EIFF Cameo Screening, Anarcadia and Capital, Ruth Maclennan

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