A film screening and panel discussion with members of Liverpool’s African diasporic community. Panel members will reflect on a series of workshops they attended at the Museum.
The workshops – recorded in the winter of 2019/20 – were designed to help the Museum rethink the display of its Benin collection, and address historical legacies of injustice to create a more inclusive and engaging display.
The new display, which will include a number of looted items, is part of the World Cultures gallery, which will reopen in 2022. The gallery will celebrate the Edo Kingdom’s brilliant inheritance of court art, and confront the violent colonial history behind its theft by a British force in 1897.
Free event, online booking essential.
To complement British Music Experience’a Frankie say 1984! Exhibition and further explore the social and political context of the mid-1980s, they are screening My Beautiful Laundrette.
The 1985 British comedy-drama directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi was one of the first films released by Working Title Films.
The story is set in London during the Thatcher years, as reflected in the complex—and often comical—relationships between members of the Pakistani and English communities.
The story focuses on Omar, played by Gordon Warnecke, a young Pakistani man living in London, and his reunion and eventual romance with his old friend, a street punk named Johnny, played by Daniel Day-Lewis. The two become the caretakers and business managers of a launderette originally owned by Omar’s uncle Nasser.
The British Film Institute ranked My Beautiful Laundrette the 50th greatest British film of the 20th century.
Please note, their museum galleries are closed during film screenings. There are no ads or trailers.
Director: Stephen Frears
Certificate: 15
Length: 1hr 37mins
Tickets £8 adult, £6.50 concession/Independent Liverpool member (ID required)
I Am Cuba is an anti-American propaganda film, made as a Cuban-Soviet co-production, that has been snatched from oblivion, restored, and released in the United States as a presentation of Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola.
The film is shown FACT, 12 October, 8pm. See here for tickets.
Since the film’s prediction of a brave new world under Fidel Castro has not resulted in a utopia for Cubans, who suffer under one of the world’s most dismal bureaucracies, the film today seems naive and dated – but fascinating.
This screening will begin with a short 10-15 minute introduction from the Liverpool Architectural Society.
This screening is part of our Community Cinema. If you’re an artist, independent filmmaker, charity, film club, or arts organisation, find out how FACT can support your film screening.
Part documentary and part cinematic art, this film follows a city in the 1920s Soviet Union throughout the day, from morning to night.
The event is held FACT, 21 September, 8pm. See here for tickets.
Directed by Dziga Vertov, with a variety of complex and innovative camera shots, the film depicts scenes of ordinary daily life in Russia. Vertov celebrates the modernity of the city, with its vast buildings, dense population and bustling industries. While there are no titles or narration, Vertov still naturally conveys the marvels of the modern city.
This screening will begin with a short 10-15 minute introduction from the Liverpool Architectural Society.
This screening is part of our Community Cinema. If you’re an artist, independent filmmaker, charity, film club, or arts organisation, find out how FACT can support your film screening.
Still grieving over the accidental death of their daughter, Christine (Sharon Williams), John (Donald Sutherland) and Laura Baxter (Julie Christie) head to Venice, Italy, where John’s been commissioned to restore a church.
There Laura meets two sisters (Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania) who claim to be in touch with the spirit of the Baxters’ daughter. Laura takes them seriously, but John scoffs until he himself catches a glimpse of what looks like Christine running through the streets of Venice.
This screening is held FACT, 2 November, 8pm and will begin with a short 10-15 minute introduction from the Liverpool Architectural Society. See here for tickets.
This screening is part of their Community Cinema. If you’re an artist, independent filmmaker, charity, film club, or arts organisation, find out how FACT can support your film screening.
