June 2005
 Abbas Kiarostami: Forest Without Leaves
Adieu Derrida
Broadcast Production Show
Filmstock
Close-Up Student Film Festival
Short Film Week at Cafe Lumiere
OVFM Presents Screen Night
Raindance Open Day
Sembene Seminar: Breaking the Silence
Pocketvisions Presents WASP
Future Cinema @ Too 2 Much
Gene Wilder in Conversation
New Producer's Alliance Post Cannes Drinks
Antonioni Shorts
Take 291
Semi-Permanent
Raindance: Write and Sell the Hot Script with Elliot Grove
Institute of Psychoanalysis: Jagged Edge
500 Years Later
Future Shorts Brighton
Shortwave @ 93 Feet East
Dochouse Presents: International Premiere Award
Raindance 2 Film School
Keep it Reel Short Film Screenings
Dance Screen Brighton
ScriptWriter Magazine Masterclass
Animation: The State of Living
Screen South Information Day
Forever Godard
Raindance Lo-to-No Budget Filmmaking
Raindance Surviving Development Hell
Uncut
Visualising the City
Future Shorts Brighton
Old and New Dreams
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: FOREST WITHOUT LEAVES - 3 May - 5 June
Victoria & Albert Museum
Admission free
Abbas Kiarostami will transform one of the V&A's galleries into a three dimensional forest of trees, made up of huge hollow tubes completely covered by life size photographs of bark. The installation is part of long term investigation by Kiarostami into the way we see our surroundings. He believes that we have become accustomed to only look at the detail in nature once it has been framed and placed in a museum environment. Through this installation he persuades the viewer to take a closer look at the world around them.
Organised by The Iran Heritage Foundation, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
ADIEU DERRIDA - 6 May to 18 June
Adieu Derrida is a series of lectures in commemoration of Jacques Derrida , organised jointly by the Institut français and the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Birkbeck College . Jacques Derrida , who died last October, was arguably the most famous and influential French philosopher of our time. Over the next two months, some of the greatest contemporary thinkers will come together to celebrate his work and consider the role of the public intellectual in the world today.
Among the participants are four leading French philosophers, Jean-Luc Nancy (6 May), Jacques Rancière (11 May), Etienne Balibar (3 June) and Alain Badiou (10 June).
In addition to the lectures, two documentaries on Derrida will be screened at Ciné lumière on Friday 27 May ( Derrida by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman) and on Friday 18 June ( Ghost Dance by Kenneth McCullen).
Institut français and Birbeck College
Reserv. & info: office@fac-arts.bbk.ac.uk , T. 020 7631 6794
www.bbk.ac.uk
RAINDANCE @ THE BROADCAST PRODUCTION SHOW - 1 to 3 June
Earls Court
The Broadcast Production Show is the big trade show for the broadcast and production industry.
This the UK 's only exhibition covering everything from pre-pro to play-out. Over 250 major brands exhibiting including Sony UK, Apple Solutions, Experts, ntl:broadcast and hundreds more
Be first to see all the latest cameras, editing systems and new technology straight from NAB.
Better still they offer hundreds of free expert workshops, live demonstrations and hands-on sessions, straight from the horse's mouth.
Register for you FREE Ticket at: www.broadcastproductionshow.com
Filmstock - 1st June to 15th June
Location: 07980 627494 - The Hat Factory, 65-67 Bute Street, Luton, LU1 2EY, East England
Contact: Neil Fox & Justin Doherty, contact@filmstock.co.uk , 01582 752908, www.filmstock.co.uk
Two weeks of serious global independent cinema at a festival with a rapidly growing formidable reputation.
CLOSE-UP STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL - 3 to 5 June
Canterbury , Kent
A showcase and awards for the best in student filmmaking, from drama and comedy, to documentary, animation and experimental.
Filmmaking workshops, guest speakers, careers advice and networking.
Further Information
SHORT FILM WEEK AT CINE LUMIERE - 3 to 9 June
For the third year running, Ciné lumière is screening a series of short film programmes in collaboration with the Clermont-Ferrand Festival. The week-long festival includes four programmes from Clermont-Ferrand (the Kid's, French, International and Lab sections) and samplers from three other festivals: Brief Encounters, Leeds and Angers . The evening of Wed 8 June, organised in collaboration with the Association Braquage, is devoted to experimental shorts. All in all, then, Short Film Week offers an inspiring array of new shorts from around the globe, and represents an exciting opportunity to discover innovative films and cutting-edge talent.
For detailled programme and information about the films, please visit: www.institut-francais.org.uk/shortfilm/postcardlien.pdfCiné lumière at the Institut français
17 Queensberry Place , London SW7 2DT
T. 020 7073 1350
www.institut-francais.org.uk
OFVM Presents SCREEN NIGHT - 5th June
An evening of new film and video shorts.
The Pegasus Theatre, Magdalen Road , Oxford . Sunday 5th June, doors open
7pm, lights down 7.30pm. Entry £3.00.
Tickets can be booked online ( www.pegasustheatre.org.uk),or in person at
the Pegasus Theatre box office, by phone (01865 722851 - 10am to 1pm) or
pay on the door (if not sold out).
SCREEN NIGHT showcases new work from courses at OFVM as well as new films
and digital creations by local independent film makers.
The jam packed bill includes over 20 shorts including diverse documentary,
drama as well as experimental work.
So if you have done a course at OFVM since October 2004 then the public
premiere of you production will be on this evening.
So put this date in your diary - not to be missed!
A full list of programmes will follow soon.
If you need any further information please contact Gary Shenton on
production@ofvm.org
OFVM (oxford film & video makers)
Centre for Film + Digital Media
54 Catherine St
Oxford
OX4 3AH
01865 792731
01865 792732
Web: www.ofvm.org
Course and general enquiries to office@ofvm.org
Production info production@ofvm.org
To join our emailing list send a blank email to:
ofvm_coursesandevents-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
(Web based email users cut and paste above address into your browser)
Charity no: 1041014
Supported by Oxford City Council,
Screen South & Oxfordshire County Council
In Partnership with Abingdon & Witney College
RAINDANCE OPEN DAY - 7 June
6pm-late
Ruby Blue 1 Leicester Place, Leicester Square , London W1.
FREE
Every three months, we host an informal Open Day showcasing every aspect of Raindance from our training courses to our festivals to The British Independent Film Awards. We want to give you the opportunity to have a taste of what's on offer - meet the faces behind the scenes and find out what we're really all about.
We will be providing careers guidance and one to one advice on courses and all aspects of the film industry. There will also be trouble shooting session with Raindance tutors, and screenings of some of our much talked about Nokia Shorts.
All attendees will benefit from discounts on courses, festival entry and parties.
So come along, have a drink and a chat and get into the 2005 indie film swing. Email us at party@raindance.co.uk to have your name added to the guest list.
For more details please contact 0207 287 3833.
SEMBENE SEMINAR: Breaking the Silence: Borom Sarret & Black Girl - Tuesday 7 June
NFTSR, 6.30pm
A series of three introductory seminars exploring how Sembene's work deals with the complexities of his continent. The seminars will be led by Frances Harding, Lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London , and editor of 'The Performance Arts in Africa '. Frances Harding reveals how Sembene asserted the right of people in African countries to show their own lives and speak for themselves, and his realisation that they could, and should, use their own languages.
Running time: Circa 90
Part of Ousmane Sembene at the NFT
POCKETVISIONS PRESENTS WASP - Tuesday 7 June
Daryll Forde Lab, UCL, Bloomsbury . Enter UCL from Torrington Place , the Foster Court entrance (almost opposite Waterstones). The Daryll Forde is on the right immediately after the anthropology department.
For further details and pre-Booking contact by email. ucsapjh@ucl.ac.uk
Tickets: £3.00/2.00
PocketVisions in association with Birds Eye View offers a chance to see some fantastic narrative short films from emerging women filmmakers.
Birds Eye View is a unique platform for emerging women filmmakers, supported by the likes of Anthony Minghella, Mira Nair, Juliet Stevenson and Joanna Lumley ("If this is what being a bird is, I'm proud to be one" - Joanna Lumley). Having launching the 1st major UK women's film festival in March, with international features, documentaries and shorts across London (NFT, ICA, Curzon) they bring a specially selected programme of fantastic and innovative shorts to POCKETVISIONS, including Andrea Arnold's Oscar winning Wasp, starring Natalie Press, Birds Eye View Award for Innovation winning animation City Paradise by Gaelle Denis, comic mannequin love-triangle Lurex, by Marinella Setti and heart-wrenching winner.
FUTURE CINEMA @ Too 2 Much, Soho - Tuesday 7 June
19:30 - 00:00, £5
Location: Too 2 Much - 11-12 Walkers Court, Soho, W1, London
http://www.futureshorts.com
This month's programme includes the touching and superbly directed Beduoin Sand from the Sam Spiegel school in Israel; an award winning stop-frame animation set in the competitive and intense world of Billiards 'Rocking and Rolling'; and the timeless music video for Basement Jaxx, "Where's Your Head At?" by the innovative Traktor
collective from Sweden. We will also be screening the multi award winning breathtaking We have decided not to die from Daniel Askill and many more.
Followed by a performance by top VJs Exceeda
GENE WILDER IN CONVERSATION - Wednesday 8 June
NFT1, 8.20pm
Gene Wilder has appeared in some of the most memorable US comedies of the past four decades. From his classic characterisations of Leo Bloom, Willy Wonka and The Waco Kid (Blazing Saddles) onwards, he has proved an enduring and ever-engaging talent, perhaps most fondly revered for his madcap collaborations with Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor. With the huge success of the stage version of 'The Producers' and this month's publication of his autobiography 'Kiss Me Like a Stranger', it is a perfect time to reflect on Gene Wilder's career; and we are delighted to welcome him to the NFT. Event presented in association with HarperCollins.
Tickets £11.50, concs £9.25; joint ticket available with The Producers on Fri 8 Jun £13.75, concs £10.75
NEW PRODUCER'S ALLIANCE POST CANNES DRINKS - 8 June
19:00 - 23:00, FREE! No need to book
Royal Festival Hall, 5th Floor Balcony Bar - South Bank, South Bank, London
Contact: New Producers Alliance, queries@npa.org.uk, 02076130440, http://www.npa.org.uk
This is an informal - all welcome - networking event for Producers, Writers, Directors, actors and crew alike.
Not quite the Riviera, but South Bank!
ANTONIONI SHORTS (1943-1953) - Wednesday 8 June
NFT2, 8.40pm
English subtitles
Antonioni started as a documentarist and the documentary eye has never left him. Gente del Po was shot in 1943, but when he went back to recover the footage he found much of it had perished. Necessity was the mother of invention and in the editing he learnt all about rhythm, gesture, discontinuity, in short everything that is Antonioni (1947, 9 mins). NU (aka Nettezza Urbana; 1948, 9 mins) is urban alienation in a nutshell. To cap it all, Tentato suicidio (from the episode film Amore in città; 1953, 20 mins) is cinéma vérité ten years ahead of its time. Also showing are his quizzical takes on aspects of Italian life and culture: L'amorosa menzogna (1949, 10 mins), Superstizione (1949, 9 mins), Sette canne un vestito (1949, 9 mins), La villa dei mostri (1950, 10 mins), and Vertigine (fragment of La funivia del Faloria; 1950, 4 mins).
Total running time 80
Part of Michelangelo Antonioni at the NFT
TAKE 291 - Thursday 9 June
291 Gallery, 291 Hackney Road , Hackney , E2 8NA , London
7.30pm, £2
Contact: Charlie Phillips, projects@291gallery.com , 0207 6135676, http://www.291gallery.com
'Take 291', London's trailblazing new showcase for experimental, underground and avant-garde artists' film, starts Thursday 9 June at 291 Gallery!
Every Thursday from 9 June.
SEMI-PERMANENT - Friday 10 & Saturday 11 June
The Barbican
Top designers from around the world, including The Orphanage from the US who have done all the high-end special effects on Sin City, will be speaking at the conference about a range of design fields including graphic design, broadcast, illustration, photography, special effects, web, fashion, film, graffiti and animation.
Tickets are £120 for both days and £60 for students.
Tickets and info: www.semipermanent.com
Phone: +44-(0)20 7638 8891 (daily 9am - 8pm; plus £1.85 per transaction, includes first class postage if time permits). Group booking: +44-(0)20 7382 7211 (Monday - Friday 10am-5pm)
RAINDANCE: Write and Sell the Hot Script with Elliot Grove - Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 June
9.30am - 6.30pm
£195 + VAT: 10% discount to members
www.raindance.co.uk
The Institute of Psychoanalysis: JAGGED EDGE - Sunday 12 June
ICA - The Mall, London , SW1Y 5AH
10:00 - 13:30, £18 adults, £15 concessions
A screening of Richard Marquand's Jagged Edge (Dir Richard Marquand, Cert 15), the third in a series of four events exploring films about 'disordered characters' introduced by psychoanalysts Andrea Sabbadini and Sira Dermen.
Followed by a discussion.
£18.50 (£15.00 concessions)
Tickets and further information from Events,
The Institute of Psychoanalysis,
112A Shirland Road , London W9 2EQ
020 7563 5017
email: ann.glynn@iopa.org.uk
500 YEARS LATER - Sunday 12 June
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
16:00 - 00:00, £6.50 adults, £5.50 concessions, £4.50 ICA members
Crime, drugs, HIV/Aids, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health and under development plagues people of African descent globally - why? 500 years from the onset of slavery and subsequent colonialism Africans are still struggling for basic freedom - why? Filmed in five continents, and more than 20 countries, 500 Years Later examines the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland.
Dir Owen 'Alik Shahadah, 143 mins 2004/UK, Cert 15 - Featuring: Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Desmond Tutu, Maulana Karenga, Paul Robeson Jr. and Dr. Hakim Adi.
Screening will be followed by a Q&A with the Director.
Institute of Contemporary Arts , tickets@ica.org.uk , 020 7930 3647
FUTURE SHORTS - Brighton - Sunday 12 June
Prince Albert, 48 Trafalgar Street, Brighton, BN1 4ED, South East
18:30 - 23:00, free
Dedicated to providing the very best in short film entertainment, Future Shorts, Europe's largest platform for short films is coming [/taking residence in Brighton from June] to Brighton in June. Films vary from the dramatic to the traumatic, comedy, animation and documentaries, Future Shorts believes in finding the films that are original, inventive and above all entertaining.
With the belief that films should be watched in a fun and relaxed environment Future Shorts will be holding events at the Prince Albert on the 12th June and the Sussex Arts Club on the 29th June, the films start at 6.30pm running for two hours with live music acts following.
Contact: Mike@Future Shorts
SHORTWAVE@ 93 FEET EAST - Sunday 12 June
93 Feet East - 150 Brick Lane , Shoreditch, E1, London
2pm - 10:30pm, free entry (donations will be requested)
The latest instalment in Shortwave's series of multi-media festivals showcasing emerging talent is on Sunday 12th June. The line up includes short films, live bands, DJ's and VJ's. In the main hall we have over two hours of short films including a selection from The Metropolitan Film School of digital shorts by first-time filmmakers and graduates from their popular From Story to Screen in Eight Weeks course.
Following on from the films we have live music courtesy of Rubicks, Tetine, Crack Village , Backhander and North of Ping-Pong (aka Charlie Creed Miles).
Joining the dots between audio and visual in the main hall will be resident DJ Rob Wray and John Reynolds (BI-wire). In the bar we have DJ's Nervous Stephen (negligee), Lewin Chalkley (London Boogie) and The Weather playing funk, disco, soul and 80's classics. Visuals come courtesy of Digital Mass and Secret Films.
Nearest Tube Liverpool Street / Aldgate East
Main hall run order: Short films 4 till 7pm.
Bands on stage from 7pm
Contact: Robert Wray, info@shortwavefilms.co.uk , 0778 869 2137, http://www.shortwavefilms.co.uk
Dochouse Presents: THE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE AWARD - 15 June
ICA , The Mall, London , SW1Y 5AH
20:45 - 00:00, £6.50 adults, £5.50 concessions, £4.50 ICA members
The winning film will be announced the week before the screening.
'This award recognises the highest standard of international documentary on human rights and development' One World
The screening will be followed by a post show discussion with judges and filmmakers.
Please check our website, www.dochouse.org, for more details. The winning film will be listed on the website as soon as it is announced.
TAKE 291 - Thursday 16 June
291 Gallery, 291 Hackney Road , Hackney , E2 8NA , London
7.30pm, £2
RAINDANCE: 2 DAY FILM SCHOOL With Dov S-S Simens - Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 June
9.30am - 6.30pm
Cost £295 + VAT:10% Discount to Members
COURSE OBJECTIVES
To have you become a seasoned professional instantly! Why waste 2 or 4 years? Dov S-S Simens ( Hollywood 's greatest film instructor) cuts right through to the chase and teaches the business of Writing, Producing, Directing, Financing & Distributing Independent Features.
www.raindance.co.uk
Dance Screen Brighton - 16 to 19 June
www.dancescreen.com
www.southeastdance.org.uk
Further Information
SCRIPTWRITER MAGAZINE MASTERCLASS - 18 June
Right-Brain Scriptwriting Techniques - Jurgen Wolff
From one of Europe 's leading scriptwriters, script consultant and NLP practitioner.
Tickets can be booked with the RADA Box Office on 020 7908 4800.
For full details of the courses, speakers' biographies and course location go to www.scriptwritermagazine.com and click on 'Masterclasses'.
KEEP IT REEL Short Film Screenings - Sunday 19 June
The Collection Bar, Brompton Road, South Kensington
6-11pm
ANIMATION: THE STATE OF LIVING - Tuesday 21 June
Peckham multiplex - 95a rye lane, Peckham, SE15, London
16:00 - 18:00, free (booking essential)
enquiries@camberwell.arts.ac.uk , 020 7514 6302
SCREEN SOUTH INFORMATION DAY - 21 June
Chatham, Kent
Information Days give you an insight into Screen South, the RIFE Open Fund process, other schemes and funding available to you as well as a chance to take part in a workshop with an industry professional. You also get a chance to have a one to one session to discuss your project with Screen South staff at an early stage.
Screen South encourages people in the region who are hoping to apply for funding to attend an information day.
To register free of charge, please submit 25 words or less about your project/ideas, along with contact details to:
info@screensouth.org
FOREVER GODARD - 21 to 24 June
Tate Modern
Forever Godard is a four-day international conference to be held at Tate Modern, London , 21-24 June 2001. It is the first event of its kind ever to be devoted to Godard's work in Britain . It brings together both well-established commentators and the younger generation of critics working in the fields of film and television, art history, cultural studies, philosophy, music, and literature. It draws on talent from many different countries and from different intellectual backgrounds.
The event will also feature screenings of rarely seen work by Godard, thus complementing the major Godard retrospective taking place in June and July 2001 at the National Film Theatre. There will be French/English interpreting facilities, and Tate Modern is hoping to broadcast the event on the World Wide Web. The conference will provide the basis for a substantial new book on Godard's work.
www.forevergodard.com
TAKE 291 - Thursday 23 June
291 Gallery, 291 Hackney Road , Hackney , E2 8NA , London
7.30pm, £2
Raindance Lo-to-No Budget Filmmaking - 25th to 26th June
With Elliot Grove
30am - 6.00pm
Cost: £195 + VAT: 10% discount to Raindance members
Venue:
The NPA Film Centre
The Tea Building,
56 Shoreditch High Street
E1 6JJ
To book call 0207 287 3833
www.raindance.co.uk
Have the film industry demystified in one weekend. Learn how to shoot, edit and direct your first feature cost-effectively and develop a plan for submitting to film festivals and distributors.
Raindance: SURVIVING DEVELOPMENT HELL: A Producer's Guide With Carl Schoenfeld - Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 June
9.30am - 6.30pm Venue tbc
Cost £195 + VAT: 10% Discount to Members
www.raindance.co.uk
UNCUT - Saturday 25 June
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
13:00 - 15:30, £4 adults, £3 concessions, £2 ICA members
Institute of Contemporary Arts, tickets@ica.org.uk , 020 7930 3647
The screenings will be programmed and presented by Joel Karamath.
Visualising the City - 26th to 28th June
A Symposium at the University of Manchester
This international symposium aims to explore how popular film and other forms of visual representation filter and shape the way we understand and interact with the built environment. The symposium will seek to draw upon interdisciplinary interests in film and television, photography, architecture and urban studies, history, cultural geography, art history, sociology and related fields.
The three-day conference will include plenary talks from internationally known scholars from abroad and the UK , a wide-range of papers and specially organized events.
A full conference programme, booking forms and more information can be found at:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visualisingthecity
For queries please contact:
Ms Janet Meredith
Tel: +44 (0161) 275 9850
Email: visualcity@manchester.ac.uk
FUTURE SHORTS - Brighton - Wednesday 29 June
Sussex Arts Club, 7 Ship Street , Brighton , BN1 1AD
18:30 - 23:30, £3 Concession, £4 otherwise
Contact: Mike @ Futureshorts, michael.yeoman@gmx.de , 07967 775 4723
TAKE 291 - Thursday 30 June
291 Gallery, 291 Hackney Road, Hackney, E2 8NA, London
7.30pm, £2
Old and New Dreams - Thursday 30 June
6.30-8.30pm
Prince Charles Cinema
Artprojx at
Future Presentation ...
Old and New Dreams
A selection of films and video art related to Old Master paintings by ...
Alice Anderson, Olaf Breuning, Rineke Dijkstra, Mark Lewis, Chloe Piene, Sara Rossi, Eve Sussman, Sam Taylor Wood
Followed by a conversation with Catherine Wood, curator at Tate Modern, Alexander Sturgis, curator at the National Gallery and artist Mark Lewis
In association with Art Fortnight London
Curated by Sandra Terdjman
Tickets £10
Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place
London WC2
Box Office 020 7494 3654 (open 1.30-8pm daily)
www.princecharlescinema.com
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