3 October 2021
LUX, Waterlow Park Centre, London

A special screening was held of The Light of Day, a unique collaborative film celebrating the life-long friendship of artists Anne Bean and Jeanette Iljon. Presented by LUX, the film is a “series of tender exchanges between life long friends Jeanette Iljon and Anne Bean. Born eleven days apart to Jewish families in Zambia in 1950, they both went on to become artists in the UK. The Light of Day carefully recomposes Iljon’s experimental, feminist and social activist film works made in the 1970s/80s. It combines these with an almost lost interview, shot by Anne Bean in 2000 and new performance material that was made with Alex Eisenberg in 2019 following Iljon’s diagnosis with dementia.”