Purgatory: Ken Hollings on Beauty and Trash at the BFI
Hello There,
Us again with another date for your diaries...
The second volume of Ken Hollings' fantastic 'Trash Project', Purgatory, is almost with us, so please do join us to celebrate the book's launch at London's BFI on Monday October 31st for a discussion of beauty and trash, from 18:30 - 20:00.
There's a little more info below!
All the best,
Jamie & Mark
Purgatory by Ken Hollings
BFI Reuben Library
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd
London
SE1 8XT
Monday 31 October
18:30 - 20:00
Total running time 90min
Writer, broadcaster and lecturer Ken Hollings introduces his new work, Purgatory
(Strange Attractor Press); the latest addition to a three-part project in which
he takes a personal look at Trash and Trash Aesthetics. From Oscar Wilde’s
The Picture of Dorian Gray to Tony Hancock’s The Rebel and from the
decadent artworks of the late nineteenth century to the early years of cinema,
this sequel to Inferno examines the complex relationship between
‘beauty’ and ‘trash’. It exposes a hierarchy of values
that would shape the social unrest of the 1960s and presage the emergence of a
uniquely European form of Trash cinema devoted exclusively to beauty, sex and
despair.
Tickets £6.50