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…
FIND YOUR WAY WITH CLAY
Hannah Lawrence’s delicate hand-built pots are widely admired. This six-week course is suitable for all skill levels, introducing basic form-making techniques and more complex aspects such as handles, spouts and lids. The aim is to get participants inspired and confident to make real functional pottery for home and kitchen. Finished items can be glazed and fired (at a…
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.
LANTERN-MAKING WORKSHOPS AT CAST
Lucy Grant and Vicky Wiltshire are working with the Museum of Cornish Life to create a lantern procession
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
HELSTON TOWN BAND AT CAST CAFE
Helston Town Band will perform classic Christmas carols, with mulled wine and mince pies on offer from the Café.
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
Festival Angels, Elves and Santas
Learn how to make an angel who can flap her wings, an elf or a santa that jumps for joy.
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
CAST AT BANGERS AND MASH-UP
CAST is contributing to the Bangers & Mash-Up festival, which will be held at United Downs Raceway, St Day, Redruth TR16 5HU on Friday 15, Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 October. Gates open at 12 noon every day and close at 11pm. Friday 15 October bands start at 4pm. Saturday and Sunday 16 and 17 October bands start…
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’.
Water and Stone
Water and Stone is a new event in Helston’s calendar, organised by CAST in association with Helston Makes It!