William Kentridge
This presentation of two short films, made some twenty years apart, offers a window into the creative processes of celebrated South African artist William Kentridge.
Selected 15
Selected 15 is a touring showcase of new short films by early career artists.
John Smith
Renowned artist filmmaker John Smith will visit CAST to speak about his work.
Being John Smith
In Being John Smith, 2024, the artist reflects on the ordinariness of his name and its profound impact on his sense of self.
Eraserhead
David Lynch’s 1977 dystopian debut Eraserhead tells the story of a young factory worker who discovers unexpectedly that he is to become a father.
Cara Mamma
Screening Postponed. Cara Mamma (24 mins) draws on a series of candid personal letters exchanged between Daniela and her adult child Naissa over a three-year period, combining these with dream-like allegorical sequences and cinema verité.
Arrietty
Based on Mary Norton’s popular story, Arrietty follows a family of Borrowers – tiny people who use human neighbours’ everyday objects fort their own purposes
The Hooligan Project
Liubov Sliusareva’s 25-minute documentary The Hooligan Project follows Ukrainian theatre group Hooligan Art Community as they work with young artists in Cornwall following their displacement to the UK by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Children's Christmas Films
A selection of animated films for children will be shown in the black box screening space in parallel with the Christmas workshops on Saturday 14 December.
SPIRIT MESSAGES
Spirit Messages is a touring programme of six artists’ films curated by the prominent Dublin-based initiative for artists’ moving image aemi.
Huw Wahl and Rose Ravetz
For this special evening screening Huw Wahl will be joined in conversation by his sister Rose Ravetz, who introduced him to sailing on her Falmouth quay punt Defiance. This experience produced the first shoots of Huw’s project Wind, Tide & Oar, which grew into a sibling collaboration of multiple proportions.
Wind, Tide & Oar
Using a 1960s hand-wound camera, Huw Wahl shot Wind, Tide & Oar over a three-year period. In that time he followed a diverse array of traditional boats and the people who sail them as they journey through rivers, along coastlines and across open seas.
SELECTED 14
Selected 14 is a collection of diverse, surprising and provocative new films by early career artists.
MARGARET SALMON
Margaret Salmon creates intense and beautiful filmic portraits that focus on the minutiae of the everyday. Her close observations of human behaviour, plants and animals are both ethnographic and poetic in nature.
Three Short Films
Films by artists Samuel Bestwick, Georgia Gendall and Jo Lathwood will be shown as looped screenings on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April. Each work focuses on a place in Cornwall or Devon and examines human relationships with nature and the effects of large scale industry.
Three Short Films
An evening presentation of recent moving image work by artists based in the South West – Samuel Bestwick, Georgia Gendall and Jo Lathwood.
Children's Films
A selection of children’s films will be shown in CAST’s black box screening space every day, Tuesday to Saturday, during the Easter holidays.
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Werner Herzog’s Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) follows the story of the doomed conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro.
Black Beauty
African fashion model Alexandra Cartier meets Jorge Luis Borges in a visionary experience.
WALK THE LINE
Walk The Line, directed by James Mangold, explores the rise and fall of country music legend Johnny Cash
WALL-E
A much-loved and entertaining animation with minimal dialogue, Wall-E tells the story of a small, rather hopeless-looking robot
The Wind
The Wind (1928), was the final silent film to be released by MGM. Its director, Victor Sjöström, and star, Lillian Gish, are considered to be amongst the greats of the genre.
The Directors
The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis
Clay Country
An exploration of Cornwall’s China Clay industry and how, to this day, it shapes the region’s landscape, culture and experience