Passengerfilms are back on the 13th of May for an evening of film and discussion devoted to exploring and mapping the role of sound, music, and field recordings in place.

Featuring Roger Kappers’ documentary Lomax the Songhunter (2004, 90 mins), which traces the travels and encounters of the legendary Alan Lomax, who dedicated his life to collecting and championing folk music. Kappers tells Lomax’s story through interviews with friends like Pete Seeger, archival recordings of musical legends including Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, and footage of the settings where Lomax recorded sounds and songs.

The screening will be accompanied by talks:

Musicologist Jo Hicks (Oxford) will introduce the Hearing Landscape Critically research network – “an inter-disciplinary and inter-continental project addressing the intersections and cross-articulations of landscape, music, and the spaces of sound” – and speak on urban stasis and circulation in René Clair and Erik Satie’s short film Entr’acte (1924). Jo’s research is primarily concerned with late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century French music, especially music in and about Pari; this is overlapped by an interest in the politics and poetics of the audible landscape.

Writer and artist Justin Hopper will present and discuss his sonic poetry walking tours and their use of Anglo-American folk song to explore the hidden pasts and underworlds of urban landscapes. Justin’s work is rooted in his past as a journalist, but replaces traditional non-fiction with poetry as a way to approach truth in a fragmented world; he uses writing tied to specific locations to haunt them with myth.

Writer, radio producer and researcher in political geography Dr. Anja Kannigieser (RHUL) will discuss ‘Letting Atmospheres Speak’, introducing the speaking of atmospheres, both in terms of particular assemblages of spaces, infrastructures and sounds, and in terms of the voices that resonate to contribute to the feeling of a moment. With a background in performance and communication/sound studies, Anja’s interests intersect contemporary labour, voice, technology, collaboration and social movements. She holds an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship in geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, and her first monograph, Experimental Politics and the Making of Worlds, will be released by Ashgate in Summer 2013.

Join us 7:30pm, Monday the 13th May, The Roxy Bar and Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street, SE1 1LB. Entry £5. See map.

As part of Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival, Passengerfilms have put together a collection of short films celebrating and exploring urban waterways and the River Wandle.

Join us for Animation, Abstraction and Archive footage, screened on the banks of the Wandle with Unorthobox to mark the opening night of the Fringe. We’ll be looking at the creatures that live in the water, the history and industry on the banks, the science of how and why urban waterways are so important for our drinking water and as a place to experience nature and find inspiration on our doorstep.

The evening also includes a dazzling mix of physical theatre and installations and performances fom Yael Karavan and Bruno Humberto aka. Boris and Boris. And the Wandsworth Festival Team are already busy building a bar on the open air site especially for this event!

Films include:
The Hidden Life in Pond Water
Daniel Stoupin, 2013
“We don’t need to dive into the deep ocean to find the most unusual lifeforms. This short film is a journey into a bizarre world of microscopic inhabitants of pond and river water.”

Invocation
Marina Nikitina, 2013
Marina Nikitina is currently studying painting at Central Saint Martins College of Art. Having recently expanded her painting and drawing into animation, her work brings to mind microscopic cellular structures as well as huge storm swept landscapes.

Mills of the River Wandle
Courtesy Wandle Industrial Museum
With a fall of 38 metres and a length of 12 miles, the Wandle is a very fast flowing river. This made it suitable to power watermills, which it has done since Roman times. A wide range of different industries used water-power in their manufacture including mills producing paper, gunpowder, iron, dyes and copper, snuff, leather, drugs, peppermint, oil mills (such as lavender oils), calico and silk.

H2 Oh No!
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that strives to demystify the urban policy and planning issues that impact local communities. In this short film we learn about New York City’s urban waterways.

Waterway
Britta Johnson, 2011
This stop-motion animated film follows large drops of water as they travel through rocks, ferns, plant roots, microbes and other creatures that naturally clean them.

The Last Days of Young’s Brewery at Wandsworth
Wandle Industrial Museum, 2006
The earliest mention of commercial brewing at the Ram Brewery in Wandsworth is in 1581 in the reign on Queen Elizabeth I. Brewing continued on the site and in 1832 the Young family acquired the brewery. They continued until 2006, when this film was made, and now the site, with its many listed buildings, is awaiting redevelopment.

Wandsworth Arts Festival: The Festival Hub
8pm, Saturday 4th May 2013
Wandle Triangle, Wandsworth High Street SW18 4LB

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Join us on Monday the 25th of March for an evening of film and discussion on the theme of ‘Threads: Un/ravelling Space’.

Featuring a rare screening of “wild but gentle” fantasy film Wool 100% (2006), directed by Mai Tominaga, in which two aging junk-collecting sisters return home one day to discover a stranger knitting a red dress in their house. We’ll also be screening Jenni Nelson’s documentary short Tightly Knit (2010), which explores the story of three passionate characters obsessed with knitting, introducing contemporary trends in a vibrant knitting community.

Plus Dr. Jonathan Faiers on knitting and catastrophe in cinema, Perri Lewis on knitting’s ‘scene’ in London, and a discussion chaired by Laura Price and Professor Philip Crang from Royal Holloway, University of London.

And if you’d like, please feel free to bring any knitting/craft to work on whilst watching the talks and films!

Kicks off at 7.30pm on Monday the 25th March at the Roxy Bar and Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street, SE1 1LB. Entry £5; just show up and pay on the door.

Join Passengerfilms at the Roxy this February for an evening of film, discussion and live performance investigating sound, cinema and landscape.

How does music shape our stories of journeys, near and far? This month we’re grappling with that question. Our feature for the evening is From the Sea to the Land Beyond (2012, 74 mins) – a unique filmic exploration of the role the coast plays in our lives. The film is a collaboration between Penny Woolcock and the band British Sea Power, combining archival BFI footage with an original score, and we’re pleased to say that this is the first non-theatrical screening of it in the UK. We’ll also be showing Way to the Sea (1936, 9 mins), a classic GPO documentary short about the London to Portsmouth railway, with music by the inimitable Benjamin Britten.

Dr. Julie Brown, Reader in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, will discuss the musical dimensions of the original presentation of J.B. Noel’s 1923 and 1924 films of the Royal Geographical Society expeditions to Mt Everest.  In addition to publishing on early twentieth-century art music, Julie is contributory editor (with Annette Davison) of The Sounds of the Silents in Britain (OUP, 2013), and was Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded Research Network ‘The Sounds of Early Cinema in Britain’ and a British Academy Research Development Award entitled ‘“Film fitting” in Britain, 1913–1926’.  In April 2011 her reconstruction of Frederick Laurence’s original score for Morozko was performed at the Barbican Cinema as part of the British Silent Film Festival.

And the collective Cabinet of Living Cinema will treat us to a performance that explores our aesthetic relationship with seascape and coastline, from Romantic poetry to avant-garde cinema to surf films, with excerpts from Maya Deren’s At Land and live radio piece Sound Journeys of Dorset, recorded amidst the quarries of Dorset’s man-made wilderness. With live scoring and live foley from Kieron Maguire (guitar, viola) and Robert Parkinson (dulcimer).

The event kicks off at 7.30pm on Monday the 25th February at the Roxy Bar and Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street, SE1 1LB. Entry £5.

We survived the end of the world (and Christmas! And the New Year’s celebrations!), and now Passengerfilms are happy to be back at The Roxy Bar and Screen on Wednesday the 23rd of January for a much-anticipated night on herding and human-animal geographies.

Featuring Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s stunning documentary Sweetgrass (2009), an award-winning, beautifully shot examination of the link between cowboys and sheep in Montana’s dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains. Sweetgrass is an unsentimental elegy to the American West, following the last modern-day cowboys in search of summer pasture. This beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are intimately meshed. We’re absolutely thrilled to be able to screen it after having to reschedule earlier this year.

Accompanied by a screening of Lindsay Blatt and Paul Taggart’s short documentary Herd in Iceland (2012), which follows the horse herders of Iceland across breathtaking landscapes, and Eva Weber’s gorgeous, impressionistic 3-minute short Reindeer (2011) - a haunting portrait of reindeer herding in the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderness.

Plus guest speaker Hayden Lorimer on herding and transhumance. Dr. Lorimer is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow; his work considers the geographical dimensions of a series of themes: landscape, nature, fieldwork, science, memory, mobility and biography.

So follow the herd to the Roxy on the 23rd! Food, drink, and comfy sofas available throughout the evening…and we’ll be playing herding songs and herding calls from different countries before and between the films.

7:30pm, Wednesday the 23rd January, The Roxy Bar and Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street, SE1 1LB. Entry £5. See map.

With Christmas and the END OF THE WORLD on the horizon, Passengerfilms is here to help you prepare for both. At the Horse Hospital on the 13th of December we’ll be grappling with ‘disaster’ in various forms. Join us for an evening complete with raucous blockbuster, cult classics, a range of sage experts and, of course, festive mince pies. You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll forget the impending yule-tide doom…

Our feature, Deep Impact (1998, 120 mins), stars Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, and Morgan Freeman, who face a 7-mile wide comet hurtling towards the Earth, threatening mass extinction. A mainline to the mainstream ways in which Disaster props up particular social ideals, and nurtures themes of loss, hope, fear, and family strength.

Before this you get Time Enough at Last (1959, 25 mins), from the classic American television series The Twilight Zone. Burgess Meredith plays Henry Bemis, who finds himself alone with his beloved books after a nuclear war. Considered one of the most famous Twilight Zone episodes, it touches on issues about over-reliance on technology and the distinction between solitude and loneliness.

The evening will be introduced by co-curator Stephanie Morrice (Royal Holloway, University of London). Stephanie researches reconstruction and social response in the wake of natural disasters. She’ll be introducing her current project “Returning ‘Home’? Emotional Geographies of the disaster displaced” and talking about her exploration of these issues in post-flood Brisbane, Australia, post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand, and post-hurricane New Orleans.

Emily Candela (researcher and artist, Royal College of Art and the Science Museum) will be showing clips from her Disaster Series and discussing the how the cultural history and mythology of catastrophe twists through 19th century Romantic landscape painting to inform contemporary understandings of human relationships with our environment. And Dr. Camillo Boano (Senior Lecturer at Development Planning Unit, UCL, and one of the Co-Directors of the UCL Urban Lab) will speak on post-disaster practice and architecture. His research interests are focused on urban development, contested urbanism, socio-spatial dialectics, design and urban transformations, shelter and housing reconstruction in conflicted areas, divided cities and post-disaster environments.

Kicks off at 7:30pm, Thursday the 13th December, The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD (See map). Entry £5. Mince pies included!

Passengerfilms is back with a night devoted to the history and future of Indigenous and ethnographic film, from an early instance of documentary filmmaking to contemporary examples of communities harnessing new media to speak back to colonialist appropriations of their image, guest-curated by Charlotte Gleghorn from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Our feature for the evening is Nanook of the North (1922, 79 mins), Robert Flaherty’s famous silent film, considered by many to be the first feature-length documentary. Nanook of the North documents a year in the life of Nanook and his family, Inuit living in the Canadian Arctic. Following the viewing, Michelle Raheja (University of California, Riverside) will discuss revisionist approaches to the film which rethink Indigenous participation in such productions, making reference to recent Indigenous-led media initiatives coming from the Arctic region.

To accompany the feature, we’ll be showing two Latin American Indigenous-authored shorts. Mu Drua [Mi Tierra/My Land] (2011, 22 mins), tells the story of how the director Mileidy Orozco Domicó, displaced as a young child from the Indigenous community of Cañaduzales de Mutatá in Antioquia, reencounters her family, land and environment. This short film has won several awards at international film festivals, including the Cartagena International Film festival, and offers an accomplished example of Indigenous self-representation, poetically revealing the relationship Mileidy has with the experiences and cultural practices that take place in this community.

 Já me transformei em imagem [I've already become an image] (2008, 10 mins), directed by Zezinho Yube, reappropriates the ethnographic archive for its own means, recounting the Hunikuis’ story of loss and renewal as it unfolds through the experiences shared by community members – from the first encounters with the white man and the ensuing years of enslavement on the rubber tree plantations to the recovery of their lands and cultural traditions.

We’ll also have a talk by Felix Driver (RHUL) on the uses of archival film, looking especially at Climbing Mount Everest (1922) which includes footage shot in Northern India and Tibet, as well as on Everest itself. Felix is currently engaged in research on the visual culture of exploration, and recently completed a research project and exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society.

The evening will be introduced by and interspersed with commentary from Charlotte Gleghorn and Michelle Raheja. Dr. Charlotte Gleghorn is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Indigenous Filmmaking at RHUL. She is currently conducting research as a member of the ‘Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Performance, Politics, Belonging’ team at Royal Holloway. Her research explores the configurations of auteurship, authority and cultural memory in relation to Indigenous film production in Latin America, considering the political and aesthetic contributions of documentary and fiction films that are produced by, or in collaboration with, Indigenous filmmakers and communities. Dr. Michelle Raheja is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of the California Center for Native Nations at the University of California, Riverside. She is of Seneca descent and her research and teaching focus is on early American literature and Native American cultural studies and theory. Her book Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film was recently published by the University of Nebraska Press.

Kicks off at 7:30pm, Monday the 12th November, The Roxy Bar and Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street, SE1 1LB. Entry £5. See map.

Join Passengerfilms at the Roxy Bar and Screen for an evening of film and conversation about water and ice along and beyond the US-Canadian borderlands, guest-curated by Peter Adey and Klaus Dodds from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Our feature film is Frozen River (2008, 97 min), set in the harsh and barren landscapes near the St. Lawrence River. It addresses illegal migration, multiple sovereignties and the insecurities of family life on the US-Canadian border. It features Melissa Leo (21 Grams) as a single mother in upstate New York who begins smuggling immigrants across the frozen river with Lila (played by Misty Upham), a Mohawk woman who lives on a reservation that straddles the US-Canadian border. Written and directed by Courtney Hunt, Frozen River won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for drama in 2008 and earned more than 30 other awards and nominations.

This will be accompanied by a screening of the short film David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker (1964, 28 min), directed by Bernard Devlin, which recounts the story of David Thompson, a British-Canadian surveyor and fur trader who mapped over 3.9 million square kilometers of North America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and has been described as “the greatest land geographer who ever lived”. Some of his historical sketches are available on the Picture Gallery of Canadian History, and his map of the North-West Territory is here. He was also known to some native peoples as “Koo-Koo-Sint” or “the Stargazer”.

The evening will be introduced by Pete Adey and Klaus Dodds. Dr. Peter Adey is Reader in Human Geography at RHUL and researches mobilities, aerial verticality and the spaces of emergency, and is also programme director of the new MSc in Geopolitics and Security at RHUL. Prof. Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at RHUL and researches geopolitics, the media and the international governance of the Antarctic and the Arctic. He is author of many books, including the recent The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction.

We’ll also have a short talk from Dr. Philip Hatfield, Curator of Canadian and Caribbean Studies at the British Library, who will be introducing The Great Mapmaker. Dr. Hatfield’s work considers colonial and post-colonial photography in Canada and the Americas (‘Canada in the Frame’). We’ll also have a presentation on the cartoons and comics of the Canadian North from Dr. Alasdair Pinkerton, Lecturer in Geopolitics at RHUL, and Dr. Jason Dittmer, Reader in Human Geography at UCL. Dr. Pinkerton’s research focuses on issues related to public and citizen diplomacy and the creative processes and practices of geopolitics, with particular reference to both South Asia and the South Atlantic regions. Dr. Dittmer specialises in the critical geopolitics of comics and is the author of Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero: Metaphors, Narratives, and Geopolitics; Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity; and the co-editor of Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions.

Kicks off at 7:30pm, Monday the 22nd October, The Roxy Bar and Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street, SE1 1LB. Entry £5. See map.

To celebrate the launch of the new Place, Environment, Writing MA run collaboratively by geographers and writers at Royal Holloway, we’re back at the Roxy Bar and Screen putting on a special screening of Grant Gee’s Patience (After Sebald) (2012), alongside launch drinks, a short film by theEYE on Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta, and talks from Sir Andrew Motion, James Kneale, Heather Yeung, Jamie Andrews and Gareth Evans.

Patience (After Sebald) (2012, 82mins) is a stunning multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss by the acclaimed documentary film-maker Grant Gee (‘Joy Division’, 2007). It’s an exploration of the work and influence of German writer WG Sebald, told via a long walk through coastal East Anglia tracking his most famous book, The Rings of Saturn. Visually and aurally innovative, ‘Patience’ features contributions from Tacita Dean, Robert Macfarlane, Katie Mitchell, Rick Moody, Andrew Motion, Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair and Marina Warner. It maps Sebald’s digressions, illustrations and itinerary across this half sunken coast through monochrome vistas, archival herring packing footage and diagrams, in an experimental and inventive documentary (see trailer). The film was commissioned as part of The Re-Enchantment, a three year national arts project by Artevents exploring our various relationships to place in the twenty first century. The film’s co-producer, Gareth Evans, now curator at Whitechapel Gallery, will introduce the film. Gareth is a writer, editor and film programmer who curated the Artevents project and also co-edited the limited edition book which came out of the project, Towards Re-Enchantment: Place and Its Meanings, copies of which will be available to buy on the night.

Ian Hamilton Finlay (2005, 26 mins) is a meditative short film created by Illuminations as part of theEYE series, exploring Finlay’s Little Sparta in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh. Part garden, part inscription, Little Sparta brings the space of text into the material landscape, mixing horticulture with poetry, myth and social metaphor. Ian Hamilton Finlay is an influential small press Scottish poet, co-founder of the Wild Hawthorn Press, and this film marked his eightieth birthday. Heather Yeung, co-organiser of W.A.L.K. (Critical Dialogues in Walking, Art, Landskip and Knowledge), will present the film. Heather has worked on both Ian Hamilton Finlay and Alec Finlay, exploring ideas of affective mapping and contemporary poetry, and she is currently editing a volume for Palgrave called Cosmopoetics.

Sir Andrew Motion will be coming along to the event to talk and read from his work. Andrew has a long-standing reputation as a writer with many collections of poetry, fiction, and critical works on writers including Edward Thomas and John Keats. He has worked as an editor for the Poetry Review and for Chatto and Windus, and was Poet Laureate from 1999 until 2009. His most recent book, ‘Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets’ considers the interlacing of English language and landscape, and he teaches on the new collaborative Royal Holloway MA. James Kneale (UCL)  will also be talking about the new open-access website Literary Geographies which he co-runs with Sheila Hones, a collection of thematic bibliographies and other resources reflecting the evolving genres of literary geography. James is a geographer lecturer at UCL who specialises in the represented and material geographies of science fiction and utopia narratives. Jamie Andrews, head curator of the British Library’s Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands exhibition, will be talking about the motives and selections of this major national exhibition on the topic of British landscape and literature (ending 25th Sept). On display are 150 material works – manuscripts, first editions, drawings, etchings, photographs and overseas loans, from the 10th century Anglo-Saxon poem ‘The Seafarer’ from the Exeter Book to John Lennon’s ‘In My Life’ (see curator’s introduction). The exhibition also includes a number of video interviews with contemporary writers, including Graham Swift, Alice Oswald, Simon Armitage and Robert Macfarlane, available online here.

This evening is celebrating the launch of the Royal Holloway MA ‘Place, Environment, Writing’, a unique collaboration between cultural geographers and creative writers which focusses on the key question of how we relate to the environment (from wild to urban) in the modern world through fiction, non-fiction and poetry. The programme develops the writing skills of students through an understanding of creative place-based writing as well as a grounding in theoretical explorations of environment, place and landscape, through workshops and supervisions led by the writers Jo Shapcott, Sir Andrew Motion, and Tim Cresswell (editor of Cultural Geographies and author of Place: A Short Introduction).

There’ll be drinks from the bar and hot food all night, so do join us for this launch! Kicking off at 7.30pm at the Roxy Bar & Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1LB. Entry £5. See map.

16:45 pm
Saturday 23rd June 2012
AV Hill Theatre
UCL/Torrington Square
London WC1

Music, stuffed owls and sword-dancing? This PassengerFilms investigation of folk spaces is taking place by kind invitation from OpenCityDocs film festival. The film programme consists of the feature Sleep Furiously (Gideon Koppel, 2008) and the short film Rapper Dancers (Doc Rowe, 2003). To present and discuss these we are delighted to be presenting Koppel himself who will be dicsussing representations of music, dance, change and continuity together with Rob Young (author of Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music). This event will be taking place as part of Open City Docs festival 23 June / 16.45 /  UCL AV Hill Theatre (click here for a location map) and tickets  can be booked here. (£10 / Concessions £8)

With backgrounds in both artistic and commercial film-making, Gideon Koppel’s film Sleep Furiously (2008) turns back to his hometown Trefeurig, and the ways in which this Welsh farming community is extending and reinventing itself against the rhythms of nature and of the twenty-first century. A year’s passing allows us to meet town-criers, mobile librarians, school children, local committees and ever present animals, to the sound of original music by Aphex Twin. It has been described as ‘off-beat tender poetry’, and ‘possibly the most beautifully elemental documentary film to have emerged in Britain in over a decade.’

The short documentary film Rapper Dancers (2003) is one example of Doc Rowe’s legendary collection drawn from nearly half a century of recording the cultural traditions, vernacular arts, folklore song and dance of Britain and Ireland. The impromptu group of rapper dancers take on the challenge of sword-dancing in the confines of a modern pub, with breath-taking speed, without hitting either a drink or a drinker. It forms part of a recent BFI release- Here’s to the Health of the Barley Mow- that presents filmic documentation of British Folk Traditions, from children’s games in Blitz London to Cornish May Day rites.

These two films are framed by a discussion between the director Gideon Koppel, and Rob Young, editor at Wired magazine and author of Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music.

Rob Young is British music author, journalist. He is currenty editor-at-large of The Wire, a British-based experimental music magazine but has contributed to a variety of publications including The Guardian, Gramophone, Uncut and Frieze. His 2010 book Electric Eden surveys more than a century of music making in the British Isles, and investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations- song collectors, composers, Marxist revivalists, folk-rockers, psychedelic voyagers, free festival-goers, experimental pop stars and electronic innovators, taking in Vaughan-Williams, Cecil Sharp and Kate Bush as well as many other less well-known figures. For more information see his blog ElectricEden.

We are delighted to have been invited to present this screening in the context of Open City Docs. This is a live festival devoted to exploring the world we live in through the vision of documentary film; presenting films about real life, about the experience of real people many of whose voices are not otherwise heard, we challenge, explore and expand ideas of what documentary can be and do. With music, debate, interaction, food the festival provides stimulation and enjoyment for everyone. Provoking debate and opening minds.

The festival has diverse programme of more than 100 films from around the world, innovative live events and filmmaker-led workshops will take place over four mid-summer days and nights in venues around central London and across University College London’s (UCL) WC1 campus. Search http://www.opencitydocsfest.com or download the festival schedule to find out what’s on offer making use of our handily organised festival strands  – including Science Frictions, Protest Works, Sound Waves, Still Lives, Artists’ Documentary, The Image of the Engineer, City Scope and World Visions, alongside a showcase of the winners of our nationwide online film-making competition, MyStreet, variousshorts programmes and a number of special events.

NB: For those interested in a double-dose- Koppel will also be participating in another OpenCity Docs event earlier that afternoon during which he will be joining Mike Grigsby, Peter Howell and Larry Sider in debating the use of techniques usually reserved for fiction features in documentary-film. For this and the rest of the OpenCity programme please see their website.