Screenings at the big room
Conversations about belonging

Welcome to the Spring Season of films exploring the rich and complex theme of belonging starting on Friday, 8 March 2024.

All screenings are followed by an optional after screening discussion (up to 60 minutes).
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Friday, 8 March 2024

Overview: a young Buddhist apprentice is mentored by an aging monk (Oh Yeong-su) at a secluded monastery in the Korean wilderness. As a teenager, the apprentice (Seo Jae-kyeong) encounters a girl who arrives at the monastery seeking assistance with her health. Over the course of a few days, the boy is tempted away from his spiritual existence into a sexual relationship. He leaves the monastery to follow the girl into a modern way of life he has never known and is unprepared for.

Director: Kim Ki-Duk (released 2004)
Start time: 6.00pm (doors open from 5.45pm)
Running time: 1.45 hr (plus optional after screening discussion of up to 60 minutes)
​Recommended donation: £5.00

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Friday, 5 April 2024

Overview: textile artist, Allan Brown, spends seven years making a dress by hand from foraged stinging nettles, all picked on the South Downs near Brighton. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion. It’s also his medicine, the way he survives the death of his wife that left him and his four children bereft.

Over the course of seven years Allan Brown makes a dress by hand from foraged nettles. In the process, as he experiences the loss of two loved ones, he weaves his love into the fabric that he is creating. He spends seven summers harvesting the nettle and seven winters spinning it into fabric to make a dress for his daughter. The thread he creates carries his grief and his love, so that the cloth represents all of the love he has put into it. The nettles are free, foragable and renewable. As Allan transforms the nettles he himself is transformed by the healing power of nature and slow crafting.
 
Genre: Documentary 
Director: Dylan Howitt (released 2023)
​Start time: 6.00pm (doors open from 5.45pm)
Running time: 1hr 8 mins (plus option after screening discussion of upto 60 minutes)
Recommended donation: £5 

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Friday, 10 May 2024

Overview: this 2009 film from producer Peter Jackson and director Neill Blomkamp plunges us into a world where the aliens have landed... only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology. Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet.

Director: Niell Blomkamp (released 2009)
​Start time: 6.00pm (doors open from 5.45pm)
Running time: 1hr 12 mins (plus option after screening discussion of upto 60 minutes)
Recommended donation: £5 

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