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Free films from Iris Prize LGBT Film Festival

Charlotte McGuinness — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 11:19:21 +0000

Organisers of Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival have made three short films from the Iris archive available for free on their YouTube channel. The films are all directed by women who have made short films with the £30,000 Iris Prize, sponsored by the Michael Bishop Foundation.

Dee Rees’ Colonial Gods is now live on the Iris Prize YouTube Channel. In May they will be sharing Daisy & D by Arkasha Stevenson, and in June Susan Jacobson’s Wild Geese will be available.

Berwyn Rowlands, Festival Director, commented:

“One of the primary reasons for Iris to exist is to get more people to see LGBT+ stories. I hope that this focus will combine our enthusiasm for October’s film festival in Cardiff with the reality of today, when people have more time on their hands to access content during this period of physical distancing and lockdown.”

Colonial Gods can be viewed here:

Our cinema may be closed, but we will still here for our community of film lovers throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. We are working with excellent local film makers and partners in the film industry to bring you an online programme of engaging interactive content for you and your loved ones to enjoy at home. Keep an eye on social media, or sign up to our eflyer for a weekly digest.

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Womb by Amber Amare

Charlotte McGuinness — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 10:46:50 +0000

“If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask her about her mother and then listen carefully. – The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother’s life, without flinching or whining, the stronger the daughter’ – Anita Diamont

Womb Charts the filmmakers own vulnerabilities and strengths as an artist; questioning what it means to be a woman, as well as sisterhood and motherhood.

This project started through reading The Red Tent, a first-person narrative that tells the story of Dinah, daughter of Jacob and Leah, sister of Joseph. She is a minor character in the Bible. The main inspiration was the menstrual hut in which they shared food, stories and love once per month. This idea of sacred rituals of togetherness both intrigued me and scared me.

I wanted to build something physical,to be experienced and touched. We don’t remember being in the womb and I wanted to recreate something to show how cramped and loud and odd it would be. My fear or motherhood consumed in this one installation. My pinterest was full of ideas and concepts from Cathy Jenkins and Ernesto Neto, their installations showcased moulding and shaping textures to resemble our insides. I also picked up new skills like knitting as I knitted a womb wall made of red cotton.

I essentially split my research into three components, Imitation, internal inspection and spectatorship. Imitation is shown through replicating certain images in the media that caused fear in the online world for example, the woman bleeding onto her bedsheets and Instagram removed the image! Why?!

I want people to view this as an ongoing experiment, to find something interesting and weird and resonate with it. I think for me, I’m still fearful of womanhood and motherhood but I found a fear and a beauty.

Amber Amare is a Director, Cinematographer and Sound Recordist working in the UK. Amber has worked on a variety of short films, artist films and commercials. Notably, her work has been showcased at Aesthetica Film Festival, Darkroom Film Festival and London Sci-fi Film Festival. Amber works with a range of different mediums from installation art to digital textiles. Her own work focuses on womanhood, female form and gender. Follow her on Instagram.

Credits

Director – Amber Amare Cinematography – Dajain Daley Actress – Robyn Tannant

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Relic by Katy Richardson

Charlotte McGuinness — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 09:47:44 +0000

This collaboration with The Imperfect Orchestra was inspired by the legacy of a collection of documents and artefacts from the artist’s grandmother Dilys Richardson (nee Tully), born in 1922. The daughter of a cinema pianist and a tax clerk, she lost her mother at the age of 4 and was subsequently passed from family member to family member until her father remarried in 1932. Dilys worked in London during the Second World War and married Frederic Richardson in 1945, when he returned from service in the RAF. They had one son, Andrew, in 1950.

Katy was Dilys’ first grandchild, and in the early part of 1978, a few months after Katy’s birth, Dilys began keeping a journal and scrapbook of memories, both of her experience of becoming a grandparent and her recollections of her earlier life. She continued to write this, seemingly without telling anyone she was doing so, until the end of the 1980s, around which point she began to develop dementia. Approximately 10 years later she began sending Katy anonymous parcels, including her wedding dress. Then, around 2005, she sent the journal.

Writer and Director: Katy Richardson

Camera: Chris Bailey, Marcella Finazzi and Katy Richardson

Archive footage courtesy of SWFTA

Narration: Katy Richardson

Live score and sound: Imperfect Orchestra (Tom Richardson, Chris Muirhead, Chris Bailey, Luke Richards, Dan Pooley, Jay Newton, Marcy Saude, Drew Turner)

Live slide projections: Katy Richardson

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Metamorphosis by Chris Muirhead

Charlotte McGuinness — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:52:15 +0000

Metamorphosis is Chris Muirhead’s directorial debut; a 40 minute film shot by Amber Amare and with a score written and performed by the Imperfect Orchestra.’

A modern re-imagining of Kafka’s Die Verwandlung ~ ‘The Metamorphosis’ ~ is a silent movie, with a score written and performed by The Imperfect Orchestra. A re-imagining of Kafka’s most famous story, it plays out as a psychological horror that explores our perceptions of ourselves and how we are perceived by others in and out of the digital car parks in which we currently spend so much time. The film also considers male isolation, the struggle of reaching out and communicating and suicide – issues that are close to the directors heart and pertinent to 2020

The film and music offer a dark subterranean fairground of differing styles, ghostly and uncanny, where time no longer has any meaning ~ fear and loathing in Brexitannia.

Metamorphosis Credits

Director ~ Chris Muirhead

Musical Director ~ Tom Richardson

Camera ~ Amber Amare

Lighting ~ Dajain Daley

Art Director ~ Julia Claxton

Costume ~ Leah Matchett

Producer ~ Katy Richardson

Cast (in order of appearance):

Mother ~ Jane Richardson

Sister ~ Katy Richardson

Father ~ Danny Reilly

Boss ~ Jud Vandy

Lodger ~ Kate Entwistle

IO Members: Rosemary Babichev / Shaun Lewin / Shane Mckenna / Chris Muirhead / Tom Richardson / Georgia Simone

Audio & Visual Technician for the performance ~ Melaine Le Bars

Filming and being right handy ~ Chris Bailey

Shot on location at Maker Heights, a small flat in Ivybridge on the edge of Dartmoor, and the South Devon coast.

Many thanks to Maker for their hospitality and use of their amazing bunker, George & Olwyn Muirhead for the use of their flat, Anna Navas and The Arts Institute for their continued support of The Imperfect Orchestra, Clash & Clash Photography for the rehearsal space, Dan James (the prettiest roadie in the land) and everyone that has helped directly or indirectly in the making of this odd little film.

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PAC x MUBI: 90 Days of Films For Free

Charlotte McGuinness — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:58:13 +0000

The cinema may be closed for now, but we have teamed up with streaming service MUBI to ensure that great films continue.

As a Plymouth Arts Cinema film-lover you can now enjoy three months of MUBI – entirely free.

Every day they hand-pick a beautiful new film and you have a whole month to watch it, so there will always be 30 films to choose from.

There is no charge for this service, but if you use and enjoy it, please think about becoming a PAC Member or making a donation to help secure the future of our cinema in these unprecedented times.

To sync your MUBI account with your TV app, please follow these steps: 1. Open the app, navigate to a film page and select the Play icon. 2. This will bring up an activation page with a 6 digit code. 3. Now open up mubi.com/activate (or the device specific URL on your screen) on your computer while logged into your subscribed MUBI account and input the code you see. (Make sure that it is displayed on your TV at the same time–otherwise it won’t work!) 4. Press “Activate” and you should then receive confirmation. 5. You should now be able to access your MUBI subscription on your TV!

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Chasing the Sublime by Amanda Bluglass

Charlotte McGuinness — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 11:47:05 +0000

The first film in this series is Chasing The Sublime by Devon-based film maker Amanda Bluglass. The film has just scooped the ‘Wildest Adventure Award’ at No Man’s Land Festival 2020

“Chasing the Sublime is stunningly shot – presenting a world and sport that many viewers never imagined.. Watching the film makes us feel as if we are with Kate and Kari, moving powerfully through the cold waters and experiencing the adventure of plunging into a new world with each swim.”

Liz Esche, Program Director.

Why do we put ourselves into the path of discomfort and risk? What drives us to get too cold and too tired, to battle with fear, in the name of adventure? Follow the originators of The Outdoor Swimming Society, ‘swim twins’ Kate Rew and Kari Furre, in this hauntingly beautiful glimpse at the physicality of UK cold water swimming, as two friends set out to chase the sublime.

Director/Producer: Amanda Bluglass Director of Photography: Danny Cooke Underwater Photography: Neil Hope & Danny Cooke Edited, Mixed & Mastered by Michael Clark Written & Narrated by Kate Rew Swimmers: Kate Rew and Kari Furre Sponsored by The Outdoor Swimming Society in association with Alpkit, with Red Moon Cruises, Akur Capital, Dryrobe and Aquatica Digital ©2018 Amanda Bluglass

Finalist, Banff Mountain Book and Film Festival 2019 Finalist Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival 2020 Best Short, Four Seasons Film Festival 2019 Judges’ Special Mention, Sheffield Adventure Film Festival 2019 Shortlisted, BMC Women Adventure Film Festival Competition 2019 Official Selections: DocLands 2019 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival 2019 THIRD ACTion Film Festival 2019 Feminista Film Festival2019 MountainFilm 2019 Boulder Film Festival 2019 Fresh Coast Film Festival 2019 She Summits Film Festival 2019 Mountainfilm Graz 2019 Women Sports Film Festival 2019 Waimea Film Festival 2019

5Point Adventure Film Festival 2020

Boulder International Film Festival 2020

Peebles Outdoor Film Festival 2020 Lady Wild Film Festival 2020 Barcelona International FICTS Festival 2020 Homegrown Shorts 2020 Wasatch Mountain Film Festival 2020

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