REEL ISLINGTON FILM FESTIVAL 2015 (28 Feb – 1 Mar) CELEBRATES THE THEME OF URBANSCAPES, FROM CLASSICS OF WORLD CINEMA TO CONTEMPORARY LONDON SHORTS
Reel Islington Film Festival 2015 (Saturday 28 February – Sunday 1 March)
brings films on the theme of Urbanscapes: City Dreams
to Holloway Road and the people of Islington,
from classics of world cinema such as Metropolis to a diversity of
contemporary short films by young London filmmakers. With the inclusion
of London cityscape photography by local artists and interactive film
installations from the staff of London Metropolitan
University, #RIFF2015 makes for more than your conventional film
festival. And with two-day passes from just £8, this is a weekend
accessible to all.
For a free pre-festival event, join us on Thursday 26 February at Resource for London for the opening of Fred Adam’s London
Reframed cityscape photography exhibition, with drinks and live Irish film music continuing afterwards at Rowan Arts’ free Turquoise
Thursday Goes ‘Green’ night at The George pub on Eden Grove, N7.
The festival begins with a Meet The Professionals
session for aspiring young filmmakers, hosted by documentary maker
Rebecca Kenyon of Mote Of Dust films. We then kick off the screenings
with La Haine
(Saturday 28 Feb), Mathieu Kassovitz’s prescient depiction of a
marginalised people within Paris’ ghettos. And what would an Urbanscape
film festival be without Metropolis?
Fritz Lang and Thea Von Harbou’s 1927 sci-fi masterpiece, seen here in
its controversial 1984 redux version by Giorgio Moroder, will juxtapose
the origins within cinema of the festival’s theme with its most
contemporary proponents as we close our opening night
with the annual Reel Islington Short Film Awards, judged by a panel chaired by Adam Roberts, filmmaker
and founder of A Nos Amours. Sunday morning (1 March) brings a closer look at a specially curated selection of contemporary London Shorts,
after which Leos Carax’s dreamlike urban exploration Holy Motors will begin a final afternoon of European
cinema, ending with Andrezej Wajda’s Innocent Sorcerers
and a discussion on its avant garde Jazz soundtrack
by author and Jazz critic Selwyn Harris. With a free public opening at
Resource for London on Thursday 26 March, the venue’s walls will
continue to display photographer Fred Adam’s specially commissioned London
Reframed exhibition throughout the festival weekend and interactive film installations will form the ten year anniversary exhibition of RePossessed,
a work by leading academics at the London Metropolitan University on the
inner workings of Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Attendees are invited to
celebrate the close of both days at the nearby Coronet pub, originally a
William Glen designed movie theatre in which filmmakers,
festival goers and speakers can drink and chat about each day’s events.
In
Reel Islington’s continuing commitment to championing emerging talent, a
panel of judges including Lucy Baxter (Mandrake Films), Adam Roberts (A
Nos Amours) and film producer Ben Woolford will screen the short-listed
films of the Reel Islington Short Film Award
and announce the winner based on their unique approach to the festival
theme (Saturday 28 Feb). If you can only make the Sunday, however, fear
not, as the winning film will be shown again amongst a specially
curated roster of short documentaries and artists’
films that will tackle the subject of London’s urban spaces specifically
by emerging London filmmakers, facing issues such as the housing
crisis, social cleansing and sustainability.
At
£3/£2 per film, £8/£5 per day, £12/£8 for a two-day pass and disabled
access at our Resource for London venue, the Reel Islington Film
Festival
is committed to providing a diverse and community minded programme that
is accessible to all.
The full programme is available at: www.reelislington.com
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