B.A.D. CINEMA PRESENTS: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

About the event:

Doors open from 7pm, high-street entrance to Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) on Wednesday 8 March.

About the film:

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, 2022, (18) directed by Laura Poitras.

“The film is riveting and essential.” The Independent ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5

In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, one of the great documentaries about an artist, any boundaries between activism and art, art and life, and life and work are blown open.” ARTnews

In 2014, Goldin was prescribed OxyContin to deal with pain caused by tendonitis in her wrist. Within days she was addicted. Following her recovery, she began working with campaigners to bring the family behind the drug, the Sacklers, to justice. Employing footage previously shot by Goldin and her colleagues, which records the grassroots campaign as it ups the ante on pressurising major cultural institutions to distance themselves from the Sacklers, Poitras’ film widens its focus to encompass Goldin’s extraordinary life. It charts her journey from a conservative childhood to her entry into the art world, becoming a defining figure of the 1970s and 1980s New York art scene, and along the way creating a landmark work with The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.

Poitras brings together the various strands of Goldin’s life with impressive clarity. It highlights how Goldin saw no distinction between private and public, the personal and the political, and how her perspective on the world was sharpened by both the AIDS and opioid crises. Only the second documentary to win the prestigious Golden Lion award in the Venice Film Festival’s 80-year history, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an enthralling portrait of an artist as activist.

Running Time: 122mins

Ticket info:

We want to keep prices to a minimum so as many people can come as possible. Tickets are therefore £5.00.

Free tickets are also available for those with low income, outsider artists, asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants.

BEAF Arts Co is a not-for-profit organisation. All profits from our ticket sales go back into supporting our work, community and artists.

Refunds:

If you can no longer make this event, then please contact us a week in advance of the screening date to request one. Refunds after then will not be accepted and please note Eventbrite’s fee cannot be refunded.

Access info:

Doors open from 7pm to have a chat and a drink and to grab a comfy seat, the film starts at 7.30pm, drinks and snacks are available. B.A.D. is on the ground floor and has wide doors for access.

Getting to us:

If you are coming by foot or by bus, take the M2 bus and get off near Boscanova if coming from Southbourne or next to Aldi if coming from Poole and Bournemouth. Walk along the high-street and please come to the main entrance at B.A.D. directly opposite Costa.

If you are coming by car we would recommend parking in the sovereign centre car park, then come to the main entrance on the high-street.

Pokesdown for Boscombe train station is a 15-20 minute walk from B.A.D. along Christchurch Road.