"I'm going to try holding on a little while longer"
Before carving out a legacy as Japan's reigning humanist with films like Shoplifters, Still Walking, Like Father, Like Son, and Monster, Hirokazu Koreeda directed a number of bruising lo-fi documentaries throughout the 90s.
August Without Him (1994) chronicles the final months in the life of Hirata Yukata, the first man in Japan to publicly acknowledge having contracted HIV through sleeping with men.
Koreeda's camera captures Yukata as both activist and public figure as he deals with physical decline in a relentlessly intimate chronicle where the distance between subject and filmmaker simply doesn't exist.
This early work by one of the world's most beloved directors serves as a testament to life, as well as an investigation into the efficacy and ethics of documentary in the face of death.
And before that, you'll get a rare chance to sit with an audience for a presentation of cult documentary short Andy the Furniture Maker (1986), a miraculous portrait of an Essex boy making a home in the gay scene of 1980s London.
Made for Channel 4, Paul Oremland's invaluable piece of queer history features rebellious delight Andy Marshall charming his way through recollections of his experiences as everything from a fisherman, to a SWer, a car thief, and one of Derek Jarman's muses.
A true essential that is funny, fascinating, and lingers as a necessary tribute to all the lost boys of London.
"[It was] just like drug abusers, transsexuals, transvestites, just every kind of degenerate you can imagine went there. It was fabulous"
🔨 No budget? No problem! 🎞️ PEPCOT and the Piehouse Co-op share a DIY-DNA. We both want to create places in which people can be sociable, political, creative and experimental, together. So, to kick off the PEPCOT at the Piehouse residency we have planned a season celebrating the broad church that is DIY, low budget film-making. Across four dates we will introduce films made on a shoestring from across very different genres, times, sensibilities, and places. Two of the screenings are in collaboration with brilliant programmers – Category H & Transmissions – who are coming from Dalston down to Deptford to show some DIY gems on the Piehouse big screen.
✨Transmissions is london's premier trans film club resident at Dalston Superstore. Follow on instagram at @wearetransmissions for events and some of the best meme-ing in living meme-ry.
3pm - Doors & pies on picnic tables in the sun
4pm - Transmissions intro + Andy the Furniture Maker (1986, 35mins)
4:45pm - Pie break
4:55pm - August Without Him (1994, 73mins)
Seating is a mixture of backed chairs with sofas in the lounge area and picnic tables with benches out front of the venue.
Venue is step-free with wheelchair accessible loo. If you have any access needs that need accommodating please do get in touch: clubpepcot@gmail.com
NOTAFLOF - No one turned away for lack of funds