Katie Screen's No. 2

WHEN :: Tuesday 23rd March 2010

WHERE :: Sassoon Gallery, (Behind Bar Story, under Peckham Rye train station arches // (FIND US HERE: http://www.thesassoongallery.co.uk/SASSOON_GALLERY/CONTACT.html)
PRICE :: FREE
WHAT :: 'Dark Days' by Marc Singer (2000).

Hello everyone!

We would like to invite you all to the film screening of 'Dark Days' by Marc Singer, the second in a series selected by our wonderful guest host Katie Surridge.

"When he relocated from London to Manhattan, Marc Singer was struck by the number of homeless people he had seen throughout the city. Singer had befriended a good number of New York's homeless and later, after hearing of people living underground in abandoned tunnel systems, he met and became close to a group of people living in The Freedom Tunnel community stretching north from Penn Station past Harlem. After living with them for a number of months, he decided to create a documentary in order to help them financially. Singer had never been a filmmaker before, and saw the production of Dark Days as a means of gaining better accommodation for the residents of the tunnel."

A Series From Katie Surridge.

WHEN :: Tuesday 16th March 2010

WHERE :: Sassoon Gallery, (Behind Bar Story, under Peckham Rye train station arches // (FIND US HERE: http://www.thesassoongallery.co.uk/SASSOON_GALLERY/CONTACT.html)
PRICE :: FREE
WHAT :: 'The Gleaners and I' by Agnes Varda.

Hello everyone!

We would like to invite you all to the film screening of 'The Gleaners and I' by Agnes Varda, selected by our wonderful guest host Katie Surridge.

"An intimate, picturesque inquiry into French life as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnes Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip".

DON'T MISS OUT!

We have been invited by the Goldsmiths Media Society to host a couple of films at The Amersham Arms (http://www.amersham-arms.co.uk/find-us.php) come down, watch some films, have a drink, have some food with us!

here's the blurb...

hope you can make it! L & R x

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Screening of two Czechoslovakian films from 1970, along with pop corn, sweets, snacks and so on, also its FREE in!

All in aid of fund-raising for the Fine Art & History of Art degree show...

In collaboration with Lydia Skawinski-Shearer and Rachel Marshall Films, we are pleased to be screening...

"The Ear" (ucho) directed by Karel Kachyna,

Husband and wife find their house has been bugged with listening devises put there by the government. A harrowing night follows as they are lead to believe they are under surveillance.

"Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders" (Valerie a tyden divu) directed by Jaromil Jiles,

Inspired by fairly tales such as Alice in Wonderland Valerie story is a surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world.

Secret Cinema.

Dear All,

** We would like to invite you to a very special one-off SECRET FILM NIGHT, showing at Sassoon Gallery (behind Bar Story) this coming Tuesday (9th March). Film will start rolling at 8pm on the dot, so don't be late!

This highly anticipated film is exceptionally influential and highly regarded so should not be missed... it has crossed seas, exchanged backs of hands to reach the shores of Peckham for one night only, so we really hope to see you there....

The title of the film will be revealed only at the screening o0o0o00

Hope to see you there!

Lydia and Rachel x


*** And a BIG Thank you to Dave Aldridge for designing the Posters! ***

// No Film Screening Tuesday 5th of January \\

Hello Everyone!

Hope you have all enjoyed the holiday! Just a Quick email to inform you that there is no film screening tonight (Tuesday 5th) due to the very cold weather! However we hope you all can join us next Tuesday the 12th of January for our new series entitled 'Into the Hyperbole and the Bizarre' challenging the unexpected on screen.

We will keep you updated.

Hope to see you next week.

Rachel and Lydia

//Screening No. 15 Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mépris, 1963)\\\

Screening No. 15

We'd like to invite you all to our third in the series 'In The Event of a Catastrophe', Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mépris, 1963). Although this film needs little introduction you may be wondering why we have chosen to screen it as part of the 'In The Event of a Catastrophe', series. Well we feel the the film has real tension, predominantly felt in the protagonists marriage, that tension which one feels in the event of a looming catastrophe. Another dynamic along this theme is the references made to Homer's Odyssey that perhaps in relation to Theodore Adorno's 1947 essay entitled "Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment" (a piece that became popular in the 60's), which explains the theory of the "enlightenment myth" which claims to found all western society in that of the ancient Greek's reinforcing chosen laws and systems of hierarchy. It is this entrapment that looms over us as a catastrophe that has already happened, one that we cannot escape from.

See the legendary Fritz Lang playing himself as an exiled Hollywood director and Bridget Bardot as the Siren temptress. Set on the Italian coast the cinematography is mesmerising and romantic.

Hope to see you there.

Rachel and Lydia

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A photo from the first film night....

Setting up for the first time at Franks Campari Bar, all the way back in September...

Photo by Lydia Skawinski-Shearer (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skawinska/)