Film Screening: Everybody in the Place
17 Oct 2024 - 17 Oct 2024
We’re kicking off our public programme for Jeremy Deller’s upcoming commission, 'The Triumph of Art', with a free screening of his 2019 film 'Everybody in the Place'. The film captures the importance of rave culture to contemporary British society and considers it in the context of a wider folk canon. Rare and unseen archive materials map the journey from protest movements to abandoned warehouse raves, the white heat of industry bleeding into the chaotic release of the dancefloor. We join an A-level politics class as they discover these stories for the first time, viewing the story of acid house from the perspective of a generation for whom it is already ancient history.
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This screening has been made free for all thanks to funds provided by The National Gallery, London. Tickets will be available from Plymouth Arts Cinema's website soon!
In the 30 years since acid house exploded into the UK’s consciousness. With Everybody In the Place artist Jeremy Deller turns this received wisdom on its head, situating rave and acid house at the very centre of the seismic social changes upending 1980s Britain.
We see how rave culture owes as much to the Battle of Orgreave as it does to the gay clubs of Chicago or the discovery of ecstasy: not merely a cultural gesture, but the fulcrum for a generational shift in British identity, linking industrial histories and radical action to the wider expanses of a post-industrial century.
Information sourced from Frieze.