17–22 JUNE 2014 LONDON’S GLOBAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

DIRECTORY 1 Sponsors GREETINGS - DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT UCL FACULTY UCL FACULTY OF UCL FACULTY OF FACULTIES OF ARTS & OF THE BUILT ENGINEERING POPULATION HEALTH HUMANITIES, SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENT SCIENCES SCIENCES HISTORICAL SCIENCES Open City Docs Fest shows films to change the way you see the world.

From family strife, economic meltdown and the surprisingly redemptive flows of the global economy in our opening Gala to the poisonous soil of homophobia cultivated by Vladimir Putin’s regime on the closing night, the variety and complexity of the wide world is revealed at London’s documentary film festival.

Awards Sponsors London’s global documentary film festival offers a place to explore the new politics emerging in the 21st century.

Two visions of society clamour for dominance: one, fearful, nostalgic and drawn to bringing down the shutters, creating a safe but closed space where all those who are different are pushed out; the other, underpinned by a deep optimism in the ability of the human spirit to Cultural Support adjust its balance, thrilled by the vigour of hybrid forms, and above all with a belief in the open society – open to movement, open to change, open to the new global politics and open to diversity. As films across our festival show, this is a far more complex struggle than those of the last century – and despite generations of democracy in some parts of the world it is one that is a long, long way from being settled.

Open City Docs Fest creates thought-provoking juxtapositions. Venue Partners This year our two focuses are a country, Iran, and an individual, Avi Mograbi, one of Israel’s greatest documentarists. Hemmed in by theocratic restrictions, Iranian cinema is one of the few spaces where Iranians’ imagination can run free. Free to make his films as he likes, Avi Mograbi’s cinema confronts quite other limits.

Open City Docs Fest promotes emerging talent. Media Partners We are proud to open once again with a first feature, this time a British one, and to host so many other first time features. To support young filmmakers in a difficult funding environment where support for feature length documentary format from the main broadcasters grows ever weaker, we launch a new MA in documentary film at UCL to inspire, train and promote the next generation of documentary artists.

Programme Partners Open City Docs Fest is now in its fourth year: thank you for all your support, welcome back and bring your friends!

Michael Stewart Founding Director Open City Docs

Scottish Documentary Institute

GREETINGS 1 ABOUT US CONTENTS AWARDS 2014 JURORS

Open City Docs celebrates and nurtures GRAND JURY AWARD GRAND JURY: GREETINGS 1 documentary film. For the film that exemplifies an author in control of their Chair: PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI ABOUT US 2 subject matter, craft and story - matching content and form in Filmmaker Based at UCL and working with partners a powerful and persuasive fashion, awarded by the Grand Jury. JEANIE FINLAY Filmmaker across London, throughout the UK and TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 DR GRIT LEMKE Head of internationally, Open City Docs delivers JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY Eszter Hajdú / 2013 / Hungary, Germany / 107’ Documentary Programme, film screenings and live events, training AWARDS 3 DOK Leipzig programmes and projects throughout JURORS 3 MANAKAMANA Stephanie Spray, Pacho Vele / 2013 / USA, Nepal / 118’ DIANA TABAKOV Acquisitions, the year to support the next generation Doc Alliance Films of filmmakers. STRAND INTRODUCTIONS 4 MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE Marc Bauder / 2013 / Germany, Austria / 88’ CHRIS WILSON Commissioning Editor, Sky Arts We aim to challenge, explore and expand GALAS 5 SHADO’MAN Boris Gerrets / 2013 / Netherlands, France / 87’ ideas of what documentary can be and OPEN CITY JURY do. We want to provoke debate and open SPECIAL GUEST: AVI MOGRABI 6 THE SPECIAL NEED Carlo Zoratti / 2013 / Italy, Germany / 84’ Chair: HELEN DE WITT minds by presenting films about real life, CINEMADOOSTI: DOCUMENTING IRAN 9 Head of Cinemas, BFI about the experience of real people, and FLORA GREGORY Commissioning to give ear to those voices that are not CITY STORIES 12 EMERGING INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER AWARD Editor, Al Jazeera English often heard. Awarded by the Open City Jury. OLLIE HUDDLESTON Editor DIGITAL NATIVES 14 MIKE LERNER Producer At Open City Docs Fest every event CAIRO DRIVE Sherief Elkatsha / 2013 / Egypt / 77’ MAGNUS NOME Editor-in-Chief, PORTRAITS 16 is a “live” event with filmmaker Q&As, openDemocracy panel discussions, live music, food and SCIENCE FRICTION 18 CHILDREN 404 Pavel Loparev, Askold Kurov / 2014 / Russia / 70’ workshops for industry and public. JUST SOCIETY 20 TRUCKER AND THE FOX Arash Lahooti / 2013 / Iran / 78’ During the week we programme in various venues across London and in FILM SCHEDULE 22 ZIVAN MAKES A PUNK FESTIVAL Ognjen Glavonic / 2013 / Serbia / 63’ our festival hub in Bloomsbury, where MYSTREET 27 the Open City Village and Cinema Tent on Torrington Square create a pop-up SHORTS 28 BEST UK FILM AWARD cinema space especially made for Awarded by the Open City Jury to the best UK doc-lovers. We aim to be an open-minded OPEN CITY DOCS SCHOOL EVENTS 30 film in the programme. and open-hearted cultural and social event where filmmakers meet their MASTERCLASSES 31 THE AUCTION HOUSE: A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS audience. Please hang around, discover PANEL EVENTS 32 Edward Owles / 2014 / UK, India / 85’ a little known part of the heart of the city and deepen your understanding of the NETWORKING EVENTS 35 ECOCIDE - VOICES FROM PARADISE Juliet Brown / 2014 / UK / 57’ world we live in. OPEN CITY VILLAGE 38 IBOGA NIGHTS David Graham Scott / 2013 / UK / 98’ Open City Docs including Open City Docs Fest, MyStreet (p27) and Open City Docs OPEN CITY DOCS SCHOOL COURSES 41 IN THE SHADOW OF WAR Georgia & Sophia Scott / 2014 / UK / 88’ School (p41). A-Z FILM DIRECTORY 42 MAPS 44 MYSTREET AWARDS 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes for films from the online shortlist, SUPPORT OPEN CITY DOCS 46 awarded by the Grand Jury. VENUES & TICKETS 48 NOMINEES 2014 Check online from 10 June for the list TEAM & THANKS 49 of nominated films. www.mystreetfilms.com

2 ABOUT AWARDS/JURY 3 CLOSING GALA SPECIAL GUEST: CINEMADOOSTI: CITY STORIES AVI MOGRABI DOCUMENTING IRAN CHILDREN 404 Bright lights, big cities: Pavel Loparev, Askold Kurov / 2014 / Russia / 70’ Open City Docs Fest 2014 A celebration of Journey into the hidden Sun 22 June / 19:00 / Bloomsbury Theatre welcomes the acclaimed contemporary Iranian places of the modern UK Premiere Israeli documentarian and documentary exploring metropolis. (p12) video artist Avi Mograbi as daily life in Iran and Supported by UCL Faculty After President Vladimir Putin passed a bill our special guest. (p6) cinemadoosti - the Persian of the Built Environment. forbidding the “promotion of nontraditional word for cinephilia. (p9) sexual relations to minors”, the LGBT community Supported by Small Media. in Russia suffered an even deeper sense of alienation. LGBT youth living in fear, unable to reveal their identity without insults and intimidation, found security in an online project known as Children 404. Named after the “error 404 - page not found” web message, the DIGITAL NATIVES PORTRAITS SCIENCE FRICTION website became a place for them to share their stories of mistreatment and discrimination. From web addiction in A series of intimate Films testing the limits Through anonymous interviews and video China to the rise of internet meetings with extraordinary of our science and our diaries, this film sees inside the daily lives of voodoo in Ghana, films characters, from a punk knowledge: exploring 45 young Russian people facing harassment chronicling the growing impressario in Serbia to the realms of fear that at every turn. Pavel Loparev and Askold Kurov pains of the digital pilgrims in Nepal. (p16) both knowledge and its OPENING GALA also follow key figures in the movement generation. (p14) absence give birth to. (p18) including the support group’s founder, Elena, Supported by UCL Faculty of Supported by UCL Faculty of THE AUCTION HOUSE: A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS struggling against legal threats, and activist Engineering Sciences. Population and Health Sciences Edward Owles / 2014 / UK, India / 85’ Pasha, planning​ to escape to Canada. and New Scientist. Tues 17 June / 19:00 / Bloomsbury Theatre Children 404 is a shocking insight​ into a European Premiere generation dealing with the repercussions of Russia’s institutionalised homophobia. The oldest auction house in India fights for survival in the age of eBay and a booming JUST SOCIETY SHORTS WORKSHOPS Calcutta. Edward Owles’ first documentary & MASTERCLASSES feature follows its owners, two brothers: one Do we have a grip on Showcasing the best short recently returned to his homeland after a long our moment in history? form documentaries from Join the discussion with and successful career in the UK; the other Five films in which people around the world. (p28) sessions ranging from steeped in the firm’s traditions and sceptical confront the machinery funding and distribution about his older brother’s plans for change. of states or corporations to “docutherapy” or get an running out of control, and insight behind the camera Desperate to revive the fortunes of the seek ways to regain control with masterclasses from beloved auction house that was purchased of their lives. (p20) leading documentary from the British by his grandfather, the odds Supported by Faculties of Arts, filmmakers. (p31) are stacked against Anwer – a chaotic, Humanities, Social and fragmented city, a sleepy, half-morose staff, Historical Sciences. and most of all his quarrelsome younger brother, Arshad.

The brothers struggle with living together for the first time since they were teenagers and try to find a place for their future by remembering their past. Their amusing, argumentative, but ultimately heartfelt relationship explores whether old family businesses like the Russell Exchange can still find a niche in 21st century India.

4 STRAND INTRODUCTIONS GALAS 5 AVI MOGRABI SPECIAL GUEST: Avi Mograbi was born in Tel Aviv in 1956 and still lives and works there. He was active in AVI MOGRABI the early years of the refusenik movement Yesh Gvul (“there is a limit”) and was jailed for his refusal to serve in Israel’s 1982 Lebanon War. Open City Docs Fest 2014 welcomes AUGUST: A MOMENT BEFORE THE ERUPTION the acclaimed documentarian and Avi Mograbi / 2002 / Israel / 72’ He “caught the malady” of film in the screening rooms of his father’s Mograbi Cinema: video artist Avi Mograbi. One of Wed 18 June / 20:30 / Hackney Picturehouse an Israeli cinematic tradition hamstrung by the phenomenon of “shooting and crying”— Israel’s most distinguished filmmakers, films that expose guilt to assuage the trauma of the guilty—Mograbi digs much deeper. Mograbi is known for his unwavering commitment to social, cultural and In August: A Moment Before the Eruption In Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi (1999), Mograbi cuts between scenes of Israel’s 50th political justice in the Middle East, as well Mograbi portrays an Israel ruled by violence birthday celebration and the ruins of destroyed Palestinian villages: the juxtaposition as his experimentalism and innovative and fear. Ironically, and self-ironically, he draws forcing the viewer to contend with the parallel realities in 1948 of a young nation contribution to cinematic language. an image of his country by connecting satirical marking its founding alongside the Nakba, or Palestinian “catastrophe.” and theatrical scenes with documentary Event supported by Film Hub London, managed and everyday observations. In doing so, he Mograbi trails the late Israeli Prime Minister during election season throughout How I by Film London and a proud partner of the BFI Film succeeds in creating a mad picture of a Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon (1997). Sharon, the bête noire of the Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. time “a moment before the eruption”. His Israeli left and a reviled figure in the Arab world, emerges as all too likeable under the www.filmlondon.org.uk/filmhub filmic language is iridescent and neurotic camera’s gaze, and Mograbi’s worry that he is falling under the politician’s spell enables like the society he encounters. The film was viewers to grapple with the making of national icons and the social and cultural forces awarded the Peace Award at the 2002 Berlin that keep these figures in power. Film Festival.

In August: A Moment Before the Eruption (2002) we witness various traumas and degradation in Israeli and Palestinian life, and in Avenge But One of My Two Eyes (2005), Mograbi charts the racism and violence, mythological and real, connecting narratives of the Jewish past with Israel’s troubled present. Throughout these films, Mograbi provides a window into the mechanics of artistic production, revealing his privileged position and problematising the documentary genre in revelatory ways.

This dislocating approach reaches its apogee in Z32 (2008), a “musical-documentary- tragedy” revisiting the heinous revenge acts of an Israeli soldier upon innocent Palestinian victims. Building on the forensic quality of his early work, The Reconstruction (1994), Mograbi offers a meditation on the role of the perpetrator and society’s dual fascination/revulsion with their crimes. An obsessive need to excavate the gruesome murder take the filmmaker and his subject back to the site of the crimes. Mograbi’s Z32 performance in a farcical cabaret facilitates an expression of his own guilt in Avi Mograbi / 2008 / Israel / 81’ representing and possibly exculpating unbearable deeds. Thur 19 June / 18:30 / ICA Screen 1

Mograbi’s most recent film,Once I Entered a Garden (2012), is also his most hopeful. Journeying into his Jewish family history in Lebanon and Syria, the filmmaker engages An Israeli ex-soldier who participated in a his ex-Arabic teacher, Ali Al-Azhari, and his bilingual Palestinian-Jewish daughter, Yasmin, revenge operation where two Palestinian to help him discover a cosmopolitan past that has been elided by the drawing of borders policemen were murdered seeks forgiveness and decades of war. for what he has done. His girlfriend doesn’t think it’s that simple and raises issues he is The profound frustrations captured on screen remind us of the human toll of perpetual not yet ready to address. The soldier willingly conflict. Using humour and spontaneity while exposing the scaffolding of his craft, testifies for camera as long as his identity Avi Mograbi’s storytelling is at once politically urgent and deeply affecting. In the is not exposed. While the filmmaker keeps bleakest of contexts, here is a filmmaker shedding light of the most subversive kind. looking for the proper solution to conceal the soldier’s identity, he questions his own Seth Anziska is a doctoral candidate in international history at Columbia University, with interests political and artistic conduct. in Israeli and Palestinian history, US-Middle East relations, and modern Jewish politics.

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For more than half a century the Iranian documentary movement has been synonymous with a cinema of boldness and revisionism, which reflects a spirit of cultural resistance in the LIVE EVENT - AVI MOGRABI: THE DETAILS AVENGE BUT ONE OF MY TWO EYES most unexpected ways. Iranian documentary film today differentiates itself from that of the Fri 20 June / 19:00 / Bloomsbury Theatre Avi Mograbi / 2005 / Israel / 100’ pre-revolutionary period, in employing a diversity of styles – something quite unique in the Fri 20 June / 21:00 / Bloomsbury Theatre history of Iranian cinema. One can detect an almost systematic depiction of minorities and marginal figures, and the geographical focus is shifted away from Tehran to other cities and cultures across the country. Even more striking is the strong presence of women filmmakers in Open City Docs Fest presents an evening Shot in the Occupied Territories, this a male-dominated industry. of live performances featuring the work of controversial documentary film draws Avi Mograbi. parallels between the Israeli-Palestinian Contemporary Iranian documentary filmmaking reveals a widespread urge among artists situation today and the enduring myths to establish dialogues within Iranian society. The work becomes a personal diary for the GREEDYADAM PLAY AVI MOGRABI of Samson and Masada. Mograbi offers a filmmakers, and their dark confession room. Within a traditional society whose cinema stammers One continuous shot extracted from powerful, at times chilling, lament to the every time it comes to addressing the private world, the new documentary movement is brutally Avi Mograbi’s feature filmAugust: A Moment continuing cycles of violence rooted in the honest and open. Before the Eruption slowed down to 5% of its past and threatening to engulf everyone’s original speed, becomes an exaggerated future. With the roots of so much real-world There is a clear determination throughout these films to reconstruct the distorted image of Iran “symbolic” backdrop for a live musical conflict left unexamined by today’s restless frequently held by those outside of the country, although no compromises are made with regard performance. The scene finds the filmmaker media, this film reminds us just how vital to the darker aspects of life in Iran – the suppression, the censorship and the contradictions. pointing his camera towards a stirring street filmmakers like Avi Mograbi are.Screening in Even those documentary films drawn from the Iranian diaspora are emotionally torn between scene showing a man, perhaps intoxicated, association with Second Run DVD. a passion for life and the cinema, and a melancholic contemplation on migration, exile and lying on the pavement while a woman, in solitude. In spite of their mixed, sometimes conflicting emotional registers, these films are anguish, tries to pull him up. The filmmaker stylistically as consistent as a Persian rug. initially calls an ambulance, but then, while waiting for help, he is tempted to capture the This brilliant, yet deprived area of film culture is still relatively unknown inside Iran. Iranian state moment. Slowed down extremely, the scene’s television, the only source of audiovisual broadcasting within the country, refuses to show “metaphorical” value increases almost to the documentary films by the new generation and cinemas are only booked to screen popular point of absurdity. fictional films. Despite these obstacles, the movement is far from being defeated or weakened. The existence of documentary film in Iran is vital. It is one of the last means by which a meaningful THE DETAILS: A LIVE MULTI-SCREEN VIDEO order can be given to the fragmented images of the country scattered across virtual communities, COMPOSITION BY AVI MOGRABI & NOAM ENBAR mobile phones and kept within old family albums. The Iranian documentarian today is able to Making use of different scenes from combine disparate, historical media to create a highly personal narrative, and at the same time and concerning the Palestinian territories project questions and feelings that are part of the collective unconscious of Iran in the 21st century. occupied by Israel in 1967, screened ONCE I ENTERED A GARDEN simultaneously on four screens. Most of these Avi Mograbi / 2012 / Israel / 97’ Iranian documentary filmmaking offers much-needed, alternative images of Iran and reveals scenes were shot for and appear in previous Sat 21 June / 18:00 / Birkbeck Cinema continual artistic innovation where there is still a resistance to certain forms of personal expression. films by Avi Mograbi, and are presented here Recalling the words by which Robert Schumann once described the music of Franz Liszt, one to create a non-linear parallel chaotic space, gains a clear understanding from the artists represented in this programme, that filmmaking for a disturbing representation of the filmmaker’s It begins with a dream about an impossible them today “is no longer a question of this or that style [but] the pure expression of a bold nature view of the reality in the occupied territories encounter between acclaimed Israeli determined to conquer fate not with dangerous weapons but by peaceful means of art.” and of the act of documenting it. filmmaker Avi Mograbi and his grandfather, Ibrahim, outside their Damascus home in Ehsan Khoshbakht has a background in architecture, urban design and cinema. He makes films Caligari( to Libeskind and *See p31 for Avi Mograbi Masterclass. 1920. What language did they speak? Avi’s A Journey Through Iranian Cinema With Mark Cousins) and writes books (author of Celluloid Architecture, and co-author of Arabic is rudimentary, while Ibrahim had yet the first encyclopedia of film directors in farsi). to learn Hebrew. To bring his dream to life, Avi turns to his Palestinian ex-Arabic teacher and good friend, Ali Al-Azhari, and suggests that they make a movie together. In typical Mograbi style, the filmmaker interweaves a narrative about filmmaking with the film itself. This is a film about identity that questions our basic assumptions about what makes us who we are.

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Is loving cinema a political act? JERRY & ME SEPIDEH - REACHING FOR THE STARS TRUCKER AND THE FOX Cinemadoosti is the Persian word for Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa / 2012 / USA, Iran / 38’ Berit Madsen / 2013 / Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Arash Lahooti / 2013 / Iran / 78’ cinephilia, the love of cinema for which Sat 21 June / 14:00 / Cinema Tent Germany, Iran / 88’ / Sat 21 June / 19:30 Sun 22 June / 16:00 / Bloomsbury Theatre Iranians are famous. At this potential Bloomsbury Theatre UK Premiere turning point in Iranian society, this strand of films and events explores contemporary life for Iranians and Iranian diaspora, In her intimate first-person documentary Sepideh wants to be an astronaut. She writes This moving film opens with our protagonist, bringing new films and perspectives to Jerry & Me, filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa letters to Einstein, and her science teacher the filmmaker and truckdriver Mahmood a London audience. The programme of remembers her youth growing up in Iran, encourages her to take her hobby more Kiyani Falavarjani, in a psychiatric hospital, films at OCDF focuses on the influence of before she moved to the States. As she says seriously. However, Sepideh’s widowed mother diagnosed with bipolar disorder and suffering cinema on the public imagination, as well herself, she should have nothing in common is trying to make ends meet, and her uncle from inconsolable grief over the death of his as films of daily life that explore memories with American actor and comedian Jerry believes it is not the right occupation for a girl. pet fox – the star of his award-winning short of the past and hopes for the future. Lewis, but somehow she remembers her Tenderly observed and beautifully shot through The Raven and the Fox. His doctor encourages childhood as synonymous with his comedy with epic night sky scenes, this is a coming of him to move on and Mahmood starts to Supported by Small Media. career. Using clips from Jerry Lewis’ films, age story of a teenage Iranian that is uplifting make a new film: a donkey romance. But first Saeed-Vafa voices a melancholy, wry and and inspiring. Screening in partnership with Dochouse. Mahmood has to capture and tame another nostalgic text over images telling a larger fox… A loving portrait of a country where truck story about cinema culture in Iran before the Screening with drivers sit out at night in the parking lot to revolution. Screening with Iranian Ninja. ONE THOUSAND & ONE TEARDROPS watch their colleague’s award winning films Fateme Ahmadi / 2014 / Iran, UK / 17’ of animal fables.

Screening with THE RAVEN AND THE FOX Mahmood Kiyani Falavarjani / 2012 / Iran / 11’

Presented in partnership with UKIFF and IMVBox.

MY STOLEN REVOLUTION IRANIAN NINJA MY NAME IS NEGAHDAR JAMALI AND I MAKE Nahid Persson Sarvestani / 2013 / Sweden, Iran / 75’ Marjan Riahi / 2014 / Iran / 30’ / European Premiere WESTERNS Kamran Heidari / 2012 / Iran / 64’ Fri 20 June / 18:00 / Cinema Tent / UK Premiere Sat 21 June / 14:00 / Cinema Tent Sun 22 June / 13:00 / Cinema Tent / UK Premiere SPECIAL EVENTS

CELLULOID UNDERGROUND: In the aftermath of the Green Revolution of Starring Iran’s first female ninja, Khatereh The film follows director Negahdar Jamali, as he TALES OF CINEPHILIA FROM IRAN 2009–10, diasporic filmmaker Nahid Persson Jalilzadeh, this documentary follows her convinces his Shirazian village community to be Sat 21 June / 16:00 / Studio 2 Sarvestani, turns the camera on herself and as she trains a new generation of young the cast and crew of his new movie. This is not his Panel event with filmmakers and tries to understand the thirty-odd years that women. The ninjas practise their fight moves first Western and he has also made an Iranian special guests. have passed since she fled revolutionary in the forest as well as at the gym, leaping version of Tarzan whose protagonists adhere to See p33 for more information. Iran. She goes in search of her old activist out from behind trees in choreographed hijab dress code for men and women. Jamali’s friends whom she has not seen since. The film sequences that show the beauty as well passion for filmmaking provides an insight into IRANIAN NIGHTS culminates in an emotional reunion between as the discipline of the sport. While some male friendships and homosocial culture, as well Sat 21 June / 21:30 - midnight the friends. Meeting them again means that of the sportswomen are encouraged by as the ambiguous influence of Americana, as Cinema Tent Torrington Square Sarvestani must face her own romanticism their families, others face obstacles from a Negahdar and his friends keep making their film With live Iranian music and delicious and nostalgia for the past, as well as her patriarchal society. The sport becomes a against the odds and against his wife’s wishes. Persian food. struggle to understand it. metaphor for the struggle of the women, as This is a free event. See website for more details. they focus their minds and spirit to enjoy the Screening with freedom that comes with deep attention. WINDOW INTO TEHRAN Screening with Jerry & Me. Iman Behrouzi / 2013 / Iran / 16’

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CITY STORIES

Bright lights, big cities: Journey into the CAIRO DRIVE MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE DEMONSTRATION hidden places of the modern metropolis. Sherief Elkatsha / 2013 / Egypt / 77’ / Thur 19 June Marc Bauder / 2013 / Germany, Austria / 88’ Victor Kossakovsky & 32 Students / 2013 / Russia, Spain 20:30 / Hackney Picturehouse / UK Premiere Fri 20 June / 18:30 / ICA / UK Premiere 70’ / Sat 21 June / 20:00 / Cinema Tent / UK Premiere Supported by UCL Faculty of the Built Environment.

Shot between 2009 and 2012 (before and He was one of the leading investment bankers Directed by veteran Russian documentarist, during the Egyptian revolution, ending with in Germany, making profits of several million Victor Kossakovsky who collaborated with the most recent presidential elections), the Euros a day. Now, he sits on one of the upper 32 students on the Master of Creative film explores Egypts collective identity, the floors of a deserted skyscraper in the centre Documentary course at the Pompeu Fabra struggles and the sentiments that run through of Frankfurt. Through an extended mix of University in Barcelona to document the the historic changes taking place in the monologue and interview he leads us into a mass protest of 29 March, 2012, against the country today. For his third documentary, megalomanical parallel world where illusions Spanish government’s austerity plans. The Egyptian/American filmmaker Sherief Elkatsha are the market’s hardest currency. Where resulting film is an epic piece of cinema set rides through the congested streets alongside other films on the financial meltdown have to the ballet score of Ludwig Minkus’s Don a diverse cast of characters – from taxi drivers focused on the epic nature of larger-than-life Quixote which was playing at the Opera to ambulances, from traffic cops to private business, Bauder probes the mentality that House on the same day. Films like this are citizens, capturing the unspoken codes of made it possible in the first place. A tense often accused of depoliticising their subject conduct, frustrations, humor, fatalism, and drama where psychology meets finance – through their sublime aesthetic style. But life-or-death decisions of driving in a city things that are more closely linked than you like Bosch, Goya and Herzog, Kossakovsky is where the only rule is: there are no rules. would believe. making art from conflict.

SHADO’MAN SACRO GRA CASSE SAUERBRUCH HUTTON ARCHITECTS Boris Gerrets / 2013 / Netherlands, France / 87’ Gianfranco Rosi / 2013 / Italy / 93’ Nadège Trébal / 2013 / France / 87’ Harun Farocki / 2013 / Germany / 73’ Wed 18 June / 20:30 / ICA / UK Premiere Thur 19 June / 20:30 / Stratford East Picturehouse Sat 21 June / 16:00 / Birkbeck Cinema / UK Premiere Sun 22 June / 16:00 / ICA

At the junction of Lightfoot-Boston and The only documentary ever to win the top Every day, in a sprawling self-service Celebrated artist-filmmaker Harun Farocki’s Wilberforce in downtown Freetown, live a group prize at Venice Film Festival, Sacro GRA is a scrapyard on the outskirts of Paris, hundreds latest “direct-cinema film” results from three of friends calling themselves the “Freetown poetic and slyly humorous journey around the of men pick through the wreckage searching months spent in an architectural firm in Berlin, Streetboys”. They all have disabilities and from Grande Raccordo Anulare, Rome’s ring-road for salvageable parts. They have travelled following partners Matthias Sauerbruch early childhood have endured neglect and highway. Acclaimed filmmaker Gianfranco here from all over the world and, as they and Louisa Hutton as they and their team scorn from the world around them. With no Rosi gracefully observes the everyday lives of work, share stories of their difficult journeys to wrestle with ideas and their articulation. place to go but the bleak and unforgiving a gallery of intriguing characters living along Europe and reminisce about their respective Farocki’s typically minimalist study provides a city streets, they are condemned to a life of the highway’s edge. Beautifully crafted and homelands. Nadège Trebal’s beautifully fascinating and often humorous perspective poverty and hardship. Filmed entirely at night, deeply evocative, Sacro GRA is a repository of observed second feature documentary takes on architects and designers at work, giving Shado’man is a stark cinematic journey into the extraordinary stories of those at the edges us inside the maze of concrete and metal, tangible expression to a creative process that the nocturnal world of the Streetboys, finding in of the ever-expanding universe of Italy’s revealing a strange and diverse community is both fleeting and abstract. the shadows a story of resilience and strength eternal city. eking out a meagre living amid the debris, Screening in association with Publica. under the most difficult conditions. rust and grime.

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From web addiction in China to the HOAX_CANULAR VISIONARY LETTERS WEB JUNKIE rise of internet voodoo in Ghana, films Dominic Gagnon / 2013 / Canada / 95’ Louis Henderson / 2013 / France / 40’ Shosh Shlam, Hilla Medalia / 2013 / Israel, USA / 74’ chronicling the growing pains of the Thur 19 June / 20:30 / ICA / UK Premiere Fri 20 June / 22:00 / Cinema Tent / UK Premiere Sun 22 June / 15:00 / Cinema Tent digital generation.

Supported by UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences. Conquering fear by manufacturing scares: In Ghana, a strange new practice called China is one of the first countries in the world that’s what the teens in Hoax_Canular do with “sakawa” is on the rise; a bizarre combination to label Internet addiction a clinical disorder their webcams, unleashing rumours of the of internet scam and voodoo magic where with authorities now considering it a major end of the world. Dominic Gagnon continues young workers extract bank details and health threat to the nation’s youth. As a his work with amateur online videos and his personal data from scrapped computers and response, the Chinese Government have fourth instalment hits the cycle’s most serious, hard drives. A kind of reverse archaeological created treatment centres to deprogramme yet also lightest note. The teens in question mining, where the metals, which were initially and cure gaming obsessed teenagers of their give new meaning to online sharing; we exported to the West, now return in the form of online addictions. Web Junkie investigates life never know where parody ends and sincerity antiquated hardware. Henderson’s hypnotic inside one such centre, the Internet Addiction begins. Constructed as a countdown to the hybrid documentary blends ethnography with Treatment Centre in Daxing, following presumed end of the world, the film works as a 3D animation to evoke the unlikely interface three teens, their parents and the health profound reflection on how young people are between spiritism and technology at work professionals determined to help them kick appropriating media-stoked angst. Ultimately, in contemporary Ghana. Screening with Eugène their habit. With thanks to Dogwoof. their fear rituals are just another way to Gabana Le Pétrolier. envision the future.

EUGÈNE GABANA LE PÉTROLIER POPATHON JOANNA Camille Plagnet, Jeanne Delafosse 2013 / France / 59’ Sat 21 June / 18:30 / Studio 1 Aneta Kopacz / 2013 / Poland / 45’ Fri 20 June / 22:00 / Cinema Tent / UK Premiere Sun 22 June / 17:00 / Cinema Tent

Eugène Gabana, a young, bigmouthed Popathon hack jams bring together the Thanks to her blog, Joanna has become an hunchbacked Burkinabe “businessman”, lives strengths of different skills to create interactive icon to many people across Poland, a symbol off small-time scams that bring in just enough stories that are born on the web. In 48 hours of strength in the face of adversity. The blog to put food on the table and fuel in his brother’s digital storytellers, web developers and describes her daily life simply and honestly, motorbike for rides with friends. Camille Plagnet designers exchange skills, collaborate on recounting days spent with her family at the and Jeanne Delafosse return to Burkina Faso real-world projects and share their creations lake, the joy of seeing her son’s first successful to film a fictional history of adolescence that open-source. By making things together the bike ride and the day-to-day struggles of living takes the form of the daily struggle for survival organisers hope to help a shared vocabulary with terminal cancer. The blog first began in a heavily indebted poor country. His mobile emerge. In this session, Popathon organisers when she was diagnosed with cancer and phone, at first no more than a tradable object, Philovan Kemenade and Gilles Pradeau will given just three months to live. This tender reveals the teenager’s inner world when we see present insights from the past year of hacking portrait follows Joanna in her attempts to him on his straw mattress interminably chatting across Europe and showcase creations from prepare her family for a world without her in it. to a possible female conquest, “My eldest the most recent Popathon event, to be held in brother is an ambassador in Canada...” London in the run up to the festival. Screening with Screening with Visionary Letters. DAD’S STICK John Smith / UK / 6’

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A series of intimate meetings with FINDING VIVIAN MAIER KODACHROME MANAKAMANA extraordinary characters, from a John Maloof, Charlie Siskel / 2013 / USA / 83’ Collectif K-14 / 2012 / Belgium / 63’ / Sat 21 June Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez / 2013 / USA, Nepal punk impresario in Serbia to pilgrims Fri 20 June / 20:30 / ICA 15:00 / Hackney Picturehouse / UK Premiere 118’ / Sat 21 June / 20:30 / ICA in Nepal.

In 2007, filmmaker and amateur historian Saddened by the announcement of Kodak’s The latest work to emerge from the Harvard John Maloof unearthed a cache of over plans to retire Kodachrome, its oldest colour Sensory Ethnography Lab is a startling, 100,000 undeveloped films and negatives at film stock, a group of small gauge film one-of-a-kind documentary experience, a Chicago auction house. The collection was enthusiasts band together to shoot their last filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a eventually traced to Vivian Maier, a mysterious ever K-14 film. Bolex in hand, the friends set cable car transporting villagers to an ancient career nanny whose extraordinary body of out on a journey to Parsons, Kansas, home to mountaintop temple high above a jungle work has since earned her the reputation as the world’s last operational processing lab. in Nepal. Over the course of 11 trips - each one of America’s most accomplished and The resulting film is an intimate self-portrait of composed of a single static shot - Spray and insightful street photographers. In this riveting four friends with a shared passion, and a quiet Velez introduce us to new sets of passengers. documentary, John Maloof and Charlie Siskel hymn to a dying industry. Through their shared conversations, anecdotes, piece together Maier’s remarkable life and art observations about the surrounding landscape, through never before seen photographs, films, Screening with and even their silence, a detailed picture and interviews with dozens who thought they HOME MOVIE of their lives emerges; a story about history, knew her. With thanks to Soda Pictures. Caroline Pick / 2013 / UK / 17’ tradition and change. With thanks to Dogwoof. Screening in partnership with Dochouse. Screening in association with Edinburgh International Film Festival.

ZIVAN MAKES A PUNK FESTIVAL OLGA - TO MY FRIENDS STREAM OF LOVE Ognjen Glavonic / 2013 / Serbia / 63’ / Fri 20 June Paul Anders Simma / 2013 / Finland, Sweden, Norway Ágnes Sós / 2013 / Hungary / 70’ 20:30 / Hackney Picturehouse / UK Premiere 58’ / Sat 21 June / 18:00 / Cinema Tent / UK Premiere Sat 21 June / 20:30 / Birkbeck Cinema / UK Premiere

In his small village in Serbia, Zivan is an Some 1,000 miles north of Moscow, deep We cocoon ourselves in myths of difference outsider. He is a punk rocker poet about to in the Russian tundra, Olga lives alone in a – few less questioned than the fairytale that embark on his sixth year of making a punk reindeer herdsman’s cabin. She spends her sex was invented in the 1960s. In Ágnes Sós’s festival for the locals. With an even bigger days watching over the food rations that the touching film, a group of octogenarian goal than previous years, bringing a band herdsmen rely on for survival through the Transylvanian villagers tell us how it was, and is, from Slovakia, Zivan is faced with the same summer months. Olga has lived in the cabin for them. Her straight-talking, giggling, ribald old problems. Not enough money, not since she was a teenager, and it’s the only place characters open their hearts and their lives to enough time, and most importantly, not she’s ever called home, so when her brigade us, reminding us that, in some ways at least, enough audience members. Despite his best is threatened with closure, Olga stands to lose we never really grow old. “I’ve been mad for intentions and dogged determination, Zivan much more than just a job. Paul Anders Simma’s love and kissing all my life”, says one elderly has to face the reality that the world might poetic portrait elegantly captures a quiet life of dame, “I still am.” With thanks to Taskovski Films. not be ready for his punk festival. solitude which suddenly comes under threat.

Screening with Screening with I’M LONELY DOWN HERE ELVIS WINTER Anne Hovad Fischer / 2014 / UK / 31’ Cristina Picchi / 2013 / Russian Federation / 12’

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Films testing the limits of our science IBOGA NIGHTS THE SPECIAL NEED PARTICLE FEVER and our knowledge: exploring the David Graham Scott / 2013 / UK / 98’ Carlo Zoratti / 2013 / Italy, Germany / 84’ Mark Levinson / 2013 / USA / 99’ realms of fear that both knowledge Thur 19 June / 18:00 / Cinema Tent Fri 20 June / 20:00 / Cinema Tent / UK Premiere Sun 22 June / 13:30 / Bloomsbury Theatre and its absence give birth to.

Supported by New Scientist and UCL Faculty Iboga is a rainforest shrub and psychedelic Enea is autistic and looking for love. He has How could there be anything fresh to say of Population and Health Sciences. that has been used for generations in West no trouble approaching girls but struggles about the Higgs boson, the subatomic African possession rituals. Today in Europe, with making a connection. His two best particle whose 2012 discovery has delivered a burgeoning movement promotes iboga friends, Alex and Carlo, decide to take Enea a Nobel prize, a shelfload of popular books, as a quick fix route to painless withdrawal on a road trip to discover his sexuality, but an outstanding Science Museum exhibition from heroin addiction. In a Dutch suburb along the way the trio learn more about the and even a zombie movie and a rap song? several addicts embark on the long night of comedy and tragedy in human relationships Filming over nearly five years, physicist- psychedelic detox under the watchful eye than they had first expected.The Special turned-filmmaker Mark Levinson pulls it off in a of an experienced iboga practitioner. One Need is a tender and funny portrait of a remarkable documentary that focuses on the client collapses and ends up on life-­support. friendship, traversing the roads of Europe “ordinary” lab technicians and theoreticians The provider is jailed. David Graham Scott in search of happiness. Supported by the Italian who make CERN tick. (Detox or Die) investigates how truly effective, Cultural Institute. or dangerous, iboga is. Explicitly filmed from With Nima Arkani-Hamed, whose family the drug-­user’s point of view, this is fascinating escaped revolutionary Iran and found solace and challenging viewing. in theoretical physics, Monica Dunford, a chatty postdoc who likes nothing better than getting stuck in with a wrench, and Fabiola Gianotti, the former philosopher turned spokeswoman for one of the two major Higgs-hunting experiments. The film manages to capture the thrill of those caught up in this great race to discovery.

Followed by panel with UCL scientists and other members of the ATLAS experimental RICH PICKINGS PRESENTS: REWIRING THE BODY SILENT SIGNAL: EXPLORING BIOMEDICAL team, including Jon Butterworth, Nikos Fri 20 June / 19:00 / Studio 2 SCIENCE THROUGH ART Konstantinidis, Rebecca Chislett (UCL Sun 22 June / 14:00 / Studio 1 & ATLAS) and cosmologist Hiranya Peiris. Supported by UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences.

Can technology fundamentally change the Arts agency Animate Projects has been physical nature of humanity, and has it already developing a project with six artist and scientist done so? This programme of short films looks at pairs to create animations exploring the the rapidly changing relationship between the networked worlds of organic communication. human body and technological development. Animated documentary makers Ellie Land From cyborgs to bionic eyes to 3D printed and Samantha Moore were both selected exoskeletons, these films blur the borders for the project and have been paired with between science and fiction as traditional Dr Peter Oliver (University of Oxford) and Dr boundaries of the body are crossed. The Serge Mostowy (Imperial College London) films will be interspersed with discussion from respectively. These collaborative duos will talk filmmakers and experts in the field. For the full about their experience of developing their programme see www.richpicks.org individual projects, chaired by Abigail Addison In partnership with Cork Film Festival. from Animate Projects. Visit www.silentsignal.org Silent Signal is supported by the Wellcome Trust.

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Do we have a grip on our moment JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY IN THE SHADOW OF WAR ECOCIDE - VOICES FROM PARADISE in history? Five films in which people Eszter Hajdú / 2013 / Hungary, Germany / 107’ Georgia & Sophia Scott / 2014 / UK / 88’ Juliet Brown / 2014 / UK / 57’ confront the machinery of states or Wed 18 June / 20:30 / Clapham Picturehouse Sat 21 June / 14:30 / Bloomsbury Theatre Sat 21 June / 17:00 / Bloomsbury Theatre corporations running out of control, and seek ways to regain control of their lives. In 2008 and 2009, a small group of right Four young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, wing extremists carried out a series of struggle to survive a war which ended 18 the blaze claimed the lives of 11 workers and Supported by Faculties of Arts, Humanities, apparently random, vicious attacks on Gypsy years ago - ­when they were just babies, or not the uncapped well gushed for 87 days, pouring Social and Historical Sciences. communities in Hungary. Six died, including a even born. Like thousands of other children an estimated 4.2 million barrels of oil into the five-­year-­old boy, while the Hungarian police born at the end of the war in Bosnia, Ilija, sea. The accident occurred 100 miles from insisted on treating these deaths as Roma Ante, Magdalena and Elvis have grown up in Grand Isle, the last inhabited barrier island off on Roma, mafia-­style killings. After the likely orphanages or live with parents suffering from the coast of Louisiana. Taking a look inside perpetrators were arrested, Eszter Hajdú spent post-­traumatic stress disorder. The film follows the island community, Juliet Brown reveals two and a half years following their trial. Her them as they grapple with turning 18 -­ coming the devastating repercussions of the worst claustrophobic courtroom drama, dominated to terms with how they were conceived, man-made environmental disaster in US history. by a comically irascible judge, reveals far attempting to rebuild broken relationships Presented in partnership with Women in Film & Television UK. more about Hungary than many a picture and trying to heal mental and physical scars. with a broader canvas. Compelling and The Scotts show the transgenerational Screening with revelatory filmmaking. consequences of this, the first truly modern war. AN ALL ENCOMPASSING LIGHT Chloe White / 2014 / UK / 20’

WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL? BEFORE THE REVOLUTION OPEN ACCESS Marc Silver / 2013 / UK, Mexico / 85’ Dan Shadur, Barak Heymann / 2013 / Israel / 60’ Volodymyr Tykhyy, Serhiy Andrushko, Jeanne Fri 20 June / 20:30 / Clapham Picturehouse Sat 21 June / 16:00 / Studio 1 Dovhych, Dmytro Konovalov, Dmytro Tiazhlov Ukraine / 2013 / 98’ Sat 21 June / 18:30 / Omnibus Clapham A decomposing body of an illegal immigrant During the 60s and 70s thousands of Israelis is found by an American patrol in the lived in Tehran, enjoying a special relationship desert near the US-Mexico border. With no with the Shah and his dictatorial rule. Protected This film digs deep into the paradoxes of documents, the body is transferred to the by large arms deals and complex financial modern Ukraine. Declared amongst the world’s Arizona Medical Examiner’s office, whose ties, the Israeli community enjoyed a wealthy most corrupt states in 2013, in the same year forensic team set about trying to confirm his and luxurious lifestyle, failing to note that the a law “On Access to Public Information” was identity. Their investigation is intercut with corrupt and despised ruling power to which passed, permitting individuals to request producer Gael Garcia Bernal’s recreation of they were connected was rotting from within. previously inaccessible information from state the deceased man’s possible journey to the By the time they understood that their “Iranian authorities. Filmed by five directors,Open US. As he travels with migrant workers on their Paradise” was turning into hell, it was almost Access follows individual civil rights activists way to a better life, Bernal experiences the too late. Using remarkable archive footage, across the country who, in their struggle to awaiting dangers first hand, and learns about interviews with diplomats, Mossad agents invoke the new law, helped bring the corrupt, migrants’ motivations for making this perilous and businessmen, the directors reveal a new authoritarian regime of Viktor Yanukovych to trek. Who Is Dayani Cristal? poignantly reveals perspective on the revolution that changed an end. If you want to begin to understand the human cost of the US war on immigration. the world. what is at stake for Ukrainians today, this is With thanks to Pulse Films the place to start.

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16:00 16:00 16:00 BRITDOC 16:00 16:00 Before 16.00 Celluloid 16:00 16:30 Presents: How to 16:30 BAFTA the Revolution Underground Casse (p13) Get Funding (p33) Masterclass: (p21) (p33) 17:00 17:00 Mike Eley 17: 00 (p31) 15:00 17:30 17:30 Ecocide Kodachrome Voices from (p17) 18:00 18:00 Paradise (p21) 18:00 18:00 18:00 18:00 In the Dark Once I 18:30 My Stolen 18:30 Olga - To my (p33) Entered a Revolution (p10) 18:30 Friends (p17) 18: 30 Garden (p8) 18:30 (p29) 18:30 19:00 Master of 19:00 Popathon Shorts: LSFF Open Access 19:00 19:00 Rich The Universe (p13) (p15) Retrospective (p21) 19:30 The Details (p8) Pickings Rewiring 19:30 the Body (p18) 19:30 20:00 20:00 Sepideh - 20:00 Reaching 20:00 20:30 The Special Need 20:30 for the Stars Demonstration (p19) 20:30 20:30 20:30 (p11) (p13) 20:30 20:30 21:00 Finding Vivian Zivan Makes a Who is Dayani 21:00 Stream Manakamana 21: 00 Maier (p16) Punk Festival (p16) Crystal? (p20) of Love (p17) (p17) 21:30 Avenge But One 21:30 of My Two Eyes (p8) 21:30 22:00 22:00 Iranian Nights 22.00 (p11) 22:30 Eugène Gabana 22:30 Le Pétrolier, (p14) 23:00 Visionary Letters 23:00 (p15)

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24 SCHEDULE SCHEDULE 25 SUNDAY 22 JUNE MYSTREET TELL US A STORY WE’VE NEVER HEARD BEFORE. TELL US A STORY IN A TEN MINUTE FILM. TELL US WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON. The Cinema Tent Studio 1 Studio 2 Birkbeck ICA Bloomsbury Cinema MyStreet is an invitation to research, shoot Theatre and share a short documentary about the things you find interesting.

12:00 12:00 MyStreet is an online film channel and 12:30 In the Mind of the Artist (p32) competition created in 2011 by Open City 13:00 Docs. All submitted films are available online 13:00 My Name 13:00 and create the MyStreet community – an 13:30 Is Negahdar Masterclass: 13:30 Jamali and I Make Penny Woolcock ever-­evolving slice of life, linked to the MyStreet 14:00 Particle Fever Westerns (p11) (p31) map, searchable by postcode or town. (p19) 14:00 Animate 14:00 Scottish 14:30 Projects Presents Documentary Silent Signal (p19) Showcase (p34) It’s where you are, who you are and how 15:00 you live: your place on the map. 15:00 15:00 Web Junkie (p15) After War (p34) 15:30 Special news: In 2014 we launch MyStreet

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26 SCHEDULE MYSTREET 27 SHORTS SHORTS PROGRAMME: INSIDERS SHORTS PROGRAMME: AGAINST ALL ODDS LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS Wed 18 June / 18:00 / Cinema Tent Thur 19 June / 16:00 / Cinema Tent DAVID LEISTER & LUCY HARRIS: THROUGH A LENS DARKLY Sat 21 June / 18.30 / ICA Meet individuals who find themselves at the The young protagonists of this programme mercy of greater forces as they attempt to face grown-­up challenges on the path to fathom, interpret and resist outside influences. achieve their professional goals and make The 16mm films in this programme occupy the their parents proud. spaces between a photograph, a document NOTES ON BLINDNESS (image) and a film, and celebrate this medium. They Peter Middleton & James Spinney / UK / 2014 / 12’ THE QUEEN (image) explore and document both exterior and Manuel Abramovich / 2013 / Argentina / 18’ interior landscapes, personal and cultural THE GERMAN WHO CAME TO TEA histories, where the film becomes a blend of Kerry Kolbe / UK / 2013 / 9’ DOWN THE LINE experience and observation. These films hover James Ewen / 2013 / UK / 9’ on the edge of the frame, using multiple film THE PORT techniques to present an altered perspective Rory Alexander Stewart / UK / 2013 / 18’ CHIKARA: THE SUMO WRESTLER’S SON vision of our surroundings. This selection Simon Lereng Wilmont / 2013 / Denmark / 32’ presents individual and collaborative works THIS LITTLE PLACE IN GOSPEL OAK by David Leister and Lucy Harris. Alex Osman / UK / 2013 / 7’ OPENING Andrey Hristozov / 2013 / Bulgaria / 29’ CROSSING POINTS (image) A POLITE REVOLUTION Lucy Harris / 2012 / 14’ Oonagh Cousins / UK / 2013 / 15’ PAINTING THE TOWN VISIONS OF ALBION David Leister / 1999 / 6’ Matt Hopkins / UK / 2013 / 10’ CREMER ANALOGUE PEOPLE IN A DIGITAL AGE David Leister & Lucy Harris / 2013 / 8’ Keith Walsh / Ireland / 2013 / 14’ MEDICINE BOX David Leister / 2004 / 11’ HARVARD SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHY LAB Sat 21 June / 13:30 / Birkbeck Cinema SIDEWAYS Lucy Harris / 2006 / 3’

Since the release of Leviathan in 2012, The Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) has been the talk of the documentary world. An experimental laboratory at Harvard University directed by anthropologist- filmmaker Lucien Castaing-Taylor, SEL seek to promote innovative combinations of aesthetics and ethnography, and over the past few years SEL have produced some of the most groundbreaking works in documentary film, includingSweetgrass (2009), Foreign Parts (2010) and Peoples Park (2012). To accompany our screening of their most recent feature Manakamana, Open City Docs Fest presents an eclectic selection of rarely seen short films produced by artists working within SEL.

28 SHORTS SHORTS 29 OPEN CITY DOCS SCHOOL EVENTS MASTERCLASSES NURTURING A NEW GENERATION BAFTA MASTERCLASS ON CINEMATOGRAPHY: OF DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS MIKE ELEY Sat 21 June / 16:00 / Cinema Tent

AHRC FILM SCREENING Wed 18 June / 15:00 / Cinema Tent BAFTA presents a craft masterclass with award-­winning cinematographer Mike Eley. Eley has worked with some of Britain’s greatest Screening of short films made by AHRC-­funded directors including Adam Curtis (Pandora’s students as part of the Open City Docs / UCL Box and The Living Dead), Ken Loach Collaborative Doctoral Training Scheme (The Navigators) and Kevin MacDonald This is a free event. (Touching The Void and Marley). More recently, Eley has shot Parade’s End for BBC/HBO and worked with director Clio Barnard on GRIERSON TRUST PRESENTS: YOUTH DAY her second feature The Selfish Giant. In this Thur 19 June / Cinema Tent BAFTA Masterclass, Eley will discuss his prolific career behind the camera and explore the craft of cinematography. A day of documentary film-­related activities for 75 local school pupils including talks from industry professionals, a screening plus director Q&A and a practical filmmaking workshop. This is a closed event. Funded by the Grierson Trust.

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Penny Woolcock (1 Day, One Mile Away, In support of our retrospective of his films at From the Sea to the Land Beyond, The Death this year’s festival, Avi Mograbi will be holding of Klinghoffer) is an award-­winning filmmaker a masterclass discussing his working practice, and opera director. In conversation with Peter operating at the intersection of documentary Symes, Woolcock will discuss the constant and artists’ moving image. Mograbi will failures and disasters that have attended the analyse in depth a selection of scenes from daily reality of her life as a working filmmaker. his films and discuss his unique approach Terrible viewings, disastrous box office figures, to filmmaking. death threats, contributors feeling let down, hanging around in cheap hotels for months with a small bar of soap for company and so on and on. “You learn nothing from disaster because the same thing never happens twice. All you learn is resilience.” Following this masterclass, we’re delighted to be presenting a special screening of Penny Woolcock’s latest film Going to the Dogs. See website for more details.

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A chance to hear from the filmmakers of Luke Moody, Film and Distribution A very special opportunity to explore the Open City Docs Fest 2014 about their Manager at BRITDOC Foundation, will themes of the Cinemadoosti: Documenting inspirations, working practice and upcoming give a whirlwind introduction to new models Iran strand (see p9–11) in more depth with projects. Join us for a quick fire round of and sources of funding for short and feature Iranians in discussion about their love for presentations from the filmmakers we are documentaries. This session will also demystify cinema and filmmaking. With clips of films, showcasing at this year’s festival. the process of pitching proposals in formal Iranian filmmakers that are participating This is a free event. and informal settings. in the festival and expert guest speakers including Ehsan Khoshbakht (journalist), the London-­based film and media partnership HarryAmir (Harry Amies and Amir Rezazadeh) Marjan Riahi (filmmaker) and Reza Haeri (filmmaker).Check website for more details of speakers as they are announced.

FINDING THE NARRATIVE IN MUSIC DOCUMENTARY HOW TO GET YOUR FILM IN FRONT OF AUDIENCES DOCUTHERAPY IN THE DARK PRESENTS THE DARK ROOM Thur 19 June / 16:00 / Studio 2 Fri 20 June / 14:00 / Cinema Tent Sat 21 June / 14:00 / Studio 1 Sat 21 June / 18:00 / Studio 2

Pulse Films has produced and released a With an ever-­changing industry, when it The director’s relationship with the contributor Bring your work in progress (8 minutes series of critically acclaimed films which comes to getting their film out into the world, can have uncomfortable similarities with max) for a constructive crit with a panel of include Who is Dayani Cristal? starring filmmakers have more options open to the therapist’s relationship with their patient: radio producers and a friendly crowd to Gael Garcia Bernal (p20), 20,000 Days on them than ever before. The panel will assess both probe into difficult areas, prompting help develop your audio. This is a creative Earth with Nick Cave, and The Possibilities the current landscape of documentary an examination of often painful, traumatic gathering where you can share your ideas Are Endless with singer/songwriter Edwyn dissemination including festivals, theatrical experiences, but they do so to very different and independent projects, however Collins. Having produced the seminal LCD distribution and online distribution/VOD. ends. Filmmakers Olly Lambert (My Child the developed, with like-minded producers. Soundsystem filmShut Up and Play the Speakers will include representatives from Rioter and Mum and Dad are Splitting Up) In The Dark is a collaborative project between Hits and the record breaking Katy Perry Dogwoof, Taskovski Films, Vimeo and and Tony Dowmunt (course convenor, MA a new generation of radio producers and documentary, Part of Me, Pulse has a deep DOK Leipzig. Screen Documentary at Goldsmiths) and radio enthusiasts. We aim to create a rooted history in music documentary. In this psychotherapist Andrew Samuels discuss mini-revolution in the way people think discussion, the panel will ask what takes a their experiences, and look at what happens about spoken-word radio by lifting it out of music documentary beyond the conventions when the two roles have been dangerously or its traditional settings and celebrating it in of the genre to become a cinematic unethically blurred. Chaired by Jen Kerrison new and exciting ways. This is a free event. experience looking at how to use scripting (Resonance FM’s Group Therapy). and collaborative filmmaking to bring the audience inside the world of their music idols.

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IN THE MIND OF THE ARTIST AFTER WAR Come along to our networking events BORDER CROSSINGS - ­STORIES IN SEARCH Sun 22 June / 12:00 / Studio 1 Sun 22 June / 15:00 / Studio 2 and parties for plenty of opportunities OF AN AUTHOR for mingling and meeting new people. Wed 18 June / 13:00 / UCL

Making documentary films about artists As we approach the centenary of the contains an inherent problem. The First World War, and in the year our troops Border Crossings is a speed-dating style imaginative space that some artists inhabit withdraw from Afghanistan, this event brings networking event for filmmakers and can be so extreme that any film is likely to be together veterans, psychologists, historians academics looking to collaborate. eclipsed by the subject matter. So how do and journalists to discuss the trauma of war you make a documentary that matches the and its legacy – post-traumatic stress disorder • Interested in exploring how your film skills subject, and better still, how can your telling (PTSD). The panel will look at the history of PTSD could make UCL research accessible to bring something new to the subject and and show how the way it has been reported, wider audiences? end up being a work of art in its own right? understood, and responded to over the last • Interested in the role that an academic Nick Abrahams, Toby Amies and Barney 100 years has changed dramatically. Scenes project might have in inspiring your work? Snow, three filmmakers who have swum in from documentaries and training videos will be • Excited by the possibility of collaborating these waters, will discuss approaches to this accompanied by readings from war poetry and with some of the world’s leading scholars? endeavour using their own work and bringing other written accounts. Participants include Jake other examples to the table. Wood, veteran and Author of Among You, Derek We’re launching a £5,000 development Eland, official war artist embedded with the British fund for the most exciting and viable project Army in Helmand, Afghanistan 2011. The event to come out of Border Crossings. Teams will be chaired by Stuart Hughes, BBC News. will be invited to pitch at a special event in September 2014. To find out more and to express interest in participation please contact Chloe Trayner at Open City Docs Fest, [email protected], with a short paragraph detailing your interest in this initiative.

Deadline for expression of interest is 3 June 2014. Attendance for this event is by invitation only. SCOTTISH DOCUMENTARY INSTITUTE SHOWCASE DOCHOUSE PRESENTS Sun 22 June / 14:00 / Birkbeck Cinema DOWN BY LAW: A WORK IN PROGRESS With thanks to UCL Grand Challenges. Sun 22 June / 16:00 / Birkbeck Cinema

Scottish Documentary Institute is an George Amponsah will discuss the ups and internationally recognised documentary downs of making an independently financed, research centre based at Edinburgh College politically charged documentary feature in of Art specialised in documentary training, the UK. He will show clips from the rough cut of production and distribution. An organisation his new film in this informal seminar.Down by built on filmmaking run by filmmakers. Join Law is a compelling and timely observational them for a showcase of short films from their documentary following several years in the lives back catalogue followed by conversation with of two of the closest friends of Mark Duggan, the filmmakers, moderated by Jenny Horwell the man whose death at the hands of armed (DocHouse). Films will include: Ma Bar police sparked the UK riots in 2011. The film (Finlay Pretsell), Twinset (Amy Rose), Pouters charts the efforts to go straight of former (Paul Fegan), Swallow (Genevieve Bicknell) Tottenham gang members Marcus and Kurtis and Nae Pasaran (Felipe Bustos Sierra). as they deal with bereavement, imprisonment and poverty, and whilst waiting for a sense of Scottish justice for their dead friend. Documentary Institute

34 PANEL EVENTS NETWORKING EVENTS 35 We are delighted to partner on DOCHOUSE five fabulous films and events that AT OPEN CITY enlighten, challenge and inspire.

DOC HEADS MEMBERSHIP LONDON LAUNCH PARTY SHOOTING PEOPLE PARTY Wed 18 June / 20:00 / Cinema Tent Thur 19 June / 20:00 / Cinema Tent FINDING VIVIAN MAIER Fri 20 June / 8.30pm / ICA Doc Heads will be presenting a selection of Shooting People require you to let your hair Piecing together the remarkable story of the best short documentary films curated from fully down, and get your knees fully up for one of the greatest street photographers, this year’s Open City Docs Fest submissions their Thursday night party. Shooting People the New York nanny Vivian Maier. to launch their new membership scheme. is an online community offering services The screening will be followed by informal to the independent film industry but offline JUDGEMENT IN HUNGARY chat, drinks & DJs. Doc Heads is a screening, networking is more fun, so join them in the networking & funding organisation for Cinema Tent for drinks and tunes from 8pm. Wed 18 June / 8.30pm / professional independent documentary This is a free event. Clapham Picturehouse filmmakers in London. They curate programmes A revelatory courtroom drama recording the of high-quality documentary shorts, with trial of right wing extremists after a series of each filmmaker being a part of all their vicious attacks on Roma communities. events. Formed in 2009 by four London-based filmmakers, Doc Heads has rapidly expanded to become London’s leading forum for documentary filmmakers. Check website for list of films showing. SEPIDEH: REACHING FOR THE STARS Sat 21 June / 7.30pm / Bloomsbury Theatre The tender and inspiring portrait of an Iranian teenage girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut.

SCOTTISH DOCUMENTARY INSTITUTE SHOWCASE UNDERWIRE FORUM DINNER DFG NETWORKING BRUNCH Wed 18 June / 19:00 Sat 21 June / 12:00 / Cinema Tent Sun 22 June / 2pm / Birkbeck Cinema Join the SDI at a showcase of their best shorts, followed by a conversation with Underwire, the short film festival showcasing Come and meet fellow filmmakers over coffee the filmmakers. shorts by women, hosts an intimate dinner for and pastries at the Documentary Filmmakers female documentary filmmakers, and invites Group’s Saturday Brunch. This is a free event. Jeanie Finlay (Sound It Out, The Great Hip-Hop Hoax, Orion: The Man Who Would Be King) to share her experiences and advice. We want DOWN BY LAW: A WORK IN PROGRESS you to talk about your work, what problems you might be facing in progressing in your Sun 22 June / 4pm / Birkbeck Cinema career, and together we will set goals for Showing clips from his rough cut, George Amponsah the new year. To apply for one of only seven discusses making this independently funded film places, email [email protected]. featuring Mark Duggan’s closest friends.

DocHouse is a year-round showcase of international documentary at cinemas for across our weeklyLondon. programme. www.dochouse.org 36 NETWORKING EVENTS Visit DIRECTORY 37

DH_OpenCityDocs_Ad_Apr14_v6.indd 1 30/04/2014 18:15 OPEN CITY PARTIES CINEMA TENT HIGHLIGHTS VILLAGE OPENING NIGHT PARTY IN CINEMA TENT The Cinema Tent hosts film screenings and Tues 17 June / 21:00 workshops throughout the festival week, The Open City Village on Torrington with highlights including Iboga Nights (p18) on Square is a pop-up village made Come and celebrate after our Gala screening Thursday at 16:00, My Stolen Revolution (p10) specially for the festival with you, as its of Auction House and mark the opening night on Friday at 18:00, Demonstration (p13) on citizens, bringing it to life. At the Open of the pop-up Open City Village. Saturday at 20:00 and Web Junkie (p15) City Village you will find the bespoke on Sunday afternoon 15:30. Cinema Tent by The Lost Pictureshow, See Festival Schedule on centre pages for the Open City Docs Bar and Cafe, DOC HEADS MEMBERSHIP LONDON LAUNCH PARTY all listings in Cinema Tent for the week. food, live music and parties. Wed 18 June / 20:00 / Cinema Tent

See p36 for more details. OPEN CITY DOCS BAR

The OCD Bar is full of wondrous drinks SHOOTING PEOPLE PARTY including the return of our bespoke OCDF Thur 19 June / 20:00 / Cinema Tent cocktail The Poetic Truth.

See p36 for more details. BAR OPENING TIMES: Tues 17 June: 21:00–00:00 Opening Night Wed 18 June: 19:00–00:00 IRANIAN NIGHTS Thur 19 June: 19:00–00:00 Sat 21 June / 21:30–00:00 Fri 20 June: 17:00–00:00 Sat 21 June: 14:00–00:00 Iranian Nights celebrates the Cinemadoosti: Sun 22 June: 14:00–00:00 Closing Night Documenting Iran (p9–11) strand of films, with delicious Persian food to awaken the senses and live music. This is a free event. LIVE MUSIC

Fri 20 June & Sat 21 June OPEN CITY DOCS FEST AWARDS CEREMONY Sun 22 June / 20:30–21:30 / Cinema Tent Come and listen to live acoustic sets in association with Green Door / Brainchild, The Open City Docs Fest award ceremony will London musicians playing in the village bring filmmakers, jurors, industry and public square in between the screenings. together to hear the announcements of the Check website for exact times and acts. winners of the 2014 festival. See p3 for full list of nominees and jurors.

Followed by CLOSING PARTY 21:30–Midnight

Celebrate with the award-winning filmmakers.

38 OPEN CITY VILLAGE OPEN CITY VILLAGE 39 UPCOMING COURSES INCLUDE:

INTENSIVE FILMMAKING COURSE WITH SANDHYA SURI 30 June - ­18 July 2014

Make a short documentary in three weeks with tutor Sandhya Suri (director, I for India). During the course, participants will learn to use broadcast-­quality cameras and editing Open City Docs School offers a software - ­they will also develop their research, range of evening and weekend pitching and interview skills. courses, covering practical filmmaking skills as well as the theory and history of documentary. DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLING WITH CATALIN BRYLLA Autumn 2014

Over five evenings, learn the art of telling stories through documentary film. Sessions will cover topics such as point-of-view, narration and the interview, and will include discusssions of how theoretical concepts relate to formal considerations in documentary filmmaking. This course is aimed at documentary practitioners, students, and people who are simply passionate about non-fiction films.

EDITING ON ADOBE PREMIERE PRO FOR BEGINNERS WITH BEN POLLARD Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 July 2014

A short practical course on how to use the industry standard Adobe Premiere Pro editing software. Students will learn to use many of the common features of the software by editing a mini practice project, and are encouraged to bring along some of their own footage to work on (this could be anything from iPhone footage to professionally shot camerawork). The weekend will be a mixture of short lectures followed by supervised editing time.

Check website for full details and prices: www.opencitydocsfest.com/courses

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TITLE DIRECTOR(S) YEAR COUNTRY DUR STRAND P TITLE DIRECTOR(S) YEAR COUNTRY DUR STRAND P

A Polite Revolution Oonagh Cousins 2013 UK 15’ Shorts 28 My Name Is Negahdar Kamran Heidari 2013 Iran 17’ Cinemadoosti 11 An All Encompassing Light Chloe White 2014 UK 20’ Shots 21 Jamali and I Make Westerns Analogue People in My Stolen Revolution Nahid Persson Sarvestani 2013 Sweden, Iran 75’ Cinemadoosti 10 Keith Walsh 2013 Ireland 14’ Shorts 28 a Digital Age Peter Middleton, Notes on Blindness 2014 UK 13’ Shorts 28 August: A Moment Before James Spinney Avi Mograbi 2002 Israel 72’ Avi Mograbi 7 the Eruption Finland, Sweden, Olga - To My Friends Paul-Anders Simma 2013 58’ Portraits 17 Avenge But One of My Norway Avi Mograbi 2005 Israel 100’ Avi Mograbi 8 Two Eyes Once I Entered a Garden Avi Mograbi 2012 Israel 97’ Avi Mograbi 8 Dan Shadur, One Thousand Before the Revolution 2013 Israel 60’ Just Society 21 Fateme Ahmadi 2014 Iran, UK 17’ Cinemadoosti 11 Barak Heymann & One Teardrops Cairo Drive Sherief Elkatsha 2013 Egypt 77’ City Stories 12 Volodymyr Tykhyy, Serhiy Andrushko, Jeanne Casse Nadège Trébal 2013 France 90’ City Stories 13 Open Access 2013 Ukraine 98’ Just Society 21 Dovhych, Dmytro Chikara: The Sumo Simon Lereng Wilmont 2013 Denmark 32’ Shorts 29 Konovalov, Dmytro Tiazhlov Wrestler's Son Opening Andrey Hristozov 2013 Bulgaria 29’ Shorts 29 Closing Gala/ Children 404 Pavel Loparev, Askold Kurov 2014 Russia 70’ 5 Painting the Town David Leister 1999 UK 6’ Shorts 29 Digital Natives Particle Fever Mark Levinson 2013 USA 99’ Science Friction 19 Cremer David Leister, Lucy Harris 2013 UK 8’ Shorts 29 Sacro GRA Gianfranco Rosi 2013 Italy 93’ City Stories 12 Crossing Points Lucy Harris 2012 UK 14’ Shorts 29 Sauerbruch Hutton Harun Farocki 2013 Germany 73’ City Stories 13 Dad's Stick John Smith 2012 UK 6’ Shorts 15 Architects Denmark, Norway, Victor Kossakovsky Sepideh - Reaching Demonstration 2013 Russia, Spain 70’ City Stories 13 Berit Madsen 2013 Sweden, Germany, 90’ Cinemadoosti 11 & 32 students for the Stars Iran Down the Line James Ewen 2013 UK 9’ Shorts 29 Netherlands, Ecocide - Voices Shado'man Boris Gerrets 2013 87’ City Stories 12 Juliet Brown 2014 UK 57’ Just Society 21 France from Paradise Sideways Lucy Harris 2006 UK 3’ Shorts 29 Eugène Gabana Jeanne Delafosse, 2014 France 59’ Digital Natives 14 Le Pétrolier Camille Plagnet Stream of Love Ágnes Sós 2013 Hungary 70’ Portraits 17 The Auction House: Opening Gala/ Finding Vivian Maier John Maloof, Charlie Siskel 2013 USA 83’ Portraits 16 Edward Owles 2014 UK, India 85’ 5 A Tale of Two Brothers Portraits Hoax_Canular Dominic Gagnon 2013 Canada 95’ Digital Natives 14 The German Who Home Movie Caroline Pick 2013 UK 17’ Shorts 17 Kerry Kolbe 2013 UK 9’ Shorts 28 Came to Tea I'm Lonely Down Here Elvis Anne Hovad Fischer 2014 UK 31’ Shorts 16 The Port Rory Alexander Stewart 2013 UK 18’ Shorts 28 Iboga Nights David Graham Scott 2013 UK 98’ Science Friction 18 The Queen Manuel Abramovich 2013 Argentina 18’ Shorts 29 Georgia Scott, In the Shadow of War 2014 UK 88’ Just Society 21 Mahmood Kiyani Sophia Scott The Raven and the Fox 2012 Iran 11’ Cinemadoosti 11 Falavarjani Iranian Ninja Marjan Riahi 2014 Iran 30’ Cinemadoosti 10 The Special Need Carlo Zoratti 2013 Germany, Italy 84’ Science Friction 19 Jerry & Me Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa 2012 Iran, USA 38’ Cinemadoosti 10 This Little Place in Gospel Oak Alexander Osman 2013 UK 7’ Shorts 28 Joanna Aneta Kopacz 2013 Poland 40’ Digital Natives 15 Trucker and the Fox Arash Lahooti 2013 Iran 78’ Cinemadoosti 11 Judgment in Hungary Eszter Hajdú 2013 Hungary, Germany 107’ Just Society 20 Visionary Letters Louis Henderson 2013 France 40’ Digital Natives 15 Collectif K-14 (d'Agathe Visions of Albion Matthew Hopkins 2013 UK 11’ Shorts 28 Corniquet, Julien Doigny, Web Junkie Shosh Shlam, Hilla Medalia 2013 Israel 74’ Digital Natives 15 Kodachrome Nicolas Lebecque, 2012 Belgium 63’ Portraits 17 Thyl Mariage, Lydie Who is Dayani Cristal? Marc Silver 2013 UK, Mexico 85’ Just Society 20 Wisshaupt-Claudel) Iman Behrouzi, Window Into Tehran 2012 Iran 17’ Cinemadoosti 11 Stephanie Spray, Hosein Ahmadian Manakamana 2013 USA, Nepal 118’ Portraits 17 Pacho Velez Winter Cristina Picchi 2014 UK 12' Shorts 17 Master of The Universe Marc Bauder 2013 Austria, Germany 88’ City Stories 13 Z32 Avi Mograbi 2008 Israel 81’ Avi Mograbi 7 Medicine Box David Leister 2004 UK 11’ Shorts 29 Zivan Makes a Punk Festival Ognjen Glavonic 2013 Serbia 63’ Portraits 16

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SOUTH 44 DIRECTORY MAP 45 SUPPORT OPEN UCL - OPEN TO ALL CITY DOCS MA IN DOCUMENTARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM BY PRACTICE YOUR SUPPORT CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO OUR WORK A unique Masters programme teaching factual film practice at one of the world’s great research Open City Docs Fest is in its fourth year universities led by leading film professionals from now - establishing itself as London’s Global the world of documentary. Documentary Film Festival. • Learn how to research the world around us But the festival is only one of the transformative • Understand how to tell the great stories of our times in pictures activities Open City Docs runs. • Master the technical issues for the preparation, production, editing and distribution of the visual image Open City Docs School takes our skills out • Produce a final half hour film project fit for festival exhibition into the communities in London where film • Access established partnerships and placement opportunities provides people with a voice with which they with media organisations in the UK and abroad can speak out. As a new venture we receive • Join UCL’s expanding programme in film in association no funding from the traditional state sponsors. with Open City Docs We need your support to keep this training • Full use of a camera and professional editing facilities work going. for the year for each student

If you would like to support our developing Expressions of interest welcome and full applications from programme of training in and through film, 25th May 2014 (subject to final approval). To express interest please become a supporter. in applying for entry in October 2014 and for further details please email [email protected] Donations start from as little as £10. Our Founding Supporter scheme http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/studying/ (from £500 a year for three years) ma-ethnographic-documentary-film is still open.

UCL has charitable status and all gifts can be gift aided. You can make your donation BARTLETT SUMMER SHOW online or by cheque payable to UCL 27 June – 05 July 2014 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC (with Open City Docs on the reverse): Slade Galleries of UCL, Gower St, London WC1 Fri 27 June 6pm – 10pm Sat 28 June 10am – 8.30pm Open City Docs Fund The annual celebration of student work from The Bartlett Sun 29 June 10am – 5.30pm Development and Alumni Rel. Office School of Architecture, UCL. Mon 30 June 10am – 8.30pm UCL, Gower St. Tues 1 July 10.30am – 4.30pm London WC1H 0BW One of the world’s biggest architecture degree shows sees Wed 2 July 10am – 4.30pm over 500 students present an incredible range of inventive, Thur 3 July 10am – 8.30pm For online donations please go to DONATE creative and visual work, from models and drawings to films, Frid 4 July 10am – 8.30pm on www.opencitydocsfest.com and you multimedia installations and computer fabrications. Sat 5 July 10am – 8.30pm will be taken to the UCL page where you can mark your donation for us. This year’s special guest show opener is architect and www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk founding member of the Archigram group, Michael Webb.

EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT AND PARTY Fri 27 June, 6pm – 1am

OFFICIAL SHOW OPENING & SPEECHES Fri 27 June, 7pm Main Quadrangle and Slade Galleries of UCL, Gower St, London WC1 (Please note that this is a licensed event and there is strictly no admittance to anyone attempting to bring alcoholic drinks onto UCL premises)

46 SUPPORT OPEN CITY DOCS FIND US TICKETS & TEAM & THANKS Located in central London, you can easily BOOKING OPEN CITY DOCS FEST TEAM THANKS TO reach us by public transport. Michael Stewart Founding Director Bill Alexander, Michael Arthur, Laurence Tickets available online through Eventbrite Treasa O’Brien Executive Director Avis, Juanita Baquero, Eddie Berg, Steve By tube, use any of the following four stations opencitydocsfest14.eventbrite.com Jessie Teggin Associate Director Caddick, Renata Clark, Duygu Comert, and it’s about a five-minute walk to the festival. Oliver Wright Programme Manager Jim Dummett, Rebekah Duncan, Anthony Euston Square Metropolitan, For individual screenings and events click on Chloe Trayner Festival Manager Finkelstein, Josefeen Foxter, Mary Fulbrook, Circle & Hammersmith and City Lines BUY TICKETS on every page. You will receive Hannah Farr Marketing Manager Sandra Gaudenzi, Umut Gunduz, Elina Harlas, Euston Victoria & Northern Lines an e-ticket which you can print off and bring Zena Howard Press Manager Graham Hart, Christopher Hird, Jenny Horwell, Goodge Street Northern Line to the event entrance. Tegan Vevers Operations Manager Louise Howitt, Noga Inbar, Susanne Kuechler, Russell Square Piccadilly Line Alex Karotsch Production Manager Mark Le Fanu, Alisa Lebow, Harriet Lewis, Ana During the festival you can also come and Lisya Yafet Festival Coordinator Filipa Marques, Lucy Musgrave, David Napier, Plan your journey on www.tfl.gov.uk. We also buy your tickets from the OPEN CITY DOCS FEST Aga Baranowska Guest Coordinator Martin O’Connor, Katie Oliver, Vijya Patel, have lots of “Boris Bike” docking stations close BOX OFFICE in the Festival Hub (opposite Olivia Humphreys Open City Docs Steph Patten, Alan Penn, Tereza Porybna, to our festival hub, Check out www.walkit.com Waterstones on Torrington Place, off Gower School Coordinator David Price, Ian Scott, Anthony Smith, Greg for the best options. Street) between June 18–22. Advance Carrie McAlinden Open City Docs Thompson, Julian Triandafyllou, Nicholas booking is recommended. School Coordinator Tyndale, Jo Wolff, Elizabeth Wood, Frances, Olivier Namet MyStreet Coordinator Sarah, Shofi and Jamie from STCC. OPEN CITY DOCS BLOOMSBURY Magda Christie Print Transport Assistant VENUES FESTIVAL PASS Alexandra Dreier Audience Feedback Thanks to our film previewing panel: £85 / £70 concessions and Monitoring Lydia Burt, Paul Carter-­Bowman, Nia Childs, 1. 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