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.
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.
