Metal in partnership with Cinema Nation presents

FILM CLASS: Watch-along and Conversations: Andrea Luka Zimmerman: Trilogy

Join us for a weekend of films by Andrea Luka Zimmerman, current Metal artist-in-residence and Jarman Award Nominee. Andrea's films are about respecting people, place and ecology, focusing on marginalised individuals, communities and experience. As Metal and Cinema Nation start to dream what a new community cinema for Liverpool would be like, we invite you to join Andrea and cast of the films as we talk about how these films and cinemas can create Respect.

Andrea will make three of her films freely available across the weekend - if you would like to watch them together with us, each day we will organise a watch-along and then host a conversation using Zoom (a free online chat application that can be downloaded onto your device at zoom.us)

Register here and we will provide you with the links to the films and Zoom for the conversations. Access to the films and conversations is on a pay-what-you-feel donation basis - and it's fine if you want to access them for free.

You can watch the films whenever you like over the weekend but if you would like to watch-along with us, here is the schedule including the times of the conversations:

Friday 6 November

6.30pm: Welcome meetup and introduction on Zoom

7pm: Taşkafa, Stories of the Street (2013) 60mins

Taşkafa is an artist’s essay film about memory and the most necessary forms of belonging, both to a place and to history, through a search for the role played in the city by Istanbul’s street dogs and their relationship to its human populations. Click here for more information.

8pm: Regroup and share reflections

8.30pm: Music inspired by the film

Saturday 7 November

3.30pm: Welcome meetup and Intro on Zoom

4pm: Estate, a Reverie (2015) 83mins

Filmed over seven years, Estate, a Reverie reveals and celebrates the resilience of residents who are profoundly overlooked by media representations and wider social responses. Interweaving intimate portraits with the residents' own historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes, Estate, a Reverie asks how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography. Click here for more information

5.30pm: Join a conversation with Andrea after the film

Sunday 8 November

3.30pm: Welcome meetup and Intro on Zoom

4pm: Here for Life (2019) 86mins

In a world and a city framed by finance and loss, ten Londoners make their wild and wayward way, arguing for their own terms of definition as they go: singular lives, nudging towards a co-existence stronger than 'community'. On reclaimed land they find themselves, between two train tracks, on the right side of history, making their own wagers with the present tense and future hopes: with who has stolen what from whom, and how things might be fixed. Click here for more information

5.30pm: Join cast members Ben and Kamby for a conversation after the film

Tickets: Pay what you feel (fine to pay nothing).

Suggested donation amounts: sliding scale of £2.50 / £5 / £10.

All profits will go towards future events as Metal and Cinema Nation begin conversations about creating a new community cinema for Liverpool, a space to share film and instigate change in our communities.

More information about Andrea's residency on the Metal webpage: http://www.metalculture.com/projects/andrealukazimmerman/

More information:

Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s films call for a profound re-imagining of the relationship between people, place and ecology. Focusing on marginalised individuals, communities and experience, she uses hybridity and narrative de/re-framing, alongside reverie and a creative waywardness. Informed by suppressed histories, and alert to sources of radical hope, Andrea’s work prioritises an enduring and equitable co-existence.

Films include the Artangel-produced Here for Life (2019), (receiving a Special Mention at the Locarno Film festival and 1st Prize at Palmares Festival de Cinema en Ville), Erase and Forget (2017), Estate, a Reverie (2015) and Taskafa, Stories of the Street (2013), written and voiced by the late John Berger.

Metal believes that artists can affect change in our society, and to this end Metal Liverpool acts as a catalyst for art and artists to create innovative societal change. It is our goal to bring creative imagination and ideas to the neighbourhoods of Edge Hill, Kensington, Wavertree and Toxteth, creating a positive impact for the people living there.

Metal produces an exciting programme of international/UK artists in residence, artist development labs, eclectic dinners, plus a wide range of social events, education programmes and creative projects, all designed to encourage the participation of local people and communities.

Cinema Nation: Michael and Monika want to change the world, and cinema is a suitable tool! Winners of the Cinema For All Roebuck Cup 2020 for dedication to Community Cinema, M + M are more than ever convinced of the importance of people coming together to collectively choose what films, images and music videos they want to watch. Together we can defeat isolation, share resources (essential for the planet!) and dream new worlds are possible.

Having met in Liverpool in 2015, Michael and Monika produce Scalarama, a nationwide coming together of cinemas of all shapes and sizes now in its 10th year, and have worked together on Liverpool Small Cinema, Big Adventure Cinema, Scalarama Merseyside and the release of Ken Loach's Sorry, We Missed You