Cinema
Folly for a Flyover
Under the A12 Flyover
Check web site for tickets/timings.
Friday 29 July Doors 7pm
‘
Hackney Shorts
’
Hackney WickED Art Festival presents a free night of short film and video art made in and around Hackney Wick and Fish Island.
Saturday 30 July 8:30pm
‘
The Wild One
’
by Laslo Benedek.
This Marlon Brando classic about the outlaw motorcycle gang the Black Rebels is based on the infamous Hollister Riot of 1947. Although it was made in 1953, it was banned in the UK for 14 years, and finally found release in Hackney Wick’s own infamous 59 Club in 1967. The film will be proceeded by a series of shorts from theHackney WickED Art Festival.
Sunday 31 July 8:30pm
‘
A Few Dollars More
’
This is spaghetti western at its wildest, with Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef as rivial bounty hunters chasing the Wild West’s most wanted villain, El Indio. The film will be proceeded by a series of shorts from the Hackney WickED Art Festival.
The Floating Cinema
Old Ford Locks, River Lee Navigation
www.floatingcinema.info
Free tickets can be booked in advance at:
The Floating Cinema invites you on board as it navigates the waterways of the Host Boroughs this summer. Created by Hackney-based architects
Studio Weave
and
artist duo
Somewhere
(Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie), this extraordinary customised narrow boat hosts a varied and vibrant programme of free on-board screenings, quirky canal tours, talks and workshops.
Friday 29 July 8:30-11pm
‘
What Have You Done Today Mervyn Day?
’
Films on Fridges in partnership with the Floating Cinema present the outdoor screening of this highly acclaimed, locally-shot film by St Etienne. Food and drink will be available.
Films on Fridges
The Yard, Forman Smokehouse Gallery
Free tickets can be booked in advance at:
Saturday 30 July 8-11pm
‘
Pelada
’
Films on Fridges in partnership with I Am Braziliality present the UK Premier of the highly acclaimed documentary that showcases the other side of football, away from the bright lights and manicured fields of the professional sport. The transformative and influential power of soccer is explored in areas as far-flung as Bolivia, China, Kenya, Iraq and Brazil.
The Transit Cinema
At various times/locations throughout the festival.
Full timetable information will be made available on the website from Thursday 28th July
.
A
converted transit van will tour the Hackney Wick and Fish Island area over the duration of this years Hackney Wicked festival. It will stop off at various sites connected to the existing and historical print industry including Central Books, Main Yard and the Hamlet Industrial Centre as well as other sites in between. A series of short films selected by the artist Verity-Jane Keefe will be screened including her own recent work Print(ed) Matters which makes visible the often invisible industry within the area, focusing on the chain of print: printing to finishing to distribution, whilst exploring both the similarity between art practise and industry, and the process of production and making.
Seating is available and refreshments will be served.
We Are Artists commissions (co-ordinated by MUF/Vicki Lewis).
Black Eyed Susan, C.A. Halpin
Double Games, Red In Tooth And Claw, exhibited at Hackney WickED 2010
