📅 Date: 13 February
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
📍 Location: TKE Studios
🎥 Special Event: Q&A with Sebastian Sharples, Director of Photography

Join us for a special screening of Top Spot, the debut feature film by Dame Tracey Emin, followed by Why I Never Became a Dancer (1995).

Top Spot (2002)

An evocative exploration of teenage life in the seaside town of Margate. Through a poetic and fragmented narrative, the film paints a vivid portrait of adolescence, revealing the fragile interplay between moments of joy, discovery, and the shadows cast by societal pressures and personal trauma.

Emin captures Margate’s weathered beauty, using its iconic landscapes as a backdrop to the unfolding stories of six teenage girls navigating their turbulent coming-of-age experiences. The film examines themes of sexual discovery, shame, and resilience, blending raw interviews with the atmospheric sights and sounds of the seaside: fairground rides, beach games, neon signs, and the ceaseless cries of gulls.

Following Top Spot, we will screen Why I Never Became a Dancer (1995), an intimate and powerful short film directed by Tracey Emin.

Why I Never Became a Dancer (1995)

Emin uses her emotional life as the source and subject matter of her art. This takes the form of narrative or documentation of traumatic events such as the death of a family member or close friend, her rape, and her abortions, coupled with the direct expression of such feelings as love, hate, anger, fear, and desire. By sharing thoughts and feelings of the type for which people are generally made to feel ashamed, Emin taps into collective experience in an affirmative way.

The screening will conclude with an insightful Q&A with Sebastian Sharples, Director of Photography.

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