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Scalarama Leeds 2024 Meeting and Fundraiser
2024-02-21 19:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Wharf Chambers, Ground Floor, 23 - 25 Wharf Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7EQ, United Kingdom
Scalarama Leeds’ first meeting of the year will also be a fundraiser for this year’s film festival!
If you have never put on a film screening and would like to learn how, this would be a perfect time to meet the group.
The first meeting is an intro to the film festival, to meet everyone who’s part of the gang, to meet new people and to find out more about the origins of the film festival too! They’re all very friendly and love films, so if that sounds like you too, please come along and get involved. Their DIY independent film festival is for the whole month of September and anybody can be a part of it, so if you have a brilliant idea for a film event, they would like to see you at the meeting!
Put this date in your diary
Wednesday 21 February
Wharf Chambers
Meeting – 7PM
Surprise film screening – 8:30 PM
Raffle
Bake sale
Please show your support, come along and give as much as you can at the fundraiser so they can make their annual film festival in September happen and bring you all the usual eclectic and brilliant film events from their Scalarama Leeds Film Festival!
Don’t forget that you must be a member or a guest of a member to attend any events at Wharf Chambers and annual membership costs £2/year and you can get this on their website. Non-members are welcome to our space as guests of members. One paid member may bring up to 3 guests to Wharf Chambers.

Sound it Out (Jeanie Finlay, UK, 2011)
2023-09-26 20:00 - 22:30 | Lord Palmerston, 33 Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HU, United Kingdom
“It’s a delightful, real-life version of Nick Hornby’s novel High Fidelity, a song of love, sadness and mortality with everyone involved doing it their way as they face the vinyl curtain.”
— Philip French, Observer
A documentary about ‘the last surviving record shop in Teeside’, when Sound It Out was released in 2011 an independent record shop was closing in the UK every three days. Since then the vinyl revival has changed their fortunes, though sadly the shop at the centre of this film has now closed following the sudden death earlier this year of the shop’s owner, Tom Buchart (a man whose passion, humour and generosity elevated his shop into not only a haven for music fans of all stripes but also a community centre-cum-pilgrimage site). Jeanie Finlay’s film is a distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, the North and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives – showing us what a wonderful man Tom was and how much his local community loved him. This screening is also in tribute to him.

Beatside & Scalarama Leeds present: Janvāris (January)
2023-09-26 18:00 | Left Bank Leeds, Cardigan Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 1LJ, United Kingdom
Beatside presents: Dreamers & Rebels
This is an event for the mad ones – those who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to dance, and mad to dream and to rebel.
To kickstart our series, we are delighted to present a slice of Latvian culture and history with an eerily timely screening of 2022 political drama Janvāris (January), accompanied by a performance of Latvian folk dance and music.
Set against the backdrop of a fight for independence in 1991, Janvāris follows a Latvian filmmaker traversing the trenches of love and war in a dreamy and grungy coming-of-age drama.
Learn more on our website: beatside.org/janvaris.
The film is in Latvian with English subtitles. The event is open to everyone, but children will have to be supervised by an adult, as the film is rated 12A. The venue is wheelchair accessible – although, unfortunately, the toilets aren’t large enough to allow wheelchair use. Tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis, with a minimum fee of £2 and suggested donations of £5 – £10 to contribute towards future events.
This screening is part of the Scalarama Leeds 2023 Film Festival, a DIY cinema festival celebrating film exhibition in non-cinema venues. See the full programme of films here: instagram.com/scalaramaleeds/.
BUY TICKETS HERE

The Connection (Shirley Clarke, USA, 1964)
2023-09-12 20:00 - 22:30 | Lord Palmerston, 33 Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HU, United Kingdom
“The quartet of musicians, led by the pianist and composer Freddie Redd and the caustic-toned post-bop saxophonist Jackie McLean, perform brilliantly on-camera as they dramatize both the agonized wait and the needed high…”— Richard Brody, New Yorker

In a cramped and dirty New York apartment, eight junkies variously goof off, chat and play jazz music while waiting for their heroin connection to show up. They’ve also struck a deal with documentary filmmaker Jim Dunn (William Redfield): they’ll let him film them provided he pays for their drugs. What could possibly go wrong…? The Connection was legendary cult film-maker Shirley Clarke’s debut feature – and a very early example of the ‘found-footage’ genre of film. (And the jazz is great too!)

The Loft Movie Theatre Presents The Terminator (1984)
2021-09-27 20:30 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
The Loft Movie Theatre is proud to present a one-night special screening of James Cameron’s science fiction action classic:
The Terminator (1984)
In the year 1984, Los Angeles college student Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) finds herself the target of a seemingly unstoppable hit man who appears hell-bent on wiping out all LA citizens of the same name.
But when she is dramatically rescued by a mysterious stranger claiming to be a soldier of the human resistance army from the post-apocalyptic future of 2029, she learns that ‘The Terminator’ (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is actually an android killing machine sent from the same time to locate and assassinate the mother of a John Connor; the future leader of the human resistance and the enemy of his creators.
With the fate of mankind in their hands, Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) must do everything in their power to prevent the deadly cyborg from carrying out his orders and changing the course of history forever. With an iconic performance from Arnold Schwarzenegger, unforgettable practical effects from Stan Winston, and a story that spawned a billion dollar movie franchise, The Terminator is the B-Movie-turned-Blockbuster not to be missed on the big screen!

Based On A True Story Cinema Presents Spiceworld!
2021-09-25 19:00 | Bonington Theatre, High St, Arnold, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG5 7EE, United Kingdom
If like us, you want to dress as your favourite Spice Girl and watch their movie on the big screen then we have just the event for you! Join us for a fancy dress screening of Spice World, part of this year’s Scalarama film festival, an annual event that celebrates cinema in all its brilliance!
Presented by Bonington Theatre.
This is a 12+ event

The Carousel Presents Ahead of the Curve
2021-09-23 20:00 - 22:00 | The Carousel, 25 Hockley, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 1FH, United Kingdom
The Carousel presents…
A screening of: “Ahead of the Curve” on Thursday 23rd September.
This new feature documentary is about the extraordinary woman who started Curve magazine, and by doing so helped influence the political and social evolution of America.
Armed with a handful of credit cards and a dash of miraculous luck at the races in 1990, the extraordinary 23-year-old Franco Stevens was able to scrape enough money together to kickstart Curve magazine, which would go on to become the most successful lesbian magazine ever published.
Expect a wonderfully inspiring evening from 8pm at The Carousel
🎟 £5

NonSuch Presents Mother - Korean Film & Food NIght
2021-09-16 18:00 - 21:30 | NonSuch, Nonsuch Studios, 92 Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 1EH, United Kingdom
Nonsuch Studios presents….
“Mother” a night of film and food on Thursday 16th September!
As a part of the Scalarama festival, join them for an evening of South Korean food and the incredible film Mother, by award-winning director Bong Joon-ho.
A widow (Kim Hye-ja) resides with her mentally challenged son (Won-bin) in a small South Korean town, where she scrapes out a living selling medicinal herbs. Mother and son are plunged into a nightmare when the body of a murdered young girl is discovered.
This film is only suitable for those aged 15+
We can’t wait 😋
🎟 Tickets are from £5 (film only)

Dirty Filthy Sexy Presents Nottingham Pre-Pride P(arty)
2021-09-10 15:00 - 23:00 | Fishergate Point, Fisher Gate Point, 1 Fisher Gate, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 1GD, United Kingdom
A chilled afternoon into evening of art, music and film curated by the fabulous DirtyFilthySexy at Nottingham’s newest creative hub Fishergate Point.
Beginning at 3pm with a pride sign making workshop throughout the afternoon with Franx Franklin and progressing to live music, art, retrospective lockdown screenings and DJ’s through to 11pm.
Get it in your Scalamara social diary and add it to your pre-pride planner!
🎟 Pay what you can on the door.

Works Social Presents Blade Runner Final Cut
2021-09-09 18:30 - 22:00 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
Works Social Presents…
A screening of ‘Blade Runner – The Final Cut’ + film themed snacks and drinks on Thursday 9th September.
Second up in this year’s oh-so-eclectic ScalaramaX Film Festival program is a unique pop-up screening of the definitive version or the iconic classic – Blade Runner – The Final Cut in Work Social‘s atmospheric ground floor event space.
What to expect:
6:30pm – Your choice of Rick Deckard’s favourite drink on arrival (Whiskey Sour, Tsing Tao Beer or Coca Cola)*
7:00pm – Blade Runner – The Final Cut Screening Part I
7:10pm – Steaming Nongshim instant kimchi noodle bowls brought to your seat
8:00pm – Interval – Drinks & loo break
8:30pm – Blade Runner – The Final Cut Screening Part II
9:30pm – Film ends and last orders at the bar
10:00pm – That’s all folks!
*Included in ticket price then a licensed bar will be open throughout the night with a selection of beers, wines, spirits and soft drinks available to purchase (heads up – card payments only).
** Optional but included in ticket price. Allergy info: Contains wheat and soy.
Expect a wonderfully immersive evening in a cosy and contemporary setting.
“WAKE UP, TIME TO DIE!” But make sure you bag your tickets first… 🤣
🎟 £9

Nottingham Castle Presents The Princess Bride (Outdoor Screenng)
2021-09-04 18:15 - 21:00 | Nottingham Castle, Nottingham Castle Trust, Lenton Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 6EL, United Kingdom
Join us for a night of cinematic magic at Nottingham Castle!
Robin Wright and Cary Elwes star in this fairy tale adventure about a beautiful princess and the gallant hero who rescues her from an evil villain. Directed by Rob Reiner, it’s an enchanting classic the whole family will love!
Please note, this film is PG rated. Parental supervision required.
The Castle grounds will open from 6pm, allowing plenty of time for the kids to let off steam in our adventure playground, Hood’s Hideout, before the screening. Our friendly team of Explainer’s will also be hosting craft activities on the Outer Bailey.
Looking to improve your own fencing skills before the show? Join Radcliffe Swords Club, who will be demonstrating fencing on the tree-lined Outer Bailey to get you in the fighting spirit!
Run time: 94 mins
Interval: No
Outdoor Performance
In Partnership with Broadway Cinema.
Please note, although some seats will be available, we recommend bringing your own blankets and camping chairs to guarantee comfort on the night.

Scalarama X Nottingham Red Carpet Launch Night!
2021-09-01 18:30 - 22:00 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
S’cuse me Laydeh! You are invited to the Scalarama X Red Carpet Launch Night!
This year’s Opening Party theme is Fashion in Film 👗🕺🏻🎬📸 and we’re chuffed to be hosting the festival launch at Works Social.
Featuring…
📺 Back to back screenings of each episode of the iconic Charity Shop Sue web series!
🛍 Love At First Sight Vintage Pop up Shop
📸 Fashion in Film Picture Quiz
👩🏻‍🎤 + Live DJ and Fancy dress competition!
Attend wearing your very best charity shop finds, pre-loved outfits or even better, come as Charity Shop Sue!
Free entry, paid bar, tickets limited – get yours NOW!
Wednesday 1st September – Doors open 18:30 til 22:00pm
Turn the Bloody Heat Up!
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Scalarama Leeds Summer Screenings: Perfect 10 (2019)
2021-08-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Headingley HEART, Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley,, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 3HN, United Kingdom
84mins | Rated 15 | UK | Director: Eva Riley | Programmer: Fran Albrecht
‘Perfect 10’ tells the story of 14-year old Leigh (Frankie Box), a gymnast who struggles to get her flow back since her mum’s death. Her life takes an unexpected turn when her unknown half brother Joe (Alfie Deegan) suddenly appears. Through him, she finds excitement in a much darker world. Working with first-time actors, Eva Riley’s debut feature is a gripping coming-of-age drama that centres on the special relationship between the two siblings.
After the screening, director Eva Riley will join us for a virtual Q&A.

Content Warnings (may contain spoilers)
Perfect 10

Emotional abuse (Leigh gets bullied by the other gymnasts)
Implied drug abuse
Strong language

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 | 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.
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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
