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14th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 September 2018
Welcome to Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2018 Special Features
Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 September
Opening Film
Thursday 20 September,
Don’t miss the 14th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, a landmark event 19:30, Maltings Main House
bringing together films, guest artists and audiences from around the world to
Berwick-upon-Tweed. Over four days, we will present films, exhibitions, live Empty Metal
performances, talks and events that you won’t see anywhere else. The Festival Adam Khalil &
is an open space for people of all ages who are curious about cinema, art and Bayley Sweitzer
United States | 2018 | 83 mins
international perspectives. See you in Berwick for an unforgettable weekend!
Empty Metal takes place
in a world similar to ours—one
of mass surveillance, pervasive
Berwick New Cinema Competition Los Otros: policing, and increasing individ-
Entering its third year, BFMAF’s competition John Torres and Shireen Seno ual apathy. The lives of several
strand features resolutely contemporary The first major UK retrospective of filmmak- people, each inhabiting poles of
films that transgress restraints of genre, ers Shireen Seno and John Torres, whose American social and political consciousness, weave together as each attempts to achieve some kind of
capital and expectation. studio, film laboratory, library and platform forward motion, sometimes in contradiction, and always under the eye of more controlling powers.
Supported by OUTSET Scotland Los Otros is one of the most invigorating
forces in Philippine cinema today. A taut thriller, the film reveals a political fantasy, an alternative reality whose characters teeter on the dull
Essential Cinema knife edge that is contemporary American politics, at the same time refusing to fall right or left. Instead,
BFMAF’s retrospective series provides Sophia Al-Maria they lash out from the soul, under the radar, in an attempt to achieve what their mainstream predeces-
a fresh look at classic works of cinema or a BFMAF 2018 Artist in Profile Sophia sors have yet to accomplish.
first view of overlooked masterpieces. Each Al-Maria’s practice incorporates diverse “Filled with energy, rage, and the smallest measure of hope, Empty Metal is a new kind of political film for
film is rarely-seen and most are shown in forms of visual art, writing and filmmak- these extraordinary times.” —Film Society of Lincoln Center
new restorations for the first time in the UK. ing—as shown in her ‘Temporal Vertigo’
screening, The Magical State exhibition Q&A with filmmakers Adam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer
Exhibitions and beyond. Time travel, genre cinema
Artists present new and recent moving and visions of the apocalypse become Closing Film
image work in exhibitions around Berwick- fertile devices that propel Al-Maria’s
upon-Tweed, taking over historic buildings, distinctive works. Sunday 23 September 20:00, Maltings Main House
empty shops and hidden corners of the town.
Nervous Translation
Seminars Shireen Seno
Propositions BFMAF’s popular series of seminars Philippines | 2018 | 90 mins | Tagalog with English subtitles
Part-screening, part-talk or performance, provide an informal space of communi- Los Otros: John Torres & Shireen Seno
Propositions provides a discursive setting cation between artists and audience. Los
Set in 1987, soon after the People Power Revolution which led
for artists and filmmakers to expand on their Otros (John Torres and Shireen Seno),
to the fall of president Marcos, Nervous Translation follows eight-
work, demonstrating research, contexts Lucy Clout and Sophia Al-Maria will partic-
year-old Yael. A shy and uneasy girl, she listens endlessly to the
and perspectives as a means to dig deeper ipate in this year’s seminars, moderated by
cassette tapes recorded by her father, who has spent years away
into the questions, ideas and complications writer and curator Taylor Le Melle.
from home working in Saudi Arabia. When she hears an advertise-
encountered through their artistic process.
ment for a pen that will give her a ‘wonderful life’, she decides to
Children and Young People
spend all her savings on this miracle pen.
Screening the Forest BFMAF presents a number of projects with,
Curated by Dr. Graiwoot Chulphong- by and for young people: Kaleidoscope, a Yael’s world is small and tender—she likes to play cooking on
sathorn, this series takes nature as its point drop-in bean bag cinema with hands-on her mini stove—but the real world comes knocking: a typhoon
of departure. Screening the Forest weaves making activity for families (page 18), films approaches the Philippines. Giving a voice to this quiet girl in a
together forests from Japan, Myanmar, for school groups (page 18), and The Hurt perceptive, playful film full of jump cuts, sensitive sound design,
South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam Goes On , an analogue foray into a digi- ‘80s music and even an odd surrealist intermezzo, Seno empa-
and the Philippines, understanding the tal world by young people from Berwick thetically captures the innocence and uncertainty of a child who doesn’t yet understand the world,
forest to be a network of living beings Youth Project (page 15). although she is surrounded by it.
where agency distributes beyond human Introduction by filmmaker Shireen Seno
forms of life. Sensory, colourful and wides-
creen, the forest is naturally cinematic. UK premiere of Nervous Translation presented jointly by BFMAF and Tate Modern
The film will be preceded by the 2018 Berwick New Cinema award presentation
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Screenings, Special Events and Seminars a b
Thursday 20 September instructional books and tapes 12:30 Maltings Main House
made in early 1980s Philippines
11:30 Maltings Main House aimed to ‘help raise brighter ♣
children’. Upon learning of his Berwick New Cinema
Forest Experimenta father’s secret family, the narra- Multiple languages with English
Screening the Forest tor embarks on a quest to create subtitles | 89 mins
Multiple languages with English order from this chaos. I wouldn’t want to belong
subtitles | 86 mins 18
Q&A with filmmaker John Torres to any club that would have me
In these East Asian and as a member. That includes
Southeast Asian films, the 17:30 The Gymnasium
Chauvin-ists; children who c
forest is not a background but a disturb corpses; frightened
recurring protagonist. Films by Solvent Magazine
men living in a matriarchal soci-
Pimpaka Towira, Jet Leyco, Su Lucy Clout
ety; or a film crew consisting of
Hui-Yu, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Tony Special Event | Exhibition Opening
a slime robot, talking mandrill
Chun-Hui Wu, Jang Min-Young, Join Berwick Visual Arts and lesbian couple whose rela-
Jakrawal Nilthamrong and Artist in Residence Lucy Clout tionship crumbles under the
Kamjorn Sankwan. to celebrate the opening of glow of bisexual lighting.
Q&A with curator Dr. Graiwoot her BFMAF 2018 exhibition, Films by Bertrand Mandico,
Chulphongsathorn Solvent Magazine. Refresh- Hardeep Pandhal, Hu Bo and
ments and merriment aplenty. Benjamin Crotty.
14:00 Maltings Main House
19:30 Maltings Main House
Q&A with filmmakers Hardeep
♦ Pandhal & Benjamin Crotty
Berwick New Cinema Empty Metal 15:00 Maltings Main House
86 mins| Multiple languages with Adam Khalil & d e
English subtitles 18 Bayley Sweitzer Big Boy
Shine bright. Portraits of a Opening Film Shireen Seno
nomadic musician and an animat- United States | 2018 | 83 min Los Otros:
edly-perverse single father butt See page 3 for details John Torres & Shireen Seno
up against a simulacrum of the Philippines | 2012 | 89 mins
Middle East and a tactile enquiry Tagalog with English subtitles
into the natural world. Taken Big Boy is Shireen Seno’s
Friday 21 September
together, expressions of personal, first feature film. Shot on Super 8
political, spiritual, mystical and 10:30 Maltings Henry Travers film, it tells the story of Julio and
sexual agency provide powerful the business venture initiated
statements of either resistance Seminar: Lucy Clout by his parents. Julio’s parents
to or complicity in an increasingly Luc y Clout, the 2018 wish him to become an ideal
commodified world. Berwick Visual Arts Artist in man according to their stand-
Films by Wong Ping, Luis Arnías, Residence, discusses ‘Solvent ards: to be tall like an American.
Mont Tesprateep and Gelare Magazine’, her new body of Everything seems to work out
Khoshgozaran. work produced in Berwick and fine, until one day Julio stops
exhibited in The Gymnasium. growing. Big Boy chronicles the
15:45 Maltings Henry Travers
growth of a family, the myths of
progress that consume them, f a) Jet Leyco, Not a Soul (Forest Experimenta)
Years When I Was
and the inherent violence in b) John Torres, Years When I Was a Child Outside
a Child Outside
war, colonisation and coming c) Bertrand Mandico, Apocalypse After (♣)
John Torres into being. d) Shireen Seno, Big Boy
Los Otros:
John Torres & Shireen Seno
Q&A with filmmaker Shireen Seno e) Lucy Clout
Philippines | 2008 | 100 mins f) Wong Ping, Who’s the Daddy (♦)
Tagalog and English with
English subtitles
Years When I Was a Child
Outside is a meta-film follow-
ing Torres’ perspective as the
son of best-selling self-help
author Rodolfo Torres, whose
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a Screenings, Special Events and Seminars
Friday 21 September 19:30 Maltings Henry Travers Saturday 22 September
17:15 Maltings Henry Travers Hyenas 10:30 Maltings Henry Travers
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Sky Hopinka Essential Cinema
Seminar: Los Otros
Propositions
Senegal, Switzerland, France Los Otros is the Manila-
Filmmaker Sky Hopinka 1992 | 113 mins based home of filmmakers
presents a screening of his short
Wolof with English subtitles Shireen Seno and John Torres.
films in and conversation with Linguère Ramatou returns A studio, film laboratory, library
Nicole Yip, Director of LUX Scot- to Colobane, a once charming and platform for live events, Los
land. Based in Milwaukee, Sky village now devastated by Otros is one of the most invigor-
Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga) poverty, with fabulous wealth ating forces in Philippine cinema
focuses on the interconnections and a promise to save her today. In addition to the four Los
between his indigenous home- people. But tied to this prom- Otros programmes in BFMAF
land, language, landscapes, and ise is a deadly bargain: the lover 2018, John and Shireen will lead
identity. Anchored by both who had betrayed a 16-year-old, a seminar exploring their work-
surreal p e r s p e c ti ve s a n d pregnant Linguère, must be ing methods and strategies for
b c
grounded realities, Hopinka’s executed. Hyenas is a caution- production.
sublime films create maps of ary tale packed with humorous,
compassionate yet explosive 12:15 Maltings Henry Travers
dreams and memories, push-
ing against cultural and personal scenes crafted by one of the
masters of African cinema. Jessica Sarah Rinland
boundaries, creating meaning
Propositions
where none had existed before. 22:00 Maltings Main House
17:30 Maltings Henry Travers
Artist-filmmaker Jessica
Scarlet Diva Sarah Rinland presents the
TERROR NULLIUS Asia Argento world premiere of her film
Soda_Jerk Essential Cinema Black Pond, an odyssey through
Essential Cinema
Italy | 2000 | 90 mins a common land in the south of
Australia | 2018 | 55 mins 15
Italian, English and French England told through the hands
with English subtitles 18 of the natural history society
A political revenge fable Scarlet Diva is Asia Argen- members who currently occupy
which offers an un-writing of to’s audacious, semi-autobio- it. Following the film, Rinland
d e
Australia’s colonising my th graphical feature film debut, will show material from a forth-
terra nullius, Soda_Jerk remix, which she wrote and directed coming related publication
re-edit and reinterpret the offi- at the age of 24. Argento stars featuring materials from The
cial archive to achieve a queer- as actress and director-hope- Archive of the Commons and
ing and othering of Australian ful Anna Battista, who floats footage she shot years before
cinema. Part-political satire, through a world of drugs, sex and the film’s production.
eco-horror and road movie, excess trying to mitigate celeb-
TERROR NULLIUS envisions a 14.30 River Walk
rity, career and self-preservation.
country where idyllic beaches Join artist Jessica Sarah Rinland
Argento’s film gives homage to
host race-riots, governments and Kate Dixon, Berwick Parks
Italian maestros Federico Fellini
poll love-rights, and the perils of Manager, for a river walk. Collect
f and her father Dario Argento,
a) Djibril Diop Mambéty, Hyenas hypermasculinity are overshad- a free ticket from the Maltings
while at the same time offering
owed only by the enduring horror Box Office, the starting point for
b) Asia Argento, Scarlet Diva a powerful reclamation of the
of Australia’s colonial legacy. an approximately 1 hour wild-
c) Sky Hopinka, Anti-Objects, or Space trope of the female hysteric.
Without Path or Boundary life exploration along the River
d) Jessica Sarah Rinland, Black Pond
19:15 Maltings Main House 22:00 Tweedmouth Bowling Club Tweed.
e) Los Otros Jîn Festival Club:
f) Soda_Jerk, TERROR NULLIUS Reha Erdem Soul on the Tweed
Screening the Forest Special Event
Turkey | 2013 | 122 mins
Turkish with English subtitles 15
N orthern Soul, R&B and
Club Classics. Free admission,
See page 12 for details all welcome.
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Screenings, Special Events and Seminars a b
Saturday 22 September 16:15 Maltings Main House cinema’ setting, the sequence
of its 22 episodes chosen by the
14:00 57 Marygate Temporal Vertigo audience. The Dumpster Kid,
Sophia Al-Maria born from a trash can, finds her
The Hurt Goes On Artist in Profile: Sophia Al-Maria way through the world, discov-
Discovery Party 75 mins ering hilarity, ecstasy, cruelty,
Berwick Youth Project capitalism and patriarchy along
BFMAF 2018 Ar tist in
Special Event
Profile Sophia Al-Maria presents the way.
Join Berwick Youth Project a wide-ranging selection of short Supported by Goethe-Institut
and friends at their BFMAF exhi- moving image work made over London c
bition. All welcome. See page the last seven years, complement-
15 for more details 19:45 Maltings Main House
ing her exhibition The Magical
14:15 Maltings Main House
State in The Magazine. Included Enceindre
are the two part Gulf Futurism Luke Fowler
♥ essay film The Future Was Desert Sound: Chris Watson
Berwick New Cinema (2016), enigmatic science-fiction/ Special Event
Multiple languages with English documentary hybrid Mothership
See page 12 for details
subtitles | 71 mins (2017), a surreal interview with
Glittering and shimmering actress Bai Ling in Not Really in 21:15 Maltings Main House
moments: the tender touch of Reality Reality TV (2018) and two
your child; the lumbering gait of music videos for Fatima Al Qadiri. Lips of Blood
a dancer dressed in an improba- Q&A with filmmaker Sophia Jean Rollin
ble costume; the luxury of a well- Al-Maria Essential Cinema
earned day off work. These 16:30 Maltings Henry Travers
France | 1975 | 88 mins
French with English subtitles 15
glances, snapshots and memories
are bound together in films alter- Blood Amber Lips of Blood was French
nating between the mundane Lee Yong Chao horror-erotica auteur Jean Roll-
and fantastic. Films by Stephanie Screening the Forest
in’s favorite of his own films and d e
Comilang, Beatrice Gibson and Myanmar, Taiwan | 2017 | 95 mins | Burmese
it contains many of his signature
Tamara Henderson. and Mandarin with English Subtitles elements: crumbling seaside
Q&A with filmmakers Stephanie ruins, bloodthirsty vampires,
Somewhere in Burma, a
Comilang & Beatrice Gibson poetically haunting cinematog-
forest rich in amber is controlled
raphy and suspenseful intrigue.
15:00 by the Kachin Independence
Maltings Henry Travers Protagonist Frederic, contin-
Army. For most of the inhabit-
ually hindered by a quartet of
Islanders ants, amber mining is their only
vampires, pursues a mystery
Giles Bailey, Jamie means of subsistence. Working in
woman after being transported
Hammill, Nellie Saunby harsh conditions under constant
through vaguely-recalled memo-
& Sophie Soobramanien threat from the government army,
ries to a faraway castle.
Propositions
these forest villagers live in fear
Selected by Artist in Profile
United Kingdom | 2018 | 30 mins
and despair, with a future as dark
Sophia Al- Maria, who will intro-
as the end of the mining tunnel.
CIRCA Projects presents duce the film
Blood Amber is a richly cinematic f
the first draft of a new co-au-
documentary experience. 22:00 Tweedmouth Bowling Club a) Sophia Al-Maria, Not Really in Reality
thored work combining live Reality TV (Temporal Vertigo)
p e r fo rma n c e w i th f ilm e d 18:45 Charlie’s Night Club
Festival Club: b) Jean Rollin, Lips of Blood
sequences. Through collaged
fragments, the work explores Tales of the Dumpster Kid Vital Idles & Yeah You! c) Beatrice Gibson, I Hope I’m Loud
Special Event When I’m Dead ( ♥ )
the construction of island iden- Edgar Reitz & Ula Stöckl d) Edgar Reitz & Ula Stöckl, Tales of
tity at a point when the UK’s Essential Cinema The dirty beats and lo-fi
the Dumpster Kid
relationship to other land- West Germany | 1971 | 208 mins 18 stream of consciousness father
e) Lee Yong Chao, Blood Amber
masses and the sea around it is and daughter duo Yeah You!
BFMAF presents the first
in flux. Islanders proposes crit- (Elvin Brandhi & Mykl Jaxn) meet f) Giles Bailey, Jamie Hammill, Nellie
UK screening in 40 years of Saunby & Sophie Soobramanien,
ical relationships to states of the left handed melodic mess-
this innovative New German Islanders
isolation, political fantasy and thetics of Glasgow’s finest: Vital
Cinema highlight. The film will
the promise of rescue. Idles. Plus karaoke. All welcome!
be restaged in its classic ‘pub
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a Screenings, Special Events and Seminars
Sunday 23 September range of women about their 16:00 Maltings Henry Travers
lives, desires and domestic
10:30 Maltings Henry Travers labour. Laying bare the connec- Morgan Quaintance
tions between the private and Propositions
Seminar: Sophia Al-Maria political in almost documen- Writer, artist and curator
BFMAF 2018 Ar tist in tary style, the film focuses on Morgan Quaintance presents his
Profile Sophia Al-Maria discusses the struggle between Sofiko’s new film Another Decade, along-
her practice—which incorpo- independence and her obliga- side a programme of material
b
rates diverse forms of visual tions towards her own family. that extends and details themes
art, writing and filmmaking—as within. Starting from state-
shown in her Temporal Vertigo 14:00 Maltings Main House
ments made by artists during
screening, The Magical State the 1994 conference ‘Towards a
exhibition and beyond. Time
♠
Berwick New Cinema
New Internationalism’, the film
travel, genre cinema and visions is propelled by a sense that very
of the apocalypse become fertile Multiple languages with English
subtitles | 44 mins little socio-cultural or institutional
devices that propel Al-Maria’s change has taken place in the
distinctive works. Translation, transforma-
United Kingdom since that time.
c d
tion and transition: the final 2018
11:45 Maltings Main House Berwick New Cinema compe- 17:45 Maltings Main House
tition programme focuses on
Lukas the Strange shifting perspectives, the tension Worldly Desires
John Torres between the real and the virtual, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Los Otros: and the relationship between Screening the Forest
John Torres & Shireen Seno mental and physical landscapes. Thailand | 2005 | 43 mins
Philippines | 2013 | 85 mins Films by Tako Taal, Mariana Caló Thai with English subtitles
Tagalog with English subtitles
& Francisco Queimadela and A couple escape from their
Lukas the Stra nge is Callum Hill. families and flee deep into the
surreal, dreamlike and wonder- Q&A with filmmakers Tako Taal jungle. At nightfall, a song illus-
e f fully bizarre. Reality and cine- & Callum Hill trates the innocence of their love
matic fiction blur when a film
and their search for happiness.
crew comes to young Lukas’ 15:45 Maltings Main House
Palme d’Or winning filmmaker
town. With a strange and often
Genpin Apitchatpong Weerasethakul
mythological narrative, where
Naomi Kawase invited fellow Thai filmmaker
memories are traded for bodily
Pimpaka Towira to shoot a
scars and people can become Screening the Forest
35mm film in the forest while he
statues, the film touches on Japan | 2005 | 92 mins
observed the production though
personal identity, complicated Japanese with English subtitles
his digital camera. While Worldly
familial relationships and the Naomi Kawase is among
Desires is dedicated to Weera-
slippage of memory. the most renowned of contem-
sethakul’s memories of filmmak-
Q&A with filmmaker John Torres porary Japanese filmmakers and
ing in the jungle from 2001–05, it
Genpin is a sensually shot docu-
13:45 Maltings Henry Travers is also a story of forbidden love
mentary revelation. In the heart
and desire, loaded with poetry,
of a dense Okazaki city forest,
g
Some Interviews on we follow Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura,
metaphor and mystery.
a) Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Worldly Desires Personal Matters midwives and expectant moth- 20:00 Maltings Main House
b) Sophia Al-Maria Lana Gogoberidze ers during four seasons at a natu-
Essential Cinema ral childbirth clinic. Employing
c) Lana Gogoberidze, Some Interviews on Nervous Translation
Georgia | 1978 | 95 mins centuries old practices that often
Personal Matters
Russian with English subtitles
Shireen Seno
d) Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela, run askew from contemporary Closing Film | Los Otros:
Luminous Shadow (♠) S o m e I n te r v i e w s o n medicine, Kawase’s tender film John Torres & Shireen Seno
e) John Torres, Lukas the Strange Personal Matters is one of the oscillates between the intimate Philippines | 2018 | 90 mins
f) Naomi Kawase, Genpin first feminist films of Soviet moments of joy, pain and doubt Tagalog with English subtitles
g) Morgan Quaintance, Another Decade
cinema and comes to Berwick in honouring this way of life. See page 3 for details
freshly restored by Arsenal
Berlin. Lana Gogoberidze’s
narrative follows Sofiko, a jour-
nalist who interviews a wide
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Special Features Exhibitions
Friday 21 September The Gymnasium 8
19:15, Maltings Main House
Solvent Magazine
Jîn Lucy Clout
Reha Erdem United Kindom | 2018
Screening the Forest Lucy Clout presents a new
Turkey | 2013 | 122 mins body of work titled Solvent
Turkish with English subtitles 15
Magazine which includes sculp-
An existential thriller with tural and video pieces made
touches of magic realism, Jîn during her six-month residency
follows 17-year-old Jîn, a Red with Berwick Visual Arts. A new
Riding Hood with a fierce survival film of the same title brings
instinct. She is a freedom fighter together research about the
who flees her armed organisation close readings of bodies. The
for reasons unknown. Jîn finds work uses pleasure and ambiguity as tools to think about the contemporary production of knowl-
herself battling bravely through edge, evidence and reproduction.
dark forests, spending solitary days in the mountains, and ultimately heading towards a city where her future
is still unclear. Symbolising the complex and heated conflict between military forces and Kurdish guerril- See page 4 for seminar with Lucy Clout
las, the film contemplates the effect this military conflict has on the forest and mountains, including their Thursday 20 September, 17:30
inhabitants: animals, trees and the ecosystem enfolding them all, which doesn’t have the ability to fight back. Please join us for the exhibition opening of Solvent Magazine with refreshments and merriment aplenty.
Introduced by Dr. Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn
Charlie’s Night Club 2
Screening the Forest is supported by the British Academy’s Visiting Fellowships Programme under
the UK Government’s Rutherford Fund, and organised in collaboration with the Centre for Research Bathing
and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster Patrick Staff
United States | 2018 | 18 mins
This special screening of Jîn is kindly supported by Berwick Film Society
Bathing explores themes of
contamination, cleanliness, and
Saturday 22 September, debility through performance
19:45, Maltings Main House and dance. The work draws on
Staff’s research into the classi-
Enceindre cal figure of the bather, chemical
Luke Fowler effects, drunken revelry, and the
Sound: Chris Watson spiritello figures that commonly
UK | 2018 adorn European fountains. The performer’s continuous actions and gestures eventually lead to overexer-
Special Event tion of the body. A fluid cross-contamination between substance, performer, and image occurs, bringing
BFM AF prese n t s the to mind the ways in which bodies absorb and release chemicals, hormones, and other agents—a means of
premiere of Enceindre, a new survival for some and potentially lethal for others.
commission and first collabora-
tion between artist-filmmaker Bankhill Ice House 3
Luke Fowler and sound record-
ist Chris Watson. Enceindre is a What the Sun Has Seen
study in film and sound of two Agnieszka Polska
Greece, Germany | 2017 | 7 mins
16th century fortified cities:
Berwick in the North East of Agnieszka Polska’s unset-
England and Pamplona in the Navarre region of the North of Spain. tling perspective on humanity takes
the form of an animated child-faced
Preceding Enceindre, there will be a ‘dark cinema’ version of the film featuring an alternative soundtrack sun with melancholy eyes. Digitally
created and diffused by Chris Watson specifically for the Maltings cinema. Watson is an acclaimed sourced images paint a frantic
musician and sound recordist best known for his wildlife field recordings that featured in David Atten- image of a crumbling world. From
borough’s series Blue Planet, Frozen Planet and Life of Birds. As a musician he was active in the ‘70s a distance, the sun jokes about envi-
and ‘80s in the groups Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio. ronmental issues and comments on
The commission is supported by LUMA Foundation, OUTSET Scotland and Berwick-upon-Tweed Town Council the tumultuous times in which the
world finds itself. —IFFR
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Exhibitions Exhibitions
Main Guard 4 New Tower 5 Town Hall 9 18 Hide Hill 10
of Violence Consensual Healing How Does an Invisible Carrs Down South
Heather Phillipson Carolyn Lazard United States | 2018 | 14 mins Boy Disappear? Kevin Jerome Everson
Rehana Zaman in collab-
oration with Liverpool
Black Women Filmmakers
United Kingdom | 2018 | 25 mins
How Does an Invisible Boy Disappear? emerges from a
nine-month collaboration with Liverpool Black Women Film-
makers, a new women’s film collec tive made up of young
United Kingdom | 2017 | 4 mins
women from a Somali & Pakistani background. The film docu-
of Violence uses the struc- ments the group as they work together to create a thriller United States | 2017 | 3 mins
ture of close-up pillow talk and focusing on a teenage girl’s attempt to find a missing local Carrs Down South presents
casual camerawork to engage boy. Comprising candid footage captured during the work- three generations of the Carr
a dog in intimate digressions. shop process, behind the scenes filming and archive footage family waxing poetically about
The dog becomes an involun- of anti-racist organising in the aftermath of the Toxteth race living and working in Salisbury,
tary participant in human impo- riots, the film questions how modes of representation and North Carolina. Kevin Jerome
sitions—emotional, physical, societal structures are gendered and racialised. Everson’s brief portrait interro-
A conversation between a therapist and their client unfolds as
linguistic and political. gates ideas of ambition, history
a yellow ball swings back and forth. Replicating simple animations Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial
Co - commissioned by Film and legacy.
of online EMDR videos used to treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disor-
London and Channel 4 for
der, Consensual Healing feeds Octavia Butler’s short story ‘Blood-
Random Acts
child’ through scripted therapeutic protocols, destabilising relations 57 Marygate 11
between coercion and consent, form and content, trauma and fiction.
Music by Juliana Huxtable; sound by Marco Gomez The Hurt Goes On
Berwick Youth Project
United Kingdom | 2018
Coxon’s Tower 6 Magazine 7
An analogue foray into a
digital world.
Fainting Spells The Magical State
Sky Hopinka Sophia Al-Maria Working with Newcastle-based
Colombia | 2017 | 6 mins moving image collective Film Bee,
Shot in Colombia, The 15 young people from Berwick
Magical State depic ts the Youth Project have used collective
possession of a Wayuu woman reflection and DIY problem solv-
by a 40 million year old oil demon. ing to create a series of provoca-
Framed as an interrogation, an tions and installations. Their work
off-screen male voice chal- explores reality in a digitalised
United States | 2018 | 11 mins lenges the woman, who gazes world, and how the value of images
Between the dizzying back directly into the viewer’s has changed with shifts in tech-
hallucinatory landscapes and eyes, placing a curse on ‘man’, nology, particularly social media.
circular images of a lens or the species who have woken A partnership between ARTIST ROOMS, Berwick Youth Project, Berwick Visual Arts and Berwick
porthole, Hopinka takes us it from geological time. The Film & Media Arts Festival
to a world of dreams, spirits violence of natural resource
Saturday 22 September, 14:00
and myths, revealing the story extraction—and the resulting
Join the young people and their friends in the exhibition for a Discovery Party and refreshments. All welcome.
of Xąwįska, the Indian Pipe violation of land rights—are
Plant used by the Ho-Chunk to reflected in the demon’s irides- The ARTIST ROOMS programme is delivered by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate in part-
revive those who have fainted. cent-coloured rage and strobo- nership with Ferens Art Gallery until 2019, supported using public funding by the National Lottery
With abstracted and inverted scopic movements. through Arts Council England, by Art Fund and by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland
images Hopinka moves from See page 11 for seminar with
an editing station into the land- Sophia Al-Maria
scape, illuminating the sense Sunday 23 September, 11:30
of losing oneself, of fear and
renewal. — Ruth Hodgins Exhibitions Walking Tour Collect a free ticket from the Maltings Box Office, the starting point
for an informal exhibitions walking tour (1.5–2 hours approx) with
the Festival team.
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Kevin Jerome Everson | 3 mins Berwick Youth Project making activity for families
BFMAF Recommends
1 The Maltings Kitchen 11 Mule on Rouge
2 Audela 12 Slightly Foxed
3 The Little Vintage Shop 13 The Barrels
13 Tweedmouth Bowling Club 4 Gasparros 14 The Lookout
Festival Club 5 The Market Shop 15 We are Rushworth
Friday and Saturday till late
6 The Curfew 16 Northern Soul Kitchen
Berwick-upon-Tweed Festival exhibitions are free
7 The Green Shop 17 Foxtons
8 Tidekettle Paper 18 The Corner House
of charge, and open Thursday
20 to Sunday 23 September, 9 Cook Live Dream 19 Castlegate Chippy
10:00 – 17:00. 10 The Little Needle Works
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Children & Young People Schedule
Secondary School Screen-
ing and Curator’s Talk
Thursday 20 September 2018, 10:00 15
Thursday 20 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 00:00
Secondary Schools are Maltings Forest Berwick New
invited to bring students to Experimenta Cinema ♦ Empty Metal
Main House
watch a dedicated screen-
ing of Jîn, introduced by Dr. Maltings Years When I Was
a Child Outside
Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn. Henry Travers
An existential thriller with
touches of magic realism, the Exhibition Opening:
film follows 17-year-old Jîn, a
Other Venues MiniCini Club Solvent Magazine
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Red Riding Hood with a fierce
Exhibitions
survival instinct.
To bring your group, please
contact val@bfmaf.org. Optional
visit to installation trail. Friday 21 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 00:00
Maltings Berwick New TERROR
Cinema ♣ Big Boy NULLIUS Jîn Scarlet Diva
Main House
59 Marygate, Berwick Open Thursday 20 to Sunday 23
Kaleidoscope
September, 11:00 - 17:00 Maltings Seminar:
Lucy Clout Sky Hopinka Hyenas
Kaleidoscope is a bean- Henry Travers
bag cinema and family friendly Festival Club
art space. There is a rolling Other Venues MiniCini Club Tweedmouth
59 Marygate Bowling Club
programme of animated films
from Cinekid Festival Amster- Exhibitions
dam. Hands-on making activi-
ties will be led by artists Katie
Chappell and Chloë Smith.
Saturday 22 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 00:00
MiniCini Club Kaleidoscope (59 Marygate) Maltings Berwick New Temporal
Cinema ♥ Vertigo Enceindre Lips of Blood
Main House
Maltings Seminar: Jessica
Los Otros Sarah Rinland Islanders Blood Amber
Henry Travers
The Hurt Goes On Festival Club
Other Venues Discovery Party
57 Marygate
Tweedmouth
Bowling Club
First Schools and Middle
Schools Screening Tales of the Dumpster Kid
First schools: Tuesday 9 October, 10:00 Exhibitions Charlie’s Night Club
(Years 3 and 4) | Middle schools: Thurs-
day 11 October, 10:00 (Years 7 and 8)
Thursday 20 September, 15:30 | (ages 5+) Friday 21 September, 15:50, | (ages 7-13)
BFMAF offers dedicated Sunday 23 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 00:00
screenings for First and Middle
Song of the Sea Zoetrope-making School screenings as well as a Maltings Lukas Berwick New Worldly Closing Film:
Song of the Sea is an workshop the Strange Cinema ♠ Genpin Desires Nervous Translations
limited number of full day film- Main House
enchanting Irish animation that Learn how to make an making workshops in schools.
tells the story of Ben and his animation film with no film or These can be used as par t Maltings Seminar:
Some Interviews
on Personal
little sister Saoirse. Hosted by gadgets! Places are free but of an Arts Award Discover or Henry Travers Sophia Al-Maria Matters Morgan Quaintance
artists Katie and Chloe, with should be booked via The Malt- Explore for the pupils involved.
popcorn. Places are free but ings. Children must be accom- To book your class into any of Exhibition
should be booked via The Malt- panied by an adult at all times. the above screenings or work- Other Venues Walking Tour
ings. Children must be accom- shops please contact Val Tobi-
panied by an adult at all times. ass at val@bfmaf.org. Exhibitions
1814th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 September 2018
The Festival exhibition programme is free
of charge, and will be open Thursday 20
to Sunday 23 September, 10:00 – 17:00.
Festival Passes
Full Festival Pass: £35
Berwick Film Society Members: £25
Day Passes: £12
Individual Tickets: £8.50
Pay-what-you-can tickets
Making BFMAF 2018 accessible for all, we’ve introduced a sliding scale ticket price for individual
screenings at The Maltings. You can chose what you pay based on your circumstances. We won’t
ask for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Please check bfmaf.org for more details.
All full price tickets and passes can be purchased online from bfmaf.org or in person at The
Maltings Box Office.
Pay-what-you-can tickets are only available in person from the Maltings Box Office.
Please note that The Maltings charges a £1 booking fee on all transactions.
Funders
Sponsors and Supporters
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is an independent charitable company limited by guarantee.
Company number: 05622380 | Registered Charity Number: 1174274
Address:
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, The Maltings, Eastern Lane, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1AJ
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is an independent charity, and a member of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio. The Festival
fundraises for the entirety of its cinema and art programme, as well as its outreach and education activity. To find out how you can make a
donation to support BFMAF, please contact us at info@bfmaf.org, or by phone +44 (0) 1289 303 355.
Please note that all information is correct at time of going to print and may be subject to alteration. Tickets are subject to availability. The
certifications used in the programme are a mix of BBFC classifications and recommended age ratings suggested by the Festival, and are
certified 12A unless otherwise noted.
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