Green Screen is the Electric Palace's newest screening strand, showing films with an environmental theme followed by discussion and inspiration for direct, hopeful action against climate change.
It is being supported by Energise Sussex Coast, Hastings Voluntary Action, Clean Water Action Group, and the LandXSea Environmental Festival, which takes place at the EP's twin cinema, The Montrose Playhouse, in Scotland.
The first film in the season is the documentary Power Station. The film – which follows two Walthemstow artists, Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn, as they set out to take their street off the grid, kickstarting a solar-powered energy revolution – will be showing at 11am on Thursday 4 June and Sunday 7 June.
Both screenings will be followed by Q&A with local community energy group Energise Sussex Coast and (on the Sunday) the film's directors.
Other films include John Carpenter's classic paranoid eco horror The Thing, children's film Song of the Sea, Six Inches of Soil, and Blue Carbon, which explores the role our coastal eco-systems can play in restoring the planet - with a soundtrack by RZA and Seu Jorge.
POWER STATION (WITH SUBTITLES)
Includes post-screening discussion.
THU 4 JUN 11am
POWER STATION + DIRECTOR'S Q&A
Includes post-screening discussion.
SUN 7 JUN 11am
SONG OF THE SEA + WORKSHOP
FRI 5 JUN 4.30pm
THE THING
FRI 12 JUN 7.30pm
Set in an isolated Antarctic research station, John Carpenter's classic horror is a chilling parable about survival, contagion, and what happens when trust - and the ecosystem - break down under pressure
BLUE CARBON + TRAPPED IN PLASTIC
THU 25 JUN 11am
This documentary brings together music and science to uncover what could be one of our greatest weapons in the fight against climate change.
SIX INCHES OF SOIL
SUN 5 JUL
The inspiring story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, benefit our health and provide for local communities.