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Director: Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm. France/Thailand/USA/Sweden 2013. 90 mins. After 2011’s ultra-stylish DRIVE, director Refn and Ryan Gosling reunite for a provocative revenge thriller set in the Bangkok underworld. When a boxer’s (Gosling) brother is murdered, his criminal mother (a chillingly badass Scott Thomas) orders him to seek revenge. With a lead performance of the kind not seen since Steve McQueen’s heyday, ONLY GOD FORGIVES is another powerful one-two from the most daring and creative director-star partnership working today.
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Director: Goro Miyazaki. Japan 2011. 92 mins. Please check at the Box Office whether the subtitled or dubbed version will be shown. Studio Ghibli’s FROM UP ON POPPY HILL is a tender story of teenage love set during Japan’s accelerated post-war boom and the lead-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Beautifully illustrated and imbued with nostalgia, this is a poignant coming-of-age tale of two youngsters caught between the ghosts of war and rapid social change towards a very different future.
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Pleasenote: The management reserves the right to cancel or alter the programme in exceptional circumstances. Please check your tickets carefully as mistakes cannot be rectified later. Film start times may vary, particularly with special screenings, which may not be preceded by adverts or trailers. Please arrive on time. Latecomers can spoil the enjoyment of others and are admitted at the manager’s discretion. Admission is subject to our Terms of Admission, available on request.
Johnny Depp stars as Native American warrior Tonto in director Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger while Jim Carrey joins the costumed crime fighters in Kick Ass 2. District 9 director Neill Blomkamp brings us sci-fi adventure Elysium starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. In the vein of Little Miss Sunshine and Juno, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash bring us The Way, Way Back, the story of an awkward teen’s summer vacation, and his struggle to fit in.
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On our cinema screens, Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling reunite for revenge thriller Only God Forgives meanwhile Alan Partridge’s first big-screen outing, Alpha Papa takes Britain’s favourite Radio DJ to greater heights than ever before. Originally conceived by Studio Ghibli master, Hayao Miyazaki, From Up On Poppy Hill is a tender story of teenage love.
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Aged 8 – 17? Love technology, apps and animation? Then Prototype is for you! Hack, make and play at our three-day experimental summer activities with local artists to learn a host of new skills in interactive illustration, app programming and film making.
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The director and star of the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN franchise update the legend of THE LONE RANGER. Johnny Depp plays faithful sidekick Tonto, whose recounting of the masked hero’s story forms the backbone of Verbinski’s constantly surprising and beautifully realised film. Contains moderate violence and injury detail.
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Director: Declan Lowney. Starring: Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney, Sean Pertwee, Felicity Montagu, Tim Key, Simon Greenall. UK 2013. TBC mins.
Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel. Starring: Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan, Onata Aprile. USA 2012. 99 mins.
Sports-desk legend and king of chat Alan Partridge (Coogan) makes his big-screen debut in a very funny twist on the Hollywood action movie. When a sacked radio DJ (Meaney) returns to the North Norfolk Digital studios with a shotgun, a hostage situation ensues, and the police send in Partridge as a negotiator. ALPHA PAPA takes one of Britain’s most beloved comedic creations to greater heights than ever.
More battle of wills than tug of love, Henry James’s 1897 novel What Maisie Knew is updated to present-day Manhattan. Ageing rock star Susanna (Moore) and permanently distracted art dealer Beale (Coogan) are the neglectful parents, the magnetic Onata Aprile their six-year-old daughter, and Joanna Vanderham the nanny who evidently cares more for her than they do. McGehee and Siegel’s film is a powerfully executed, deftly observed meditation on an all-too-familiar domestic tragedy.
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Director: Jeff Wadlow. Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jim Carrey, Chloë Grace Moretz, John Leguizamo. USA/UK 2013. TBC mins.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman. Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, James Franco, Sharon Stone. USA 2013. 93 mins.
KICK-ASS 2 is one sequel that’s even feistier and funnier than its predecessor. The ever-versatile Taylor-Johnson (ANNA KARENINA, NOWHERE BOY) returns as Dave, whose alter ego, the costumed crusader Kick-Ass, deploys a peculiar brand of bravery. This time he and his student vigilante pal Mindy, aka Hit-Girl (Moretz, DARK SHADOWS), find themselves up against a team of super-villains led by the Mother F*cker (Christopher Mintz-Plasse).
1972’s DEEP THROAT brought ‘adult’ movies a little more into the mainstream, turning go-go dancer Linda Boreman into a briefly flickering star and making $100 million for the film’s allegedly Mafioso backers. Little but drugs and abuse followed for Boreman, most of it at the hands of her seedy manager/lover, Chuck Traynor – until she finally took control of her life.
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Director: Neill Blomkamp. Starring: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley. USA 2013. 109 mins. In this follow-up to DISTRICT 9, Blomkamp again melds edgy sci-fi with provocative social comment. It’s 2154 and Earth’s wealthiest have left our spent planet to live in luxury on a vast space station. Desperate to join them, Max De Costa (Damon) finds himself up against their hardnosed gatekeeper (Foster). As he battles to reach his goal, he realises that he might also save the lives of millions of fellow earthlings.
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Directors: Nat Faxon, Jim Nash. Starring: Steve Carrell, Toni Collette, Liam James, Sam Rockwell. USA 2013. 103 mins. In this engaging coming-of-age tale, shy adolescent Duncan (James) is holidaying with his mum (Collette) and her decidedly hostile boyfriend (Carrell). A chance encounter with the oddball Owen (Rockwell) gives him the confidence to come out of his shell. Contains one use of strong language and moderate sex and drug references.
From 6 September
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Discover stunning cinema. Whether it’s a cult classic, an art-house gem or a riveting documentary, there will always be a chance to see something different and brilliant in our weekly slot.
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Tuesday 27 August
Director: David Lowery. Starring: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Ben Foster. USA 2013. TBC mins.
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Director: Richard Curtis. Starring: Bill Nighy, Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams. UK 2013. 123 mins. Richard Curtis’s (NOTTING HILL) latest is a sci-fi romcom. Tim (Domhnall Gleeson) learns from his father (Nighy) that he can travel through time. But when he meets the gorgeous Mary (McAdams), a supernatural glitch means that their initial encounter keeps repeating itself. Contains infrequent strong language and moderate sex references.
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Director: Adam Wingard. Starring: Sharni Vinson, A. J. Bowen. USA 2011. 95 mins. Gathered in a remote mansion to celebrate a wedding anniversary, the Davison clan are attacked by a gang of killers in animal masks. Fortunately, one of their number decides to fight back – big time. YOU’RE NEXT brilliantly subverts genre expectations.
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Directors: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn. Denmark/Norway/UK 2012. TBC mins. English and Indonesian with English subtitles. Oppenheimer’s extraordinary documentary sees former Indonesian death squad leaders invited to stage re-enactments of their acts of genocide in the style of their favourite Hollywood genre films. The incredible result is a hallucinatory journey into the minds of killers and the frighteningly banal culture of impunity they inhabit.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings. USA 1954. 101 mins. A tense chamber piece centring on philandering husband Tony (Milland) and his elaborate scheme to murder his society wife Margot (Kelly), DIAL M FOR MURDER is an often-overlooked masterpiece from the Master of Suspense. Painstakingly restored from original two-strip negatives, this stunning 4K restoration appears in digital 3D for the first time ever on UK screens, providing a perfect chance to re-evaluate the film in its original 3D format.
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A young criminal couple kill a cop; he takes the rap and gets jailed. So begins Lowery’s affecting deconstruction of classic westerns. Affleck plays Bob, who eventually escapes to rejoin Ruthie (Mara) and their daughter before it all gets horribly worse.
Tuesday 13 August
Tuesday 3 September
like someone in love 2A les invisIbles (Cert TBC) Director: Abbas Kiarostami. Starring: Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase. France/Japan 2012. 110 mins. Japanese with English subtitles. A high-class hooker reluctantly takes on an ageing client. Driving her to college the next day, he becomes involved in her personal life, triggering a charming exercise in self-deception and unexpected consequences from famed Iranian director Kiarostami. Contains moderate sex references.
Tuesday 20 August wadjDa 5 Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour. Starring: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Ahd, Sultan Al Assaf. Saudi Arabia/Germany 2012. 97 mins. Arabic with English subtitles. The first film to be shot entirely in Saudi Arabia is a winning tale of a playful girl’s determination to buy a bicycle. Starring sparky, ten-year-old Waad Mohammed in the title role, WADJDA is a total delight.
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz. France 2012. TBC mins. French with English subtitles. In French director Lifshitz’s documentary, eleven elderly men and women recall their experiences of discovering their bi- and homosexuality in less-than-tolerant pre-war France. Candid, often amusing, beautifully filmed and ultimately life-affirming.
Tuesday 10 September
inside the mind of leonardo (Cert TBC) Director: Julian Jones. Featuring: Peter Capaldi. UK/Canada 2013. TBC mins. In this feature-length version of Sky Arts’ breathtaking experimental 3D documentary, Peter Capaldi (IN THE LOOP, The Thick of It) plays Leonardo Da Vinci, reading from his memoirs and letters to build an impression of the life, art and inventions of a Renaissance master.
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CLEOPATRA P Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison. UK/USA 1963. 244 mins. Digitally reissued on its 50th anniversary, this colossal and opulent epic follows the 18 tumultuous years that led to the founding of the Roman Empire.
Sunday 11 August
ROMAN HOLIDAY U Director: William Wyler. Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn. USA 1953. 113 mins. While undertaking a highly publicised tour of Europe, a cloistered princess (Hepburn) rebels against her regimented schedule. One night she escapes her luxurious confinement and stumbles upon an American journalist (Peck) stationed in Rome. Peck and Hepburn (in her breakthrough role) make for one of cinema’s most charming couples in this whimsical fantasy with a bittersweet finale.
Iconic MGM films back on the big screen every Monday until 19 Aug We have joined forces with MGM HD (Sky Channel 313) to bring you a selection of timeless favourites from their unrivalled film library. Silver Screen members’ tickets are just £3!
Sunday 18 August
PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN P Director: Albert Lewin. Starring: Ava Gardner, James Mason. UK 1951. 124 mins.
Sunday 1 September
THE GODFATHER 5 Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan, Diane Keaton. USA 1972. 168 mins.
Pandora (Gardner) is loved by every man who meets her, but seems unable to love anyone back. But things change when the mysterious Hendrick van der Zee (Mason) arrives in town.
By almost any criterion, this is the most important American film of the 1970s: a subversive saga of family values, and an epic account of organised crime. Superbly crafted, with a star-making performance by Pacino.
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly. USA 1954. 105 mins. A philandering husband (Milland) hatches an elaborate scheme to murder his society wife (Kelly). This brand new digital reissue restores the tense chamber piece to its original 3D format.
Director: Fred Zinnemann. Starring: Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra. USA 1953. 118 mins. An all-star cast portray the passions and violence of soldiers stationed in Hawaii before World War Two. Lancaster and Kerr’s beach rendezvous is one of the most celebrated love scenes in film history.
Monday 12 August, 12.00
Monday 5 August, 12.00
The Manchurian Candidate (12A)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (15) 1974. 100 mins
Monday 19 August, 12.00
The Night of the Hunter (12A)
1962. 121 mins
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Saturday 31 August
Director: Hayao Miyazaki. Japan 1997. 128 mins. Set in a fantastical Japanese Middle Ages, PRINCESS MONONOKE pits ancient mountain deities against the dawn of industry, and centres on the eponymous feral ‘Wolf-Princess’ and a young boy on a quest to purge his body of a curse.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki. Japan 2004. 116 mins. Not every action movie has as its heroine a 90-year-old lady, but the ordinary and extraordinary are always radically blended in Miyazaki’s work and his freestyle adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones’s novel is no exception.
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Monday 7 September
Director: Hayao Miyazaki. Japan 2008. 101 mins. Running away from the sea she calls home, an effervescent fish-girl is rescued and befriended by a five-year-old human boy in anime maestro Miyazaki’s tenth feature.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki. Japan 1988. 83 mins. Miyazaki’s superbly animated tale is considered to be one of the best-loved family films of all time. The story follows Satsuki (Hidaka) and Mei (Sakamoto), two young girls who find their new home is by a mystical forest inhabited by a menagerie of fantastical creatures called Totoros.
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Picturehouse @ FACT is supporting Liverpool Pride once more, and this year our four films look at LGBT diversity and our attitudes towards sexuality, age and dis/ability. The programme is part of a larger project called Out & About at the Movies funded by Creative England and Unison North West that runs into October: please check out www.liverpoolpride.co.uk to find out more and get involved.
Thursday 8 August, 6.30 desert hearts (15)
Thursday 22 August, 6.30 les invisibles (Cert TBC)
Director: Donna Deitch. Starring: Helen Shaver, Audra Lindley, Patricia Charbonneau. USA 1985. 91 mins.
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz. France 2012. TBC mins. French with English subtitles.
In Deitch’s groundbreaking and involving film, Vivian (Shaver, THE COLOR OF MONEY), an uptight New Yorker, arrives in 1950s rural Nevada to divorce her husband, and finds herself succumbing to new emotions stirred by an out young lesbian (Charbonneau, KISS THE SKY).
Known primarily for gay art-house dramas such as COME UNDONE and WILD SIDE, Lifshitz moves into documentary with these candid, often amusing recollections of coming out in intolerant pre-war France. Eleven elderly men and women express pride at having maintained their moral and sexual integrity; their unhurried interviews, intercut with poetic landscapes and revealing archive material, are both touching and life-affirming.
Thursday 15 August, 6.30 i want your Love (15) Director: Travis Mathews. Starring: Jesse Metzger, Ben Jasper. USA 2012. TBC mins. Broke and uninspired, San Francisco performance artist Jesse is about to return to his hicksville home town – but first there’s a wild farewell party to organise. Featuring unusually explicit sex scenes, I WANT YOUR LOVE is a strikingly honest meditation on modern gay life.
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Saturday 24 August
spirited away P Director: Hayao Miyazaki. Japan 2001. 122 mins. This Oscar-winning visionary work from Miyazaki is a surreal fable and an enchanting fairy tale. A fantasy adventure film unlike any other.
Thursday 29 August, 6.30 any day now (Cert TBC)
special preview screening Director: Travis Fine. Starring: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva. USA 2012. TBC mins. Feisty drag artist Rudy (Cumming, GOLDENEYE, THE TEMPEST) takes in Marco (Leyva), a teenager with Down’s syndrome who has been abandoned by his mother. Rudy is also falling in love with Paul (Dillahunt, LOOPER), a straitlaced, closeted lawyer. Based on real events, writer-director Fine’s measured, smartly scripted film follows Rudy and Paul’s burgeoning affair, and their attempt to adopt Marco despite legal obstacles and homophobia.
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Please check at the Box Office whether the dubbed or subtitled version will be shown for each film.
Sunday 11 August, 3.00
before sunrise + Before sunset double bill 5 Following the recent release of the final part of the trilogy, Before Midnight, here’s a chance to go back to the beginning of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine’s (Julie Delpy) epic romance.
Saturday 24 August, 9.00
Morrissey 25: Live A concert film marking 25 years of Morrissey’s solo career, shot during his most intimate gig in decades at the Hollywood High School in Los Angeles on 2 March 2013. The first authorised Morrissey film for nine years and featuring many classic tracks from his huge repertoire, MORRISSEY 25: LIVE is an unmissable cinema event for fans worldwide.
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
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Toddler Time is especially designed to introduce pre-school children to the big screen. Showing every Tuesday at 11.00am. Admission is just £3 per child, accompanying adults free, when they become members of Toddler Time
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Silver Screen is on Tuesdays and Thursdays, all shows starting before 5.00.
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Annual membership is free. Full price £15 Members £12 Concessions £13
Live: Tuesday 13 August, 7.00 Encore: Monday 19 August, 9.00
David Bowie is happening now The Victoria and Albert Museum presents David Bowie is happening now, a nationwide cinema event screened live as the finale to the museum’s enormously successful exhibition, David Bowie is. Metropolis Full price £14 Members £12 Concessions £13
To sign up pick up a form from the cinema, or call 0871 902 5747. Visit www.picturehouses.co.uk/silver_screen for more info.
Director: Nicolas Roeg. Starring: David Bowie, Candy Clark, Rip Torn, Buck Henry. UK 1976. 138 mins. A dazzlingly filmed sci-fi fantasy making adroit use of David Bowie’s ambiguous persona as the alien who comes to Earth in a bid to save his own dying planet. One of the most challenging movies of the genre, based on a classic novel by Walter Tevis.
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The Kids' Club film starts at 11.00am every Saturday, with games and activities beforehand from 10.30am. Annual membership is just £4. Tickets are only £1 for members and accompanying adults, £3 for non-members. Please note: We are not providing any official childcare. If you leave your child in the cinema, please be there on time to collect them at the end of the film.
3 / 4 August EPIC (U)
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10 / 11 August
ernest & cÉlestine (U) 77 mins
French with English subtitles
17 / 18 August
cody the robosapien (PG) 84 mins
Ice Age 4
24 / 25 August
alvin and the chipmunks: chip-wrecked (U) 87 mins
31 August / 1 September ice age 4 (U)
88 mins
7 / 8 September
sammy’s super T-shirt (U) 57 mins
Every Sunday at 11.30am. These screenings are for people on the autism spectrum and their families, friends and carers. Tickets are £3 (no concessions or free tickets for support workers).
By joining Big Scream parents can visit our cinema without having to find a babysitter or worry about their baby disturbing others. The screenings are on a Thursday at 11.00am. Doors open at 10.30am. Membership is £1, for two people per baby, valid until the baby’s first birthday. To join please ask for a form at Tickets & Information.
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from up on poppy hill (U)
what maisie knew
15 August
5 September
alan partridge: alpha papa (Cert TBC) 22 August
KICK-ASS 2 (Cert TBC)
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the way way back (12A)
12 September
about time (12A)
Please note that Big Scream films may contain material intended for adults - please check with the cinema for more information.
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Thursday 15 August, 8.30
nt encore: macbeth From the Manchester International Festival: Kenneth Branagh is Macbeth and Alex Kingston is Lady Macbeth in this electrifying new production of Shakespeare’s tragic tale of ambition and treachery, which unfolds within the walls of an intimate deconsecrated church.
Full price £17.50 Members £13 Concessions £14
Thursday 5 September, 8.30
peter grimes on Aldeburgh Beach As part of the celebrations to mark the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, Peter Grimes comes home to the very beach that inspired it, in a landmark open-air staging by Aldeburgh Music.
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Abandon Normal Devices AND 2013 will be an exciting foray into current artistic and cinematic practice. Blurring the boundaries between art, science and cultural activism, artists will render a series of politically charged views on issues as diverse as modern defence tactics to special effects.
SummerActivities
3-5 October FACT and across Liverpool
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12 - 14 August For13-17yearolds
10am-4pm/TheBox/ £120perparticipantfor threedays
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Hack, make and play at our three-day experimental summer activities designed for young makers to explore their talents in a creative space. Join local artists Laura Pullig and Neil Winterburn to learn a host of new skills in interactive illustration, app programming and filmmaking and take home your creations to show your friends and family!
19 - 21 August For8-12yearolds
Formoreinformationvisit fact.co.uk/prototype orcontact anna.kronenburg@fact. co.uk – Image Prototype
This year sees a departure from the format of previous years, with a week of focused artistic labs followed by a three day exposition of performances, debates, live events and showcases, reflecting new trends in technology and artistic production. Highlights include:
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Futuristic road-rail vehicle SEFT-1, designed by Mexican artists Los Ferronautas (Iván Puig and Andrés Padilla Domene), arrives on the streets of Liverpool - a provocation to the very way we travel. SEFT-1 will be the second of AND’s artist interventions into transport networks, and is a collaboration with The Arts Catalyst.
A thrilling, immersive documentary taking you deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing. Employing an arsenal of cameras that swoop from below sea level to astonishing bird's-eye views, Leviathan is unlike anything you have ever seen; a purely visceral, cinematic experience. Image Still from Leviathan, courtesy of Cinema Guild
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SummerOffer Just in time for summer, FACT Services is offering a 20% discount on conference and meeting room rates during August, plus 20% off hires of selected pieces of kit including cameras and projectors. Formoreinformationvisitfact.co.uk/services oremailservices@fact.co.uk. ImageThe Board Room
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As part of the Connecting Cities project, we present artworks simultaneously with other organisations across Europe, turning the traditional ideas of exhibition, audience experience - and the gallery - inside out. The European Urban Media Network Connecting Cities, initiated by Public Art Lab (Berlin), aims to create an exchange between urban activists, creatives, passers-by and city inhabitants from all over the world via media façades and large digital screens. As an interdisciplinary network, Connecting Cities unites political, economic and artistic interests.
BiomerSkelters InteractiveTours Hook up to a mobile heart rate monitor system and become Biomer Skelters propagators. As you walk the streets of Liverpool, the devices read your heart rate and automatically plant augmented reality (AR) vegetation in your wake.
Selected Saturdays See date and time information at fact.co.uk/TFIO
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ExhibitionCuratorialTours ReadytoCloud Berlin-based collective The Constitute have created an artificial cloud with a lo-fi 3D scanning system at both FACT and Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany. Scanned visitors in both spots will be digitally teleported into the cloud, where they can meet each other.
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Explore Turning FACT Inside Out with FACT's curatorial assistant Lesley Taker, or co-curator of the exhibition, Aneta Krzemien.
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Look through a set of extraordinary binoculars created by artists Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet Sola and you’ll see a real-time window onto another city. But peeping toms beware, the inhabitants of the city can see a huge image of your eye looking over them.
1pm/Meetatthe InformationDeskatFACT/ FREE(donations gratefully accepted) Tobookemail lesley.taker@fact.co.uk
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6 &7 September Atrium/FREE Image Ready to Cloud Formoreinformationvisit theconstitute.org/readytocloud/
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TenIntentions DiscussionProgramme Would you like to write the future using an automatic writing service? Bring your thoughts to the Ten Intentions tent at FACT, and talk to a robot that converts speech into text and adds it to the notes for the future. To book a session or arrange a debate inside the tent contact 10intentions@gmail.com
Regulardates See date and time Information at 10intentions.co.uk
TenIntentionsTent/ FREE(donations gratefully accepted) Toreadthebook asitgrows,visit 10intentions.co.uk
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ExhibitionScreenings
Straight from the selection panel at Sheffield Doc/Fest and inspired by Turning FACT Inside Out, these films look to the future of politics, society, technology, journalism and the economy. The full programme is available at fact.co.uk Please note: these films start promptly at the advertised time
Exhibition
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Until15September
To celebrate the first decade of the FACT building, we have commissioned a selection of provocative international artists including Nina Edge, HeHe, Katarzyna Krakowiak, Steve Lambert, Manifest.AR and Uncoded Collective to examine and subvert our galleries and social spaces.
Galleries 1 / 2 / Atrium / The Wall / Public Realm FREEEntry Sun – Fri: 12pm – 6pm Sat: 11am – 6pm
Reflecting FACT’s ten years as a safe space for risky conversations, many of the works in the exhibition explore pressing, and sometimes controversial, political issues.
Googleandthe WorldBrainCertTBC The documentary follows the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet: Google’s master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop them. Google says they are building a library for mankind, but some say they also have other intentions. 14 August Ben Lewis / 2013 / 89mins – 6.30pm/TheBox/£6£5(Members & concs) – Image Still from Google and the World Brain
AFragileTrustCertTBC The shocking story of Jayson Blair, the most infamous serial plagiarist of our time, and how he unleashed the massive scandal that rocked the New York Times and the entire world of journalism. 21 August Samantha Grant / 2013 / 79mins – 6.30pm/TheBox/£6£5(Members & concs) – Image Still from A Fragile Trust
Experience an active fracking landscape; listen to the secret sounds of the building; take a virtual bike ride across Europe; ask yourself if Capitalism works for you; experiment with Siri; and grow augmented reality forests. Through immersive installations, public debates, architectural interruptions and online artworks, this exhibition pushes the boundaries of the gallery, extending beyond the walls of the physical building and spilling out into the city and the digital realm.
Imagefrom top Capitalism Works for Me! (True/False), Steve Lambert, 2013, installation at FACT / Sedimentary Timeline, Me_Me Collective, 2013, installation at FACT Ten Intentions, Nina Edge, 2013, installation at FACT
Image: KatarzynaKrakowiak, Chute,2013, installationatFACT
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GabrielleJenks Festival Manager, AND Festival
Turning FACT Inside Out
What'sthebestthingaboutFACT? AND festival of course! The inaugural project launched back in 2009 and since then has been growing from strength to strength.
Funding The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology is a registered charity and relies on the support of a range of funding bodies, trusts and foundations, corporate members and individuals to continue its work.
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What'smakingyouexcitedatthemoment? Hearing about all the great projects, artists and screenings that will form part of AND festival (3-5 October 2013). Whowouldbeyourcollaborationdreamteam? I did have a weird dream recently, where I participated in a street game devised by artists Blast Theory. In it I was teamed with Roger Kint, Kevin Spacey’s character from The Usual Suspects and the whole production was set to one of John Carpenter’s synthy soundtracks. I ended up being killed by kids firing lasers. Tellus....(afact,asecretorajoke) Many people don’t know that the festival name, Abandon Normal Devices was originally inspired by one of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies. These are a set of cards containing a phrase or cryptic remark, which can be used to break creative blocks.
See more at ANDfestival.org.uk
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Image:FrackingFutures,HeHe,2013,installationatFACT