Image
Deity from Penda's Fen
Tue 10 Sep 2024
'The Boy's Body': Penda's Fen + live musical performances
Film
Adults only
Event organiser:
Scalarama Leeds

Good Boys Film Club presents its inaugural screening of Alan Clarke's seminal film: Penda's Fen (1974) as part of Scalarama Leeds DIY Film Festival. 

Pagan deities, magnificent angels, and demons long-forgotten haunt the waking experience of Stephen, a local vicar's son. Trapped in the murky purgatory between boy and man, Stephen must confront his body's relation to the land, desperately grasping for clarity amongst the influences of authority, religion, and history. 'Penda's Fen' deftly renders the body of the boy as fragile and malleable, one that transfigures under the weight of masculine expectation, finally breaking from underneath the pressure to be birthed anew.

The screening will be preceded by performances from local musicians Midnight Cat Meeting and Hexham Heads, alongside an introduction exploring the film's themes of masculinity, boyhood, and homosexuality.

Mill Hill Chapel

City Square
Leeds
LS1 5EB
United Kingdom

53.797482, -1.54626

    Date
    Tue 10 Sep 2024
    Show all dates/times

    Ticket price

    £
    5
    £
    8
    Accessibility
    Hearing Loop
    Wheelchair access

    Scalarama Leeds

    You may also like
    Leeds Grand Theatre
    Concert Music (Classical)
    Henry Moore Institute
    Film
    Hyde Park Picture House
    Film
    Cottage Road Cinema
    Film