March 2007

01 Film: Offside (2006)

1 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

This is a kind of mockumentary, but in a totally real situation.

01 Film: Meet Me (2007)

1 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Premier of this short film, made by and about asylum seekers living in Newcastle - with N.E.R.S.

02 Event: A Bit Crack: Open Evening

2 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets £6 Adults, £4 Concessions, £2 Under 14s

03 Gig: A Better Noise

3 Mar 2007, 8 p.m.

Tickets £6 / £4

04 Film: Partie De Campagne (1936)

4 Mar 2007, 5:30 p.m.

Renoir Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill ticket

04 Film: La Grande Illusion (1937)

4 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Renoir Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill ticket

05 Gig: The Butterfly Cabinet Presents:

5 Mar 2007, 8 p.m.

White Magic (Drag City) + Booger Red and the Happy Accidents + Sleepy Doug Shaw + Beth Jeans Houghton

06 Film: Heroin

6 Mar 2007, 7 p.m.

Magic Sticky Hand Premiere

06 Film: Skate Night - Rising Son, The Legend Of

6 Mar 2007, 8 p.m.

+ Paper Cut Out

07 Event: Projectile Planning

7 Mar 2007, 6 p.m.

The Projectile Collective is made up of anarchists organising the third festival of anarchist film and culture at the Cinema. We gather on the first Wednesday of the month at 6pm to work, watch, eat and meet together. Anarchists are welcome to join us.

07 Event: Green Festival Agm

7 Mar 2007, 6:30 p.m.

Newcastle Community Green Festival AGM - Come along and hear about plans for this year's festival in June. New volunteers very welcome. Snacks and music to follow.

07 Film: Dreams Of Sparrows (2005)

7 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Iraqi filmmakers share their world; a vision of life in Baghdad post Saddam Hussein.

08 Event: Lets Get Physical Rarefaction Dance Film Night

8 Mar 2007, 6 p.m.

Experimental dance film works from North East based artists featuring the premiere of 'Self Placed' by Wendy Erickson, also live dance performance by Mother and Sound duo Chikon.

08 Festival: Special Event: Mirrors Of Maya

8 Mar 2007, 6 p.m.

Tonight's event both highlights, celebrates and draws from the inspiring legacy of Maya Deren.

08 Film: Meshes Of The Afternoon (1943)

8 Mar 2007, 8 p.m.

Accompanying instrumental by Steve Malley and Joanne Burke.

08 Film: In The Mirror Of Maya Deren (2001)

8 Mar 2007, 8 p.m.

Maya Deren is one of the most important avant-garde filmmakers in the history of American cinema. In this feature-length documentary about Deren's life and art, filmmaker Martina Kudlacek weaves together archival footage and contemporary interviews with Deren's collaborators and friends to present a portrait of a female artist possessed with glorious vision.

09 Event: Benefit Night In Support Of Ndanifor Community Garden Project, Cameroon

9 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Live music from '27 club', '10th Avenue', 'Black Cab' and 'Carnival Band.' Delicious food, bar, raffle and films.

10 Event: "With Not For" - Independent Media Conference

10 Mar 2007, midnight

A half-day event built around the cultural urgency of independent and dissident film

10 Gig: No-Fi Present: Racoo-Oo-Oon

10 Mar 2007, 8 p.m.

Raccoo-oo-oon, a US four-piece described by Volcanic Tongue as "somewhere between New Wave Fall-style bubblegum estates, bent Butthole Surfers-esque acid-jam mania and spaced American Primitive imaginings a la Jim O'Rourke circa Eureka", and with a new album out on Troubleman around the time of this show. Something tells us they're in for a good year. In support we have Last Of The Real Hardmen, the solo forays of Chris Summerlin (from Nottingham's magnificent Lords). 2006 saw Chris release his '10,000 Miles' album to much acclaim, and he's since added Patrick Farmer (The Good Anna, Designer Babies) on drums - expect spaced-out primitive guitar journeys and strung-out waster blues.

10 Festival: No-Fi Present: Racoo-Oo-Oon

10 Mar 2007, 8 p.m.

11 Film: La Grande Illusion (1937)

11 Mar 2007, 5 p.m.

Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill ticket

11 Film: Le Jour Se Leve (1939)

11 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill ticket

12 Meeting: Programming Meeting

12 Mar 2007, 6 p.m.

13 No Events Scheduled

13 Mar 2007

14 Gig: Black Sun Press Present "Daniel Higgs" Plus Support

14 Mar 2007, midnight

Black Sun Press Present "Daniel Higgs" plus support

15 Film: Meshes Of The Afternoon

15 Mar 2007, 7 p.m.

Screenplay by Maya Deren, Music by Teiji Ito, Cast: Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, Black & White.

15 Festival: Special Event: Mirrors Of Maya - Maya Deren Retrospective 1943 To 1958

15 Mar 2007, 7 p.m.

A rare chance to see an in-depth collection of Maya Deren films. Often called the mother of American experimental film, Maya Deren was also an accomplished anthropologist, photographer, journalist and dancer. Her experimental films will haunt and amaze.

15 Film: At Land (1944)

15 Mar 2007, 7:15 p.m.

Cast: John Cage, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, Black & White.

15 Film: A Study In Choreography For The Camera (1945)

15 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Cast: Talley Beatty, Black & White, Silent

15 Film: Ritual In Transfigured Time (1946)

15 Mar 2007, 7:35 p.m.

Cast: Rita Christiani & Maya Deren, Black & White, Silent

15 Film: Meditation On Violence (1948)

15 Mar 2007, 7:50 p.m.

Music by Teiji Ito, Cast: Chao Li Chi

15 Film: The Very Eye Of Night (1958)

15 Mar 2007, 8:10 p.m.

Assistant Director: Harrison Starr III, Music by Teiji Ito, Screenplay by Maya Deren

15 Film: Witch's Cradle (1943)

15 Mar 2007, 9 p.m.

Cast: Marcel Duchamp, Black & White (incomplete)

15 Film: Water For Maya (2000)

15 Mar 2007, 9:15 p.m.

Colour, Silent

15 Film: Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods Of Haiti (1985)

15 Mar 2007, 9:25 p.m.

Original footage shot by Deren (1947-1954). Reconstruction by Teiji & Cherel Ito.

16 No Events Scheduled

16 Mar 2007

17 Event: Masked Ball

17 Mar 2007, midnight

Tickets £5

18 Film: Le Jour Se Leve (1939)

18 Mar 2007, 5:30 p.m.

Marcel Carné Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill ticket

18 Film: Le Quai Des Brumes (1938)

18 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Marcel Carné Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill ticket

19 Meeting: General Meeting

19 Mar 2007, 6 p.m.

20 No Events Scheduled

20 Mar 2007

21 Film: Pépé Le Moko (1937)

21 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Pepe Le Moko might be why Film Noir got its French genre title, and conversely it was a kind of homage to American gangster flicks. Hanging out in the Casbah area of Algiers, Gabin plays a Machiavellian game with a detective keeping his eyes on the criminal. But is the beautiful dame Gabin has a crush on worth risking his freedom for?

22 Film: Live And Become (Va, Vis Et Deviens) (2005)

22 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

An epic story of love, survival and identity. A Christian mother forces her nine-year-old son to declare himself Jewish in order to be included in Operation Moses, the rescue mission staged by Israel to enable the Ethiopian Jewish community to escape the famine of the mid-eighties

23 Gig: Sketchy Munters

23 Mar 2007, 8 p.m.

Tickets £5 - Sketchy Munters Promotions presents their launch party - a night of festival techno and punk madness with the Pirates Of Punk (Newcastle), Straight Razor Angels (Leeds) Ant Gould (freaky dancing) + more DJs.

24 Event: Would You Like To Get More Involved With Star And Shadow?

24 Mar 2007, 11 a.m.

Two sessions to introduce would-be volunteers to the ways of Star and Shadow.

24 Film: Be Fruitful And Multiply (2005)

24 Mar 2007, 8 p.m.

How does it feel to have been pregnant or breastfeeding for 25 out of 26 years of your married life? This and other questions are posed openly in this film exposing the consequences of the commandment “Be fruitful and multiply” for religious Jewish women. The film offers a sensitive insight into the lives of women in ultra-orthodox society as it follows the stories of four women in Jerusalem and Brooklyn. Yentel is the key figure who turns from an obedient wife, internalising the strict social code of her society, into an independent woman who rebels against the traditional patriarchal society in which she lives.

24 Film: First Lesson In Peace (2005)

24 Mar 2007, 9:10 p.m.

When Michal, a 6 year old girl, is about to start school, Yoram Honig, her father, decides to write her a letter in the form of a film.

25 Film: Pépé Le Moko (1937)

25 Mar 2007, 5:30 p.m.

Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill ticket

25 Film: Le Quai Des Brumes (1938)

25 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill ticket

26 Meeting: Programming Meeting

26 Mar 2007, 6 p.m.

27 No Events Scheduled

27 Mar 2007

28 Film: The Power Of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

28 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

This powerful film, made with a team of experienced political documentors (inc. the director of 'The End to Suburbia') explores how Cuba responded to losing half its oil imports.

29 Film: Three Mothers (Shalosh Imahot) (2006)

29 Mar 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Alexandria 1942 - King Farouk arrives in person to bless baby triplets, daughters of a wealthy Egyptian-Jewish family. Sixty years later, the turbulent events of these sisters’ extraordinary lives have clouded their relationship with secrets and lies.

30 Event: Watch This Space!

30 Mar 2007, 7 p.m.

An Hourly Ritual to Capture the Presence of Everybody

31 Film: Knowledge Is The Beginning (2005)

31 Mar 2007, 9:15 p.m.

World-renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim and Palestinian writer Edward Said have generated controversy and admiration with the founding of their West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in 1999. This documentary follows a unique musical collaboration, dedicated to furthering the cause of peaceful coexistence in the Middle East, bringing together young musicians from both sides of the divide.