Whitechapel Gallery. This hugely influential exhibition provided the subject for Mulvey and Wollen’s documentary Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1983), which offers a powerful assessment of both artists’ lives and work.
Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti, 1983
Colour 16mm transferred to digital. Duration 28’55
Streaming Courtesy BFI
Laura Mulvey, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (remix remixed), 2013
Video. Duration 4’32
Courtesy the artist
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (remix remixed)
A digital re-edit of an iconic film fragment focusing on the performance and gesture of Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe, made by Laura Mulvey. The short video examines representational power, the significance of the performed gesture and the temporal affects of deferred meaning.