AN UNORTHODOX WEEKEND OF CINEMA IN THE WILDERNESS:
Star & Shadow Cinema at Burnlaw, Northumberland
Friday 16 - Sunday 18 June, 2017
LTP#5 takes a proposal from The New Social Function of Cinema, the seminal publication of this country's countercinema movement of the 1970's, “...we are concerned to develop a spectator's, rather than a filmmaker's or artist's cinema' to
consider the modes in which we spectate together in 2017. In the year
we build a new DIY, Star and Shadow cinema in Newcastle, a general
election defines our next half decade, and our relationship to media and
truth is uncertain, it feels timely to imagine and talk about what
off-line modes of spectatorshp we want to cultivate for ourselves.
Over the 16-18 June, we will present various aesthetic directions taken
by film artists, documentarians, feminists and prime-time comedians to
expose and start dialogue, cross-referencing between today and the
period of the New Social Function of Cinema (late 1970's early 1980's.)
Emphasising
the collective experience of viewing that makes Cinema special, LTP
revolves around camping, watching, reading, walking, discussing and
eating together with a bunch of other people over a long weekend.
Exploring the self-imposed strategy of 'The Ignorant Curator', all films
are programmed 'unseen' to encourage a non-hierarchical approach to
post-film discussion. We set up good audience relationships with
amazing food and a beautiful place, and then add the films.
Interspersed through the weekend:
The Other Cinema: Which Parade's Gone By... (M. Karlin, UK, 1977, documentary)
Friday 16th June
8pm: Accursed, Amazed, Other...
The Accursed Stare (D. Ferrando Girault, Spain, 2016, artist film), The Amazed Spectator (E. Pera, Portugal, 2016, experimental film)
Saturday 17th June
11am - A Question of Silence (M Gorris, Netherlands, 1982, feature film)
2pm - Limpiadores & The NIghtcleaners pt.1 (F. Mitjans, Cuba, 2015, documentary / Berwick st. Collective, UK, 1975, experimental documentary)
5pm - Endless Poetry (A. Jodorowsky, Chile, 2016, feature film)
8.30pm - Aquarius (K. Mendonco Filho, Brazil, 2016, feature film)
Sunday 18th June
11am - Uncertain (E. McNicol and A. Sandilands,USA, 2015, documentary)
2pm - Tickling Giants (S. Taskler, Egypt, 2016, documentary)
The event is family friendly: screenings are certificated, but Burnlaw has a great play area and plenty of space to explore.
Camping Weekend Pass - £55/£50conc. (includes camping, food, and films)
Bunkbarn Weekend Pass - £70/£65conc. (includes bunkbed, food and films)
Family Weekend Pass - £80 (2 adults and up to 2 kids under 7, includes camping, food and films)
Saturday all day pass - £20 (all films plus lunch and evening meal)
Single Screenings - £5 (PURCHASE THEM AT THE EVENT).
ALL SCREENINGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Made for the 'Open
Door' slot on BBC2, Marc Karlin's essayistic film about the significance
of cinema as a space to engage rather than just consume doubles as an
activist documentary to save the Other Cinema from closure in 1977.
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The Accursed Stare
by David Ferrando Girault combines psychadelic software-based animation
with a Bataille-inflected tour through art history looking at ways of
seeing, the role of the image and its relationship to power and
consumption.
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Experimental
filmmaker Edgar Pêra gathers together an array of voices from Laura
Mulvey to Guy Maddin and the historian of the 'Cinema of Attractions'
André Gaudreault to explore questions like "what are the rights and
duties of the Spectator? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the
spectator of this day and age?"
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A Question of Silence,
widely considered a classic of 80's feminist cinema, is a wry,
provocative work considering the psychiatric profiling and court case of
three women who spontaneously collaborate in an act of shocking
violence on a male shop-keeper. Made by Marleen Gorris (Antonia's
Line).
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Limpiadores brings
to light the day-to-day invisible labour of cleaners on our university
campuses through the struggle of migrant cleaners at SOAS. It wil be
screened alongside Berwick Street Collective's Nightcleaners pt.1, a key
work of British independent cinema that fused radical politics and
aesthetics.
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Chilean cult
director Alejandro Jodorowsky's second part to his autobiographical
trilogy is a carnivalesque and outrageous poem to choosing the life of
an artist. Flamboyant, colourful and anarchic, Endless Poetry finds the 88 year-old director in exuberant form.
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Following the Arab
Spring and in need of a laugh, Dr. Bassem Youssef left his career as a
heart surgeon in Cairo to try his hand at comedy, creating "Al
Bernameg," the first political satire show in Egypt. Thirty million
viewers watched each episode. Mass-media, satire and politics merge - where does cinema fit in now?
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For children,
Lucas, Star and Shadow's youngest volunteer will be programing the
Cinemarauder, providing a unique selection of films for kids. The
upgraded 80's caravan will be parked up in the field screening
periodically throughout - programme to be confirmed.
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Food is a very
important part of LTP, and we are over the moon that Pink Lane Bakery is
providing sustenance (including Martha for the third year in a
row...Yes!) Hopefully the pizza oven will be involved. Plenty of
salads. Hearty one-pot cooking too. All part of the low low price!
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The event is family friendly: screenings are certificated, but Burnlaw has a great play area and plenty of space to explore.
Camping Weekend Pass - £55/£50conc. (includes camping, food, and films)
Bunkbarn Weekend Pass - £70/£65conc. (includes bunkbed, food and films)
Family Weekend Pass - £80 (2 adults and up to 2 kids under 7, includes camping, food and films)
Saturday all day pass - £20 (all films plus lunch and evening meal)
Single Screenings - £5 (PURCHASE THEM AT THE EVENT).
ALL SCREENINGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
CONTACT: christo@filmbee.co.uk
We are very grateful to again be included in the programme of Wide Skies Film Festival 2017.
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Burnlaw Centre is run voluntarily by the residents of
Burnlaw Community, in the North Pennines AONB. For more information,
visit www.burnlaw.org
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