Cinema

PLAYBACK workshop: SCRATCH FILM

In this hands-on direct animation workshop, you will make your mark with paints, pens, bleach, scalpels and even old letraset transfers on a length of 16mm film stock – clear and black film leader, or even old archive 16mm films, which you will be able to re-author.

Lecturers and Imperfect Cinema hosts, Dr Allister Gall from Media Arts, Plymouth University and Dan Paolantonio, Film, Plymouth College of Art, are on hand to guide you through the creative collaborative process. This workshop is recommended for those aged between 16-18 years old.

Free admission, booking...

PLAYBACK Workshop: Micro Cinema

Join this visual storytelling workshop (including narrative, cinematography, composition, editing and sound design) on accessible digital technology. Receive supportive critique from experts in this field when your original works are reviewed at the end of the workshop.

Lecturers and Imperfect Cinema hosts, Dr Allister Gall from Media Arts, Plymouth University and Dan Paolantonio, Film, Plymouth College of Art, are on hand to guide you through and help select the Micro Cinema Workshop audience award winner.

This workshop is recommended for those aged between 16-18 years old...

Bite size: Plymouth Film Showcase

Join our Media Arts experts, Dr Allister Gall and Dr Phil Ellis (Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Film & Television Production), in a discussion about the latest techniques and advances in contemporary film-making.

Free admission, booking advised

www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/bite-size-plymouth-film-showcase

Plymouth Film Showcase

Celebrating all that is new in film

Monday 29 January-Saturday 17 February Opening hours: Monday-Friday 10:00-17:00, Saturday 11:00-16:00 Free admission

From new filmmakers to new ideas about documentary, animation and the presentation of archive footage, this exhibition extends an invitation to emerging talent to participate.

Diviner By Frances Scott, winner of the Peninsula Arts Film Commission Prize 2017

Diviner is structured as a script formed almost entirely from footage found within the South West Film & Television Archive (SWFTA). The work...

Film: Mr Hulot’s Holiday (1953)

Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats and firecrackers. It was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.

Introduced by Michael Punt, Professor of Art and Technology at Plymouth University and founding convenor of Transtechnology Research.

Director: Jacques Tati Running time: 89 minutes Cert: U...

Film: Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (1927)

Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, Sunrise is Murnau’s ground-breaking masterpiece. Bored with his wife and the routine of farm life, a farmer falls under the spell of a flirtatious city girl who convinces him to drown his wife so they can escape together.

When his wife becomes suspicious and runs away to the city, the farmer pursues her and slowly regains her trust as the two rediscover their love for each other.

Introduced by Michael Punt, Professor of Art and Technology at Plymouth University and founding convenor of...

Film: Early Cinema Projection & Man With A Movie Camera (1929)

Launching an evening exploring early cinematic projection, Guy Richards is a Marie Curie Fellow of Early Cinema and Cognitive Creativity and researcher on Plymouth University’s doctoral programme, CogNovo. He will begin the screening with a projection of The Great Train Robbery on a 100 year-old 35mm hand-cranked projector.

Next is Man with a Movie Camera, part documentary, part cinematic art and a silent film classic, directed by Dziga Vertov. Following a city in the Soviet Union in the 1920s across one full day, Vertov uses a variety of complex and innovative camera shots...

Open Air Cinema is back!

Plymouth Arts Centre has announced its annual programme of Open Air Cinema, at some of the UKs most spectacular outdoor cinema locations.

This much-loved feature on Plymouth’s summer calendar visits three waterside venues: Mount Edgcumbe, Tinside Lido, and the Royal William Yard for eight events in August and September. With a mix of blockbusters, cult classics and good old sing-alongs...

MONDO MONDAY: Presents Groundhog Day

Venue: 
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
Event Date: 
Monday, March 14, 2016 - 19:00
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Director: Harold Ramis, 1993, US

Cast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Stephen Tobolowsky

"What would you do if you got to live the same day over and over again? What would you do if you got to live the same day over and over again? What would you do….alright, you get the idea. Mondo Monday returns once again to the Jill Craigie Cinema as we celebrate the arrival of spring in fine style with the return of Mr Bill Murray in what we’d probably argue is his finest hour (apart from Ghostbusters, but we’ve already done that one). We got all sorts of surprises planned for this...

Gravity

Venue: 
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
Event Date: 
Monday, March 7, 2016 - 19:00
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Women and cinema series

Introduction and Q and A by Holly Tarquini, Founder of the F-Rating, producer of Bath Film Festival and life-long feminist.

Holly Tarquini, producer at the Bath Film Festival, is known for establishing a new rating system, the F-Rating, which is applied to films which have a strong female director, actor or writer. Gravity is the perfect film to illustrate the point, failing the Bechdel Test it is nevertheless a heart-pounding thriller, a philosophical meditation on the human condition and a kick-ass feminist cinema manifesto.

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