Synopsis
Join us for Breeze Frame Film Club's first ever screening, as part of Cinema For All's Festival of Community Cinema!
We'll be screening The Pearl Button ( El botón de nácar) (2015, Patricio Guzmán), a Spanish language documentary about Chile's troubled history told through the country's relationship with water. Imbued with "contemplative poetry" across a "personal and political journey" of Chile's history, The Pearl Button is a moving account of memory, historical past, and political resistance.
We'll also plan to screen three short films from local working class filmmakers beforehand. If you're a filmmaker interested in screening with us, please email breezeframefilmclub@gmail.com!
Film Description
"The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice. Using both archival images and gorgeous new footage, The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar) manages once again to convey different periods of history and geography in a tale of our modern world."
Additional Info
Location
Irish World Heritage Centre Manchester, Manchester, M8 0AE
Event Timings
18:00 - Doors
18:30 - Screening of local shorts
19:00 - Screening of The Pearl Button
21:00 - Curfew
Further Information
Film is rated 12A and contains imagery that might be distressing (colonial violence, torture). Read more via the BFFC: https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/the-pearl-button-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zodcwmzq
Access & Safer Spaces
The Irish World Heritage Centre has step-free access with a lift and accessible toilets.
As a disabled-led community cinema, Breeze Frame embraces a crip lens and works to meet each of you where you're at in a way that is most accessible to you. Please get in touch if there's any specific access requirement you need to discuss prior to the event. We're currently fleshing out our safer spaces policy - but would like to note that NO discriminatory behaviour of any kind (homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism, sexism, racism) will be tolerated and you may be asked to leave the space.
We'll bring the snacks and the vibes, you bring yourselves and your curiosity. We can't wait to see you!
Location
Breeze Frame Film Club, Flat 7, 63 Wellington Street West, M7 2ED
Booking Link
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