Pop-Up Cinema

Site-specific screenings and events. From swimming pools, aquariums, hotels, observatories and royal palaces to old police cells, garden sheds, living rooms and former chapels of rest…

Brighton on Film: Crime Town (2005)

Old Police Cells Museum, Brighton Town Hall The history of Brighton on film is marked by the spectacle of Brighton as a crime-town. Films including...

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Dive-In Movies (2009)

Prince Regent Swimming Pool Come on in, the water’s lovely… For one night only CINECITY turned the Prince Regent Swimming Pool into a Picturehouse and presented...

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House (2009-2015)

Home Cinema (2009) For the first edition of the visual arts festival HOUSE in 2009, exploring art in the domestic space, CINECITY turned the living...

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Séance en Nuit Blanche (2010)

Glimpsed through the open upstairs window of a former chapel of rest, a topsy-turvy world of magic and mayhem, devils and demons and delirious colour....

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Jean Painlevé / Underwater Utopias (2011)

Brighton Sealife Centre Projected onto a floating screen in the turtle pool at Brighton Sealife Centre, CINECITY screened a selection of underwater films made by...

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Underground Cinema (2011)

POP-UP CINEMA at The Basement, 24 Kensington Street ‘Underground Cinema’ has been used to describe film-makers’ exploration of the political, transgressive and poetic possibilities of...

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The Artists’ Cinema (2012)

University of Brighton Gallery November – December 2012 For the 10th edition of CINECITY, we created a pop-up ARTISTS’ CINEMA in the North Gallery of...

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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...

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The Assassination of JFK (2013)

Friday 22 November Various Artists  50 years to the day since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, CINECITY and The Basement presented a special...

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Cinema Under the Stars (2014)

Observatory Science Centre, Herstmonceux The Observatory at Herstmonceux was transformed into an open-air Drive-In cinema. Taking the theme of ‘Outer Space’ the weekend of events...

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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...

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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...

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LOVE at The Royal Pavilion (2015)

As part of the BFI’s blockbuster LOVE season, CINECITY turned Brighton’s Royal Pavilion Music Room into a pop-up cinema.  The Royal Pavilion was conceived as...

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