Film Double Bill
Sunday 25th May
Film Double Bill
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1998)
Red Road (Andrea Arnold, 2005)
Time: 1:30 pm
Venue: The Cameo Cinema, Home Street, Edinburgh.
Cost: Full price £6.50/ Concessions £4.90.
Ladyfest Shorts
Tuesday 27th May
Laydyfest Shorts brings together an eclectic mix of documentary, fiction and experimental works made in the UK and further a field by female directors, fine artists, animators and practitioners; their common link being that film is their creative medium of choice. To this potent mix, we are delighted to add the academy award winning short Wasp by Andrea Arnold.
Time: 19.00, Venue: The Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh
Cost: Full price £6.50/ Concessions £4.90
THE FILMS (in order of screening):La Tuerca / Melissa MartinezThis is the story of a little girl and a nut. It is also the story of a middle aged woman who has lost all contact with dreams. La Tuerca is about magic, memories and the significance of small things that we sometimes forget when we become adults.My Grandfather and Florchen Gordon / Grace SchwindtSays Schwindt: My work inhabits a space between photography, video, sound and drawing. From there, it discusses experiences that relate to different perspectives. My Grandfather meets Florchen Gordon depicts my experiences as part of the second- generation post Nazi Germany. It discribes in two parts my grandfather meeting a Jewish friend in 1936 in Berlin. The work aims to position history writing as a process that is situated in the present rather than being an unchangeable fact in the past.Apart of me / Alex De CampiAlex De Campi makes offbeat, handcrafted music videos which are wildly ambitious in scope yet brought to life on tiny budgets. Apart from me was concieved at 3am in a nightclub as a challenge by musician Stephen Coates (aka The Real Tuesday Weld) to make a complete narrative story for a 90 second song.r1 Reiteration to Resistance / Amanda Egber1 Reiteration to Resistance is a short experimental video that explores themes of representation and otherness. A hybrid of documentary and performance video, participants used a selection of dynamic texts to comment on racism, sexism and difference. r1 mixes Super 8 footage with extreme close ups to create an unsettling enviroment of gesture and commentary on the state of difference in the world today.A Bad Day / Hlin DavidsdottirHlin Davidsdottir is a small girl from Iceland who graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2007 with a degree in animation. She is currently working for Ink Animations in Dundee.F to M / Sarah ClaudonF to M is a video based on the testimony of a female to male transsexual and a reflection on the social, domestic and corporeal aspects of the gender and sexual identity matters. Beyond time and enviroment, transsexualism is not a fashion phenomenon but something that affects people across society/ gender and class.Story of a Bird Woman / Kate MacKaySpun from the fragments that build a personal mythology; storybooks, cinema, childhood TV and old family photos. This film is a celebration of the childs imagination that animates all objects. This is the first collaberation between artist Kate MacKay and musician Poppy Ackroyd. Both live and work in Edinburgh.Big Falls / Alexia DickinsonThrough interviews with first-hand witnesses this film tries to make sense of a case of spirit possession that occured in a school in Belieze, Central America. This film is open-ended, as it does not seek to impose a particular reading of spirit possession. It is an alternative view in that it does not show a trance, rather it tells it.We dont play guitars / Chicks On Speed / Directed by Deborah SchamoniChicks on Speed are (anti) musicians and art terrorists. Their message is:We may take of our skirts, but we wont put on any pants!http://www.chicksonspeed.comShe Wanted To Be Burnt / Ruth PaxtonA girl wakes up, into reality, a nightmare? a memory? Terrified at what she may have done, she runs.Ruths films are bold and powerful and she has a unique way of visualising, stylising and capturing the intimacy and complexity of deeply human tales.Guest / Catalina NiculescuCatalina Niculescu works with performance and performance based film, video and photography. Mostly taking place in public spaces. The film Guest depicts a repeated climbing of public fences in an urban enviroment.Wasp / Andrea ArnoldThe Screen Banditas are delighted to add Andrea Arnolds Oscar winning short to our stellar programme of new talent. Wasp atmospherically presents a day in the life of single mum Zoe. Broke, hungry and alarmingly human, Zoe is asked out by a boy from her past called Dave. What Dave doesnt know is that the four children at her feet are her own. What lengths will Zoe go to in order to hide this truth from Dave, and what repercussions might this have for them all? A tense and wonderfully realised gem.With special thanks to Andrea Arnold for her permission to show this film.
Avant Garde Film Afternoon
Sunday 1st June
Avant garde film afternoon
The aim of this programme was to draw attention to female directors and practitioners whose work remains relatively undiscovered and obscure, or criminally underrated, either within popular culture or film history and to create a lively space to view and discuss these works.
This Screening profiled Maya Deren and Margaret Tait.
Meshes Of The Afternoon. Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943 (USA, 15mins)
At Land. Maya Deren, 1944 (USA, 15mins)
A Study In Choreography For Camera. Maya Deren, 1945 (USA, 4mins)
Meditation On Violence. Maya Deren, 1948 (USA, 12mins)
The Very Eye Of The Night. Maya Deren, 1958 (USA, 15mins)
(Short Intermission)
Hugh MacDiarmid, A Portrait. Margaret Tait, 1964. (UK, 9mins)
Aerial. Margaret Tait, 1974 (UK, 4mins)
Portrait Of Ga. Margaret Tait, 1952. (UK, 4mins)
Ask No Questions. Violet Anderson, 1936 (UK, 5mins)
Painted Eightsome. Margaret Tait, 1970 (UK, 6mins)
Colour Poems. Margaret Tait, 1974 (uk, 11mins)
Thanks to A.C.E for hosting the event and the Scottish Screen Archives.
Venue: The Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh (A.C.E)
Time: From 12 noon onwards. Donation welcome.
