Live Music and film: Turning the Stones

Presented by Dear Future, a live cinema organisation. Dear Future explores ways of thinking into the future by bringing together film, conversation and creativity.

Liz Pearson of Chalk Horse Music performs live with a special moving image projection by filmmaker Rebecca E Marshall. This is a gathering of folk songs and images, a turning of the stones to find vibrant, intimate moments of everyday stories that thread through time.

Liz Pearson writes songs inspired by local stories, legend and places and performs traditional English folk songs. The songs are rememberings of people.

Rebecca draws her images from The Dear Future Film Library that she has generated by filming moments from everyday life over 25 years. There are landscapes and people; friends, family and strangers walking, talking, working, laughing, dancing. She films to slow time and to dive into moods and atmospheres played out with colour, light, shadow and textures.

This event includes a special screening of 'Life Begins at Land's End' - a beautiful film by Rebecca of Emelia Telese's performance project at Land's End exploring issues of fertility, birth and life rituals for Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Rebirth Day program.

We turn the stones to re-see ourselves, to envision possible futures and reunite us with ancient customs and rites.

I Love This Town

Short films by Glenn Veness, 25mins

Glenn Veness has been filming a 30-year film archive of Hastings with all its eccentric and wonderful events that have taken place in and around the Old Town and St Leonards – pram races, bike races, tug of war and beach concerts, the folk of Hastings love a party. There are faces of our community from across the years, babies who have grown into adults, people we have loved and lost and new generations born into the town.

Glenn films people in a special way; he is up close in the heart of the action as these are the people and places that he knows and loves. He edits his film using two VHS players tape to tape, because that’s the way he knows how to do it.

All Tickets £15

This film is F-Rated. The F-Rating is applied to all films which are directed by women and/or written by women. Find out more about F-Rating.

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