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Make a Movie in your Lunchbreak: Machinima Live UK, 2008

Hugh Hancock and Johnnie Ingram (Moviestorm), authors of Machinima for Dummies, present a hands-on workshop where you will be able to make a complete 3D animated movie in one hour. All software...

  • 15:30 @ Anglia Ruskin University
  • 12:00 @ Anglia Ruskin University

Make a Movie in your Lunchbreak: Machinima Live UK, 2008

Hugh Hancock and Johnnie Ingram (Moviestorm), authors of Machinima for Dummies, present a hands-on workshop where you will be able to make a complete 3D animated movie in one hour. All software...

  • 15:30 @ Anglia Ruskin University
  • 12:00 @ Anglia Ruskin University

Katyn Andrzej Wajda, Poland, 2007

Brutal and devastating, the latest film from one of Poland’s greatest directors revolves around the secret massacre of thousands of Polish officers by Soviet forces in the forests of Katyn in...

  • 15:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

War Requiem Derek Jarman, UK, 1989

Jarman’s movingly innovative vision of the challenging choral work by Benjamin Britten remains one of his most intriguing and ambitious works. Britten’s lyrical and religious reflection on the...

  • 10:30 @ Arts Picturehouse

Sleep Furiously Gideon Koppel, UK, 2008

SLEEP FURIOUSLY is set in a small farming community in mid Wales, about 50 miles north of Dylan Thomas’ fictional village of Llareggub. This is a place where Koppel’s parents – both...

  • 12:30 @ Arts Picturehouse

Bicycle Thieves Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1948

Vittorio de Sica’s remarkable drama of desperation and survival in Italy’s post-war depression earned a special Oscar for its affecting power. Shot in the streets and alleys of Rome, De Sica...

  • 17:30 @ Arts Picturehouse

Import/Export Ulrich Seidl, Austria, 2007

Both confrontational and compassionate, Seidl’s tale of migration and social borders weaves its way through contemporary Europe as it interrogates the political, cultural and economic forces...

  • 20:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

The Broken Sean Ellis, France/UK, 2008

In the sprawling metropolis of a grey London, Gina sees herself drive past in her own car. Stunned, she follows the woman up to her apartment and an eerie series of events ensue as Gina soon...

  • 23:15 @ Arts Picturehouse

Summer Scars Julian Richards, UK, 2007

In this disturbing British thriller, the fate of a gang of urban kids who skip school to play in the woods with a souped-up stolen moped is changed forever when they crash into Peter. A dishevelled...

  • 22:30 @ Arts Picturehouse

Dog Days Ulrich Seidl, Austria, 2002

The oppressive heat virtually emanates from the screen in Seidl’s Venice Film Festival-winning feature debut. Over several long, sweltering summer days in suburban Vienna, six sets of characters...

  • 10:15 @ Arts Picturehouse

Machinima: Zero Budget, Big Audience UK, 2008

Making a Machinima movie on zero budget doesn’t mean that you can’t reach as many people as a TV channel. Come and see the most successful Machinima movies ever made, and listen to leading...

  • 14:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

God Made Them Blind Richard Todd, Australia, 2008

GOD MADE THEM BLIND is an observational documentary about how Australian ceramicist, John Fawcett, is devoting his life to reducing the enormous number of cataract blind people in Indonesia, after...

  • 16:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

Play's the Thing: Machinima in the Gameworld UK, 2008

Games are now mainstream and the games industry outstrips film and TV in terms of size; more people play World of Warcraft on any given day than see a new blockbuster film on its first weekend,...

  • 18:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

Piano, Solo Riccardo Milani, Italy, 2007

PIANO, SOLO is based on the heartrending true story of the life of Italian jazz pianist Luca Flores. A tragic destiny awaits Luca on a road in Africa when, at a young age, he sees his mother die...

  • 20:15 @ Arts Picturehouse

The Man from London Béla Tarr, Germany, 2008

Criminally as yet unreleased in the UK, THE MAN FROM LONDON is the latest film by Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr. Concocting a rich dreamscape from a Belgium crime novel by Georges Simenon, Tarr enters...

  • 13:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

The Last of England & Aria (extracts) Derek Jarman, UK, 1988

Seen now, 20 years on, this fervent visual scream is perhaps best considered less a ‘state of the nation’ polemic than a take on the corrupted imagination of a country in spiralling decline....

  • 15:30 @ Arts Picturehouse

The Garden & A Piece of My Sky is Missing Derek Jarman, Davide Pepe, Germany, 1990

By the time he made this remarkable cine-poem to life, love and landscape, Jarman knew the score and had made some major choices. Prospect Cottage, his Dungeness dreamscape, offered the perfect...

  • 18:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

UK Shorts 3 James Cooper, Angus Gafraidh, Will Adams, Simon J Riley, Matthew Snyman, Pavel Prokopic, Marie Morgan, Anne Wilkins, Ru McArdle, Chiara Ambrosio, Sarah Bick, UK, 2008

Three eclectic programmes with contrasting themes and ideas. From the deep and meaningful questions about love, death and life in the playgound, to the more frivolous side of human nature. This...

  • 20:30 @ Arts Picturehouse

Pageant Ron Davis, Stewart Halpern, USA, 2008

For 34 years the Miss Gay America Pageant® has been the premier pageant system in the art of female impersonation. It is for male artists who create the female “illusion” – no hormones or...

  • 22:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

UK Shorts 2 Natalie Brady, Mark Gillespie, Richard Porter, Debs Gardner-Paterson, Tom Martin, James Malcom, UK, 2008

Three eclectic programmes with contrasting themes and ideas. From the deep and meaningful questions about love, death and life in the playgound, to the more frivolous side of human nature. This...

  • 18:00 @ The Junction

Heavy Metal in Baghdad Suroosh Alvi, Eddy Moretti, USA, 2007

HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD is a feature-length documentary that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day. Playing heavy metal in a...

  • 20:30 @ The Junction

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