Av Festival 12: As Slow As Possible
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Films + Music exploring around the AV Festival theme "As Slow As Possible". The AV Festival runs between 1 and 31 March 2012.
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THE AV FESTIVAL AT THE STAR AND SHADOW CINEMA - HIGHLIGHTS
The Star and Shadow Cinema is very excited to be hosting music shows and films screenings as part of the AV festival, which has an incredibly interesting programme this year - we recommend you to go to as much of it as possible!
The programme can be divided into 3 parts: the music event, the slow cinema weekend (with artist films), and the slow cinema series.
The things we are MASSIVELY EXCITED about, and that we would strongly recommend you to come to, are:
- Ben Rivers' latest film, on Sun 11 March, 11am: TWO YEARS AT SEA (2011) + Q&A.
Ben Rivers is one of the most interesting visual artist around at the moment - his films are poetic, light, beautiful, simple, somewhere between dream, documentary and philosophical questions, and Ben Rivers is a really interesting guy. This is a very rare opportunity to talk to him in person, and we are very excited to screen his latest film - and we will show it on beautiful 35mm. Cannot wait.
- Screening of super cult classic Tarkovsky film STALKER on 4 March, 9pm!! This is a seminal film, one of the very important films in the history of cinema. Everyone still struggles to understand it, which only makes it more interesting. Special screening on 35mm! Lush.
- Screening of awesome absurd weird Spanish film about 2 ghosts travelling aimlessly on horse backs in the countryside: FINISTERRAE, Sunday 18 March, 7.30pm! + Skype Interview with the director after the film!!
- Screening of one of the most beautiful films ever: ETERNITY (Thailand) on Sun 25 March, 7.30pm
THE AV FESTIVAL AT THE STAR AND SHADOW CINEMA - FULL PROGRAMME
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MUSIC: 2 NIGHTS
>> THU 1 MARCH, MIDNIGHT: 24 HOUR PERFORMACE: 9 Beet Stretch
On Thu 1 March, at midnight (as in Thursday evening) we will be having the music performance 9 Beet Stretch, and it will last for 24 hours!
9 Beet Stretch is Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony stretched to 24 hours, with no pitch distortions by Oslo-based artist Leif Inge.
You can come and go, or stay the whole night and following day immersing in this epic and ethereal deep listening experience. Bring along your sleeping bags…
More info here.
>> SAT 24 MARCH, 9PM - 2.30AM: The Time Is Out Of Joint: Forest Swords, The Caretaker, Pye Corner Audio
Three live performances embrace the concept of Hauntology at the moment we skip an hour to mark the beginning of British Summertime.
Based on the idea that there are numerous unrealized futures deriving from past points in history, Hauntology makes us nostalgic for a future that never was.
Tickets £10, more info here http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/gig/420
FILMS: SLOW CINEMA WEEKEND (Thu 8 - Sun 11 March)
The films for that weekend would normally be classified as "artist" films - most of them have not been released in "classical" cinemas. What is very exciting about that weekend, is that the directors will be present for Q&As!
List in the boxes below.
FILMS: SLOW CINEMA WEEKLY SERIES (4 - 29 March)
We will be screening 10 films for the whole month, on the top of the programme above.
These will be awesome films!
List in the boxes below.
CINEMA OPENING TIMES + DISCUSSIONS + PIZZA!
For all the films, the cinema will be open at least one hour before the screening, so you can come early and have a drink! Check the page for each film for more detail.
We will be holding discussions with most films: either with directors, film lecturers or film programmers. A big part of the pleasure of watching films is to talk about them, so we thought we should take advantage of this amazing film programme to have discussions!
Also, for many of the screenings, we will have food available - pizza and other things, so check each screening's page for more detail!
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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 Evening Of Films (Slow Cinema Wkend): 6pm - 11pm + Directors Q&A
9 Mar 2012, 6 p.m.
Masterpiece from German filmmaker Fred Kelemen + incredible from "the ideological father of the New Philippine Cinema".
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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.