Sublime programme announced // 22nd-24th September

05 September 2011

Sublime is a cinema with a difference, a gallery without walls. Screening artists’ films, documentaries, shorts and classic features from all over the world - Jerusalem to Cape Wrath, Stirling to Hawaii, Glasgow to Mexico, it uses Inverness’ Old Town Rose Street Car Park as a backdrop.

Be transported.

On each evening there will be screenings of artists’ films on the roof top of the car park; along with a full day of film, talk, music and food on Saturday and temporary installations of work by Francis Alÿs and Nicholas Provost.

All events are FREE on a first come-first served basis.

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Programme Details:

Thursday 22 September // 7.30 - 9pm // Rooftop Screening 1
Make it New John (2010)
Dublin born artist Duncan Campbell’s film isn’t only a film about John Delorean who designed the car now mostly known as the ‘Back to the Future car’ – it’s also a film about how histories are created and re-created.

Trail of Tears (2011)
A world premiere of Moray based artist Graeme Roger and collaborator Kevin Reid’s new film. Trail of Tears started in 2004 whilst Roger & Reid were on a research road trip from Memphis to New York visiting battle sites. This film concludes the journey and was shot in and around the north east of Scotland. Straight from the cutting room for Sublime!

Friday 23 September - Saturday 24 September // 8am - 9.30pm // Ground level
When Faith Moves Mountains (2002)
This Francis Alÿs film is a paean to the love for adventure, community and optimism in us all. Five hundred volunteers were supplied with shovels and fourmed a human comb in an attempt to move a sixteen-hundred foot-long sand dune from its original position.

Plot Point (2007)
Nicholas Provost has recorded everyday life around Times Square in New York and edited the resulting footage in such a manner that it triggers our collective memory about action and crime narrative. The film blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality, the sublime and the ugly, the utopian and the concrete.

Friday 23 September // 7.30 - 9pm // Rooftop Screening 2
From the roof level of the car park, you can see for miles…this screening features work by artists who celebrate, investigate and are possessed by the power of the natural world.

October (2011)
Black Isle native Katy Dove’s films are beautiful meanderings which explore communication at its deepest level. This film is a tribute in colour, shape and sound to the landscape of her childhood.

Balkaniel (2008)
Shona Illingworth is London based but was brought up near Cape Wrath. The film is an investigation into place and memory – personal and political.

There is a Place (2010)
Highland based Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson’s film won the Jury Prize Best Short at the 2011 San Francisco Dance Film Festival. The film features the work of Sang JiJia, Tibetan dancer-choreographer, combining exquisite movement and a stunning Highland landscape with skilful camera work and editing.

Physical Geography (2008)
Manhattan born, Glasgow based artist Ilana Halperin’s work traces her life through parallels in natural phenomenon. Her birthday or the death of her father, shared with the date of a volcano, for example. Filmed in Hawaii, this film explores her impulse to ‘… attempt physical contact with geological time’.

Smuggling Lemons (2006)
‘I want to smuggle lemons from Jerusalem to Ramallah. That's all.’ Jumana Emil Abboud’s film uses the landscape of her Palestinian homeland to reflect how location and belonging are intertwined.

Saturday 24 September // 1 - 6pm // Meeting Room (Ground floor)
1pm: The Philadelphia Story (dir. George Cukor, 1940)
The afternoon sees us reminiscing about the Meeting Room’s previous life as a Registry Office with a screening of this classic wedding film. Perhaps you or someone you know got married there, we’d love to hear from you!
Katherine Hepburn stars as rich socialite Tracey Lord, her plans for wedding No.2 are disrupted when husband No.1 Cary Grant and undercover tabloid journalist James Stewart turn up… If any of you are inspired to come in your wedding finery, please do!

3 - 4.30pm: Eadar-Chluich/ Interludes (2007)
MG Alba commissioned this series of short wordless films from some of the country’s top emerging directors, all responses to the titles of Gaelic songs. With thanks to Sorbier Productions.
Followed by live performance of some of the Gaelic songs which inspired the films, from two of the best Gaelic singers working today Brian Ó hEadhra and Fiona MacKenzie.

4.30 - 5.30pm: Low Growl (2010)
Icelandic artist Baldvin Ringsted’s film explores the relationship of music to contemporary culture, myth and ritual, focusing here on rock and metal music.
Followed by a conversation with the artist after the screening.

5.30 - 6pm: Heavy Metal Junior, A Portrait of Pre-Teen Rebellion                         (dir. Chris Waitt, 2008)
‘Hatred’ are a loud metal band from Stirling with an average age of 10. The film follows their shambolic preparations for a large open air gig as they battle with their songwriting, their instruments, their parents and ultimately their own talent in a bid for rock glory.
6pm: The film is followed by a live performance by a local musician Toby Michaels.

Saturday 24 September // 7 - 9pm // Rooftop Screening 3
Exploring our need to belong, to share and to be heard. This evening’s films deal with the idea of community – reflecting Inverness as a place with a strong sense of historical and cultural identity.

Given to the People (2008)
Simon Yuill’s film tells the story of the people of the Pollok Free Estate who protested against the development of the M77 motorway - which would cut right through land gifted to the people of Glasgow.

Single Track Road (2006)
A voice on the radio from Iraq, a car journey in the dark landscape of the Highlands, Lisa O’ Brien’s film explores how distance is shrunk by the things we share over space and time.

Life in a Day (dir. Kevin MacDonald, 2010)
Finally, bringing the global to the local, the director of Touching the Void and The Last King of Scotland collaborated with producer Ridley Scott to create an incredible journey around the world in 80,000 film clips from You Tube, all taken by people on one day, July 24th 2010. Were you one of them? We hear a rumour that Inverness Town House may feature in the film - see if you can spot it!

Sublime is supported by YUM! café, serving all the cinema snacks you’ll need!
Funded by The Highland Council and Creative Scotland.