Pictureville Presents: Invisible Women film screening – Christopher Strong

While the doors to Pictureville Cinema at the National Science and Media Museum remain temporarily closed, their off-site cinema programme continues.

They are taking up residency at beloved The Studio next to the Alhambra Theatre to bring you a programme of cult, classic, and international cinema plus special one-off events. 

Pictureville have teamed up with archive activists Invisible Women to screen the 1933 pre-code gem Christopher Strong on Friday 14 June.

Katharine Hepburn, dazzling in silver lamé, takes on her first lead role as a single-minded aviatrix in this delightful pre-Code melodrama.

Led by a female creative team, with a script written by screenwriter Zoë Akins (adapted from the eponymous 1932 novel) and Dorothy Arzner in the director’s chair, Christopher Strong follows Hepburn’s Darrington (a character based partially on famous pilot Amy Johnson) as she falls for married politician Sir Christopher Strong (Colin Clive), and navigates the perilous territory of illicit love, monogamy and career in prim and proper 1930s London.

Christopher Strong will be introduced by Rachel Pronger of Invisible Women and preceded by the short film To Be a Woman.

In To Be A Woman, pioneering filmmaker Jill Craigie built a reputation with her polemical and socially engaged films which often blended documentary, re-enactment and wry humour. In To Be a Woman, Craigie tackles the gender pay gap, exploring the experience of womanhood in twentieth century Britain with trademark wit and style.