Mashpee Nine is the story of injustice, activism, and vindication that emboldened cultural pride and
integrity for the Mashpee Wampanoag in 1976. The story documents the raid and brutal arrest of nine
men participating in a traditional drumming ceremony on the Mashpee Pond campsite.
Presented in partnership with Mayflower400 marking the 400th anniversay of the Mayflower's departure from Southampton in 1620.
A decade before Mayflower left our shores Stephen Hopkins had been aboard a Jamestown-bound ship that wrecked on Bermuda inspiring Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest. The film retraces Hopkin’s life criss-crossing the Atlantic. Presented in partnership with Mayflower400 marking the 400th anniversay of the Mayflower's departure from Southampton in 1620.
Southampton: NHS Stories - Oral Histories on Film is installed at City Eye throughout Southampton Film Week.
Eight short films celebrating our NHS, produced by Southampton Keep Our NHS Public members and students from Solent University. Local people, both NHS workers and patients, were interviewed and share their stories for this oral history project.
Please note that City Eye is not open on Sunday and Monday.
Director James Scott covers the trajectory of artist Derek Boshier, who lives and works in LA and was recently awarded an hororary doctorate at Solent University, across a series of projects and using ‘fragments’ of Boshier’s own film work.
Poetic and awaard-winning telling of the Derek Jarman story through extensive use of archive footage, created by acclaimed artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien in collaboration with Tilda Swinton.
Southampton Film Week is pleased to partner with Skate Southampton to present this screening of the UK Skateboarding documentary - BOARDERS Following s a group of British skateboarders on their journey towards Tokyo 2020.
Dir: Godfrey Reggio | USA | 1982 | 86mins | Cert: U Taking its title from a Hopi word meaning ‘life out of balance,’ Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi – eight years in the making – displays the lack of balance between humans and our relationship with our environment. Reggio’s breath taking ‘tone poem’ marries experimental […]
Dir: John Chester | USA | 91mins | Cert: PG The Biggest Little Farm follows the Chesters as they swap the big city for a (not so) little farm. Envisioned as a self-contained eco-system, Apricot Lane Farms is the Chester family’s attempt to show how easily we could do things differently. Besides a moral […]
Dir: Viktor Kossakovsky | Norway | 93mins | Cert: PG From the director of the climate documentary Aquarela, this aesthetically stunning film follows the lives of the eponymous Sow, as well as two cows and a chicken, as they live out their daily lives. Depicting the emotional lives of his animal subjects, Kossakovsky’s tender […]
Dir: Slater Jewell-Kemker | USA | Cert: U Since she was 14 years old, Slater Jewell-Kemker has been travelling around the world as a Climate Activist, meeting and interviewing other youths from this enormous network of international trailblazers. 2018 saw the rise to prominence of Youth Climate Activism with Greta Thunberg, but Jewell-Kemker’s […]