Chronicle of a Summer + Would You Like to Meet Your Neighbor? (adv 12)
Part of Baltic Cinema | Together! Solidarity and Community on Screen
Sat 6 Mar | 15:00
£6/£4.50* per person
(adv 12) Dirs. Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin / France / 1960 / 1h 30m
A rare screening of Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin’s trailblazing study of the hopes and fears & artist Barbara Hammer’s gonzo New York subway film.
Echoing Kuba Ryniewicz’s videos Good News (2026) these two films ask strangers who they are and how they feel. A rare screening of Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin’s trailblazing study of the hopes and fears of a generation is paired with artist Barbara Hammer’s gonzo New York subway film.
Baltic Cinema is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network
Doors open 14:30; Film starts 15:00.
Drinks are available from Baltic Kitchen and may be taken into the auditorium.
*Concessions: under 18s, unwaged & 65+
Chronicle of a Summer (Chronique d’un Été)
(adv 12) Dirs. Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin / France / 1960 / 1h 30m
Few films can claim as much influence on the course of cinema history as Chronicle of a Summer. The fascinating result of a collaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin, this vanguard work of what Morin termed cinéma vérité is a brilliantly conceived and realised diagnosis of the early sixties in France — but surprisingly feels as fresh as when it was made, finding much in common with contemporary life in the UK.
Simply by interviewing a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960 – beginning with the provocative and eternal question “Are you happy?” and expanding to political issues, including the ongoing Algerian War – Rouch and Morin reveal the hopes and dreams of a wide array of people, from artists to factory workers, from an Italian émigré to an African student. Chronicle of a Summer’s incisive approach gives us a document of a time and place with extraordinary emotional depth. (Criterion)
Would You Like to Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape
(adv 12) Dir. Barbara Hammer / USA / 1985 / 12m 39s
Would You Like to Meet Your Neighbor? A New York City Subway Tape finds iconic American artist Barbara Hammer (wearing a mask made of subway maps) conducting gonzo interviews with subway riders, getting their thoughts on the city, their fellow passengers, and navigating public space.
