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      • HENRI GEORGES CLOUZOT INFERNO (15)

        Sun 29 Nov 6.00pm

        Duke of York’s Picturehouse

        DIRECTOR Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea. France 2009. 100mins. French With English Subtitles

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        In 1964 legendary director Henri-Georges Clouzot, dubbed the ‘French Hitchcock’ for his hugely successful 50s thrillers THE WAGES OF FEAR and LES DIABOLIQUES, began work on his cherished project, INFERNO. Starring Romy Schneider and Serge Reggiani in a study of jealousy and madness, Clouzot was determined to push the boundaries of cinema. With an unlimited budget and influenced by some of the kaleidoscopic imagery he had recently seen in art galleries, Clouzot began shooting a mass of material: gorgeous monochrome location footage and stunning hallucinatory studio tests, before the production was shut down after 3 weeks. Directors Bromberg and Medrea have pieced together the long lost footage and with interviews and read-throughs of key scenes, have fashioned an intriguing and visually rich documentary about one of the great lost films.

      • BRITAIN’S LOST CINEMA: THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY

        Mon 30 Nov 6.15pm

        Sallis Benney Theatre

        FREE

        Nost.SulacoSquare

        Film historian and broadcaster Ian Christie explores some of the films that Michael Powell, David Lean and Terry Gilliam, among others, didn’t manage to make, and asks how these might have changed our image of these directors. All film-makers sufferfrom cherished projects failing to get made, after many months or years have been spent preparing them. Would they have been masterpieces – or were some perhaps better not made? And how much can we know about them? Ian Christie has published many books on Michael Powell, Gilliam on Gilliam and, most recently, The Art of Film: John Box and Production Design.

      • TWO IMPOSSIBLE FILMS

        Thu 3 Dec 8.00pm

        Sallis Benney Theatre

        Screening to complement the Mark Lewis exhibition are his TWO IMPOSSIBLE FILMS, made in 1995 and based on a pair of projects that were never made, Eisenstein’s movie of Marx’s Das Kapital and Sam Goldwyn’s fantasy of filming the works of Freud.

        Please see MARK LEWIS for ticket link.

      • NATHAN PHILIPS SQUARE, A WINTERS NIGHT SKATING (2009) — UK Premiere

        Fri Nov 20th – Sat 12th Dec

        Mon- Fri 11am to 8.00pm

        Sat 11am to 5,00pm

        Closed Sunday

        The University of Brighton Gallery

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        Shown for the first time in the UK following its premiere at this year’s Venice Biennale. An ultra-modern and seemingly romantic scene of a couple skating together, set at night in a skating rink in Toronto. It takes a second to realise it is not real, that the background is a rear projection and the lighting on the two figures doesn’t match what’s behind them. Mark Lewis has always been interested in the celluloid-based special-effects technology known as rear projection. He’s just made a documentary, currently being screened at Toronto Film Festival, about the founders of the technique: BACKSTORY: HANSARD REAR PROJECTION (2009)

      • NORTH CIRCULAR (2000)

        Fri 20 Nov – Sat 12 Dec

        Mon- Fri 11am to 8.00pm

        Sat 11am to 5,00pm

        Closed Sunday

        The University of Brighton Gallery

        Shot in real time, NORTH CIRCULAR employs a single 4-minute shot lasting precisely the length of one 400ft roll of 35mm film.

        North Circular opens with a distant shot of an abandoned, partially ruined modernist office block backlit against a violet-tinged sky. The camera glides lazily up on its crane, gravitating towards a scene on of the floors of the building, until it climaxes with the close-up of a boy’s spinning top.