Nightshift (New Restoration)

Name: Nightshift (New Restoration)
Start: 2025-04-23T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-23T20:30:00-04:00
Location: 800 Mifflin St, Philadelphia, PA 19148-16ND, United States

Schedule

Wed Apr 23 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

800 Mifflin St, Philadelphia, PA 19148-16ND, United States | Philadelphia, PA

Over the course of a single nightshift, a West London hotel clerk (U.K. counterculture icon Jordan) plays silent witness to a nocturnal constellation of guests ranging from punk rockers and scenester magicians to seemingly staid businessmen and old-world gentry. As the hours march deeper into night and the varied clientele depart the waking world, the hotel transforms into an otherworldly, liminal space swaying between the everyday and the enchanting.
Gorgeously photographed by Jon Jost (All the Vermeers in New York) with a soundtrack by Simon Jeffes of the legendary Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Nightshift is both a potent snapshot of London’s early-‘80s art scene (actor/poet Heathcote Williams and filmmaker Anne Rees-Mogg also star) and a bold, instantly engrossing artistic statement from director Robina Rose. A masterwork of surreal, somnambulant cinema, the film casts a resonant spell audiences won’t soon forget. (Robina Rose, UK, 1980, 66 min.)
Nightshift has been digitally restored by Lightbox Film Center in collaboration with the British Film Institute and Cinenova. Restoration funding provided by Ron and Suzanne Naples. Restored in 4K resolution from the original 16mm reversal a/b rolls and 16mm optical track on loan from the British Film Institute. Digital picture restoration: Illuminate Hollywood. Color grading: Andrew Drapkin. Sound restoration and transfers: John Polito, Audio Mechanics. Restoration supervised by: Ross Lipman, Corpus Fluxus. Special thanks: Robina Rose, Jesse Pires, Charlotte Procter, Kieron Webb, Lynn McVeigh.