The
team from local documentary photography and film making collective ‘Archive
Sheffield’ have teamed up with Sheffield City Archives to put on an evening of
short films about Sheffield.
The
first half of the evening will showcase contemporary work from the Archive
Sheffield team. The second half will
show two favourites from the archives: ‘Books in Hand’, a film from 1956 about
Sheffield Libraries, and ‘City on the Move’, the classic 1970s film about
Sheffield which will be introduced by local author, Neil Anderson and the man
who commissioned the film, Peter Wigley.
Thursday
12 November 2015, 7pm
Regather
Works
57-59
Club Garden Road
Sharrow
Sheffield
S11
8BU
Tickets
£5 from Regather: https://regather.yapsody.com/event/index/20760/regather-film-night
Programme
PART
1:
Filmmakers
Andy Brown, Nathan Gibson, and Gemma Thorpe will present contemporary work
included as part of the Archive Sheffield project.
Occasional
Sensations (2014)
Occasional
Sensations is the first film made by Andy Brown and Nathan Gibson. Shot over
the space of a year, it follows Sheffield's longest-serving unsigned indie rock
band, RepoMen, as they prepare to play the Tramlines Festival. It is a film
about friendship, the passing of time, and the power of rock n' roll.游子 Youzi - The Wanderers (2012)
A
short film by Gemma Thorpe about people who are far away from home at a pivotal
time in life. The Wanderers offers an
insight to the lives of Chinese international students in Sheffield. We meet five students: Yuan Shuai, a keen
gamer, Qingqing, a devout Christian staying in a Gleadless homestay, Jack, who
studies and parties hard, ambitious journalism student Zhuoer, and Nina,
quietly reflecting on life as as she studies for an MA in Cultures of the
British Isles.
Factory
Floor (2014)
In
autumn 2013 photographer Clive Egginton entered TSL Turton, a Sheffield based
factory specialising in superior quality springs for a client list that spans
the globe. The film aims to paint a
portrait of life in the factory, investigating the daily lives of the men who
work there and the relationships that have formed on the factory floor.
INTERVAL
PART
2:
Cheryl
Bailey of Sheffield City Archives will introduce the historical films and
briefly outline the work of the archives.
Books
in Hand (1956)
This
film was commissioned by Sheffield City Council’s Libraries Committee to
commemorate the 100th anniversary of Sheffield’s Public Library Authority, and
the opening of Sheffield’s first public library. It was made by the Sheffield
Photo Company, founded by Frank Mottershaw, an early Sheffield filmmaker. The
film was premiered at the Grand Hotel in Sheffield on 31st May 1956.
City
on the Move will be introduced by Neil Anderson and Peter Wigley.
Sheffield
- City on the Move (1972)
A
promotional film commissioned by Sheffield City Council’s first publicity
officer, Peter Wigley, which documented Sheffield in its ‘boom and bust’ era
with the steel industry at its forefront. City on the Move was produced and directed by Jim and
Marie-Luise Coulthard for the Council in the 1970s. It depicted Sheffield as a
swinging city of tourism and commerce and was later used in the opening scenes
of The Full Monty.