Margaret Salmon's Icarus (After Amelia)
The World’s first festival of folk cinema opens today at at Filmhouse Edinburgh, with further content available at the Scottish Storytelling Centre and online. With contributions from musicians including Margaret Bennett, Deirdre Graham, Jimmy Hutchison and Jess Smith, the eighth annual Folk Film Gathering has a packed programme of activities which will run until 1 July.
Dominated by Scottish films, the festival includes a screening of 1994 film Mairi Mhor, a powerful tribute to the Isle of Skye’s 19th century warrior poet, Mary McPherson, as well as brand new work from Margaret Tait Award-winner Margaret Salmon. There will be an evening dedicated to the films of Gerda Stevenson, incorporating a Q&a with the filmmaker herself, plus an event exploring cinematic representations of selkies, Scotland's mythical seal people, hosted by the Scottish Storytelling Centre’s Donald Smith.
This year marks the festival's return to...
The World’s first festival of folk cinema opens today at at Filmhouse Edinburgh, with further content available at the Scottish Storytelling Centre and online. With contributions from musicians including Margaret Bennett, Deirdre Graham, Jimmy Hutchison and Jess Smith, the eighth annual Folk Film Gathering has a packed programme of activities which will run until 1 July.
Dominated by Scottish films, the festival includes a screening of 1994 film Mairi Mhor, a powerful tribute to the Isle of Skye’s 19th century warrior poet, Mary McPherson, as well as brand new work from Margaret Tait Award-winner Margaret Salmon. There will be an evening dedicated to the films of Gerda Stevenson, incorporating a Q&a with the filmmaker herself, plus an event exploring cinematic representations of selkies, Scotland's mythical seal people, hosted by the Scottish Storytelling Centre’s Donald Smith.
This year marks the festival's return to...
- 6/17/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ceremony, directed by Phil Collins, who will attend a Q&A Photo: Courtesy of Alchemy Film & Moving Image The line-up of Alchemy Film & Arts Moving Image Festival has been announced, along with a new slogan: "Embrace the Strange", which incoming creative director Michael Pattison describes as "an invitation as well as a dare".
The festival, which will run from 2 to 6 May in Hawick, Scottish Borders, will showcase 147 moving-image works, including four feature films and 11 shorts programmes alongside guest-curated programmes, performances and moving-image installations.
Highlights include Turner Prize nominee Phil Collins' Ceremony, plus the UK premieres of feature films by Stephen Broomer (Canada), Karolina Breguła (Poland) and Yashaswini Raghunandan (India) and a programme of shorts curated by Crossroads, San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual film festival.
Avant-garde filmmakers Barbara Meter, Esther Urlus and Deborah S Phillips will also be celebrated by showcases.
Writer/actor/director Gerda Stevenson will lead a Film Walk...
The festival, which will run from 2 to 6 May in Hawick, Scottish Borders, will showcase 147 moving-image works, including four feature films and 11 shorts programmes alongside guest-curated programmes, performances and moving-image installations.
Highlights include Turner Prize nominee Phil Collins' Ceremony, plus the UK premieres of feature films by Stephen Broomer (Canada), Karolina Breguła (Poland) and Yashaswini Raghunandan (India) and a programme of shorts curated by Crossroads, San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual film festival.
Avant-garde filmmakers Barbara Meter, Esther Urlus and Deborah S Phillips will also be celebrated by showcases.
Writer/actor/director Gerda Stevenson will lead a Film Walk...
- 4/7/2019
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Paul Farrell was a participant on this year's Film Critics Day workshop at the Cinema Rediscovered film festival in Bristol and Clevedon in the U.K., a celebration of the finest new digital restorations, contemporary classics and film print rarities from across the globe. Further examples of the writing from the workshop, as well as information about the program, can be found on the Cinema Rediscovered Blog.The thing about poetry is you have to keep doing it.People have to keep making it.The old stuff is no useOnce it's old.It comes out of the instantAnd lasts for an instantTake it nowQuicklyWithout water. There! Tomorrow they'll be something else.—Margaret Tait, Now (1958)In every frame of film there is an image; a moment captured in time, taken from a continuity of events and isolated, flesh to film, cell to celluloid. When combined, these images create a language that communicates moods,...
- 8/26/2018
- MUBI
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