Kamera.co.uk is pleased to announce the first of a series of film screenings in London. Our first outing will take place on Thursday 05 July, 7:30 - 8pm start at the Flea Pit at 49 Columbia Rd London, E2 7RG (see link below). Entry is free.

STELLA POLARE
Directed by Anthea Kennedy
and Ian Wiblin*
(UK, 2006, 76')

This beautiful and haunting DV feature is a work of fragmented histories: of the catastrophes of empire, war, terror and resistance of our times. Its unseen narrator 'encounters' the inhabitants of an undisclosed port city in old Europe as they stroll along a jetty in the melancholic fading light of evening. These meetings are with terrorists, philosophers, writers, photographers, shopkeepers whose subjective accounts and speculations create a rupture within 20th century history and beyond.

These sequences provide a central structure around which threads of image, sound and voiceover are interwoven to create an ambiguous and speculative narrative. Elsewhere the camera explores the interiors of opulently furnished 19th century apartments and museum vitrines of stuffed birds where the dusty faded traces of a glorious imperial past encounter the present tense materiality of the video image.

Stella Polare is an essay film, occupying the ground between narrative and 'experimental' film-making. It is a work of contemporary relevance which through its particular engagement with history, reflects on time, memory and violent political action.

* One of the directors will be attending the screening (tbc).

Come and join us for an evening of film and socialising. Bar service available. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Directions to the Flea Pit: >> www.thefleapit.com
Tel: 020 7033 9986
multimap link