CINECITY Patron Nick Cave Gets Honorary Doctorate

Nick Cave will receive an Honorary Doctorate from The University of Brighton Faculty of Arts on February 9th 2012, in recognition of his contribution to the Arts and in particular his patronage of CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival. The CINECITY team are delighted by this announcement as have been talking to the University of Brighton, who co-present the festival, about honoring Nick Cave for sometime.

Nick Cave has been closely involved with the film festival since 2004 when he curated a season of films that explored the city of Berlin. He is a regular visitor to the festival and has taken part in Q&A sessions following screenings of THE PROPOSITION and THE ROAD.

More information can be found on the University of Brighton Arts Faculty website.

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CINECITY AUDIENCE AWARD 2011

THE ARTIST is the winner of the 2011 CINECITY Audience Award with the highest average star rating given by our audiences. We’d like to thank everyone who rated the films they saw during the festival for this award.

THE ARTIST is released in cinemas across the UK in January.

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THIS OUR STILL LIFE

The writer and curator Gareth Evans has written an exclusive article for CINECITY on the work of Andrew Kötting

http://www.cine-city.co.uk/projects/this-our-still-life/

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MARTIN ARNOLD EXHIBITION

Great photos of our Martin Arnold Exhibition in the University of Brighton North Gallery thanks to QED. Exhibition is open until December 1st and it is free entry.

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THIS OUR STILL LIFE GALLERY OPENING

CINECITY were pleased to welcome Andrew & Eden Kötting to the Private View of their exhibition last Wednesday at The University of Brighton Gallery. We are looking forward to them coming back on December 1st to take part in the Q&A after the THIS OUR STILL LIFE film screens at The Sallis Benney Theatre.

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CINECITY App LIVE TODAY

The CINECITY Festival app is live today. It’s free to download on to your iphone or ipad and then you can watch short films for free during the festival.

Download App Here.

The app was developed in partnership with Mopix, specialists in packaging films into apps. To find out how to make your film into an app visit http://www.getmopix.com/

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Listen to David Thomas Interview

In advance of the live underscore to CARNIVAL OF SOULS on Friday 2 December, an interview with David Thomas.

Produced by Paul Dutnall. Broadcast on Currently Off Air show, 9pm Fridays, 11pm Sundays on Radio Reverb, 97.2 fm in Brighton. Listen here!

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NICK BROOMFIELD CONFIRMS Q&A

We are delighted that documentary film-maker Nick Broomfield has confirmed that he will be taking part in a Q&A following the screening of SARAH PALIN, YOU BETCHA! on November 21st at The Duke of Yorks.

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CINECITY SUCCESS AT WHITE NIGHT

Over 4000 people visited CINECITY’s Underwater Utopia event during White Night. The image above is from our unveiling of the temporary plaque to Prince Peter Kropotkin which took place outside Sealife Brighton at 5.30pm.

Thanks to everyone who came.

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CINECITY BRIGHTON FILM FESTIVAL 2011 STUDENT PASS

The Brighton Film Festival 2011 STUDENT PASS provides incredible value to University of Brighton and Sussex Students.

For just £30 (inc. VAT) you get tickets to x10 screenings throughout the festival.

The Pass includes:
10 tickets to screenings throughout the festival*
Free ticket to People Like Us – Magical Misery Tour
Automatic membership to Playgroup and offers at the Blind Tiger bar

Purchase Pass Here

Terms & Conditions:

To claim your tickets print your email receipt and present it with you NUS / Student card at the Duke of York’s Picturehouse box office, Preston Circus Brighton BN1 4NA. Ensure that the receipt is printed clearly on white paper, before presenting to the box office staff. To save time we advise you select the films you wish to redeem before collection– to view the programme visit the website www.cine-city.co.uk . The printed programme is available at all festival venues.

Restrictions apply:

This receipt cannot be used to gain admission to screenings it MUST be redeemed for official tickets. * The offer excludes Opening Night Film SHAME & Live Soundtrack events SILENT RUNNING & CARNIVAL OF SOULS. Tickets to screenings are not guaranteed and are subject to availability, we recommend selecting and collecting your films as early as possible to save disappointment. This offer is only applicable to screenings taking place in the CINECITY programme and doesn’t include other events taking place at participating  venues.  Valid for use only by the recipient only.   

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CINECITY EVENTS IN WHITE NIGHT

Cinecity will launch their film festival programme on White Night on Oct 29th – and will present three events at this year’s free all night arts festival. As the clocks go back, come and do something different in the middle of the night. This year’s citywide events are themed around Utopias.

SEA LIFE Brighton (7pm – 1am)
Before Jacques Cousteau and David Attenborough there was Jean Painlevé, the French marine biologist and pioneering film-maker who made over 200 films with his partner, Genevieve Hamon, many exploring the weird and wonderful life of the deep. Merging science and art, they revealed the hidden poetry of nature’s underwater utopia in a series of surreal films.

An instinctive anarchist and close friend of director Jean Vigo, Jean Painlevé was also drawn to surrealism and worked with Man Ray among others. The screening includes one of his most famous films THE SEAHORSE (L’Hippocampe) 1933 – presented here with a soundtrack recorded in 2001 by US art-rock band Yo La Tengo.

CINECITY will also unveil a special temporary plaque to PRINCE PETER KROPOTKIN (5.30pm tbc)

The former Brighton Aquarium played a small but intriguing role in the development of the theory of anarchism. Prince Peter Kropotkin, born in Russia, was exiled in Brighton for a time (he is named on Brighton & Hove bus number 49). A regular visitor to the Aquarium he was inspired to write Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902) after studying the behaviour of the crabs and turtles.
CINECITY will unveil a temporary plaque to this idealist and visionary.

Completing our line-up for the evening – at the North Gate of the Royal Pavilion (8pm- 1am) – passers-by can look through the windows of the gatehouse, and glimpse the silence of snow filling the room.

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CINECITY Brighton Film Festival 2011

Send us your SUPER 8 Films

With its origins as a domestic cine format launched in the 1960s, Super 8mm has experienced a renaissance in recent years with both professional and amateur film-makers embracing this highly portable and unique film format. Dedicated super 8 festivals have sprung up in response to this, and Cinecity is screening a programme to represent some of the most interesting experiments with the perennial small gauge film.

SUPER 8 Submissions:

Cinecity is looking for short films (under 10 minutes), originated on super 8 and produced since 2009. Animation, abstraction and experimentation with the format will be particularly welcomed.

Please send a dvd of your film by 1st November to:

Cinecity
University of Brighton
Grand Parade
Brighton
BN2 OJY

Selected entries will be screened from the submitted dvd, or alternatively from mini-dv tape or super 8 film.

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