Margaret Salmon: Gender Studies
Boy (winter), by Margaret Salmon
Sunday April 10, 2022, 7:00 pm doors open, Screening starts at 7:30 pm
At 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 W. Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles
Free parking on the street and across Beverly at the church
Two US premieres!
In-person: Margaret Salmon (in town from Glasgow, Scotland!)
Tickets: $12 general, $8 students/seniors, $0 Filmforum members. $12 and $8 tickets can be purchased in advance at
Filmforum is delighted to host the Glasgow-based filmmaker Margaret Salmon in her first los Angeles screening with the US premieres of two of her latest films! Winner of the inaugural MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2006, and working from a strong feminist perspective, Salmon uses celluloid to film beautiful studies of gender, intimacy, labor, and more. The two we are screening are recent studies of gender roles and gender performance in work and play, in contemporary Britain.
Margaret Salmon (b. 1975, New York) lives and works in Glasgow. Concerned with a shifting constellation of relations, such as those between camera and subject, human and animal, or autobiography and ethnography, Margaret Salmon’s films often examine the gendered, emotive dynamics of social interactions and representational forms.
Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at institutions including DCA (2018/19), Tramway (2018) Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (2015); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA (2011); Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2007); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2007) and Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2006). Her work has been featured in film festivals and major international survey exhibitions, including the British Art Show 9 (2021/22), Glasgow International (2021), Berlin Biennale (2010) and Venice Biennale (2007) London Film Festival (2018, 2016, 2014). Salmon won the inaugural MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2006, was shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2018 and the 2019 Margaret Tait Award.
Two articles on her work:
https://cinemaofideas.org.uk/writings/margaret-salmons-icarus-after-amelia-2021/
https://www.nothingpersonalmagazine.com/editorial-i
Icarus (after Amelia)
Icarus (after Amelia)
By Margaret Salmon
United Kingdom, 2021, 58 minutes, Colour, Stereo, 4:3
Original format: 35mm Film
US premiere!
Icarus (after Amelia) is a gendered labor study. Shot on 35mm color film and beginning in the clouds above the city of Glasgow and continuing to the workplace below, this film is a meditation on ideologies of work; on fixed perspectives, horizons, love, and theoretical determinants. It presents an introduction to feminist economic analysis alongside collaborations with Glaswegian women including musician Tracyanne Campbell, Professor Sara Cantillon, writer Maria Fusco and workers from local businesses and social enterprises including Govan HELP, Morris & Spottiswood and Starter Packs Glasgow. First and foremost a deconstruction of contemporary life through the lens of feminist economic theory, Icarus (after Amelia) is an effort to present audiences with an emotive, intuitive discussion of value, production and hope within the ‘family’ and wider community in Britain. Responding to research and relationships through an intimate process of making and discussion, this body of work traces and archives a period of dramatic change in the UK in 2020/21.
Boy (winter)
Boy (winter)
By Margaret Salmon
United Kingdom, 2022, 32 minutes, B&W, Stereo, 4:3
Original format: 35mm Film
US premiere!
Margaret Salmon’s Boy (winter) is a film study, shot on 35mm film, presenting viewers with a set of encounters, celluloid descriptions and imaginative analysis of contemporary boyhood. Shot on location in Glasgow in late 2021, this is the first in a two-part series of films exploring masculinity and stages of (identifying) male physical and psychological development in Britain. This work is in response to the expansive oeuvre of Stephen Dwoskin, in particular his early portrait films, but also follows a strand of research and enquiry which has been active in Salmon’s own feminist film practice. That is, gendered dynamics experienced within the everyday, expressed through the body and film culture.