Special Screenings

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Dance Films I and II

Cornwall Film Festival is delighted to collaborate with The Works, University College Falmouth and RELAYS, to bring a unique dance-for-camera element to this year's  festival. Called Dance, Camera, Action, this two-day workshop culminates with two separate screenings of dance film work from leading national and regional dance filmmakers. These screenings, which represent a unique and stunning film genre, are open to the public. During the Festival, UCF and RELAYS will also present outdoor guerrilla screenings of dance films by students, at various sites throughout Falmouth.

Dance Films I: Forward Motion

13 November 1630–1800, Phoenix Cinema 4

Featuring historic, seminal and ground-breaking films, Forward Motion creates a moving snapshot of Britain’s prolific screen dance output. A British Council project co-produced with South East Dance and supported by Arts Council England, the collection has been curated by an expert committee comprised of representatives from these three organisations alongside artists, producers and academics. Professor Liz Aggiss introduces the genre of screen dance. The main programme features short dance films with artist interviews, including: Touched by Wendy Houstoun and David Hinton; Tra La La by Magali Charrier; and the rarely seen gems Basini by Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, and Sardinas by Lea Anderson.

Please see full programme here

RELAYS , the Legacy Trust UK and Higher Education Funding Council for England- funded programme of sport and culture in the lead up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Dance Films II: Dance, Camera, Action

14 November 1630–1800, Phoenix Cinema 5

A curated screening profiling leading dance for camera work from dance and filmmaker collaborations in Cornwall and the South West. This collection includes work by Cscape in collaboration with Mark Jenkin, Dan Farberoff, All a Scrawl, Emily Dobson and Brett Harvey and many others.

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Beyond the Call

South West Premiere

82 mins, US 2006 TBC
w/d/p Adrian Belic

14 November 1130–1300, Phoenix Cinema 1

A current favourite on the film festival circuit, Beyond the Call documents the real-life adventures of three American pensioners whose idea of a mid-life crisis is to deliver food, equipment and money directly into the hands of civilians and doctors in remote and often dangerous parts of the developing world. Calling themselves Knightsbridge International, these self-financed humanitarians have no religious or political agenda, only the desire to help in ways that large organisations cannot – or will not. An inspiring film that gives altruism a whole new meaning.

This film is being screened with the support of Rotary clubs across Cornwall.

Best of Screen Actions

14 November 1130–1230, Phoenix Cinema 4

A selection of the best films of the year by young filmmakers, 8 to 18 years old, from all over Cornwall. This list of 11 films was compiled by the Young Steering Group that organised this year’s event. Proof positive that the art of filmmaking is being embraced by the next generation.

Strictly Underwater ● Angel ● Blah Blah ● When Freaky Got Lost ● The Spriggan ● X-Treem Sports ● D-Day ● Funktastic ● Dancing In The Streets ● School Alone ● Lunar

The Age of Stupid + Climate-Change Discussion

89 mins, UK 2008 12A
w/d Franny Armstrong, p. Lizzie Gillett

14 November 1700–1945, Phoenix Cinema 1

To be preceded by two climate-change shorts, the animated Wake Up, Freak Out – Then Get a Grip (w/d Leo Murray, 7 mins), and a counterpoint film, A Convenient Deception (w/d Andrew Edmonds, 22 mins).

Following today’s screening, a panel discussion will be chaired by environmental ‘guru’ Mark Paterson, head of tertiary education at the Eden Project. Mark will be joined by Piers Guy; Tim German, head of Low Carbon Cornwall; Oliver Baines of Transition Ladock; and David Smart Knight of Plan-It Earth. Andrew Edmonds, writer/director of A Convenient Deception, will provide the counterpoint along with his wife, Karen Tudor.

Pete Postlethwaite is an archivist in the devastated world of 2055. Watching ‘archived’ footage in the years leading up to 2015, before runaway climate change took place, he asks: "Why didn't we stop climate change when we still had the chance?" Five years in the making, a global phenomenon on DVD, director Franny Armstrong’s The Age of Stupid is the first climate-change blockbuster. In September a global premiere in more than 50 countries included a simultaneous streaming to 400 screens across the US. The film is also being used to raise awareness of next month’s United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen.

Piers Guy in The Age of Stupid

Reel Cornwall: Rare Films from the BFI Archives

Images of Cornwall held in the collections of the BFI National Archive, introduced by Jan Faull, BFI archive production curator.

15 November 1430–1545, Phoenix Cinema 1

A programme of rarely seen material spanning the first half of the 20th century, including the promotion of travel and tourism in 1904; extracts from an unedited travelogue filmed by Claude Friese-Greene in 1920; colour footage of china clay production in the 1930s; and a post-war advertising film from Holmans, the world-renowned manufacturer of mining equipment. Capturing a very different period in the history of Cornwall, the films provide a fascinating view of those times and are a reminder of the importance of film preservation. Jan Faull is a native of Camborne. Her work has included television co-productions such as The Lost World of Friese-Greene and The Lost World of Tibet for the BBC, and Home Front Britain for the Discovery Channel.

The programme will include:

1901 ROYAL ALBERT BRIDGE AND PLYMOUTH SOUND
Part of the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection (b/w, silent)

1904 SCENES ON THE CORNISH RIVIERA
 Promotional film for the Gt Western Railway (b/w, silent)

1920-1 PORTALS OF THE ATLANTIC
Cornish scenes – St Ives, Helston , Newquay etc
Filmed by Claude Friese-Greene , a precursor to his more
famous colour travelogue from 1925 The Open Road (b/w, silent)

1937 FAREWELL TOPSAILS
Filmed by Humphrey Jennings in Dufaycolor.
The last of the topsail schooners transporting china clay from Charlestown to London (colour, sound)

1947 SERVING THE WORLD
Promotional film for Holmans Rock Drills – shows the work carried on at the various sites in Camborne. The company had a world-famous reputation for mining equipment and was the major employer in the town. (b/w, sound)

1953 FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE
Produced by the BFI Experimental Film Fund
Examples of Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures set against the Cornish surroundings that inspired them. (colour, sound)