Film Trust Blog

For one week only, the Cambridge Film Trust will be holding a series of artist film screenings at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.  From classic Keaton to the work of contemporary film artists, we will use screens in public spaces such as reception areas and waiting rooms as well as a newly restored stretch of hospital corridor to provide windows into a new world.

SEEN BUT NOT HEARD (22-24 April)
For SEEN BUT NOT HEARD, we’re making use of pre-installed standard plasma screens to consider the way we look at landscape, in recent pieces from some of Britain’s best landscape film artists as well as a classic scene from Buster Keaton’s STEAMBOAT BILL JR.

NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T (23-25 April)
The films in NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T pick up on the idea of play, bringing a different kind of movement to a busy corridor and thematically resonating with the corridor’s former decorative incarnation (clowns). The artists here use sleight of hand as a strategy to re-imagine cinema reminding us that trickery and illusion are at the heart of its magic. Now you see it, now you don’t!

This programme is presented by the Cambridge Film Trust in association with Addenbrooke’s Arts and with support from Arts Council England, East.