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AV FESTIVAL 12: SLOW CINEMA WEEKEND
Thu 8 March 2012 – Sun 11 March 2012
“The Slow Cinema Weekend itself was an unusual and exemplary festival- within-a-festival.” (Sight and Sound)
Over this special weekend we welcomed some of the world’s leading filmmakers to Newcastle to screen and discuss their rarely seen work, across Tyneside Cinema and Star and Shadow Cinema.
Representing the most exciting cinema across Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia and the UK, these uncompromising and visionary filmmakers are devoted to the art of film.
Including Fred Kelemen, one of the boldest German filmmakers of the last 20-years; Lav Diaz internationally celebrated as the ideological father of the New Philippine Cinema; Lisandro Alonso one of the most accomplished and original Argentine artists working today; and the distinctive UK filmmaker Ben Rivers.
You could attend individual films or the whole weekend with our special weekend Slow Cinema Pass.
Lav Diaz: Melancholia
Sat 10 March 2012, 1pm-11pm
Star and Shadow CinemaThree strangers arrive in rural Sagada. Past revolutionaries, they adopt different identities to manage their trauma. Exploring the legacy of failed revolution...more
Ben Rivers: Two Years At Sea
Sun 11 March 2012, 11am-12.30pm
Star and Shadow CinemaBen Rivers’ first feature-length film documents the solitary existence of Jake, who lives in isolation in a remote Scottish forest... more
Slow Cinema Discussion
Fri 9 March 2012, 11am-12.30pm
Tyneside CinemaA panel of filmmakers and critics discussed their work and current trends within contemporary cinema, including: Lav Diaz... more
Lav Diaz: Century of Birthing
Sun 11 March 2012, 1pm-7.30pm
Star and Shadow CinemaStories about a Christian religious cult and a self-involved filmmaker, are brilliantly intertwined in Lav Diaz's newest film, premiered... more
Lav Diaz: Heremias Book II
Fri 9 March 2012, 9.30pm-11pm
Star and Shadow CinemaHeremias Book II introduces one of Lav Diaz's principle characters, the timid yet resolute craftsman and vendor Heremias. The film cuts between the story of...more
Ben Rivers: Slow Action
Sat 10 March 2012, 11am-12pm
Star and Shadow CinemaSlow Action is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film, operating between documentary, ethnography and fiction. Filmed at different islands across... more
Fred Kelemen: Fate / Verhaengnis
Thu 8 March 2012, 6pm-7.45pm
Tyneside CinemaFate is a remarkable debut film, admired by critic Susan Sontag as “a visionary, one-of-a-kind achievement”. Taking place...more
Fred Kelemen: Frost
Thu 8 March 2012, 8.30pm-12am
Star and Shadow CinemaFrost is a landmark European film, cementing Fred Kelemen as an inheritor of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner... more
Fred Kelemen: Nightfall / Abendland
Fri 9 March 2012, 6pm-8.30pm
Star and Shadow CinemaFred Kelemen’s third feature is a devastating, tender and sublime masterpiece. Expanding the location to Portugal integrates... more
Bela Tarr: The Turin Horse
Sat 10 March 2012, 7.45pm-11pm
Tyneside CinemaThis preview of Bela Tarr’s last ever work, filmed in collaboration with Fred Kelemen, depicts six days in the life of a father, daughter ...more
Lisandro Alonso: La Libertad / Liberty
Fri 9 March 2012, 1.45pm-3.20pm
Tyneside CinemaLisandro Alonso’s brilliant debut film follows a day in the life of Misael, a migrant woodcutter... more
Lisandro Alonso: Los Muertos / The Dead
Fri 9 March 2012, 3.30pm-5.15pm
Tyneside CinemaLisandro Alonso’s second feature is the enigmatic journey of released convict Vargas... more
Lisandro Alonso: Liverpool
Sun 11 March 2012, 9pm-11pm
Star and Shadow CinemaEvoking Ulysses, Lisandro Alonso’s latest film follows estranged seaman Ferrel on a journey home to his family. Filmed in snowy Tierra del Fuego, the world’s most... more
