A screening of Sodom (1989) by Luther Price and Fuck Tree (2017) by Liz Rosenfeld
In the culminating event of her three month residency serving as the Goethe at LUX Artist in Residence, Liz Rosenfeld will present a new film work entitled,
Fuck Tree. After spending time in LUX film archive, Liz Rosenfeld came across
Sodom (1989) by American experimental filmmaker Luther Price. At the time of its completion,
Sodom was questioned by the far left and far right for its depiction of the AIDS Crisis and reflections of 'pre-AIDS' gay culture. After extensive research into the history, methodology and imagery of
Sodom, Rosenfeld decided to create a new film which portrays an infamous tree in the cruising area of Hampstead Heath and reflects on her own questions relating to queer historical public space and shifting ecologies. While in residence at LUX, Liz Rosenfeld has been conducting creative research regarding questions dealing with queer dystopia, a positive embrace of apocalypse, invisible genocide, and drawing parallels between the way information was publicly disseminated in the early days of the AIDS / HIV crisis, and the current spread of information about climate change and environmental destruction. She has made
Fuck Tree as a companion piece to
Sodom, specifying that it can only ever be screened publicly alongside Luther Price’s film.
Following the screening Liz Rosenfeld will be in conversation with Performer/ Producer/ Lecturer R. Justin Hunt.
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Fuck Tree, 2017, ca 8 minutes.
Concept, Direction, Editing by Liz Rosenfeld. Camera by Liz Rosenfeld and Alex Eisenberg. Original Musical Score by Jared Gradinger and the trees of Hampstead Heath.
Sodom, USA, 1989, 25 minutes
Direction by Luther Price
Photo: Liz Rosenfeld © Alexa Vachon
Liz Rosenfeld is the current Goethe at LUX resident artist. For more information on Liz and the residency see
here.
Photo: Justin Hunt © Christa Holka
R. Justin Hunt is a performer, producer and lecturer based in London. He is one-third of I’m With You, a performance producing collaborative. He is one-half of the Haus of Husbands, which runs the international touring salon Naked Boys Reading. He is more well known as his other half, Dr Sharon Husbands, everyone’s favourite know-it-all drag queen. In other fractions he is Executive Producer of Chisenhale Dance Space, Adjunct Professor of Sexuality Studies at Syracuse University, London and a Trustee of the Raze Collective.
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