Join Sappho Events for an evening of queer cinema.
Schools Out hosts a special screening of the award-winning documentary Dance Me to the End of Time (2021) on 15 June at the Cinema Museum, London.
Directed by: Melanie Chait. Documentary. Dur: 1hr 20mins.
Dance Me to The End of Time is a deeply personal film about love in the face of death. Award-winning filmmaker Melanie Chait documented the last four years of her life partner, London theatre director Nancy Diuguid’s life, as she fought breast cancer. Woven into Nancy’s personal story are insights from US scientist and ecologist Rachel Carson, whose seminal book, Silent Spring, exposed the health danger of pesticides as far back as 1962. Nancy grew up on a tobacco farm in Kentucky in the USA, where small planes regularly sprayed their farms with pesticides. Dance Me to The End of Time powerfully explores the impact of pesticides, not only on the environment but also on the human body by journeying with Nancy as she navigates her cancer treatment and the tremendous love that is shared in doing so. It pays tribute to Nancy, a visionary director and actor who used the creative arts and her own lesbian identity as a lifelong campaign for justice and healing, covering gay and women’s movement issues from the 70s as well as exploring Rachel Carson’s remarkable legacy.
Dance Me to The End of Time has had a successful Festival run after premiering at The Encounters Film Festival of South Africa. It was an Award Winner at the Toronto International Women Film Festival, won Best Editing at the Women In Festival in Zurich, and most recently Best Documentary and Best of the Fest at Cinema Systers Film Festival in USA.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Melanie Chait. Dr Melanie Chait is an internationally recognized social justice documentarian who filmed in many countries for UK television before returning to SA post-democracy, much of her work focused on LGBT+ issues. Wanting to provide opportunities for young people unable to afford film training, Melanie founded the multi-award-winning Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking for unemployed youth. Recently her ground breaking film Veronica 4 Rose (1982), was screened at the BFI for Channel 4’s 40th anniversary to celebrate their flagship programming and at the Washington Art Gallery under the Thatcherism and Homophobia banner. A former Fulbright Scholar, Melanie received her doctorate from Oxford University in identity politics and independence movements
Sappho will be organising a meet up before and after the film to meet other queers and chat, and enjoy watching the film together.
Date: 15 June 2023
Time: Meet from 6.30pm in the cinema bar for a chat, and by 7.30pm for the film start.
Location: The Cinema Museum (in Kennington, close to the Elephant and Castle station). Address: The Master’s House, 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road), London SE11 4TH
Price: £8 - please purchase your tickets directly from Ticketlab and then register via the link below so we know numbers on the night. We will use information via that form to communicate where we meet on the night.
Accessibility: Full disabled access is not currently available at the Cinema Museum. Their lift is currently broken, and access to the auditorium on the first floor is by stairs only.
Please note that Sappho Events welcomes LGBTQIA+ women, trans and non-binary people.