For over 100 years now, the cinematic medium has been used to spread a multitude of ideas, from the artistic through to the political. This is so ingrained in our culture that it can be difficult to imagine our lives without film, let alone how we might have felt when we first experienced its power.
In this haunting documentary, film-maker Mark Cousins visits a small Kurdish-Iraqi village and shows films to local children their first time. They are then given cameras to make their own films, and the resulting creations tell insightful stories of the magic, horror, and mundanity, of...
Artists from The Unknown Knowns will join Curator, Vickie Fear, and our Artistic Director, Sarah Chapman, for a conversation on the crossovers in their work with moving image.
'Selected' is a new collection of diverse artists’ film and video, taking place at some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film and video.
Nominated by the artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2018, 'Selected' brings together some of the best work from early career film and video artists from the UK in a vibrant programme of recent artists’ moving image.
Jamie Wyld, Director of videoclub, will introduce this screening of 'Selected IX'. Videoclub is an artists’ moving image platform, showing and touring film and...
A drawing that became a dream. A dream that became a reality.
Dr Alastair Smith from the School of Psychology, will introduce this dark fantasy about a young girl’s dreams that become populated by her drawings.
Alastair conducts research into the cognitive processes underlying drawing production. He will discuss how drawing abilities emerge in development and explore the relationship between meaning and appearance in children’s drawings.
Director: Bernard Rose Cast: Charlotte Burke, Elliott Spiers, Glenne Headly, Ben Cross, Gemma Jones Running time: 92 mins Cert: 15...
Five-piece band, Wurlitza, will present a modern twist to this silent film accompaniment by adding music that will be arranged in a way that is novel and fresh. Their unique approach utilises their wide-ranging repertoire of original, pop, jazz, classical, indie and everything in between.
'A Cottage On Dartmoor' is a story of love, jealousy and manicures. Made in 1929 by the young Anthony Asquith, the film explores the latest craze at the time: the talkies. One of the last silent films to be made, it is early British cinema at its best.
Monday 13 March, 19:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
“Incredibly stylish and visually ravishing” **** Empire
Dir: Jean-Jacques Beineix Cast: Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer Running time: 117 mins Cert: 15
This atmospheric thriller is the twisted tale of two tapes; one, the illegal bootlegged recording of an American opera star, the other, evidence of a crime. The film broke all of the accepted rules of cinema at the time...
Cast. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
Showing as part of our Held Film Season this is the brilliant but despicably cynical view of human obsession from Hitchcock. Stewart is excellent as the neurotic detective employed by an old pal to trail his wandering wife, only to fall for her himself and then crack up when she commits suicide. Then one day he sees a woman in the street who reminds him of the woman who haunts him... Hitchcock focuses on Stewart's...
Keep the kids busy this Easter holiday with cracking free activities hosted by the Council’s library service.
Staff at libraries across the city will be making Easter bonnets and sharing stories with a ‘hatty’ theme, such as ‘Millie’s Marvellous Hat’, ‘I Want My Hat Back!’ and ‘The Cat in the Hat’. There will also be a film showing at Plymstock Library.
Most activities are suitable for children aged four to 11 and are all free of charge but booking may be required for some sessions – contact your local library for more information.
