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Delusions of Grandeur: An audio-visual response to Noah Davis (15*)

Noah Davis Film Programme

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A series of films that explore the monumental within the everyday, confronting memory, community, and identity with intimacy and innovation taking inspiration from Noah Davis's Delusions of Grandeur.

This presentation of short films, from the 1960s to the present day draw inspiration from Noah Davis’s Delusions of Grandeur, a painting that captures a small child staring up at an impossibly large staircase—a poignant metaphor for ambition, creativity, and the leap of faith required to navigate life’s uncertainties.

Just as Delusions of Grandeur elevates a child’s contemplation to a universal reflection on ambition and creativity, these films reveal the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary, each a step toward understanding the monumental layers of human experience.

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This screening is one of three films that feature as part of the Noah Davis public programme. These films were chosen as they reflect on themes found in the Noah Davis exhibition. Prince’s Purple Rain was a film deeply loved by Davis and one that had a profound impact on his life and art. Douglas Sirk's melodrama Imitation of Life deals with identity, aspiration and representation, recurring motifs in Davis' paintings. Lastly, a mixed programme of films screening as an audio-visual response to the artist's work.

 

 

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Programme

Harmonica (1971),  Larry Gottheim  16mm, colour, sound, 10.5 minutes 

Chelsea Drive (2025) Kevin Jerome Everson & Claudrena Harold, 4 minutes

By the Lake (1986)  (Chick Strand, 10 minutes

Reluctantly Queer (2016) (Akosua Adoma Owusu, 9 minutes

On Sunday (2023) Paige Taul + olula negre, 7 minutes

Latifah And Himli’s Nomadic Uncle (1992)  Alnoor Dewshi, UK, 17 minutes

When It Rains (1995) Charles Burnett, 13 minutes

Remembrance: A Portrait Study (1967)  Edward Owens, 6 minutes

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