Hardware: From Book to Screen + Q&A with Trix Worrell & Piers Bizony
Fri 18 Sep
Chaotic, post-apocalyptic cyberpunk thriller executive produced by Hastings’ own Trix Worrell. With cameo appearances by Iggy Pop and Lemmy. This gritty, British post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror tells the tale of a reactivated head of a cyborg, able to rebuild and re-arm itself, which goes on a violent rampage in a sculptress’ apartment. Celebrated for its claustrophobic atmosphere, industrial a...
Sun Ra - Space Is the Place
Sat 19 Sep
Afrofuturist sci-fi odyssey starring Sun Ra. Surreal visuals meet Blaxploitation and free jazz in this rickety, but utterly charming film. And THAT music… Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra return to Earth after several years in space. Ra proclaims himself to be “the alter-destiny” and sets out to enact his plan to use music as salvation for the black community and to relocate them toa utopian col...
Time and Water + Post-Film Discussion
Sun 20 Sep
An Icelandic writer preserves vanishing glaciers, departed grandparents, family memories, and flowing time in his personal archives, transforming loss into a time capsule. From the Oscar-nominated director of Fire of Love, Time and Water follows Icelandic poet Andri Snær Magnason, as – facing the death of Iceland’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents – he turns his archives into a ...
Metropolis with Live Piano
Sun 20 Sep
Fritz Lang’s towering, art-deco sci-fi classic still feels fiercely modern, and glows on the big screen. Live piano soundtrack by Mike Hatchard. In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a saviour to mediate their differences. We are thrilled to scr...
Robots on Screen - Illustrated Talk
Sun 20 Sep
Cinema is obsessed with cyborgs, androids and replicants that mirror our deepest hopes and fears. Book launch and illustrated talk with Piers Bizony, author of Robots on Screen. Since 1927, when Fritz Lang's coldly graceful ‘False Maria’ first mesmerised audiences in Metropolis, cinema has been obsessed with mechanical mirrors of humanity: cyborgs, androids, replicants, and robots that look and th...
Breaking Social (Subtitles)
Thu 24 Sep
Power. Corruption. Tax-dodging. Meet the worldwide communities dedicated to confront and dismantle the mechanics of global inequality in this symphony of resistance. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten (Push, Bikes Vs. Cars, Big Boys Gone Bananas!*) returns with Breaking Social, an analysis of patterns of kleptocracy and extractivism around the world. The film follows some of these g...
NT Live: The Misanthrope
Thu 24 Sep
Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy. Telling the truth isn’t always that simple. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lies of modern society. But the more she challenges those around her, the fiercer the backlash becomes. Soon, she must confront the price of speaking her truth in a w...
Time and Water (Knitflix Screening)
Fri 25 Sep
An Icelandic writer preserves vanishing glaciers, departed grandparents, family memories, and flowing time in his personal archives, transforming loss into a time capsule. From the Oscar-nominated director of Fire of Love, Time and Water follows Icelandic poet Andri Snær Magnason, as – facing the death of Iceland’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents – he turns his archives into a ...
Andrew Kotting: Short Films + Intro + Q&A
Fri 25 Sep
Electric Palace presents an Andrew Kötting Weekend, a celebration of films by the internationally recognised filmmaker and artist. The weekend begins with a selection of Kötting's award-winning short films followed by a director Q and A hosted by writer, Nicholas Johnson: SMART ALEK – 1993 – 20 minutes Andrew Kötting (Gallivant, Swandown) and Sean Lock (pre Comedy Genius) inject real terror into...
The Memory Blocks (Relaxed Screening)
Sat 26 Sep
Andrew Kötting’s complex docu-essay about his daughter Eden, who has Joubert syndrome, steps outside conventional filmmaking grammar. The Memory Blocks takes the viewer on a wild visual journey, using a neurodivergent perspective that reveals how memories shift and transform, challenging our understanding of how we recall and process past experiences. This gala screening celebrates the Hastings ...
