Maltings Cinema at the Barracks
The Maltings will be undergoing re-development soon and the Maltings Cinema at the Barracks is a temporary cinema and event venue. The Barracks is an 18th Century building.
The quiet radiance of everyday acts emerges between a beautiful portrait of a Bangladeshi centenarian and a tender chronicle of a woman choosing a dignified death. This Focus programme touches on themes of ageing, autonomy, and what it means to inhabit—and ultimately release—the body.
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Dub Epistemology is a series of hybrid talks and live audio essays by Ashley Holmes that treat sound as both archive and method—foregrounding movement, repetition, and re-performance as tools to imagine histories that circulate, mutate, and persist through listening, replay, and versioning.
Lesley Loksi Chan’s poignant work of archival intimacy blends fragments of her research notes with the unfinished footage of Lloyd Wong, a man who documented his life living with AIDS in the early 1990s. Rough and unprocessed, her film explores the meaning of queer inheritance, of incompletion, and the act of repeated looking.
A kilted warrior crowns the New York skyline in this joyous tribute to Jesse Rae, a musician from the Scottish Borders who plugged into the electric current of Parliament-Funkadelic. From bringing 80s NYC to a standstill atop the Brooklyn Bridge to shaping seminal hits like Inside Out, Rae fused tartan swagger with transatlantic groove to craft a mythic, pluralist vision of Scotland in the key of funk!