The SciFi London Film Festival is only a month away, and there are some very interesting screenings on offer.
I hope to go (at the very least) to the Blink of an Eye Shorts Programme, La Antena, Dante 01, Babeldom and La Creme (but can be persuaded to go to other movies too).
If you’re interested in joining me give me a shout - I’ll be arranging tickets at some point next week (probably).
The time around the beginning of the year is often associated with prediction, as people make use of this seemingly random point in the flow of time to muse about the past and try to guess the future. Always in milestones - a foreign, but perhaps inevitable, concept when time is involved. It is quite fitting, then, that the British Film Institute chose the first month of the new year for a retrospective of a filmmaker who is as prone to prediction as he is to coming off as unpredictable - Wim Wenders. But Wenders is not unpredictable in a pointless, art-school style way, and his predictive look at the futures of his films isn’t busy with setting milestones. Instead, he uses the flow itself to create a very subtle illusion of time, usually quite accessible and fun (and always accompanied by a great sound track).
Many of the films are advertised as ‘High Quality Video’ - I’m not sure what it really means (is it high definition? digital? just an empty marketing phrase?) and whether it makes much sense in a present in which one can view ‘high quality’ video directly from the browser, but I do hope to see at least some of the following:
Comment or email me if you’d like to join for some of these films - I might try to arrange some kind of cultural outing.
