Artist Petra Szemán presents a rare screening of Makoto Shinkai’s 2007 anime alongside a selection of their own video work.

In 5 Centimetres per Second, director Makoto Shinkai (Your Name, Weathering With You) tells the tale of two close friends separated by chance and reunited by determination. A journey into three interconnected tales of love and lost innocence that span the minutes and months of their lives.

Petra Szemán is a moving image artist working with animation and game-like landscapes. Using a virtual version of themself as a protagonist journeying through animatic realms, they explore liminal spaces and threshold situations, looking to dissect the ways our memories and selves are constructed within a landscape oversaturated with fiction (both on- and off-screen)

 A Tyne Valley Film Festival screening at Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle.

Please note this screening takes place at Star and Shadow Cinema, please arrive to the venue in good time.