The Hart of London: a film by Jack Chambers
Fri, Jun 27
|TAP Centre for Creativity
FRAMES presents a 16mm screening of The Hart of London: a film by Jack Chambers.
Time & Location
Jun 27, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
TAP Centre for Creativity, 203 Dundas St, London, ON N6A 1G4, Canada
About The Event
Program:
The Hart of London
Jack Chambers | 1970 | Canada | 79 minutes
Presented on 16mm film
$10 admission
About
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