Booking fees
£1.50 booking fee per online/phone transaction.
No fee when tickets are booked in person.
Booking fees are per transaction and not per ticket. If your booking contains several events the highest booking fee will apply. The booking fee may be reduced on certain events. Members do not pay booking fees.
Programme
The Big Push
An evocative paint-on-glass film commemorating the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme with original verse by renowned Scottish Poet John Glenday.
UK 2015 Dir Laurie Harris, Xin Lee 4 min
The Queen’s Monastery
A woman’s lover, a former acrobat, returns from war a changed man.
UK 1998 Dir Emma Calder 6 min
Cannon Fodder
The absurdity of war.
UK 1971 Dir Vera Neubauer 1 min
Uncanny Valley
A stop-motion tour-de-force. Two lone soldiers fight their way out of the trenches of World War I. There is terror on their faces – explosions, chaos, fog.
Austria/France 2015 Dir Paul Wenninger 13 min
1925 aka Hell
A strangely hypnotic, mesmerising animated loop inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage.
France/UK 2010 Dir Max Hattler 2min
Silence
5 year-old Tana learns to keep silent after surviving the concentration camps. The true story of Holocaust survivor Tana Ross.
UK 1998 Dir Orly Yadin and Sylvie Bringas 11 min
Spin
Toy soldiers marching and moving in harmony, spinning, erupting and exploding. When conflict becomes a spectacle, the lines between destruction and entertainment get blurred.
France/UK 2010 Dir Max Hattler 3 min
Mario
In Italian playgrounds a song is chanted that dates back to World War I. A dark tale of a soldier who returns home from war to find his girlfriend has left him.
USA/Netherlands 2014 Dir Tess Martin 3 min
Red Dress. No Straps
1985, Tehran. The Iran-Iraq war. For Marmar it is another ordinary afternoon at the Grandparents. 'Death to America' chants from school mixes with Grandad's favourite programme ‘The Voice of America' on the radio.
UK 2018 Dir Maryam Mohajer 8 min
It Would Piss me off to Die so Yoooooung…
The muddy trenches and filthy fields. The desolation of war.
Portugal 2016 Dir Filipe Abranches 16 min
The Great War
Through a series of thoughtful reflections the students of The Grey Coat Hospital explore the significance of the centenary of the First World War.
UK 2013 Dir Shelly Wain and John Harmer 4 min
Aftermath
An adaptation of a war poem by Siegfried Sassoon. “Aftermath” was broadcast on every Armistice Day for many years after the war.
UK 2016 Dir Layla Atkinson 2 min
I’m OK
In 1917, Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka was in hospital, injured and shell-shocked from World War I, and heartbroken from the end of a famous love affair.
UK/Canada 2018 Dir Elizabeth Hobbs 6min
