May Day Film Event I: My Kingdom for a Horse

Monday 5 May Bank Holiday
1.30 - 3.30pm
The Theatre Royal Margate, Addington Street, Margate
£2.50 (ticket includes entry to both May Day Film Events)
To book call 01227 787 787

‘A much-needed escape from the confusing modern world of bendy-buses, iPods and Crazy Frog records’
The Guardian, Guide

My Kingdom for a Horse is a film screening for May Day, giving a platform for all of those who love or hate what May Day stands for. The films, mostly documentaries, showcase a diverse range of subjects spinning off the idea of May Day. Filmmakers include Charlotte Ginsborg and Jean-Gabriel Periot.

Films and videos about folk heroes; devils and peculiarities; working-class idols; middle-class guilt; peoples’ princes and princesses; ethnic pride or shame of many backgrounds and persuasions. Non-ironic films with genuine testaments to folk culture and everyday triumph and glorious disaster. Bastard Britishness, international visions of the sons and daughters of Albion and beyond. “The dream that kicks the buried from their sack. And lets their trash be honoured as the quick.” A celebration of pitter-pattering industry in a post-industrial age. Our kingdoms for horses, our days of rebellion. The industrious flight of the bumblebee on a fresh May Day.

Originally shown in May 2006 in Dalston, London.