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MON 7 AUG
Westbourne Studios 6–11pm
21ST CENTURY DOCUMENTARY
6:00
Copenhagen Remix
Runar Gudnarson & Ulrik Gutkin 40 mins 12
We experience the city of Copenhagan with a focus on
street art. The film provides an atmospheric picture
of a city which few people experience but which can
be found, if one looks hard enough. Through music and
rhythmic montage, we obtain a picture of a city as an
organism, seen through decorations of various types.
The film was shot at the same time as the Royal Wedding
for Denmark’s crown prince in May 2004. Art Documentaries
Denmark
Aftermath
Nick Turning & Naomi Shaw 15 minutes U
A moving portrait of those living and working around
ground zero. It provides a space for the concerns and
hopes of people on the street distanced from, but subject
to the debate that has engulfed architects, developers
and their prized architects. Documentary London, England
6:55
Lemons Can Run
Tom Whitemore 40 minutes U A young man’s journey
to understand the often stormy relationship he had with
his mother, six years after her death. A personal account
of bereavement set to the back drop of his attempt to
run the London marathon – in costume as a bright
yellow lemon. Documentary London, England
The Last Lighthouse Keeper
Sam Lawlor 25 minutes U
The film chronicles the last years of manned lighthouses
in the UK (1998). It follows three of the most senior
lighthouse keepers as they recount what life was like.
Documentary London, England
8:00
O-I-L The Movie
Riki 20 minutes U
For the last three years Venus has been holding free
Valentine parties in Picadilly Circus. Under the title
’Reclaim Love’, she reminds us that oil
is not the most important commodity on the planet. Documentary
London, England
Rootical
Nike Hatzidimou 25 minutes 12A
This is the story of Charlie Phillips, an Afro Caribbean
photographer who documented the social implications
of immigration in the 1950’s and 60’s in
Notting Hill. Charlie has experienced much ignorance
with regards to the importance of his work. The working
class seem to be excluded from the art world. In discussion
with Benjamin Zephaniah and the curator of the Museum
of London, they get to the bottom of that issue. Documentary
Britain
8:40
The Mother’ House
Francois Verster 80 minutes 15
Described as astonishingly intimate, emotionally overwhelming
and sometimes shocking, The Mother’ House is a
record of four years in the life of Miche, a charming,
precocious yet troubled teenage girl growing into womanhood
in post-Apartheid South Africa. Living with her mother
and grandmother in Bonteheuwel, a coloured township
outside Cape Town, she has to face not only life in
a community troubled by gangsterism and drug abuse,
but also what it means to break the unbearable cycle
of emotional and physical violence imprisoning her own
family. Documentary South Africa
10:05
Le Troisieme Monde (Another World)
Steve Moreau 55 minutes U
Another World tells the incredible story of two young
men: Sebastien Lebebvre, a Frenchman aged 27, and Jeremy
Hinton, an Englishman aged 23. Coincidence and confidence
in each other brought them together. Together, on the
22nd of October, 2003 at 7 o’clock in the morning,
they set forth from the island of La Gomera on one of
the most difficult sporting events in the world, rowing
across the Atlantic. Documentary France
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