Strangers & Strangeness

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CURSES AND SERMONS (Michael McClure and Nic Saunders)

This is the first time Michael has ever allowed one of his poems to be
turned into a film. With only the moon as his witness, a lone gunslinger
digs an unmarked grave when an unknown stranger forces him to confront the
man he has become and the man he could still be.

Michael McClure is a leading figure in both the Beat Generation and Sixties
Counterculture. "His poetry is protoplasmic energy" - Allen Ginsberg. This
rare film is a collaboration between Michael McClure and director Nic
Saunders. There will be a Q&A after the screening with Nic Saunders and
Kasia Halpin, actress.

SEPTEMBER (Esther May Campbell)

Caught in a world of flyovers and dead-ends where the motorway hum serves as
a constant reminder of the speed of other lives, Marvin is not going
anywhere. He needs evidence that there are possibilities beyond what he
knows. An extraordinary girl arrives who changes his perception of the
world.

A journey on the M4 inspired the film which has subsequently won a BAFTA
award.


RADIO CARBON (Tim Cumming) + live reading

When cosmic rays strike the atmosphere they create radiocarbon, with which
we measure prehistoric time, and how our own time will one day be measured.
Radio Carbon is a filmic journey in 24 poems from the abyss of deep time to
the present moment. It's a film with the eternity of time at its centre, the
vastness of space at its core, and a reverie of images clustering to the
lens like the flashing in a stranger's eye.

Tim Cummings's surreal poems have been published widely in Britain and
America, and he writes regularly for The Guardian and The Independent.


CIRCUMSTANCES (Marco Sanges)

Hundreds of photographs evoke a decadent and strange lost world populated by
eccentric glamorous characters.

Marco Sanges is an imaginative and innovative photographer who has exhibited
worldwide. Marco's clients include Vogue, Sunday Telegraph, Trace, Elle,
Creative Review, Katalog, Dolce&Gabbana. Books include: Circumstances,Venus,
Wild, and Erotic Photography.

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Time: 6:15pm