Imitation Of Life

Douglas Sirk’s final Hollywood feature is a startlingly powerful remake of John Stahl’s film (itself an adaptation of Fannie Hurst’s novel) about two single mothers - one white, one black - striving together in a man’s world.

With Imitation Of Life, Sirk unleashed a melodramatic torrent of rage at the corrupt core of American life - the unholy trinity of racism, commercialism and puritanism, as seen through the prism of motherhood.

The screening will be preceded by a live onstage introduction from Dr Sabina Stent.

Screening as part of the Bad Mums: Motherhood In Cinema season to accompany the touring exhibition Acts Of Creation: On Art and Motherhood.