07 Feb 2025
Join the Bob Mizer Foundation and Second Home Spitalfields for an intimate screening of Bob Mizer’s early queer films from the 1950s-60s. Mizer, a pioneering homoerotic artist and publisher, fought for the de-censorship of the male nude and the rights of gay people in the U.S. This event offers a rare opportunity to see his films outside of the U.S.
After the screenings, there will be a panel on World Building in Queer Art, featuring Maxwell Sutter Zinkievich (Head of Moving Images, Bob Mizer Foundation), trans artist Theo Dunne, and Davy Pittoors (founder, Queeriosities). The discussion will explore Mizer’s immersive world of props, sets, and narratives, alongside Dunne’s approach to creating environments from found objects.
The Bob Mizer Foundation is dedicated to preserving and promoting groundbreaking, often controversial photography, with a focus on Bob Mizer’s vast archives of over two million works, along with his personal effects. It also showcases the work of Mizer’s contemporaries and artists who challenge societal boundaries through their visual and political art.