Thu 8 Sep 2016
Film Screening - Playing A Part: The Story Of Claude Cahun
Priaulx Library from 10am
Director: Lizzie Thynne (UK)
Cahun collaborated with her life-long lover and stepsister, Marcel Moore, to produce an astounding series of images of herself from her teens to her death that defy a fixed gender and identity. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, the pair were part of the vibrant artistic life of interwar Paris. Posing as a treacherous German soldier, the women carried out an ingenious counter-propaganda campaign against the Nazi Occupation of Jersey, where they had moved in 1937, until their arrest and condemnation to death. Combining rarely seen war archive and contemporary footage, the film mimics the photographer’s own surreal style.
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), Sussex University, Jersey Arts and Jersey Heritage Trust.