Cinemarauder at the Berwick Film Festival

Star and Shadow brings the CineMarauder to Berwick film festival to continue its ongoing collective exploration into the conditions of viewing, cultivating a dialogic relationship between artist and spectator. The CineMarauder, a 16’ caravan adapted to be a screening room is an experiment in the Medvedkin tradition of bringing cinema to people and places to provoke discussion. The caravan is also touring to draw attention to the undeniably inspiring and impressive community building project that will result in a new permanent Star and Shadow in 2017 (http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/starandshadow)

One limb of the S&S organism’s collective exploration into viewing contexts, has evolved a collaborative programming pseudonym - The Ignorant Curator - a film programmer who choses a film to share publicly that she/he has never seen. This relationship sets up a non-hierarchical mediation between artist and viewer, and generally results in a very rich discussion at the end. The collective experience of cinema gets its due emphasis, as audiences share their own readings and benefit from others readings of the work, in a context where the division between those who ‘know’ and those who don’t is impeded, and intellectual equality is celebrated.

For Berwick Film Festival, the Ignorant Curator, sister of Ranciere’s Ignorant Schoolmaster, invites the emancipated spectator to share in a viewing-cum-discoursing experience of films hopefully never seen before by both curator and audience. Between screenings, Christo Wallers’ ’X,’ a homage to Lil Louis’ classic house track ‘French Kiss’ will be playing on loop.

Saturday 24th September:

1pm

Desire, Stuart Marshall, 1989, UK, 16mm, 87mins

Sub-headed "Sexuality in Germany 1910-1945", it digs up a whole deal of stories leading to the Nazi extermination of lesbians and gay men.

3pm

Joy of Man’s Desiring, Denis Cote, 2014, Canada, HD, 70mins

A poetic montage of ideas about labour, leisure and humanity's higher satisfactions and aspirations.

5pm

Pain is… Stephen Dworkin, 1997, UK, 16mm, 80mins

The film searches through the many levels of pain and finds it in its unique position between disaster and pleasure. Pain is.. thus plunges us instantly into the midst of controversy and the unknown.

Sunday 25th September:

10am