HOUSE – GARDEN 46 Buller Road, Brighton
April 12th, 2010
The latest Community Archive project, Cinecity is delighted to announce our involvement with this year’s HOUSE festival, with special thanks to Screen Archive South East and Group46 Open House.
Stories of lost films turning up in garden sheds are legion – for instance footage of the Titanic in 1912 – so this seemingly humble setting is an appropriate location for this celebration of cinema. So do please check your own shed, garage or attic as Screen Archive South East is searching for films and videos plus related equipment and documentation that shows any aspect of life in the South East. Please get in touch if you have films and other screen material that you would like to donate or deposit. www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/
DUKE OF YORK’S 100
Cinecity and Screen Archive South East are working with the cinema and community groups to build a centenary archive and ‘virtual museum’. We are looking for memorabilia and memories connected to the 100 years of Brighton’s best-loved cinema. If you have any get in touch info@dukeofyorkscinema.co.uk
HOUSE – GARDEN Screenings
FIRST FOUR WEEKENDS IN MAY
46 Buller Rd, BN2 4BJ
FREE ENTRY
Following on from last year’s Home Cinema, CINECITY presents another ‘mini-cinema’, this time in a garden shed at 46 Buller Road, Brighton.
Welcome in Spring with a selection of garden and flower-themed treasures from the archive, a different programme over 4 weekends.
Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd May
BIRTH OF A FLOWER
Dir: Percy Smith. UK 1910. 6mins
Mesmerising time-lapse photography captures the poetry of flowers opening their petals to the light. Hyacinths, crocuses, snowdrops, neapolitan onion flowers, narcissi, Japanese lilies, garden anemones and roses bloom before your very eyes.
Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th May
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Dir: Percy Stow and Cecil Hepworth. UK 1903. Extract 8mins.
The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale, made just 37 years after its publication and 8 years after the birth of cinema, dramatises key scenes and is based on the original illustrations. The longest film produced in England at the time, running for 12 minutes, ALICE … was almost lost for good and only one incomplete print, found in Hove, survives. It has been newly restored by the BFI with the original colour tints recreated.
Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th May
HOW TO DIG
Dir: Jack Ellit. UK 1941. 14mins
Made in co-operation with the Royal Horticultural Society and sponsored by the Ministry of Information, the different methods of digging over ground before sowing.
Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd May
EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN’S LOVELY
A selection of garden-set home movies and amateur films from Screen Archive South East.
Do you have forgotten films in your shed?
www.dukeofyorkscinema.co.uk
Thanks again to Group46 for the donation of the 46 Buller Road’s garden shed, we are delighted to be part of the Open House.
For more details of the groups work visit
http://www.myspace.com/group46artists
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