Film Screenings
Two Coastlines
Wed 16 Sep 8pm : Film ScreeningsThese captivating documentaries explore two artist’s relationships with two very different parts of UK coastline.
Grant Gee introduces: The Western Lands: ‘Hoy’
Grant Gee | UK | 2007 | 9mins.
The Western Lands: Hoy features acclaimed writer Jim Perrin’s attempted climb of the Old Man of Hoy on his 60th birthday. A meditation on landscape and mortality, on climbing up and climbing out. A poetic documentary of love, loss and landscape under the dying of the light.
“West is a landscape of loss. West is where the light dies” —Jim Perrin
Mark French introduces: The Catch.
Mark French, UK. 2009, 18mins
A biographical film of the paintings by Laetitia Yhap, revealing the hidden world of the local fishermen. With unprecedented access to the life of the Stade, this film documents the changing story of this ancient way of living as it faces the modern world. It features an in depth interview with this nationally collected artist as she looks back upon her life in Hastings.
Preceeded by two shorts:
The Downfall of MightyMan
Rebecca Marshall, UK, 2009, 4mins
Filmed on The Stade beach, Hastings – this is the fictional story of a small girl and a strongman, an extraordinary tale of mind over muscle.
Summer Breeze
Richard Heslop, UK 2007, 8mins
One day in the life of the fishing beach and Hastings seafront filmed over one day.
The Holy Mountain
Wed 23 Sept 8pm : Film ScreeningsPG, Arnold Fanck, 1926 106 mins, Germany Subtitles
Fanck braved treacherous conditions in the Alps to capture their stunning beauty along with breathtaking action in this silent film.
Open-air Preview Screening / film installation of the old St Leonards Bathing Pool
Sat 26 Sept : Film ScreeningsA newly commissioned film featuring archive footage of this disused historic pool in St Leonards.
This project has been enabled by Screen South and the UK Film Council’s Digital Film Archive Fund Supported by the National Lottery.
See the website for details to be confirmed.
Encounters at the End of the World
Wed 30 Sept 8pm : Film ScreeningsU, Werner Herzog, 2007 101 mins, USA A visually stunning exploration of the raw beauty of a land of fire, ice and corrosive solitude.
