Film Screenings
Air to Earth by Project Art Works
5 - 26 Sept 1am - 5pm Weds - Sun : Events & Performances, Exhibitions, Film ScreeningsProject Art Works Curates: Air to Earth for Shot by the Sea Film Festival
Site 2 – For further information see Shot by the Sea information on p20.
Film – ‘Ah Liberty’, Ben Rivers . The films of Ben Rivers are rich, cinematic portraits that explore wilderness environments and self-contained worlds, representing memory through visual fragments. Primarily shot on 16mm black and white film, sometimes on out-of-date stock, Rivers’ work has the appearance of ageing, archival footage…………’. Isla Leaver-Yap. Installation – Back Woods, Jim Roseveare.
Hastings Film Challenge- Screening
4 Sept : Events & Performances, Film ScreeningsIn its 4th year, The Hastings Film Challenge is an exciting opportunity for anyone to make a short 3 min film against the clock in an atmosphere of fun, creativity and good-hearted competition. As well as the general public, we target schools & colleges, with the objective of promoting creativity, education, inclusion and community via the world of film-making.
The challenge encourages the production of broadcast quality media through four 2hr workshops; the Edit Clinic at UCH will be available throughout the event. The Film Challenge culminates in a public screening of all completed films with awards.
International Film Screening Night
Sun 30 Aug 7.30pm : Film ScreeningsAn inspirational night of moving image work featuring selected local, national and international artists. The event will provide a platform for both the emerging and established artist. Featured artists include; Nathan Burr – Video Piracy, Mat Macdonnell, Pipilotti Rist, Roman Signer, Christelle Mally – Butterflies, Peter Downsbrough – A] PART 2009 and a selection from Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels; Pascal Baes – Tokyo – Picnic 1999, Michel François – Autoportrait contre nature 2001, Florian Gwinner – Das Modell 2006, and Robert Suermondt – Histoires de Terre 2000
Shot by the Sea opening- In The City of Sylvia
Fri 4 Sept (opening) & Sun 6 Sept 8pm : Film ScreeningsJosé Luis Guerin, 2007 84mins, Spain
Subtitles
A boy searching for a girl, Guerin nimbly brings movie making back to its early pleasures in this masterful film.
“This is perfection… utterly transfixing, and it cuts to the heart of what cinema is all about.” THE TIMES
Modern Life
Sat 5 Sept 8pm : Film ScreeningsPG, Raymond Depardon 87mins,
2008, France, Subtitles
With introduction and live readings by poet Nicholas Johnson of Etruscan Press and Short Film: ‘PHILIP’
With a warm irreverent eye Depardon presents a rural community and the legacies that bind them to land and family.
Shot by the Sea Projection Space Live
Wed 9 Sept 8pm : Film ScreeningsJoin us for this entertaining and lively quarterly event featuring award winning guest filmmaker GXJacques.
La Strada
Thur 10 Sept 8pm : Film ScreeningsPG, Frederico Fellini, 108 mins, 1954, Italy, Subtitles
La Strada, “the road,” tells the story of a simple-minded peasant girl who is sold to a brutal circus strongman.
Andrew Kötting Introduces ‘Landscape as more than Scenery’
Fri 11 Sep 8pm : Film ScreeningsFilmmaker Andrew Kotting introduces the work of artists and film-makers who have been inspired by the great outdoors to make work in beguiling and exhilarating ways.
Niagara
Sat 12 Sept 8pm : Film ScreeningsPG, Henry Hathaway, 92 mins, 1953, USA
Marilyn Monroe and Niagara are raging torrents of emotion that even nature can’t control…
Iain Sinclair Introduces: Marine Court Rendez-Vous
Sun 13 Sept 8pm : Film ScreeningsUnrated, Iain Sinclair & Chris Petit, 30 mins, 2008, UK
Iain Sinclair introduces his film installation set at the Marine Court building, a pre-war construction on the Hastings seafront.
