A RETROSPECTIVE of the work of experimental film maker Lutz Mommartz is to be be held at the CCA in Glasgow next month.
Transit Arts present the free but ticketed show, The Breath of the Sheep and the Sea is Infinitely Beautiful, which will include a screening programme and a newly commissioned performance from Carrie Skinner.
It is the first comprehensive survey of 82-year-old German experimental filmmaker Lutz Mommartz in the UK and is supported by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow and The Lutz Mommartz Film Archive.
This free screening event will include an introduction from curator Marcus Jack and a live Q&A session with Lutz Mommartz, archivist Stefan Silies, and Marcus Jack.
cca-glasgow.com
THE FIRST four artists have been announced for the 35th Orkney Folk Festival.
Irish fiddler Martin Hayes will make his debut appearance alongside his long-time duo partner, Irish/American guitarist Dennis Cahill, as will one of eastern Canada’s The East Pointers.
Two acts returning to the festival for just their second visit are the recently reformed English and Irish quartet, Flook, and singer Eddi Reader, pictured. Flook last played the festival back in 2001, whilst Reader made her debut Orkney appearances in 2012, during the festival’s 30th anniversary.
These announcements come ahead of the full line-up release, due in mid-January. Acts still to be revealed include artistes from the USA, Scotland and England, as well as a great number from Orkney’s own thriving folk scene. The festival runs from May 25 to 28, when an estimated 50 acts, totalling over 200 musicians, will converge upon Stromness in Orkney’s West Mainland. Last year's Orkney Folk Festival had record ticket sales and venues packed to 90% capacity.
Tickets for the 2017 Orkney Folk Festival will go on sale in April, following the programme’s release in March.
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THE OPENING film of 2017's Hippodrome Silent Cinema Festival in Bo'ness on Marchg 22 will be a rare screening of The Grub Stake (1923), with a specially commissioned new score by Jane Gardner. Tickets are now on sale.
The creator of The Grub Stake was Canadian Nell Shipman, described as "one of silent cinema's forgotten pioneers", a woman who ran her own production company, working outside the studio system, writing, directing and starring in her own films as well as performing her own stunts. She made almost 30 films throughout her career, including 1919’s Back to God’s Country, Canada’s most successful silent movie.
Shipman shot The Grub Stake – an action adventure about a feisty young woman lured to the Yukon – in Idaho, where she had moved from Hollywood in 1921.
Alison Strauss, festival director, said: “Nell Shipman is a deeply inspirational figure not only in the history of women’s liberation, but in the history of cinema generally."
hippfest.co.uk.
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