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Chris Gollon: Life in Paint (15*) + ScreenTalk with special guests

Doc'n Roll Film Festival 2024

,Cinema 1
Chris Gollon painting

Chris Gollon's pioneering use of music, lyrics from Bob Dylan, and collaborations with musicians Thurston Moore, Yi Yao and Eleanor McEvoy, helped him keep painting alive.

Through found footage and BBC clips we get to know the artist as he disarmingly reveals his creative process and innovative techniques. Moving montages of Gollon’s images, combined with music by The Skids, Gavin Bryars, Sleaford Mods, Yi Yao and Eleanor McEvoy, give an insight into how Gollon fused the two, and how one energised or changed the other. The film shows how Chris Gollon was an incredibly sensitive painter of women, and also how his androgynous figures express a powerful common humanity. Describing the surge of interest in Gollon’s work since his untimely death in 2017, the film discusses the importance of his imagery to us in the 21st century.

This screening will be followed by a ScreenTalk with director Mark Calderbank, David Tregunna, Tamsin Pickeral and Wilfrid Wright, hosted by Daniel Dylan Wray.

Tagged with: Cinema ScreenTalks Doc'n Roll Film Festival 2024

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2024 UK Mark Calderbank 85 min

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Cinema 1

Location
Barbican Cinema 1 is located within the main Barbican building on Level -2. Head to Level G and walk towards the Lakeside Terrace where you’ll find stairs and lifts to take you down to the venue floor.   

Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.