SHADOWS IN PARADISE
Shadows in Paradise is the first film in Kaurismäki’s ‘Proletariat Trilogy’, which follows the lives of three working-class people
MATRIX VEGETAL: EMERALD TECHNOLOGIES
CAST is pleased to host a programme of artists’ films curated by artist Patricia Domínguez
FLECHA SELVAGEM
Presented by Eden Project at CAST, Flecha Selvagem / Wild Arrows is a seven-part series of short films
FLECHA SELVAGEM
Eden Project present Flecha Selvagem / Wild Arrows, part of a seven-part series of short films by Brazilian collective Selvagem. Eden Project curators Misha Curson and Hannah Hooks will introduce The Sun and the Flower, Metamorphosis and The Jungle and the Sap, three short films that are part of a seven-part cycle of studies on…
TOMBOY
Tomboy (2011) is a tender and honest exploration of gender identity and childhood made by the award-winning writer and film director Céline Sciamma. The film follows a gender non-conforming child, Laure, as they move to a new neighbourhood and adopt the identity of Mickäel amongst their new friends. Sciamma is best known for her films…
PERFORMANCE
Performance (1970), directed by Donald Camell and Nicholas Roeg, follows a violent London gangster on the run
Wild Tales
Wild Tales is a Spanish-language black comedy anthology, made in 2014 by the Argentine filmmaker Damián Szifron.
EVERYBODY IN THE PLACE
Jeremy Deller uses rare footage to trace connections between strike action, protest and political unrest and the acid house
Music & Video Lab Showcase
A looped presentation of moving image works by participants from Mark Leckey’s recent Music & Video Lab.
BLACK ORPHEUS
The multi-award-winning film Black Orpheus (1959) retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice amidst the music, costume and dance of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
Language Lessons
Language – in its broadest sense – permeates the work of Laure Prouvost. Known for her immersive and mixed-media installations that combine film and installation in humorous and idiosyncratic ways, Prouvost addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation. What I like about words is that they are so questionable. I struggled as a child…
A CELEBRATION OF CORNISH MAY DAY TRADITION
Archival films exploring different customs from around the region will be shown alongside a recent documentary
A CELEBRATION OF CORNISH MAY DAY TRADITION
Three archival films exploring different customs from around the region will be shown alongside a recent documentary
Naomi Frears and Matt Burrows In Conversation
An evening of conversation about the development of Men Falling
Men Falling
Shot from Naomi Frears’s studio window overlooking Porthmeor beach in St Ives, the first part of Men Falling observes surfers as they come to the end of their ride on a wave. In these final moments they seem to give themselves to the sea, each bringing their own particular style to the dismount. This is…
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
In the early 1980s fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto shocked and revolutionized the fashion world with his oversized, androgynous, sculptural designs. Interviewing Yamamoto and watching him at work, director Wim Wenders considers the influence of Paris and Tokyo, the designer’s favourite places, his relationships with the models he works with and the students and apprentices drawing…
Au Hasard Balthazar
Sarah Dobai will introduce the acclaimed Robert Bresson film Au Hasard Balthazar (1966).
THE DONKEY FIELD
Sarah Dobai’s film features a text based on sections of a childhood memoir of events in Budapest in 1944.
ELIZABETH PRICE
A rare opportunity to attend an artist’s talk by Elizabeth Price, who will visit Falmouth School of Art
USER GROUP DISCO
We are in a ‘Hall of Sculptures’, the narrator claims as USER GROUP DISCO (2009) starts
Ernest & Celestine
A delightful comedy of an unlikely friendship between a mouse and a bear.
The Way We Live
Director, scriptwriter and feminist Jill Craigie was one of Britain’s earliest women documentary filmmakers.
REBECCA MOSS FILM EVENING
Rebecca Moss will introduce a selection of short moving image works and discuss her practice and influences.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
An inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people