You are cordially invited to our birthday party on 15 September for drinks and cake to celebrate Light House being 25 this year. We have a programme of special events lined up including behind the scenes tours, archive exhibitions, film screenings & director talks. Tell us why you love Light House, how Light House has helped with your career, or your memories of a special event by emailing: light-house25@posterous.com
www.light-house.co.uk CREATIVE MEDIA WORKSHOPS: We have a range of one day workshops in video production, photography and animation, open to all ages and skills levels. For further info on each course visit www.light-house.co.uk and to book a place contact Light House Box Office on 01902 716055.
WORKSHOPS
Intro to Lighting Techniques for Video & Photography Mon 6 Jun, 10am - 4pm Cost: £45 + VAT
Intro to Video Production Techniques Thu 9 Jun, 10am - 4pm Cost: £45 + VAT
Women’s Workshop: Intro to Video Production Tue 10 May, 10am - 4pm
Digital Cinematography
Cost: £45 + VAT
Mon 13 Jun, 10am - 4pm Cost: £45 + VAT
Women’s Workshop: Intro to Post Production Tue 17 May, 10am - 4pm Cost: £65 + VAT
Intro to Final Cut Pro Thu 16 Jun, 10am - 4pm Cost: £65 + VAT
Women’s Workshop: Creative Editing Techniques Tue 24 May, 10am - 4pm Cost: £65 + VAT
Introduction to Digital Photography Fri 27 May, 10am - 4pm Cost: £30
Photographing People Fri 17 Jun, 10am - 4pm Cost: £40
Creative Editing Techniques Mon 20 Jun, 10am - 4pm Cost: £65 + VAT
Professional Camera Techiques
Intro to After Effects
Tue 31 May, 10am - 4pm
Mon 27 Jun, 10am - 4pm
Cost: £45 + VAT
Cost: £65 + VAT
EVENTS Jamie Cullem Live from Cheltenham Festival Sun 1 May, 8.15pm Cost: £12 full / £11 conc. Jamie will be performing an exclusive set at this year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival, including new unheard material alongside some classics from his bestselling albums and you can experience the magic of Jamie’s solo concert live via satellite here on the big screen. Tickets for Cheltenham Jazz Festival sold out within 3 hours and, as Jamie Cullum is not touring in the UK this year, this is a rare chance to catch the musician in action. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to be part of a truly groundbreaking one-off event. Take your seats 8:15pm for 8:30pm start. There will be a 20 minute interval.
Encore screenings of Frankenstein
www.light-house.co.uk Thee Moths Presents: An Evening Of Electronica, Noise & 8-Bit Sounds Sat 7 May, 8.30pm til late Admission free In the age of perpetual forward motion, we present a sonic retrospective of the music that continues to inspire generations of musicians both popular and avant-garde, featuring... Thee Moths: For more than 10 years Alex Botten has hovered around the edges of the global underground, making amorphous, organic, growing electronica based noise; improvised and interactive. and will be joined by: MUTATE Chromatouch 8-Bit Ninjas domesticflight
Mon 9 May & 13 Jun, 8 / 8.30pm Cost: £5 per team (up to 4 people) Our monthly quiz offers you the chance to put your film and TV knowledge to the test. With prizes for the winning team.
Open Mic Night Tue 10 / 24 May & Tue 7 Jun, 8pm til late Admission free Light House’s very own open mic night, is a new addition to the Tuesday night experience in the city. Just turn up, sign up and grab the mic. An entertaining and welcome addition to our events programme, the informal night offers you the chance to explore your talents and passions for music, comedy, spoken word and poetry – what do you have to offer? For more info contact: conor@light-house.co.uk
Fri 6 May, 5.30pm Cost: £12 full / £11 conc.
FRANKENSTEIN
REVERSE CAST: Sat 7 May, 8.15pm Cost: £12 full / £11 conc. Due to popular demand we have programmed 2 encore screenings of Frankenstein. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is adapted for the stage by Nick Dear and realised by Danny Boyle in his return to the National Theatre after winning the Academy Award for best director for Slumdog Millionaire. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller have alternated the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature and we have an encore screening of both versions of the cast. (Suitable for 15+).
Film & TV Quiz
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EVENTS
Live from the Met: Die Walküre
A Musical Journey
Thu 12 May, 7.45pm
Sat 14 May, 5pm
Cost: £12 / £11 conc.
Normal ticket prices apply
Cost: £18 / £12.50 under 15s
Our special screening of this documentary about volunteers from the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will be introduced and followed by a Q&A with a panel of MSF staff who will answer audience questions about their work in the field. Living in Emergency is a window into the seldom portrayed and less-than glamorous side of humanitarian aid work.
Eurovision
A stellar cast comes together for this second installment of Robert Lepage’s new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by James Levine. Bryn Terfel is Wotan, Lord of the Gods. Deborah Voigt adds the part of Brünnhilde to her extensive Wagnerian repertoire at the Met. Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Maria Westbroek star as the twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Stephanie Blythe is Fricka. Sung in German with Met titles in English. Running time: 5hrs15
Wed 18 May, 8.15pm
Acknowledged as the best orchestra in the world, the Berlin Philharmonic under their principal conductor Sir Simon Rattle present Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major, a unique and breath-taking experience. The concert was filmed in the Esplanade concert hall Singapore and is cut with scenes of Singapore life around the city which translate the music themes into real city life scenes. There are two acts – Mahler’s First Symphony and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances with a short interval. Celebrating the 100 year anniversary of Mahler’s death.
Sat 14 May, 7.30pm onwards Admission free Join us to celebrate this year’s Eurovision Song Contest live from Düsseldorf. Watch it on the big screen in Lock Works and take advantage of waiter service for the duration of the event, especially our German Pilsner on draught. Fancy dress is optional!
Deaffest 2011 Fri 20 - Sun 22 May Admission free Deaffest is the UK’s only Deaf-led film and television festival, which celebrates the talents of Deaf filmmakers and media artists from all over the world. This dynamic and thriving festival helps to nurture talent in the Deaf community and showcase the work of Deaf filmmakers and producers.
DIE WALKÜRE
This year we see the return of the Film & TV Gala Awards, film workshops for young people and the Young Deaffest showcase, a subtitled selection of the Best of Encounters Festival 2010 and a range of short and feature films from Deaf filmmakers around the world. There will be activities for families throughout the Saturday daytime alongside a free subtitled screening of Tangled at 2pm on the Sunday, courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures UK. The majority of the festival is admission free and the Gala is ticketed. Visit www.deaffest.co.uk for more info.
EVENTS
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Marathon Music Night Sat 28 May, 8pm til late Cost: £5
This event has been organised by Faye Daly, who will be running the Edinburgh Marathon on 22 May, in honour of her Father-in-law Mike, who died of a heart attack in 2009. Tickets are available on the door on the night. Follow Faye’s marathon training at www.fayeontherun.blogspot.com
The Importance of Being Earnest Thu 2 Jun, 6.45pm Cost: £12 full / £11 conc. Filmed live from Broadway in high definition, Light House presents Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, a classic comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Tony winner Brian Bedford directs the show and stars as Lady Bracknell, leading a cast that features Dana Ivey as Miss Prism, Paxton Whitehead as Reverend Chausible, Santino Fontana as Algernon Moncrieff, David Furr as Jack Worthing, Tim MacDonald as Merriman, Paul O’Brien as Lane, Charlotte Parry as Cecily Cardew and Sara Topham as Gwendolyn. Produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company, The Importance of Being Earnest has been a critical and popular hit on Broadway this season and will be broadcast to cinemas around the world. Take your seats for 6.45pm ready for curtain up at 7pm.
THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Need some more funk in your life?! Join us in Lock Works for live music from local funk outfit, Dr. Funkenstein’s Marvellous Medicine, followed by a fantastic DJ set. If that isn’t enough to whet your appetite, it’s all for charity, as at least £4 from every ticket sold will go to the British Heart Foundation.
Summer at Glyndebourne:
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Sun 26 Jun, 2.45pm Cost: £18 Adult / £12.50 under 15s Light House is pleased to present Summer at Glyndebourne, starting with Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Glyndebourne’s first ever staging of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is an opera of epic proportion. Directed by David McVicar, fresh from completing his first Ring cycle, and conducted by the Festival’s Music Director, Vladimir Jurowski, the production fulfils the artistic dream of Glyndebourne’s founder, John Christie.
Summer at Glyndenourne continues with... Don Giovanni - 31 Jul, 6pm and The Turn of the Screw 21 Aug, 6pm
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard Thu 30 Jun, 6.45pm Cost: £12 full / £11 conc. The culmination of the popular National Theatre Live 2010/11 season will be Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. This spirited new version of Chekhov’s last play reunites director Howard Davies with Andrew Upton following their acclaimed productions of Philistines and The White Guard. Zoë Wanamaker will play Madame Ranevskaya. Set at the very start of the twentieth century, The Cherry Orchard captures a poignant moment in Russia’s history as the country rolls inexorably towards 1917. Take your seats for 6.45pm ready for curtain up at 7pm.
Endorsed by:
Light House brings you a new and exciting comedy season featuring some of the best UK comedians, new faces and seasoned-pros. You are invited to sneak preview performances, which will be taken to Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2011. These special preview nights, in the lead up to Edinburgh’s annual festival, offer a valuable showcase for Fringe performers to judge crowd reaction and fine tune their routine. So why not join us each night for two 1-hour ‘work in progress’ shows. You could be watching the next big thing to emerge from Fringe!
THE SHOWS... Thu 26 May, 8.30pm: John Scott - Totally Made Up Jason Cook - The Search for Happiness (The End Part 2) Thu 9 Jun, 8.30pm: Sally-Anne Hayward - Don’t Judge Me Susan Murray’s Photo Booth
With notable shows from co-founder of Viz Simon Donald, Birmingham based Guardian columnist, Shazia Mirza and Mock the Week regular, Zoe Lyons.
Thu 23 Jun, 8.30pm: Carey Marx - Lazyness...and stuff Simon Donald - Him off the Viz
Tickets cost £12 per night. Doors open 8.15pm for an 8.30pm start. (Line up may be subject to change)
Thu 7 Jul, 8.30pm: Pete Firman Matt Kirshen
There’s also an opportunity to become a reviewer and receive a free ticket to the show, as well as getting your review published on the Light House website. Contact Ren on e: ren@light-house.co.uk for info.
Thu 21 Jul, 8.30pm: Mick Ferry Chris MaCausland
Endorsed by the Edinburgh Fringe Season. Sponsored by Hollows Ginger Beer - look out for offers and samples.
Thu 28 Jul, 8.30pm: Shazia Mirza Zoe Lyons
EXHIBITIONS TRAINING
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MAIN GALLERY
The season will continue with Black Country Stories by Martin Parr from Fri 1 Jul - Fri 30 Sept with a talk from Parr on Wed 27 Jul. Followed by Selling Dreams: A Hundred Years of Fashion Photography from Fri 14 Oct - Fri 13 Jan. Visit www.light-house.co.uk for more info.
The Street by Andrew Jackson & Dean Kelland Until Fri 17 Jun Taking archive interviews, film and photographs, Jackson & Kelland use the racial tensions of 1960s Smethwick as a starting point to explore both historical and contemporary debates on immigration in Britain. Presenting stories, memories and photographs from two culturally different perspectives, the audience is invited to question what may or may not be real in this new exhibition. Things that we know to be true are constantly replaced through acts of revisionism. With this in mind the artists invite the audience to investigate the combination of current and archive information that they have presented.
THE STREET
By interpreting what they have found in the archives, combining fact and fiction throughout, Jackson and Kelland encourage the audience to question what they see, hear and understand in the exhibition. This exhibition plays on our faith in archives, photographs, history and documentary and asks people to come to their own conclusions.
That an exhibition which subverts the whole notion of documentary photography has been set in a gallery which shows factual exhibitions takes the challenge to the audience one step further. This is the first time the two artists have worked together and is the first showing of this exhibition. Andrew Jackson is a documentarian and graduate of the MA Documentary programme at the European Centre of Photography, Newport. Dean Kelland is a contemporary artist currently undertaking a PhD in Fine Art practice at Central St Martins. Both artists have exhibited extensively around the UK.
Exhibition Talk: The Street Thu 16 Jun, 6.30pm Admission free Pete James, Head of Photographs at Birmingham Library will be talking to Dean Kelland and Andrew Jackson about their exhibition The Street, and discussing the role of archives.
THE STREET
Light House’s exhibition season The Archive has begun with new exhibiton The Street featuring a special talk by Pete James, Head of Photographs at Birmingham Library in June.
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EXHIBITIONS
BALCONY GALLERY
LOCK WORKS
WORKSHOPS
Bhopal 25 by Pardeep Kairo
Len Spragg’s Caravan
Our new Photography workshops will be taught by David Rann who teaches photography at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, mac, and Stratford-upon-Avon College (NCFE Level 2). David has exhibited his own photography and he also runs the Fotofilia studio and gallery.
Bhopal 25: Examining life after the Bhopal industrial disaster of 1984 Just after midnight, on the night of 2 December 1984, a catastrophic gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India saw the beginning of the world’s worst industrial disaster. It has come to be known as the Hiroshima of the chemical industry. Thousands of people died immediately and, since that day, tens of thousands more people have died as a result of their exposure to the toxic gas, with a further 120,000 developing chronic medical conditions that require constant healthcare. This exhibition explores life 25 years after the tragedy, and the various organisations working in Bhopal to aid those suffering from gas exposure and water contamination. With his exhibition Pardeep aims to portray the positive and remarkable work carried out by such organisations, as well as looking at case studies to convey the damaging consequences of the Bhopal disaster. In doing so, he hopes to raise awareness of the Bhopal gas tragedy and the Bhopal Medical Appeal. For more info visit www.bhopal.org
Until Fri 17 Jun Photographs by Hubert Wallace Redfern. Curated by Mairi Turner and Catherine Fuller. This is an exhibition with a curious back story. The photographs were taken by Hubert Wallace Redfern, an avid amateur photographer who managed to amass a collection of over 2000 slides during his lifetime. The collection was passed on to the curators, who transformed it from a family archive to the status of ‘found photography’. With no personal connection to the photographs, the curators were able to assess them with a fresh, unmediated eye. The concept of found photography is one that is gaining increased recognition in the time of digital photography, perhaps because the idea of a photograph as an object to be collected seems to have passed. As well as documenting interpersonal relations in an extended family, the photographs unwittingly document entire eras of interior design, fashion, leisure and consumer aspirations. The period details of the photographs provide a glimpse into an unfamiliar time, but the basic arenas in which they were taken remain the same as the majority of today’s digital photography: home, the workplace and leisure.
Introduction to Digital Photography Fri 27 May, 10am - 4pm Cost: £30 All you need to know to get you started with your digital camera. Suitable for beginners. Bring your camera!
Photographing People Fri 17 Jun, 10am - 4pm Cost: £40 A “soup-to-nuts” guide to portrait photography where you’ll learn the best way to photograph people and get to practice what you learn by photographing real models. All levels welcome.
BHOPAL 25
Thu 9 – Sat 25 Jun
CINEMA
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ARCHIPELAGO
WASTE LAND
YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER
Until Mon 2 May
Tue 3 - Thu 5 May
Fri 6 – Thu 12 May
Cert 15, 1hr55 Dir. Joanna Hogg, UK, 2010
Cert PG, 1hr39 Dir. Lucy Walker, Brazil/UK, 2010
Cert 12A, 1hr38 Dir. Woody Allen, USA, 2010 Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin and Antonio Banderas.
YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER
Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys to his native Brazil and the world’s largest rubbish dump, Jardim Gramacho. There he films an eclectic band of ‘catadores’, self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s collaboration with these inspiring characters, as they recreate images of themselves out of garbage, reveals both dignity and despair as the catadores re-imagine their lives. Waste Land offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.
LIVING IN EMERGENCY
SOURCE CODE
Edward arrives on a remote island off the English coast, to join his mother and sister who have organised a family holiday. But Edward’s father repeatedly fails to join the gathering, instead communicating with his wife and children via a series of increasingly strained phonecalls. His absence serves to bring the family’s buried anger and repressed emotions to the surface and underlying tensions are gradually revealed through raw scenes of bitter sibling rivalry and marital disharmony.
WEST IS WEST
SOURCE CODE
LIVING IN EMERGENCY
Until Thu 5 May
Fri 6 – Thu 12 May
Thu 12 May, 7.45pm
Cert 15, 1hr43 Dir. Andy DeEmmony, UK, 2010
Cert 12A, 1hr33 Dir. Duncan Jones, USA, 2011
Cert 15, 1hr33 Dir. Mark Hopkins, USA, 2009
Manchester, 1975. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, is deep in pubescent crisis under assault both from his father’s tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition and fierce bullies in the schoolyard. In a desperate attempt to ‘sort him out’, his father packs him off to Mrs Khan No1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long before Mrs Khan No2 with a small entourage from Salford, swiftly follows to sort out the mess.
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he’s part of the government experiment Source Code, a program that enables him to cross over into another man’s identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. Colter re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombs and prevent the next attack.
In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions. With different levels of experience, each volunteer must find their own way to face the challenges, the tough choices, and the limits of their idealism. Living in Emergency is a window into the seldom portrayed and less-than glamorous side of humanitarian aid work. Followed by a Q&A with volunteers from MSF.
CINEMA
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ORANGES AND SUNSHINE
LITTLE WHITE LIES
THE WAY
Fri 13 – Thu 19 May
Fri 20 – Thu 26 May
Fri 27 May – Thu 2 Jun
Cert 15, 1hr45 Dir. Jim Loach, UK, 2010
Cert 15, 2hr34 Dir. Guillaume Canet, Fra, 2010
Cert 12A, 2hr8 Dir. Emilio Estevez, USA, 2010 Tom (Martin Sheen) is an American doctor who comes to France to collect the remains of his adult son, who dies in a storm in the Pyrenees while walking The Way of Saint James. Driven by his profound desire to understand his lost son, Tom embarks on the historical pilgrimage, leaving his California life behind. Armed only with his son’s backpack and guidebook, he begins the 800km historical pilgrimage where he meets other people from around the world, all broken and looking for greater meaning in their lives.
LITTLE WHITE LIES
French with English subtitles Every year, Max, a successful restaurant owner, and Véro, his eco-friendly wife invite a group of friends to their beautiful beach house. This year, before they all leave Paris, their buddy Ludo is hurt in a serious accident, which sets off a dramatic chain of emotional responses. The eagerly anticipated vacation leads each of the protagonists to raise the veils that for years they have draped over what upsets them. Pretences become increasingly hard to keep up, until the moment when the truth finally catches up with them all.
ESSENTIAL KILLING
ORANGES AND SUNSHINE
Oranges & Sunshine tells the story of Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the organised deportation of children in care from the United Kingdom to Australia. Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families and brought worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
ESSENTIAL KILLING
MEEK’S CUTOFF
Fri 13 – Thu 19 May
Sun 22 – Thu 26 May
Fri 27 May – Thu 2 Jun
Cert 15, 1hr24 Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland, 2010
Cert PG, 1hr42 Dir. Kelly Reichardt, USA, 2010
Cert 15, 2hr5 Dir. Takashi Miike, Japan, 2010
English & Polish with English Subtitles A high-octane chase thriller, Essential Killing shows that in war every man can be both predator and prey. Captured by the US military in Afghanistan, Mohammed is transported to a secret detention centre in Europe. When the vehicle he is riding in crashes, he finds himself suddenly free and on the run in a snow-blanketed forest, a world away from the desert home he knew. Relentlessly pursued by an army that does not officially exist, Mohammed must confront the necessity to kill in order to survive.
The year is 1845 and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as the natural enemy.
13 ASSASSINS
Japanese with English subtitles It is the end of Japan’s feudal era, 1844. A young lord rapes and kills with impunity by virtue of his political connections. Though the era of the samurai is fading, an honest government official covertly enlists thirteen swordsmen to assassinate this sadistic lord before he can seize more power. With the clock ticking, the assassins lay a deadly trap for the lord and his army of bodyguards, culminating in one of the bloodiest, muddiest swordfights ever put to film.
CINEMA
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MY DOG TULIP
ISLAND
Tue 31 May & Wed 1 Jun
Fri 3 – Thu 9 Jun
Mon 13 – Thu 16 Jun
Cert PG, 1hr11 Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, USSR, 1925
Cert TBC, 1hr23
Cert TBC, 1hr30 Elizabeth Mitchell, UK, 2011
Beautifully animated and featuring an all-star cast voiced by Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini, My Dog Tulip is a touching, bittersweet adaptation of the late British author, J. R. Ackerley’s enduring novella, exploring the 16-year relationship with his adopted Alsatian bitch, Tulip. Directed by award-winning filmmakers, Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, it is the first animated feature ever to be entirely hand drawn and painted, utilising paperless computer technology.
ADELE BLANC-SEC
THE SILENT HOUSE
Fri 3 – Thu 9 Jun Cert 12A, 1hr47 Dir. Luc Besson, Fra, 2010
Fri 10 – Mon 13 Jun Cert 15, 1hr26 Dir. Gustavo Hernandez, Uru, 2010
French with English subtitles From visionary director Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, Leon) comes an adventure set in the early part of the 20th century. The story follows popular novelist Adele Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin) and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters and other distractions. Based on legendary cartoonist Jacques Tardi’s original stories, Adele Blanc-Sec perfectly recreates the intrigue, romance and excitement of one of the most tumultuous periods in history.
Spanish with English subtitles Filmed in one single continuous shot of seventy eight minutes, La Casa Muda focuses on Laura, who, second by second, intends to leave a house which hides an obscure secret. Laura and her father Wilson settle down in a cottage they have to renew since its owner will soon put the house up for sale. They intend to spend the night there and make the repairs the following morning. Everything seems to go smoothly until Laura hears a sound that gets louder and louder on the upper floor of the house...
A psychological drama based on the acclaimed novel by Jane Rogers, Island is a haunting tale of yearning, retribution and redemption. Abandoned at birth, Nikki Black has spent most of her life in ‘care’ sustained only by fairy stories. Incapable of love, fearful and desperate for revenge, she decides to find her birth mother, confront her... then kill her. She travels incognito to the remote Hebridean Island where Phyllis now lives as a recluse to carry out her plan.
FAREWELL
ADELE BLANC-SEC
This latest assemblage of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 masterpiece is something of a revelation, even to those who’ve seen the warhorse classic many times in duped copies. Meticulously restored by the Deutsche Kinemathek, with dozens of missing shots replaced, the new version also boasts remarkably sharp images and a rousing rendition of Edmund Meisel’s score.
Dir. Paul & Sandra Fierlinger, USA, 2009
MY DOG TULIP
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
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FAREWELL Fri 10 – Thu 16 Jun Cert 12A, 1hr53 Dir. Christian Carion, Fra, 2009 French with English subtitles Based on true events that hastened the downfall of the Soviet Union, this gripping thriller focuses on an episode in the Cold War where the fate of the world rested in the hands of one man. Emir is a disenchanted KGB spy who risks his life for future generations, by passing secret information to French bureaucrat Pierre, who passes it onto the upper echelons of the French and US governments. As they lie to their loved ones and the KGB furiously search for the leak, both men must fight for survival and a freer life.
CINEMA
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KILLING BONO
ARMADILLO
HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER
Fri 17 – Thu 23 Jun
Mon 20 – Thu 23 Jun
Fri 24 – Mon 27 Jun
Cert 15, 1hr54 Dir. Nick Hamm, Ire, 2011
Cert 15, 1hr45 Dir.Janus Metz, Denmark, 2010
Cert 12A, 2hr10 Dir. Alexei Popogrebsky, Rus, 2010
HEARTBEATS
Award winning film director Janus Metz arrives in Afghanistan with a group of young soldiers on their first tour of duty. Stationed on the Helmand frontline in Camp Armadillo the platoon fights increasingly fierce battles with an enemy that is nearby but rarely seen. Metz captures life on the frontline with an intense and uncompromising vision, bearing witness to the realities of the combat zone. As the fighting intensifies the effect of modern warfare is gradually realised as exhaustion, fear and adrenaline set in.
MAMMUTH
Russian with English subtitles
A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean - Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei, but his innate fear of the older man prevents him passing on the message. From this deception, lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere that leads to a suspense-filled climax.
SPARROW
Danish with English subtitles
MAMMUTH
KILLING BONO
This rock’ n’ roll comedy follows Neil McCormick, a young Irish songwriter and budding genius. There’s only room for one singer in school band The Hype and his friend Paul’s already bagged the job. Neil forms his own band with his brother Ivan, determined to leave The Hype in his wake. But there’s a problem: The Hype have changed their name... to U2. And Paul has turned into ‘Bono’. Naturally there’s only one option for Neil: become bigger than U2.
SPARROW
Fri 17 – Mon 20 Jun
Fri 24 – Wed 29 Jun
Mon 27 – Thu 30 Jun
Cert 15, 1hr41 Dir. Xavier Dolan, Canada, 2010
Cert TBC, 1hr27 Dir. Gustave de Kervern, Fra, 2010
Cert 15, 1hr27 Dir. Johnnie To, Hong Kong, 2010
French with English subtitles Francis and Marie are close friends. One day, during a lunch, they meet Nicolas, a young man from the country newly arrived in town. As one rendezvous leads troublingly to another - whether real or imagined, the signs are all bad each of the two friends slides deeper into obsessive fantasies around the same object of desire. And the deeper they slide, the more their once cast-iron friendship begins to crack under the pressure of competing for the new kid on the block.
French with English subtitles One of France’s biggest box office successes of 2010 and Nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Mammuth, from emerging young French directors Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine (Louise-Michel, Aaltra), is an outrageously funny and subversive tale of one man’s attempt to secure his state pension, whilst facing the prospect of retirement and the inevitability of growing old in the modern world. Starring Gérard Depardieu.
Cantonese with English subtitles
Kei is an experienced pickpocket known as the ‘Sparrow’ who becomes mesmerized by a dashing beauty named Chun-Lei. But behind Chun-Lei’s attractive facade lies a mysterious past and a mission to set herself free. Following her trail, the pick-pockets are unknowingly led to a face-off on the streets of Hong Kong with a rival pick-pocket gang, with both gangs vying for the possession of this enigmatic woman.
MAY Su 1
The Street Len Spragg’s Caravan Jamie Cullem Live Archipelago (15) West is West (15)
Until 17 Jun Until 17 Jun 8.15pm 5.20pm 5.45pm, 8.20pm
Tu 17
Oranges and Sunshine (15) Essential Killing (15) Women’s Post Production
5.45pm, 8.10pm 6pm, 8.20pm 10am - 4pm
M 2
Archipelago (15) West is West (15)
5.40pm, 8.10pm 5.45pm, 8.20pm
W 18
Oranges and Sunshine (15) Essential Killing (15) A Musical Journey
2pm, 5.40pm 2.15, 6, 8.20pm 8.15pm
Tu 3
Waste Land (PG) West is West (15)
5.40pm, 8.20pm 5.45pm, 8.10pm
Th 19
Oranges and Sunshine (15) Essential Killing (15)
5.45pm, 8.10pm 6pm, 8.20pm
W 4
Waste Land (PG) West is West (15)
2.15, 5.40, 8.20pm 2, 5.45, 8.10pm
F
20
Little White Lies (15) Deaffest
7.35pm Various times
Th 5
Waste Land (PG) West is West (15)
5.40pm, 8.20pm 5.45pm, 8.10pm
Sa 21
Little White Lies (15) Deaffest
7.35pm Various times
F
6
Source Code (12A) You will meet... (12A) NT Live: Frankenstein
8.30pm 5.45pm, 8.15pm 5.30pm
Su 22
Sa 7
Source Code (12A) You will meet... (12A) NT Live: Frankenstein Thee Moths Presents
5.40pm 5.45pm, 8.15pm 8.15pm 8.30pm
Deaffest Tangled (U) Little White Lies (15) Meek’s Cutoff (PG)
Various times 2pm 7.35pm 6pm, 8.20pm
M 23
Little White Lies (15) Meek’s Cutoff (PG)
7.35pm 6pm, 8.20pm
Su 8
Source Code (12A) You will meet... (12A)
6pm, 8.10pm 5.45pm, 8.15pm
Tu 24
M 9
Source Code (12A) You willl meet... (12A) Film & TV Quiz
6pm, 8.10pm 5.45pm, 8.15pm 8 / 8.30pm
Women’s Creative Editing Little White Lies (15) Meek’s Cutoff (PG) Open Mic Night
10am - 4pm 7.35pm 6pm, 8.20pm 8pm
W 25
Little White Lies (15) Meek’s Cutoff (PG)
2pm, 7.35pm 2.15, 6, 8.20pm
Tu 10 Women’s Video Production Source Code (12A) You will meet... (12A) Open Mic Night
10am - 4pm 6pm, 8.10pm 5.45pm, 8.15pm 8pm
Th 26
Little White Lies (15) Meek’s Cutoff (PG) Wolverhampton On the Fringe
4.45pm 8.20pm 8.30pm
W 11 Source Code (12A) You will meet... (12A)
2.15, 6, 8.10pm 2, 5.45, 8.15pm
F
Th 12 Source Code (12A) You will meet... (12A) Living in Emergency (15) / Q&A
5.20pm 5.45pm, 8.15pm 7.45pm
Intro to Digital Photography The Way (12A) 13 Assassins (15)
10am - 4pm 7.50pm 7.45pm
Sa 28
The Way (12A) 13 Assassins (15) Marathon Music Night
7.50pm 7.45pm 8pm
Su 29
The Way (12A) 13 Assassins (15)
7.50pm 7.45pm
M 30
The Way (12A) 13 Assassins (15)
7.50pm 7.45pm
Tu 31
Professional Camera Techniques The Way (12A) 13 Assassins (15) Battleship Potemkin (PG)
10am - 4pm 5.30pm 7.45pm 8.20pm
F
13 Oranges and Sunshine (15) Essential Killing (15)
27
5.45, 8.10pm 6pm, 8.20pm
Sa 14 Oranges and Sunshine (15) Essential Killing (15) Live from the Met: Die Walküre Eurovision
1.45pm 2, 6pm, 8.20pm 5pm 7.30pm
Su 15 Oranges and Sunshine (15) Essential Killing (15)
5.45pm, 8.10pm 6pm, 8.20pm
M 16 Oranges and Sunshine (15) Essential Killing (15)
5.45, 8.10pm 6pm, 8.20pm
JUNE Th 16
Intro to Final Cut Pro Farewell (12A) Island (Cert TBC) Exhibition Talk: The Street
10am -4pm 5.40pm, 8.20pm 6pm, 8.10pm 6.30pm
F
Photographing People Killing Bono (15) Heartbeats (15)
10am - 4pm 5.40pm, 8.10pm 5.45pm, 8.15pm
Sa 18
Killing Bono (15) Heartbeats (15)
5.40pm, 8.10pm 5.45pm, 8.15pm
5.45pm, 8.10pm 6pm, 8.15pm
Su 19
Killing Bono (15) Heartbeats (15)
5.40pm, 8.10pm 5.45pm, 8.15pm
Adele Blanc-Sec (12A) My Dog Tulip (Cert TBC)
5.45pm, 8.10pm 6pm, 8.15pm
M 20
M 6
Intro to Lighting Techniques Adele Blanc-Sec (12A) My Dog Tulip (Cert TBC)
10am - 4pm 5.45pm, 8.10pm 6pm, 8.15pm
Creative Editing Techniques Killing Bono (15) Heartbeats (15) Armadillo (15)
10am - 4pm 5.40pm, 8.10pm 5.45pm 8.20pm
Tu 21 Tu 7
Adele Blanc-Sec (12A) My Dog Tulip (Cert TBC) Open Mic Night
5.45pm, 8.10pm 6pm, 8.15pm 8pm
Killing Bono (15) Armadillo (15)
5.40pm, 8.10pm 5.45pm, 8.20pm
W 22
Killing Bono (15) Armadillo (15)
2, 5.40pm, 8.10pm 2.15, 5.45, 8.20pm
Adele Blanc-Sec (12A) My Dog Tulip (Cert TBC)
2, 5.45, 8.10pm 2.15, 6, 8.15pm
Th 23
Bhopal 25 Intro to Video Production Adele Blanc-Sec (12A) My Dog Tulip (Cert TBC) Wolverhampton On the Fringe
Until 25 Jun 10am - 4pm 5.45pm, 8.10pm 6pm 8.30pm
Killing Bono (15) Armadillo (15) Wolverhampton On the Fringe
5.40pm, 8.10pm 5.45pm 8.30pm
F
Mammuth (Cert TBC) 8.10pm How I Ended This Summer (12A) 7.40pm
W 1
The Way (12A) 13 Assassins (15) Battleship Potemkin (PG)
2pm, 7.50pm 2.15, 7.45pm 6pm
Th 2
The Way (12A) 13 Assassins (15) The Importance of Being Earnest
3.45pm 7.45pm 6.45pm
Adele Blanc-Sec (12A) My Dog Tulip (Cert TBC)
5.45pm, 8.10pm 6pm, 8.15pm
Adele Blanc-Sec (12A) My Dog Tulip (Cert TBC)
F
3
Sa 4 Su 5
W 8 Th 9
Mammuth (Cert TBC) 6pm, 8.10pm How I Ended This Summer (12A) 7.40pm
Su 26
Mammuth (Cert TBC) 12pm How I Ended This Summer (12A) 5.30pm Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg 2.45pm
M 27
Intro to After Effects Mammuth (Cert TBC) How I Ended This Summer (12A) Sparrow (15)
10am - 4pm 6pm, 8.10pm 5.30pm 8.20pm
Tu 28
Mammuth (Cert TBC) Sparrow (15)
6pm, 8.10pm 6.05pm
5.40pm, 8.20pm 6pm, 8.10pm
W 29
Mammuth (Cert TBC) Sparrow (15)
2, 6pm, 8.10pm 2.15, 6.05, 8.20pm
2, 5.40, 8.20pm 2.15, 6, 8.10pm
Th 30
Sparrow (15) NT Live: The Cherry Orchard
6.05pm, 8.20pm 6.45pm
6pm, 8.10pm 5.40pm, 8.20pm
Sa 11 The Silent House (15) Farewell (12A)
6pm, 8.10pm 5.40pm, 8.20pm
Su 12 The Silent House (15) Farewell (12A)
6pm, 8.10pm 5.40pm, 8.20pm
M 13 Digital Cinematography The Silent House (15) Farewell (12A) Island (Cert TBC) Film & TV Quiz
10am - 4pm 6pm 5.40pm, 8.20pm 8.10pm 8 / 8.30pm
Tu 14 Farewell (12A) Island (Cert TBC) W 15 Farewell (12A) Island (Cert TBC)
Key:
Event
24
Sa 25
10 The Silent House (15) Farewell (12A)
F
17
Exhibition
Films accompanied by this logo will be screened with subtitles on Sun & Tues
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Programme correct at time of going to press. Please feel free to contact the Box Office on 01902 716055 before your visit to check programme details or visit the website for up-to-date information.
Light House Media Centre The Chubb Buildings, Fryer Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1HT
HOW TO FIND US We are situated within The Chubb Buildings in Wolverhampton city centre just 2 minutes walk from the rail station and 5 minutes walk from Metro and city centre bus stops. Cycle parking is located inside our covered courtyard and free car parking is available at weekends and Mon - Fri after 5pm.
Box Office: 01902 716055 e: info@light-house.co.uk www.light-house.co.uk OPENING HOURS Box Office & Gallery: Mon - Fri: 9am - 8.30pm Sat & Sun: Open 45mins before first film screening until 8.30pm Lock Works: Mon - Fri: 8.30am - 9pm Sat & Sun: 5pm - 9pm (Food will be served until 8pm) Media Reference Library: Mon - Thurs 2 - 5pm Opening times may be extended for particular screenings and events.
ADMISSION CHARGES Standard charges are as follows: £5.80 full price / £4.40 conc. (Senior Citizens, Under 15s, ES40, NUS & Get Fit Card) Special Offers: Student tickets on Mondays just £3 Tickets just £3.50 for Wednesday matinees with a free tea or coffee.
ACCESS All our spaces are wheelchair accessible and both cinema auditoria are fitted with deaf induction loops. Both our cinema screens are equipped with DTS-CSS digital subtitling facilities and audio description facilities (see logos on the diary page and cinema pages for info on our accessible screenings). The Registered Disabled can be accompanied by a helper free of charge to Light House screenings and events. Guide dogs welcome.
(Orange Wednesday cannot be used)
Tickets for all Sunday screenings: £4.70 full price / £4.20 conc. Admission to the Main and Balcony Gallery is free of charge.
Large print programmes are available on request
LIGHT HOUSE FUNDERS A non-profit making organisation Light House is funded and supported by Arts Council West Midlands, Wolverhampton City Council, UK Film Council, Screen WM, Skillset, Advantage West Midlands, University of Wolverhampton and Europa Cinemas Network. Light House has been supported to develop its media education activity as an Education Hub through Screen WM’s Investment Fund with funds from The National Lottery through the UK Film Council.
Cover Image: KILLING BONO (15)
Orange Wednesday is available at all Wednesday evening screenings.