AURORA Tour

Visit the official AURORA Tour site

17th March 2009 at 18:00
tbc

My Secret Heart plus 'Making of' Documentary

7th March 2009 at 1.00
Free

Streetwise Opera, the award-winning opera company which works with homeless people, commissioned celebrated electronics artist Mira Calix to produce this stunning new work with visual artists Flat-e, incorporating pre-recorded voices, live vocals, film and electronics. Here, Tyneside Cinema presents the film version of the installation (due to tour in 2009), which mixes collaged audio and video recordings to create a contemporary interpretation of Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere. Unmissable and moving, don’t miss the opportunity to experience this amazing work. Introduced by Matthew Peacock of Streetwise Opera.

Peter Greenway In Person

6th March 2009 at TBC
£5.00 / £4.00

Artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway comes to the Tyneside to deliver a public lecture as part of the Clicks or Mortar? conference. Controversial and outspoken, the director of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and A Zed And Two Noughts will discuss the future of cultural buildings and emerging technologies and there’ll also be an opportunity to see his latest films Rembrandt’s J’Accuse and Nightwatching over the weekend.

Second Life International DJ Event

6th March 2009 at 9.00
Free

Captain Buck Rogers (aka Dominic Smith) organises regular dub and dubstep nights in the virtual world of Second Life (SL). For Pixel Palace, Captain Buck Rogers will be performing live from the Tyneside Bar, teaming up with other international SL DJs for a unique event where Tyneside Cinema’s online and real-world activity meet face-to-face. Through a partnership with Vector76, we are delighted to be hosting the virtual event on a brand new Newcastle-Gateshead island in Second Life, so even if you can’t make it to the cinema, you don’t have to miss out.

Mira Calix DJ Set

6th March 2009 at 7.30
Free Entry

Unwind after touring the Tyneside and experiencing the many installations in the building and join internationally celebrated electronic artist and creator of My Secret Heart, Mira Calix, Warp Records, for a live DJ set in the Tyneside Bar. Free entry.

Woody Vasulka Film Selection

6th March 2009 at 12.30
Free

Friday 6 March 12.30pm
Saturday 7 March, 2.05pm

Innovative use of new technology has continually influenced how artists approach their creative practice. Woody Vasulka’s early computer films are perfect examples of the relationship between artist and emerging technologies, looking here at work made in 1974. Showcasing their experiments with equipment such as the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, and newly available video equipment, the result is a set of highly influential, and visually stunning works. Free entry.

Kinoautomat: One Man And His House

5th March 2009 at 8.00
Stalls: £8.00 / £7.00 concs, Circle: £10.00 / £8.0

Dirs. Radúz Cincera, Ján Rohác & Vladimir Svitácek. Czechoslovakia 1966. 1hr 5mins.

A once in a lifetime cinematic event! As the digital age creates new ways of collaborative filmmaking we are thrilled to present a unique live performance of the world’s first interactive film. What may surprise you is that it was made in 1966!

Created by great Czech filmmaker Radúz Cincera, Kinoautomat caused a sensation at the 1967 World’s Fair in Montreal. It’s a black comedy in which you make decisions for the central character at key moments in the film using a wireless voting system. Groundbreaking and great

fun, Kinoautomat has been restored by Cincera’s daughter Alena Cincerova for its latest incarnation and comes to Newcastle as part of a new world tour. Not to be missed!

Out of Bounds by Chris O'Shea

5th March 2009 at
Free

Thurday 5th & Friday 6th March, 10am - 5pm.

Using Infra-Red technology Chris O’Shea’s work encourages anyone experiencing it to bore through the walls of the cinema and engage in a ‘behind the scenes’ experience using a special ‘x-ray torch’. Free entry. www.chrisoshea.org
Installation and artist talk with Memo Akten and Chris O’Shea, Friday 6 March, 11.15am. Free entry.

 

Body Paint by Memo Akten

5th March 2009 at 10.00
Free

Thursday 5th, exhibited 10.00am - 2.00pm & 5.00pm - 8.00pm, Friday 6th & Saturday 7th, exhibited 10.00am - 8.00pm.

A unique interactive dance installation where the performer’s movements are converted in real time into projected paint strokes; a digital paint palette for physical gesture. Free entry. www.memo.tv Live performances with dancer Malificent Martini at 10.55am and 2.00pm on Friday 6 March. Free entry. Installation and artist talk with Memo Akten and Chris O’Shea, Friday 6 March, 11.15am. Free entry.

Epizentrum by Martin Zeplichal

5th March 2009 at 10.00
Free

Thursday 5th - Saturday 7th March, exhibited 10.00am - 10.00pm

Austrian artist Martin Zeplichal’s work takes the seismographic oscillations produced by the public in the Tyneside stairwell then amplifies and transfers them to a real time animation, projected around the building, making it visibly shake. Free entry. www.tsetse.cc/Epizentrum/ Installation and artist talk with Martin Zeplichal and Will Schrimshaw, Friday 6 March, 2.40pm. Free entry.

System for Pilgrim Street by Paul Emery

5th March 2009 at 6.00
Free

Thursday 5th - Saturday 7th March, 6.00pm - 12.00am.

Filmmaker and programmer Paul Emery creates a unique outdoor projection onto the former Odeon cinema across Pilgrim Street, mapping heritage footage from the Tyneside film society onto the architectural details of the facade. Free entry. www.studioscene.co.uk

 

Little Helpers by Will Scrimshaw

5th March 2009 at
Free

Thursday 5th - Saturday 7th

Little Helpers are a series of motion sensitive mini robots which draw out the sonic properties of whatever they are attached to as you walk by. Look out for Little Helpers around the building as they activate and gently reverberate to make their presence known. Free entry. http://willschrimshaw.net Installation and artist talk with Martin Zeplichal and Will Schrimshaw, Fri 6 March, 2.40pm. Free entry.

Step Sequence - sound works

2nd March 2009 at 12:00
Free

DATARAMA 0.4

Visit the official DATARAMA 0.4 site

21st February 2009 at 20:00
Free

Bring your laptop, gameboy, pda, mini disc, memory stick, etc., plug into a PA & projector, have a drink, and show off what you are working on.

Music, sound, still images, moving images, animation, nice design are all welcome.

Past contributions to Datarama have included Mobile phone documentaries, home made audio hardware, flash animation, SC/pd/max etc patches, slideshows, hand painted torches, gameboy rock, flickr crowdsourcing, HTML cross stitching and talking sewing machines.

We welcome data exchange so if you have cool home made stuff you want to share bring it along and spread the joy.

Canopy New Music

18th February 2009 at 7.30
Free

In a special live music event in the Tyneside Bar, Newcastle's new/experimental music supporters, Canopy New Music, present a showcase of some of the North East's most weird and wonderful sound-makers. There will be digital minimalism, dusty harmoniums, lo-fi tape skronk, post-jazz concoctions, homemade electronics, glowing suitcases (no, really...) and more besides. All framed by visuals from local experimental film makers. Artists performing include The Gloom, Hapsburg Braganza, Posset, Long Lonesome Go and Jamie Allen. This event is for everyone who's interested in what the North East has to offer for the inquisitive listener, and is FREE. Just turn up and tune in!

 

 

Ken Jacobs - Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World plus Pushcarts of Eterni

17th February 2009 at 7.00
£4.00 / £3.00 CONCS

Ken Jacobs is one of the most significant artist filmmakers in the world. His work inspires the sense of awe and mystery that 19th Century audiences must have felt when seeing motion pictures for the first time. French-born inventor Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince recorded, in October 1888, what is probably the first film in the history of cinema. His subject was Leeds Bridge – people going about their daily business unaware that their motions were being set into history. Only 19 frames of his film exist today, and here Ken Jacobs uses them, and his inventive 3d system (with 3d glasses!) to reveal hidden beauties and great waves of motion. This event contains rapidly flashing (strobing) effects.

 

 

Disinformation: Noise/Underground

13th February 2009 at 6.30
FREE

Internationally-renowned sound artist Joe Banks (aka Disinformation) creates the latest in his series of electro-magnetic sound recordings radiated by underground transport systems. Previous projects have been created in London and Tokyo, and now it’s Newcastle, inspired by the cinema's location directly above the Metro system. Banks creates extraordinary experimental music and kinetic art using electromagnetic noise and interference – from live mains electricity, lightning and the sun – as the raw materials of electronic music and fine art. You can experience these unique recordings inside The Classic cinema, followed on-screen by a Disinformation film programme, including co-productions with the likes of Semiconductor and Strange Attractor.

1. "Fire in the Eye" 3.00 (Images by Disinformation 2007, project produced by Barry Hale and Uzma Choudhry for Threshold Studios)

2. "Kwaidan" 1.00 (Electromagnetic noise recorded and composed by Disinformation 2005, images by Réseau de Résistance du Cinéma Français 1944)

3. "Stargate" 5.47 (Solar radio noise recorded by Disinformation 1996, images compiled by Semiconductor 2007)

4. "National Grid" 3.37 (Electromagnetic noise recorded by Strange Attractor and Disinformation, live at Corsica Studios, London 2004)

5. "Blackout" (Music by Disinformation 1996, images by Barry Hale 1997) 6.23

transmediale.09: DEEP NORTH

Visit the official transmediale.09: DEEP NORTH site

30th January 2009 at 10.30
FREE

Gina Czarnecki

29th January 2009 at 20.00
£5.00/£3.00 concs.

The Tyneside Cinema presents three works by the artist Gina Czarnecki, including the British premiere of Spintex (developed in collaboration with Ulf Langheinrich), the multiple award-winning Nascent, and an earlier work Infected.

Gina Czarnecki's work fuses media art, film and visual art, reflecting on the relationship between the human body and new technologies.

Developed in collaboration with biotechnologists, computer programmers, dancers and sound artists, Czarnecki’s films and installations look at human relationships between image, disease, evolution, genetic research, and film technology.

Spintex, filmed at the Ashanti region of Ghana by Czarnecki and Langheinrich, looks at the daily rhythm of life and death that occur in the environment, Nascent is a visual and visceral journey about life, while Infected is about the relationship between the physical body in relation to the technology of the future.

The screenings will be followed by a talk by Gina Czarnecki and Atau Tanaka, Chair of Digital Media at Newcastle University, and a drinks reception.

Gina Czarnecki, Infected
Sound by Fennesz
Produced by Forma

Supported by Arts Council England

Gina Czarnecki, Nascent
Sound by Fennesz
Produced by Forma

Co-produced with Australian Dance Theatre

 
Commissioned by forma and Adelaide Film Festival Supported by Arts Council England

Supported by Arts Council England
Gina Czarnecki and Ulf Langheinrich - Spintex
Produced by Forma

Funded by Capture
Ulf Langheinrich courtesy of Epidemic

DATARAMA 0.3

6th December 2008 at 20.00
FREE

Techheads rejoice! Datarama 0.3 is a unique democratic data event hosted by the Polytechnic. If you are working on anything technological that might just change the world, bring your laptop, gameboy, pda, mini disc, memory stick, etc., just plug into our sound systems and projector, and show off what you are working on. Music, sound, still images, moving images, animation, nice design are all welcome.

Past contributions to Datarama have included Mobile phone documentaries, home made audio hardware, flash animation, complex super collider patches, slideshows, hand painted torches, gameboy rock, flickr crowdsourcing and HTML cross stitching. We also welcome data exchange so if you have cool home made stuff you want to share bring it along and spread the joy!

Machinima

5th December 2008 at 17.30
FREE, registration required

Machinima, born out of games technology, has started a love affair with film. Although lacking the detail, dynamic range and sumptuousness of film stock, "Machinimators" have made up for this with their flair for precision editing and cinematic composition, creating mood and suspense with big screen ambitions.

We are delighted to bring some of the leading figures in UK Machinima to NLFF to run open workshops, talk about the technology and to present a programme of Machinima films ranging from the romantic and mawkish through to the humorous and the horrific.

Alongside the screening programme, Bill Thompson will lead a discussion with the makers of Movie Storm about where cinematic Machinima is going, and its role in the future of digital movie making.

On leaving the workshop you should be able to appreciate the scope of Machinima, how easy it is to do it and have enough enthusiasm to try it for yourself, even if you have never dreamt about making a movie.

Presented by Pixel Palace with support from Northern Film & Media.

OO Heaven

7th November 2008 at 19.45
£25

Improv comedy legends The Suggestibles take over the Tyneside for you to be part of an hilarious live action-adventure game inspired by all things Bond! Watch Quantum of Solace from the luxury of the classic circle and then head up to the Tyneside Bar, turned into M16 HQ for the night, be inducted as a super spy! Get to live the fantasy – complete with Ferrero Rocher! Save the world! Fight the super-villain (and maybe even get your very own Licence to Kill)!

The Suggestibles were one of the smash hits of the Tyneside re-opening. There are only 60 places so book now, expect the unexpected and dress to dazzle - there may even be a prize for the best costume!

Tickets: £25.00. Includes seat in The Classic Circle for 8.30pm screening of Quantum of Solace followed by 00 Heaven with complimentary drink.

A Magic IF Production

John Knell

22nd October 2008 at 17.30
Invitation Only

Digital technology is giving venues the potential to support a wide variety of creative work, extending their potential usefulness in the future far beyond their current output. It is possible to imagine that venues may be transformed, offering a home to games players, interactive performances, and engaging new audiences who may well be turning from the passive consumers of culture into active participants in its creation.

We are delighted to welcome John Knell, one of the UK's leading thinkers on the changing face of work and organisations and the author of the Arts Council report 'Whose Arts is it Anyway?’ to Tyneside to consider these possibilities and the opportunities facing film and media venues in the digital age.

John Knell has worked with a wide range of corporate clients, including Microsoft, Tesco, Astra Zeneca, Eversheds, Lloyds TSB, Manpower, and Siemens. Intelligence Agency's current clients include AWE, Arts and Business, Bristol Old Vic, Creative Scotland, EEDA, The UK Film Council, NESTA, and PwC.

John's recent client work has ranged across high level public policy work particularly in the arts and creative economy sphere, strategic reviews and strategy development, thought leadership development, top team facilitation, executive advice and support, and a wide range of public speaking and event facilitation activities. The event is free of charge and has been made possible thanks to the generous support of Northern Film and Media.

Puffball

6th September 2008 at 20.15

Adapted from the novel by Fay Weldon, Puffball is an electrically-charged tale of urban deceit and rural passions. Powerful forces are unleashed when a young architect (Kelly Reilly, Pride and Prejudice) becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to transform a ruined cottage.

When the neighbouring farmers take against the unborn child, her very survival is threatened...

Come and be part of a very special event as Nicolas Roeg visits the Tyneside Cinema to introduce his latest movie on Saturday 6 September

Nicolas Roeg

6th September 2008 at 20.15

Nicolas Roeg began his career in film as the cinematographer of classics like Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death (1964) and François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 (1965).

He moved to directing and is responsible for some of the most distinctive and mesmerising films of all time, from directing Mick Jagger in Performance in 1969 to David Bowie in the amazing The Man Who Fell to Earth in 1976. He took Jenny Agutter on a naked Walkabout in 1971, and tormented Donald Sutherland in Don’t Look Now in 1973.

He has caused controversy with his work and he has influenced generations of filmmakers with his unique vision and stories and now, after an absence of 13 years from the screen, Roeg, now 80, returns with his take on Fay Weldon’s Puffball.

As we celebrate his work with screenings of some of his classic films, and an exhibition inspired by Don’t Look Now, we are thrilled to welcome Nicolas to the Tyneside Cinema to introduce his new film.

Don't Look Now

5th September 2008 at 14.00

The Film Footage Missed By A Viewer Through Blinking While Watching The Feature Film "Don't Look Now"

Artists. Elizabeth McAlpine UK 2003. 7 mins. Rated 15.

Acclaimed visual artist Elizabeth McAlpine makes her work from chopped-up sections of existing feature films. This piece assembles all of the unseen footage the viewer misses when they are blinking whilst watching Nic Roeg’s Don’t Look Now. Edited together chronologically, and inspired by the fact that we blink as a resting point when we’ve understood something, McAlpine creates a new narrative, like a fast paced trailer...

This is a FREE exhibition in The Digital Lounge, second floor, Tyneside Cinema. This is a rolling programme.

"Elizabeth McAlpine's conceptual games play havoc with the narrative of cinema" The Guardian

Run for Me

5th September 2008 at 18.00
£5 (full) / £4 (concessions)

Artists. Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. UK 2008. 1hr.

Run For Me is a film about hope, fear, chaffed nipples and free Mars Bars. Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard are the 2008 recipients of the Great North Run Moving Image Commission and this major new work is a collage of talking heads, taking in hundreds of runners, their supporters and spectators. The artists talk to race veterans and virgins, the man who devised the course, the manager of the information kiosk and even Superman!

This is a special preview screening of Run For Me before it opens at BALTIC later in September and we are delighted to welcome Iain and Jane to talk about their film with Tyneside Cinema Curator Rebecca Shatwell.

Includes complimentary glass of wine on arrival. Part of the Great North Run Cultural Programme.