Southampton Film Week

Local Talent Showcase including The Guernica Children

City Eye Studio 144, Above Bar Street, Guildhall Square, Southampton, Hampshire

A collection of films produced by local filmmaking talent - plus a chance to see the winners of the 2019 SFW: Shorts competition. We are also delighted to show the feature length documentary The Guernica Children which tells the story of 4,000 Spanish children, refugees from the Civil War, who arrived in the UK in …

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Knit the Walls

God's House Tower Winkle Street, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Artist Sarah Filmer will give a short talk and a tour of the 3 films that comprise ’i am the walls’ now installed in the new heritage exhibition at God’s House Tower. 'Knit the Walls' is a long term co-production knitting project, lead by artist, Sarah Filmer. It offers the people of Southampton the opportunity to …

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INVISIBLE

John Hansard Gallery 142-144 Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Installed throughout Southampton Film Week in the John Hansard Gallery.

An older woman self-isolates in a stranger’s tiny white attic. This film explores her experience of becoming…what? Invisible?
INVISIBLE is made by Brenda Waite and and Anna Cady. Brenda came to live in Anna’s attic at the beginning of the first lockdown.

As post menopausal women each had discovered what it felt like to become invisible. But then there was Covid. And it was said, “if all the old people stayed inside we could get on with our lives.”  The fight against ageism took on a whole new perspective.
Please note that the Gallery does not open on Sunday and Monday.

FREE

Adam Barker-Mill: DUALITY – Exhibition

John Hansard Gallery 142-144 Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom

DUALITY brings together the filmic and sculptural world of filmmaker, cinematographer and artist Adam Barker-Mill.

Presented in partnership with John Hansard Gallery the exhibition features Barker-Mill's first film in fifty years, alongside a new chromatic light sculpture.

“Obviously it is all about light. Light is the very essence of cinematography and light is the main material of my current work”