11th Nov 2016 - 27th Nov 2016
Sallis Benney Theatre
CINECITY The 14th Brighton Film Festival
Presented in partnership with the University of Brighton and Picturehouse Cinemas, the 14th edition of CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival starts on Friday, 11 November with a special preview of Ben Wheatley’s latest film FREE FIRE. View the film festival programme
Adventures in World Cinema
CINECITY presents the very best in world cinema with a global mix of premieres and previews, treasures from the archive, artists’ and live cinema, a showcase of films made in this city and a programme of talks and education events. The festival gives you first sight of highly anticipated titles ahead of release and highlights many others brought to Brighton from around the world for one-off screenings. Exploring the arts and culture, the ART DOCS strand is a selection of the very best, latest documentaries about the arts - and documentaries made by artist film-makers.
Events in Sallis Benney Theatre
15 November, 6pm-8.30pm
Masterclass on collage film making.
Collage (or found-footage) film-making, a practice in which material appropriated from pre-existing films is edited together to form new works, is very much on the rise in this, the era of online remix. But it also has a very long history, from the pioneering archive-film work of Soviet film-maker Esfir Shub, from the 1920s onwards, through to the film-history films of Jean-Luc Godard and beyond.
Two highly-esteemed artist/film-makers, Sarah Wood and Ruth Novaczek present and discuss their very different found-footage practice, including its theory and procedures.
Entry is FREE to staff and students of The University of Brighton and University of Sussex (ID required), otherwise £5 payable on the door. Booking.
22 November at 7.30pm
Fear Itself
Dir: Charlie Lyne UK 2015. 88 mins.
Fear Itself takes viewers on a personal journey through fear and cinema, and asks whether horror movies know us better than we know ourselves. Constructed entirely from existing films, it encourages viewers to interrogate a diverse range of images and sounds sampled from 100 years of cinema. See also Charlie Lyne's masterclass.
23 November
An evening of film and video screenings, installations and performances from staff and students of the BA (Hons) Moving Image course at the University of Brighton.
The course is a film and art degree that pushes the boundaries of experimentation in contemporary artists’ moving image practice. Works will be projected throughout the evening.
This is a free entry event. Supported by the School of Media, University of Brighton.
24 November
Shoot Shoot Shoot
London Film-Makers Co–op 50th Anniversary and Book Launch
The LFMC was founded in October 1966 as a non-commercial distributor and film laboratory for avant-garde cinema. Within this unique facility, film-makers were able to control every aspect of the creative process. Many explored the material aspects of celluloid, whilst others experimented with multiple projection and performance-based ‘expanded cinema’. This artist-led organisation asserted the significance of British work internationally, and anticipated today’s vibrant culture of artists’ moving image. This programme features 16mm film works by Malcolm Le Grice, Lis Rhodes, Jeff Keen, Guy Sherwin, Gill Eatherley, Annabel Nicolson and others, introduced by Mark Webber.
The book ‘Shoot Shoot Shoot: The First Decade of the London Film-Makers Co-operative 1966-76’ (LUX, 2016), edited by Mark Webber, has been published by LUX to celebrate the LFMC’s 50th anniversary, it brings together texts, interviews, images and a large number of archival documents in exploring the history of the early years of the organisation.
Entry is FREE to staff and students of The University of Brighton and University of Sussex (ID required), otherwise £5 payable on the door.
Cine-city events at other venues
