Film Night

Join us for an exciting evening of films about art! Free to enter as always ❤️

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Found Klimt by Béla Mayer

Hungary 2024

Feature Documentary

The plaster billboard of Viennese piano maker Ehrbar had been hanging on the wall of a Budapest apartment for a hundred years, when its owner began to uncover its origins. The trail led back to Gustav Klimt and the Klimt brother’s workshop. This investigative documentary follows Klimt through his almost complete life’s work, which is not known to the general public.

Migration Musings by Hingman Leung

Canada 2024

Short Documentary

In an increasingly complex and divided world, artist Jinny Yu asks, what is on the other side of us? Through the act of painting, Jinny explores uneasy and shifting realities – what does it mean to be a painter, and an activist? Could one navigate being an insider and an outsider at the same time? Through this meandering conversation on migration which inspired her work for the 56th Venice Biennale, Don’t They Ever Stop Migrating? we are brought along a journey of self discovery that leaves viewers with important questions we must ask ourselves.

Corpus, A Quest for Eternity by Sofie Hanegreefs and Jelle Janssens

Belgium 2024

Feature Documentary

In Corpus, a quest for eternity, master anatomist Andreas Vesalius invites you to join him on an unusual quest. Five hundred years after his death, he wants to show how a combination of art and science can produce a profound insight into existence. On this journey, you will meet five contemporary artists with a groundbreaking vision on anatomy and the human body: Babette Van Rafelghem, Gunther von Hagens, Stelarc, Colin H Van Eeckhout and Eva Gerd. Through their eyes you will rediscover the body as a new and wonderful world, and ponder the meaning of existence and creation itself.

Scott Walden’s The (Paving) Stones of Venice by Ann Deborah Levy

USA 2024

Short Documentary

In 2022, Canadian photographer Scott Walden, trained his camera on what is usually overlooked in Venice: the stones paving the four bridges that cross the Grand Canal. The photographs show hand-crafted stones on the older bridges as well as ceramic and glass tiles and machined lumber and metal plates on more recent surfaces. In debris and artifacts left on the bridges, the images reveal the presence of the pedestrians who cross. Inspired by John Ruskin’s “The Stones of Venice” Walden created a photo-installation on the floor of The Emily Harvey Foundation’s gallery in New York and invited viewers to take part in a participatory event that this video documents.

Zone by Susanne Layla Petersen

Denmark 2024

Short Experimental

A zone is defined as an area, especially one that is different from the areas around it because it has different characteristics or is used for different purposes.

The code in the film is by AI, the examples cover some fundamental principles of quantum mechanics: superposition, Schrödinger equation, and quantum measurement.

Skin of the City by Frederick Shelbourne

Mexico 2024

Short Documentary

Cuban artist, Bastian Silvestre, uncovers his materials on the streets of Mexico City. His project, ‘Skin of the City,’ entails peeling back layers of dilapidated buildings and stretching them within Baroque frames he casts from organic objects. By using a colour palette chosen by generations who have come before him, Bastian feels he is creating in communion with these unknown artists.