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Tuesday 16th July –  Sunday 29th September 2024

RE/POSIT/ORY

Produced by Imperfect Cinema, with music composition and sound design by Patrick James Pearson, this new five-screen film was commissioned by The Box and has been in development over the past eight months as a part of their Reimaging the Film Archive programme, which is funded by the National Lottery and the BFI Screen Heritage Fund.

RE/POSIT/ORY is a five-screen film installation by Allister Gall and Dan Paolantonio, co-founders and co-directors of the Imperfect Cinema film collective. Drawing from the extensive resources of The Box Film Archive, the film seeks to reimagine the archive as a place of memory, absence, beauty and loss.

A black and white image of a textile loom

Working solely with archival 16mm and 35mm film footage that shows Plymouth and its surrounding area over a century, RE/POSIT/ORY examines the nature and purpose of moving image archives and their role in and significance to contemporary society. Central to the film is the exploration of issues of community, representation and diversity, and the challenging of historical and current power structures. What can we learn from the archive about the past, and how might this inform our future?

The film was directly informed by the reflections, discussions and ideas that emerged from a series of workshops facilitated by Imperfect Cinema in collaboration with a group of global majority people with lived experience of racism. It also included members of Culture Club, a group that is working actively with The Box to interrogate its collections and exhibitions through an anti-racist lens.

A black and white image showing a close up of someone's hands using a sewing machine

During the workshops, Léonie Prentice one of the lead participants highlighted the collection’s duality by sharing the realities of global majority groups depicted in the clips, stating that: ‘The clips specific to the global majority were at times harrowing,’ but also mentioning the joy of seeing a South Asian family playing in the snow.

‘The moving image has the power to tell a story without words – a sentiment often felt among underrepresented communities. The moving image collections at The Box record people and lives in motion. They’re evidence of undocumented communities and hidden treasures. RE/POSIT/ORY offers a window into the archive – uncovering what was, hinting at what can be and making these discoveries visible for everyone to engage with’ 

(Zahra Khanum, RTFA Discovery Media Assistant)

RE/POSIT/ORY will be screened throughout the summer of 2024 in The Box’s Media Lab gallery. The film is 15 minutes in duration and plays on a loop throughout the day.

Saturday 4th May 2024

Saturday 23rd March 2024

Saturday 27th January 2024  (All from 6pm)

CINAESTHESIA 

Imperfect Cinema partners with Alternate Sensory Reality for  a series of three participatory screening events entitled CINAESTHESIA, which will explore the relationships of sensory experience with the world of moving image and sound through experimental approaches.

DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?

How can the sensory perception/subjective experience be communicated and challenged by filmmaking? How does film allow us to connect to others and the world by exchanging subjective realities?

One of the premises of neurodiversity is that the ways we see, hear, experience the world are slightly different and unique for every person. The ways we interact with the world make us who we are.

SUBMIT YOUR FILM:

to be featured in a screening of shorts alongside a curated international screening of experimental and artists films around the theme of sensory perception. See the Open Call section of this website for more details of how you cn get involved!

Saturday 21st October 2023 From 11.00am

Join us for International Home Movie Day 2023!

Come and join us at The Box and University of Plymouth as we bring Home Movie Day to Plymouth for the first time ever!

We want to help you share your home movies with the community. Celebrate with us on Saturday 21 October 2023 and bring along your home movies – film or video. Learn how to identify and digitise your film gauge or video format, and how to care for your beloved family footage.

Imperfect Cinema will be hosting a screening of our film Tamar which features incredible Home Movie footage shot by Claude Endicott and taken from the Endicott Collection which is part of the extensive Film Archive at The Box. We’ll also be discussing our community outreach & heritage project Home Of Movies in addition to contributing to the many hands-on film screening and media archaeology activities taking place throughout the day

Event info: https://ow.ly/s51350PSNo9

When: From 11.00am, Saturday 21st October 2023

Admission: Free of Charge

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