Friends Film Club: The East End Film Festival Series
Sir Hugh Casson Room, The Keeper’s House, Royal Academy of Arts
£12 (including popcorn and a drink) per screening. Booking required, Friends only.
Friends of the RA book first
Terms and conditions
The East End Film Festival presents a series of eye opening films, designed to introduce exciting new cinematic work, and artists moving from installation to feature film work. Friends are invited to join a monthly film club at the Royal Academy of Arts where artists turned filmmakers screen and discuss their work.
The East End Film Festival is one of the largest multimedia arts festivals in London. Presenting some of the most inspiring and boundary pushing new films from all over the world to London audiences each summer, the festival is a home for cross platform work, and artists who embrace a movement between mediums.
The EEFF is now collaborating with the Royal Academy on a series of special film screenings exploring the work of modern and contemporary artists creating work in adverse circumstances. This season is centred on artists facing adversity.
Booking is essential for these events, if you wish to bring a guest please book one ticket for each person.
Tickets include a welcome drink and popcorn.
Programme of films
Lucy Walker: ‘Waste Land’
24 August 2016, 7 – 9pm
Lucy Walker’s award-winning documentary follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
Twice nominated for an Academy Award, we welcome Lucy Walker to present her work.
Zachary Heinzerling: ‘Cutie and the Boxer’
22 September 2016, 7 – 9pm
A stunning documentary portrait, ‘Cutie and the Boxer’ depicts the rough realities of being a starving artist, and the heavy toll it can take on a marriage.
Artist Jessica Morgan, Director of Dia Art Foundation and co-curator of Tate’s 2015 pop art exhibition, will participate in a Skype conversation from New York after the film.
Dominic Allan: ‘Calvet’
24 October 2016, 7 – 9pm
French painter Jean Marc Calvet recounts his incredible life story as a street kid turned Cannes bodyguard who abandoned his family, robbed a Miami mobster, hid out in Central America and at the age of 38 overcame addictions through an extraordinary metamorphosis in which he began to paint.
Jean-Marc Calvet will be joining us from Nicaragua to give further insight to the film that charts his extraordinary story of redemption as he embarks on a journey to make peace with his past.
Anne Wivel: ‘Mand Falder (Man Falling)’
16 November 2016, 7 – 9pm
Filmmaker Anne Wivel has followed her friend, the painter Per Kirkeby, after he fell down a flight of stairs and hit his head.
This is the story of Per’s universe – marked by deep melancholy as well as astounding beauty; a story about a personal struggle for life and work, a return to the universal language of painting that has been his way to get his visual and emotional impulses out.