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Event 1 • Friday 23 September 2011, 8pm •
Venue: Parish Hall, Hay
An adaptation of a cult comic novel, the main protagonist is fifteen year old Oliver Tate, the precocious but often deluded narrator.
This idiosyncratic teenager has two objectives; to lose his virginity and to prevent his mother (played by Sally Hawkins) from having an affair with an ex-boyfriend. Paddy Considine plays this role of a mullet-wearing new age guru, with flamboyant relish. The film is set in 80s Swansea and the detail of everyday life, at school and in the industrial landscape, is sharply observed. The film has many surreal moments and some terrific musical sequences. Ayoade’s influences, from French New Wave to Terence Mallik’s Badlands are worn lightly but add texture to this inventive debut.
'Simply a joy.' – Empire Magazine
Director: Richard Ayoade
UK 2010. 96 minutes.
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Event 2 • Friday 23 September 2011, 8pm •
Venue: Richard Booth's Bookshop
Cocksure young artist Mr Neville (Anthony Higgins) is contracted to draw pictures of a country house by Mrs Herbert (Janet Suzman), wife of the cantankerous owner (Dave Hill). The terms and conditions are agreed: Neville will complete his work over 14 days....and Mrs Herbert will devote part of each day to satisfying his pleasures!
Full of the bawdy licentiousness and scabrous wit of the Jacobean era, Greenaway’s debut is one of the most captivating films of his career. Filmed with careful precision in a series of stylised tableaux, Greenaway’s mesmerising film is memorable for some hilariously camp performances (Higgins is perfect) and a marvellous score from Michael Nyman. It’s also a cracking mystery tale!
Director: Peter Greenaway
UK 1982. 103 minutes.
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Event 19 • Saturday 24 September 2011 •
Venue: Gwernyfed High School
SPECIAL EVENT: A collaboration between Gwernyfed High School, Three Cocks and The Rural Media Company.
Screen at Hay thinks it important to involve young people in the making as well as the watching of films. Building on the success of our 2010 young people’s workshop (their short film The Race for 2012 won first prize in a national competition and will be shown at the Olympic stadiums in 2012) we are holding another similar event at this year’s festival involving a professional film company and local school students.
We are very pleased that the Hereford based and internationally known media education organization The Rural Media Company are coming to work with a group of students from Gwernyfed High School during the Festival weekend.
In 2008 the company collaborated with 14-16 year old students at Gwernyfed High School in the making of the short Dirty Bandages that engaged the students in all aspects of the film’s production including the acting.
This year’s collaboration will once again involve a group of 14-16 year old students in technical camera training and script/story development at the school prior to the workshop. At the Saturday workshop the students will act in and shoot the devised film followed later by helping with the film’s post production. The completed film will be screened at a Screen at Hay event later in the season.
The Race for 2012 and Dirty Bandages will be screened at the Community Centre during lunchtime on Saturday 24 September.
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Event 3 • Saturday 24 September 2011, 11am •
Venue: Parish Hall, Hay
Barnard’s fascinating film deals both with the short troubled life and the legacy, both artistic and psychological, of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. Dunbar’s first play, The Arbor, an autobiographical account of life on a northern council estate, was written aged fifteen and later followed by the hilarious film Rita Sue and Bob too (1986) directed by Alan Clarke.
The narrative is multi layered, using reminiscences of those who knew her, family and friends (but with actors lip synching recorded interviews), archive footage of Dunbar herself and a street performance of The Arbor.
This innovative and intriguing documentary explores the internal life of its subject and the relationship of life and art. Not one to be missed.
WINNER OF GUARDIAN FIRST FILM AWARD 2010
Director: Clio Barnard
UK 2010. 94 minutes.
Q&A
Tracy O’Riordan, The Arbor’s Producer, will discuss with Jo Eliot the multi-layered narrative of Clio Barnard's prize-winning directorial debut.
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Event 4 • Saturday 24 September 2011, 11am •
Venue: Community Centre, Hay
If one word can sum up this wonderful fantasy, Arabian Nights adventure, then that word is Magical!
Prince Ahmad is the rightful King of Bagdad but he has been blinded and cast out as a beggar. Now a captive of the wicked Grand Vizier Jaffar he is thrown into a dungeon where he meets Abu, the best thief in all Bagdad. Together they escape and set about a series of adventures that involve an enormous genie in a bottle, a mechanical flying horse, a giant statue with an all-seeing magic eye, a very big spider and a flying carpet and a beautiful princess.
Modern digital effects have made anything possible of course but the magical storytelling, sumptuous art direction and wonderful casting combine to gloss over the seventy years old visual effects and make the whole thing a breathtaking cinematic experience.
There will be an ice cream break during this screening!
Directors: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell.
UK 1940. 106 minutes (plus interval).
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Event 5 • Saturday 24 September 2011, 2pm •
Venue: Parish Hall, Hay
Documentary films from the multi award winning Newport Film School curated by BAFTA award winning documentary director Christopher Morris.
Newport Film School is one of the oldest film schools in the UK; founded by the father of British documentary John Grierson in 1966, the school has established an international reputation in film education. Ten years ago the film school launched the UK’s only BA (hons) course solely focused on documentary film-making – all the films presented in this session are made by students on the unique Documentary Film & Television course.
Q&A
Chris Morris, Head of University of Wales Newport’s prestigious documentary course, will talk with Jo Eliot about trends and issues in documentary film making today drawing on the work of his prize wining students.
Sonnemann
Director: Heidi Brandenburg
UK 2006. 10 minutes (German)
Cut off from society, alone in a wood, a young man reflects on his place in the modern world.
The Transformation of Tommy Matthison
Directors: Steven Jones and Matt Evans
UK 2007. 12 minutes
A werewolf from Cumbria talks about his life and loves.
Roundabouters
Directors: Andrew Parry and Catherine McMahon
UK 2007. 12 minutes
The joy of the British roundabout– and the people who love them.
WINNER OF THE ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT DOCUMENTARY 2007.
Halb (Half)
Director: Rabea Gorny
UK 2008. 10 minutes (German)
A simple but searing dissection of a divorce from the viewpoint of the daughter.
WINNER OF THE ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT DOCUMENTARY 2008.
Annwyl Plant (Dear Kids)
Director: Catrin Doyle
UK 2009. 10 minutes (Welsh)
A beautiful poem of a film – a mother muses on her fears for her children’s future.
SELECTED FOR UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN PURCHASE PRIZE 2010.
Letters to Angola: An Unlikely Friendship
Directors: Lauren Muchan and Joseph Sharp
UK 2009. 15 minutes
What have a young English girl and a Black Panther convicted of murder got to say to each other?
WINNER OF THE ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AND SHORTLISTED FOR BEST NEWCOMER AT THE GRIERSON AWARDS.
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Directors: Seb Feehan and Josh Bamford
UK 2010. 12 minutes
Proof that old age is no barrier to living life to the full. Uplifting!
WINNER OF BEST STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AT THE 2011 SHEFFIELD INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL.
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Event 7 • Saturday 24 September 2011, 2pm •
Venue: Community Centre, Hay
Patagonia tells the story of the journeys of two women; one travels into her past and the other into her future with the film intercutting between the two.
Gwen (Nia Roberts) an actress and her photographer boyfriend Rhys (Matthew Gravelle), travel to Welsh Patagonia on a photographic trip both thinking that the break might improve their relationship and a longed for pregnancy might ensue.
Director: Marc Evans
Wales 2010. 118 minutes
In Welsh with sub titles
Q&A
Marc Evans, director of Patagonia, and Nia Roberts, one of the film’s leading actors, will talk about filming in Patagonia and Wales and the genesis of this intriguing film, with Francine Stock.
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Event 6 • Saturday 24 September 2011, 6pm •
Venue: Richard Booth's Bookshop
Winners Best Film and Best Cinematography 2011
Established in 2008, Fujifilm Shorts has been created to showcase the talents of filmmakers who choose to shoot on Fujifilm’s motion picture film stock. Fujifilm Shorts prides itself on being one of very few short film competitions to reward the art of Cinematography and to celebrate and support shorts shot on 16mm or 35mm film.
FUJIFILM SHORTS: BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 2011
The Pit
An old man saves a boy from drowning but mistakes him for his dead son.
Director of Photography: Urszula Pontikos
Director: Rupert Raby
Producer: Julian Bird
Film Format: 35mm
Fujifilm stocks used: ETERNA Vivid 500T 8547 and ETERNA 250D 8563
17 minutes
FUJIFILM SHORTS: BEST FILM 2011
13 1/2
Aphrodite is thirteen and a half. Aphrodite is in love with Lou and wants to grow up.
Director of Photography: Edu Grau
Director: Haris Vaffiadis
Producer: Yiannis Exindaris
Film Format: 16mm
Fujifilm stocks used: ETERNA 250T8653 and ETERNA 500T 8653
21 minutes
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Event 8 • Saturday 24 September 2011, 8pm •
Venue: Parish Hall, Hay
Set in London of the swinging 1960s, Deep End should be up there with Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up or Roman Polanski’s Repulsion as another sharp outsiders’ view of 60s Britain. The setting is a public swimming pool, where teenage innocent Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is shown the ropes, floats, and a whole lot more by his worldlier colleague Susie (Jane Asher). Susie becomes an object of his desire and his behaviour becomes increasingly delirious.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
UK1970. 90 minutes
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Event 9 • Saturday 24 September 2011, 8pm •
Venue: Richard Booth's Bookshop
British film since the 1960s has been renowned for gritty working class social dramas. Joanna Hogg explores a different terrain, that of the angst ridden middle class. This, her second film, is set during a family holiday on Tresco, the Isles of Scilly. The chilly windswept landscape, beautifully shot, reflects the distances amongst the protagonists. Hogg shows an intense awareness of low-level psychological tensions, her sensitivity to silences to mask aggression makes for some uncomfortable identifications.
Director: Joanna Hogg
UK 2010. 114 minutes
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Event 10 • Saturday 24 September 2011, 8pm •
Venue: Community Centre, Hay
Channel 4 New Director Award 1996.
This utterly beguiling film is quite unlike any other. Film-maker Andrew Kötting travels around the coast of Britain with his feisty ninety year old grandmother and delightful nine year old daughter Eden who has Joubert Syndrome. The film is full of striking images and an intriguing sound track. The style combines 50s travelogue with beautiful scenery, all intercut with interviews with the characters they meet on their travels. The relationship between the three of them, especially the rock solid but slightly crazy grandma and Eden who has limited speech, is both hilarious and touching. The odd corners of Britain they visit, the faces and voices of the characters they meet, the sense of things passing and another lost Britain are all powerfully invoked. This is a funny and extraordinary film, the sort of film that film festivals are designed for. See it!
Director: Andrew Kötting
UK 1996. 100 minutes
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Event 11 • Saturday 24 September 2011, 10.30pm •
Venue: Community Centre, Hay
Lindsay Anderson’s If..., while tapping into the revolutionary spirit of the late 60s, is a High European classic that is also quintessentially English. Malcolm McDowell heads the cast as Mick, who leads his classmates in a revolution against the stifling conformism, the bullying prefects and the incompetent teachers of his public school. The film’s greatness lies in its surreal take on these events as reality and fantasy merge. If… deserves the reputation as one of the best films to have come from these shores, a subversive, anti-authoritarian masterpiece that stands as a blistering attack on the moralityand values of the middle class. It’s certainly a corrective to any excess Hogwarts nostalgia!
'British cinema's true rites of passage' – Tim Lucas, Sight & Sound
Director: Lindsay Anderson
UK 1968. 111 minutes.
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Event 13 • Sunday 25 September 2011, 9.30am •
Venue: Richard Booth's Bookshop
For all the obvious artificiality of some of the special effects, the cut-glass accents and impeccable upper-class English manner of the juveniles and the hamminess of some of the acting, Things To Come, based on a H.G. Wells story (he also wrote the screenplay) remains a classic of science fiction cinema.
The first theme of the film is pacifism and hatred of war. Prophetically choosing 1940 as its starting date, the war drags on until 1966 and in its wake comes the collapse of civilisation. So the second theme of the film emerges – scientific planning, as the work of rebuilding goes ahead. A curiosity to be sure, but Things To Come is, nonetheless, a visionary work of compelling power, awesome imagination and uplifting optimism.
Coffee and tea available.
Director: William Cameron Menzies
UK 1936. 100 minutes.
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Event 12 • Sunday 25 September 2011, 11am •
Venue: Parish Hall, Hay
A programme of early silent films presented and accompanied on the piano. Paul Shallcross, the well known local pianist and enthusiast for silent film introduces and comments on a marvellous range of early British film, from 1900–1929 with piano accompaniment.
Beginning with some of the very earliest of British films, such as the surreal How it feels to be run over, and climaxing in the truly epic Life Story of David Lloyd George the programme will present a selection of films covering the whole of the period of silent film making in Britain. Featured will be the work of William Haggar, the fairground impresario who became Wales’ first professional film maker, and alongside chase films and cartoons there will be shown some of the many hilarious moments in early film when things didn’t quite work out as the director intended...
How it Feels to be Run Over (1900) 1 minute
Mary Jane’s Mishap (1903) 4 minutes
The Bather’s Revenge (1901) 1 minute
A Desperate Poaching Affray (1903) 4 minutes
A Daring Daylight Burglary (1903) 4 minutes
The Life Story of Charlie Peace (1905) 14 minutes
The Sheep Stealer (1907) 7 minutes
Jerry the Tyke Cartoons (1927–1929) 20 minutes
The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918) 25 minutes
By permission of The National Screen and Sound Archives of Wales
UK 1900–1929
100 minutes
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Event 14 • Sunday 25 September 2011, 12pm •
Venue: Community Centre, Hay
A selection of student work introduced by Christabel Gingell.
By integrating the disciplines of moving image, animation, photography, graphics and illustration, the degree course in Film and Screen Media equips its student to work in the multiplatform world of the new media increasingly used by audiences.
Doodles
Director: Nathan Wood 7 minutes
A clandestine classroom romance, played out using animation in a live action world.
The Tik Tok Parody
Director: Rose Dix 4 minutes
A music video parody of Kesha’s 2009 chart topping single Tik Tok, performed by the writer and director Rose Dix. Created with online destination in mind, this short has gained over 25,000 hits on YouTube.
Curly and Black
Director: Nick Chaffey 24 Minutes
Inspired by the films of Leslie Nielson of Airplane fame, this is a humorous take on the American cop TV series of the 1970s.
Diamond in the Rough
Director: Rob Gale 16 minutes
Conceived as the first part of a TV series, the central character who has Asberger’s syndrome, is introduced.
An Apocalyptic Future
Director: Sam Brown 3 minutes
Using web cam and mobile phone footage, this short meditates on fear.
How to Throw a Witch Free Dinner Party
Director: Jolene Archer 12 minutes
A witty exploration of 500 years of superstitions surrounding food.
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Event 15 • Sunday 25 September 2011, 2pm •
Venue: Parish Hall, Hay
Francine Stock introduces a programme of British short films curated by Aradhna Tayal.
The Lost Thing
Director: Andrew Ruhemann & Shaun Tan
UK 2010. 15 minutes
The Oscar winning short animation from Passion Pictures, starring Tim Minchin.
Happy Ending
Director: Ken Loach
UK 2006
Part of the Chacun son Cinéma collection commissioned for the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival. Loach was one of thirty six acclaimed directors invited to express 'their state of mind of the moment as inspired by the motion picture theatre'.
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Director: Chris Morris
UK 2002. 12 minutes
Morris’ BAFTA-winning directorial debut marked the launch of the multi-award winning Warp Films, who went on to produce features from Shane Meadows and Paddy Considine.
Home (15)
Director: Morag McKinnon
UK 1998. 11 minutes
This BAFTA-winning short was commissioned for the Channel 4 short film series Short & Curlies.
Doodlebug (U)
Director: Christopher Nolan
UK 1997. 3 minutes
Nolan made this short as a student with the University College London Film Society. He collaborated with actor Jeremy Theobald, who later starred in Nolan’s debut feature Following.
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Event 16 • Sunday 25 September 2011, 2pm •
Venue: Community Centre, Hay
Robert Dewar of the Huntley Film Archive gives an introduction and commentary on a selection of fascinating archive film from the Huntley Film Archives about Welsh life.
The presentation will cover many aspects of life in Wales between the 1890s and the 1960s. The traditional industries such as coal mining and slate quarrying will be shown from the 1930s together with rare footage of day-to-day rural life including Y Stra – the annual sheep round up in the Preseli Hills. There will be clips from an amateur home movie of the last family to live on Skomer Island, a holiday at a North Wales holiday camp in the 1950s and a stunning ride on a steam train through Llangollen in 1898. There will be clips too of the 1930s depression in the South Wales valleys, the post-war recovery in the 1950s and the joys of outward bound walking in the 1960s.
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Event 17 • Sunday 25 September 2011, 4.30pm •
Venue: Community Centre, Hay
Cast: Andrea Risborough,Helen Mirren, Andy Serkis, John Hurt, Phil Davies, Sam Riley tag line " since they are so different there is no need to compare this with the original. Suffice to say if that was a masterpiece than so is this "
Director: Rowan Joffe
UK 2010 111 mins
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Event 18 • Sunday 25 September 2011, 8pm •
Venue: Parish Hall, Hay
The story centres on Stephen, a married Oxford professor played by Dirk Bogarde, who is experiencing a mid-life crisis. The world changes for him when he meets Anna, a beautiful young woman who is engaged to William, one of his students (film debut for Michael York). Following a car accident outside Stephen’s home in which William is killed and Anna is severely disoriented, she is obliged to remain with Stephen although his wife is out of town. The events of the build up to the accident are told in flashbacks and, while Stephen believes that he is in control of the events that will eventually lead to the destruction of his marriage, we soon discover that Anna is not so innocent. In fact, she is involved with Charlie, played by Stanley Baker, a colleague of Stephen’s.
This is the second of three film adaptions made from novels by Harold Pinter for Losey, the others being The Servant (1963) and The Go-Between (1970).
GRAND PRIX SPÉCIAL DU JURY CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 1967
Director: Joseph Losey
UK 1967. 105 minutes
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