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
WOMEN OF CORNISH MUSIC | SCREENINGS
The Hypatia Trust has commissioned seven new short films to celebrate the ways in which women shape Cornwall’s musical life. The films will be screened at CAST throughout the day on 30 and 31 July. All are non-fiction, focusing on contemporary women who work with music in many different ways – from music therapist to…
ARTIST'S CHOICE | Koyaanisqatsi | INTRODUCED BY GRAHAM FITKIN
Koyaanisqatsi means ‘life out of balance’, in the Hopi language. Godfrey Reggio and Ron Fricke’s experimental film
Artist's Choice | In the Mood for Love | Introduced by Nina Royle
Wong Kar Wai’s classic film In the Mood for Love is colour-saturated and languorous.
The Republics
I am moved and fascinated by Stephen Watts’s poetry in ways I find hard to explain
Huw Wahl | Screening and Q&A
Filmmaker Huw Wahl will visit CAST to talk about his film The Republics
Green School Memories
Helston County Secondary School, which formerly occupied the CAST building, was commonly known as ‘Green School’
Even When I Fall
This award-winning documentary follows the story of two young Nepalese women who were trafficked into Indian circuses as children.
SHOW ME THE PICTURE: The Story of Jim Marshall | Introduced by Tatiana Kennedy
Jim Marshall was a maverick with a camera, an outsider with attitude, who captured the heights of Rock’n’Roll music
ARTIST'S CHOICE | THE SHOUT | INTRODUCED BY BRONWEN BUCKERIDGE
A stranger arrives in a small English village claiming knowledge of aboriginal magic and the power to kill
John Smith Q&A | Online
We were delighted to host John Smith at CAST on Friday 2 October for a Q&A
ARTIST'S CHOICE | GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER | INTRODUCED BY DENZIL FORRESTER
This groundbreaking 1967 film features a star line-up, including Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
THE WRECKING SEASON | INTRODUCED BY JANE DARKE
When a southwest gale blows for three days, artefacts and natural objects from across the world arrive on these shores.
ARTIST'S CHOICE | HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE | INTRODUCED BY KATHARINE HERON
Taika Waititi’s 2016 award winning film combines comedy and adventure.
John Smith | Programme of Short Films
CAST’s black box screening space re-opened on Tuesday 4 August with a programme of short films