"A new poetics for the cinema will, above all, be a "partisan" and "committed" poetics, a "committed" art, a conciously and resolutely "committed" cinema - that is to say, an imperfect cinema. An "impartial" or "uncommitted" cinema, as a complete aesthetic activity, will only be possible when it is the people who make art. But today art must assimilate its quota of work so that work can assimilate its quota of art."
From Julio Garcìa Espinosa's For an Imperfect Cinema.
Antigone Film was a fortnightly free film club that ran from Autumn 2015 - Summer 2016. It endeavoured to offer a thought provoking platform in order to explore human rights issues, stories and concepts through the powerful medium of film. We strongly believe in the ability of film to generate inputs and questions, and we value imperfect cinema as a powerful philosophy. In different weeks, the chosen film will treated and explored a different theme and we worked to find products from different backgrounds and countries, that reflect a series of struggles and realities that may be unfamiliar to us and that nonetheless need exposure. For any questions please email [email protected].
Spring 2016 Line-Up:
- Thursday 21st April – Fists in the Pocket, directed by Marco Bellocchio
- Thursday 5th May – The Salt of the Earth, directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Salgado
- Thursday 19th May – Taxi Tehran, directed by Jafar Panahi
- Thursday 2nd June – The Apple, directed by Samira Makhmalbaf