Monday 03 Mar To Sunday 09 Mar 2014
03
Meeting: General Meeting
3 Mar 2014, 6 p.m.
04
Event: Conversation Group
4 Mar 2014, 4 p.m.
Informal weekly English language conversation practice to meet people and learn language skills. Open to people with any or no level of experience. The group aims to be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. New volunteers and members very welcome!
04
Film: Av Festival 14: Double Bill - Coal Money/Man With No Name
4 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
A double bill of films by Wang Bing. Coal Money follows a convoy of coal trucks encountering roadside criminals and corrupt policemen. Man with No Name shows man reduced to his most rudimentary elements living in an underground cave.
05
No Events Scheduled
5 Mar 2014
06
Film: Av Festival 14: Schuss!
6 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Nicolas Rey's 16mm film powerfully recalls two phases of industrial history in the French mountains, the white gold of aluminium in the 1960s and its subsequent replacement by ski resort tourism.
07
Event: A Bit Crack - Storytelling Meets Theatre
7 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Fern Smith in Doin’ Dirt Time - a provocative performance questioning the role of the artist in society and what role does art have in a time of change. Created by Emergence.
08
Film: Av Festival 14: Palacios De Pena (Palaces Of Pity) + Q&A
8 Mar 2014, 11:30 a.m.
In a parable on guilt and oppression, which alludes to aspects of Portuguese colonial history, two cousins are potential heirs to their grandmother’s fortune. This artist-filmmaker is present to discuss his approach to postcolonial cinema. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
08
Film: Av Festival 14: Spectres + Q&A
8 Mar 2014, 2 p.m.
Spectres plunges us into one of the blackest days of the Belgian Congo’s decolonisation. The artist follows a top-ranking Belgian civil servant recalling the assassination of Prime Minister Lumumba. Sven Augustijnen is present to discuss the film. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
08
Film: Av Festival 14: It For Others /Les Statues Meurent Aussi + Q&A
8 Mar 2014, 5 p.m.
Duncan Campbell has taken Marker and Resnais’ 1953 film Les Statues meurent aussi (Statues also Die) as both source and artefact, to pursue a meditation on the life, death and value of objects. The artist is present to discuss the work. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
08
Film: Av Festival 14: Images Of The East, Barbaric Tourism + Q&A
8 Mar 2014, 9 p.m.
AV Festival is delighted to welcome filmmakers Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi in person. This film uses footage shot in India by tourists in the 1920s to illustrate the elitist attitudes of Westerners toward the Far East. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
09
Film: Av Festival 14: A History Of Mutual Respect, Liberdade, Ornithes + Q&A
9 Mar 2014, 11 a.m.
Three short films by Gabriel Abrantes, focus on the new identities and relations forged through globalisation. Each was shot in a postcolonial context in Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Angola and Haiti, and will be introduced by the filmmaker. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
09
Film: Av Festival 14: Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc With Will Rose: Africa Addio
9 Mar 2014, 2 p.m.
Having caused considerable controversy upon its release, Africa Addio is presented here as an illustrated screening by artist Mathieu Kleyebe Abbonenc and curator Will Rose, to consider the social and political implications of watching and showing such a film. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
09
Event: Canny Little Library
9 Mar 2014, 3 p.m.
Books & magazines, free to browse & borrow. Come & discover the amazing collection! Stock focuses on more political, radical, thought-provoking, action-inspiring & critical titles than other libraries.
09
Film: Av Festival 14: Electric Fragments Nos. 4, 5: Asia-Africa + Q&A
9 Mar 2014, 5:30 p.m.
The filmmakers Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi are present in person at the screening. Electric Fragments consists of archival material from the 1970s revealing social problems in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Burma, Indonesia, Dahomey, Ivory Coast, and Senegal. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.
09
Film: Av Festival 14: From The Pole To The Equator + Q&A
9 Mar 2014, 8:30 p.m.
The filmmakers will discuss their landmark work from 1986, which re-defined the documentary form. This film is drawn from the 1910 archives of Luca Comerio, a pioneering Italian documentary filmmaker who photographed ‘exotic’ peoples from the North Pole to the Equator. Part of Postcolonial Cinema Weekend.