The Hart of London
A Film by Jack Chambers

FRAMES is proud to present a 16mm screening of Jack Chambers’ seminal final film, The Hart of London (1970), an elegiac meditation densely layered with ephemeral images from our regional past intertwined with visceral and evocative symbolism.

Created in the concurrent period of his leukemia diagnosis, the disease which would eventually claim his life nearly a decade later, Chambers imbues the film with haunting allegory, confronting themes of trepidation and spiritual transformation within the cycles of birth and death.

For more than half a century this solemn but enduring work has been championed around the globe and has influenced generations of filmmakers and scholars of experimental cinema.

We wish to thank The London Room archive at The London Public Library for permitting use of this film print.

Content warning:
Explicit sequences of childbirth
Human & animal fetuses
Abattoir scenes & animal slaughter

PROGRAM

The Hart of London
Jack Chambers | 1970 | Canada | 79 minutes