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Sponsors & Cultural Partners Director’s Statement

We are a mystery even to ourselves; and well as short films chosen by a number of it is in art that we make some of our most with new work at the festival, courageous journeys of discovery. At Open screening before their own features. ROCK JAW City Documentary Festival we celebrate the AUDIO art of non-fiction - creating space for the We make this festival to bring people together. ineffable, the inexplicable, the unresolvable. Our hub is located in the heart of Chinatown and the films play across central We bring you strongly, personally authored venues, all within walking distance. The work from around the world, films with an industry programme offers a forum for those impressive diversity of subject matter, formal working in documentary across all forms approach and region, demonstrating that a to come together, share experiences and different kind of filmmaking is possible. This forge new connections. Expanded Realities Programme Partners is on show in our opening and closing films - provides a deep-dive into the relationship Juliana Antunes’ Baronesa, a Brazilian study between art and technology through a free of the common sense of the favelas; and exhibition of immersive work and a dedicated Cyril Aris’ The Swing, an elegiac Lebanese symposium presented in partnership with exploration of the lies we so easily chose to live Digital Catapult. We are also thrilled to with - and in all the films screening in between. partner with The Whickers for their Radio and Audio Funding Award (RAFA) and their We use retrospective work to contextualise Documentary Audio Recognition Award current documentary filmmaking practice. For (DARA), and continue to celebrate audio our focuses, we welcome a cinematographer storytelling throughout the programme. of hard places, Japanese master Kazuo Hara for three of his unique examples of ‘action The festival strives to break down the cinema’ and a masterclass; and see a return boundaries between the various forms of to the festival of Penny Lane, a truly distinctive documentary storytelling we showcase, new voice, showcasing her always original bringing together film, audio, and cross-media takes on cameraless cinema. For the first into dialogue. As we head into our eighth Venue Partners time, we have invited artists to present films edition, we hope you will join us at the festival that have informed their own practice, with to experience contemporary stories seen special selections from DJ and producer through different lenses, and think afresh Nabihah Iqbal and filmmaker Marc Isaacs as about the mystery that is humanity.

Michael Stewart Founding Director Image: China in Ethiopia (Paul Zhou, 2017)

2 A 2 year MFA providing all the technical and intellectual resources required to not just make outstanding non- fiction moving image, but to discover new ways of looking at the world. Contents An advanced practical programme that also draws upon broad-based anthropological and critical thinking about the social and cultural world. 04–09 The 2018 Awards & Juries 58–59 Parties Students will leave with a deep practical knowledge of the craft of non-fiction filmmaking, and a mid-length (40mins+) feature documentary film to their name. 10–11 Opening & Closing Nights 60–61 Expanded Realities

Taught by leading filmmakers: directors Sophie Fiennes 12-17 Kazuo Hara: In Focus 62–63 Open City Docs School (Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami, The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema), Kim Longinotto (Salma, Divorce Iranian Style), and producer Riete Oord (The Leader, His Driver and The 18-23 Penny Lane: In Focus 64 Tickets & Venues Driver’s Wife). 24–43 Film Programme 65 Thanks For more information please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught- degrees/creative-documentary-by-practice-mfa 44–48 Special Events 66–67 Directory

49–57 Industry Events 68–69 Festival Schedule MFA Creative Documentary Creative MFA (By Practice)

Image: The Ashes of Water (Antonia Perelló, 2017, 16’)

This unique practical MA programme is based out of About Us UCL but run by leading film practitioners, offering high- quality practice-based learning in a top level university research environment. Open City Documentary Festival creates grounded in reality, the festival fosters a an open space in London to nurture and spirit of experimentation and often blurs the Offers the choice of 4 studios (Cinematic Non-Fiction, champion the art of creative documentary boundaries between traditional dichotomies Broadcast Documentary, Cinematic Documentary Storytelling, and UCL 360 Immersive Factual Storytelling and non-fiction filmmakers. of fact and fiction. Alongside our screening (VR/AR)) Students will produce 3 non-fiction films in programme, we bring together non- various modes, developing a diverse portfolio of work, Based at UCL and working with partners fiction storytellers and industry experts to before producing a graduation film of 15-25 minutes across London and throughout the UK, explore and debate the current landscape in length. Open City Docs delivers film screenings, of documentary. Open City Documentary Students have their own camera equipment and editing training programmes and live events Festival is a space for conversation, suites year-round, and a dedicated senior mentor guiding throughout the year to support the next appreciation and examination. them through their final graduation film. generation of filmmakers. For more information please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught- We aim to challenge and expand the degrees/ethnographic-documentary-film-practical-ma idea of documentary in all its forms. We provide a platform for emerging talent as well as established masters working within the documentary form. Although MA Ethnographic & Documentary (Practical) Film 04 2018 AWARDS & JURIES 2018 AWARDS & JURIES 05

Sophie Fiennes to life; and her laboratory, NBH Studios, is on a (Chair) mission to bring chaos to the world. Her various – roles include chief of experiences at WeTransfer, Sophie Fiennes’ feature designer of experiences at the SETI (Search for documentaries include the Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, advisor acclaimed Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, to the United Nations Virtual Reality Labs and which premiered at Toronto International Film advisory board member at AIGA (American Festival 2017; her collaborations with Slavoj Institute for Graphic Arts). Zizek, The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006), and The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012); May Adadol Ingawanij Open City and her portrait of German artist Anselm – Kiefer, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, Dr. May Adadol Ingawanij is which premiered in Cannes in 2010. Her first a moving image theorist, Award feature documentary, Hoover Street Revival, teacher and curator. She was released theatrically in 2003. Sophie co-directs the Centre for Research and was awarded a NESTA fellowship in 2001 to Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at develop her innovative approach to film, and University of Westminster. May writes on won the Arte Cinema Award in 2008. moving image, art, film history, and Southeast Asia for a wide range of publications; and is Beatrice Gibson writing a book on animism, moving image – performances, and contemporary art in Beatrice Gibson is a Franco- Thailand and Southeast Asia. Some recent British artist living and curatorial projects include: Lav Diaz: Journeys working in London. Beatrice (London, 2017) and On Attachments and has twice won the Rotterdam International Unknowns (with Sa Sa Bassac, Phnom Penh, Film Festival Tiger Award for Short Film, for January 2017). Baronesa A Necessary Music (2009), and The Tiger’s Mind (2013). She was shortlisted for the Mehelli Modi Juliana Antunes, 2017, Brazil, 71’ Whitechapel Max Mara Art Prize for Women – (2013-15) and the Jarman Award for artist’s Born into a filmmaking film (2013); and won the 2015 Baloise Art family in India, Mehelli Casanova Gene Prize, Art Basel (2015). Her films have shown Modi came to London in Luise Donschen, 2018, Germany, 67’ at prestigious venues and film festivals the 1960s and has had a long and varied including: CPH:DOX, Toronto International Film career in the music industry. However, Festival, Anthology Film Archives NYC and the Mehelli’s first love has always been cinema Serpentine Gallery London. and, in 2005, he founded Second Run Flight of a Bullet DVD, a company dedicated to releasing Beata Bubenec, 2017, Russia & Latvia, 81’ Nelly Ben Hayoun important classic and contemporary feature – films and documentaries from around Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun is a the world. Their catalogue is now at over multi-award-winning French 120 titles and growing, and includes the The Swing designer and filmmaker works of filmmakers such as Apichatpong Cyril Aris, 2018, Lebanon, 74’ who creates multidimensional experiential Weerasethakul, Miklós Jancsó, Kim projects at the intersection of science, theater, Longinotto, Miloš Forman, Joshua politics and design. Dubbed the “Willy Wonka Oppenheimer, Věra Chytilová, Nicolas of Design”, her projects aim to bring the sublime Philibert and Marc Isaacs. 06 2018 AWARDS & JURIES 2018 AWARDS & JURIES 07

Tessa Boerman as one of the UK’s strongest emerging (Chair) directorial voices. Cecile was selected as – a Broadcast Hotshot and won the Screen Tessa Boerman is an Nation Vanguard Award. Her most recent independent Dutch short filmThe Ancestors Came was documentary filmmaker, programmer and commissioned as part of Tate Modern’s cultural advisor. Her work focuses on issues ‘Soul of a Nation’ exhibition, and she recently of representation, diversity and inclusion. For directed for Insecure (HBO) and Idris Elba’s International Film Festival Rotterdam Tessa In The Long Run (Sky). programmed Black Rebels focusing on Emerging International international films about and predominantly Chiara Marañón by black people navigating the cultural divide – since the origin of cinema. With the Dutch Chiara Marañón is the Filmmaker Award Directors Guild she advocated for cultural director of programming for diversity and inclusion in the Dutch Film and global online cinematheque TV industry. Her filmZwart Belicht; Painted MUBI, looking after the curation for the Black painfully reveals the long history of platform and theatrical distribution in the exclusion; how even what was meant to be UK (including titles such as: Arabian Nights seen, stayed unseen for centuries. (Miguel Gomes, 2015) and Baden Baden (Rachel Lang, 2016)). As a filmmaker, Chiara Luciano Barisone worked with Abbas Kiarostami on The Girl in – The Lemon Factory and has been mentored Having started his career as by the likes of Lucrecia Martel, Carlos a film-club host, journalist Reygadas and Jaime Rosales. She studied and film critic, since film at Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, 1997 Luciano Barisone has contributed to the International Film and Television School Angkar numerous international film festivals, including of Cuba (EICTV) and the University of the Locarno International Film Festival and the Westminster in London. Neary Adeline Hay, 2018, France, 71’ Venice International Film Festival. In 2002, he founded the Alba Infinity Festival, for which he Tadhg O’Sullivan acted as artistic director until 2007; then from – Those Who Come, Will Hear 2008 to 2010 he was artistic director at Festival Tadhg O’Sullivan is a Simon Plouffe, 2017, Canada, 77’ dei Popoli in Florence. From 2011 to 2017 he was director-producer, editor the director of Visions du Réel in Nyon. He has and sound artist. His first served on numerous festival juries including feature filmYximalloo (co-directed with Cannes, FID Marseille and IDFA. Feargal Ward) won the Prix Premiere at Home of the Resistance FiD Marseille in 2014. His second feature Ivan Ramljak, 2018, Croatia, 49’ Cecile Emeke The Great Wall screened at many festivals – including RIDM and MoMA Doc Fortnight. He Cecile Emeke is a director, has worked as an editor with Pat Collins on The Best Thing You Can Do With Your Life writer and artist from Song of Granite and Silence; and Feargal London, working in film, Ward on The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid. Zita Erffa, 2018, Germany & Mexico, 93’ television and moving image. In 2014, Cecile Tadhg recently made an audio piece for created online documentary series Strolling, BBC Radio 3 about Chernobyl and life after and Ackee & Saltfish. Both projects had a humans; and is currently making a film huge cultural impact and established Cecile about the moon.

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Stephanie Spray and artists including Moor Mother, Elysia (Chair) Crampton, Chino Amobi, Toxe and NMO. Amar – is also a journalist published in , Stephanie Spray is a Dazed, The Wire, Little White Lies and FACT, Best UK non-fiction filmmaker and and he also presented a show on Soho Radio. professor of Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work Julia Nottingham Short Award conjugates ethnographic methodologies – Supported by the British Council with a critical nonfiction media practice, for Julia Nottingham is a cinema and art exhibition contexts. Her films London based independent have screened at NYFF, Art of the Real, TIFF, producer working in fiction, CPH:DOX, Viennale, RIDM, AFI, Rotterdam, non-fiction and the space in between. Her Open City Documentary Festival, BAFICI, past credits include Skate Kitchen (dir: Crystal and Anthology Film Archives, and museums Moselle, Sundance 2018), Kingdom of Us (dir: such as MoMA, the Whitney, the National Lucy Cohen (LFF 2017, Grierson Award for Best The Mess Gallery, and Louisiana MoMA. The last film in Documentary), Trophy (dir: Shaul Schwarz, Dorothy Allen-Pickard, UK, 2017, 4’ Stephanie’s Nepal series, Manakamana, is Sundance 2017), All These Sleepless Nights (dir: in the permanent collection of MoMA New Michał Marczak, Directing Prize in the World York and won numerous awards, including a Cinema Documentary competition, Sundance Some of These Days Golden Leopard at Locarno. 2016), and The Possibilities Are Endless (dir: Vincent Förster, UK & Germany, 2018, 16’ Edward Lovelace and James Hall, SXSW 2014). Laure Bonville – Lynn Nwokorie Absent Wound Laure Bonville is a film – Maryam Tafakory, UK & Iran, 2018, 10’ programmer at the BFI Starting out in production London Film Festival. Laure for feature film, commercials oversees the selection of documentary films and museum projects Missed Call and takes part in the selection of French work. in the US and UK, Lynn Nwokorie has since Victoria Mapplebeck, UK, 2018, 20’ Before moving to London she worked at both worked across exhibition and distribution for the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and national festivals and organisations including: Filmfest Hamburg. Growing up in Clermont- BFI London Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/ Season of Goodbyes Ferrand nurtured her love of moving images, Fest, the BFI and Cinema Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann, UK & Kenya, 2018, 14’ short films and film festival life. She holds Office. Recently she has focused on cultural a masters in cultural studies and a degree programming and increased access of in modern languages. She is currently on independent film to national audiences, with Plastic Man maternity leave. a concerted focus on cultivating socially Yulia Kovanova, UK, 2017, 10’ impactful documentary filmmaking at The Amar Ediriwira Doc Society. Recently appointed as BFI Film – Fund Officer, Lynn focuses on developing and Then a Hero Comes Along Amar Ediriwira is creative supporting UK documentary filmmakers as Marlon Rouse Tavares, UK, 2018, 20’ director for Boiler Room’s well as continuing programming for festivals new film platform 4:3 and special events. (dubbed as for the underground). He Landline was previously commissioning editor and a Matt Houghton, UK, 2017, 12’ curator for audio-visual arts institute The Vinyl Factory, where he collaborated with musicians 10 OPENING NIGHT CLOSING NIGHT 11

Opening Night Baronesa The Swing Closing Night

Director Juliana Antunes, 2017 Juliana Antunes’ astonishing debut follows Director Cyril Aris, 2018 An assured, emotionally rich film about the Country Brazil friends Andreia and Leid as they navigate Country Lebanon lies a family tells to protect their patriarch; Duration 71’ the perilous reality of daily life in the favelas Duration 74’ and the unintended costs of their falsehood. Date Tuesday 4th September, 18.30 of Belo Horizonte. At first glance, their days Date Sunday 9th September, 18.00 After sixty years of marriage, Antoine and Location Cinema seem calm and untroubled, but the threat of Location Regent Street Cinema Vivi have lost their most beloved daughter; violence is never far away and Andreia dreams but no one has dared to tell the bedridden * Please be advised that this film contains discussion of sexual of moving to the safer neighbourhood of nonagenarian Antoine, lest his heart crack. A assault which some viewers might nearby Baronesa. simple solution, though everyone else in this find distressing. densely interconnected family has then to live Antunes spent five years in Belo Horizonte the same lie, giving no expression to their grief. In partnership with MUBI. working with a non-professional cast to create a work of rare intimacy and authenticity A deeply affecting, beautifully shot cinematic which—despite its simple structure— novella; like all the best stories The Swing is a emerges as a complex, multilayered and simple tale, but one that never short-changes moving portrait of contemporary life in the its viewers. favelas. Baronesa announces an exciting new voice in Brazilian cinema. 12 13

Kazuo Hara: In Focus

With a career spanning five decades, Kazuo Hara is widely recognised as one of Japan’s most important and influential documentary filmmakers and his notoriously confrontational method has transformed the art of non-fiction filmmaking. He has been awarded at festivals worldwide, and both The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On and Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 appeared in the BFI’s poll of The 50 Greatest Documentaries of All Time. 14 15 IN FOCUS IN FOCUS

Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On

Director Kazuo Hara, 1974 Director Kazuo Hara, 1987 Country Japan Country Japan Duration 98’ Duration 122’ Date Thursday 6th September, 18:30 Date Saturday 8th September, 15:00 Location Bertha DocHouse Location BFI Southbank

His most controversial, voyeuristic work, in Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974, In this venerated classic, Kazuo Hara follows World War II veteran Kenzo Okuzaki on Kazuo Hara turns the camera on his ex-wife, radical activist Takeda Miyuki, following his quest to expose Emperor Hirohito and the officers who killed their own soldiers her as she navigates new relationships (with a woman, and with a American GI in his name. Under Hara’s watchful eye, Okuzaki seeks out the perpetrators one-by- in Okinawa), raises their son, and experiences life as an outspoken feminist in one in a series of bizarre and increasingly violent encounters, provoking outrage, conservative 1970s Japan. While Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 is on one anger and the occasional astounding confession. Situated somewhere between farce level a record of Miyuki’s journey, she proves to be the perfect cinematic device for and horror, Hara’s hugely influential film pushes the limits of the documentary form, Hara to reveal the most intimate details of his own fascinating life too, unleashing her following Okuzaki—Japan’s ultimate anti-establishmentarian—for more than five thoughts on him as a partner, a person, and a filmmaker. years in his tireless, impassioned pursuit of justice.

Sennan Asbestos Disaster Kazuo Hara Masterclass Director Kazuo Hara, 2017 Date Thursday 6th September, 20:45 Country Japan Location Bertha DocHouse Duration 215’ Date Sunday 9th September, 12:30 Location Regent Street Cinema

Throughout the four decades of his career, Kazuo Hara has explored the margins of Kazuo Hara’s longitudinal latest film follows a group of factory workers battling—over Japanese society, certain that central truths are to be found in fringe phenomena. a long, gruelling court case—against the Japanese government for compensation for In the creation of what he terms “action documentary,” he aims to imitate the deadly respiratory diseases caused by exposure to asbestos. Filmed over eight years shocking effect of the action film, following gestures and staying in the moment. in the small town of Sennan, long a centre for asbestos related industry in Japan, Hara In this masterclass, Hara will discuss the key ideas behind his unique filmmaking documents the plight of the workers in heartbreaking detail as, with failing health, methodology; from the role of filmmaker as an accomplice and collaborator to his they take on the seemingly impenetrable bureaucratic machine that stands in their subjects, to his enduring fascination with the body, and his commitment to breaking way. With his typically unflinching gaze, Hara creates a moving, masterful portrait of a down the boundaries between the private, the public and the political. vulnerable and marginalised community and their dogged fight for justice. 16 17 IN FOCUS

Kazuo Hara: Shoes Still On – Words by Julian Ross

An out-of-focus shot of a woman giving unassisted birth. This is the image that first comes to my mind at the mention of eminent documentary filmmaker Kazuo Hara’s name. The moment is a charged one. Miyuki Takeda is the woman in labour and the subject of Hara’s Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974). Sat on her knees holding a microphone beside Takeda is Sachiko Kobayashi, the film’s producer and sound recordist (and a long-time collaborator on all of his films), but also Hara’s pregnant partner. Quietly confused beside her is Takeda’s first son, who is also Hara’s child, born from their recently broken relationship. And of course, there’s the violence and extreme privacy of the birth itself. Overwhelmed by the intensity of this moment, Hara fails to keep the shot in focus; the blurred image becomes a visual register of his inability to overcome his personal investment in what is taking place in order to operate the camera. Despite not physically appearing, his presence is felt.

Private, intimate moments are forcefully exposed in Hara’s documentaries. Hara sees the role of the camera in documentary as something that “necessarily accelerates action [and] brings action to a boiling point.” For Hara, the camera is not a silent observer but a participant, an ally for his desire to “step into somebody else’s world with [his] shoes still on.” His approach is forceful - indeed, in Japan it is expected for a person to take off their shoes when they enter the home. And the confrontation is not only targeted at his subjects but also at his viewers - he barges into your comfort zone too. As physical fights in the infamousThe Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987) ensue between Kenzo Okuzaki, a Pacific war veteran, and the now elderly former officers he confronts about their alleged war crimes, Hara refuses to intervene in an urge for us to respond. His decision not to act, once again, draws our attention to his presence, and confronts us with documentary ethics. We might not be able to see him but we know he’s behind the camera, provoking us, with his shoes still on. 18 19

Penny Lane: In Focus

Penny Lane has been making innovative nonfiction films for over a decade, including three features and about a dozen short films. She has recently been honoured with a Vanguard Award by the Documentary Festival, a Breakthrough Award by Chicken & Egg, and a Special Jury Award at the . She was admitted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2017. Her short films have won accolades at film festivals and popularity online. And yes, Penny Lane is her real name. 20 21 IN FOCUS IN FOCUS

The Short Films of Penny Lane

Date Sunday 9th September, 13:00 Location BFI Southbank

Penny Lane’s films combine archive, found-materials and sound recordings to pose The Pain of Others questions around authorship and authenticity throughout history. This screening offers a rare opportunity to see Lane’s short form work; distinctive, entertaining and Director Penny Lane, 2018 provocative in equal measure. The event will include an extended Q&A with Penny Country USA covering her work and creative practice. Duration 71’ Date Friday 7th September, 18:10 We Are The Littletons Location BFI Southbank Penny Lane, 2004, USA, 10’

Morgellons disease is a medical mystery. Although doctors have no explanation for the condition, thousands of sufferers claim to experience a persistent crawling Men Seeking Women sensation under their skin, thin fibres growing out of their body and a host of other Penny Lane, 2007, USA, 4’ symptoms. Penny Lane dives head first into the online community of Morgellons patients re-working candid home-videos uploaded to YouTube by three women who are afflicted with the disease.The Pain of Others explores the slippery ideas She Used to See Him Most Weekends around self-diagnosis, empathy and online support networks but Lane’s original and Penny Lane, 2007, USA, 4’ unsettling film refuses to offer answers to any of its own questions.

How to Write an Autobiography Penny Lane, 2010, USA, 4’

Director Penny Lane, 2013 The Voyagers Country USA Penny Lane, 2010, USA, 17’ Duration 85’ Date Saturday 8th September, 13:00 Location Prince Charles Cinema The Silent Majority Penny Lane & Brian L. Frye, 2011, USA, 4’ Throughout ’s presidency, three of his top White House aides obsessively documented their experiences with Super 8 home movie cameras. Young, idealistic and dedicated, they had no idea that a few years later they’d all be in prison. Following Normal Appearances the , the films remained locked up in an government safe for forty Penny Lane, 2018, USA, 5’ years but Penny Lane dusted them off to craft this ambitious and enthralling portrait of the Nixon presidency. Earning her a reputation as an exciting new voice in non- fiction storytelling, Lane’s debut feature is a playful and pertinent commentary on the Nellie Bly Makes the News line between privacy and politics. Penny Lane, 2018, USA, 23’ 22 23 IN FOCUS

Penny Lane: Observing Observation Itself – Words by Kiva Reardon

“I haven’t held a camera in many years.” A seemingly strange comment for a director to make, but this is what Penny Lane said to Filmmaker after being named in their prestigious “25 New Faces” list in 2012. On the heels of the success of her debut documentary Our Nixon (2013) (co-directed with Brian Frye), her statement wasn’t meant as a provocation: the film was “made” from 500 hours of Super 8 home videos shot by aides in the Nixon White House. (Lane had looked at this era before in The Voyagers (2010) about NASA’s “golden record” and love; and Lane and Frye had previously made a New York Times Op-Doc, Silent Majority (2011), of crowd shots from the same Nixon footage.) As such, her remark summarizes how Lane engages with the seventh art, which is a mode of research and culling, creating new meanings and images with ones that often are already in existence.

In her follow-up feature, NUTS! (2016), Lane didn’t pick up a camera in the traditional sense again, this time directing a partially animated doc. It was a return to form, in that Lane had experimented with this combination of mediums before in her short The Abortion Diaries (2005) and in what she calls its “sort of epilogue”, She Used To See Him Most Weekends (2007). NUTS! chronicles “the mostly true story” of John Romulus Brinkley, one of America’s greatest charlatans who claimed to cure impotence by implanting goat testicles in men’s scrotums. Or maybe this really did work? Maybe the truth lies in who can tell the best version of the truth? Such is how Lane structures the doc, unbalancing the faith we have in “seeing is believing.”

Her third documentary, The Pain of Others (2018), digs deeper into this philosophical riddle, as Lane documents the lives of three women living with the mysterious (or maybe not real) Morgellons disease. Here she amasses the material of her film from their YouTube testimonials, which poses complex questions about objectivity, suffering and even social media. In this way, the film echoes with one of her earliest shorts, Men Seeking Women (2007): a robotic “male” voice reads Albany, NYC Craigslist personal ads, as “his” image is superimposed on computers in stock images of women sitting in front of their screens. In some four minutes Lane captures the desperation, misogyny and disorienting disconnect of the reality of “talking” through technology. Or How To Write An Autobiography (2010), which uses similar technological distancing techniques to undermine how we document our lives.

In 2018, Lane continues to explore the (dis)connect that technology and images has on our lives with Normal Appearances (2018), once again digging into American history to unearth the story of a pioneering reporter in Nellie Bly Makes the News (2018). But perhaps the strongest through-thread between her three works this year is the exploration of how women are (or are not) represented in images. In this way, while Lane has called The Pain of Others “an observational documentary where what you’re observing is YouTube,” more broadly, Lane’s works also draw attention to observing observation itself. 24 THE ART OF NON–FICTION TUESDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2018 25

2018 Film Programme: Official Selection, Curated

Programmes Baronesa Opening Night

Director Juliana Antunes, 2017 Juliana Antunes’ astonishing debut follows & Special Country Brazil friends Andreia and Leid as they navigate Duration 71’ the perilous reality of daily life in the favelas Date Tuesday 4th September, 18.30 of Belo Horizonte. At first glance, their days Location Regent Street Cinema seem calm and untroubled, but the threat of violence is never far away and Andreia * Please be advised that this film Presentations contains discussion of sexual dreams of moving to the safer neighbourhood assault which some viewers might of nearby Baronesa. find distressing. Antunes spent five years in Belo Horizonte In partnership with MUBI. working with a non-professional cast to create a work of rare intimacy and authenticity which—despite its simple structure— emerges as a complex, multilayered and moving portrait of contemporary life in the In partnership with MUBI. favelas. Baronesa announces an exciting new voice in Brazilian cinema. TH 26 WEDNESDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER 2018 WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 27 Shorts: Feelings of displacement and detachment are expressed in these intimate, authored shorts. Separations Be it through societal pressures or religious traditions, the situations documented here Date Wednesday 5th September, 18.15 characterise the sense of unease caused by Duration ‘97 (Total run time) seemingly impassable divisions between worlds. Location Prince Charles Cinema

1. Absent Wound 4. The Haunted Maryam Tafakory, 2017, Iran & UK, 10’ Saodat Ismailova, 2017, Uzbekistan, 23’

2. Ma 5. Missed Call The End of Fear Maria Stoianova, 2017, Ukraine, 17’ Victoria Mapplebeck, 2018, UK, 20’

Director Barbara Visser, 2018 In 1986, one of the most famous crimes Country Netherlands against art was committed when a man Duration 70’ attacked a Barnett Newman painting in Date Wednesday 5th September, 18.30 ’s Stedelijk Museum with a box Location Picturehouse Central cutter, slashing the large abstract canvas as an act of anti-modernist vandalism.

After American conservator Daniel Goldreyer was hired to restore the painting, nobody 3. Landline 6. Season of Goodbyes, expected what happened next - the canvas Matt Houghton, 2018, UK, 13’ Phillipa Ndisi-Herrmann, 2018, Kenya & UK, 14’ arriving home plastered over crudely with red paint and a roller. Artist and filmmaker Barbara Visser calls into question the value of art, cultural gatekeeping and notions of appropriation and authorship with her playful and innovative investigation into what makes art art.

Screens with: The Sleeping Fool Sofia Saldanha, 2010, UK, 10’ 28 WEDNESDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER 2018 THURSDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 2018 29

Becoming Self Portrait: Extreme Kazuo Hara Animal Sphinx in 47km Private Eros: Masterclass

Directors Emma Davie Director Zhang Mengqi, 2017 Date Thursday 6th September, 20.45 & Peter Mettler, 2018 Country China Love Song 1974 Location Bertha DocHouse Country Switzerland & UK Duration 94’ Duration 78’ Date Wednesday 5th September, 20.40 Director Kazuo Hara, 1974 Throughout the four decades of his career, Date Wednesday 5th September, 18.45 Location Picturehouse Central Country Japan Kazuo Hara has explored the margins of Location Curzon Soho Duration 98’ Japanese society, certain that central The seventh film in Zhang Mengqi’s Date Thursday 6th September, 18.30 truths are to be found in fringe phenomena. In this immersive, visually inventive film, extraordinary survey of life in 47km, a rural Location Bertha DocHouse In the creation of what he terms “action directors Emma Davie (I Am Breathing) and village in Hubei Province, China named after documentary,” he aims to imitate the Peter Mettler (The End of Time) journey into its distance from the nearest city, Suizhou, His most controversial, voyeuristic work, in shocking effect of the action film, following Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park with Self-Portrait: Sphinx In 47Km explores the Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974, Kazuo gestures and staying in the moment. philosopher and cultural ecologist David terrible legacy of the ‘Great Leap Forward’ Hara turns the camera on his ex-wife, radical Abram, searching for the liminal spaces through the contrasting perspectives of two activist Takeda Miyuki, following her as she In this masterclass, Hara will discuss the where humans and animals meet. generations of women. An elderly woman navigates new relationships (with a woman, key ideas behind his unique filmmaking tells the harrowing story of her son’s death; and with a American GI in Okinawa), raises methodology; from the role of filmmaker as an Challenging our human-centric view of the whilst a teenager paints murals imagining a their son, and experiences life as an outspoken accomplice and collaborator to his subjects, natural world, this subversive nature film uses brighter future. This split structure connects feminist in conservative 1970s Japan. to his enduring fascination with the body, cinema’s sensory tools to explore humanity’s the memories of a disappearing generation and his commitment to breaking down the relationship with the natural environment, to the hopes of a new one, finding space for While Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 boundaries between the private, the public proposing—through expressionistic visuals political and personal reflection in a country is on one level a record of Miyuki’s journey, and the political. and stimulating narration—that a better experiencing great change. she proves to be the perfect cinematic device balance can be achieved. An essay film unlike for Hara to reveal the most intimate details any other, Becoming Animal is a sublime Screens with: of his own fascinating life too, unleashing her sensorial experience and an inspiring, My Room thoughts on him as a partner, a person, and intellectual one too. Fang Hong, 2018, China. 9’ a filmmaker.

Screens with: In partnership with Chinese Visual Festival. The Other Side Eleanor McDowall & Laura Barton, 2018, UK, 5’ Skywards Eva Weber, 2018, UK, 5’ 30 THURSDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 2018 THURSDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 2018 31

H is for Harry Flight of Casanova Gene Angkar Directors Edward Owles & Director Luise Donschen, 2018 Director Neary Adeline Hay, 2018 Jaime Taylor, 2018 a Bullet Country Germany Country France Country UK Duration 67’ Duration 71’ Duration 81’ Director Beata Bubenec, 2017 Date Thursday 6th September, 18.30 Date Thursday 6th September, 20.30 Date Thursday 6th September, 18.45 Country Russia, Latvia Location ICA Location Picturehouse Central Location Curzon Soho Duration 80’ Date Thursday 6th September, 20.20 Luise Donschen’s highly inventive feature Born from a forced marriage during the A coming of age story about Harry, a Location Regent Street Cinema debut explores the nature of seduction and Khmer Rouge regime, director Neary charismatic 11-year old boy who arrives at desire through a series of surprising and Adeline Hay travels back to Cambodia with secondary school in suburban London unable Beata Bubenec’s single-take documentary irreverent tableaux (captured on rich 16mm her father, Khonsaly, to face his former to read or write. With the help of Sophie, opens on a blown-out bridge in Ukraine’s by cinematographer Helena Wittmann) that Khmer Rouge persecutors. his extremely dedicated teacher, and the heavily contested Donbass region. A local combine fiction, documentary, interview unfailing support of his father, he struggles man—taking exception to being filmed—is and performance. In Ta Saeng, the detention village in which to overcome the illiteracy ingrained across bundled into a car by armed forces and driven they lived together as prisoners over forty generations of his family. off for interrogation. But despite the intensity Moving from a portrait of a dominatrix and years before, Khonsaly and the remaining of the action unfolding in front of the camera, her clients; to a biological investigation inhabitants recount the workings of the Against the backdrop of a Britain riven with attention and scrutiny quickly turns to goings- into the mating habits of finches; via an sites that became theatres for the deaths debates around class, identity and social on behind the lens as Bubanec’s allegiances unlikely encounter with John Malkovich (in of millions. In a contemplative, artful piece mobility, the film follows Harry over two years (and motivations) are called into question. character as Casanova himself) and some of testimony, Hay and her father produce a as he fights not only to improve academically strange scenes in a singles bar straight out personal and poetic treatise on the need to but also to believe in a better future for himself. As the tension of the exhilarating opening of a Fassbinder film, Donschen’s free-form record and reactivate memory and not forget scene subsides, the film shifts into a essay on the rules of attraction explores the the past, however painful it may be. fascinating and provocative study of how complexities of gender, identity, and sexuality the violence of conflict permeates into the with humour, intelligence and wit. Screens with: mundanity of the everyday. A God’s Shadow Screens with: Bernhard Hetzenauer, 2017, Germany, 21.3°C Austria & Mexico, 15’ Helena Wittmann, 2014, Germany, 16’ OFF Helena Wittmann & Luise Donschen, 2018, Germany, 12’ 32 Friday 7TH SEPTEMBER 2018 Friday 7TH SEPTEMBER 2018 33

Kinshasa Makambo

Director Dieudo Hamadi, 2018 violence from the authorities but the battle for free Country Congo, France, Switzerland, elections and democracy cannot be repressed. The Pain América Germany & Congolese director Dieudo Hamadi follows three Directors Erick Stoll & Duration 75’ men at the heart of the resistance as they fight to of Others Chase Whiteside, 2018 Date Friday 7th September, 20.30 forge a new path for their beloved country. Country USA Location Bertha DocHouse Director Penny Lane, 2018 Duration 76’ A film with incredible access and unique Country USA Date Friday 7th September, 18.45 Hundreds of young revolutionaries take to insight, Kinshasa Makambo is a tense and Duration 71’ Location Curzon Soho the streets of Kinshasa when Joseph Kabila, urgent chronicle of a generation’s struggle Date Friday 7th September, 18.10 President of the Democratic Republic of to have their voice heard. Location BFI Southbank In this touching and poignant familial drama, Congo, refuses to relinquish power at the end young circus performer Diego returns home of his second term. Protests are met with In Partnership with Film Africa. Morgellons disease is a medical mystery. and reunites with his two brothers Rodrigo Although doctors have no explanation for the and Bruno to take care for their ailing 93 year- condition, thousands of sufferers claim to old grandmother, América. experience a persistent crawling sensation under their skin, thin fibres growing out of Whilst different in many ways, the three Shorts: 1. their body and a host of other symptoms. brothers all share a unbounded bohemian spirit seemingly at odds with the duty of Penny Lane dives head first into the online delivering full-time care, and it’s not long Imprints community of Morgellons patients re-working before the stress of the situation begins candid home-videos uploaded to YouTube to show. As América’s health deteriorates, Date Friday 7th September, 20.30 by three women who are afflicted with the tensions rise and the brothers must work past Duration ‘97 (Total run time) 6. disease. The Pain of Others explores the their resentments and come together to see Location Picturehouse Central slippery ideas around self-diagnosis, empathy their grandmother through her last days. and online support networks but Lane’s Humanity’s imprint on the environment is pervasive and original and unsettling film refuses to offer enduring – the marks we leave outlive us and distort our answers to any of its own questions. landscape, obscuring it with ghosts of forgotten pasts and promised futures. This selection of films documents those marks made – and the narratives we construct in their wake.

1. There Lived the Colliers, Nelson MacDonald, 2017, Canada, 7’ 2. Graven Image, Sierra Pettengill, 2018, USA, 11’ 3. Stone Engravings and the Three-Colored Chickenpox Tale, Luciana Mazeto & Vinícius Lopes, 2017, Brazil, 20’ 4. Plastic Man, Yulia Kovanova, 2017, UK, 10’ 5. Then a Hero Comes Along, Marlon Rouse Tavares, 2017, UK, 20’ 6. The Fear of Dying in Transit, Ian Purnell, 2018, Germany & Switzerland, 29’ 34 FRIDAY 7TH / SATURDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2018 SATURDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2018 35 Our Nixon

Director Penny Lane, 2013 Country USA Duration 85’ Date Saturday 8th September, 13.00 Location Prince Charles Cinema

Throughout Richard Nixon’s presidency, Penny Lane dusted them off to craft this three of his top White House aides obsessively ambitious and enthralling portrait of the The Image The Patriot documented their experiences with Super 8 Nixon presidency. Earning her a reputation home movie cameras. Young, idealistic and as an exciting new voice in non-fiction dedicated, they had no idea that a few years storytelling, Lane’s debut feature is a playful You Missed Game later they’d all be in prison. Following the and pertinent commentary on the line Watergate scandal, the films remained locked between privacy and politics. Director Donal Foreman, 2018 Director Arthur MacCaig, 1978 up in an government safe for forty years but Country Ireland, France, USA Country France Duration 73’ Duration 93’ Date Saturday 8th September, 14.00 Date Saturday 8th September, 16.00 Location ICA Location ICA

In this moving, singular essay film, Donal Arthur MacCaig’s thorough and thoughtful essay Foreman draws on three decades of unique, film examines the conflict in Northern Ireland never-before-seen archive, deftly weaving over ten years from 1968 and 1978, covering together a history of the Troubles in Northern the period at the height of The Troubles. Shorts: 1 Ireland with his own search for the father he barely knew, Irish-American political Combining a decades worth of newsreel with filmmaker Arthur MacCaig. his own searing footage of street riots, Interiors violence and fire bomb attacks, MacCaig Through forensic examination of MacCaig’s (father of Donal Foreman, dir. The Image You Date Saturday 8th September, 14.00 footage—including material from his seminal Missed) constructs a blistering and emotional Location Bertha DocHouse 1979 documentary The Patriot Game— portrait of those at the centre of the armed 4 Foreman comes to know his father anew, and struggle. Premiering at the 1979 Cannes Film This programme of short films takes a meditative in the process provokes a riveting exchange Festival, MacCaig’s film was hailed on its trip through domestic spaces, exploring the between two filmmakers born into different release for its rawness and intelligence and it interrelation between interiors and those that political moments. The result is a fascinating, remains a vital and revelatory piece of radical inhabit them. These films seek to identify the candid portrait (and self-portrait) that political filmmaking. ways in which this interaction reflects wider social collapses the boundary between the personal and political issues, and how experiences of and the political. In partnership with Essay Film Festival. confinement can seem to transcend temporality. Screens with: 1. 26 rue Saint-Fargeau, Margaux Guillemard, 2017, France, 30’ Irish Voices 2. The Mess, Dorothy Allen-Pickard, 2017, UK, 4’, Best UK Short Award Nominee Arthur MacCaig, 1995, 13’ 3. Today is 11th June 1993, Clarissa Thieme, 2018, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 15’ 4. Roosenberg, Ingel Vaikla, 2017, Belgium, 29’ In partnership with Irish Film Festival. 5. Some of These Days, Vincent Förster, 2018, UK, 16’, Best UK Short Award Nominee 36 SATURDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2018 SATURDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2018 37

The Emperor’s Breaking News This Is Home Director Tomáš Bojar, 2018 Director Alexandra Shiva, 2018 Naked Army Country Czech Republic Girls Country USA Duration 73’ Duration 91’ Date Saturday 8th September, 16.30 Director Håvard Bustnes, 2017 Date Saturday 8th September, 18:00 Marches On Location Bertha DocHouse Country Norway, , Location Curzon Soho Duration 92’ Director Kazuo Hara, 1987 In March last year, the president of the Czech Date Saturday 8th September, 15:15 Country Japan Republic was preparing to announce whether Location Curzon Soho What happens to Syrian refugees given haven Duration 122’ or not he would be running for re-election, and in a western country? This striking suburban Date Saturday 8th September, 15.00 the press were ready to cover his decision. With elections looming, Greece’s Golden Baltimore-set film paints a fascinating picture Location BFI Southbank The announcement, however, was to be made Dawn suffers a blow when a number of their of the USA through the eyes of four families at a private event at Prague Castle and no key leaders are put behind bars. This far- going through the country’s refugee self- In this venerated classic, Kazuo Hara follows reporters were to be admitted. right party faces an uncertain future until an sufficiency resettlement programme. The World War II veteran Kenzo Okuzaki on his unlikely trio of women step up to fill the shoes journey towards acculturation includes quest to expose Emperor Hirohito and the Filmmaker Tomáš Bojar takes us inside two their fathers, sons and husbands left behind. buying hijabs featuring the stars and stripes; officers who killed their own soldiers in his newsrooms in Prague as their teams race to discovering twelve hour working days; and name. Under Hara’s watchful eye, Okuzaki be the first to break the story.Breaking News Norwegian filmmaker Håvard Bustnes gains beginning to confront the challenging gender seeks out the perpetrators one-by-one in is a compelling, entertaining and carefully unprecedented and astonishing access to expectations of their new home. a series of bizarre and increasingly violent composed observational look at journalism, these women as they continue the cycle of encounters, provoking outrage, anger and the “objective” reporting and the cycle of news hatred and aggression. Stepping inside the This Is Home gives a novel portrait of occasional astounding confession. production in the modern age. dark world of one of Europe’s most notorious America, whilst conveying the resilience of nationalist parties, Golden Dawn Girls is a its shipwrecked subjects in a moving and Situated somewhere between farce and Screens with: bizarre, disturbing exposé that reveals the compelling fashion. horror, Hara’s hugely influential film pushes Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the complex power dynamics that underpin the limits of the documentary form, Curtain, Sarah Boothroyd, 2006, Canada, 6’ extreme political ideologies. In partnership with London Migration following Okuzaki–Japan’s ultimate anti- Film Festival. establishmentarian–for more than five years in his tireless, impassioned pursuit of justice. 38 SATURDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2018 SATURDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2018 39

The Best Thing I Remember You Can Do the Crows

Director Gustavo Vinagre, 2018 With Your Life Country Brazil Duration 80’ Director Zita Erffa, 2018 Date Saturday 8th September, 20.30 Country Germany, Mexico Location BFI Southbank Duration 93’ Date Saturday 8th September, 20.30 Gustavo Vinagre’s breathtaking non-fiction Location Regent Street Cinema chamber piece takes the form of an extended Those Who Come, interview with his long-time friend and Zita Erffa and her brother László were always collaborator, Julia Katharine, a Japanese- close, so when László announced he was Brazilian trans actress-filmmaker. Veering Will Hear moving to a monastery in Connecticut, Zita between performative and confessional, was shocked and confused. This choice constantly self-aware and thought-provoking, Director Simon Plouffe, 2017 According to UNESCO, a language ceases to be meant that the siblings would only be allowed Julia’s monologue covers broad ground, Country Canada spoken in the world every fifteen days.Those Who to see each other once a year, communicating delving into her childhood, relationships, Duration 77’ Come, Will Hear brings together the speakers of otherwise only through letters. Eight years on, hopes and desires whilst referring frequently Date Saturday 8th September, 18.00 several indigenous languages of Quebec – Zita secures permission to spend two weeks to the films she’s seen that have come to Location Picturehouse Central whose dialects face extinction. Simon Plouffe filming her brother inside the monastery and inform her identity. combines sensitive, observational portraits finally confront him about his decision. Screens with: of daily life in the remote communities where Taking its cues from Shirley Clarke’s Portrait The Amendment these unsung tongues are still spoken with vivid, A fascinating insight into the ultra-conservative of Jason and Jean Eustache’s Numéro Zero, Kevin Papatie, 2007, Canada, 5’ exquisitely captured field recordings that reveal Catholic brotherhood of the Legionaries, The I Remember the Crows unfolds over the both the rich musicality of the languages and Best Thing You Can Do With Your Life is a course of one remarkable night as, fuelled the cultural importance of these venerable oral cathartic, intimate study of family bonds and by insomnia and white wine, Julia tells her traditions. A vital, urgent archival project, Plouffe’s religious devotion. life story. film serves as a profound reflection on the consequences of the erosion of linguistic diversity.

Supported by the High Commission of Canada in the UK.

In partnership with Origins Festival. 40 SUNDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2018 SUNDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2018 41

1. We Are The Littletons The Short Films Penny Lane, 2004, USA, 10’ 2. Men Seeking Women Penny Lane, 2007, USA, 4’ of Penny Lane 3. She Used to See Him Most Weekends Date Sunday 9th September, 13.00 Penny Lane, 2007, USA, 4’ Location BFI Southbank 4. How to Write an Autobiography Penny Lane, 2010, USA, 4’ Penny Lane’s films combine archive, found-materials 5. The Voyagers Sennan Jamilia and sound recordings to pose questions around Penny Lane, 2010, USA, 17’ authorship and authenticity throughout history. This 6. The Silent Majority Director Aminatou Echard, 2018 screening offers a rare opportunity to see Lane’s short Penny Lane & Brian L. Frye, Asbestos Country France form work; distinctive, entertaining and provocative in 2011, USA, 4’ Duration 84’ equal measure. The event will include an extended Q&A 7. Normal Appearances Date Sunday 9th September, 13.00 with Penny covering her work and creative practice. Penny Lane, 2018, USA, 5’ Disaster Location Prince Charles Cinema 8. Nellie Bly Makes the News Penny Lane, 2018, USA, 23’ Director Kazuo Hara, 2017 Recorded in Kyrgyzstan, artist filmmaker Country Japan Aminatou Echard’s first feature length work Duration 215’ searches for Jamilia, the eponymous heroine Date Sunday 9th September, 12.30 of Chingiz Aitmatov’s classic 1958 novel about Location Regent Street Cinema a young woman who, having been abducted and forced to marry, fled with her lover. Kazuo Hara’s longitudinal latest film follows a group of factory workers battling—over Fifty years after the book’s publishing, Echard a long, gruelling court case—against the travels to meet several generations of Kyrgyz Japanese government for compensation women. The film that resulted from her for deadly respiratory diseases caused by research is a delicate and impressionistic exposure to asbestos. Super 8 portrait of the country reflected Voices of through the prism of their stories, exploring Filmed over eight years in the small town a culture where the patriarchal system curbs of Sennan, long a centre for asbestos their freedom to work, desire, love, live or the Sea related industry in Japan, Hara documents dream, yet resistance remains. the plight of the workers in heartbreaking Director Kim Hopkins, 2018 freedom. Already a treacherous crossing, the detail as, with failing health, they take on Screens with: Country UK, USA US Coast Guard patrol the waters, returning the seemingly impenetrable bureaucratic At Land Duration 99’ migrants to certain punishment. What’s more, machine that stands in their way. With his Maya Deren, 1944, USA, 15’ Date Sunday 9th September, 15.15 her older husband, Pita would rather endure typically unflinching gaze, Hara creates a Location Curzon Soho the tough conditions to stay in a community moving, masterful portrait of a vulnerable and and a profession that he loves. marginalised community and their dogged An emotionally charged film exploring the fight for justice. irreconcilable choices faced by the residents Voices of the Sea is a beautifully shot and of a remote Cuban fishing village. Mother of surprisingly frank portrait of the people that four Mariela is tempted to follow her brother Cuban socialism was supposed to protect. to Miami in their pursuit of wealth and 42 SUNDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2018 SUNDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2018 43

Home of the Hale County Resistance + This Morning, Uppland This Evening

Director Ivan Ramljak, 2018 + Director RaMell Ross, 2018 Edward Lawrenson, 2018 Country USA Country Croatia + UK, Ireland Duration 76’ Duration 50’ + 29’ Date Sunday 9th September, 16.30 Date Sunday 9th September, 14.30 Location ICA Location ICA Dazzling and sun-drenched Hale County, In Kumrovec in 1974, communist authorities This Morning, This Evening is an innovative, built the Memorial Home for WWII Resistance impressionistic portrait of contemporary life Fighters and Youth of Yugoslavia, a building in Hale County, Alabama. Constructed from a Closing Night that has lain dormant since its closure in 1991. series of fleeting, quotidian moments—from The Swing Ivan Ramljak’s atmospheric spatial study church services to basketball practice and Home of the Resistance stares through the family gatherings—RaMell Ross’ careful, Director Cyril Aris, 2018 An assured, emotionally rich film about the modernist architectural elegance to reveal, considered project was filmed over five years. Country Lebanon lies a family tells to protect their patriarch; and within its ruined walls, the spectres of the past. Duration 74’ the unintended costs of their falsehood. After These images add up to far more than beauty Date Sunday 9th September, 18.00 sixty years of marriage, Antoine and Vivi have Edward Lawrenson’s Uppland (made with for beauty’s sake, however. When taken as Location Regent Street Cinema lost their most beloved daughter; but no one architect Killian Doherty) looks at the remote a whole, the film serves as an urgent and has dared to tell the bedridden nonagenarian highlands of Liberia, where a once thriving current political critique, questioning issues Antoine, lest his heart crack. A simple mining town now stands abandoned, of representation and stereotype prevalent solution, though everyone else in this densely decaying and desolate: a concrete ruin in in images of black America. One of the most interconnected family has then to live the the West African bush. It is a film about essential and important works of non-fiction same lie, giving no expression to their grief. architecture; the remnants of colonialism; and filmmaking of the year. the spiritual cost of industrial mining. A deeply affecting, beautifully shot cinematic In partnership with Frames of Representation. novella; like all the best stories The Swing is a In partnership with UCL Urban Laboratory. simple tale, but one that never short-changes its viewers. In partnership with MUBI. 44 THE ART OF NON–FICTION SPECIAL EVENTS 45

Nabihah Iqbal Marc Isaacs Presents: Presents: Wadi, 10 Years Later Winter Soldier Director Amos Gitai, 1991 Country Israel Director Winterfilm Collective, 1972 Duration 97’ Country USA Date Wednesday 5th September, 20:30 Duration 96’ Location Regent Street Cinema Date Saturday 8th September, 18:00 Location ICA Peppered with unforgettable characters who wouldn’t feel out of place in a novel, Special In February 1971, one month after the —from Israeli filmmaker Wadi, 10 Years Later notorious My Lai massacre, over one hundred Amos Gitai—is a deeply affecting piece of veterans gathered to testify filmmaking offering an alternative perspective in an unprecedented public inquiry into the on Arab-Israeli relations. Focusing on the Events atrocities committed by American forces intimate lives of three couples over a decade, in combat. Organised by anti-war veterans’ Gitai elegantly constructs an episodic tale organisation ‘Vietnam Veterans Against of coexistence between Eastern European the War’, the event was barely reported to migrant camp survivors and Arabs expelled the American public at the time. But their from their homes - all living together on the unflinching testimony was captured by a margins of Israeli society in a an isolated filmmaking collective and turned into this raw, former stone quarry. An unforgettably angry and radical documentary that remains humane and life-affirming piece of work, essential viewing today. Wadi deserves to be witnessed by a wider audience. DJ, producer and NTS Radio presenter Nabihah Iqbal will present a rare screening Filmmaker Marc Isaacs will present Wadi, 10 of the film, followed by a discussion and Years Later, followed by a discussion about an evening of music inspired by the film, the film. featuring protest songs and music from the anti-war movement from 1950-1975, in the Nash & Brandon Rooms, ICA.

In partnership with MUBI. 46 SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL EVENTS 47

In The Dark & Radio Tomorrow’s Thoughts Moving Parts: The Ethno-Fictions of Atlas Present: Today: Hello, City! The Short Films of Laura Huertas Millán Words from Inside Date Friday 7th September, 19.30 Bogdan Dziworski Date Friday 7th September, 21.00 Location Regent Street Cinema Location ICA (St Maur Prison) Date Saturday 8th September, 17.45 Digital technologies are radically reshaping Location Regent Street Cinema These three acclaimed works from Colombian By René Farabet our perception and occupation of cities. Join filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán combine Date Thursday 6th September, 18.30 speculative architect Liam Young and an This curated programme celebrates the multiple modes of storytelling to explore the Location Regent Street Cinema all-seeing smart city operating system as work of maverick Polish filmmaker Bogdan spaces where documentary, anthropology they take a tour in a driverless taxi through a Dziworski whose surrealist, mostly wordless and fiction intertwine. A triptych of rich and “What is listening? An intense and respectful network of software systems, autonomous studies of movement, bodies, competition poignant personal portraits—all produced by way of coming close to the Other”. This event infrastructures, ghost architectures, and performance are amongst the most Millán during a practice-based PhD between will remember the work of René Farabet (1934 anomalies, glitches, and sprites, searching original works of communist era Polish non- Beaux-Arts de and Harvard Sensory - 2017), a master of the creative audio feature. for the wilds beyond the machine. fiction filmmaking. A professionally trained Ethnography Lab—Sol Negro (2016), La Just over a year since his death we will photographer and cinematographer—famous Libertad (2017) and jeny303 (2018) deftly celebrate his legacy and the inspiration it The talk will be an audio-visual expedition to a for his work with both Pawel Pawlikowski and move between the real and the imagined; gave to many producers around the world city found somewhere between the present Grzegorz Królikiewicz—Dziworski also has a melodrama and memoir; staged performance with a chance to hear his award-winning and the predicted, the real and the imagined background in the visual arts. The innovative, and interview to challenge the colonial roots documentary Paroles du Dedans (Central de - stitched together from fragments of real experimental hybrid works presented here of ethnography, examining complex ideas St Maur) / Words from Inside (St Maur Prison). landscapes and designed urban fictions. meet thrillingly at the intersection of all around representation, womanhood, and three disciplines. individual and collective freedoms. All three Subtitled especially for this event by Radio Atlas, The performance will be preceded by a films, grouped together by the filmmaker as Paroles du Dedans weaves together audio programme of short films: In partnership with London Short Film Festival. her “ethnographic fictions” series, screen as compositions created by the inmates of St UK premieres. Maur Prison with their reflections on sound and Transitions A Few Stories About a Man listening while serving long-term sentences. Aurèle Ferrier, 2017, Switzerland, 13’ Bogdan Dziworski, Poland, 1983, 20‘ Sol Negro View From Above The Cross and the Axe Laura Huertas Millán, Colombia & France, Hiwa K, 2018, Germany, 13’ Bogdan Dziworski, Poland, 1972, 14’ 2016, 43’ The Hymns of Muscovy Georg Philipp Telemann’s Travels from La Libertad Dimitri Venkov, 2018, Russia, 14’ Żary to Pszczyna Laura Huertas Millán, Colombia & Mexico & Cosmorama Bogdan Dziworski, Poland, 1974, 25’ France & USA, 2017, 29’ Hugo Deverchère, France, 2018, 23’ Ski Scenes with Franz Klammer jeny303 Bogdan Dziworski, Poland, 1980, 21’ Laura Huertas Millán, Colombia & France, Szapito 2018, 6’ Bogdan Dziworski, Poland, 1984 I 29’ 48 SPECIAL EVENTS THE ART OF NON–FICTION 49

Hyphen: An Evening Co-presented with NANG & CREAM (University of Westminster). with NANG Mouth to Mouth Date Wednesday 5th September, 18.30 Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, 1975, 8’ Location Regent Street Cinema Tell me the story Of all these things Rehana Zaman, 2017, 23’ “Where are you from?”. “Right, but where are Airliner you really from?”. Hyphen is a programme Hiraki Sawa, 2003, 3’ featuring short films and video works from Sugiharti Halim artists and filmmakers who voluntarily or Ariani Darmawan, 2008, 10’ involuntarily moved outside their country of Destination Nowhere origin. Presented as part of the London launch Prapat Jiwarangsan, 2018, 7’ of the latest issue (Issue 4: In & Out) of NANG, Latifah and Himli’s Nomadic Uncle a magazine on Asian cinema, this programme Alnoor Dewshi, 1992, 15’ hopes to counter the narrative of hostile simplification that has embroiled the topic of Total: 66’ migration in recent years by celebrating the Co-curated by Maryam Tafakory & Julian Ross diversity of voices and experiences that the Industry Events: hyphen brings. A panel discussion with artists and contributors will follow. Masterclasses FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAPIENS AND HOMO DEUS Talks & Workshops Vintage Advert? Learn. All industry events are £5 for members of the public or free entry with an industry accreditation.

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The Reality of Border Crossings: Border Crossings Pitch Unconventional the Market Bringing Research to Characters Date Wednesday 5th September, 18.00 Date Wednesday 5th September, 13.00 the Screen Location Festival Hub – Studio Location Festival Hub –Studio Date Thursday 6th September, 12.00 Date Wednesday 5th September, 14.30 Join us for the 2018 Border Crossings pitch Location Festival Hub – Studio Get an insight into the business side of Location Festival Hub – Studio where we will award a combined £7,500 documentary filmmaking with this discussion of development funding to two projects. Biopic documentaries are notoriously tricky to on the reality of the market. We’ll be exploring The Border Crossings development fund From over 380 applications, the shortlisted get right. When your muse is a known figure, the key factors you should be considering as launched at Open City Documentary Festival filmmakers and researchers met earlier in how do you ensure you stay on the right an independent filmmaker to ensure that your in 2014 to support collaboration between the year to form teams, bringing together the side of the thin line between biography and projects are funded, acquired and distributed. filmmakers and researchers. Ahead of best in non-fiction storytelling with cutting hagiography? The pressure to encapsulate Our panel of industry experts will share their the 2018 pitch, we’ve invited a line-up of edge research from universities across a person’s life story in 90 minutes can be perspective on the current landscape, and teams from previous editions to share their the UK. This will be a live pitch to a panel tough and audience expectations can be even ensure that you know how to keep up to speed. experiences of bringing academic research of industry experts and the winners will be worse. Our panel of filmmakers will share their stories to life through film. Speakers include announced at the awards ceremony on experience of challenging the biopic genre Edward Lawrenson (Uppland, OCDF 2018), Saturday 8th September. and crafting biopics that go beyond the norm. Simon Ball (Do You See What I See?) and Chloe White and Rose Palmer (1001 Days).

A film doesn’t exist until an audience has seen it, however most filmmakers lack the skills and experience to put together a comprehensive audience engagement Providing access to valuable funding and plan for their film. Led by the #datageeks tax relief, co-productions are on everyone’s at Together Films, this session will provide mind right now but what does it really mean insight on how to approach your marketing for a film? We welcome the team behind and distribution plan to ensure that the right Becoming Animal to talk about their audience see your film on the right platform. experience working on the UK-Swiss Marketing, Distribution Be empowered with #data to approach Co-Production Case co-production, a model for international distributors with an understanding of your cooperation. Producer Rebecca Day and co- & Data target market. Stand out from the rest by Study: Becoming Animal director Emma Davie will offer unique insight engaging your audience early, to maximise on setting up the co-production, balancing Date Wednesday 5th September, 16.00 the commercial and impact potential of Date Thursday 6th September, 12.00 the budget and juggling a team based Location Festival Hub –Studio your film. Location Festival Hub – Lounge between Scotland, Canada and Switzerland. 52 INDUSTRY EVENTS INDUSTRY EVENTS 53

In the Frame: The Ethics of Seeing Film in Place Strange & Charmed Cinematography presents: Audio in Date Thursday 6th September, 15.00 Date Friday 7th September, 12.00 Roundtable Location Festival Hub – Studio Location Festival Hub – Lounge Wonderland

Date Thursday 6th September, 13.30 How do we see and in what manner do we Architecture and film are both based in Date Friday 7th September, 11.00 Location Festival Hub – Studio look? Since its inception, documentarians have space, movement and time as well as both Location Festival Hub – Studio debated what a truthful and an ethical camera responding to the human condition in Join a line-up of seasoned cinematographers attitude to the human subject might be. Within narrative form. This session will explore the There’s a lot of ‘radio-splaining’ in broadcasting to talk about the trials and tribulations of this contested visual space, people with relationship between film and architecture and podcasting... always checking that documenting reality. This panel will break down terminal diagnoses and in the end stages of with a panel of artist and filmmakers. Our the listener is keeping up. It has become the creative process behind crafting cinematic life are often denied cultural participation and panelists will discuss their own creative the dominant mode for storytellers, but it non-fiction from behind the lens, explore the therefore an image. This was the premise for practice and the ideas explored in their work doesn’t leave much room for other ways of challenges of shooting as the story unfolds making ISLAND, which follows four individuals of visualising space, documenting landscapes experiencing the world that are less analytical in front of you, and reveal key techniques for to the end of their lives. Director Steven and crafting temporal explorations of place. and more intuitive and instinctive. It doesn’t successfully communicating with your crew. Eastwood and producer Elhum Shakerifar will leave much room for wonder. As founder and reflect on the film’s making, the taboo of death In partnership with UCL Urban Laboratory. caretaker of Strange & Charmed, a school for on screen, and the ethics of aesthetics. audio storytellers, Cathy FitzGerald wants to inspire makers to play and take risks. She asks what a more wonder-full type of audio How can sound design enhance a might sound like - and what effect it might documentary? Using real life documentary have on listeners. examples, this session from Clear Cut Pictures explores the ins and outs of utilising sound to aid storytelling. Showing examples within Pro Tools, this session will use ‘before’ and ‘after’ clips to show how to use different sounds What is the responsibility of a producer to affect mood, intelligibility, and audience when it comes to telling a story through understanding; breaking down the differences sound? We ask where to draw the line between sound design, track-laying and between curiosity, contempt and empathy Using Sound to Help mixing. Covering techniques for during your Putting Principles Into when offering listeners an insight into Tell Your Story shoot and after, Clear Cut will explain exactly another person’s experience of the world. what is possible at each stage of the audio Practice: Audio Ethics Confronting the relationship between facts post-production process; what you can fix and and storytelling, our panel of producers Date Thursday 6th September, 16.30 importantly what you can’t fix.early, to maximise Date Friday 7th September, 12.30 will explore the important questions Location Festival Hub – Studio the commercial and impact potential of your film. Location Festival Hub – Studio around ethics and representation in radio documentary. 54 INDUSTRY EVENTS INDUSTRY EVENTS 55

Audio Playground The Whickers The Personal Lens Intersections: RAFA Pitch Tadhg O’Sullivan Date Friday 7th September, 14.00 Date Saturday 8th September, 11.30 Location Festival Hub – Studio Location Festival Hub – Studio in Conversation Date Friday 7th September, 16.00 Miranda July writes that the experience of art Location Festival Hub – Studio Personal filmmaking plays a complex role in Date Saturday 8th September, 13.00 can act as an assignment to make art, “in the the world of non-fiction. When working with Location Festival Hub – Studio same way that the ocean gives the assignment At The Whickers RAFA Pitch, five finalists personal experience, filmmakers must draw of breathing deeply, and kissing instructs us to will pitch their projects to an industry panel connections with a wider context or risk From co-directing a feature about cult Japanese stop thinking.” In Sarah Geis’ Audio Playground to decide who will be awarded this year’s alienating their audience, while striking the musician Yximalloo to exploring Europe’s courses she encourages just this, using weird coveted Radio & Audio Funding Award (RAFA). balance between intimacy and information. borders through Kafka in The Great Wall, Tadhg and wonderful audio pieces as prompts for The RAFA is the first and most substantial Considering the role of the self and O’Sullivan’s work resists classification. Besides work less concerned with perfection and funding award of its kind - gifting £7,000 subjectivity in cinema, a line-up of filmmakers his directorial efforts, he has collaborated as more concerned with experimentation. In this to the winning audio producer to produce screening work at this year’s festival will an editor on Pat Collins’ Song of Granite and session, she will share insights and audio from a documentary, as well as a contribution discuss using their own personal perspective Silence, and on Feargal Ward’s The Lonely these low-stakes/high-risk audio courses - of £3,000 to the runner-up. Assess and as a window into a universal narrative, from Battle of Thomas Reid (which he also co- with the goal of helping producers rediscover support the contenders, and bear witness the political to the philosophical. produced); recently produced a radio piece one of their original motivations: fun. Note: as the legacy of Alan Whicker brings another about Chernobyl; and is currently making a film bring a recorder, or phone that records. exceptional documentary idea to life. about the moon. Tadhg will discuss his creative process, approach to collaboration, and finding the form for each project. It is said we are living in a ‘golden age of storytelling’, with the term used frequently How do we solve the stubborn, maddening by academics, journalism and documentary- puzzle of historical memory? How to image makers alike. But might the quest for a “good it, how to communicate across and through story” risk undermining both good research it, how to remain true to it and also transcend and good journalism? This session will it, how to make it alive and potent. Archival offer a series of short provocations on this materials contain within them the possibility theme, followed by break-away discussion Screaming Across of ‘translating’ across time, not just telling new groups that will allow participants from ‘stories’, but also allowing for different kinds of The Tyranny of Story: across disciplines to share experiences and a Century: looking and listening. In working with archival A Workshop for Academics & reflections of the power and limits of story in Reinvigorating Archival Filmmaking material, we are reckoning with the process Storytellers From All Mediums their work, and gain a greater understanding with Sierra Pettengill by which archival objects themselves bear of how they might work together to harness witness to the stories they tell—how these Date Friday 7th September, 18.30 the strengths of story while guarding against Date Saturday 8th September, 15.00 materials, reexamined in new contexts, can Location Festival Hub – Studio its shortcomings. Location Festival Hub – Studio reveal unexpected truths. 56 INDUSTRY EVENTS INDUSTRY EVENTS 57

Cinematography Resident Advisor: The Trajectory The Long Run: Masterclass: Iris Ng Real Scenes of Memory Getting More Life Out Date Saturday 8th September, 19.00 Date Sunday 9th September, 11.00 Date Sunday 9th September, 13.30 Of The Short Form Location Festival Hub – Studio Location Festival Hub – Lounge Location Festival Hub – Studio Date Sunday 9th September, 15.00 Iris Ng is recognised as a versatile cinematographer Hear from the Resident Advisor Films Documentary storytelling can be used as a Location Festival Hub – Studio who lends her patience, creativity, intuition, and team about the making of their flagship vital document to record events, injustices or skill to bring a director’s vision to the screen. She is documentary series ‘Real Scenes’ which communities to ensure they are not lost from The days of short films being seen as less known for her work on ’s multi award- explores the musical, cultural and creative the collective consciousness with the passing important are over and a short runtime does winning and her co-credit on the climate within electronic music’s key of time. This session will explore the potential not mean you have to compromise on the Emmy Award-winning Making A Murderer. For over destinations. Using a number of episodes for film to preserve memories, transmit ambition of the project. We’ll speak to a panel a decade, Iris has also collaborated with filmmakers from the series as case studies, this testimony and create historical evidence. of filmmakers about rising to the challenge such as Vikram Jayanti, Min Sook Lee, Fredrik session will take you behind the scenes of Our panel of filmmakers will discuss the and making the most of the short form Gertten, and artists such as Chris Curreri, Oliver international shoots, cover securing access to challenges and creative responsibility faced documentary, as well as the strategy for getting Husain, Bambitchell, and Richard Fung. Her recent and building relationships with contributors, by those using non-fiction moving image your short out into the world once it’s ready. work includes Migrant Dreams, A Better Man and and explore the challenges of distilling a city’s forms to document others’ stories. Sandi Tan’s Sundance Award-winning film . music scene into a single film.

Date Sunday 9th September, 11.30 Location Festival Hub – Studio

To launch Second Run DVD’s blu-ray disc collection of his work (and accompanying book), filmmaker Marc Isaacs will be in conversation with his long standing editor, David Charap. Using extracts from Marc’s films, the pair will reveal their working relationship with a focus on the construction of character, working with The Art of the Cut: multiple character stories and how to transform everyday reality into something more poetic and Marc Isaacs & David memorable. Hosted by Second Run DVD founder Mehelli Modi, this session offers an opportunity Charap in Conversation to gain an insight into the creative struggles experienced by both a film’s director and its editor. 58 INDUSTRY EVENTS SOCIAL EVENTS 59

Industry Industry Social Events Bootcamp Networking & Parties

Aimed at students and recent Nightly Networking Happy Hour at Kick back and join us for a drink and a graduates, these sessions will be about the Festival Hub! dance at this year’s festival parties. preparing for the next steps in your career and getting ready to enter the Wednesday 5th September – Friday 7th Tuesday 4th September: Saturday 8th September: industry. Each event is £5, or free with September, 17.00 - 18.30 Opening Night Reception Nabihah Iqbal Presents Party student accreditation. Downstairs at The Finery Nash & Brandon Rooms at the ICA, Institute Saturday 8th September - 18.00 - 19.30 23 Great Castle Street, W1G 0JA of Contemporary Art, The Mall, SW1Y 5AH Supported by the Open City Docs School Following the Opening Night Gala at the 20.00 – 01.00 MA Ethnographic and Documentary Film Sunday 9th September - 15.00 - 16.00 Regent Street Cinema at UCL. Festival Hub at China Exchange, DJ, Producer & NTS Radio presenter 32A Gerrard Street, W1D 6JA Wednesday 5th September: Nabihah Iqbal presents an evening of Getting into Production Bar at Curzon Soho music inspired by 1972 documentary Thu 6th Sep, 10.30, Festival Hub – Lounge Come and meet other festival attendees 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5DY Winter Soldier: featuring protest songs and Want to get your foot in the door of and filmmakers at our daily Happy Hour 19.00 – 23.00 music from the anti-war movement from production? Meet some of the best in the drinks. Drinks will be provided by our 1950-1975. business and learn more about working sponsors Conker Spirit and Square Thursday 6th September: as a researcher, making your CV stand Root Soda. Upstairs at Bar Soho out, and how to make a lasting impression 23-25 Old Compton Street, W1D 5JL Sunday 9th September: once you’re in. 20.00 – 01.00 Closing Night Reception Regent Street Cinema Bar Meet the Gatekeepers: Friday 7th: 309 Regent Street, W1B 2UW Getting Commissioned Blue Room at BFI Southbank Following the Closing Night Gala at the Fri 7th Sep, 10.30, Festival Hub – Lounge BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT Regent Street Cinema. Our panel of commissioners will take 19.00 – 23.00 you through the process of getting work funded. This session will cover how to pitch your project, the inside scoop on what funders are looking to support and how to build a good relationship with the individuals that matter.

Surviving as a Freelance Filmmaker Sat 8 Sep, 10.30, Festival Hub – Lounge Keep it real with our panel of filmmakers as they share their experiences of making the freelance life work for them. From balancing commercial with creative projects to building a personal brand, we’ll cover all the tips and tricks for sustaining yourself in the industry. 60 EXPANDED REALITIES EXPANDED REALITIES 61

Expanded Realities The Future of Barrier to Entry: The relationship between art and technology Journalism Accessibility in XR continues to develop with the increasing crossover of VR, AR and MR into our daily Date Friday 7th September, 12:10 Date Friday 7th September, 17:00 lives. Non-fiction storytellers are thriving in Location Digital Catapult Location Digital Catapult the immersive space, providing new ways of seeing and challenging our understanding Journalism was one of the first industries to Accessibility in cross-media is still a huge of the world around us. Through these embrace 360 filmmaking and now the move issue, both for creators and audiences. This technologies, audiences are being offered to AR technologies too. Our panel will discuss panel will address the big questions of who opportunities to enhance, expand and re- Masterclass with the current standing of VR in the world of gets to tell the stories, who gets to experience evaluate their experience of reality. This year’s news as well as looking forward to what’s on them and what the industry can do to break Expanded Realities programme seeks to Fifer Garbesi the horizon with keeping audiences informed down barriers and allow more diverse voices to provide an insight into the current status of about global issues. inform the future of digital storytelling. cross-media storytelling with a symposium Date Friday 7th September, 09:30 and exhibition, presented in partnership with Location Digital Catapult Digital Catapult. Creative XR Expanded Realities Fifer Garbesi is a virtual reality producer and director intent on testing the limits of Date Friday 7th September, 14:00 Exhibition the medium through mixing immersive Location Digital Catapult Expanded Realities technologies in new ways. Her work focuses This year we will showcase a line-up of on answering key questions in immersive Chaired by Rebecca Gregory-Clarke (lead innovative and exciting cross-media projects Symposium storytelling such as How do we learn best technologist: immersive (VR/AR)), this in our Festival Hub. The exhibition will feature Expanded Realities Symposium in VR? How can we hack identity and session will look at how programmes like three thematic strands (A New Lens, Sonic The Expanded Realities symposium will perception? Her 360 documentary, ¡Viva la Creative XR can help companies develop and Motion) and will feature a variety of VR, bring together creators, innovators and Evolución!, exploring underground dance in concepts and prototypes of immersive immersive and interactive work. The exhibition researchers to bridge the gap between the Cuba screened at Cannes NEXT, The World content for documentary filmmaking. Hear will be open and free to the public and offers worlds of technology and storytelling. The VR Forum, and Raindance. She has received from participants of the programme first- an opportunity to experience a breadth of new day of talks will feature speakers from around support for her work from JUMP and hand on how the arts and culture industry can visions of documentary storytelling. the world who are pioneers in their fields, Oculus Launchpad and produced content better utilise this advanced digital technology. pushing the boundaries of what is possible for the Nobel Peace Prize. Co-Founder of Highlights include VVVR (Visual Voice Virtual in the cross-media space. Raising questions ARTandVR, she hosts immersive art shows to Reality), a voice controlled tool for self surrounding empathy, accessibility, ethics and bridge the technology and art worlds. Spotlight: Round Two exploration and well being, interactive audio representation, the symposium will explore the walk project It Must Have Been Dark By Then, issues facing this burgeoning industry as well Date Friday 7th September, 15:30 and a colourful virtual reality music video from as offering inspiration for any aspiring creators Spotlight: Round One Location Digital Catapult LCD Soundsystem, Dance Tonite. looking to move into the world of XR. Date Friday 7th September, 10:50 We’ll hear from a line-up of creators and experts Presented in partnership with Digital Catapult Location Digital Catapult about their craft and creative process in a round and Virtual Umbrella. The symposium is free to attend but requires of lightning talks including Ray McClure & Casey advance booking. We’ll hear from a line-up of creators and McGonagle (Creators of VVVR) on ‘Social VR’ experts about their craft and creative process and Drew Macquarrie (UCL Centre for Virtual in a round of lightning talks including Karen Environments, Interaction & Visualisation) on Palmer (Immersive Filmmaker) on AI and Digital ‘Understanding Audience’. Storytelling and Tobin Asher (Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab) on Empathy in VR. 62 OPEN CITY DOCS SCHOOL UCL 360 is the Immersive Factual Storytelling (VR/AR)63 12 studio in UCL’s MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film – the first course of its kind in the UK, and one of the first Short Courses A practice-based course with researcher, in the world. artist and interactive designer Jeremiah

Since 2014, Open City Docs School has been Ambrose for those interested in making Provides students with the foundations in immersive running short documentary courses at VR interactive 360° film content and factual storytelling formats - teaching filmmaking, spatial UCL Anthropology, varying from film theory environments. Students will learn to use sound and post-production techniques for 360° VR. lectures, practical camera training, film Gear 360 cameras and Unity software; no Offers access to 360° filming equipment throughout the editing and workshops, led by award-winning programming experience is required. year, alongside introduction to a wide range of the latest filmmakers and offering access to high-quality VR/AR and other immersive technologies. equipment. See upcoming courses below, find Receive training from experts sitting at the heart of this information and book on our website. Introduction To new, fast-moving media sector, and become involved in 360° Spatial Audio shaping immersive factual filmmaking for the future Making Radio For more information please visit: Production www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/studying/ma-ethnographic- Documentary documentary-film 12th November - 10th December 2018 24th October – 14th November 2018 With specialist 360 audio engineer and sound Led by BBC reporter and producer Chloe designer Jack Reynolds and immersive audio Hadjimatheou - covering developing, pitching, designer and producer Axel Drioli, learn all of recording, interviewing, scripting, structuring and the practical and conceptual aspects of 360° editing - this course provides the skills required spatial audio recording, editing, mixing and UCL 360 - Studio 4: Immersive Storytelling (VR/AR) Factual to get out there and start putting together an exporting for delivery for multiple platforms. audio doc, podcast or radio programme. Documenting Life Investigations & A practice-based MA for those who are starting innovative On Film businesses where the way you do things is as important as what you do – a rigorous application of theory to Appropriations In 13th November - 4th December 2018 making and doing things that people need or want. Ethnographic & From harnessing the initial desire to explore an idea through to pitching a story, filmmaker Students will launch their enterprise during the Documentary Film Lucy Cohen’s course will focus on building course using iterative processes to deliver value, creat relationships with contributors, filming in customers and grow a circle of interest in their product or service. 29th October – 24th December 2018 intimate situations, developing narratives over Join lecturer, critic and curator Helen de time and drawing out engaging themes. Creative and collaborative techniques taught by leading Witt for a film history and theory course creative practitioners from the UK’s performing arts communities including Improbable, Danny Scheinmann investigating strategies of exploration and and Ed Woodall. representation of the physical world, the Using Video For imaginary realm and the transient experience Ethnographic Research The programme draws on social theory from UCL of human life through experimental, Anthropology and entrepreneurship startup models taught by UCL School of Management. ethnographic and documentary film. 17th November - 1st December 2018 This course - led by filmmaker and Ipsos MORI For more information please visit: ethnographer Pinny Grylls - teaches students www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/studying/ma-creative- collaborative-enterprise Introduction To how to capture authentic human behaviour Interactive VR 360° Film on video, generating more insightful and meaningful footage for ethnographic research, 29th October - 26th November 2018 starting with basic camera skills and editing. MA in Creative & MA in Creative Enterprise Collaborative 64 65 Tickets & Booking Team & Thanks!

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Film Title Director Year Country of Production Runtime Page 21.3 °c Helena Whittmann 2014 Germany 16’ 31 26 rue Saint-Fargeau Margaux Guillemard 2017 France 30’ 34 A Few Stories About a Man Bogdan Dziworski 1983 Poland 20’ 47 A God’s Shadow Bernhard Hetzenauer 2017 Germany, Austria, Mexico 15’ 31 Absent Wound Maryam Tafakory 2018 Iran, UK 10’ 26 Airliner Hiraki Sawa 2003 3’ 48 América Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside 2018 USA 76’ 32 Angkar Neary Adeline Hay 2018 France 71’ 31 At Land Maya Deren 1944 USA 15’ 40 Baronesa Juliana Antunes 2017 Brazil 71’ 25 Becoming Animal Emma Davie, Peter Mettler 2018 Switzerland, 78’ 28 Black Sun (Sol Negro) Laura Huertas Milan 2016 Colombia, France, USA 43’ 47 Breaking News Tomáš Bojar 2018 Czech Republic 73’ 36 Casanova Gene Luise Donschen 2018 Germany 67’ 31 Destination Nowhere Prapat Jiwarangsan 2018 Thailand 7’ 48 Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 Kazuo Hara 1974 Japan 98’ 29 Flight of a Bullet Beata Bubenec 2017 Russia, Latvia 80’ 30 Georg Phillipp Telemann’s Travels from Żary to Pszczyna Bogdan Dziworski 1974 Poland 14’ 47 Golden Dawn Girls Håvard Bustnes 2017 Norway, Denmark, Finland 92’ 37 Graven Image Sierra Pettengill 2017 USA 11’ 33 H is For Harry Ed Owles, Jaime Taylor 2018 UK 81’ 30 Hale County This Morning, This Evening RaMell Ross 2018 USA 76’ 42 Home of the Resistance Ivan Ramljak 2018 Croatia 50’ 42 How to Write an Autobiography Penny Lane 2010 USA 4’ 21 I Remember the Crows Gustavo Vinagre 2018 80’ 38 Irish Voices Arthur MacCaig 1995 Brazil 13’ 35 Jamilia Aminatou Echard 2018 France 84’ 40 jeny303 Laura Huertas Milan 2018 Colombia, France 6’ 47 Kinshasa Makambo Dieudo Hamadi 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo / France / 75’ 33 Switzerland / Germany / Norway La Libertad Laura Huertas Milan 2017 Colombia, France, USA 30’ 47 Landline Matt Houghton 2017 United Kingdom 12’ 26 Latifah and Himli’s Nomadic Uncle Alnoor Dewshi 1992 UK 15’ 48 Ma Maria Stoianova 2017 Ukraine 17’ 26 Men Seeking Women Penny Lane 2007 USA 4’ 21 Missed Call Victoria Mapplebeck 2018 UK 19’ 26 Mouth to Mouth Theresa Has Kyung Cha 1975 8’ 48 My Room Fang Hong 2018 China 9’ 28 Nellie Bly Makes the News Penny Lane 2018 USA 23’ 21 Normal Appearances Penny Lane 2018 USA 5’ 21 OFF Helena Whittmann & Luise Donschen 2018 Germany 12’ 31

Our Nixon Penny Lane 2013 USA 85’ 34 Paroles du Dedans (Central de St Maur)/ René Farabet 1972 France 63’ 46 Words from Inside (St Maur Prison) Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain Sarah Boothroyd 2006 Canada 6’ 36 Plastic Man Yulia Kovanova 2017 UK 10’ 33 Roosenberg Ingel Vaikla 2017 Estonia /Belgium 29’ 34 Season of Goodbyes Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann 2018 Kenya, UK 14’ 26 Self-Portrait: Sphinx in 47KM Zhang Mengqi 2017 China 94’ 28 Sennan Asbestos Disaster Kazuo Hara 2017 Japan 215’ 40 She Used to See Him Most Weekends Penny Lane 2007 USA 4’ 21 Ski Scenes with Franz Klammer Bogdan Dziworski 1980 Poland 21’ 47 Skywards Eva Weber 2017 UK 5’ 28 Some of These Days Vincent Förster 2018 Germany, UK 16’ 34 Stone Engravings and the Three-Colored Chickenpox Tale Luciana Mazeto & Vinícius Lopes 2017 Brazil 21’ 33 Sugiharti Halim Ariani Darmawan 2008 Indonesia 10’ 48 Szapito Bogdan Dziworski 1984 Poland 29’ 47 Tell me the story Of all these things Rehana Zaman 2017 UK 23’ 48 The Amendment Kevin Papatie 2007 Canada 5’ 39 The Best Thing You Can Do With Your Life Zita Erffa 2018 Germany, Mexico 93’ 38 The Cross and the Axe Bogdan Dziworski 1972 Poland 14’ 47 The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On Kazuo Hara 1987 Japan 122’ 36 The End of Fear Barbara Visser 2018 Netherlands 70’ 27 The Fear of Dying in Transit Ian Purnell 2018 Germany, Switzerland 29’ 33 The Haunted Saodat Ismailova 2017 Uzbekistan 24’ 26 The Hymns of Muscovy Dimitri Venkov 2018 Russia 14’ 46 The Image You Missed Donal Foreman 2018 Ireland, France, USA 73’ 35 The Mess Dorothy Allen-Pickard 2017 UK 4’ 34 The Other Side Eleanor McDowall 2018 UK 5’ 28 The Pain of Others Penny Lane 2018 USA 71’ 32 The Patriot Game Arthur MacCaig 1979 France 93’ 35 The Silent Majority Penny Lane & Brian L. Frye 2011 USA 4’ 21 The Sleeping Fool Sofia Saldanha 2010 UK 10’ 27 The Swing Cyril Aris 2018 Lebanon 74’ 43 The Voyagers Penny Lane 2010 USA 17’ 21 Then a Hero Comes Along Marlon Rouse Tavares 2018 UK, India 19’ 33 There Lived the Colliers Nelson MacDonald 2017 Canada 7’ 33 This Is Home Alexandra Shiva 2018 USA 91’ 37 Those Who Come, Will Hear Simon Plouffe 2017 Canada 77’ 39 Today is 11th June 1993 Clarissa Thieme 2018 Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina 15’ 34 Transitions Aurèle Ferrier 2017 Switzerland 13’ 46 Uppland Edward Lawrenson 2018 UK/Ireland 29’ 42 View from Above Hiwa K 2018 Germany 13’ 46 Voices of the Sea Kim Hopkins 2018 UK - USA 99’ 41 Wadi, 10 Years Later Amos Gitai 1991 Israel 97’ 45 We Are The Littletons Penny Lane 2004 USA 10’ 21 Winter Soldier Winterfilm Collective 1972 USA 96’ 45 Schedule All start times are correct at time of printing. Please check website before travelling to venue. Arrive promptly as there are no trailers preceding screenings.

Date Time Event Title Screening Venue Date Time Event Title Screening Venue Tue 4 18:30 Baronesa Regent Street Cinema Fri 7 19:30 Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today: Hello, City! Regent Street Cinema Tue 4 20:00 Festival Party: Opening Night Reception The Finery Fri 7 20:30 Kinshasa Makambo Bertha DocHouse Wed 5 13:00 The Reality of the Market Festival Hub - Studio Fri 7 20:30 Shorts: Imprints Picturehouse Central Wed 5 14:30 Border Crossings: Bringing Research to the Festival Hub - Studio Fri 7 21:00 The Ethno-Fictions of Laura Huertas Milan ICA Screen Sat 8 10:30 INDUSTRY BOOTCAMP - Surviving as a Festival Hub - Lounge Wed 5 16:00 Marketing, Distribution and Data Festival Hub - Studio Freelance Filmmaker Wed 5 17:00 Happy Hour Networking Festival Hub - Lounge Sat 8 11:30 The Personal Lens Festival Hub - Studio Wed 5 18:00 Border Crossings Pitch Festival Hub - Studio Sat 8 13:00 Our Nixon Prince Charles Cinema Wed 5 18:15 Shorts: Separations Prince Charles Cinema Sat 8 13:00 Intersections: Tadhg O’Sullivan in Conversation Festival Hub - Studio Wed 5 18:30 The End of Fear Picturehouse Central Sat 8 14:00 The Image You Missed ICA Wed 5 18:30 Hyphen: An Evening with NANG Regent Street Cinema Sat 8 14:00 Shorts: Interiors Bertha DocHouse Wed 5 18:45 Becoming Animal Curzon Soho Sat 8 15:00 The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On BFI Southbank Wed 5 19:00 Festival Party Curzon Soho Bar Sat 8 15:00 Screaming across a century: Reinvigorating Festival Hub - Studio Wed 5 20:30 Marc Isaacs Presents: Wadi, 10 Years Later Regent Street Cinema archival filmmaking Wed 5 20:40 Self-Portrait: Sphinx in 47KM Picturehouse Central Sat 8 16:00 The Patriot Game ICA Thu 6 10:30 INDUSTRY BOOTCAMP - Getting into Production Festival Hub - Lounge Sat 8 15:15 Golden Dawn Girls Curzon Soho Thu 6 12:00 Co-Production Case Study: Becoming Animal Festival Hub - Lounge Sat 8 16:30 Breaking News Bertha DocHouse Thu 6 12:00 Unconventional Characters Festival Hub - Studio Sat 8 17:00 Awards Ceremony Festival Hub - Studio Thu 6 13:30 In the Frame: Cinematography Roundtable Festival Hub - Studio Sat 8 17:45 Moving Parts: The Short Films of Regent Street Cinema Thu 6 15:00 The Ethics of Seeing Festival Hub - Studio Bogdan Dziworski Thu 6 16:30 Using Sound to Help Tell Your Story Festival Hub - Studio Sat 8 18:00 Those Who Come, Will Hear Picturehouse Central Thu 6 17:00 Happy Hour - Networking Festival Hub - Lounge Sat 8 18:00 This Is Home Curzon Soho Thu 6 18:30 Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 Bertha DocHouse Sat 8 18:00 Happy Hour - Networking Festival Hub - Lounge Thu 6 18:30 Casanova Gene ICA Sat 8 18:00 Nabihah Iqbal presents Winter Soldier ICA Thu 6 18:30 In The Dark & Radio Atlas Present: Words from Regent Street Cinema Sat 8 19:00 Cinematography Masterclass: Iris Ng Festival Hub - Studio Inside (St Maur Prison) by René Farabet Sat 8 20:00 Festival Party: Nabihah Iqbal Presents Party Nash & Brandon Rooms, ICA Thu 6 18:45 H is For Harry Curzon Soho Sat 8 20:30 I Remember the Crows BFI Southbank Thu 6 20:00 Festival Party Bar Soho Sat 8 20:30 The Best Thing You Can Do With Your Life Regent Street Cinema Thu 6 20:20 Flight of a Bullet Regent Street Cinema Sun 9 11:00 Resident Advisor: Real Scenes Festival Hub - Lounge Thu 6 20:30 Angkar Picturehouse Central Sun 9 11:30 Art of the Cut - Marc Isaacs + David Charap in Festival Hub - Studio Thu 6 20:45 Kazuo Hara Masterclass Bertha DocHouse conversation Fri 7 09.30 Expended Realities Digital Catapult Sun 9 12:30 Sennan Asbestos Disaster Regent Street Cinema Fri 7 10:30 INDUSTRY BOOTCAMP - Meet the Gatekeepers: Festival Hub - Lounge Sun 9 13:00 Jamilia Prince Charles Cinema Getting Comissioned Sun 9 13:00 The Short Films of Penny Lane BFI Southbank Fri 7 11:00 Strange & Charmed presents: Audio in Wonderland Festival Hub - Studio Sun 9 13:30 The Trajectory of Memory Festival Hub - Studio Fri 7 12:00 Film in Place Festival Hub - Lounge Sun 9 14:30 Home of the Resistance + Uppland ICA Fri 7 12:30 Putting Principles Into Practice: Audio Ethics Festival Hub - Studio Sun 9 15:00 Happy Hour - Networking Festival Hub - Lounge Fri 7 14:00 Audio Playground Festival Hub - Studio Sun 9 15:00 The Long Run: Getting More Life Out Of The Festival Hub - Studio Fri 7 16:00 The Whickers RAFA Pitch Festival Hub - Studio Short Form Fri 7 17:00 Happy Hour - Networking Festival Hub - Lounge Sun 9 15:15 Voices of the Sea Curzon Soho Fri 7 18:10 The Pain of Others BFI Southbank Sun 9 16:30 Hale County This Morning, This Evening ICA Fri 7 18:30 The Tyranny of Story Festival Hub - Studio Sun 9 18:00 The Swing Regent Street Cinema Fri 7 18:45 América Curzon Soho Sun 9 20:00 Closing Night Reception Regent Street Cinema Bar Fri 7 19:00 Festival Party Blue Room, BFI Southbank