Soup and Cinema
Part of our ongoing series of Soup and Cinema events,
this edition of Soup and Cinema is guest curated by Olsen (www.olsenorsen.org) and features their tasty home-baked bread and cake as well as our usual delicious soup.
Tuesday 27 April 6pm
RETURN TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME
by Ken Jacobs 2008, 92 min, sound
In 1969 the American avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs made TOM TOM THE PIPER'S SON, a landmark work that re-examines a short 1905 film based on Hogarth's 'Southwark Fair.' The cinematic equivalent to an archeological dig, Jacobs penetrates the original film's contents (story, performers, film surface/grain) by isolating and repeating parts of the image. Forty years on, he's still digging and RETURN TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME is one of his latest works that further interrogates and explodes the 1905 original in the digital domain.
£4/£3 concessions. Numbers are limited (35 people max) so booking required (see below).
Thursday 3 June 6pm
BOMBS AT TEATIME
Take a trip back in time to the 1940s. As if fighting World War II wasn't hard enough, British people had to put up with years of rationing, baths taken in a couple of inches of water and frequent outbreaks of head lice. Bombs at Teatime is a portrait of domestic life in Britain throughout one of the most extraordinary decades of our history. At times wry, affectionate and surprising, these rarely seen films from the BFI National Archive document a time of great austerity as Britain sought to retain its sanity in the shadow of war.
Duration: 80 minutes (plus tea break)
£4/£3 concessions. Numbers are limited (35 people max) so booking required (see below).
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Illustration by Jay Cover
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