The Cinematheque website is being re-vamped and will be back on line shortly with details of a new series of monthly screenings starting in the autumn.

In the meantime join us for the following shows:

Wednesday 22nd August 8pm (Doors 7.30pm)

River Yarr

William Raban and Chris Welsby (UK.35 min, 16mm, 1971-2)

at the Permanent Gallery 20 Bedford Place Brighton

Entry £2

http://www.permanentgallery.com

A classic of English avant-garde landscape cinema in its merging of process and Romanticist imagery.
Shot through an upstairs window of a water mill on the Isle of Wight, overlooking a tidal estuary. A camera recorded one frame every minute (day and night) for two separate three-week periods in autumn and spring. The film is shown on two adjacent screens.

'We found our location - a view from an upstairs window in a water mill on the Isle of Wight. From this position a camera recorded one frame every minute   (day and night) for two separate three week periods. Making this film was a major pre-occupation for both of us. For most of the second period (February   '72) we were without electricity and had to fire the camera by hand.' - W.R.

"Each of my films is a separate attempt to re-define the interface between 'mind' and 'nature'. In my work, the mechanics of film and video interact with the landscape in such a way that elemental processes - such as changes in light, the rise and fall of tide or changes in wind direction - are given the space and time to participate in the process of representation." Chris Welsby

'River Yar is an utterly moving and poignant evocation of time, the seasons, and cycles of day and night, as well as a successful experiment in drawing one to reflect on the time spent recording the footage and the time spent watching it. This engagement in the representation of time in film and in the process of viewing film is no more powerfully evocated than here. Tremendous.'

George Clark - an overview of Shoot Shoot Shoot...read more

September 7th - 9th September 2007

Colour out of Space

Sallis Benney / University of Brighton