Doors: 7:30PM
Screening: 8:00PM
Tickets £6 // Cons PWYC
In collaboration with Collective Ending, Darkroom is pleased to present Arcadia.
To conincide with their inaugral exhibition at Collective Ending HQ called 'A Land of Incomparable Beauty', we will screen a one-off special of the 2017 archival film, Arcadia (78mins) that inspired the show. Commissioned by the BFI and directed by Paul Wright, Arcadia is a black-and-white experimental film composed from archival footage from the BFI's Rural category. In a queering of British Romanticism split over 8 chapters - Amnesia, Into The Wild, Folk, Utopia, The Turning, Blood in the Soil, Winter Solstice, Oblivion - Wright's rhapsodic portrayal of the complexities if rural life in Britain is set to an OST composed by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp).
'A Land of Incomparable Beauty' runs 21 March - 11 April at Collective Ending HQ, 3 Creekside, SE8 4SA
“ An exhilarating audio-visual journey”
“There is magic in this film.”
With Arcadia, the BAFTA award-winning Scottish director Paul Wright has repurposed archive material to tell a provocative story for our times. Set to an original score by musicians Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp), Arcadia blends a mixture of film and TV footage from the BFI National Archive and regional archives around the UK, creating a powerful mosaic of images, sounds and moods, taking in folk carnivals and masked parades, hunting and harvesting, communes and raves, mechanisation, environmental destruction, fires, floods, storms. Arcadia reminds us what happens when our connection to nature, and each other, frays and unravels. By exploring and asking ourselves what we have gained and lost in the last century, perhaps we will discover something of what we’ll need to survive in the next.