Autumn programme: dates for your diary!

Hi,

After a long summer break Thursday Flickers is back with lots of West Midlands based film talent. If you want to see some local produce before the 7th October, make sure you pop into Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum.

Alan Van Wijgerden and Bill Sankey have entered two great shorts for the Museum Movies competition. Alan's The Boat House (10 min) is an exploration of his favourite painting in our collection, The Boat Builder's Shop by Bernard Ninnes. Bill's Art Gallery (9 min) comprises entirely of digital photographs taken at the Art Gallery & Museum. The video focuses on the interplay of light, texture, surface, reflection, atmosphere and space with the works on display.

You can vote for your favourite one and the winning movie will be awarded the Best Film Award 2010 and £150 prize money by Warwick District Council's Chairman, Councillor Bertie MacKay, on Thursday 23 September, 6.30pm. This competition is sponsored by London Camera exchange.


7 October

Birmingham film maker John Bradburn will present his feature Wrists (2010), 88 min. After the screening you can ask him questions about independent production and distribution processes.

Click on this link if you want to see more of his portfolio.

Wrists synopsis: Julie is staying in an isolated cottage. She becomes obsessed with Clark the man who rides a motorbike by her house. Slowly she becomes drawn into his dark and dangerous world. A film of dream like intensity that never settles in to a definable experience mixing reality, fantasy, fear and imaginings. This screening will start at 6pm.

Click on this link if you want to follow John's Wrists blog.


14 October

Artist Faye Claridge's statement 'I wanted to be a taxidermist, instead I'm an artist' sounds intriguing and this film night is an unique opportunity to hear her talk about her moving images.

Her work explores relational subjectivity and self-awareness through the awareness of ‘the other’. With an inability to focus on the ever-shifting present, she believes that we instead try to explore our identities in relation to (the distance of) others, in relation to a (performed) role and in relation to the (imagined) past.

Faye will show a compilation of her video works. Have a look at her website.


21 October

Hugh Robinson, who has previously screened Mid-Table Mediocrity at Thursday Flickers, returns with locally shot The Mild Bunch (22 min). This documentary is about men and westerns.


28 October

Bryan Griffiths will present his independent feature film A Minority Pastime - Rage Against Cruelty which deals with foxhunting issues. Visit this link for a preview or click here for more background information. The screening will start at 6pm.

Warning: this documentary is not for the faint hearted; there are some upsetting scenes involving animal cruelty.

A compilation of quotes:

“I’m absolutely stunned by the film. I knew it would be hard to watch but I still was not prepared for the impact and my first attempt ended after a minute or two, through floods of tears.The sickening reality hits you straight away, no warning. Just as it did for those of us who have had first hand experience. I think that people who have never really had to address the truth will find the film disturbing in the extreme. They cannot fail to be moved. I think you’ve struck exactly the right note." Norma Crumpton Contributor

(David Cameron) “would have been humbled by this film, and then be on the same wavelength as those who oppose foxhunting.” He has had a big opportunity missed if only he had come along today. His “U” turn decision on foxhunting would make headlines, it would be on all the front pages, and show the chap is a humane human.” Colin Dexter, author of Inspector Morse, at private screening at Witney.




Hope to see you all on a Thursday night!

Tammy