Baltic Cinema: Shooting the Messenger
Wed 11 Nov | 18:30 I’m Not Everything I Want To Be (adv 15)
Thu 26 Nov | 18:30 Faces Places (12a)
Sat 12 Dec | 15:00 Tish (with Paul Sng and Jen Corcoran in conversation) (15)
Thu 28 Jan | 18:30 Don’t Blink — Robert Frank (adv 12)
Thu 11 Feb | 18:30 Finding Vivian Maier (12)
Thu 11 Mar | 18:30 Hale County This Morning, This Evening (adv 15)
Supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network
What drives photographers to frame, to capture, to record? Sometimes compulsion, sometimes necessity, always curiosity. Across five documentaries, this season looks at photography and photographers – their desires and struggles, passions and fears – to accompany Baltic’s exhibition Close to Home.
I’m Not Everything I Want To Be (15)
(Ještě nejsem, kým chci být)
Wed 11 Nov | 18:30
Dir. Klára Tasovská Czechia/Slovakia/Austria 2024 / 1h 30m
Czech filmmaker Klára Tasovská’s debut feature is a formally inventive and deeply personal film. Made in close collaboration with Libuše Jarcovjáková and exclusively resorting to photographs and diary entries, I’m Not Everything I Want to Be explores the photographer’s search for identity and emotional journey, and results in a deeply affective and inspiring work. (ICA)
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Faces Places (12a)
Visages Villages
Thu 26 Nov | 18:30
Dir. Agnès Varda / France / 2017 / 1h 34m
Recognising a like-minded soul in each other, Agnès Varda and JR set out together to explore the villages and small towns of rural France. Journeying in JR’s van-sized Polaroid camera, the two create a series of large-scale portraits of the people they meet, plastering the results across unconventional locations around the country – even finding time to put a shot of Varda’s toes on a passing train.
Baltic Cinema | Tish with Paul Sng & Jen Corcoran in conversation + Curator Tour (15)
Sat 12 Dec | 15:00
Dir. Paul Sng / UK / 2023 / 1h 30m
A chance to see the vital, much-commended film Tish and hear from both director Paul Sng and the film’s producer, North East-based Jen Corcoran, in this special in-conversation event.
Don’t Blink — Robert Frank (adv 15)
Thu 28 Jan | 18:30
Dir. Laura Israel / USA / 2015 / 1h 22m
A punky, gleeful, unorthodox documentary about one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, the legendary photographer and filmmaker behind the seminal book The Americans and landmark films like Pull My Daisy, with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
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Finding Vivian Maier (12)
Thu 11 Feb | 18:30
Dirs. John Maloof, Charlie Siskel / USA / 2013 / 1h 23m
Vivian Maier’s massive and quite incredible body of work would come to light when in 2007 her work was discovered at a local thrift auction house on Chicago’s Northwest Side. From there, it would eventually impact the world over and change the life of the man who championed her work and brought it to the public eye, John Maloof.
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Hale County This Morning, This Evening (adv 15)
Thu 11 Mar | 18:30
Dir. RaMell Ross/ USA / 2018 / 1h 16m
A lyrical innovation to the form of portraiture that boldly ruptures racist aesthetic frameworks that have historically constricted the expression of African American men on film.
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