Electric Sheep: Edinburgh Launch
Thursday 26 June, from 7.30PM
Delegates' Centre Café Bar, Edinburgh
Wallflower Press has teamed up with Raindance and Shooting People to host a very special party at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. A reception, which will act as the official Edinburgh launch of Electric Sheep magazine, will be held at the Café Bar of the Delegates' Centre and will be open to all festival delegates. The party will take place after Raindance's very popular pitching event - Live!Ammunition! - where aspiring filmmakers pitch their ideas to an illustrious panel of industry figures. Those wanting to pitch put a fiver in a hat and are then granted two minutes to pitch their script idea. The panel gives feedback on how to improve your pitch and the winner takes the hat of fivers!
The first issue of Electric Sheep includes a feature on Edinburgh and an interview with programmer, Niall Fulton, about the festival's Shirley Clarke retrospective. As such, we are delighted to be presenting the magazine during the festival.
Author Talk: Whitney Crothers Dilley on Ang Lee
2 July 4PM
Room Film Studies 2, East Wing, Strand Campus, King's College, London
Wallflower Press author, Dr Whitney Crothers Dilley, will be giving a lecture on the central themes in Ang Lee's work, including globalization and cultural identity in Lee's early trilogy films, gender and the treatment of homosexuality and the recurring motifs of family ritual and social duty. The lecture will include an analysis of fragmentary narratives in Lee's literary adaptations such as Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Ice Storm (1997), and Brokeback Mountain (2005).
The talk promises to provide a fascinating insight into the work of one of cinema's most popular and versatile directors. For more information, please visit http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/film/events.
Bergman Week
24–26 June
Fårö, Sweden
Bergman Week is a six day celebration of Ingmar Bergman’s art, with films, guests, seminars and tours to filming locations on Fårö. Bergman’s abundant œuvre is a constant source of inspiration to filmmakers all around the world and his themes are highly relevant in our century as well! The aim of Bergman Week is to view his films in a new light and highlight the timeless themes reappearing throughout the body of his work.
Seven of Ingmar Bergman’s films have been shot on Fårö. It is also the place where he lived and worked for long periods of his life, and where he is buried. The group behind the Bergman Week are currently promoting the idea of a Bergman Center at Fårö, preserving the heritage of Bergman's work and making it accessible to the public. During the late 70s Bergman wrote a letter to the county governor in which he expressed his wish that his own house at Fårö after his passing away, should become a venue open to other artists for inspirational purposes. In his will, however, this idea is not included and the property is to be sold to the highest bidder. The Bergman Center hopes that it will be possible to find sponsors to acquire Ingmar Bergman's home for the purposes mentioned above.
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