2nd December 2007

MICROCINEMA PRESENTS INTERNATIONAL TERRITORIES

In this season's programme of international artists' film, Microcinema explores the notion of territory and finds out it means much more than simple geographical space.

Inspired by Isaac Julien's era-defining film Territories, which teased apart the landscape of 1980's London, International Territories questions the way we perceive the local in the modern age. These are films on a human scale that explore the domestic everyday landscape of the contemporary, and reveal how this is defamiliarised by forces beyond the mapped landscape of the everyday. These are works which, by means of wit, playfulness and dialogue, make resistance possible.

International Territories reveals a global language of quiet questioning and intelligent dissent in works that extend the language of cinema.

Microcinema is the artists' film strand of the Cambridge Film Festival: a space where thought meets visual pleasure.

Saturday 8th December, 2.15pm

Programme One: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

• Measures Of Distance
  Director: Mona Hatoum. UK, 1988, 16 mins, video Measures of Distance is one of the few examples of Hatoum's work to make direct reference to the artist's exiled condition.
• Radionica (Coffee & Desa)
  Director: Margareta Kern. UK/Bosnia, 2005, 11 mins, video Radionica reflect the tensions that exist in the Balkans, the reality of everyday life in contrast to the legacy of the region's violent past.
• Haroldinho
  Director: Harold Offeh. UK/Brazil, 2005, 10 mins, video Haroldinho is an embodiment of the vibrancy and energy of Brazilian culture, but also reflects Brazil's status as a newly developing nation that is dependent upon a low-waged, low-skilled labour force.
• Eyeballing
  Director: Rosalind Nashashibi. UK, 2005, 10 mins Colour 16mm A series of faces found in architectural facades or in objects around an apartment are juxtaposed with shots of policemen in uniform loitering around their precinct.
• The Cave
  Director: Wael Shawky. Netherlands, 2004, 15 mins Wael Shawky chooses an 'inappropriate' space to recite - or perform? - his prayer.

Sunday 9th December, 2.15pm

Programme Two: MAPPING CONSTRAINT

• Territories
  Director: Isaac Julien. UK, 1984, 25 mins, 16 mm Isaac Julien's first work, Territories, was a milestone in the development of black independent film aesthetic. Part One considers images of Carnival, Black diaspora culture in Britain and the 1976 Notting Hill Gate riots.
  Part Two looks in a more poetic manner at personal space.
• Sideways
  Director: Lucy Harris. UK, 2006, 3 mins, 16mm The camera searches and reveals elements that commonly go unnoticed - the detailed surfaces and textures of the structure and fabric of a city - creating an artwork which crosses genres between film, drawing and music.
• Legacy
  Director: Inge Blackman. UK, 2006, 18 mins, video Legacy is a film about how intimate relationships in families descended from slaves have been affected by learned behaviour inherited from their ancestors.

Arts Picturehouse, 38-39 St Andrews Street, Cambridge, CB2 3AR

Booking: 0871 704 2050

Both screenings are free. Supported by Arts Council England, Cambridge Film festival and Metropolitan Film School