The New Flesh Presents: The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

The New Flesh presents the first of a series of events that explores the intersection of costume and moving image. We begin this series with a screening of ‘The Last Days of Jack Sheppard’ by Anja Kirschner and David Panos, selected from the LUX Collection. The screening will be followed by a short talk by Anja Kirschner about the artists' approach to costume in the production of this piece, which will be opened up for Q&As. There will also be an opportunity to find out more about The New Flesh artists’ residency/ commission.

The Last Days of Jack Sheppard (UK, 2009, 57 minutes)

The Last Days of Jack Sheppard is based on the inferred prison encounters between the 18th century criminal Jack Sheppard and Daniel Defoe, ghost-writer of Sheppard’s ‘autobiography’. Set in the wake of the South Sea Bubble of 1720, Britain’s first financial crisis, the film is a critical costume drama constructed from a patchwork of historical, literary, and popular sources. It explores the connections between representation, speculation and the discourses of high and low culture that emerged in the early 18th century and remain relevant to the present day.

Anja Kirschner is an artist whose films draw on factual, literary and pop-cultural sources and deal with materiality, digitality and narrativity and their share in the (de)formation of subjectivities and political agency. She is the winner of the 2011 Jarman Award (with David Panos) and her films have been widely exhibited and screened internationally, including at Secession, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Tate Modern, the Berlinale, the BFI London Film Festival and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.

The New Flesh is a residency programme for emerging artists working with moving image based at Academy Costumes, one of the UK’s leading costumiers for stage and screen. Artists are commissioned to make new works which are presented through partner space LUX. The New Flesh was established, and is curated by Georgie Brinkman. They are currently seeking their next artist-in-residence for May - Sep 2019.

This event was generously supported using public funding from Arts Council England.

More information on the New Flesh residency at https://www.new-flesh.com/

Entry: Suggested donation £5 but please pay what you can afford, your donations support LUX's public exhibition programme and the care of the LUX collection.