This film will be introduced by Kayla Parker, Artist film-maker and Lecturer in Media Arts at Plymouth University.
This is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence...
This film will be introduced by Roberta Mock, Professor of Performance Studies and Director of the Creative Arts & Humanities Research Institute at Plymouth University.
Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who’s telling it. In questioning her own paternity she unravels the essence of family: complicated, messy and fiercely loving. Exploring the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families. Polley’s...
In this existential drama of the Japanese New Wave an unnamed school teacher and amateur insect collector misses his bus back to Tokyo. Local villagers invite him to stay with a young widow who lives at the bottom of a sand dune. The next morning, the villagers refuse to drop the ladder down the sand dune and inform him that he must stay. Evoking the myth of Sisyphus, the characters’ eternal battle with the sand keeps them immobile,...
A research project run by Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (PUPSMD) with the Family Nurse Partnership Programme has secured funding of £70,000 over three years from The Wrigley Company Ltd. This funding will support a PhD post for a hygienist or dental therapist to develop a programme for dental nurses to support young, first time mothers in taking care of their...
Wim Wenders' documentary portrait of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.
The Salt of the Earth is Wim Wenders' documentary portrait of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, perhaps most famous for his mid-1980s shots of Brazil's biblically vast gold mines and their workers. Notably Salgado photographed the terrible Rwandan genocide of the '90s – after which horror he necessarily switched focus from military subjects to environmental activism instead. Wenders' masterful film fully exploits the supreme power of Salgado's stunning, almost...
Cast: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano
An idyllic village in Italy's mountainous region of Calabria is the setting for this exquisitely filmed take on the cycles of life. Structured in four parts, it opens with a shepherd tending his herd of goats, then shifts focus to one goat in particular, the tree under which he seeks shelter, and the industrialised fate of that plant.
Date/time: Monday 25 January | 19:00
Venue: Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building...
Ann Hughes is Professor of Early Modern History at Keele University, and one of the leading experts on the culture, religion and politics of the English Civil War, or the English Revolution. In recent years she has worked on religious debate and polemic, print culture, gender and radicalism, and has published widely in this area, including Gender and Politics in the English Revolution. She is currently working principally on preaching during the revolution, and this is the topic of this evening’s lecture.
Saul Dubow has published widely on the development of racial segregation and apartheid in all its aspects, and his most recent book is Apartheid, 1948-1994 (OUP). His lecture focuses on the analysis of power, paying attention to the importance of ideas, institutions, and culture, and setting South African history in its international context.
Date/time: Tuesday 8 March, 19:00
Running time: 80 mins
Venue: Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building
Ticket info: £6.60 / £4.50 / free to Peninsula Arts Friends and...
Dr Anna Whitelock, Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr Anna Whitelock is a historian, author and broadcaster. She is a Reader in Early Modern History and is Director of the Centre for Public History, Heritage and Engagement with the Past at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is a regular media commentator on the Tudors, the monarchy, royal bodies, royal succession, gender and politics as well as on public history and heritage. Her books include, Mary Tudor: England’s First Queen, and most recently Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court, from...
