Scalarama

Scalarama 2020
2020-09-01 - 2020-09-30 | East Sussex

Mexican Silent Film with Live Music: "Ghost Train"( El Tren Fantasma)
2019-10-28 19:00 - 22:30 (Europe/London) | The Fashion Hub, 14 Gildart Street, L3 8ET, United Kingdom
The UK Premier of “El tren fantasma” (Ghost Train). Mexican Silent Film with Live Music performed by the pianist José María Serralde.

About this Event
“[Serralde] caused an outstanding impression at the Festival with his exciting musical treatment…”
Pordenone Silent Film Festival 2014 Catalogue
“Bringing this film with Ensamble Cine Mudo, is for me a dream come true…”
Miro Puritrava, director and founder Sarajevo International Film Festival

Serralde is the foremost Mexican silent film musician, and classical-trained pianist composing and performing live music for silent films and multidisciplinary arts since 1995. He founded Ensamble Cine Mudo in 1998 calling the talents of peformers, to play live for film screenings, with a special concern on period authenticity and stylistic inspiration.
Besides Mexico, Serralde’s has performed in Canada, Spain, Italy, Bosnia- Herzegovina, and Brazil, presenting his works in venues and galleries in France, Germany and the U.K too. He performs each October at the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy, a world-leading silent film festival, next to internationaly acclaimed performers where he is also one of the tutors of young artists, as part of the Festival’s renown silent film music masterclasses.
Ghost Train is a film made by the Director García Moreno in 1926. He received the full cooperation of the National Railroad in the making of the film, and it still stands today as a document to one of the great technological advances made in Mexico during the 1920s.
Restored in 2014 by Filmoteca UNAM, the adventure of charros vs. gangsters received a new treatment when M. Esperanza Vásquez recovered its original script. Saved from oblivion by Dr. Aurelio de los Reyes over the past decades, a set of forgotten nitrate cans were put together in between 2004 and 2014. The music was commissioned to José Ma. Serralde who composed and recorded the music with his Ensemble Cine Mudo, a cue-sheet based semi-improvised score with the american-styled dance music introduced to Mexico through the radio, and the music of Veracruz; all done after research in Orizaba, where the sones and danzones, meet the foxtrot.
Doors open at: 19:00 hrs
Performance starts at: 20:00 hrs.

Hail Satan?
2019-09-29 18:30 - 21:00 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
Alert!! #newrelease2019
As charming and funny as it is thought-provoking, Hail Satan? chronicles the extraordinary rise of one of the most colourful and controversial religious movements in American history, The Satanists.
Hail Satan? is an inspiring and entertaining new feature documentary from acclaimed director Penny Lane (Nuts!, Our Nixon).
Director: Penny Lane
Year 2019. Duration 1h 35 min
Tix :£5/£3( consessions) buy>>here

Rosa Luxemburg
2019-09-26 19:00 - 22:00 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
Liverpool Left Film Club screens
Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
Rosa Luxemburg was a towering figure on the revolutionary left of the German and Polish socialist movements. Born into a Jewish middle-class family, she had, by the age of 18 already been involved the organising of a general strike in Warsaw, for which four leading figures were later executed. She fled to Switzerland in 1889 where she quickly became immersed in left émigré circles, distinguishing herself as a brilliant exponent of Marxist theory and revolutionary strategy.
By 1897 she had moved to Germany and had become deeply involved in the Social Democratic Party (SPD), a party with a massive popular base. Again, her brilliance brought her into prominence on the far left of the party, where she formed a close and lifelong friendship with the German revolutionary Clara Zetkin, and became aquainted with Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya.

At that time the ‘evolutionary socialism’ of Eduard Bernstein was influential on the right of the SPD. Rosa Luxemburg was vehemently opposed to the idea that socialism might be achieved by any type of collaboration with ‘progressive’ sections of capital, calling always for the revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist state.
But it was over the question of inter-imperialist war that she was to break decisively with the SPD. On 4 August 1914 the SPD deputies in the German Reishtag voted to pay war credits, effectively ending their opposition to war. Rosa Luxemburg, despairing of this complete surrender to patriotic war frenzy, broke away to form the anti-war Marxist Spartacus League. The Spartacus League, forerunner of the German Communist Party, promoted an internationalist socialist message through the dark years of the First World War.
With Germany’s defeat in 1918, revolutionary stirrings were evident in the working-class districts, and by 1919 things came to a head in a rising that was violently supressed. Rosa Luxemburg and her close collaborator Karl Leibnicht were arrested by soldiers of the Friekorps, brutalised war veterans. Both were murdered on 15 January 1919.
Von Trotta’s film covers the years of 1900-1919, during which we see Rosa Luxemburg in and out of prison for her activities, developing Marxist economic and political theory, and working tirelessly for international socialist revolution.
But von Trotta does something else. She shows us Rosa Luxemburg, the woman: sometimes euphoric with the hope of socialism; sometimes in dark and lonely despair at the injustice of capitalism and the horrors of war; in love, and out of love; dealing with the infighting of the German SPD; and also dealing with the men in her life.
Von Trotta’s film is a masterpiece of political and personal biography.
Something not to be missed!

Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy
2019-09-26 18:00 | CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Totally Fucked Up (Gregg Araki, 1993) 1hr 25m
The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, 1995) 1hr 30m
Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997) 1hr 25m
A rare opportunity to see Gregg Araki’s ’90s New Queer Cinema classics: the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy of Totally Fucked Up (1993), The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997). A kaleidoscope of pop culture, nihilism, disenfranchised youth and…reptilian aliens.
Teen Apocalypse Trilogy ticket (£12)
Individual tickets are priced on a sliding scale, £0-£8, depending on what you can afford. There’s a guide to the three-tier scale here: bit.ly/slidingscaleguide (Register for a free ticket via email tickets@matchboxcineclub.com)
TOTALLY FUCKED UP
Told in fifteen vignettes, this pseudo-documentary film chronicles the lives of six queer adolescents dealing with sex, love, homophobia, depression and relationships as they come of age in 1990s LA. A heartfelt, anarchic portrayal of teenage angst.
THE DOOM GENERATION
Troubled teens Jordan (James Duval) and Amy (Rose McGowan) pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier (Jonathon Schaech) and together, the trio head out on a surreal sex and violence-filled road trip through the dark apocalyptic landscape of America, encountering sinister strangers claiming to be from Amy’s past.
NOWHERE
Famously described as ‘Beverley Hills 90210 on acid’ this outrageous star-studded teen flick follows the lives of a group of hedonistic teens. Dark (James Duval), his girlfriend Mel (Rachel True), and her sarcastic lover Lucifer (Kathleen Robertson) plan on attending the wildest party of the year, but things take a strange turn and they find themselves facing a series of increasingly bizarre occurrences including alien abduction, murder and teenage heartbreak set against an apocalyptic, candy coloured backdrop of 1990s LA.
NB All three screenings will be captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing
Thanks to Peccadillo Pictures and WHY NOT Productions

Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents: How Tasty was my Little Frenchman (1971)
2019-09-25 19:00 - 21:30 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents the curated series Cannibals and Carnivals: A brief history of Brazilian underground cinema: 1964-1971.
The final installment in this mini-series will be How Tasty was my Little Frenchman (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1971). A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti), who is part of a faction from his country trying to stake a claim to Brazil before the Portuguese colonize it, is held by a hostile tribe that assumes he is Portuguese. The tribe, allied with the French, is looking to avenge the murder of one of their members by eating a Portuguese soldier during a feast. Although the Frenchman is incorporated into village life, and even given a wife by the tribe, his fate hangs in the balance.
The film will be introduced by Dr Anthony Killick and we would love to hear your thoughts in the film afterwards.
7pm // Upstairs at The Caledonia Pub
Suggested donation £3

Portrait of Jason
2019-09-24 19:30 - 21:30 | The Reliance, 76-78 North Street, Leeds, LS2 7PN, United Kingdom
On the night of December 2, 1966, Shirley Clarke and a tiny crew convened in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea to make a film. There, for twelve straight hours they filmed the inimitable Jason Holliday as he spun tales, sang, donned costumes and reminisced about his experiences as a gay hustler, sometime houseboy and aspiring cabaret performer. The result is a mesmerizing portrait of a remarkable, charming and tortured man, who is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Part cinema verité and part fiction it remains one of the most remarkable films of American independent filmmaking.
Part of Agnes & Shirley, a She’s A Rebel mini-season looking the work of Agnes Varda and her self-described ‘double’ Shirley Clarke.
Shirley Clarke | 1967 | US | 105 mins

Open Day at the Hyde Park Picture House
2019-09-22 10:00 - 15:00 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
The Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds is a Grade II listed cinema, built in 1914.
Visitors can explore the beautiful auditorium of the historic cinema and learn lots of fun facts about the building on a self guided tour anytime from 10am – 3pm.

The Hyde Park Picture House is a fully functioning cinema business showing films 363 days of the year. Alongside modern projection facilities we have maintained 35mm and 16mm projection formats as well.
Visitors can explore the beautiful auditorium of the historic Hyde Park Picture House and learn lots of fun facts about the building on a self guided tour anytime from 10am – 3pm.
Why not book yourself onto one of our free projection room tours where you can learn about the history of film projection and how it works today.
Tours begin at: 10.30am, 11.15am, 12noon, 12.45pm, 1.30pm, 2.15pm.
Pre-booking: Required
The public areas of the cinema are free to explore but the tours of the projection room must be pre-booked.
Booking link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heritage-open-days-2019-free-projection-room-tours-tickets-66472772853
Unfortunately the only way up to the projection room is up two flight of stairs at present so the projection room tour is not accessible to everyone.
Part of Heritage Open Days 2019

The public areas of the cinema are free to explore but the tours of the projection room must be pre-booked.
This event is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, thanks to money raised by National Lottery players. To find out more about how the National Lottery Heritage Fund is supporting the Hyde Park Park Picture House, please visit http://www.thepicturehouseproject.com

Seahorse
2019-09-16 21:30 | CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Seahorse (Jeanie Finlay, 2019) 1hr 31m
Queer Classics and Matchbox Cineclub are delighted to screen Jeanie Finlay’s documentary, Seahorse, the story of a dad who gave birth, which follows Freddy McConnell’s journey through the pregnancy and birth of his son.
Seahorse is an intimate documentary following Freddy McConnell’s journey as a pregnant trans man, from Jeanie Finlay (director of Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, Orion: The Man Who Would Be King and The Great Hip Hop Hoax).
After years of soul-searching, Freddy decides to carry his own child, but he faces both the difficulties of pregnancy and of challenging society’s fundamental understanding of gender, parenthood and family. Made over three years, from preparing to conceive right through to birth, this documentary offers a touching and honest look at pregnancy, birth and what makes us who we are.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, based on your circumstances. There are three tiers: Free/£2, £4/£6 and £8. (register for a free ticket via tickets@matchboxcineclub.com). Read our guide on what to pay here: bit.ly/slidingscaleguide
NB This screening will be captioned in English for deaf and hard of hearing audiences.

Kaleidoscopic Realms: Japanese Experimental Shorts of the '70s & '80s
2019-09-15 19:00 - 20:30 | CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A programme of short films by directors Naoto Yamakawa, Nobuhiro Aihara and Toshio Matsumoto.
The films, spanning from 1975 up until the mid ’80s, range from abstract experimentalism to more recognisable narrative structures, but all distort and challenge expectations of aesthetics, storytelling and recognition of oneself on film.
Short films often offer a fleeting insight into perspectives outwith our own experiences, but this collection of shorts presents unexpected images, sounds and ideas which linger with you, utilising experimental techniques to convey connections across cultures.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, based on your circumstances. There are three tiers: Free/£2, £4/£6 and £8. (register for a free ticket via tickets@matchboxcineclub.com). Read our guide on what to pay here: bit.ly/slidingscaleguide.
With thanks to The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the Postwar Japan Moving Image Archive.
NB This screening will be captioned in English for deaf and hard of hearing audiences.

Reel Tours: Liverpool Film Location Walking Tour
2019-09-08 17:30 - 20:00 | Williamson Square, outside Playhouse Theatre ( meeting point), Williamson Square, Liverpool, L1 1EL, United Kingdom
Reel Tours is a cinematic adventure through the streets of Liverpool. Join us as we explore the city’s relationship with the silver screen, which dates from the latter days of the 19th Century right up to some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters of recent years.
We provide a walking tour, in which you will visit many prominent film locations that have made the city so synonymous with moviegoers worldwide.
The tour will commence at 5:30pm and the starting point is outside of the Playhouse Theatre which is located in Williamson Square (L1 1EL). Please arrive at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the tour.
The running time is approximately 2.5 hours and the end point is St. George’s Hall, opposite Lime Street Station.
TIX: https://www.reeltours.co.uk/tours

Memory Matinees: The Glenn Miller Story
2019-09-13 11:00 - 13:00 | Headingley HEART, Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley,, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 3HN, United Kingdom
James Stewart and June Allyson star in a delightful biography of Glenn Miller, a talented young trombone player who became one of the most popular big-band leaders of all time. This is a funny, celebratory and sympathetic tribute to a talented musician who, at the outbreak of World War Two, was willing to travel to entertain the troops stationed in Europe.
The toe-tapping score features many big band pieces originally performed by Glenn Miller’s orchestra, with a fantastic line-up of cameo appearances including Louis Armstrong and Gene Krupa.
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: James Stewart, June Allyson
1953 | USA | 108 mins
Certificate U
Doors open from 10.00 am.
Film starts 11 am.
There will be a short interval.
Film screening ends approx 1 pm.
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About Memory Matinees:
Since the start of 2018, we have been running the Memory Matinees project, which provides opportunities for people living with dementia, their family members and carers to watch a film together in an appropriate setting. We believe that a trip to the cinema is a powerful way for people living with dementia to reconnect with memories.
Everyone is welcome to attend these events and tickets are free.
You can simply turn up on the day, or if you’d like to let us know in advance that you’ll be attending, please email: laura@hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk
Lights will be raised slightly and the sound level will be slightly lower than normal. Our trained staff and volunteers will be on hand throughout’ but please note pastoral care is not provided. A friend, family member or carer must also attend if pastoral care is required.
These screenings at HEART are facilitated and supported by Rose’s Tea Bar, which is a joint project by HEART and OWLS. The screenings here take place every two months at 11am with Rose’s Tea Bar opening at 10am.
Rose’s Tea Bar encourages people over the age of 55 to attend the weekly Friday sessions at HEART. Here people can have a cheap coffee and cake, read the paper, meet new people or take part in various activities. HEART, OWLS and Rose’s Tea Bar are delighted to have the Memory Matinees as part of this activity programme.

Transition Liverpool presents INHABIT
2019-09-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Liverpool Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT, United Kingdom
Transition Liverpool presents a film night as part of their monthly cafe at Quakers Meeting House. Join them from 6.30pm for food with the film at 7pm. Free but donations welcome to go towards the cost of the film.
INHABIT – dir. Costa Boutsikaris – 2015 – documentary – 1h 32mins
Synopsis: Inhabit is a feature length documentary introducing permaculture: a design method that offers an ecological lens for solving issues related to agriculture, economics, governance, and on. The film presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience. For those familiar, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what’s possible – what kind of projects and solutions are already underway. For those unfamiliar, it will be an introduction to a new way of being and a new way of relating to the Earth. For everyone, it will be a reminder that humans are capable of being planetary healing forces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai3qmz9i-oA

SAE LIVERPOOL'S FRESHERS FAIR 2019
2019-09-11 12:00 - 14:00 | SAE Institute Uk, Georgia House, 38 Pall Mall, Liverpool, L3 6AL, United Kingdom
Once again Scalarama is taking part in one of the most exciting fairs in Liverpool, the SAE’S freshers fair, a promotional platform for local services and businesses, celebrating the creative industries and some great local independents in Liverpool.
The event will include talks on a a variety of interests: anything from local support services, lifestyle information, to student discounts.
SAE Institute is one of the world’s leading creative media institutions, with a distinct model of hands-on learning and strong focus on industry and global engagement, with a commitment to preparing the next generation of creative workers.
SAE state-of-the-art campuses are located in the thriving digital hubs of London, Liverpool, Oxford and Glasgow, inspiring students to not only work in but also to shape creative industries worldwide.

Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents: Macunaíma (1969)
2019-09-10 19:00 - 21:30 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents the curated series Cannibals and Carnivals: A brief history of Brazilian underground cinema: 1964-1971.
The second offering of this collection is comedy Macunaima (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1969. Based on the 1928 book by Mário de Andrade, the modern-day parable follows the misadventures of Macunaima, a black man who is miraculously born to an old woman, who is supposed to be of the indigenous peoples of Brasil, in the jungles of the Amazon. Macunaima embarks on a quest to recover a magical stone from a rich city dweller. In this film, the essentialist myth of the 3 Brazilian races, white, black, and the original natives of Brazil, is supposed to be represented through the protagonist, his brothers, and his mother.
Throughout his adventures, Macunaíma learns some tough lessons about Brazilian life and society. Macunaima functions as an allegorical representation of the turmoil of the Brazilian military coup.
The film will be introduced by Dr Anthony Killick and we invite you to share your thoughts after the screening.
7pm // Kazamier Stockroom
Suggested Donation £3

Int. Slavery Museum presents: Lights, Camera, Activism
2019-09-07 14:00 - 15:00 | Anthony Walker Education Centre, International Slavery Museum, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, L3 4AQ, United Kingdom
Exploring themes of identity and activism, with short films making a big impact! Get a closer look at the museums collections too.

Lions Love (...and Lies)
2019-09-05 19:30 - 21:30 | The Reliance, 76-78 North Street, Leeds, LS2 7PN, United Kingdom
Agnès Varda brings New York counterculture to Los Angeles. In a rented house in the sun-soaked Hollywood Hills, a woman and two men, Viva, of Warhol Factory fame, and James Rado and Gerome Ragni, who created and starred in the rock musical “Hair,” delight in one another’s bodies while musing on love, stardom, and politics. They are soon joined by underground director Shirley Clarke, playing herself as well as functioning as a surrogate for Varda. Lions Love (…and Lies) is a metacinematic inquiry into the alternating currents of whimsy and tragedy that typified late-sixties America.
Part of Agnes & Shirley, a She’s A Rebel mini-season looking at the work of Agnès Varda and her self-described ‘double’ Shirley Clarke.
Agnès Varda | 1969 | France | 110 mins

Happy as Lazzaro
2019-09-04 20:00 - 22:00 | The Old Market, 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1AS, United Kingdom
Winner of Best Screenplay at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Italian writer-director Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro is a beguiling and luminous magic realist fable which echoes the surrealist films of cinematic masters like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini and Derek Jarman.
Beautifully shot on super 16mm, the film follows the sweet natured peasant Lazzaro (played wonderfully by newcomer Adriano Tardiolo) whose people-pleasing personality is often mistaken for simple-mindedness. Lazzaro is persuaded by the village ruler’s bleach blonde-haired son to help him fake his own kidnapping for ransom; however their plans take some unexpected and miraculous turns.

Madeline's Madeline
2019-09-03 20:00 - 21:30 | The Old Market, 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1AS, United Kingdom
A sensorial and immersive trip into a teen’s psyche, Madeline’s Madeline boldly dissects mental health, racial tensions, and the vampiric relationship between identity and performance. Starring Miranda July, Molly Parker, and standout newcomer Helena Howard, this is relentless, electrifying cinema that solidifies Josephine Decker’s position at the forefront of contemporary experimental filmmaking.
Sixteen-year-old Madeline has become an active member of an experimental theatre troupe. When its ambitious director pushes Madeline to weave her rich interior world and her troubled relationship with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur.

Rafiki
2019-09-02 20:00 - 21:30 | The Old Market, 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1AS, United Kingdom
Inspired by Ugandan Author Monica Arac de Nyeko’s 2007 Caine Prize-winning short storyJambula Tree, Wanuri Kahiu’s acclaimed Rafiki (meaning ‘friend’ in Swahili) is a tender love story about the blossoming romance between two young women amid familial, societal and political pressures.
In Nairobi, Kena (Samantha Mugatsia) is helping her father campaign for a local election when she meets and befriends Ziki (Sheila Munyiva), the daughter of his rival. As their relationship deepens, so too do the stakes, forcing them to choose between openness and secrecy, happiness and safety.

Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents: At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964)
2019-09-02 19:00 - 21:30 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents the curated series Cannibals and Carnivals: A brief history of Brazilian underground cinema: 1964-1971.
The first selection is Brazil’s first horror film- At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964) – which features the first appearance of Coffin Joe (José Mojica Marins) of the Coffin Joe Trilogy. A wicked undertaker whose wife cannot bear children, Joe, conspires to impregnate Terezinha (Magda Mei) in her stead. When several people in the small town are found murdered, Dr. Rodolfo suspects Joe’s involvement. A gypsy warns Joe of tragedy, but he dismisses her as a fraud — only to discover that revenge may live beyond the grave.
The film will be introduced by Dr Anthony Killick and we’d love to hear your thoughts after screening in an informal discussion.
7pm // Upstairs at The Caledonia pub
Suggested donation £3

Radical Home Cinema: Brunch Screening @ FourWalls
2019-09-01 11:00 - 13:30 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
Radical Home Cinema is an experimental programming and exhibition event where film lovers invite you to watch films in their homes. This event aims to break down the boundaries between public and private audiences, to present films in unexpected places and to turn the viewing experience into something completely new. Radical Home Cinema is part of Scalarama.
Fourwalls Housing Co-op is a women-centered living space formed in Glasgow during the 90s by female members of the city’s LBGTQ community.
Join us for this special brunch-style screening. Fourwalls will kindly offer coffee, tea, fruit juice, vegan cinnamon buns, berries & yogurt(dairy/vegan)
Film: an activist fights to save the city she lives in during the urban redevelopment era of the 1960s.
More information about the Radical Home Cinema:
www.facebook.com/cinemaupcollective
twitter.com/CinemaUpCollect

Weird Weekend
2019-09-01 | CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Weird Weekend Cult Film Festival | 30/08-01/09/19
A weekend of strange and unseen cinema from around the world, showcasing orphans, outcasts and outliers, old and brand-new. Expect 12 films over three days – premieres, guests and plenty of bonus content at Glasgow’s cult film festival.
Matchbox Cineclub have scoured the world to bring you some of the strangest cinema ever made, almost all entirely unavailable in the UK – not on Netflix, DVD or VOD – including many never-before-screened in Scotland.
All tickets: bit.ly/WEIRDWEEKEND
£40 Weekend Passes
£20 Saturday + Sunday Passes
All individual tickets are priced on a sliding scale, according to what you can afford – use our guide to help you decide
NB All films will be captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing.
30/08
Nothing Lasts Forever (35mm)
31/08
The Films of Sarah Jacobson
Teknolust
Weird World of Deepfakes
Arrow Video Cult Film Quiz
Freak Orlando
Vibrations
The Neon Slime Mixtape (UK premiere)
01/09
Anti-Clock
Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel
Wolf’s Hole
The ‘Burbs Pizza Party + Joe Dante Q&A
Split (2K Extended Cut)
Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Creative Scotland and Lottery funding from BFI.

B-movie Double Bill: Gun Crazy & Detour
2019-08-31 22:30 - 2019-09-01 01:00 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
Commencing Scalarama Leeds 2019 is a deadly double bill of B-movies. Taking us into the early hours of September 1st is a film noir pairing featuring two of cinema’s most iconic and unforgettable femme fatales, anti-heroines played with delicious deviance by Ann Savage (Detour) and Peggy Cummings (Gun Crazy). Both films transcended the boundaries of the B-picture to become cult masterpieces. With an intro by Alice Miller (She’s A Rebel), Detour is presented in a new digital restoration and Gun Crazy on 35mm.

Scalarama Merseyside 2019 Launch!
2019-08-29 19:00 - 23:00 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
Welcome one and all to the Scalarama Merseyside launch for 2019!
We’ve got so many amazing film events on this September so let’s celebrate all our hard work and all the exciting screenings to come.
To warm us up we will have a screening of short films from the Aesthetica Short Film Festival followed by the Scalarama Liverpool trailer.
Our full programme can be found at https://scalarama.com/liverpool/
and on the booklet and poster we’ve created. These will be available to pick up at the event too.

Rudeboy: The Story Of Trojan Records at Brudenell Social Club
2019-08-23 19:30 - 23:00 | Brudenell Social Club, 33 Queens Road, Leeds, LS6 1NY, United Kingdom
Scalarama Leeds Programme launch at the Brudenell Social Club

The first screening in Leeds of a brand new doumentary that traces the history of the world’s most iconic ska, reggae and rock-steady record label, Trojan Records.

Trojan Records started in Jamaica in 1968 with Duke Reid’s Trojan Sound System.
Rudeboy: The Story Of Trojan Records explains how music and immigration made connections between between Jamaican and British working-class youth cultures in the 1960s and 70s, starting a cultural revolution that unfolded in the council estates and shanty towns.
This film has sold-out at every previous UK showing – so don’t miss out!
Tickets are £5 – buy in advance here or in person at the Hyde Park Picture House

Doors open at 7.30pm, film screening begins at 8.00pm with short introduction.
Director: Nicolas Jack Davies
Starring: Andre Dwayne, Marcia Griffiths, Toots Hibbert, Matthew Jacobs-Morgan, Bunny Lee, Don Letts, Lee “Scratch” Perry.
2018 | UK | 85 mins | Advisory certificate 18 and over

Brudenell Social Club, 33 Queen’s Road, Leeds, LS6 1NY

Sing-along SAW | Scalarama Scotland programme launch
2019-08-18 18:00 - 22:00 | CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Dare you sing SAW? Witness James Wan’s horror classic spliced with live drag performances inspired by its goriest scenes, all to celebrate the launch of Scalarama’s 2019 programme!
Matchbox Cineclub and Pity Party Film Club present SAW as you’ve never seen it before – ripped to shreds and reassembled, as local drag terrorisers slice up the screening with brand-new musical performances inspired by the film.
Drag artist Puke is the monster of ceremonies for this very special event, featuring guest performers SHREK 666 and Francis Gender, which marks the debut of Scalarama’s full 2019 programme and brochure.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, £0-£12, depending on what you can afford. There’s a guide to the three-tier scale here: bit.ly/slidingSAW.
You ain’t SAW nothing yet!
Thanks to Filmbank

Scalarama Liverpool 2019: I Want to be a Cinema
2019-06-17 18:00 - 20:00 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
We are gearing up for our September celebration of cinema and we have already had some excellent ideas for film screenings. Don’t worry if you didn’t come to the first meeting, as there is still plenty of time to submit events. Our I Want to be a Cinema workshop should provide you with all the tools you need to plan and move forward with your screenings.
Join us for our second planning meeting on Monday 17th June upstairs at the Caledonia Pub 6pm-8pm for updates, info and advice.
If you have any questions contact Scalarama Liverpool 2019 Coordinators Lucas and Katie on scalaramaliverpool@gmail.com
