The Daydreaming Archivist: Amateurs and Auteurs

Part of the The Daydreaming Archivist
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This final screening of the Daydreaming Archivist series is the culmination of the main programming interest of the project which is 'Amateurs and Auteurs'. Whilst looking through the archive we tried to watch as much local amateur filmmaking as possible and dig out from that the most interesting pieces. A selection of curious, talented pieces of works by non professionals who were making film just for pleasure solo or in film clubs. The programme includes work from the inspirational Middlesbrough based Dentist TH Brown, whose representation in the archive is quite prolific. Also included is Upper Coquetdale Film Group with their incredible landscape photography and colours, it's enough to make Tarkovsky weep. We screen the opening segment of their long film 'Coquetdale Menader'.For those craving something more melodramatic we have also selected 'The Adventure of the Kiltoun Cup', made by Teesdale Cine Club, a local take on a Sherlock Holmes-esque thriller.Also screening in a preamble reception to the programme are new film commissions produced by Film Bee members Mat Fleming, Debbie Bower, Christo Wallers, Chris Bate & Sarah Bouttell. Working with existing films in the archive, Filmbee have created, adapted and combined bits and pieces into new works.
Other films in the The Daydreaming Archivist:

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Film: The Daydreaming Archivist: The Eccentric Selection (Various)
13 Apr 2011, 7:30 p.m.
The Daydreaming archivist is a series of selections from the Northern Regional Film and TV Archive made by Film Bee collective. In this 2nd archive screening we explore the amazing ephemera that we could not make fit a theme. Commercials, Community and Amateur film and Television News sit side by side like siblings in a bathtub sharing a strain of humour, insight and the benefit of hindsight. These are unique artifacts you will almost certianly never have the opportunity to see again.

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Film: The Daydreaming Archivist: Protest, Police And The Social Contract (Various)
25 May 2011, 7:30 p.m.
We present a series of films from the Northern Regional Film and Television Archive which look at the social contract in relation to protest from various points of view: local news, police instruction films, amateur film and the seminal World In Action program about the 1968 Grosvenor Square Riots.