1. projects

      • House 2010 – Garden

        CINECITY PROJECT: HOUSE – GARDEN 2010

        For the second House Festival, part of Artists Open Houses in May 2010, CINECITY presented a ‘mini-cinema’ in a garden shed at 46 Buller Road, Brighton.

        Welcoming in Spring with a selection of garden and flower-themed treasures from the archive, a different programme was screened over 4 weekends:

        Sat 1 & Sun 2 May

        Birth of a Flower Dir: Percy Smith. UK 1910. 6mins
        Mesmerising time-lapse photography captures the poetry of flowers opening their petals to the light. Hyacinths, crocuses, snowdrops, neapolitan onion flowers, narcissi, Japanese lilies, garden anemones and roses bloom before your very eyes.


        Sat 8 & Sun 9 May

        Alice in Wonderland Dir: Percy Stow and Cecil Hepworth. UK 1903. Extract 8mins.
        The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale, made just 37 years after its publication and 8 years after the birth of cinema. The longest film produced in England at the time, running for 12 minutes, ALICE… was almost lost for good and only one incomplete print, found in Hove, survives. It was restored by the BFI with the original colour tints recreated.

        Sat 15 & Sun 16 May

        How to Dig Dir: Jack Ellit. UK 1941. 14mins
        Made in co-operation with the Royal Horticultural Society and sponsored by the Ministry of Information, the different methods of digging over ground before sowing.

        Sat 22 & Sun 23 May

        Everything in the Garden’s Lovely
        A selection of garden-set home movies and amateur films from Screen Archive South East.