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Garden Films + ScreenTalk (PG*)

Land Cinema

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Explore the garden as a place of personal healing and political growth in this programme of four experimental films and animations.

In suburban Boston and remote Orkney, Anne Charlotte Robertson and Margaret Tait filmed their surroundings in lyrical appreciation of the natural world. But beneath their vibrant images lie feelings of loss and anxiety. With diary-like directness, their films document changes in the land, and in senses of self and community, over many seasons and years.

Join curator Becca Voelcker after the films for a ScreenTalk with writer Lucy Jones on land cinema, women and gardens.

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Please note: the film Garden Pieces (11 min) is not suitable for audience members with light sensitivity

Film programme running time: 49 mins (approx.) 

Event running time: 90 mins (approx.)

Ticket prices

Standard
£13 *
* Excludes £1.50 booking fee

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£1.50 booking fee per online/phone transaction.

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Magazine Mouth (US 1983 Dir Anne Charlotte Robertson 7 min)

Five Year Diary: Reel 80 Emily Died (US 1994 Dir Anne Charlotte Robertson 27 min)

A Portrait of Ga (UK 1952 Dir Margaret Tait 4 min)

Garden Pieces (UK 1998 Dir Margaret Tait 11 min)

Lucy Jones

Lucy Jones is a writer and journalist. She was Deputy Editor of NME.com and previously at the Daily Telegraph. She won the Society of Author’s Roger Deakin Award for Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain. Her second book, Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need The Wild was published in March 2020 by Allen Lane. It was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize and received a Society of Authors’ K Blundell Trust Award. The Times and Telegraph named it a book of the year (2020) and the paperback became a Times’ bestseller (2021). Her third book, co-written with Kenneth Greenway, is called The Nature Seed and is published by Profile Books.

Lucy’s latest book Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood was published by Allen Lane in June 2023 and by Pantheon in the US in May 2024. It was a New Statesman and Daily Mail book of the year and was longlisted for the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction.

 

Dr Becca Voelcker

Becca Voelcker is Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BBC New Generation Thinker. She earned her PhD at Harvard University and has lived in Wales, England, Japan and the US.

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Location
Barbican Cinema 2 & 3 are located on Beech Street, a short walk from the Barbican’s Silk Street entrance. From Silk Street, you’ll see a zebra crossing that will take you across the road to the venue. 

Address
Beech Street
London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
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