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Refreshed from a month's break the Star & Shadow Cinema is back with a packed and varied programme for September.

Below is a run down of the films and events for the next 10 days. But if it is easier you can print out an easy to read pdf version by clicking here: http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/shared/Septemberprogramme.pdf

Queerbeats Festival - a celebration of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender culture in Newcastle .

Friday 31 August & Saturday 1 September, 7:30pm – 1am

Drama; poetry; 60 seconds/one shot - film shorts, made by Local LGBT community; and a load of music from fantastic local bands Cowshed Sister (pure country harmony). On Friday they are joined by Little Plastic Numbers (electronic/melodic/dramatic) and on the Saturday by The Camp Vamps (chaotic/blistering/campness). D.J and D.Janes sets both nights.

Films Without Borders presents... No Borders Camp UK 2007

Sunday 2 September, 4pm & 7pm

Sparked by the imminent opening of a new immigration detention centre (prison) near Gatwick, the No Borders Camp (19-24 Sept) will be a place where we can come together to learn, take action, & to challenge the visible & invisible borders that divide people.

Claim To Fame

Tuesday 4 September, 7:30pm & 9pm

Native Skate Store presents- A North East Skateboard DVD filmed throughout the region.

No More Pictures Babe

Wednesday 5 September, 6pm

Reception & screening of autobiographical films. By artist, secret photographer, writer and filmmaker Zuzana Lola Hruskova. The author's films speculate about the desperate feelings of photographer to satisfy her needs, which are unlike the real world in various important ways are insane or hysterical.

A Bit Crack Friday 7 September, 7:30pm Monthly story telling night

Volunteer induction Saturday 8 September, 11am

Mayflies Saturday 8 September, throughout day

Responding to the ephemeral, temporary nature of the events, Howard Matthew is creating a new work which takes an off-kilter look at a day in the life of the city. The Mayflies Screening Programme presents eleven artists' films, each articulating something fleeting and momentary. By turns funny, magical, dark and absurd, the films display a psychotic sense of abandon.

 

11 act free noise blowout Sunday, 9 September, 6pm

Featuring Jazkamer, Mark Durgan, John Wiese, Tight Meat, Harm, Jazzfinger, Culver, Chalfont, Putrefier/Romance, Posset, Brothers Yemen .

Star and Shadow Cinema

Stepney Bank

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE1 2BB

+44 (0)191 261 0066.

info@starandshadow.org.uk

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The Star and Shadow Cinema is a volunteer run cinema in the Ouseburn area of Newcastle that shows films beyond the mainstream. We are only as good as the people involved ... if you want to help make it a great place come along to one of the regular meetings on Mondays at 6pm. Even easier is to join the volunteers' mailing list by sending a blank email to:

volunteers-subscribe@lists.starandshadow.org.uk

 

 

 

Hello everyone!

 

Would you like to become more involved in the Star and Shadow? Next Saturday we are opening the cinema to you to come along and found out more about volunteering, programming and the cinema in general. Come along, find out more and take part!

 

The first session will give you more information about the workings of the cinema and an induction to volunteering. From pulling pints of our lovely beer behind our bar to dispensing tickets on our special ticket-dispensing machine at the door, projecting our marvelous films and dropping off some programmes on your travels - there are many things that you can help out with.

 

The second session will open your eyes to the world of programming.

Speakers will include those involved in Star and Shadow cinema programming.

If you'd like to know more about how we find films, get them, show them and how you can get involved then come along and find out more.

 

So, when is it?

Saturday March 24th 2007, 11am - 4pm at the Star and Shadow Cinema.

 

And what's the plan for the day?

11am - 1pm: How to volunteer session

1pm - 2pm: Lunch break

2pm - 4pm: How to programme session

 

Come and get involved! You can come along to either or both of the sessions or drop in as you like!

 

We look forward to seeing you there.

 

The Star and Shadow Cinema.

 

Eric

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2007

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This week’s films and events at the Star and Shadow Cinema....

 

Black Sun Press Present "Daniel Higgs" plus support

 

Wednesday March 14, 7pm

 

"Daniel a.i.u.Higgs, interdimensional songseamstress and corpse dancer of the Mystic Craggs, was born in the Harbour city of Baltimore , USA in the early mid sixties of the previous millennium. Having begun singing 25 years ago. He is perhaps best known as the singer, lyricist of the band Lungfish, which is now as has often been, quasi if not entirely defunct. Presently the music he manifests proceeds without the blessing/curse and help/hindrance of collaborative influence. Hear for yourself."

 

Special Event: Mirrors Of Maya

- Maya Deren Retrospective 1943 to 1958

 

Thursday March 15

 

From 07:00 PM to 10:20 PM

 

A rare chance to see an in-depth collection of Maya Deren films. Often called the mother of American experimental film, Maya Deren was also an accomplished anthropologist, photographer, journalist and dancer. Her experimental films will haunt and amaze. contains the following films........ (Showing on real film)

 

Meshes Of The Afternoon

 

Screenplay by Maya Deren, Music by Teiji Ito, Cast: Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, Black & White.

 

At Land

Cast: John Cage, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, Black & White.

 

A Study In Choreography For The Camera

Cast: Talley Beatty, Black & White, Silent

 

Ritual In Transfigured Time

 

Cast: Rita Christiani & Maya Deren, Black & White, Silent

 

Meditation On Violence

 

Music by Teiji Ito, Cast: Chao Li Chi

 

The Very Eye Of Night

 

Assistant Director: Harrison Starr III, Music by Teiji Ito, Screenplay by Maya Deren

 

Witch's Cradle

 

Cast: Marcel Duchamp, Black & White (incomplete)

 

Water For Maya

 

Colour, Silent

 

Divine Horsemen:

The Living Gods Of Haiti

 

Original footage shot by Deren (1947-1954). Reconstruction by Teiji & Cherel Ito.

 

Masked Ball

 

Saturday March 17,

8PM TILL VERY LATE!!

Tickets £5

 

Organised by the Friarside Collective on a weekend night as a fund raising event for the S&S. As glamorous or as unglamorous as you fancy, entertainment and decorations promised! Tickets available from our door before hand when we are open for screenings. (limited capacity of 110)

 

Le Jour Se Leve (1939)

 

Sunday March 18, 5:30 PM

 

Directed by Marcel Carné - Part of the Poetic Realism season.

 

Length: 93 min

Format: 35mm

Marcel Carné Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill ticket

 

Jean Gabin stars as a doomed proletarian hero. Surrounded by police but unable to contemplate surrender, he recalls the events leading to the shooting of his girlfriend's seducer. The clutching pathos of this movie is only heightened by the amazing sets and cinematography, and the teddy bear too.

 

Le Quai Des Brumes (1938)

 

Sunday March 18, 7:30 PM

 

Directed by Marcel Carné - Part of the Poetic Realism season.

 

Length: 91 min

35mm

 

Marcel Carné Double Bill

- £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill ticket

 

From the same stable as Le Jour Se Leve (Writer Prevert, director Carné, star Gabin) this film set in the foggy port of Le Harvre, leaves you absorbed with the motifs of human loneliness and the not unreasonable, but ultimately impossible human dream of happiness - in otherwords what the French do best, non?

 

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Star and Shadow Cinema

Stepney Bank

Newcastle

NE1 2NP

0191 261 0066.

 

Eric

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Southern Indian Film and Food Night

 

This night takes an alternative look at the Indian film industry, showing a film made in Tamil language (with English subtitles). To accompany will be special food specific to Southern India from Dosa Corner, and it happens to be the chef's birthday too. If you are interested in South Asian film, please come down and help programme the next movies.

 

 

NEW DATE: Tuesday 27th Feb 7pm

 

Solito - David Beech, An Art preview and party.

 

David Beech takes a formalistic approach towards re-presenting and suggesting ideas about the organic self residing in the architectural environment. A series of sculptures utilising dress making, d.i.y, and basic upholstery techniques in the process of the making.

 

Saturday 17th Feb 7.30pm:

 

EYES WIDE OPEN- Open submission night

 

This is the night for you to submit your films, as long as they're under 15mins then we'll take them. On the first EWO at the Star and Shadow watch out for opportunities to win free super 8 and 16mm film. We encourage movie makers Hollywood attempts and artists wayward experiments too. Bring films on the night- most formats can be projected.

 

Free for film makers with submissions. £3 otherwise

 

Sunday 18th Feb 3pm: £3.50/3

 

The Old Maid Dir. E.Goulding, 1939, 35mm, 95mins, PG, USA

 

A 'soapy' piece of melodrama full of sacrifice, deception and emotion. BETTE DAVIS and MIRIAM HOPKINS star in this weepy "irresistable tosh". The original play, based on an Edith Wharton novel, won the Pulitzer prize.

 

Sunday 18th Feb 7.30pm: £3.50/3

 

I Vitelloni Dir F.Fellini, 1953, Italy , 103mins, PG

 

The precursor to 'slacker' movies, 'I Vitelloni' (rough translation 'The guys') look at their elders, see the sterile result of lives rendered bereft by tradition and 'sacrifice', and naturally rebel, searching in easy hedonism for the happiness that has eluded their parents. Fellini's semi autobiographical, second feature, shares many of the neo realist traits of his peers, but he plays tricks with them too.

 

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Star and Shadow Cinema

Stepney Bank

Newcastle

NE1 2NP

0191 261 0066.

 

Eric

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'THE DREAMS OF SPARROWS'

Iraqi filmmakers share their vision of life in Baghdad under US occupation.

 

TONY BENN INTERVIEWS SADDAM

Interview by Former Labour Cabinet Minister Tony Benn with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in Baghdad .

 

Screening: 7.30pm Wednesday 31st January 2007 £3.50 / £3

The Star and Shadow Cinema welcomes asylum seekers and offers them free entry

 

The Star and Shadow Cinema

www.starandshadow.org.uk

 

This event has been kindly supported by GemArts, Positive Images and the Star and Shadow Cinema

 

www.gemarts.org / www.positiveimages.org.uk

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How to get there:

Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon Tyne , NE1 2NP

 

T: 0191 261 0066

 

Opposite the Tanners pub, nearest Metro – Manors

Buses: 6B,12,22, 39,40,62,63,106,301,302 stop outside, ask for Tanners Pub

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Hello,

 

Don’t miss the following artists film & video screenings at the Star & Shadow cinema throughout February!

 

TUE 6 FEB

HEXEN 2039: THE MOVIE by Suzanne Treister (director will be present)

 

TUE 13 FEB

SINGLE SHOT various artists, produced by Film + Video Umbrella

 

WED 21 FEB

BATA-VILLE by Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie (directors will be present)

 

Film details below – for cinema info, please visit the Star & Shadow website: www.starandshadow.org.uk

 

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Tue 6 Feb/7:30pm

 

HEXEN 2039 the Movie

Suzanne Treister

45:00

DVD

2006

 

This film is a component part of HEXEN 2039, a multi-venue project by Suzanne Treister that took place across London in Nov/Dec 2006. It contains footage from the archives of HEXEN 2039, a research programme into military-occult based technologies for use in psychological warfare.

 

This is complex and layered work which reveals links between conspiracy theories, occult groups, Chernobyl , witchcraft, the US film industry, British Intelligence agencies, Soviet brainwashing, behaviour control experiments of the US Army and recent practices of its Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (PSYOP) and new research in contemporary neuroscience.

 

Suzanne Treister will be present to introduce the film & discuss the project.

 

www.hexen2039.net

 

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Tue 13 Feb/7:30 pm

 

Single Shot: Artist Video Compilation

Various artists

2006

 

The 15 films in Single Shot share a desire to create a work of power and complexity from the most basic of cinematic elements - the single, unedited shot. Whether humorous or poignant, seductive or disturbing - or indeed all of these things - what each work attempts is to catch the viewer's eye and hold it, unblinkingly, until the end. Produced by Film + Video Umbrella

 

www.single-shot.co.uk

 

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Wed 21 Feb/7:30 pm

 

Bata-ville

Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie

95:00

Digibeta

2005

 

Bata-ville is a bittersweet record of a coach trip to the origins of the Bata shoe empire in Zlín in the Czech Republic . Against the backdrop of regeneration in their local communities, former employees of the now-closed UK shoe factories in East Tilbury (Essex) and Maryport (Cumbria) are led on a journey that begins as a free holiday but soon becomes an opportunity for a collective imagining of what entrepreneur Tomas Bata’s maxim “We are not afraid of the future” means for them in 21st century Britain.

 

Inspired by the contrast between the idealism of Bata and the more recent industrial decline of East Tilbury and Maryport, host / directors Pope & Guthrie lead this unorthodox coach party on a journey through Bata’s legacy.

 

Pope & Guthrie will be present to introduce the film & discuss the project

 

www.somewhere.org.uk/bata-ville

 

www.bata-ville.com

 

Eric

(Many thanks to Eric and the Ouseburn Trust's Heritage group for keeping us up to date with local Goings-on)

 

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Friday January 19, 07:30 PM

 

Cinema of Prayoga - A Secret History of Indian Film

 

Format: Unknown.

 

CINEMA OF PRAYOGA is a unique touring exhibition of artists' film and video work from India ; making available for the first time in the UK this rich and unseen history. Moving from the birth of Indian cinema with the fantastic films of D.G. Phalke, to the inventive and playful work produced under the government's Films Division in the 1960s

 

Launching a regular South Asian strand to the programme, it seems fitting to start at the beginning. This programme presents revelatory and rare films from two founding periods of Indian cinema. D.G. Phalke's fantastic films, like those of George Méliès in France , are the foundations of Indian cinema. Phalke gave magical movement to Indian mythology with Raja Harishchandra the first ever Indian film in 1913.

 

Inventive and playful, these films merge folk theatre with epic literature, myth with modernity. Also showing are films produced under the government's 'Films Division'. Founded in 1948, with the aim of documenting independent India , these works reflect the processes of post-colonial nation building. Similar to the British GPO Film Unit, filmmakers were given free reign in the 60s and 70s to explore the possibilities of cinema from animation and impressionistic documentary to subversive collages.

 

We are incredibly fortunate to have live Hindustani Classical music accompanying the early silent films, courtesy of Dr Rajput and Dr Anand from Gurukul. Dr Rajput is one of the leading Indian Classical Music vocalists in the country, a disciple of the 87 year old living legend of classical music, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. They will introduce the themes of these early celluloid mythologies and devotionals and accompany the films vocally and instrumentally.

 

If you are interested in South Asian film please get in touch to help choose the next films.

 

PLEASE NOTE THIS DATE HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM THE PRINTED BROCHURE. IT IS 19 JANUARY, NOT 18 JANUARY.

 

This touring programme is a partnership project between ICO and no.w.here lab.

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Saturday January 20, 07:30 PM

 

Les Amants Reguliers (2004)

 

Directed by P.Garrell - Part of the "Feature Films" season.

 

Format: Unknown.

 

Les Amants Reguliers, aka Regular Lovers, P. Garrell, 2004, 178mins, 35mm

 

In 1969 a group of Parisian youth turn to opium after having experienced the liberating effects of the events of 1968. Winner of the Cinematography prize at Venice in 2005, and one of our favourites at the festival. A very powerful, innovative and evocative film about love in a time of personal and political upheaval. A great filmmaker continuing the legacy of the French New Wave, Garrell made several important experimental works in the 60s and 70s including a series with the legendary Nico.

 

http://www.artificial-eye.com/regularlovers/main.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443844/

 

The 39 Steps (1935)

 

Sunday January 21, 03:00 PM

 

Directed by A. Hitchcock - Part of the "Classic Golden Era" season.

 

Length: 86min, Format: 35mm.

 

£3.50/£3 A. Hitchcock, 1935 , UK , 86mins, U, 35mmm

 

"Handcuffed to the girl who double-crossed him." A mysterious woman is murdered in the apartment of a man who tries to help her. Fleeing from the police across southern Scotland , our protagonist embarks on an adventure filled with spies, locals, and a girl to whom he is handcuffed.

 

Sunday January 21, 07:30 PM

 

Film: Les Amants Reguliers

 

See description above- repeat of Saturday’s film.

 

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info@starandshadow.org.uk

 

Star and Shadow Cinema

Stepney Bank

Newcastle

NE1 2NP

0191 261 0066.

 

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