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Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds.
Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances, and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group.
In our annual Book Week Scotland event, poet JoAnne McKay will draw on her current reading to explore how museums, and archaeology, are going to be tools for dealing with the climate crisis, and how past strategies and technologies may be needed to assist with our future. Combining readings from Reinventing Sustainability (Guttman-Bond) and Museums and Societal Collapse (Robert Janes) along with her own poetry, JoAnne will offer a unique insight into this fascinating topic.
JoAnne has selected the documentary Jane Goodall - Reasons for Hope (Dir David Lickle, 2023, 45 mins). Drawing on decades of work by the world’s most famous living ethologist and environmentalist, Reasons for Hope, is an uplifting journey around the globe to highlight good news stories that will inspire people to make a difference in the world around them.
It’s the year 2073 where the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarised police roam the wrecked streets, while humans hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence.
Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times, forcing us to take a hard look at how consumer society has shaped our lives. Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip across England with the uncompromising Parr, whose subjects, frames and colours have revolutionised contemporary photography.
The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces. But, to begin with, they were scorned, penniless outsiders. 1874 was the year that changed everything; the first Impressionists, “hungry for independence”, broke the mould by holding their own exhibition outside official channels. Impressionism was born and the art world was changed forever.
Learn about the history of Dumfries’ Fairs and the Travelling Showpeople who create them. Many Showfamilies have operated on the Whitesands for generations – hear their stories while watching a series of short films, including a new one by Ruari Barber-Fleming which documents a ‘Fairground Walkabout’. This event will also screen historical shorts of Showman Albert Biddall’s cinematograph, snippets from historical fairs in Dumfries and Galloway, and Showfamilies personal footage of past fairs during floods. Each short film will be introduced.
Screening followed by discussion on the history and future of Dumfries’ fairs, and the impact of proposed flood prevention plans on the Whitesands.
Hosted by Showpeople Alex James Colquhoun, Mitch Miller, filmmaker Ruari Barber-Fleming, and artist t s Beall. Presented by Fair Scotland in collaboration with The Stove Network. Funded by The People’s Project.
Ash Rise is an exhibition of new work from 20 of Scotland’s leading and emerging makers using wood from Scottish ash trees. The exhibition and a documentary film is touring Scotland to tell the story of this beautiful tree, its historic and contemporary brilliance as a material and the challenges of ash die-back.
Join us for a double bill screening of the Ash Rise (60mins) film alongside a documentary film about the innovative wood sculptor/furniture designer Tim Stead and the battle to save the Grade A listed interior he created in his family home in the Borders. In the interval, we’ll have refreshments and chat with Tom Addy, maker and creative director to the Ash film and Beatrix Wood, director of Tim Stead: Magician with Wood, who is based in Dumfries and Galloway.
The next documentary in artist-filmmaker Margy Kinmonth’s trilogy exploring how artists depict war following Eric Ravilious – Drawn To War.
War Paint – Women At War shines a light on the trailblazing role of women war artists, on the front lines round the world, championing the female perspective on conflict through art and asking: when it's life or death, what do women see that men don't?
Artists featured include Dame Rachel Whiteread, Zhanna Kadyrova, Maggi Hambling, Assil Diab, Dame Laura Knight, Marcelle Hanselaar, Cornelia Parker, Maya Lin, Shirin Neshat and Lee Miller. An entirely female cast of contributors makes this film a unique undertaking – telling vital truths in turbulent times.
Starring Tony-Nominee Jeremy Jordan and Olivier-Nominee Frances Mayli McCann, this award-winning production (including Best New Musical - What’s On Stage Awards 2023) re-tells the unbelievable true story of America's most infamous couple, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Recorded live at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, discover the electrifying story of love, adventure and crime that captured the attention of an entire nation.
Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world amid a turbulent era. Centred on the One to One charity concert for special needs children, it features unseen archives, home movies, and restored footage.