March 2012
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Thursday 1 March 2012
New Volunteer Induction
6:00 p.m.
Come along and find out more about your favourite DIY cinema, and how to get involved. Everyone welcome!
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Av Festival 12: Leif Inge - 9 Beet Stretch
11:59 p.m.
9 Beet Stretch is Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony stretched to 24 hours, with no pitch distortions by Oslo-based artist Leif Inge. This 24-hour live performance starts at midnight on Thu 1 March and ends at midnight on Fri 2 March. You can come and go, or stay the whole night and following day immersing in this epic and ethereal deep listening experience. Bring along your sleeping bags... Entrance is FREE, part of the 24-Hour Launch of AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible.
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Friday 2 March 2012
Av Festival 12: Leif Inge - 9 Beet Stretch
12:00 a.m.
9 Beet Stretch is Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony stretched to 24 hours, with no pitch distortions by Oslo-based artist Leif Inge. This 24-hour live performance starts at midnight on Thu 1 March and ends at midnight on Fri 2 March. You can come and go, or stay the whole night and following day immersing in this epic and ethereal deep listening experience. Bring along your sleeping bags... Entrance is FREE, part of the 24-Hour Launch of AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible.
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A Bit Crack - Transferred To Chillingham Arms Due To Double Booking.
7:30 p.m.
Goosewing performed by Christine McMahon is one not to miss!
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Saturday 3 March 2012
Closed
Sunday 4 March 2012
Canny Little Library Plus Dirty Coal Infotour!
3:00 p.m.
The Canny Little Library stocks books, zines and pamphlets with a focus on titles with a more critical stance towards the society we live in and not available in most regular libraries/ bookshops. All titles are available to browse and borrow for free. The Star and Shadow also houses a large collection of film, photography and theatre books available for browsing and reference. The library can be contacted at cannylittlelibrary@gmail.com 2012 Dirty Coal Infotour In February and March Coal action Scotland will be touring the UK to mobilise against new coal in South Lanarkshire and linking up with local struggles to strengthen campaigns. 4pm at the Canny Little Library, with info workshop, storytelling and more... Spring into action in the coming months with Coal Action Scotland! More »
Av Festival 12: Stalker (1979, Russia, Dir. Tarkovsky)
9:00 p.m.
One of the most enigmatic films ever made about time, from the widely admired director Tarkovsky.
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Monday 5 March 2012
General Meeting
6:00 p.m.
Tuesday 6 March 2012
English Language Conversation Group
4:00 p.m.
Weekly conversation session for people to practice speaking English in an informal friendly setting. The group is informal and volunteer run. Aims to be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. Free. Travel costs can be paid for people who would otherwise not be able to come. More »
Nrg Meet
7:30 p.m.
In bar and cinema. (This is a closed meeting for members of NRG only) More »
Wednesday 7 March 2012
Av Festival 12: Five (2003, Iran, Dir. Kiarostami)
7:30 p.m.
Radically minimalist film from the genius Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.
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Thursday 8 March 2012
Stars And Shadows - Public Experiments With Light
12:30 p.m.
Demolish Newton's theories with a beam of light!
Join with Goethe in eradicating the materialist paradigm!
Discover Perspective!
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Av Festival 12: Frost (Start Of Slow Cinema Wkend) (1997, Germany, Dir. Kelemen)
8:30 p.m.
Frost is a landmark European film, made on 16mm film by german director Fred Kelemen.
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Friday 9 March 2012
Av Festival 12: Whole Evening Of Films (Slow Cinema Wkend): 6pm - 11pm + Directors Q&A
6:00 p.m.
Masterpiece from German filmmaker Fred Kelemen + incredible from "the ideological father of the New Philippine Cinema".
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Av Festival 12: Slow Cinema Weekend
7:30 p.m.
Saturday 10 March 2012
Av Festival 12: Whole Day Of Films (Slow Cinema Wkend): 11am - 11pm + Directors Q&A
11:00 a.m.
Gorgeous film from British superstar Ben Rivers + 10 hour film from Phillipino director Lav Diaz!
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New Volunteer Induction
11:00 a.m.
Come along and find out more about your favourite DIY cinema, and how to get involved. Everyone welcome!
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Av Festival 12: Slow Cinema Weekend
1:00 p.m.
Sunday 11 March 2012
Av Festival 12: Whole Day Of Films (Slow Cinema Wkend): 11am - 11pm + Directors Q&A
11:00 a.m.
Latest film from the incredible British artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers - NOT TO MISS!! Followed by film epic from Lav Diaz.
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Av Festival 12: Slow Cinema Weekend
1:00 p.m.
Canny Little Library
3:00 p.m.
The Canny Little Library stocks books, zines and pamphlets with a focus on titles with a more critical stance towards the society we live in and not available in most regular libraries/ bookshops. All titles are available to browse and borrow for free. The Star and Shadow also houses a large collection of film, photography and theatre books available for browsing and reference. The library can be contacted at cannylittlelibrary@gmail.com More »
Monday 12 March 2012
Programming Meeting
6:00 p.m.
Tuesday 13 March 2012
English Language Conversation Group
4:00 p.m.
Weekly conversation session for people to practice speaking English in an informal friendly setting. The group is informal and volunteer run. Aims to be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. Free. Travel costs can be paid for people who would otherwise not be able to come. More »
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Av Festival 12: Colossal Youth (2006, Portugal, Dir. Pedro Costa)
7:30 p.m.
Hailed as the Beckett of cinema, Costa has produced a staggering trilogy observing the demolition of the Fontainhas housing complex in Lisbon. Colossal Youth focuses on Ventura, an elderly immigrant from Cape Verde Islands, who has assumed the role of surrogate father to the dispossessed. An intimate epic, where present and past move as one, collaboratively filmed with patience and empathy.
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Thursday 15 March 2012
Av Festival 12: Honor Of The Knights + Intro From Film Lecturer (2006, Spain, Dir. A. Serra)
7:30 p.m.
Serra’s striking, controversial adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, is a revelatory portrait of the relationship between the frail Quixote and his stout loyal scribe Sancho.
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Friday 16 March 2012
Viva La Muerte (1971)
7:30 p.m.
An extremely rare chance to see a print of a masterpiece of it's type. Fernando Arrabal, was co-founder of the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodorowski and this film owes much to that style. However where his more famous collaborator's work is unapologeticaaly trippy, Arrabal's films and plays use the same chaotic and extreme language to serve a social conscience of sorts. More »
Sexual Objects
9:00 p.m.
SEXUAL OBJECTS return to SAS with a new 45 and Marc Riley 6Music live session following their memorable appearances in November 2010 and at CHILDREN OF GODARD Vic Godard night in March 2011. support from MILKY WIMPSHAKE + BEAUTY PAGEANT.
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Saturday 17 March 2012
Gig: The Peter James Taylor Guitar Orchestra!
7:30 p.m.
Leave Me Here Proudly Presents… a night of Noise and Improvisation! Including members of Khunnt/Spokes, Young Liar, Waskerly Way, Dextro, Zadok, GNOD, Shields + more... Expect 12+ guitarists/Bassists/Drummers meeting on stage for the first time, under the direction of acclaimed touring composer ‘Peter J. Taylor’ to create a fierce wall of noise…
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Sunday 18 March 2012
Canny Little Library
3:00 p.m.
The Canny Little Library stocks books, zines and pamphlets with a focus on titles with a more critical stance towards the society we live in and not available in most regular libraries/ bookshops. All titles are available to browse and borrow for free. The Star and Shadow also houses a large collection of film, photography and theatre books available for browsing and reference. The library can be contacted at cannylittlelibrary@gmail.com More »
Av Festival 12: Finisterrae (2010)
7:30 p.m.
Two Russian-speaking ghosts leave the Sonar Music Festival, along the pilgrim path to Santiago de Compostela then on to Finisterre: the end of the world, to seek rebirth. Inspired by Garrel’s 1972 film The Inner Scar, this surreal and humorous tale is Caballero’s first feature, with a stunning soundtrack including Nico and Suicide.
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Monday 19 March 2012
General Meeting
6:00 p.m.
Tuesday 20 March 2012
English Language Conversation Group
4:00 p.m.
Weekly conversation session for people to practice speaking English in an informal friendly setting. The group is informal and volunteer run. Aims to be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. Free. Travel costs can be paid for people who would otherwise not be able to come. More »
Wednesday 21 March 2012
Av Festival 12: Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours (2011)
7:30 p.m.
This debut feature by visual artist Tiravanija is a portrait of the slow passage of time and simplicity of everyday life in a small village near Chiang Mai. The artist follows old uncle Lung Neaw with a 16mm camera during his daily routines. With compassion and humility, we see him walk, talk, eat, pray, cook, hunt, smoke, drink and visit his neighbours.
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Thursday 22 March 2012
Av Festival 12: Still Life (2006)
7:30 p.m.
Still Life is set in Fengjie, 150 miles from the Three Gorges Dam, the hydroelectric project on the Yangtze River that submerged thousands of towns and displaced more than a million people. Shot while Fengjie was being demolished, the film has a powerful documentary impact, as two people travel there separately to look for their missing spouses.
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Friday 23 March 2012
Women In Revolt
7:30 p.m.
Saturday 24 March 2012
Av Festival 12: The Time Is Out Of Joint: Forest Swords, The Caretaker, Pye Corner Audio
9:00 p.m.
Three live performances embrace the concept of Hauntology at the moment we skip an hour to mark the beginning of British Summertime. Based on the idea that there are numerous unrealized futures deriving from past points in history, Hauntology makes us nostalgic for a future that never was. Working from recordings of demolished North East buildings, Ground Rhythms by Forest Swords is performed only once before being destroyed. Inspired by Kubrick’s The Shining, 1920s ballroom dance, and human memory creation, The Caretaker creates dream-like music that slows down time. Pye Corner Audio is influenced by nostalgia for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop of the 1970s. Curated by Lauren Lucretia Elliott. Supported by The Factory at Tyneside Cinema. Part of AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible.
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Sunday 25 March 2012
Canny Little Cafe
3:00 p.m.
The Canny Little Cafe, with radical/alternative/critical books n zines, hot drinks and tasty snacks! All titles are available to browse and borrow for free. The Star and Shadow also houses a large collection of film, photography and theatre books available for browsing and reference. The library can be contacted at cannylittlelibrary@gmail.com More »
Av Festival 12: Eternity (2010)
7:30 p.m.
This debut feature won the prestigious Tiger Award at Rotterdam 2011. Evoking the traditional Thai belief that the spirit of the dead returns, Eternity follows a man through three stages of being - as a ghost in his childhood home, as a young man falling in love, and absent in the life of his family in the days following his death.
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Monday 26 March 2012
Programming Meeting
6:00 p.m.
Tuesday 27 March 2012
English Language Conversation Group
4:00 p.m.
Weekly conversation session for people to practice speaking English in an informal friendly setting. The group is informal and volunteer run. Aims to be inclusive and anti-discriminatory. Free. Travel costs can be paid for people who would otherwise not be able to come. More »
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Av Festival 12: Butterflies Have No Memories / Independencia (Double Bill)
7:30 p.m.
Lav Diaz: Butterflies Have No Memories
Followed by: Raya Martin: INDEPENDENCIA
Lav Diaz: Butterflies Have No Memories (2009)
In a formerly prosperous, remote mining village, unemployed workers live in economic oppression until the mine-owner’s daughter returns from Canada. The director’s cut of this film about industrial age nostalgia was commissioned for the Jeonju Festival in Korea. A double bill with Independencia by acclaimed young Philippine director Raya Martin.
Raya Martin: INDEPENDENCIA (2009)
Fleeing the American invasion of the Philippines in the early 20th Century, a mother and her son retreat into the jungle. Ingeniously staged on fake sets to evoke the lost period of silent films, Independencia mixes melodrama with anti-colonial critique to recreate a pivotal moment in Filipino history. Raya Martin (b. 1984) is one of the most prolific and acclaimed young directors in South East Asia. INDEPENDENCIA his sixth feature is part of a series recreating lost moments from Filipino history.
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Thursday 29 March 2012
Av Festival 12: Let Each One Go Where He May (2009)
7:30 p.m.
Russell’s stunning feature debut is an epic road movie drawing from documentary and ethnography. Set in Suriname and shot almost entirely with 16mm steadicam, in thirteen extended ten-minute shots it follows two brothers as they trek from Paramaribo to rainforest villages of the Maroons. Their journey powerfully mirrors that undertaken by their ancestors escape from slavery 300 years earlier.
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Friday 30 March 2012
Our House 2
10:00 p.m.
Follow up to first Our House night. More »