Home Cinema
Presented with House Festival

We are really pleased for the organisers of the debut House Festival. Alongside great success and audience numbers at venues across the city we worked in partnership on Home Cinema.

Home Cinema turned the living room of No. 6 Clifton Street into a mini-picture palace complete with red velvet cinema seats. And just as cinemas used to, the Home Cinema offered a continuous programme for you to just turn up and start watching the film at any point. On screen, there were four different programmes, each one exploring issues of memory, family and identity.

The Future is Behind You + Cake and Steak (adv 12a)
Sat 2 — Sun 3 May
12pm — 6pm
Director: Abigail Child
US 2004 / 41 mins

Abigail Child’s films use home movies to explore particular periods and places. The Future is Behind You is a fictional story composed from German family films made in the 1930s. Cake and Steak explores ‘girl training’ in the legacy of home movie and post-war US suburban culture.

I for India (adv 12)
Sat 9 — Sun 10 May
12pm — 6pm
Director: Sandhya Suri
UK 2005 / 70 mins

In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the UK and for the next forty years exchanged ‘cine-letters’ between himself and his family in India. I For India is a rich personal history as seen through the eyes of one Asian family.

A Daily Life (adv 12a)
Sat 16 — Sun 17 May
12pm — 6pm
Directors: Piet Schendstok and Albert Elings
Netherlands 2000 / 67 mins

A Daily Life chronicles one Dutch family as seen through the camera of Piet Schendstok. It follows a chronological structure from 1932 to 1978 and provides a unique portrait of family life.

At Home (adv 12a)
Sat 23 — Sun 24 May
12pm — 6pm
Screen Archive South East
55 mins

This programme celebrates how a number of families in the South East used movie cameras to capture special moments of family life. These are films of joy and happiness, representing aspects of a domestic history that we all share and remember but rarely see on film.

For more details about the House Festival visit www.aoh.org.uk/house-festival.