Shot last summer in Margate, London and Egypt, artist Tracey Emin's first feature-length film, Top Spot, explores the imposition of sex on girls' adolescence.
The film introduces six teenage girls who all have a story to tell. In a series of interviews to camera, the girls' stories are teased out of them: their secrets, disclosures, sexual discovery and shame filtered through the lens of small-town life.
The film, based on Emin's experiences of growing up in Margate, is a poetic exploration of teenage life, one in which men, although absent from the screen, haunt the shadows as brief encounters that leave giant dents in the girls' lives.
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