Penda's Fen + Performance by Hyem
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Join us at Arts Centre Washington this June for a screening of Alan Clarke and David Rudkin’s visionary coming-of-age tale – Penda’s Fen.
In the pastoral landscape of Three Choirs England, a clergyman’s son, in his last days of school, has his idealistic value-system and the precious tokens of his self-image all broken away – his parentage, his nationality, his sexuality, his conventional patriotism and faith. Below the slopes of the Malvern Hills he has encounters with an angel, and with a demon, with the ghost of Elgar, the crucified Jesus, and with Penda, England’s last pagan king.
Before the screening, we will be joined for a performance by Newcastle-based fiddle trio Hyem.
Timings:
5:52pm – Doors open
6:12pm – Hyem performance
6:42pm – Penda’s Fen screening
8:12pm – Film ends
This screening is part of The Weird and the Eerie II: Wyrd Albion – a one-day film festival celebrating left-field and offbeat British folk horror.
Sunderland Film Club, Wearside’s documentary and independent focused community cinema, hosts regular screenings at Arts Centre Washington and beyond.
Sunderland Film Club is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.
Sunderland Film Club is also supported by Sunderland Culture.
In the pastoral landscape of Three Choirs England, a clergyman’s son, in his last days of school, has his idealistic value-system and the precious tokens of his self-image all broken away – his parentage, his nationality, his sexuality, his conventional patriotism and faith. Below the slopes of the Malvern Hills he has encounters with an angel, and with a demon, with the ghost of Elgar, the crucified Jesus, and with Penda, England’s last pagan king.
Before the screening, we will be joined for a performance by Newcastle-based fiddle trio Hyem.
Timings:
5:52pm – Doors open
6:12pm – Hyem performance
6:42pm – Penda’s Fen screening
8:12pm – Film ends
This screening is part of The Weird and the Eerie II: Wyrd Albion – a one-day film festival celebrating left-field and offbeat British folk horror.
Sunderland Film Club, Wearside’s documentary and independent focused community cinema, hosts regular screenings at Arts Centre Washington and beyond.
Sunderland Film Club is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.
Sunderland Film Club is also supported by Sunderland Culture.
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Where is it happening?
Arts Centre Washington, Biddick Ln, Washington NE38 8AB, NE38 8AB, Washington, United Kingdom
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