film Screening

An evening of abandoned film and unearthed memories. Collating a programme from super8 film reels found in junk shops and dusty attics, Reels from Life intend to celebrate the super8 medium in all its folksy and amateur glory. Join us to relive spontaneous   moments, family holidays and forgotten episodes. An hour-long programme with gramophone accompaniment.

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The sea is forgotten until disaster strikes, but perhaps the biggest seagoing disaster is the global supply chain which leads the world economy into the abyss. Allan Sekula and Noël Burch’s award-winning film essay offers a lucid and lyrical document of worker's conditions, the inhuman scale of containerised sea trade and the secret lives of port cities.

The Filmhouse, Edinburgh, £7.50/£5.50 (Concession)

The sea is forgotten until disaster strikes, but perhaps the biggest seagoing disaster is the global supply chain which leads the world economy into the abyss. Allan Sekula and Noël Burch’s award-winning film essay offers a lucid and lyrical document of worker's conditions, the inhuman scale of containerised sea trade and the secret lives of port cities.

Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, FREE

Presented as part of The Glasgow School of Art’s Friday Event lecture programme and screened in collaboration with Glasgow Film Festival. FREE

FREE TICKETED EVENT

A special screening of Anarcadia and short film Capital by Ruth Maclennan at Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh.

Capital is set in Kazakhstan's new capital Astanta. A woman traveller, a stranger, addressed the founder-ruler of a city under construction, one that promises a glossy but oppressive future by erasing the past. Anarcadia is shot in the steppe of South-Eastern Kazakhstan. Into this shifting, elemental landscape, two iconic figures - an archaeologist and prospector - seek to uncover its buried meanings and future possibilities. Overlaying rival trajectories and competing incentives, Maclennan's overlapping, often contradictory stories echo the fundamental indeterminacy and unpredictability of the desert landscape itself.

Presented in collaboration with Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Tickets are available in person at Filmhouse or Festivalhouse@teviot or by calling 0131 623 8030.

Co-commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, in association with Stills, Edinburgh, Ffotogallery, Cardiff and Castefield, Manchester. Funded by Arts Council England, and with the generous support of the British Council. Additional support from the Henry Moore Foundation

FREE

A special Film Lounge screening presents Sarah Turner's experimental film, Perestroika, shot on the Tran-Siberian railway, combining landscape elegy and railway reverie with an exploration of personal and political loss and transfiguration.

Join us at Stills for a FREE film screening.

Stills hosts Lyre Productions present their new feature, THE SPACE BETWEEN, an Edinburgh love story following two strangers brought together by a city and given the chance to redeem their lives.

And we're in it! So come along, it's free and we've got Tiger beer (as always!), grab a comfy seat downstairs and enjoy! What better way to spend a Sunday!

Watch the trailer here.

Continuing with themes of journeying and homage Film Lounge presents a one-off screening of Edinburgh based filmmaker Matt Hulse's debut feature film Follow the Master. This film documents a walk from Winchester to Eastbourne in tribute to his grandfather Eric who died in 2008 aged 96.

This is a free event. Book your place at info@stills.org

£2

Following on from the success of Reels From Life, Screen Bandita is pleased to present the second installment of our journey into the world of previously abandoned Super 8 film reels.
Our focus for this event is on films that typify some of the core elements of that most slippery of concepts, the so- called 'Postmodern condition'!
The programme is a celebration of visual spectacles and surreal moments, parades and performances as well as comedies and curiosities.
All these homemade treasures have been rediscovered by Screen Bandita and will be screened alongside a specially curated Gramophone soundtrack.

FREE

For this special screening curator and filmmaker Claus Löser will present a selection of films which were made in the GDR between 1983 and 1989 by young artists, musicians and writers. At a time when art was subject to state control artists operated outside all official channels, their subversive actions watched closely by the Stasi state security police. As in the West, the GDR had a thriving Super 8 movement which developed out of the D.I.Y. credo of punk and was able to blossom in the small pockets of independent underground culture, providing new forms of expression amid the rigidity of the political climate. Today, many artists of this GDR Super-8 underground scene – including Helge Leiberg, Via Lewandowsky, and Cornelia Schleime - have become well-known figures in the international art world.

A 70 minute programme comprising seven films.

Presented in association with Goethe-Institut Glasgow 

Image: Cornelia Schleime Unter weißen Tüchern (1984)