Margate Rocks 08 Film Programme
Presenting the best of emerging British talent, DIY eco films and green filmmaking.
The overall theme of the film programme is drift – making films from the detritus of the seaside, responding to the sea, and recycling found material, along with the parallel meanings of a drifting mind and the drift of populations through immigration. This ties in with the overall art and ecology theme via a focus on green filmmaking - how to make a film that is in itself ecologically sound, from equipment to making the decision about whether your subject is worthwhile considering its carbon footprint – aimed at both current practitioners and new talent.
Supporting screenings on these themes will be a bespoke education programme to stimulate local and community filmmaking.
Animate Projects presents Salvage
Artists films featuring Semiconductor, Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley, John Parry, Sandra Lahire, Run Wrake, Inger Lise Hansen, and Cordelia Swann. Click here to find out more.
Margate Rocks presents Ecology on Film
Featuring Andrew Kötting’s Gallivant and Jean-Gabriel Périot’s Nijuman no Borei (200,000 Phantoms)… All powered by Magnificent Revolution’s unique Cycling Cinema! Click here to find out more.
Drift Showcase
Debuting the shorts made by artists on the theme of Drift, following on from the Drift Workshop held by Margate Rocks earlier this year, and a screening of the excellent Dante’s Inferno by Sean Meredith and Sandow Birk… All powered by Magnificent Revolution’s unique Cycling Cinema! Click here to find out more.
Environmental Activism Filmmaking with Franny Armstrong
A day of environmental activism filmmaking including a free workshop with internationally acclaimed filmmaker, Franny Armstrong, followed by a screening of her groundbreaking film, Drowned Out. Click here to find out more.
My Kingdom for a Horse
The first film screening for May Day including works by Charlotte Ginsborg and Jean-Gabriel Periot. Click here to find out more.
Free Cinema Documentaries About Free Thinkers
The second film screening for May Day featuring Philip Trevelyan’s The Moon and The Sledgehammer, Oss Oss Wee Oss by Alan Lomax and Momma Don’t Allow by Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson. Click here to find out more.
Jetsam
A rare chance to see local filmmaker Simon Welsford’s groundbreaking debut feature film, Jetsam, which was last seen at the 2007 BFI London Film Festival. The film was shot in here in Margate and is a nail-bitingly intense thriller! Click here to find out more.
Ecology by Sarah Turner
Ecology, is an experimental feature film composed of three sequences; three characters and three stories which can be screened in any order. Each story is an internal monologue from the point of view of three family members; a mother, daughter and son, and set in the same location, Andratx, Majorca, though not all at the same time. Click here to find out more.
Film Curator, Charlie Philips, speaking at Margate Rocks 08. Photography © Simon Welsford