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Filmmakers discuss their craft in Behind the Screen season at the Cube
What responsibilities do filmmakers have towards subjects in distress? This is an issue that Sam Liebmann wrestled with while filming everyday life in a Brazilian favela for his documentary More Earth Will Fall.
On March 28, in one of four weekly illustrated talks programmed at the Cube cinema by Bristol Radical History Group under the Behind the Screen banner, he’ll be discussing the challenges of portraying people fairly and with dignity in areas of social conflict.
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The series kicks off on March 7 with Britain, From the Blitz to the Beatles in which award-winning Bristol-based TV producer and director David Parker discusses the use of home movies as a resource. His talk will be illustrated with clips from his series Mud Sweat and Tractors, Sea Fever and Shooting the War, as well as his latest one, Britain on Film.
Local politician and creative artist Cleo Lake leads the next talk on March 14. Movement in the Movement sets out to explore the role of “dance as a necessary tool for radical change”.
In Chasing Daydreams (March 21), award-winning former BBC documentary filmmaker Colin Thomas looks at attempts to put workers on film, including his own. The title comes from one of his subjects, car worker Bill Pritchard, told him that he was “chasing daydreams.”
These events have been rescheduled from January and remain at the mercy of Omicron. Keep an eye on the Cube’s website for news of any programme changes.
Main image from More Earth Will Fall supplied by Bristol Radical History Group.
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