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
The Ladykillers
This Ealing Studios classic is a subversive and macabre slow-burn comedy
THE STUART HALL PROJECT
Caroline Deeds, Lecturer Factual Television and Documentary at Falmouth University, will introduce a special evening screening of John Akomfrah’s feature length film
Dig!
Artist, musician and music promoter Liam Jolly has selected this unflinching cult documentary, which follows the journeys of two bands, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols, and the friendship and rivalry between their respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor. Filming over a seven year period, director Ondi Timoner captured the musicians’ love and obsession, gigs and recording sessions,…
The Stuart Hall Project
A film about revolution, politics, and culture, this portrait of the influential Jamaican-born intellectual Stuart Hall (1932 – 2014)
Daisies
Věra Chytilová’s 1966 surrealist and anarchic farce follows the misadventures of two bored and rebellious young Czech women.
HALF-TERM SCREENINGS OF CHROMACOPIA
Chromacopia, the film created especially for the Art Lab schools programme by artist and learning specialist Kate Turner
RED RIVER: LISTENING TO A POLLUTED RIVER
This weekend CAST is hosting a cluster of events organised and presented by Field Notes
Stalker
The protagonist of Andrei Tarkovsky’s classic film is an illegal guide known as ‘Stalker’.
Bonfire
Bonfire, Dmitrii Davydov’s debut feature, follows the life of a Yakut elder.
MANON DE BOER | Bella, Maia and Nick
Artist Manon de Boer invited three young musicians to spend time together at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives