Annual Event, Event, Festival
Harvest Film Festival 2015
Lower Hewood Farm / Open School East
Harvest Film Festival at Open School East
Saturday 7 November 2015
2pm – 8pm
Free entry
Open School East
The Rose Lipman Building
43 De Beauvoir Road
London N1 5SQ
The Harvest Film Festival celebrates the harvest season with feature and short documentaries that explore the themes of land use, agroecology and food production. The film programme starts at 2pm and there will be an indoor market of food, drink and information relating to small-scale agriculture. At 5pm we will be showcasing an hour-long programme of fantastic short films that relate to the festival themes, shortlisted from this year’s Harvest Short Film Competition. The event culminates with a screening of Manufactured Landscapes, which follows photographer Edward Burtynsky on his travels through epic industrialised landscapes. The film programme is curated by Maria Benjamin.
Film Programme
2.00pm Metroland (50 mins) dir. Edward Mirzoeff, 1973
Written and narrated by the then UK Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman. The film celebrates suburban life in the area to the Northwest of London that grew up in the early 20th century around the Metropolitan Railway.
3.00pm Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow (15 mins) dir. Andrea Zimmerman, 2002
Specially bred with less feathers and more meat, The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow is a film that dream-walks from the beaches of Mirtsdroy, where huge tourists, plucked and oiled, baste themselves standing up, to the muddy markets of Sumatra, via an archipelago of Export-Processing zones and television archives.
3.30pm The Gleaners and I (82) dir. Agnes Varda, 2000
A French documentary, the film tracks a series of gleaners as they hunt for food, knicknacks, thrown away items, and personal connection. Varda travels the French countryside as well as the city to find and film not only field gleaners, but also urban gleaners.
5.00pm Harvest Short Film Competition, shortlisted films (1 hour, see details below)
6.30pm Manufactured Landscapes (90) dir. Jennifer Baichwal, 2008
This documentary reveals the gritty underside of industrial landscapes. Photographer Edward Burtynsky explores the subtle beauty amid the waste generated by slag heaps, dumps and factories. Memorable scenes include a Chinese iron factory where employees are berated to produce faster, and shots of children playing atop piles of dangerous debris.
Harvest Short Film Competition Shortlist
Lucy Steggals – Yellow (5:50)
Yellow is the third in a spectrum series matching the seven colours blue, green, red, yellow, orange, indigo and violet with seven places one in each of the seven continents Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, South America, Antarctica.
Piotr Piasta – Willie (4.15)
Willie comes from the series The Realm of Forgotten Existence which is a microhistory of the postwar realities of life in a rural area on the Scottish – English border, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Piotr Piasta – Piorun Stanislaw from Brudnow (4.00)
In this film we meet Mr Stanislaw Piorun at his house. He tells a story about a curse which can be spelled just by a sheer admiration. Mr Piorun gives a solution on how to get rid of a curse.
James Kelly – Glimpse of the Matter (8.58) The timeless activity of working the land by hand, for apparently meagre reward, is played out in farmland, used from the Neolithic period to the present.
Jason Taylor – A Commons Sense (7:50)
Dr Debal Deb is possibly the most important agricultural scientist working in India today. Driven by a desire to benefit the whole of society and not just a hand full of corporations, Dr Deb has tirelessly collected and con- served over 1400 varieties of rice.
Jason Taylor – A Festival of Seed (7:19)Seed Matters is a short film capturing some of the most progressive voices from The Great Seed Festival which took place in October, 2014 to raise awareness of the importance of seed, and to celebrate seed, food and biodi- versity.
Jessica Sarah Rinland – Adeline for Leaves (14:00)
Nature, science and mythology are explored through the eyes of an eleven-year-old botanical prodigy.
Julia Warr – Farm (6.15)
Farm was made over a five year period, in Long Island, New York. A farmer’s life is repetitive, noisy, chaotic, demanding, relentless, dependent on the seasons, harsh, poetic, beautiful and dusty.
For further information please email harvest@lowerhewoodfarm.org
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Harvest Film Festival at Lower Hewood Farm
Saturday 10 October 2015
11am – 10pm
Films are free
Harvest supper will include produce from the farm, and vegetarian and vegan options will be available.
£10, please RSVP by Monday 5th October to harvest@lowerhewoodfarm.org
Some accommodation is available for those travelling from further afield.
For details please contact Alexa at harvest@lowerhewoodfarm.org
We are very please to announce the shortlisted filmmakers and their films are:
James Kelly – Glimpse of the Matter
Piotr Piasta – Willie and Piorun Stanislaw from Brudnow
Jessica Sarah Rinland – Adeline for Leaves
Lucy Steggals – Yellow
Jason Taylor – A Commons Sense and A Festival of Seed
Julia Warr – Farm
CONGRATULATIONS! Please join us on Saturday when we will announce the winners…
Film Programme
Main Barn:
11am Man of Aran (1hr 17mins)
1pm Village at the End of the World (1hr 22mins)
3pm Manufactured Landscapes (1hr 30mins)
5pm Addicted to Sheep (1hr 26mins)
7pm Short Film Competition Shortlist
Library:
11am Metro Land (50mins)
1pm Land Rush (58mins)
3pm Wasteland (1hr 40mins)
Stable:
11am The Edge of the World (1hr 11mins)
1pm The Gleaners and I (1hr 22mins)
3pm The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow (15mins)
Kitchen:
(looped)
Date with Thyme (dir. Joseph Walsh)
How to Make Celeriac Chips (Chris Sav)
Cornucopia (dir. Leon and Simon Bayliss)
Yurt:
(looped)
Snow Paintings (dir. Barnaby Hosking)