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Closely Watched Trains
Reading Group
Paul Theroux
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Cample Line
Thornhill, United Kingdom
We are holding our first Reading Group meeting on Weds 11 October from 7pm Please join us for conversation and thoughts about Paul Theroux’s Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: ...
16mm screening
James Benning, RR, 2007
Stan Brakhage, The Wonder Ring, 1955
Cample Line
Thornhill, United Kingdom
James Benning, RR, 2007. Courtesy of Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin Stan Brakhage, The Wonder Ring, 1955 (5.30mins, no sound) James Benning, RR, 2007 (1h 16mins) ...
TALK
Dr rebecca Harrison
Travellers in Two Lands: Revisiting Britain’s Railway Cinemas
Cample Line
Thornhill, United Kingdom
Film Historian Dr Rebecca Harrison (University of Glasgow) will talk about Britain's cinema trains: operating between 1924 and 1989, they not only transported passengers to various destination around the ...
Film Screening
Brief Encounter, 1945
Cample Line
Thornhill, United Kingdom
Please join us for a festive mince pie and a screening of the 1945 film Brief Encounter. Following Dr Rebecca Harrison's fascinating talk in November, we have decided ...
Nika Autor
Newsreel #63, 2017
Cample Line
Thornhill, United Kingdom
Nika Autor Newsreel #63, 2017 (Slovenia, 37mins, English subtitles) In our upstairs space, we will present Nika Autor’s haunting film Newsreel #63 over three days. Shown as part of the ...
Rania Stephan
Train-Trains: A Bypass, 1999-2017
Cample Line
Thornhill, United Kingdom
Rania Stephan Train Trains: A Bypass, 1999-2017 (Lebanon, 35mins, English subtitles) Train-Trains: A Bypass is Stephan’s second film focusing on collective and personal memory in relation to decommissioned train lines. ...
Viktor Turin
Turksib, 1929
Cample Line
Thornhill, United Kingdom
Viktor Turin Turksib, 1929 (USSR, 59mins, English subtitles) Turksib charts the monumental efforts to build a railway linking the regions of Turkestan and Siberia in 1920s USSR. The film is ...
Rania Stephan
Train, Trains: A Bypass, 1999-2017
Cample Line
Thornhill, United Kingdom
Rania Stephan Train Trains: A Bypass, 1999-2017 (Lebanon, 37mins, English subtitles) Train-Trains: A Bypass is Stephan’s second film focusing on collective and personal memory in relation to decommissioned train lines. ...
Sompot Chidgasornpongse
Railway Sleepers, 2016
Cample Line
Thornhill, United Kingdom
Sompot Chidgasornpongse Railway Sleepers, 2016 (Thailand, 102mins, English subtitles) Railway Sleepers is the outcome of 8 years of filming and 140 hours of footage captured. With its long, static shots, ...
Martin Scorsese
Hugo, 2011
Cample Line
Thornhill, United Kingdom
Martin Scorsese Hugo, 2011 (USA, 126mins, U) Orphaned and alone, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo maintains the station’s clocks, but to ...