Pleasure Horse: a night of screenings dedicated to the wonderment of Jordan Mooney. Join us for Tonetta the Documentary, Dressing for Pleasure and Vive Le Punk followed by Roger K.Burton and Cathi Unsworth in conversation.
Doors: 7.00pm [the screening will start at 7:30pm]
Tickets: £10 available via link below
Tonetta the Documentary, dir. Jamie Hurcomb & Jonathan Anderson [2016, 16 mins]
Tonetta the Documentary is an intimate glimpse into the life and legend of outsider artist Tonetta (Tony Jeffrey). Operating entirely out of his studio apartment in Nothern Toronto, Tonetta has been self-producing underground hits like "Pressure Zone" "Drugs, Drugs, Drugs" and "Dominate", cultivating a major cult following for his provocative music videos, sexually-charged songs, and artistic escapades. Tonetta the Documentary was the first documentary short to share the story of the man behind the mask.
Dressing for Pleasure, dir. John Samson [1977]
‘In 1977 Samson made Dressing For Pleasure, a documentary about ordinary people who enjoyed dressing in rubber and who approached their fetish with a matter of factness that seems almost quaint. The film was an immediate sensation among British fashion designers and within the London punk scene and was promptly banned as a video nasty. It ended up becoming one of the most ripped off British films of the 1970s.’
Vive Le Punk, dir. Roger K. Burton [1993]
When The Horse Hospital threw open its doors in 1993, Roger K. Burton needed a groundbreaking event to signal its birth as a new home for counter culture. He curated Vive Le Punk, a retrospective exhibition of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s revolutionary punk clothing designed between 1971 - 1978, the first of many memorable shows held in our gallery over the next 30 years. Filmed unexpectedly, Vive Le Punk documents a spontaneous conversation between Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren explaining how they gave birth to a look that would change fashion forever. The film is the only known footage of the couple reflecting on their creative partnership and gets rarely screened.