February 2007

01 Film: Touki Bouki (1973)

1 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

The first screening for the Cinema of the World club!

02 Event: A Bit Crack

2 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Dark Stars and Bright Shadows: Tales of Transformation. £6/4 conc.

03 Festival: Polytechnic - Grow Your Own Media Lab . Talk & Workshop

3 Feb 2007, 1 p.m.

Steve Symons (Manchester, UK) and Matt Gray (Sheffield, UK) - muio workshop with Steve Symons: 1pm - 2.30 pm. - Presentations by Matt Gray & Steve Symons: 3 - 5 pm. Artist Steve Symons and Matt Gray present the work they have developed as part of the Polytechnics Grow Your Own Media Lab residencies. Grow Your Own Media Lab is a project to develop creative, open access IT centres across the UK, twinning the latest free software with locally recycled computers. Original workshops were held in collaboration with the AV06 Festival in March 06 with Steve and Matt in Washington, Sunderland & Throckley, Newcastle. Dominic Smith dominic at ptechnic dot org

03 Gig: Datarama

3 Feb 2007, 7 p.m.

Grow your own media lab will be followed by a DATARAMA, a democratic data event.

04 Film: Mildred Pierce (1945)

4 Feb 2007, 3 p.m.

Joan Crawford is at her best in this classic melodrama. A hard-working, long-suffering, devoted mother makes ultimate sacrifices in life, business, freedom and love for her unpleasant, spoilt daughter.

05 Meeting: General Meeting

5 Feb 2007, 6 p.m.

05 Gig: Performance Postponed -The Wooden Wand & Sky High Band

5 Feb 2007, 8 p.m.

PLEASE NOTE: The Wooden Wand & Sky High Band performance at Star & Shadow has been postponed, pending the rescheduled tour of the UK. As soon as new dates are confirmed, we will post them.

05 Festival: Performance Postponed -The Wooden Wand & Sky High Band

5 Feb 2007, 8 p.m.

PLEASE NOTE: The Wooden Wand & Sky High Band performance at Star & Shadow has been postponed, pending the rescheduled tour of the UK. As soon as new dates are confirmed, we will post them. Butterfly Cabinet

06 Film: Hexen 2039 The Movie (2006)

6 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

New military-occult technologies for psychological warfare. A Rosalind Brodsky research programme.

07 Film: Learning From The Miners Strike (1984)

7 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Coal Not Dole: Miners Campaign Tapes

08 Film: Mildred Pierce (1945)

8 Feb 2007, 6 p.m.

08 Film: Stromboli (1950,)

8 Feb 2007, 8:10 p.m.

Our Italian Neo Realism Season continues with this classic from Rosselini.

09 Film: Presenting Filmmakers: Guy Sherwin (1970'S-Present Day)

9 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

For the first in our series of 'Presenting Filmmakers' we have the great privelege of hosting Guy Sherwin.

09 Film: Presenting Filmmakers: Guy Sherwin (1970-Present)

9 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

For the first in our series of 'Presenting Filmmakers' we have the great privelege of hosting Guy Sherwin.

10 Gig: No-Fi Present: Flower-Corsano Duo/ Patrick Farmer & Dominic Lash/ Matinee Orchestra

10 Feb 2007, 8 p.m.

No-Fi leading the field in experimental music: #5 in.

11 Film: Ninotchka (1939)

11 Feb 2007, 3 p.m.

'Garbo laughs…!' An icy Communist commissar's heart is melted by the luxury and romance of the Capitalist West (and a Count, of course!). Greta Garbo is wonderful in this comedy of ideologies clashing in Paris.

11 Film: Stromboli (1950)

11 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Our Italian Neo Realism Season continues with this classic from Rosselini.

12 No Events Scheduled

12 Feb 2007

13 Film: Single Shot (2006)

13 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Artist Video Compilation

14 Film: Xxx - Another History Of The Avant Garde (The Sixties, Yeah!)

14 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

A little bit of arty crumpet for Valentine's night - not the athena poster of the man holding the baby, but some psychadelic 16mm closeups of people getting it on, including macho bikers and bohemian couples.

15 Film: Vallavan (2006)

15 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Brand new Tamil film!

16 No Events Scheduled

16 Feb 2007

17 Film: Eyes Wide Open (Open Submission Night)

17 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Eyes Wide Open - This is the night for you to submit your films and for the audience to submit to the films you have submitted. They can of course vocalise their feelings because we run a participatory cinema, so heckling and shouts of approval are encouraged. If your film will slice across the audiences eyes like Un Chien Andalou, or make eyes close through boredom or lack of endurance, we the anti-seletors donmt care, because as long as the film is shorter than 15mins we'll take it. On this first EWO at the Star and Shadow, watch out for opportunities to win FREE super 8 and 16mm film and processing. We encourage movie-maker's hollywood attempts and avant-garde ramblings, commonly known as Artist's Film and Video. (£3, free for film makers)

18 Film: The Old Maid (1939)

18 Feb 2007, 3 p.m.

A ‘soapy’ piece of melodrama full of sacrifice, deception and emotion. Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins star in this weepy “irresistable tosh”. The original play, based on an Edith Wharton novel, won the Pulitzer Prize.

18 Film: I Vitelloni (1953)

18 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

The grandfather of 'slacker' movies,(rough trans. 'The Guys') I Vitelloni (rough trans. 'The Guys') look at their elders, see the sterile results of lives rendered bereft by tradition and "sacrifice", and naturally rebel, searching in easy hedonism for the happiness that has eluded their parents. Fellini's semi-autobiographical, second feature, shares many of the neo-realist traits of his peers, but plays tricks with them too. A bit of a forgotten masterpiece.

19 No Events Scheduled

19 Feb 2007

20 No Events Scheduled

20 Feb 2007

21 Film: Bata-Ville (2005)

21 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

We are not afraid of the future

22 Film: I Vitelloni (1953)

22 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

23 Festival: Halloween Short Film Festival On Tour

23 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Star and Shadow welcomes HSFF, hot from their 4th annual stint at the ICA, Curzon Soho and Roxy cinemas in London, charging the filmscene with the rallying cry “Death to Short Film”. Highlights will include a retrospective of rising stars the Blaine Brothers (Free Speech, Hallo Panda), along with screenings offering the best in new shorts, from lo-budget gems, female fronted dramas, stunning cinematography, experimental forays, messy romances and a special late night programme of weird shit. Plus live music in the bar and DJ-ing shenanigans. www.shortfilms.org.uk www.myspace.com/halloweenshortfilmfestival3 Ilana Mitchell info@starandshadow.org.uk

23 Festival: Halloween Short Film Festival On Tour

23 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

24 No Events Scheduled

24 Feb 2007

25 Film: Arsenic And Old Lace (1944)

25 Feb 2007, 3 p.m.

Two sweet old spinster sisters have a habit of 'helping' afflicted old gentlemen. This marvellous black comedy sees Cary Grant returning home with his new bride to discover the insanities of his family.

25 Film: Touki Bouki (1973)

25 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Repeat screening! Young lovers, Mory and Anta, dream of Paris and an escape from the dead-end clutches of Dakar, Senegal. Only when that dream becomes a tantalising reality do they realise that in pursuing their dream, a sacrifice must be made - a sacrifice far greater than either were expecting.

26 No Events Scheduled

26 Feb 2007

27 Festival: Solito - David Beech, Art Preview

27 Feb 2007, 7 p.m.

David Beech takes a formalistic approach towards re-presenting and suggesting ideas about the organic self residing in the architectural environment. A series of sculptures utilising dress making, d.i.y, and basic upholstery techniques in the process of the making will be on view. Exhibition runs through March. Star and Shadow

28 Film: The Coconut Revolution (2001)

28 Feb 2007, 7:30 p.m.

The people of Bougainville, a small island in the Pacific, have a remarkable story of resistance to armed attack from the Papua New Guinea Army and exploitation from mining companies. Their weapons? Coconuts of course! followed by a forum on what political films to show in the future at the Star & Shadow. If you have an idea or an opinion, come along.