Editing Tracey Emin (section)

===Film===
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* ''Quiet Lives'' (1982), featuring Emin and boyfriend [[Billy Childish]]<ref>''Quiet Lives'' (1982), 11 mins, 16&nbsp;mm, written and directed by Eugene Doyen.</ref>{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}—once available with ''Cheated'' and ''Room for Rent'' in ''A Hangman Triple Bill'' (also known as ''The Hangman Trilogy'').<ref>[[Hangman Books|Hangman Films]].</ref>{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}<ref>''Quiet Lives'' is discussed in an article on Childish's films in ''No Focus: Punk on Film'' (Headpress, 2006).{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}</ref>{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''[[Why I Never Became a Dancer]]'' (1995) is a single-screen projection with sound, shot on Super 8. Duration: 6 minutes, 40 seconds.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Art of Tracey Emin|publisher=Thames and Hudson|year=2002|isbn=0-500-28385-0|location=London|page=219}}</ref> It was made in an edition of 10<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-why-i-never-became-a-dancer-t07314/text-summary|title='Why I Never Became a Dancer', Tracey Emin|website=Tate Etc.|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> and an edited transcript has been published by Tate.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Tracey Emin|publisher=Tate Publishing|year=2006|isbn=1-85437-542-3|location=London|page=78}}</ref> The film portrays the artist's early adolescence in Margate, where she grew up. The film begins with the title written across a wall, and then features a montage of views which are significant to Emin's past, including her school, the seaside and shops. The artist's voice narrates her story, opening with, "I never liked school / I was always late / In fact I hated it / So at thirteen I left." The video's final scenes show Emin's involvement in a local disco-dancing competition, in an attempt to escape to London to take part in the British Disco Dance Championship 1978. The last two minutes of the film consist of Emin dancing exuberantly around an empty studio with the song ''[[You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)|You Make Me Feel]]'', by [[Sylvester (singer)|Sylvester]] along with a voice overed narration of her saying 'Shane, Eddy, Tony, Doug, Richard  this one's for you'.<ref>{{Cite web|title='Why I Never Became a Dancer', Tracey Emin, 1995|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-why-i-never-became-a-dancer-t07314|last=Tate|website=Tate|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/79687251|title=Tracey Emin: Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995|publisher=Vimeo.com|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> {{clarify|date=January 2016}}{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

In the film, Emin describes leaving school at age 13 and spending her time on Margate's Golden Mile, dreaming and having sex. Sex "was something you could just do and it was for free". She was "13, 14" and having sex with men of "19, 20, 25, 26". In the film, the narration states: "It could be good, really something. I remember the first time someone asked me to grab their balls, I remember the power it gave me. But it wasn't always like that; sometimes they'd just cum, and then they'd leave me there, wherever I was, half naked."<ref name=":0" /> In the final scenes, the artist performs at a local dance competition and people begin to clap. A gang of men, "most of whom [the artist] had sex with at one time or another"<ref name=":0"/> began to chant "slag, slag, slag".<ref name=":0"/>

In an interview with [[Melvyn Bragg]], Emin commented on the incident: "I don't see why I was such a slag. All I did was sleep with a few people. It's not a crime, I didn't kill anyone."<ref>{{Citation|title=Tracey Emin on The South Bank Show|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxaoAy9oNtY|access-date=10 September 2016}}</ref>
* ''How It Feels'' (1996)
* ''Tracey Emin's CV Cunt Vernacular'' (1997), an autobiographical work in which Emin narrates her story from childhood in Margate, through her student years, abortions and destruction of her early work.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''Homage to Edvard Munch and all My Dead Children'' (1998)
* ''Sometimes the Dress Is Worth More Money Than the Money'' (2001). ICA.{{clarify|date=January 2016}}{{full citation needed|date=January 2016}}
* ''[[Top Spot]]'' (2004), a feature-length non-fiction production mixing DV footage and Super 8 film into a montage. The title, ''Top Spot'', refers to a youth centre/disco in Margate, as well as being an explicit sexual reference.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Romney |first=Jonathan |date=2005-01-01 |title=JONATHAN ROMNEY ON TRACEY EMIN'S TOP SPOT |url=https://www.artforum.com/columns/jonathan-romney-on-tracey-emins-top-spot-170526/ |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref>

Emin has described ''Top Spot'' as being "about the moment of... understanding that you are walking into an adult world which means sex, which means often violence, which means that you may suddenly have some perspective on your own life that you never had before."<ref name="JSTOR"/> ''Top Spot'' was given an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification, much to Emin's dismay, as she intended the film for a teenage audience.<ref name="JSTOR"/><ref>In the film, the natural beauty of the sea and the sunsets is connected to Margate's manmade pleasures. The film is scored with a selection of 1970s songs that were the soundtrack to the artist's own adolescence. It was shot during the summertime in Margate and London in England, as well as in Egypt.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}</ref>

Emin withdrew the film from general distribution in cinemas after it was rated with an 18 certificate.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4018433.stm|title=Emin withdraws film from cinemas|publisher=BBC|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> It was broadcast on BBC3 television in the UK in December 2004,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4040215.stm|title=Emin film gets debut in home town|work=BBC News |access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> and a DVD of the film was released in 2004.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}