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We have kept some of the best until last. November is set to be one of the most memorable months in the City of Culture calendar with the Turner Prize exhibition open to the world, the premiere of Sam Shepard’s new play A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations) at the Playhouse, the Foyle Film Festival, Brian McGilloway’s Killer Books Crime festival, the Woman of the World festival, Take Over at the Venue, Echo Echo Dance and Movement festival, the Lenanshee Musical, Willie Doherty Unseen at the City Factory Gallery and Lumiere lighting up the autumn nights.

Following the example of the Big Weave, Cinema City will run like a thread throughout the month weaving in and out of these major events with four key themes:

· Portrait of a City· Gothic· Art and the Cinema· Legacies of Conflict

With our partners the Nerve Centre, the Foyle Film Festival and Brunswick Moviebowl, we present 30 nights of movies and welcome our special guests, Danny Boyle, Paul Greengrass, Sam Shepard, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Stephen Rea, Julien Temple, Michael Hamlyn, Andrew Eaton, Mariane Pearl, Olly Lambert, Ian Christie and many others from the world of film. We hope there be something in our programme for everyone who appreciates the art of the cinema.

We would like to thank the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure, the BFI, BAFTA, Film Hub NI, Northern Ireland Screen, the University of Ulster’s School of Media, Film and Journalism, the North West Regional College, Connected and Brunswick Moviebowl for their generous support of Cinema City.

Martin MelarkeySenior Programmer, Culture Company.

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2 Welcome

3 Contents

5 Cinema City introduction

6-7 Danny Boyle

9 Paul Greengrass

10 Refief of Derry

11 Elephant

13 Sam Shepard

14 Teaching Divided Histories

15 Wim Wenders

16 Public Service Broadcasting

17 Gothic Season

19 Outdoor screenings at Ebrington

20 Mike Grigsby

22-26 Listings

29 Hamlet

33 Foyle Film Festival

34 Photo Drama of Creation

35 Portrait of a City / Des Bell

36 Undertones of a City

37 CCEA Moving Image Arts

39 Picturing Derry / Women of the World

43 Art and the Cinema / New Short Films

44 Stumpy’s Brae

45 Psycho Live!

46 A City Dreaming

47 Stephen Rea (Angel)

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Music, literature, visual art, theatre and dance have been on offer throughout City of Culture 2013. Now it is cinema’s turn to take centre stage in a month long programme, curated by Martin Melarkey, Senior Programmer with Culture Company.

Throughout November there will be myriad reminders of why cinema occupies such a vital place in our lives. As some of the most talented filmmakers on the planet come to our city, we will celebrate the creativity of our local filmmakers with the premiere of a number of new films, commissioned by Culture Company, exploring aspects of city life.

The title Cinema City dares to place Derry~Londonderry alongside the great celluloid symphonies of a city such as Woody Allen’s Manhattan, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire. This year we have a new hymn to our city to unveil with the premiere of Gerry Anderson’s A City Dreaming on December 6.

Screenings and special events are taking place at venues throughout the city, including Brunswick Moviebowl, the Nerve Centre, Ebrington Square, St Columb’s Hall, the Foyle Theatre, the Masonic Hall, the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall, the Hive at the Rath Mor Centre and local community centres and libraries.

As well as the annual Foyle Film Festival (November 20-24), Cinema City includes special seasons on the films of Danny Boyle, Sam Shepard, Wim Wenders and Stephen Rea as well as four separate thematic strands running throughout November.

Gothic SeasonCinema City will incorporate the BFI’s Gothic season exploring the macabre in movie history. Local audiences can enjoy horror classics such as Don’t Look Now, The Night of the Hunter and The Shining as well as three different versions of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The key highlight of the Gothic season will be the premiere of a new short film based on a poem by Lady Cecil Francis Alexander. Stumpy’s Brae is a 30-minute Gothic horror in the Ulster Scots language, written for BBC Northern Ireland, by Derry school teacher, Darren Gibson.

Portrait of a CityCinema City will bring film to local communities through a touring package of new archive footage donated by the public to the BT Portrait of a City project in 2013. The films will be screened in community centres and libraries across the city allowing audiences to revisit aspects of their history that have been captured on film.

Local director Desmond Bell will screen a number of his documentaries about loyalist history and culture followed by panel debates. The documentary Picturing Derry, which inspired the City of Culture photographic exhibition, will be screened in the Rath Mor Centre with the filmmakers in attendance.

A unique screening will take place on November 20th of a film that was last shown in Derry in 1914. The Photo-Drama of Creation will be introduced by Ulster born film scholar and broadcaster, Professor Ian Christie.

Legacies Of Conflict SeasonThe legacy of conflict in Northern Ireland and other countries will be explored at the Teaching Divided Histories Conference at the Masonic Hall. Special guests include producer Andrew Eaton and Mariane Pearl played by Angelina Jolie in the 2007 film A Mighty Heart.

Willie Doherty will discuss the influence of cinema on his artwork in a special event at the Nerve Centre on November 13, before introducing a screening of Alan Clarke’s acclaimed film, Elephant, produced by Cinema City guest Danny Boyle.

The Hive at the Rath Mor Centre will host a retrospective of the three Northern Ireland documentaries made by the late Mike Grigsby - Too Long a Sacrifice, 1984; The Silent War, 1990; Rehearsals, 2005.

Art & The CinemaArt and the Cinema is a programme of movies about artists complementing the Turner Prize exhibition and other visual art exhibitions in the city such as Willie Doherty Unseen. Films on the life of Caravaggio, Van Gogh, Edward Munch, Francis Bacon and Tarkovsky’s classic, Andrei Rublev, will be screening weekly at the Nerve Centre.

Cinema City is presented by Culture Company and the Nerve Centre in association with the University of Ulster, BFI, BAFTA, Film Hub NI and the Foyle Film Festival.

Cinema City is supported by Film Hub NI. Film Hub NI is led by Film Hub Lead Organisation QFT as part of the BFI Film Audience Network and funded by British Film Institute through National Lottery Funding.


One of the most eagerly awaited events of the City of Culture programme is the BAFTA audience with Danny Boyle and Frank Cottrell Boyce on Saturday, 23 November in St Columb’s Hall. Danny Boyle’s return to Derry later this month, exactly 17 years after he presented Trainspotting here months before the film’s release, is a homecoming of sorts. By Martin Melarkey

Danny Boyle- A Kind of

Homecoming

Danny Boyle ‘s connection with Derry goes back to the mid-1980s when he directed a play based on Eamonn McCann’s book War and an Irish Town. In 1987 he applied for the post of TV producer with BBC Northern Ireland and it was in Belfast that his career in film and television began.

Between 1987 and 1989, Danny Boyle directed and produced seven one-hour dramas for BBC Northern Ireland, including Elephant, one of the most uncompromising films ever made about the Troubles. The film provided a foretaste of what was to come when Danny Boyle switched from television to cinema to make his debut feature Shallow Grave in 1994.

Danny Boyle summed up his approach to cinema in a recently published book of interviews with Amy Raphael. “I think it’s one of the points of cinema – to be visceral, rather than intellectual or reflective,” he says. “The reflection can come later. It should be the sensation of experiencing 90 or 100 minutes of live imagery. It should be unstoppable. You


shouldn’t be able to walk away. You should feel trapped in a dark room. That’s what really turns me on about cinema.”

This philosophy was applied to maximum effect in the director’s breakthrough movie, Trainspotting. The film’s brash, in-your-face punk attitude, wit and anarchic energy were unlike anything we had seen in British cinema since the 1970s. This was visceral cinema with a vengeance. Trainspotting became the soundtrack for a generation and the music of Underworld and Lou Reed’s A Perfect Day became forever associated with the film. Since Trainspotting, Danny Boyle has gone on to make another ten movies across a range of different genres – romantic comedy, family movie, sci-fi, horror and heist movie. Though the director has explored the dark side of the human psyche and rebooted the zombie franchise with 28 Days Later, underlying all his films is an affirmation of life and the sheer joy of existence.

Just before the trapped protagonist of 127 days cuts off his own arm to free himself, his whole life flashes in front of him. According to the director, the message of that film was “You decide your own fate, you decide, don’t give up.” Trainspotting’s mantra “Choose Life” continues to echo throughout Danny’s work.

Danny Boyle’s sweep of the 2009 Academy Awards with Slumdog Millionaire was a true triumph of the underdog. At one time the film seemed destined to go straight to DVD. In the end, life imitated art and the film’s rags to riches story was acted out with the movie itself.

In the slums of Mumbai, the director encountered a real life heroism that fuelled the movie’s story of triumph against the odds. Danny Boyle comments, “I found the places we were working really inspiring both in terms of the people and the way they lived. They are so resilient, so resourceful. It’s breathtaking what they achieve with their lives, given they have so little. The idea of the film is to celebrate

such achievement; Jamal goes on the show without any real formal education and he wipes the floor with the sneering host. Slumdog is saying that no matter how impoverished a life might appear, it is just as valid as the next person’s.”

The film that the director says paved the word for Slumdog was his 2004 movie Millions. Both films feature a brother who loves money and another who doesn’t care for it. There is a warmth in the storytelling in both films.

Danny Boyle has described Millions as his most personal film. Screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce drew upon his religious background for the humorous scenes where Damian, the younger brother, is visited by saints.

“I thought the script was beautiful. I could really relate to the story; it felt very personal. I absolutely understood why he was talking to saints. Frank and I both saw the film as being about a kid who is loyal to his imagination. I rather romantically think of myself as that kid. We were both brought up in Catholic homes, and so I obviously recognised all the references.” The close working relationship that Danny Boyle and Frank Cottrell Boyce forged on Millions has continued. It was Danny Boyle who suggested that Frank turn the story of Millions into a novel. This propelled the writer into a second career as a children’s author, penning a series of award-winning books, including two sequels to Chitty Bang Bang.

When Danny Boyle agreed to take on the role of artistic director of the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, he turned to Frank Cottrell Boyce to help create the spectacular vision for the epic Isles of Wonder. Along with James Bond, Mr Bean and the music of the Sex Pistols, the opening ceremony featured a number of famous characters from children’s literature including the terrifying Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Frank Cottrell Boyce has often spoken about the challenge of creating the Olympics opening ceremony and the scepticism that he and Danny Boyle faced. He told students at Lancashire University that “in the year leading up to the ceremony, we must have received the worst press ever, with comments saying it would be ‘dreadful’ and a ‘global embarrassment’. We weren’t afraid because of past experiences - my best advice is never to be afraid of failure,” he said. “Just look at the way things turned out.”

On Saturday 23 November, the two friends will discuss their creative collaboration on the Olympics opening ceremony, while Frank Cottrell Boyce will share with Danny his experiences this year working with over 1,000 volunteers from the city to create The Return of Colm Cille. As well as discussing the books, music and films that have inspired them, they will read some of their favourite poetry. It should be a night to remember.

This event forms part of BAFTA’s UK-wide learning and events programme, giving audiences across the country access behind the screens of the film, TV and video games industries. BAFTA’s learning website, BAFTA Guru, makes these insights available to all. Be the first to hear about our events and initiatives – sign up to our mailing list at www.bafta.org/guru, follow @BAFTA on Twitter and find BAFTA on Facebook.

Frank Cottrell Boyce Danny Boyle


To Hollywood and the world at large he may be the director of the Bourne franchise and his blockbuster new release Captain Phillips starring Tom Hanks, but in this part of the world Paul Greengrass will always be known as the man who brought the tragic events of Bloody Sunday to the big screen.

As a man who knows this city well, Greengrass is making a major commitment to Cinema City. He will be staging a Q&A session after a screening of Captain Phillips at the Brunswick Moviebowl, will be present at a free screening of Bloody Sunday at the Rath Mor Centre and will also be In Conversation With Professor Martin McLoone at the Foyle Theatre at the North West Regional College.

Greengrass established a documentary style, often using handheld cameras, which perfectly suited the subject matter of his early work. Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt, was acclaimed internationally and won the first prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2002 and an audience prize at Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival.

United 93, his real-time account of the events on board one of the planes hijacked on 9/11, when the passengers foiled the terrorist plot, is regarded as one of the most thoughtful and moving films of the events of that day.

Greengrass’ journalistic background on Granada Television’s World in Action, was perhaps the perfect grounding for films of this type, but it was something of a surprise when Hollywood came calling offering him the helm of action thriller The Bourne Supremacy.

“By the time I’d done Bloody Sunday I felt I reach the end of a chapter,” he said. “I could feel it. I wanted to try something new, something different. Then to my amazement Bloody Sunday won lots of theatrical prizes and then, to my even greater amazement, I had the opportunity to make a film in Hollywood. Looking at my films, you wouldn’t think there’s a guy who’s going to make films in Hollywood.”

It was, though, a match made in heaven. The Bourne Supremacy and its follow-up The Bourne Ultimatum, made an action

star of Matt Damon and rewrote the rulebook for the genre – so much so, that the makers of the Bond franchise had to rethink their entire approach, turning to a more realistic style with Daniel Craig taking over from Pierce Brosnan.

With Captain Phillips, Greengrass has in a sense turned full circle, combining the true story of a US cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates with a Hollywood budget. Tom Hanks stars as the eponymous Captain Richard Phillips, the man in charge of the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in 200 years.

But as Greengrass is eager to point out, it’s not a straightforward good versus evil.“I had one guy the other day saying that it’s just a propaganda for the US navy. Then I’ve had others saying you’re way too sympathetic to the Somalis. So it’s interesting. It’s something where you go, “no, no, we’re neither - we’re right down the middle of this.” It’s layered and complex, I think. “

Captain Phillips and Q&A with Paul Greengrass, Brunswick Moviebowl, Thursday 14 November 10am

Bloody Sunday with Paul Greengrass, Rath Mor Centre, Thursday 14 November 3.30pm

In Conversation with Paul Greengrass, Foyle Theatre, NW Regional College, Thursday 14 November, 7pm.

Grass is Greener in Derry

Captain Philips (2013)


The symphony, which was commissioned by the city to commemorate the famous siege of 1689 and first performed in 1990, will see the return many of the musicians who took part in the original performance. Once again the Colmcille Pipe Band will arrive in the hall to do musical battle with the Ulster Orchestra and massed trumpets from the Britannia Concert Band.

The plaintive tones of Liam O’Flynn’s uilleann pipes and the soaring voice of Rita Connoly will evoke the plight of defenders and besiegers alike, and once more the soprano saxophone of Derry’s own Gerard McChrystal will be there at the end to lead the final hymn to salvation. In a work that has since become known as ‘The

Symphony of Peace’. Centre stage will be conductor Gearóid Grant and a 120-strong choir directed by Donal Doherty .

With over 200 singers and musicians on a specially-constructed stage at The Venue it is not surprising to discover that Shaun Davey is experienced in working with large musical forces and on an epic narrative scale. Unique among Irish composers, he first learned his craft in theatre in the UK with many scores for the RSC including King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, three separate productions of The Tempest, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, A Winter’s Tale and Pericles.

Since then his music for TV and feature film has earned three BAFTA nominations, an Ivor Novello Award (for the BBC’s

‘The Hanging Gale starring the McGann brothers), a Golden Reel Award for ‘Waking Ned’, and a TRIC Award for best UK TV theme. He has also worked on Broadway where his score for ‘The Dead’ won the New York Critics Award and was nominated for a Tony.

With a programme also including such Davey classics as the final movement from The Brendan Voyage, The Deer’s Cry, Fill to me the Parting Glass, a special guest appearance by singer Liam O’Maonlai, and massed percussion led by Belfast virtuoso Noel Eccles, this concert will be a night of musical celebration certain to provide a fitting conclusion to Derry-Londonderry’s highly successful tenure as UK City of Culture 2013. Supported by JTI.

Relief of Derry will bring the house downDerry~Londonderry’s UK City of Culture 2013 celebrations are set to reach a suitably epic crescendo on December 20th when the Venue 2013 plays host to a special performance of The Relief of Derry Symphony by BAFTA nominated composer Shaun Davey.


Willie Doherty will discuss the influence of cinema on his work and introduce a screening of Elephant in the Nerve Centre on the evening of November 13. Martin Melarkey explains why the film has become a touchstone for artists seeking to challenge dominant perceptions of the Troubles. In the mid-1980s Willie Doherty began taking black and white photographs of the landscape and street scenes of his native Derry. The images were haunting and atmospheric and a stark contrast to the dramatic and sensationalised images that the city had become famous for since the outbreak of the Troubles in 1969. Instead of civil rights marches and riots, Willie photographed deserted streets, abandoned roads and grey skies, filled with an eerie portent. As an artist, Willie Doherty was reacting against the dominant mode of media representation that had come to define the Northern Ireland conflict and fix it in aspic. Alan Clarke’s 1989 film, Elephant was inspired by a similar dissatisfaction with the way in which the reporting of the Troubles had served only to leave the viewer numb and distanced from the reality of violence. Clarke’s experimental style breaks all the rules of television drama. He administers the visual equivalent of an electric shock to the viewer by showing us killing after killing, without context, character motivation or any narrative explanation. We never discover who is doing the killing or why.

The camera simply follows a nameless victim, whom we come across in a ‘normal’ every day setting, until he becomes the target of a brutal assassination. The scenario is repeated 18 times with the camera lingering on the body of each victim, implicating us in its voyeurism. Elephant is a relentless cycle of seemingly senseless killing, and like the title itself, the film is a powerful metaphor for how the Troubles had come to be understood by many of those watching from a safe distance. According to Martin McLoone, the film’s power derives from the director’s adoption of the tactics of the artistic avant-garde to reveal a truth that no amount of reporting of the Troubles could uncover. “It is an avant-garde piece in the sense that it chooses to jettison normal artistic rules and to challenge the television audience aesthetically as well as politically. “At the time, the BBC explained the title as a reference to writer Bernard MacLaverty’s wry comment that it is as difficult to ignore the Troubles as it is to ignore the presence of an elephant in your own sitting room. Yet the film surely argues the opposite – that if the elephant is there long enough and an explanation of its presence withheld for long enough, then, unlikely as it may seem, its presence no longer excites much interest. In other words, the catalogue of unexplained and seemingly motiveless violence, removed from any explanatory framework, becomes an unpleasant, misunderstood phenomenon that people accept as part of their mental landscape.”

The film was a huge influence on Willie Doherty and just four years after seeing Elephant, the artist began to use video as a tool to explore the pervasive sense of fear and paranoia in Northern Ireland in disturbing works such as The Only Good One is a Dead One. More recently, Willie has collaborated with Seamus McGarvey, the Oscar-nominated cinematographer from Armagh, on significant works such as Re-Run (nominated for the Turner Prize in 2002) and Ghost Story. Both works can be viewed in the current exhibition Willie Doherty Unseen, running until January at the City Factory Gallery, alongside the artist’s early photographs of Derry. In Ghost Story, the camera moves slowly along a deserted country lane, like a disembodied spirit, haunting the landscape. The ghost of Elephant and the films of the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky all seem to be contained in that single, ominous camera movement.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Filmmaker by Martin Melarkey

Elephant (1989) - Dir. Alan Clarke

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There are actors, writers and directors; actors or writers who direct and occasionally directors who act (or try to). Rarely, though, does anyone manage to combine all three disciplines, not just passably, but to critical acclaim.

This rare accolade is one which can be conferred on Sam Shepard – an Oscar nominated actor, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, an acclaimed theatrical director inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. And if you think one man can’t possibly have it all, he was married to Jessica Lange.

As one of the international stars heading to Derry~Londonderry for the City of Culture year with the world premiere of his new play A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations) in conjunction with Field Day, it is entirely fitting that his screen work be celebrated with a short season of his films during Cinema City, Paris, Texas, Fool For Love and Blackthorn.

Paris, Texas is Shepard’s most celebrated screenplay, the film made in collaboration with renowned German director Wim Wenders. Ostensibly the story of a man in search of a life he used to know and has lost, the amazing landscapes of the American West are as much as star of the film as Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski and Shepard himself. Wenders – whose masterpiece Wings of Desire is also being screened as part of the festival - used his Texan setting to explore the themes of memory, guilt and a yearning for home. With an award-winning soundtrack by Ry Cooder, the film was awarded the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984.Shepard stars in Fool For Love, based on one of his most famous stageplays which he also adapted for the screen with

Robert Altman at the helm. Shepard plays the central role of a man who shows up unexpectedly at a motel where an old flame and childhood flame played by Kim Basinger is in hiding and threatens to drag her back to her old life.

Blackthorn, released in 2011, is the most recent film in the season, but one which harks back to the beginning of the last century to pose the intriguing question – what if Butch Cassidy had managed to survive the shootout in Bolivia which ended the celebrated 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? Shepard plays a decades older Cassidy, living under the name Blackthorn, but still not free of suspicion as an old adversary played by Stephen Rea, tracks him down.

A genuine contender for the title Greatest Living American, Shepard continues to surprise and his new play A Particle of Dread, which reunites him with Field Day and Stephen Rea, at the Playhouse in December will be one of the most celebrated theatrical events of the year.

Don’t Come Knocking, The Nerve Centre, Thursday 7 November at 8pm.

Fool for Love, The Nerve Centre, Tuesday 12 November at 8pm

Paris, Texas and Q&A with Sam Shepard. Brunswick Moviebowl, Friday 22 November at 7pm.

Blackthorn, The Nerve Centre, Tuesday 26 November at 8pm.

A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations) runs at the Playhouse from Thursday 28 November until Saturday 7 December.

Shepard:The Man Who Has It All

Blackthorn (2011) - Dir. Matteo Gil


On the Front Line of Education

by Emma McDermott

Why is the reporting and documenting of conflict so important,and how can we use these digital testimonies within oureducation system to enable our young people to learn fromconflicted societies? These are some of the issues which willbe addressed at the upcoming ‘Teaching Divided Histories’conference which takes place on the 18th and 19th Novemberin the Masonic Hall in Bishop Street, Derry~Londonderry.Organised by the Nerve Centre and the British Council NI, theconference is part of an innovative three year project supportedby the EU PEACE III Programme managed by the Special EUProgrammes Body.

Bringing us first-hand through reporting from conflict zoneswill be ex-RTÉ Chief News Correspondent Charlie Bird, andlocal cameraman Mark McCauley, both of whom have workedextensively conveying the evidence of war from across theglobe. Whilst factual reporting and archive footage are fantasticsources for the exploration of conflict related history, creativeresponses to conflict using still and moving image are also keymeans to aiding understanding and encouraging debate.

The focus will then shift to cinema and conflict, with special guests Mariane Pearl (journalist and author) and Andrew Eaton (producer) in frank conversation about their involvement in the making of A Mighty Heart, the film, starring Angelina Jolie, which documents the true story of the kidnap and murder of Mariane’s husband, journalist Daniel Pearl, in 2002.

Documentary film also features, through the participation of Olly Lambert , the multi-award winning Director of Syria: Across the Lines,who will add his unique insight and experiences of documentary and film representations conflict today, in the era of social media and 24 hour news reportage.

The Teaching Divided Histories project itself is led by the NerveCentre, in partnership with the British Council NI and the Cityof Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB), and aimsto introduce new approaches to the study of conflict into theschool curriculum in both Northern Ireland and the Republic,and also internationally. The key aim of this project is todemonstrate how teachers can use moving images and creativetechnologies to engage pupils in the study of conflict and offerthem stimulating ways of interrogating myths and challengingsectarian stereotypes. With this is mind, the second day of theconference will focus very much on conflict education andhow we can inspire, and also learn from, other post-conflictsocieties. International perspectives will be delivered by theBritish Council, Calcutta’s Seagull Foundation, the LebaneseMinistry of Education, the Scottish Education Ministry andBoston College’s Guestbook project.

We will also hear from teachers from Derry~Londonderry, SouthAfrica and Sierra Leone who are directly involved in partnershipwork through the TDH project.

www.nervecentre.org/TeachingDividedHistoriesOr follow the project via Social Media sites:www.facebook.com/teachingdividedhistoriestwitter.com/TDHnervecentre

“We go to remote war zones to report what is happening. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians” –

Marie Colvin, (Sunday Times Reporter killed in the siege of Homs, Syria, February 2012).


Two iconic films by the legendary German filmmaker, Wim Wenders, screening in our Cinema City programme, reveal the power of cinema to capture indelible images of a vanishing world. Martin Melarkey looks at two masterpieces of the cinema.

The director Walter Salles made the following comment about Wim Wenders: “Cezanne once said that, ‘Things disappear so rapidly, that you have to rush if you want to see them’.” Wenders became, for me, the man who went from film to film to register this vanishing world and remind us who we were, where we’re coming from

and where we would eventually be going.”In Paris, Texas, his most famous movie, Wenders used the American landscape to make a film about typical German themes; memory, the past, guilt, and the yearning for home. Sam Shepard, the screenwriter of Paris, Texas, had been writing plays and short stories since the 1960s about an imaginary America, a true West that his characters yearn for even as it fades away.According to Wenders: “Sam’s look is special, unique. He talks mainly about the West; his country is not America, it is the West. He is still fascinated by what he sees as a mythical country, a pioneer’s country. Sam is really a dreamer.”

The mythical landscape of the American West is evoked in the stunning opening sequence of Paris, Texas, where the desert is a place of loss, loss of identity and of language for the main character, Travis. The quest that Travis sets out on to unite a shattered family carries echoes of the greatest of all American Westerns, John Ford’s The Searchers.

After the success of Paris, Texas, Wenders returned to his native Germany to make a film about a city that had come to symbolise the deep division between East and West. Speaking in 1987, Wenders commented: “Berlin is the only place that doesn’t try to forget. Elsewhere, you don’t find much except a frenetic need to wipe out the past, whereas Berlin is honest about its wounds and carries them with pride. Traces of the war can still be found, even in its architecture. You can find, in this symbolic city, traces of the nineteenth century, of the 1920s, of the war and post-war years, and of course of the current political way of life.”

Filmed three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wings of Desire has its main characters, the angels Damiel and Cassiel, pass through the Wall and wander around in the No-Man’s Land between East and West. Damiel’s transformation from angel into human form takes place in the No-Man’s Land that would soon disappear forever.

“Wings of Desire didn’t start for the director as a film about angels, but rather as a film about Berlin,” critic Scott Dickinson explains. And Berlin, he notes, was very different in the mid-1980s, when Wenders made the movie. “The movie shows us the whole city – divided by the wall – just a few years before the wall came down. You can feel the incredible beauty of that city, and the dark oppression of the Eastern Bloc. Wenders was looking for a point of view that could help him show the remarkable uniqueness of that city before the wall fell, and the angels became the device that allowed him to do that.”

Wings of Desire can be seen in the Nerve Centre on Monday 11 November, while Paris, Texas is screening in Brunswick Moviebowl on the evening of Friday 22 November as part of the Foyle Film Festival. Following the screening, screenwriter Sam Shepard will be In Conversation with writer Clare Dwyer-Hogg.

The Vanishing World of Wim Wenders by Martin Melarkey


Public Service Broadcasting: Inform-Educate-Entertain PSB repurpose old propaganda films to artful, stirring effect - but what does it all mean?

Public Service Broadcasting is the corduroy-clad brainchild of London-based J. Willgoose, Esq. who, along with his drumming companion, Wrigglesworth, toured the length and breadth of the UK in May 2013 on a quest to inform, educate and, most importantly, entertain.

And they will be at the Glassworks in Derry~Londonderry on Sunday November 17 with support coming from Stephen McCauley and Vincent.

Through their uniquely spell-binding live AV Transmissions audiences will witness the band weave samples from old public information films, archive footage and propaganda material around live drums, guitar, banjo and electronics as they teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future - beaming our past back at us through vintage TV sets and state of the

art modern video projection devices. The band’s debut album was released in spring 2013 to massive critical acclaim.

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The spirit of Halloween will be kept alive through the dark November nights as the BFI’s Gothic season comes to the City of Culture. Martin Melarkey explains.

First brought to life in the novels of Mary Shelley, the Brontes and other female writers of the 19th Century, the Gothic is now an indelible part of the modern imagination. The predatory shadow of the vampire ascending the stairs in Nosferatu; the looming silhouette of the Bates Motel in Psycho; a homicidal Jack Nicholson chasing his son through the maze in The Shining; the tiny figure in a red raincoat stalking Donald Sutherland through the dark alleyways of Venice in Don’t Look Now. These Gothic images have been burned into our minds by the power of cinema. They will forever haunt us, and, like a guilty pleasure, they will summon us back to the cinema or TV screen, to relive the horror, fear and suspense once more. Such is our dark fascination with the Gothic.

Our Gothic season begins on November 1 with a macabre tale of our very own, brought to the screen by local teacher Darren Gibson. Stumpy’s Brae is a dark, gruesome and terrifying tale of temptation, murder and revenge. Throughout November, the Nerve Centre will be the regular venue to see horror classics, while at the weekend, Ebrington Square will become the main focus.

Ireland can justly claim to be one of the most important sources of the Gothic. The Anglo-Irish ‘Big House’ novels of Edgeworth, Le Fanu and Maturin gave birth to the old dark house of gothic horror, while in his 1897 novel Dracula, Dublin writer Bram Stoker gave us the enduring icon of the horror genre.

The tradition continues today in the work of Irish director and author, Neil Jordan, who has made two acclaimed films based on classics of Gothic literature, Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves and Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. Both films feature in our Gothic season. Bram Stoker’s novel was first brought to the screen by German director F W Murnau in the 1922 film, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors. The bald, skeletal vampire has become one of the most terrifying images in cinema. Another great German filmmaker, Werner Herzog, remade the film in 1979 with the legendary actor, Klaus Kinski in the lead role. Both versions of Nosferatu are screening in our Gothic season.

From Alfred Hitchcock to Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles to Akira Kurosawa, the Gothic has attracted the greatest directors

in cinema history. A major highlight of our Gothic season will be a screening in The Venue of Hitchcock’s Psycho with Bernard Hermann’s chilling score performed live by the Ulster Orchestra.

Southern Gothic comes to us in the shape of the psychotic preacher with love and hate tattooed on his fists in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter. In perhaps his greatest screen role, Robert Mitchum plays a character who seems to have stepped out of a Grimm’s fairytale and into the biblical landscape of the American South. Film critic Danny Peary has described The Night of the Hunter as “a fascinating, truly unique work, part gothic horror film, part religious parable, part children’s nightmare, part fairytale.”

Shakespeare was clearly fascinated by the Gothic and in two of his greatest works he conjured up a world of ghosts, witches and supernatural terror. Two radically different adaptations of Macbeth can be seen during the last week of November - Kurosawa’s re-imagining of Macbeth as a Japanese samurai warrior epic and the more faithful vision of Scotland as a nocturnal landscape of haunted characters brought to the screen by Orson Welles.It is fitting that we end our Gothic season on the opening night of the Lumiere festival with a modern version of Hamlet filmed on the city walls.

For a final statement on the Gothic, we should perhaps always leave the last word to Shakespeare:” There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio.”

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With the Turner Prize exhibition attracting art lovers to Ebrington Square, Cinema City will offer free outdoor screenings of classic art films from the early days of silent cinema.

Cinema is sometimes described as the ultimate fusion of all the arts, combining literature, theatre, architecture, photography, fashion and music. In the first decades of the 20th Century, two film national movements emerged in Germany and Russia that saw the cinema as a medium of artistic expression, innovation and experiment. Within a single decade, the pioneers of German Expressionism and Soviet Montage produced some of the most daring and influential films of the twentieth century.

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, released in Germany in 1920, is viewed as the cinema’s first art film. “Make-up, costumes and acting are stylised and expressionistic,” Mike Budd explains. “The angular, splintery shapes, the titled houses, leaning walls and distorted spaces infuse the world of the film with strangeness and dread. These uncanny shapes came from the artistic world of the expressionist avant-garde.” Two years later, another German Expressionist classic, Nosferatu, brought Bram Stoker’s Dracula to the screen for the first time. The bald, skeletal vampire is a terrifying and grotesque figure who has haunted the cinema for almost a century.

German filmmakers created the first great science fiction film. In Metropolis (1926), a repressive city state is thrown into revolution when a female robot leads workers to rebel against their masters. Fritz Lang’s dark dystopian vision has provided the template for many films about cities of the future, most famously, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner.The tempo and diversity of modern city life was a favourite subject of the earliest documentary films in the silent era. Russian director Dziga Vertov’s 1929 film, Man with a Movie Camera, presents a kaleidoscope of daily life in the Soviet Union: sleeping, waking, going to work or playing. The film can be compared with Berlin: Symphony of a City (1927) which chronicles a day in the life of the city, from the first figures appearing in the early morning streets, through the bustle of a working day punctuated by personal dramas, and into the hectic neon-lit nightlife for which Berlin was famous.

All five films will be screening in Ebrington Square at 8pm over the second and third weekend of November, no ticket necessary. As the films are all silent, we are hoping that there will be some obliging musicians about to provide the soundtrack.

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Michael Grigsby

Retrospective

Three poetic films made over a period of 20 years in different communities across Northern Ireland explore the incongruities and quiet tragedies of the Troubles. This special tribute to the veteran documentary filmmaker Michael Grigsby, who passed away on 12 March of this year, is presented by Professor Ian Christie. Grigsby strove to convey the experiences of ordinary people, and those on the margins of society. He made more than 30 films – many of them for Granada TV’s World in Action and Disappearing World – which were marked by the way in which they allowed their subjects to speak for themselves. Taking his films back to the communities he had filmed for their approval became a vital part of Grigsby’s process of securing trust. Some – like the Inuit – would subsequently use his films to explain their lives to outsiders. Between 1984 and 2005, Grigsby shot a trilogy of acclaimed documentary films reflecting realities of life in Northern Ireland. He developed a distinctive poetic filmmaking style, that juxtaposed images with the creative use of music and soundscape recordings. This is seen to great effect in Too Long a Sacrifice (1984) where the interviews are filmed against peaceful backdrops – cattle fields, a restaurant, the seashore. The director resorts to minimal use of stock footage and stills or voice over narration. A reviewer in the Chicago Reader wrote about Too Long a Sacrifice, “Grigsby interplays the sheer ordinariness of pastoral scenes with seemingly offhanded intrusions by security forces in a way that jars more than the standard – numbing – tours of devastation in so many film clips we’ve seen before. The long takes and slow rhythm invite us into the lives of people who are no worse and often better than our neighbours, and we are drawn in subtly to ask why this modest Eden is criss-crossed by snake pits.” In The Silent War (1990) the director continues to probe beneath the surface of the Troubles, revealing the human relationships and ordinary heroism that directly challenge the media stereotypes about Northern Ireland. Rehearsals (2005) is an impressionistic snapshot of Belfast as it tries to heal the divisive past and feel its way towards the future. Focusing on a disparate series of rehearsals with poets and musicians in homes and pubs, the director fuses poetry and politics whilst again insisting that film is a medium of both image and sound. All three films are screening at the Hive, Rath Mor Centre, Creggan. Rehearsals and The Silent War will be shown on Wednesday afternoon, 20 November. Too Long a Sacrifice can be seen at 7pm on Thursday, 21 November. Before the screening, Professor Ian Christie, a friend of the director, will discuss the importance of Grisby’s Northern Ireland trilogy and his unique approach to the documentary form.


Cinema City Programme - November 2013

Colour Coded Themes: Gothic Season | Art & The Cinema | Portrait of a City | Sam Shephard Season Stephen Rea Season | Danny Boyle Season | Legacies Of Conflict Season

Stumpy’s Brae --------------------------------------(UK, 2013, 26m) Writer: Darren GibsonBrunswick Moviebowl, Nov 1, 12pm (invite only)--------------------------------------

Gothic seasonA new short film made for BBC N. Ireland in Ulster Scots, a dark take of greed, murder and revenge set in the 19th Century.

Shaun of the Dead --------------------------------------(UK, 2004, 1hr, 36m) Cert 15Director: Edgar WrightNerve Centre Nov 1, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Gothic seasonThe funniest zombie move ever committed to celluloid, Simon Pegg and friends reinvent the horror genre.

Don’t Look Now --------------------------------------(UK/Italy, 1973, 1hr 49m) Cert 18Director: Nic Roeg Nerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov 4, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Gothic seasonThe dark alleyways and gothic architecture of Venice are turned into a haunting labyrinth from which there is no escape.

Oedipus Rex --------------------------------------(Italy, 1967, 1hr 45m) Cert 15Director: Peir Paolo PasoliniNerve Centre Cinema 2, Nov 4, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Sam Shepard SeasonA highly personal take on Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy, which makes brilliant use of wildly alternating Moroccan landscapes.

Andrei Rublev --------------------------------------(Soviet Union, 1966, 3 hrs, 25m) Cert 15Director: Andrei TarkovskyNerve Centre 2, Nov 5, 7pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Art and the Cinema SeasonPerhaps the greatest arthouse film of all time, the film follows the iconic Russian painter Rublev through a bizarre landscape of famine, pain and suffering.

The Night of the Hunter --------------------------------------(US, 1955, 1hr 29m) Cert 12Director: Charles LaughtonNerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov 5, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Gothic seasonA fairytale for grown-ups as Robert Mitchum’s demonic preacher terrorised a brother and sister. A surrealist masterpiece.

The Shining --------------------------------------(UK/US, 1980, 1hr 53m) Cert: 15Director: Stanley KubrickNerve Centre 1, Nov 6, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Gothic seasonKubrick’s masterly take on Stephen King’s novel has Jack Nicholson’s demented caretaker stalking the corridors of the Overlook Hotel.

Manhattan --------------------------------------(US, 1979, 1hr 32m) Cert: 15Director: Woody AllenNerve Centre Cinema 2, Nov 6, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonAllen’s romantic hymn to his native city with stunning monochrome images of the Big Apple resonating to a classic Gershwin soundtrack.

Don’t Come Knocking --------------------------------------(US, 2005, 2hr 2m) Cert: 15Director: Win WendersNerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov 7, 7.30pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Sam Shepard seasonShepard’s Howard Spence, a failed movie star, sets out to discover the child he never knew and discovers an entire life he has missed.

Interview with the Vampire --------------------------------------(US, 1994, 1hr 58m) Cert: 18Director: Neil JordanNerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov 7, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Gothic season

Jordan’s version of Ann Rice’s bestseller has Tom Cruise’s Lestat telling his vampirical life story of love, betrayal, loneliness and hunger.

Nosferatu --------------------------------------(US, 1922, 84m) Cert: PGDirector: FW MurnauEbrington Nov 8, Time tbc, free--------------------------------------

Gothic seasonThe first, and for many, the seminal vampire movie as Bram Stoker’s creation is transformed into the bald skeletal terrifying figure of Count Orlok.

Metropolis --------------------------------------(US, 1927, 147m) Cert: PGDirector: Fritz LangEbrington, Nov 9, time tbc, free--------------------------------------

Gothic seasonLang’s dark vision of a dystopian future is one of the most influential science fiction films and has become a classic of the major genres.

Berlin Symphony of a Great City --------------------------------------(US, 1927, 69m) Cert: PGDirector: Walter RuttmannEbrington, Nov 10, time tbc, free--------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonFrom a train speeding into the city, the film chronicles a day in the life of Berlin up to the neon-lit nightlife for which the city has become famous.

Wings of Desire --------------------------------------(W Ger/Fr, 1987, 2hr 3m) Cert: 12Director: Wim WendersNerve Centre 1, Nov 11, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonWenders’ classic paints a picture of the divided Berlin just a few years before the Wall came down – both its impressive beauty and its dark oppression.

The Company of Wolves --------------------------------------(UK, 1984, 91m) Cert: 18Director: Neil Jordan Nerve Centre 1, Nov 11, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Gothic season/Stephen Rea seasonA retelling of the Grimm Brothers’ Little Red Riding Hood interpreted as a film about a rite of passage.

Fool For Love --------------------------------------(US, 1985, 1hr 43m) Cert: 15Director: Robert AltmanNerve Centre Cinema 1, 12 Nov, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Sam Shepard seasonShepard stars in this stunning film adaptation of his award-winning stage play which explores the

themes of the intricacies of the human subconscious and the impact of a single memory on a family’s past.

Eureka --------------------------------------(UK/USA, 1983, 3hrs 25m) Cert: 18Director: Nic RoegNerve Centre 2, Nov 12, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Danny Boyle SeasonOne of Boyle’s favourite films, it’s the story of an Irishman who hits gold in the Yukon and becomes the richest man in the world.

Elephant--------------------------------------(UK, 1989, 39m) Cert: 15Director: Alan Clarke. Producer: Danny Boyle. Special introduction by Willie DohertyNerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov 13, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Danny Boyle/ Art and the Cinema SeasonOne of the most famous films made about the Troubles, it re-enacts 18 brutal murders without narrative or character motivation.

Nosferatu the Vampire --------------------------------------(W Ger/Fr, 1979, 1hr 47m) Cert: PGDirector: Werner HerzogNerve Centre 2, Nov 13, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Gothic seasonMore than a skilful reworking of Murnau’s classic, this film transforms the material into an apocalyptic vision of romantic intensity.

Captain Phillips --------------------------------------(US, 2013, 134m) & Q&A with Paul GreengrassDirector: Paul GreengrassBrunswick Omniplex, Nov 14, 10am, £4.50 & £2.50 school bookings--------------------------------------

Legacies Of Conflict SeasonOne of the year’s hotly anticipated films, the story of the 2009 hijacking of a US container ship told with Greengrass’ usual flair for handling complex narratives.

Bloody Sunday --------------------------------------(UK, 2002, 107m). Cert 15 with Paul GreengrassDirector: Paul GreengrassThe Hive, Rath Mor Centre, Nov 14, 3.30pm, free --------------------------------------

Legacies Of Conflict SeasonThe story of perhaps the most notorious event of the Troubles, told through the eyes of MP Ivan Cooper a central organiser of the Civil Rights Association march in Derry on 30 January 1972.

In Conversation with Director Paul Greengrass--------------------------------------Foyle Theatre, North West Regional College, Nov 14, 7pm, £6.50--------------------------------------

Legacies Of Conflict SeasonGreengrass will be in conversation with Professor Martin McCloone from the University of Ulster discussing his work including Bloody Sunday, United 93, the Bourne films and Captai Phillips. This event is presented in association with the University of Ulster, The North West Regional College and Connected.

Carravaggio --------------------------------------(UK, 1986, 1hr 29m) Cert: 18Director: Derek JarmanNerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov 14, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Art and the Cinema SeasonA fictionalised retelling of the life of Baroque painter Michelangelo Da Caravaggio with the director intentionally using anachronisms which are out of place in 16th Century Italy.

Chungking Express --------------------------------------(Hong Kong, 1994, 1hr 40m) Cert: 15Director: Wong Kar-WaiNerve Centre Cinema 2, Nov 14,



Cinema City8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonThe story of two police officers which perfectly captures the Hong Kong night culture with inventive cinematography, exhuberant music and exceptional talent.

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari --------------------------------------(US, 1920, 71m) Director: Rober WeineEbrington, Nov 15, time tbc, free--------------------------------------

Gothic seasonAn early example of the horror film which cast a significant influence on Universal’s Frankenstein which still holds a fascination for filmmakers like Tim Burton.

Man With a Movie Camera --------------------------------------(USA , 1929, 68m) Cert: PGDirector: Dziga VertovEbrington, Nov 16, time tbc), free--------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonVertov was one of the pioneers of Soviet montage cinema and the techniques he uses in this film have entered cinematography’s basic vocabulary.

Celtronic Presents

Public Service Bradcasting (Live)--------------------------------------Glassworks, Nov 17, 9pm, £11.50

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Public Service Broadcasting is the corduroy-clad brainchild of London-based J.Willgoose, Esq. who, along with his drumming companion, Wrigglesworth, will be touring the length and breadth of the UK in May 2013 on a quest to Inform – educate and, most importantly – entertain.

Teaching Divided Histories Conference--------------------------------------Masonic Hall, Nov 18, 9.30am to 4.30pm--------------------------------------

Legacies Of Conflict SeasonPresented by the Nerve Centre and the British Council, the ‘Teaching Divided Histories’ international conference will examine the role of culture, creativity and curriculum as tools to help schools in conflicted societies address the past. The use of a digitally creative approach to conflict education will be examined and debated, as well as its role in both the communication of, and learning from, conflict.

Welcome to Sarajevo --------------------------------------(UK/US, 1997, 1hr 39m) Cert: 15Director: Michael WinterbottomNerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov 18, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Legacies of Conflict season The first feature on the Bosnian war, the film is screening as part of the Teaching Divided Histories season, it will be followed by a Q&A with producer Andrew Eaton.

Angel --------------------------------------(Ire/UK, 1982, 1 hr 30m) Cert: 15 & Q&A with Stephen Rea Director: Neil JordanNerve Centre, Nov 19, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Stephen Rea seasonJordan’s debut is a tragedy of violence set against the background of the Troubles. Rea’s Danny is a saxophonist who witnesses two brutal murdes in South Armagh.

Love is the Devil --------------------------------------(UK/Fra/Ja, 1998, 1 hr 30m) Cert: 18Director: John MayburyNerve Centre Cinema 2, Nov 19, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Art and the Cinema SeasonThe film charts a relatively short period of Francis Bacon’s life from his meeting with George Dyer in 1963 to their parting in 1969.

Photo-Drama of Creation --------------------------------------Nerve Centre, Nov 20, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee --------------------------------------

Gothic seasonA film last seen in Derry 99 years ago, the film is an incredible multi-media presentation which uses lantern slides, films from many sources and audio recording to proclaim the vision of Charles Russell, founder of the international Bible Students Association – later the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

The Silent War – Mike Grigsby Retrospective--------------------------------------The Hive, Rath Mor Centre, Nov 20, 2pm, £2.50--------------------------------------

Legacies Of Conflict SeasonPart of a trilogy of films produced by English documentary film director Michael Grigsby. In The Silent War, he invited people to talk about how The Troubles had impacted on their lives. Grigsby famously banned voiceover from his films, giving his subjects the space and time to tell their story in their own words.

Rehearsals - Mike Grigsby Retrospective --------------------------------------The Hive, Rath Mor Centre, Creggan, Nov 20 3.30pm, £2.50 --------------------------------------

Legacies Of Conflict SeasonPart of a trilogy of films produced by English documentary film director Michael Grigsby. In 2005 he made Rehearsals, an impressionistic snapshot of Belfast. Michael Grigsby’s three films bear witness to two decades (and several centuries) of Ulster history.

Too Long a Sacrifice - Mike Grigsby Retrospective --------------------------------------The Hive, Rath Mor Centre, Creggan, Nov 21, 7pm, £2.50 --------------------------------------

Legacies Of Conflict SeasonPart of a trilogy of films produced by English documentary film director Michael Grigsby. In the 1984, Too Long A Sacrifice, he followed Protestants and Catholics in rural Co Derry living their lives amid the Troubles. The screening will be preceded by a talk on Mike Grigsby’s Northern Ireland trilogy by Ulster born film scholar and broadcaster, Ian Christie.


Paris, Texas --------------------------------------(US, 1984, 2hrs 30m) & Q&A with Sam ShepardDirector: Win WendersBrunswick Moviebowl, Nov 22, 7.30pm, £6--------------------------------------

Sam Shepard seasonThe first of two collaborations between Shepard and Wenders, this film evokes the mythical images of the American West to tell a story of a man revisiting his past.

Psycho! --------------------------------------(US, 1960, 109m) Live with the Ulster OrchestraDirector: Alfred HitchcockThe Venue, Nov 22, 8pm, £15 + £1.50 booking fee--------------------------------------

Gothic seasonIt may have been a low budget shocker but is now one of the most successful films of all time. Bernard Hermann worked closely with Hitchcock on the score, with its infamous strings only shower scene, here performed live by the Ulster Orchestra. A once-in-a-lifetime experience.

We’ll Fight and No Surrender --------------------------------------(1989) Director: Desmond BellMemorial Hall of the Apprentice Boys of Derry, Society Street, Nov 23, 4pm, £3--------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonFirst screened on Channel Four, this represents the first and most sustained attempt to explore the formative role of the siege mentality of the loyalists of Derry.

Picturing Derry (1984)--------------------------------------The Hive, Rath Mo Centre, Creggan, Nov 23, free--------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonDocumentary looking at photographic images of Derry~Londonderry from photojournalists and community groups discussing how images can be used and interpreted in different ways.

An Evening with Danny Boyle & Frank Cottrell Boyce--------------------------------------St Columb’s Hall, Nov 23, £8--------------------------------------

Danny Boyle SeasonPresented by Culture Company and the Nerve Centre in association with BAFTA as part of the Foyle Film Festival.Danny Boyle and Frank Cottrell Boyce are two of the most significant figures in contemporary film culture. The two friends will discuss their creative collaboration on the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and the 2004 film Millions and revisit some of their most acclaimed films. This event forms part of BAFTA’s UK-wide learning and events programme, giving audiences across the country access behind the screens of the film, TV and video games industries. BAFTA’s learning website, BAFTA Guru, makes these insights available to all. Be the first to hear about our events and initiatives – sign up to our mailing list at www.bafta.org/guru, follow @BAFTA on Twitter and find BAFTA on Facebook.

Redeeming History (1992)--------------------------------------Masonic Temple, Nov 23, 7.30pm, £3--------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonDesmond Bell’s film was commissioned by Channel 4 TV and tells the story of a group of Foyle College pupils who explore

the complex history of Frederick Hervey, the eighteenth century Earl Bishop of Derry. Elements of the film were shot in the Masonic Hall which was originally the Earl Bishop’s Derry palace.

Trainspotting --------------------------------------(UK, 1996, 94m) Cert: 18 With Danny Boyle & Q&ABrunswick Moviebowl, Nov 23, 11pm £6--------------------------------------

Danny Boyle SeasonPresented by Culture Company and BAFTA, this event will mark the return of Danny Boyle to the city after 17 years. This cult hit, an adaptation of Irving Welsh’s tale of Edinburgh junkies, firmly established Boyle’s reputation as one of the most exciting directors in the world.

London- the Modern Babylon --------------------------------------(UK, 2012, 125m) Cert: 15Director: Julien TempleBrunswick Moviebowl, Nov 24, 6pm £6--------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonTemple makes a tribute to his hometown, showing the best and worst of the city by digging in its past and present. The process consisted in the aggregation of archive imagery, Londoners’ comments and a lot of representative music, making reference to several bands and styles.

The Road to Clondyke (1999)--------------------------------------Director: Desmond BellLong Tower Church, Nov 24--------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonAward-winning film first screened on telling the story of migrant worker (spailpiní). Mici Mac Giobhan like generations of Donegal migrants passed through Derry on his tramp in search of work, a journey which in Mici’s case, was eventually take him to the Klondike.

Throne of Blood --------------------------------------(Ja, 1957, 1hr 45m) Cert: 12Director: Akira KurosawaNerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov 25, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee--------------------------------------

Gothic seasonAdaptation of Macbeth which transposes the action into a beautiful exploration of the warrior traditions of Japanese myth.

Edvard Munch Part 1 --------------------------------------(Swe/Nor, 1974, 2hrs 25m) Cert: PGDirector: Peter WatkinsNerve Centre Cinema 2, Nov 25, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee--------------------------------------

Art and the Cinema Season


Cinema CityMore than just a biopic of the iconic Norewigan expressionist painter, this multi-faceted work is renowned as one of the best films ever made about the artistic process.

Moving Image Arts--------------------------------------Brunswick Moviebowl, 10am--------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonCCEA and the Foyle Film Festival present a special celebration of the 10th anniversary of Moving Image Arts. A screening of the best Moving Image Arts short films of 2013, sponsored by Derry Crystal and a screening of Lucky Seven.

Lucky Seven --------------------------------------(UK, 2011, 26m) Director: Claudia HeindelBrunswick Moviebowl--------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonA group of teenagers in post Troubles Northern Ireland test their strength on animals, humans and objects. The director will host a discussion on the film-making process following the screening.

Blackthorn --------------------------------------(Sp/US/Bol/Fr, 2001, 1hr 43m) Cert: 15 Director: Mateo GillNerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov 26, 8pm, £2.50 + £0.25 booking fee--------------------------------------

Sam Shepard seasonWhat if Butch Cassidy has survived the Bolivan shoot-out and

survived? Gill’s film explores that possibly and finds the outlaw still dogged by an old adversary.

Edvard Munch Part 2 --------------------------------------(Swe/Nor, 1974, 1hr 15m) Cert: PGDirector: Peter WatkinsNerve Centre Cinema 2, Nov 25, 8pm, £2.50 + £0.25 booking fee--------------------------------------

Art and the Cinema SeasonThe conclusion of Watkins study of the Norweigan expressionist painter creating a vivid picture of the emotional, political and social upheavals which had such an effect on his work.

Bladerunner --------------------------------------(US/Hong Kong/UK, 1982, 1hr 57m) Cert: 15 Director: Ridley ScottNerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov 27, 8pm, £2.50 + £0.25 booking fee--------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonA city of the future brought to life on the big screen in one of the most significant films of the 1980s and one which is now regarded as one of the greatest science fiction films of all –time.

Van Gogh --------------------------------------(Fr, 1991, 2hrs 38m) Cert: 15Director: Maurice PialatNerve Centre, Cinema 2, Nov 27, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee--------------------------------------

Art and the Cinema SeasonA stunning portrait of Van Gogh’s last days which is widely regarded as the best film about the artists ever made with Jacques Dutronc’s performance earning him a Cesar Award for best actor.

Hamlet --------------------------------------(Ire, 2005, 1hr 33m) Cert: 15Director: Stephen CavanaghNerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov 28, 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee--------------------------------------

Gothic seasonFilm by Derry-born Cavanagh which took four years to make on a miniscule budget which is a re-interpetation of the Shakespeare classic positioning Hamlet as a filmmaker. Set entirely in Derry.

An American Werewolf in London--------------------------------------(US, 1981, 1h, 27m) Cert: 18Director: John LandisNerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov 29, time 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee

-------------------------------------- Gothic season

The classsic werewolf story given an update with added humour by Landis. The special effects still look impressive 30 years on.

28 Days Later --------------------------------------(UK, 2002, 113m) Cert: 18Director: Danny BoyleNerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov 29, time 10pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee--------------------------------------

Danny Boyle SeasonA pop-up screening of Boyle’s horror classic with its classic opening of Cillian Murphy walking through the streets of an eerily deserted central London.

Apocalypse Now --------------------------------------(US, 1979, 153m)Director: Francis Ford CoppolaNerve Centre Cinema 1, Nov30, time 8pm, £2.50+ £0.25 booking fee--------------------------------------

Danny Boyle SeasonA US captain is sent to track down a renegade Colonel who has set himself up as a god of a local tribe during the Vietnam war.

A City Dreaming --------------------------------------(Ire, 2013, 65m)Director: Mark McAuley St Columb’s Hall, Dec 6, 8pm--------------------------------------

Portrait of a City seasonA memoir of Derry~Londonderry in the 40s, 50s and 60s as seen through the eyes of broadcaster Gerry Anderson.

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Shakespeare’s timeless plays have lent themselves to all sorts of cinematic reinterpretations over the years – Othello set in a boarding school, Richard III as an English Hitler, even a modern day Romeo and Juliet – but Hamlet filmed in Derry~Londonderry? Surely that’s taking things a bit too far! Director and lead actor Stephen Cavanagh clearly doesn’t think so: “When asked the question, ‘Why do yet another version of Hamlet?’ I always thought that a better question would be, ‘Why not?’ It seemed to me that Derry would make a perfect setting – our city walls doubling for the windy ramparts of Elsinore, and our colourful political history giving all kinds of resonance to the story.” Described as “a kind of evil twin” to Kenneth Branagh’s full-length, slick and polished film, Cavanagh’s dynamic reinterpretation of Hamlet is short, stripped-down, rough around the edges, and inspired by a DIY, punk-rock ethic. A team of creative self-starters, the Derry Film Initiative, made the film as a labour of love over four years on a tiny budget. The ferociously ambitious film positions Hamlet as a documentary filmmaker in the handheld/digital camcorder-style of The Blair Witch Project. Cavanagh elaborates: “In the film, Hamlet is a keen video-diarist and we see most of the events from his point of view as he films them. Horatio compiles and narrates this footage to fulfill his friend’s dying request to ‘tell my story’. Characters commandeer the camera at various key points, filming openly or secretively, incriminating themselves or others.” Set entirely in Derry~Londonderry, locations include the Guildhall, Gransha Hospital and the City Walls. The soldiers are dressed in the uniform of the British Army. The famous ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy, a cornerstone of English literature, is delivered entirely in Irish. The cast is a mixture of professional and amateur actors many of whom regularly perform in plays in the city today. The camera work in the film is intentionally erratic, aiming to put the viewer right into the scenes, whether they like it or not. Zan Lyons’ haunting music suggests the darkness and claustrophobia of Hamlet’s world as it closes in around him and the city’s mix of classic and modern architecture gives the sense of a time out of joint, both mythical and contemporary.

Cavanagh’s telling of the story is set in an unnamed place in an unspecified time, and the viewer is free to infer what they will about how the politics of Hamlet may or may not feed into the politics of Derry~Londonderry. As the opening line goes, “What is it you would see?” The screening of Hamlet will take place at the Nerve Centre on Thursday 28th November at 8pm. For further information and to book online, please visit www.cinema-city.co.

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RoCo making waves in local businessSince opening its doors in November 2011, award winning salon RoCo has gone from strength to strength, bucking the trend for new businesses faced with the challenges of the current economic climate.

RoCo is a joint venture between talented local entrepreneurs and stylists Connor Grant and Ronan Stewart, who have been putting their creativity to good use to develop an exclusive range of new eco-products, as well as devising some ambitious plans for their own RoCo training Academy, as Connor explained.

“After working with lots of talented stylists in other salons around the world we wanted to adapt our experiences and open a sustainable salon with a green ethos, but still maintaining high fashion, with an emphasis on great customer service,” he revealed.

“We’re still quite a fresh business so we’re still learning every day, and we opened probably at the peak of the downturn so we had nothing to compare it to. Our focus is on great customer service and making clients the priority. We also create our own collections and we make a point of not following hair trends - instead we work internally creating our own styles and colour techniques. All staff are involved in the creative process so our clients know they are getting something entirely new.”Although a relatively new company they aren’t afraid to push the boundaries when it comes to product development.

“It all happened quite by coincidence, we met the chemists by chance and really hit it off,” Ronan recalls. “These guys have the scientific expertise and we have the ideas, and together we’ve been breaking the rules in hair care tan and colouring. “We’ve created the world’s most natural hair colour that is 90% water and it’s been a whirlwind ever since, with awards coming our way. So we’ve been working on getting OCC - Organic Colour Care - online and the interest so far has been unbelievable.”

The company has been working closely with Derry City Council’s Business Opportunities Programme, who have helped Ronan and Connor to progress their business over the past year.

“The Business Opportunities Programme has been great,” Connor maintains. “Although we’ve been working really hard, the support and help from this programme has focused and consolidated our vision, and given us access to other areas of business support. The team have been really helpful, and are so quick to respond to the queries we have.

“We’ve just released our latest collection ‘Grunge& Glory’ which is being featured in various publications. And at the minute we are working on our Movember campaign, which is a charity event that raises money for prostate and testicular cancer.”

As the salon’s popularity grows they have identified new and exciting ways to build on the RoCo brand - including their own style academy!

“We have recently hired two exciting new stylists, and are focusing our efforts on the hectic Christmas period,” Ronan reveals. “We’ll be making customised RoCo Product Gift bags, following the success they had when they featured backstage at Radio 1’s One Big Weekend in the summer.

“Long term, we are focusing on bringing our team through our academy. The programme has been developed by ourselves and run by our creative director Michael, and in January we are officially opening RoCo Academy, teaching our unique style/technique’s to hairdressers and salons throughout Ireland and the UK. “As for OCC, we are continuing to make the most natural products. We’ve been working with a seaweed harvester in Donegal and are creating a chemical free hair and beauty range with the seaweed. We are also working on an exciting professional hair colour that is totally unique - so we’ll be pretty busy for the foreseeable future.”

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The Foyle Film Festival is one of the major highlights on the cultural calendar of Northern Ireland. It is an eagerly awaited annual film feast in the North West and the flagship event of NI’s most cutting edge multi-media arts centre - the Nerve Centre.

Celebrating its 26th year in 2013, Foyle Film Festival takes place in multiple venues in Derry~Londonderry each November to bring the best of international cinema and industry professionals to the city. Over five days, the festival brings together all the expertise and talent of the Nerve Centre - film, music, animation, digital technologies, education, in a unique celebration of local, national and international cinematic excellence.

The festival also boasts a stand-alone education programme (Monday 18-Friday 29 November) that targets all primary and post-primary schools and colleges, with curriculum focused screenings, workshops and special events.

Foyle Film Festival’s commitment to quality has been recognised at the most prestigious level in the industry. It is one of a small number of festivals in which winners of the Light In Motion (LIM) Short Film Competition qualify for the industry’s most coveted awards, the Oscars®. The festival also enjoys BAFTA and BIFA association.

The festival comprises premieres and

screenings of the latest foreign language, contemporary films, documentaries, workshops and masterclasses with industry professionals, education programmes, outreach screenings, special events, competitions, and of course the festival club where film-makers and patrons can get together in collegial settings to enjoy music, chat and the festival atmosphere. The festival has a reputation for excellence within the film industry, but also appeals to the grass roots engaging with communities across the city.

Highlights of this year’s festival include premiere screenings of Robert Redford’s latest film All Is Lost, Julia Roberts in August: Osage County. Big Bad Wolves is a horror movie with a difference and was recently hailed by Quentin Tarantino as “the best film of the year.” The latest reincarnation of Romeo & Juliet is brought to the big screen by Academy® Award winner Julian Fellowes. The festival also features a special 40th Anniversary screening of the classic movie The Wicker Man.

The festival celebrates 100 years of McLaughlin’s Hardware store with a special screening of McLaughlin 100. Written and directed by Dave Duggan, the film is a site-specific theatre event, created for McLaughlins Hardware shop, William Street, to celebrate100 years of this unique family business.

Other highlights include the return of Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental to discuss the impact of this historic event on his own life and also on the wider society. Tomi will also provide an insightful introduction to accompany a special 20th anniversary screening of Schindler’s List.The legacy of mankind’s destruction of the environment is placed under the microscope in the documentary Trashed. In the same way that Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth focused the world’s attention on global warming, Trashed highlights the huge negative impact that the trash and waste we produce has on the environment. Narrated by Jeremy Irons, the Oscar-winning actor attends the festival to discuss this very issue.

In honour of the Turner Prize coming to Derry~Londonderry as part of this year’s City of Culture - Art Historian Tim Marlow attends the Foyle Film Festival Education Programme to deliver a special talk to post primary students on The Role Of Painting In The Digital Age.

The FOYLE FILM FESTIVAL is funded by Northern Ireland Screen and Derry City Council.

The full programme of events will be published soon. Check festival website for news and updates. Festival Office: 028 7137 3456 or 7126 0562.www.foylefilmfestival.org

Wednesday 20-Sunday 24 November 2013

26th Foyle Film Festival by Bernie McLaughlin


Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts star in August: Osage County.


Early in the history of cinema, films with a Christian theme were not uncommon. In fact filmed passion-plays and multi-part versions of the Life of Christ were among the first worldwide attractions of the new medium, culminating in such successes as Quo Vadis? (1914) and Cecil B DeMille’s original The Ten Commandments (1923).

But for sheer scale, nothing equalled the Photo-Drama of Creation, an incredible multi-media presentation that used lantern slides, films from many sources and audio recordings to proclaim the millennial vision of Charles Russell, founder of the International Bible Students Association, from which the Jehovah’s Witnesses would later emerge.

After two years of production, the Photo-Drama had its New York premiere in January 1914, and subsequently toured

throughout America and Europe, running up to eight hours across four evenings and being seen by an estimated nine million spectators. For many years, all its original elements were believed lost, until Brian Kutscher began a painstaking process of restoration in 1970 – which continues today – and has resulted in much of the Photo-Drama now becoming accessible.

For those Christians who viewed cinema with disfavour, as ‘an invention of the devil’, the Photo-Drama was their first chance to experience film – with synchronised sound - in a reassuring context. In Ireland, it was originally seen in Dublin, Belfast and Derry~Londonderry during 1914 – and this very special presentation of extracts from Brian Kutscher’s restoration will be introduced by Ulster-born film scholar and broadcaster Professor Ian Christie as part of the Foyle Film Festival.

On the opening night of the Foyle Film Festival, there will be an opportunity to see extracts from a film last shown in Derry almost a century ago. The Photo-Drama of Creation will be introduced by Professor Ian Christie in the Nerve Centre at 8pm on Wed, Nov 20.

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A series of special screenings and debates at strange locations are being held as part of the Foyle Film Festival. And taking a central role will be the early films of local filmmaker Desmond Bell which deal with Derry~Londonderry and its history and multiple identities.

“Londonderry has etched into its topography a certain set of historical residues, not least its walls - an imaginative fabric as much as a material one,” Bell says.

“Walls define insider and outsider and facilitate motifs of siege and relief. I would like to think that as a film maker I have risen to the challenge of tunnelling under some of these fortifications (tunnels are usually a mode of escape from an encampment).”

We’ll Fight and No Surrender (1989) is Bell’s earliest film and deals with the siege narrative in the identity of Ulster loyalists

which was first shown on Channel Four. It is being screened at the Memorial Hall of the Apprentice Boys.

Redeeming History (1992) is also a Channel Four film, telling the story of a group of Protestant pupils from Foyle and Londonderry College exploring the history of Frederick Hervey. It is being screened at the Masonic Temple in Bishop Street.Rotha Mór an tSaoil (1999), being shown at the Hive at Rath Mor Centre, is Bell’s award-winning film telling the story of migrant worker Mici Mac Giobhan who, like generations of Donegal migrants, passed through Derry on their journey abroad.

We’ll fight and No Surrender, Saturday 23 November 5pm, Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall.

Redeeming History, Saturday 23 November 8pm, Masonic Temple, Bishop Street.Rotha Mór an tSaoil, Sunday 24 November 4pm, the Hive at Rath Mor Centre .

The Unusual Suspects

Cinema City is bringing films to the community throughout November as part of the Portrait of a City project, as Project Manager Kirsty Osborn explains. Throughout November, Cinema City will bring film to local communities through a touring package of new archive footage donated by the public to the BT Portrait of a City project in 2013. The films will be screened in community centres and libraries throughout the city allowing audiences to revisit aspects of their history that have been captured on film. This year BT Portrait of a City received almost 200 films to digitize on 8mm, 16mm, and super 8, VHS and super VHS and thousands of photographs depicting families and communities at work, at home and at play. The images help to highlight how much the city has grown and developed in terms of changing street scenes, housing, politics and even fashion!

Topics covered include family and home life, holidays, parades, community and city events and the Troubles. Our community screenings will bring these fantastic old films and photographs back into the neighbourhoods for all to see. Remember growing up in Creggan? Camping in Benone? Days out to Barry’s and Portrush? Squire’s nightclub? Come along to your local community screening for a nostalgic trip down memory lane, see old familiar faces and reminisce on how times have changed. Screenings will be shown at centres including Rath Mor, Top of the Hill, Clooney and the libraries. Please follow the BT Portrait of a City’s Facebook page for more details on locations, dates and times. A number of screenings will also accompany the launch of our community exhibition programme, including:

07 Nov: ‘College of Culture’, St Columb’s College 4-6pm11 Nov: ‘Portrait of a City’, Foyle Street, 2-4pm 13 Nov: ‘Portrait of the Waterside’, St Columb’s Park House, 12-2pmWeek commencing 18 Nov: ‘Creggan Stories’, The Hive, Rath Mor, 7-9pm25 Nov: launch of ‘Shantallow Women: Our Photos Our Stories’, Shantallow community Centre, 1-2.30pm28 Nov: ‘Rosemount Memories’ Brooke Park Lesiure Centre, 7-9pm

These exhibitions will display photographs, film and stories from the BT Portrait of a City Archive, showing many previously unseen images of the city. If you want to be part of the Portrait of a City project you can bring along some of your own photographs to the launches and we can scan your images while you enjoy the displays.

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Undertones of a City Two films screening at the Brunswick Moviebowl under the Portrait of a City theme, explore the dark underbelly of the cities of London and Derry~Londonderry.

Director Julien Temple will take part in a Q@A session after a screening on Sunday 24 November of his epic time-travelling voyage to the heart of his hometown, London – The Modern Babylon. From musicians, writers and artists to dangerous thinkers, political radicals and above all ordinary people, this is the story of London’s immigrants and bohemians and how together they changed the city forever.

Reaching back to London at the start of the 20th century, the story unfolds through film archive and the voices of Londoners past and present, powered by the popular music from across the century. It ends in 2012, as London prepares to welcome the world as it hosts the Olympics. Philip French commented in The Observer, ‘Its collage technique, humanism and sympathy for ordinary people has much in common with the vision of Britain created by Danny Boyle’s team for the opening of the Olympics…A movie to cherish.’

Claudia Heindel will present her award-winning short film Lucky Seven on Tuesday, November 26 at the Moving Image Arts Showcase. The young German director shot the film in Creggan in 2011 with three teenagers at the local boxing club in the lead roles. The performances of Sean Canning, Adam Doherty and Ryan Green were commended at a number of film festivals where Lucky Seven won awards.

The 2011 First Steps Awards jury in Berlin said, “Three young kids in Northern Ireland show universal feelings of juvenile loneliness. Like no other film ’Lucky Seven’ deals with one of the most important themes of the year: teenagers seeking for their place in life. Authentic and well observed, told to its very essence and with strong poetic visuals, Claudia Heindel’s graduation film takes a tender look at a harsh reality.“



The talent of a new generation of filmmakers is celebrated every year at the annual Foyle Film Festival. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of Moving Image Arts GCE by CCEA.

CCEA students from across Northern Ireland will scoop top film awards in Derry~Londonderry as the City of Culture’s Cinema City programme celebrates ten years of Moving Image Arts at the Foyle Film Festival this November.

CCEA’s Moving Image Arts awards showcase was first launched by the Foyle Film Festival in 2004 and to celebrate this ten year milestone will also include a Best of 10 Years retrospective, featuring some of the most impressive films created by students in previous years.

Bernard McCloskey, Head of Education with Northern Ireland Screen and Chair of the judging panel says: “A key objective of the Moving Image Arts A-Level and GCSE qualifications is to support the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers. The judges continue to be very impressed by the high standard of work produced every year. Yet again, Moving Image Arts students have created a wide range of films displaying creativity, ingenuity and a real understanding of the art of filmmaking.”The showcase of over 25 films will take

place on 26 November in the Brunswick Cinema Bowl with awards presented for best film and animation at GCSE, AS and A2 level, sponsored by City of Derry Crystal.

As Ingrid Arthurs, Moving Image Arts Education Manager at CCEA comments: “This showcase at Foyle is an annual highpoint with over 50 schools taking part in the competition from across Northern Ireland. We are particularly excited this year to invite German director Claudia Heindel to launch the event with a Q&A and screening of her film Lucky Seven, which was shot in Derry~Londonderry with local young actors and crew. In this unique City of Culture year we really hope to inspire new and emerging talent to pursue their creative ambitions and realise what can be achieved on their own doorstep.”

Michael Barwise, a former Moving Image Arts student at Oakgrove Integrated College will also speak at the event. He is currently producing five films funded by Northern Ireland Screen and openly credits Moving Image Arts with helping him to pursue his current career path:

“I can genuinely say that if it hadn’t been for my Moving Image Arts course, I may

never have ended up going on to work in film. It’s great to be able to do the thing I enjoy most and actually earn a living from it. We really are lucky in Northern Ireland to have such a unique qualification which enables young people to be creative and explore film as a real career possibility.”

The moving image is a key driver of the creative industries and has seen huge expansion in Northern Ireland. The rapid growth of digital media technologies has made the creative industries increasingly accessible and attractive to young people, which is why demand for Moving Image Arts continues to grow.

CCEA’s City of Culture Celebrating Young Artists programme will also be running an exhibition of the best contemporary art work produced by GCE Art & Design students in the Void Community Gallery. The exhibition will be opened by Willie Doherty and will run from 9 to 19 November.

To find out more about the CCEA Moving Image Arts qualification visit www.ccea.org.uk/movingimagearts

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Three significant films directed by women will showcase at Cinema City as part of the Women of the World Festival running from November 8th - 10th at the Playhouse.

The festival features a free jam-packed programme of debates, workshops, music, comedy and performance celebrating the achievements of women, and exploring the issues and challenges that they face in everyday life. The events take place from November 8-10 in the Playhouse and are delivered in partnership with the Southbank Centre, whose artistic director Jude Kelly first staged WOW in London in 2011 to coincide with the centenary of International Women’s day.

The Far Side of Revenge directed by independent producer and director Margo Harkin gives a unique insight into the lives of a group of women of all ages and backgrounds who come together to put on a theatre performance titled ‘I Once Knew a Girl’. Teya Sepinuck supplies the

narrative for the work which explores the six women’s individual stories, and follows their progress as they go through the creative process of rehearsing and performing together over a nine month period.

The groundbreaking documentary Mother Ireland by local academic and film-maker Anne Crilly will also feature during the festival, offering a compelling look at the lives of women in the nationalist community and how time and circumstance has coloured their lives.

This powerful and provocative piece of film was the source of controversy and contention when it was first broadcast, as it gave voice to women whose political views at the time were not allowed to be aired on TV. The documentary examines both the issues of republicanism and feminism in an unashamedly one sided way in an attempt to present a detailed analysis of women choosing to live their lives under the banner of republicanism.

Departing from the local focus the festival will also screen Salma’ by observational film maker Kim Longinotto, focusing on the life of Tamil-born poet Salma, who grew up in a primitive village in the south of India with virtually no access to media of any kind. Living in a strictly Muslim community Salma spent over three decades under house arrest for refusing to conform to the dictates of first her family, then her husband, smuggling out verse that was eventually published, and made her one of most renowned poets in India.

Longinotto focuses on glimpses of her life with her family and community, rather than trying to explain these complex relationships through dialogue.

The screenings will take place on Saturday and Sunday November 9 and 10, to view the full Women of the World programme go to www.cityofculture2013.com.

by Joanne McCarroll Women of the World Festival

Throughout 2013 the Picturing Derry project, commissioned as part of the City of Culture 2013 programme, has been charting the city’s rich and often turbulent history through the creation of a vast and fascinating photographic archive combining the images and memories of people from right across the city.

But the idea behind this amazing collection of material, which provides an entirely new social narrative for Derry-Londonderry, has its roots in a special historical documentary produced in 1984. Picturing Derry focuses on the stories and work of a small number of people who have been the dedicated core contributors of the city’s extensive photographic history down through the years.

The film is valued both as a historical document which provides an insight into the compilation of this compelling and at times shocking visual diary of the past, and for its ongoing relevance today. Picturing Derry tells the story of the photojournalists, newspaper photographers and community

groups who over the years have amassed such a comprehensive archive which details all facets of life here. And the film examines how images can be used and interpreted in a number of different ways, and how this, in turn, colours the viewers impressions of reality.

The documentary features interviews with local photographers Eamon Melaugh, Willie Carson, Barney McMonagle, Willie Doherty, Camerawork Darkrooms, Clive Limpkin, an RUC photographer, and others. These individuals often placed themselves at the heart of events in the city - sometimes risking their lives - to capture the very essence of Derry through glimpses of everyday life and moments of historic significance.

As well as the individual collections amassed by local photographers over the years, the documentary focuses on the work of Camerawork Darkrooms (Camerawork). Established in 1983 by international curator Trisha Ziff in the Bogside in Derry~Londonderry, Camerawork enabled local people to

capture their own black and white still images. Against the backdrop of the Troubles in the 1980s Camerawork began recording everyday life in the city uniquely from the citizens’ viewpoint. The several thousand negatives amassed provide a fascinating archive of a people and place in a turbulent time.

This inspirational documentary has now formed the blueprint for the huge legacy project Picturing Derry, which will provide a detailed and captivating digital history for the city that will endure for generations to come.

As we move rapidly towards 2014, this screening and Q&A with the directors of the documentary David Fox and Sylvia Stevens and members of Camerawork will make a unique opportunity to discuss what the legacy of our archives of Troubles photographs can be used for.

Picturing Derry will screen as part of the Foyle Film Festival in the Hive 7pm at the Rath Mor Centre, Creggan, Friday 22 November.

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The 26th FOYLE FILM FESTIVAL takesplace from Wednesday 20-Sunday 24November with main venues for thisyear’s event the Brunswick Moviebowl,Nerve Centre, NC Creative LearningCentre, and Café Nervosa. As usualthere will be a number of satelliteevents in QFT, Belfast, Strule ArtsCentre, Omagh and Regional CulturalCentre in Letterkenny. The Foyle FilmFestival Education Programme runsover two weeks from Monday 18-Friday29 November, and targets all primary,post-primary schools, colleges anduniversities with curriculum focusedfilms, workshops and special events.

The festival is also Oscar® andBAFTA affiliated through the Light InMotion (LIM) Short Film Competition.Recipients of the LIM Award qualifyfor consideration in the Short FilmsCategory of the Annual Academy®Awards without the standard theatricalrun, provided the film otherwisecomplies with the Academy® rules.Previous winners and competitors atFFF Light In Motion Awards who haveproceeded to win an Oscar® includeTerry George (The Shore), MartinMcDonagh (Six Shooter), Adam Elliot(Harvie Krumpet) and Juanita Wilson(The Door). Foyle Film Festival is nowan IMDb Qualifying Festival, granting alleligible film submissions a fast-trackedtitle page on IMDb.com. The ThreeCompetition Categories under LIM are:Best Short Film Best Animation, andBest Documentary.

Past guests of the festival have includedWim Wenders, Julie Christie, ChristianeKubrick, Brendan Gleeson, KennethBranagh, Neil Jordan, Stephen Frears,Jimmy McGovern, Ray Winstone, JennyAgutter, Roddy Doyle, Mark Cousins - toname but a few.

As the inaugural UK City of Culturedraws to a successful conclusion,the theme of this year’s FOYLE FILMFESTIVAL is LEGACY. Through a seriesof hands-on digital workshops, talks andpresentations, the festival educationprogramme explores how historicalevents such as the Holocaust and theCivil Rights struggle in the 1960s havebeen recorded and remembered. Thefestival marks the 50th Anniversaryof Martin Luther King’s iconic “I havea dream” speech. While Holocaustsurvivor Tomi Reichental returns tothe Foyle Film Festival to discuss theimpact of this historic event on hisown life and also on the wider society.Tomi will also provide an insightfulintroduction to accompany a special20TH Anniversary screening ofSchindler’s List.

Teaching Divided Histories Conferencewelcomes international guest speakersto Derry/Londonderry to explore thelegacy of conflicts across the globe.Emmanuel Jal is a former childsoldier from South Sudan. He isnow an advocate of world peace andreconciliation, and is a prominentactivist for social justice and humanrights. He broadcasts his message ofpeace and equality through variousNGOs he has founded and through hismusic. Jal is also an internationallyrecognised hip-hop artist. In this specialpresentation, Emmanuel will talk abouthis life and his fight for human rightsand world peace.

The legacy of mankind’s destructionof the environment is placed underthe microscope in the documentaryTrashed. In the same way that Al Gore’sAn Inconvenient Truth focused theworld’s attention on global warming,Trashed highlights the huge negativeimpact that the trash and waste weproduce has on the environment.Narrated by Jeremy Irons, the Oscar®winning actor attends the festival todiscuss this very issue.

Jeremy Irons has had a long anddistinguished career on stage andscreen for over 30 years. Jeremy Ironsfirst came to public attention in the late70s when he starred in Granada TV’sBrideshead Revisited - his distinctivevoice contributing much to the nostalgicfeel and success of the iconic series.His most recent television appearancewas in Neil Jordan’s historical fictiondrama series The Borgias.

Jeremy’s most high profile film rolesinclude the Cannes Palme d’Or winnerThe Mission and the dual role of twinphysicians in David Cronenberg’sDead Ringers. Other films includeDanny Champion Of The World andReversal Of Fortune for which he wonan Academy Award for Best Actor. InLouis Malle’s Damage Irons starredalongside Juliette Binoche and MirandaRichardson playing a politician whohas a sexual relationship with his son’sgirlfriend. More recently Iron’s filmsinclude a western written, directed andstarred in by Ed Harris called Appaloosaand The Pink Panther 2 with SteveMartin and Jean Reno.

In honour of the Turner Prize comingto Derry/Londonderry as part of thisyear’s City of Culture - Art Historian TimMarlow attends the Foyle Film FestivalEducation Programme to deliver aspecial talk to post primary studentson ‘The Role Of Painting In The DigitalAge’. Tim Marlow is an art historian,writer, broadcaster on the contemporary

cultural scene, art historian and currentDirector of Exhibitions at White Cubein London.

Tim Marlow founded Tate: The ArtMagazine In 1993. From 1991 to1998 he presented Radio 4’s artsprogramme Kaleidoscope, for whichhe won a Sony Award, and is currentlya presenter of the World Service artsprogramme The Ticket. As well asnumerous arts programmes for Five,he presented a documentary on JMWTurner for BBC ONE. Other televisionwork included presenting the nownotorious Is Painting Dead? Debatefor Channel Four in which artist, TracyEmin, swore and shouted her way intoBritish television history.

To mark Anti-Bullying Week (18-22November), the 26TH Foyle FilmFestival Education Programme offersa series of hands-on workshops thatchallenge students to explore the issuesinvolved. Participants are tasked withcreating a poster, making an ad, ordesigning a T-shirt with a strong Anti-Bullying message.

Foyle Film Festival also showcasesyoung artists with an Art Exhibition(Void Gallery) featuring 25contemporary student pieces fromacross Northern Ireland. While MovingImage Arts celebrates ten glorious andproductive years of student filmmakingwith CCEA’s Moving Image ArtsShowcase at the Brunswick Moviebowl.The MIA Student Awards are sponsoredby City Of Derry Crystal.

Foyle Film Festival is funded byNorthern Ireland Screen and Derry CityCouncil. Venue Partner is BrunswickMoviebowl. Hotel Partner is DaVinci’sHotel.

Full details of the Foyle Film Festival’smain and Education Programmes willbe announced soon. Contact BernieMcLaughlin: 028 71373456.Keep checking website for updates:www.foylefilmfestival.orgfacebook.com/FoyleFilmFesttwitter.com/foylefilm

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FILM FESTIVALWEDNESDAY 20-SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013

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The 26th FOYLE FILM FESTIVAL takes placefrom Wednesday 20-Sunday 24 Novemberwith main venues for this year’s event theBrunswick Moviebowl, Nerve Centre andCreative Learning Centre. As usual therewill be a number of satellite events in QFT,Belfast, Strule Arts Centre, Omagh andRegional Cultural Centre in Letterkenny. TheFoyle Film Festival Education Programmeruns over two weeks from Monday18-Friday 29 November, and targets allprimary, post-primary schools, collegesand universities with curriculum focusedfilms, workshops and special events. Fullprogrammes to be announced soon. ContactBernie McLaughlin: 028 71373456.Keep checking website for updates: www.foylefilmfestival.org.

In NOVEMBER the city becomes the broadcanvas for the greatest and most challengingfilms ever committed to celluloid. With thelaunch of City Of Culture CINEMA CITYPROGRAMME, in association with Nerve

Centre and Foyle Film Festival, Derry/Londonderry will screen some of the mosticonic films of all time - including DON’TLOOK NOW, MANHATTAN, PARIS, TEXAS,and BLADE RUNNER. While special guestsattending CINEMA CITY during Novemberinclude Danny Boyle, Paul Greengrass,Stephen Rea, and Frank Cottrell Boyce.For four glorious weeks the city of Derry/Londonderry will become the platform fora number of special screenings and guestevents designed to delight and inspirethe city.

Nerve Centre Cinema celebratesCHRISTMAS with a series of seasonal filmsfor all the family - including SANTA CLAUSAND THE MAGIC CRYSTAL, LITTLE SPIRIT:CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK, andA CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE.

COST FILMS: £2.50. WORKSHOPS: FILMNATION NATIONAL YOUTH FILM FESTIVALTwo Day Workshop: £10. Film Club ZombieCollege FREE to Film Club schools.

CONTACT US: Nerve Centre, 7-8 MagazineStreet, Derry/Londonderry, BT48 6HJ. Tel:028 71260562www.nervecentre.orgfacebook.com/nervecentre.orgtwitter.com/nerve_centre

NERVE CENTRE CINEMA, 7-8 Magazine Street, Derry/Londonderry, BT48 6HJ. Programme Changes: We reserve the right to make changes to the published programme, please checkNerve Centre website for the most up-to-date information. Nerve Centre Cinema Summer Programme is funded by Northern Ireland Screen and Derry City Council. www.nervecentre.org

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NOVEMBER MOVIES:CITY OF CULTURECINEMA CITY@ THE NERVE CENTREFRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER @ 8pm SHAUN OF THE DEADMONDAY 4 NOVEMBER @ 8pm DON’T LOOK NOWMONDAY 4 NOVEMBER @ 8pm OEDIPUS REXTUESDAY 5 NOVEMBER @ 8pm THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTERTUESDAY 5 NOVEMBER @ 7pm ANDREI RUBLEVWEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER @ 8pm THE SHININGWEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER @ 8pm MANHATTANTHURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER @ 8pm INTERVIEW WITH THEVAMPIREMONDAY 11 NOVEMBER @ 8pm WINGS OF DESIREMONDAY 11 NOVEMBER @ 8pm THE COMPANY OF WOLVESTUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER @ 8pm FOOL FOR LOVETUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER @ 8pm EUREKAWEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER @ 8pm ELEPHANTWEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER @ 8pm NOSFERATU THEVAMPYRETHURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER @ 8pm CARAVAGGIOTHURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER @ 8pm CHUNGKING EXPRESSMONDAY 18 NOVEMBER @ 8pm WELCOME TO SARAJEVOTUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER @ 8pm ANGELTUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER @ 8pm LOVE IS THE DEVILWEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER @ 8pm PHOTO-DRAMA OFCREATIONTHURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER @ 7.30pm PARIS, TEXASin the Brunswick Moviebowl.MONDAY 25 NOVEMBER @ 8pm THRONE OF BLOODMONDAY 25 NOVEMBER @ 8pm EDVARD MUNCH PART 1TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER @ 8pm BLACKTHORNTUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER @ 8pm EDVARD MUNCH PART 2WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER @ 8pm BLADE RUNNERWEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER @ 8pm VAN GOGHTHURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER @ 8pm HAMLET

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DECEMBER MOVIESTUESDAY 3 DECEMBER @ 8pmTHE STONE ROSES: MADE OFSTONEMONDAY 9 DECEMBER@ 8pm LOVE IS ALL YOU NEEDTUESDAY 10 DECEMBER @ 8pm BEHIND THE CANDELABRAMONDAY 16 DECEMBER @ 8pm THE PURGETUESDAY 17 DECEMBER @ 8pm TUESDAY, AFTERCHRISTMAS ..............................

CHRISTMAS MOVIESWEDNESDAY 4 DECEMBER @ 6pm SANTA CLAUS AND THEMAGIC CRYSTAL....................... THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER @6pm..........................................MONSTER’S UNIVERSITYWEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER @ 6pm EPIC

THURSDAY 12 DECEMBER @ 6pm LITTLE SPIRIT:CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK........WEDNESDAY 18 DECEMBER @ 6pm A CHRISTMASADVENTURE..............................THURSDAY 19 DECEMBER @ 6pm DESPICABLE ME 2

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From Salvador Dali’s dream sequence in Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945), to Andy Warhol’s portraits of iconic cinema stars and Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen’s more recent reinvention as a multi-award winning film director, the worlds of art and cinema have had a long and celebrated history of mutual collaboration and inspiration.

To celebrate the Turner Prize 2013 taking place in Derry~Londonderry, Cinema City will profile a host of artistic luminaries in screenings at the Nerve Centre throughout November.

Twice nominated for the Turner Prize himself, Derry artist Willie Doherty will discuss the influence of cinema on his

work before a screening of Elephant (Wednesday 13 November), one of the most famous films about the Troubles, which was produced by another Cinema City guest, Danny Boyle.

The season opens on Tuesday 5 November with Andrei Rublev, which follows the journey of the great Russian icon painter through a bizarre medieval landscape and which has been described as the greatest art house film of all time.Actress Tilda Swinton, who recently became a work of art herself during when she slept in a glass box at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, can be seen in her first screen role in Caravaggio, director Derek Jarman’s fictionalised telling of the painter’s life on Thursday 14 November

and in the Francis Bacon biopic Love is the Devil on Tuesday 19 November.

One of the best films ever made about the artistic process, Edvard Munch (Part 1 - Monday 25 November, Part 2 - Tuesday 26 November) creates a vivid picture of the emotional, political and social upheavals that had a profound effect on the work of the Norwegian painter and print-maker.A portrait of a genius who was little appreciated during his lifetime, Van Gogh (Wednesday 27 November) focuses on the artist’s final months, which were a period of great creative activity when he painted a new canvas every day.

For full programme information, please visit www.cinema-city.co.

Art & Cinemaby Sarah Hughes

Cinema City will celebrate the creativity of our local film-makers with the premiere of a number of new films, commissioned by Culture Company, exploring new perspectives on city life in 2013. The new films will be introduced by their directors at a special screening at the Hive in the Rath Mor Centre on Saturday afternoon, November 23 as part of the Foyle Film Festival. City 13 is a collection of scenes and ‘sight-bites’ produced in and around the City of Culture 2013 by filmmaker Otto Schlindwein. The director takes us on an interior journey beyond concert halls and shopping malls to where the electric eclectic is to be found, everything from folk punk poets to future geishas.

With almost an hour of new footage of the city, the film combines both real and imagined elements; documentary profile, observation, artistic exploration, fiction, monologue and music video, while using the city and its surrounds as location and local creative and cultural contributors as its cast. Memoria is a short film by Chris McAlinden exploring the ways in which individual and collective memories intermingle in Derry~Londonderry. Certainly the most ambitious film project of 2013 has been brought to the screen by Michael Barwise, one of the city’s most creative young filmmakers. The Girl from the North Country tells the story of Hannah, a seventeen-year old girl from Derry. Five of the most exciting emerging

filmmakers working in Europe today have created their own unique takes on Hannah, her friends and her family to form a collection of short films which blend cinematic styles, cultures, perspectives and above all celebrate the city of Derry~Londonderry on screen. The Girl from the North Country which runs to a combined length of 30 minutes was produced through the Miss Derry Film Project, which was awarded Lottery funding and produced in association with Northern Ireland Screen and the Nerve Centre. The five directors are Arnold Zwanenburg, Saulė Norkutė, Otto Kylmälä, Rachel Rayns, Richard Standen & Tom Stanley. The Girl from the North Country was produced by Pol Og Barwise and Michael Barwise.

New Perspectives on a Changing City


Stumpy’s Brae Brings Horror Back Homeby Peter Hutcheon

There can be no better way to open a season of Gothic films than with a home-made tale of temptation, murder and revenge. That tale is Stumpy’s Brae, starring homegrown talents Nigel O’Neill, Louise Matthews and Lalor Roddy, which was inspired by a poem by the celebrated writer Cecil Francis Alexander.

Alexander is chiefly known for writing the much-loved hymns Once in Royal David’s City and All Things Bright and Beautiful which, according to director Chris Baugh, gives this story an even more disturbing edge.

“It is strange to think that the man behind these beautiful hymns could also come up with such a macabre and chilling story,” he says. “This dark tale couldn’t be more different in tone than the hyms and in many ways that made it more irresistible as a story.”

The tale, written in Ulster Scots, is the story of a poor farmer John and his wife Sarah. When their meager life savings are unjustly taken from them, they offer shelter to a mysterious pedlar in exchange for money, but a terrible turn of events brings about strange and horrifying consequences with a supernatural twist. Needless to say, it does not end cheerfully.

The script, written by local schoolteacher Darren Gibson, remains true to its Ulster-Scots roots and Gibson was present throughout the shooting of the film to help the actors with the dialogue.

“It was important to remain true to the language, but it was also important that the story comes first and foremost,” explains Chris. “So there was a balancing act to be found and Darren was great at working with the actors and making sure that we got it just right.”

The half-hour drama was filmed on location at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Cultra and at the Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh in an intense six-day shoot in early August after an extensive period of pre-production. NI Screen sent Chris’s company Six Mile High the script at the start of the year for a production for the BBC.

“We were immediately interested in the story and could immediately see the potential in it,” he says. “It was just the kind of story – genre horror – that we were interested in. It had good characters and the horror comes from that, not just gore for the sake of it or cheap shocks and scares which are easy to put in just for the sake of it.

“The fact that the feeling of tension builds up through the story and through the characters makes it more intense. We are very proud of it but we can’t wait to see how an audience will react when it is screened as part of the festival.”

The film was produced by Belfast-based Six Mile Hill Productions for BBC Northern Ireland and received funding from Northern Ireland Screen’s Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund.

Stumpy’s Brae will open the Gothic Season of Cinema City at the Nerve Centre on Friday 1 November at 12 noon.


Some film soundtracks are so iconic they can be identified from just a couple of notes: the creeping menace of Jaws, the glamour and intrigue of James Bond and of course, the shrieking horror of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, scored by the legendary Bernard Hermann, writes Sarah Hughes. Made in 1960, Psycho was filmed in low budget black and white and marked a departure from Hitchcock’s previous starrier vehicles such as North by Northwest and Vertigo, featuring as it did a crew with TV backgrounds and actors who were far from household names. In theory, the plot isn’t much to write home about - a Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a troubled young man. However, it’s what

Hitchcock and Hermann do with these seemingly unpromising ingredients which makes Psycho the timeless classic which has terrified and enthralled audiences for decades. Not always one to give credit where it was due, Hitchcock did acknowledge that, “33% of the effect of Psycho is due to the music”. The pivotal role which music plays in how a film is received can be further illustrated by Hitchcock’s original idea for the film to have a jazz score and for the pivotal shower scene to be totally silent, both of which would be completely unthinkable for the film we know today. Hermann sets the mood from the very first note of the opening titles of Psycho - it’s clear that this is no romantic comedy and audiences will not be in for a relaxing ride. The unusual use of strings only

instrumentation – (which Hermann decided upon in order to complement the black and white images and to save on budget) - gives the composer access to a number of effects which fit the film perfectly and put the audience appropriately on edge – the pizzicato illustrating secretary Marion Crane’s nervous tension as she makes her getaway, the chilling, manic strings evoking the horror of the shower scene and the low, discordant notes of the cellos during other moments of tension and dread.

The Ulster Orchestra will be bringing Hermann’s score to life on stage with a live performance to accompany a screening of Psycho at The Venue 2013 on Friday 22 November as part of Cinema City. For further information and to book online, please visit www.cinema-city.co.

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It’s Derry~Londonderry, but not as you know it. What began as a conversation a few years ago between broadcaster Gerry Anderson and director Mark McCauley is now, “half documentary, half love poem to the city”. A City Dreaming will receive a gala screening in St Columb’s Hall on Friday 6th December as part of the Cinema City programme. Tickets will be available from Millennium Forum box office.

“Gerry and I were talking a few years back about the possibility of making a film about the city and how we could go about it,” McCauley explains. “So once we had the basis of an idea we took it to Northern Ireland Screen who realised its potential and brought the British Film Institute on board as their City of Culture legacy project.

“As the documentary began to take shape, it became the story of the city in the 1940s, the 50s and the 60s, as seen through the eyes of a child. And in the process, that child became Gerry Anderson, and although that’s not perhaps what we set out to do in the first place, it is an idea that works incredibly well.”Anderson wrote and narrates the film and it is a personal view of the city in which he grew up. Crucially, his experience was

typical of the time in that his was the first generation to grow up with the prospect of a university education lying ahead.

“Starting in the 40s, the film is like a countdown to an eruption which would happen in the late 60s,” says McCauley. “Derry was destined to be a place where these people growing up would eventually ask some pretty serious questions.”

The film was compiled using Super 8 footage taken by people in the community at the time but it also makes great use of the 16mm footage captured by Terence McDonald. A local teacher and part-time film-maker, he was the first man in the city to own a proper 16mm film camera and his archive comprises some amazing moving images from the city during the sixties.

“When the film opens, it is through the eyes of a child observing a very small slice of life in the 1940s,” says McCauley. “It takes in his family, and then his house and then his street and then eventually opens up to include his neighbourhood.

“This is a past which has disappeared, a city which is unrecognisable in many ways. The film takes us from that time and looks at what happened when extensive

violence is visited on a place, if the people can recover. And I think that we have a pretty positive conclusion on that.”According to McCauley, Anderson was vital to the project.

“At the start I had no idea of how it would work,” he says. “It grew into looking at the city through his eyes and when we hit on that idea, we thought, what better way to tell the story?

“So in the end it was written by Gerry, narrated by him and is almost a personal memoir.”

A gala screening of A City Dreaming will take place in St Columb’s Hall on Friday 6 December at 8pm. This screening is brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen and Film Hub NI.

Film Hub NI is led by Film Hub Lead Organisation QFT as part of the BFI Film Audience Network and funded by British Film Institute through National Lottery Funding.

A City Dreaming was produced with Lottery funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland through Northern Ireland Screen.

A Different Time, A Different Placeby Peter Hutcheon


Jordan’s debut movie takes the conventions of a standard thriller plot - innocent bystander witnesses horrific murders and turns avenger - and integrates them cleverly into a contemporary setting: 1980s Northern Ireland.

Stephen Rea plays Danny, a saxophonist with a local dance band. He is the hapless fall guy who watches as his manager and a deaf mute girl he had just picked up are gunned down by protection racketeers. Taking up arms to track down the killers Danny embarks on a nightmare journey through the urban and rural landscapes of South Armagh, his desire for retribution dragging him into a hopeless downward spiral where one act of violence seems inevitably to lead to another.

As such, Angel isn’t about the political situation in Northern Ireland; it rather examines the way in which violence breeds violence and affects those left in its wake, noticeably the girlfriends, wives and mothers whose menfolk are conspicuous in their absence.

Angel marked the start of Jordan’s collaborations with Rea, and he would go on to direct his Oscar nominated performance in The Crying Game.The Sligo-born director has always had a particular view which comes across in his films, no matter what the subject matter and he attributes that, in part, to his upbringing.“I grew up in a respectable, lower-middle-class home. Our family was quite educated; my mother was a painter, and stuff like that,£ he says.

“And I didn’t chop up my next-door neighbour. But I remember those emotions. It was a very strange world. Ireland is very grey, and it seems like nothing has changed for centuries. The only bits of colour were in churches, with statues and gaudy religious vestments. It was a very insanely Catholic country. And, you have an educational system run by celibate men in skirts, which is bizarre in itself. But, there’s just a sweet irrationality to the whole place.

“But in a strange way, the more organization and the more preparation you do, the more freedom it gives to the performances and to those things that are totally dependent on those moments when you shoot. Visual things are very complicated. I can’t improvise visual events. I can’t improvise a sense of composition. I have to compare. I have to look at the street where we are shooting on. I have to know where the light is coming from. Obviously, you would have to know where the trucks are parked and stuff like that. But what you cannot legislate for is emotion, the way emotion displays itself in a scene and that always comes from the actors. That is the way I work.

“The only reason I ever want to make movies is if there are characters that find bits of themselves that they didn’t understand. I don’t believe we are fully rational beings. I don’t believe that any explanation that we ever give for our behaviour is adequate.”

Angel is being screened at the Nerve Centre Cinema 1 on Tuesday 19 November at 8pm with a question and answers session with Stephen Rea afterwards.

Thanks to -

Martin Melarkey, Peter Hutcheon, Sarah Hughes, Joanne

McCarroll, Claire McDermott, Grainne Devine, Chris

McCann and John McCandless at the Culture Company,

Karen Friel, John Peto and David Lewis at the Nerve

Centre, Bernie McLaughlin and Eavan King at the Foyle

Film Festival, Marty Breslin at Lermagh, Field Day, Andrew

Eaton, Mark McCauley, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Liam Browne,

NI Screen, The British Film Institute, BAFTA, Queen’s Film

Theatre Belfast, Willie Doherty, Professor Ian Christie,

Stephen Rea, Danny, Coyle, Paul Greengrass, Sam Shepard,

Chris Baugh, the Brunswick Moviebowl, the Rath Mor

Centre, CCEA, the BT Portrait of a City team, Jean Long

and all at Johnston Press.

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