Av Festival 12: Whole Evening Of Films (Slow Cinema Wkend): 6pm - 11pm + Directors Q&A
Part of the Av Festival 12: As Slow As Possible
| Director: | Lav Diaz and Fred Kelemen |
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6pm-8.30pm: Nightfall (Dir. Fred Keleman)
9.30pm-11pm: Heremias Book II (Dir. Lav Diaz) (instead of the originally programmed Elegy to the Revolution - sorry for any inconvenience caused)
FILM 1: 6pm:
Nightfall (Dir. Fred Keleman, 1999, format: 35mm, length: 140min, Germany) + Q&A with the director
Kelemen’s third feature is a devastating, tender and sublime masterpiece. Expanding the location to Portugal integrates the Fado tradition of love and death ballads into this depiction of a single night in the lives of an estranged couple. Combining 35mm long-takes with video close-ups, the black depravity of the night surrounds them like a long sad song.
One of the boldest German filmmakers of the last 20-years, critic Susan Sontag compared Kelemen’s “urgently relevant” work to Sokurov and collaborator Tarr. He garnered attention for his 1990s trilogy – Fate, Frost and Nightfall. Believing in “time and not in speed”, meditations on human dissolution, cruelty and loneliness unfold at somnambulant pace. Set amongst Europe’s late-capitalist underclass of the unemployed and dispossessed, he captures nocturnal urban low-life with beauty.
Kelemen will present to introduce and discuss his work, in conversation with film critic Jonathan Romney (from the magazine Sight & Sound).
FILM 2: 9.30pm:
LAST MINUTE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME: Heremias Book II (Dir. Lav Diaz, 2008, Philipines) + Q&A with the director
INSTEAD OF ELEGY TO THE REVOLUTION (sorry for any inconvenience caused)
This striking film introduces one of Lav's principle characters, the timid yet resolute craftsman and vendor Heremias. The film cuts between the story of the boy Heremias growing up in isolation in a leprosy colony and the adult Heremias who return to the island of his childhood. As critic May Adadol Ingawanij has argued "Nowhere more powerfully than the closing minutes of Heremias Book II does cinema show how much it can do, with so little."
Diaz will be present for discussion with curator George Clark and critic May Adadol Ingawanij.
+ CINEMA OPEN AT 5PM + PIZZA!
The cinema will be open from 5pm, and we will be serving pizza from then and for the whole night, so come and have a drink and a pizza with us before the screenings!.
Part of AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible, www.avfestival.co.uk
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Other films in the Av Festival 12: As Slow As Possible:
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Film: Av Festival 12: Stalker (1979, Russia, Dir. Tarkovsky)
4 Mar 2012, 9 p.m.
One of the most enigmatic films ever made about time, from the widely admired director Tarkovsky.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Five + Discussion (2003, Iran, Dir. Kiarostami)
7 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Radically minimalist film from the genius Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Frost (Start Of Slow Cinema Wkend) + Q&A (1997, Germany, Dir. Kelemen)
8 Mar 2012, 8:30 p.m.
Frost is a landmark European film, made on 16mm film by german director Fred Kelemen.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Whole Day Of Films (Slow Cinema Wkend): 11am - 11pm + Directors Q&A
10 Mar 2012, 11 a.m.
Gorgeous film from British superstar Ben Rivers + 10 hour film from Phillipino director Lav Diaz!
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Film: Av Festival 12: Whole Day Of Films (Slow Cinema Wkend): 11am - 11pm + Directors Q&A
11 Mar 2012, 11 a.m.
Latest film from the incredible British artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers - NOT TO MISS!! Followed by film epic from Lav Diaz.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Colossal Youth + Discussion With Samm Haillay (2006, Portugal, Dir. Pedro Costa)
14 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
An intimate epic, where present and past move as one, collaboratively filmed with patience and empathy.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Honor Of The Knights + Intro From Film Lecturer (2006, Spain, Dir. A. Serra)
15 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Serra’s striking, controversial adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, is a revelatory portrait of the relationship between the frail Quixote and his stout loyal scribe Sancho.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Finisterrae + Skype Q&A W. Director! (2010)
18 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Two Russian-speaking ghosts leave the Sonar Music Festival, along the pilgrim path to Santiago de Compostela then on to Finisterre: the end of the world, to seek rebirth. Inspired by Garrel’s 1972 film The Inner Scar, this surreal and humorous tale is Caballero’s first feature, with a stunning soundtrack including Nico and Suicide.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours + Discussion (2011, Thailand)
21 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
This debut feature by visual artist Tiravanija is a portrait of the slow passage of time and simplicity of everyday life in a small village near Chiang Mai. The artist follows old uncle Lung Neaw with a 16mm camera during his daily routines. With compassion and humility, we see him walk, talk, eat, pray, cook, hunt, smoke, drink and visit his neighbours.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Still Life (2006)
22 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Still Life is set in Fengjie, 150 miles from the Three Gorges Dam, the hydroelectric project on the Yangtze River that submerged thousands of towns and displaced more than a million people. Shot while Fengjie was being demolished, the film has a powerful documentary impact, as two people travel there separately to look for their missing spouses.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Eternity + Discussion (2010)
25 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
This debut feature won the prestigious Tiger Award at Rotterdam 2011. Evoking the traditional Thai belief that the spirit of the dead returns, Eternity follows a man through three stages of being - as a ghost in his childhood home, as a young man falling in love, and absent in the life of his family in the days following his death.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Double Bill: Butterflies Have No Memories + Independencia
28 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Special double bill!
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Film: Av Festival 12: Let Each One Go Where He May (2009)
29 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Russell’s stunning feature debut is an epic road movie drawing from documentary and ethnography. Set in Suriname and shot almost entirely with 16mm steadicam, in thirteen extended ten-minute shots it follows two brothers as they trek from Paramaribo to rainforest villages of the Maroons. Their journey powerfully mirrors that undertaken by their ancestors escape from slavery 300 years earlier.