Blue Monkey Network: Home Movie 2020
Film and artist talk with guest artist Caroline Pick, introduced by June Nelson
Thursday 20 April , 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Caroline Pick, still from Home Movie 2022.
When filmmaker Caroline Pick moved home in 2012, she discovered a pile of film cans that had been stored unopened in a wardrobe for over 5 decades. Inside were her father’s 8mm and 16mm home movies, showing life in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s up to Cardiff in the early 1960s. Using this footage, she made a film which hints at something darker: absences unexplained, except for snatches of tales about those left behind. Home Movie is a story of immigration, dislocation, uncertain identities, and secrets.
Home Movie 2013 was shown to great acclaim at international film festivals around the world, but it ended with a question. Her second film, Home Movie 2020, answers it. Incorporating the earlier footage, it moves into the present when Pick finally plucks up the courage to travel to her mother’s home town in Hungary - more than 80 years after her mother had left - and discovers the heritage that she’d been searching for much of her life.
Free for BMN members. £5 guests.
Blue Monkey Network is run by artists for artists, in partnership with Towner Eastbourne, and is entirely funded by membership subscriptions and donations. You can see more of what the network has planned over the next few months on their events page.
About Caroline Pick
Caroline is an artist based in Lewes. After a long professional career in television as a documentary filmmaker, producer and commissioning editor, she gained a BA degree in Fine Art from Central St. Martin’s, London (2009) and an MA in Fine Art from Brighton University (2015).
She is now a sculptor and makes installations. Her work is located in her personal and domestic life and in her immediate environment, physical and natural. The idea that nothing is permanent, solid, or stable, but rather fragile and transient is a major source of her inspiration.
You can find out more about Caroline on her website or Instagram.
Accessibility
The event will take place in Studio 3.
○ Studio 3 is on the first floor, and can be accessed by our large lift.
○ The space has limited natural light, but is not dark.
○ The space is not scent-free.
○ The galleries and café are busiest between 11.00am and 2.00pm.
○ Seating is available and is not fixed, so can be switched out if needed.
○ Ear plugs, ear defenders, magnifying glasses, and wheelchairs are available.
○ Toilets and baby changing facilities are located right outside Studio 3. A gender-neutral, wheelchair-accessible bathroom can be found on the ground floor.
Please let us know in advance if you have any further access needs.