Cinematext
Exhibitions and special events exploring literature and film.
Brighton Rock (2010-2017)
Live cinema, special events and installations celebrating the film that put Brighton on the movie map. Brighton Rock Unseen (2010) A special one-off stage and screen re-imagining...
Hangover Square (2012)
University of Brighton Gallery Saturday 5 – Sunday 27 May 2012 To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Patrick Hamilton – iconic author,...
Pop-up Cinema Bookshop and Reading Room (2012)
Fri 16 November – Sat 1 December University of Brighton South Gallery In association with Wallflower Press, CINECITY opened a Pop-Up Cinema Bookshop for the...
Zoom Lens: JG Ballard (2012)
Friday 23 November 2012 For the monthly Jukebox Fury at The Basement, an event described as somewhere between guerrilla cinema and pop-up gig, Zoom Lens...
Fahrenheit 451 (2014)
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery Dir: François Truffaut. With: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack. UK/US. 1966. 112 mins. The empty shelves of the old...
Midwich Cuckoos Live (2014)
A live re-imagining of John Wyndham’s Sci-Fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos – the inspiration for cult film The Village of the Damned (1960) – performed on stage by...
They: A Sequence of Unease by Kay Dick (2014)
A special ‘on-location’ one-off event exploring a rare Science Fiction novel, set on the South Downs. Brighton-based author Kay Dick’s novel They: A Sequence of...
Berg (2014)
University of Brighton Gallery Saturday 22 November – Friday 19 December 2014 A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a...
NOT Showing At This Cinema (2015)
Looking beyond the British film industry’s cycle of boom and bust, it is possible to imagine an alternative history; an unrealised or unfinished British Cinema,...
Fake News: The British Cinema Papers (2017)
University of Brighton Gallery 11 November – 9 December 2017 ‘BRIGHTON GANGSTER’S BODY FOUND Gravel Pit Discovery’ declared the front page of The Evening Argus...