https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/2007/03/feed/Star And Shadow Events 2007-03-01 to 2007-03-31en-gbSat, 15 Sep 2018 22:30:26 -0000https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/286This is a kind of mockumentary, but in a totally real situation.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/286https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/291Premier of this short film, made by and about asylum seekers living in Newcastle - with N.E.R.S.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/291https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/280Renoir Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill tickethttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/280https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/276Renoir Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill tickethttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/276https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/270Magic Sticky Hand Premierehttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/270https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/264+ Paper Cut Outhttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/264https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/52Iraqi filmmakers share their world; a vision of life in Baghdad post Saddam Hussein.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/52https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/61Accompanying instrumental by Steve Malley and Joanne Burke.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/61https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/64Maya 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.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/64https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/46Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill tickethttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/46https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/305Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill tickethttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/305https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/217Screenplay by Maya Deren, Music by Teiji Ito, Cast: Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, Black & White. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/217https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/235Cast: John Cage, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, Black & White. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/235https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/228Cast: Talley Beatty, Black & White, Silent https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/228https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/250Cast: Rita Christiani & Maya Deren, Black & White, Silent https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/250https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/242Music by Teiji Ito, Cast: Chao Li Chi https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/242https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/261Assistant Director: Harrison Starr III, Music by Teiji Ito, Screenplay by Maya Derenhttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/261https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/254Cast: Marcel Duchamp, Black & White (incomplete) https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/254https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/271Colour, Silent https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/271https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/265Original footage shot by Deren (1947-1954). Reconstruction by Teiji & Cherel Ito.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/265https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/141Marcel Carné Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill tickethttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/141https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/127Marcel Carné Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill tickethttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/127https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/135Pepe 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?https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/135https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/122An 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-eightieshttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/122https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/117How 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. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/117https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/97When 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.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/97https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/299Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill tickethttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/299https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/104Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill tickethttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/104https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/301This 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.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/301https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/295Alexandria 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.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/295https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/309World-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.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/309https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/gig/78Tickets £6 / £4https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/gig/78https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/gig/34 White Magic (Drag City) + Booger Red and the Happy Accidents + Sleepy Doug Shaw + Beth Jeans Houghton https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/gig/34https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/gig/80Raccoo-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. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/gig/80https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/gig/90Black Sun Press Present "Daniel Higgs" plus supporthttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/gig/90https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/gig/35Tickets £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.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/gig/35https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/51Tickets £6 Adults, £4 Concessions, £2 Under 14shttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/51https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/45The 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.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/45https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/42Newcastle 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. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/42https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/2Experimental 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.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/2https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/3Live music from '27 club', '10th Avenue', 'Black Cab' and 'Carnival Band.' Delicious food, bar, raffle and films.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/3https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/4A half-day event built around the cultural urgency of independent and dissident filmhttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/4https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/27Tickets £5 https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/27https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/18Two sessions to introduce would-be volunteers to the ways of Star and Shadow.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/18https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/52An Hourly Ritual to Capture the Presence of Everybodyhttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/event/52https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/festival/26Tonight's event both highlights, celebrates and draws from the inspiring legacy of Maya Deren. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/festival/26https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/festival/117Raccoo-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. NoFi info@starandshadow.org.uk 0191 261 0066https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/festival/117https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/festival/102A 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. https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/festival/102https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/222Programming Meetinghttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/222https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/225General Meetinghttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/225https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/223Programming Meetinghttps://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/meeting/223