Love Camden Outdoor Cinema
Saturday 28th August / 6-10:30pm
Waterlow Park, N6 5HD
Free outdoor cinema programme screening film in partnership with We Are Parable, Camden Alive, Camden Black Creatives and Camden Together festival.
Family Friendly Bring food and a blanket
Featuring the PREMIER of Soliloquy for The Mother (2019) by Larry Achiampong and David Blandy with Luke Allen
Using moving image, drone footage, sound and narrative the artists present a reimagined Brunswick Centre, Camden. The epic architecture of the residential areas of the building triggered a new, simulated reality captured on film; dystopian in outlook but grounded in perseverance and hope.
Funded by Camden Alive. Camden Alive was a Cultural Impact Award winner 2019 as part of the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture.
Films by Camden filmmaker MODU SESAY from the Camden Black Creatives.
A programme curated by We Are Parable:
We Are Parable have partnered with Camden Council and Film Feels to showcase films that celebrate Black joy. We are pleased to showcase a special shorts programme that imagines a world full of possibilities and exposes a diverse audience to the beauty of Afro-surrealism.
Hella Trees (2020) Directed by Ayo Akingbade
Hella Trees follows a young Black artist Rafiki whose creative practice revolves around trees. In this playful mock portrait of a young Black man, Akingbade invites the audience to see beyond the daily distractions and stressors of everyday life and root ourselves in the things that truly matter.
Many Thousands Gone (2015) Directed by Ephraim Asili
Many Thousands Gone follows two cities with notable African diasporic presence, Salvador Brazil and Harlem, New York City. Asili contrast the cities on a hot summer day, and is accompanied by Joe McPhee's experimental jazz score
Still life: Green Textiles (2007) Directed by Grace Ndiritu
Originally part of a four piece series, Green Textiles uses West African wax fabric to invoke different emotions. By using her own body as a canvas, Ndiritu creates a kaleidoscopic physical performance.
Aeronauts (2014) Directed by Nuotama Frances Bodomo
16th July 1969: America prepares to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of kilometers away, a ragtag group of Zambian exiles is trying to beat America to the Moon.
Special live music performance at 7.45pm from Ese and The Vooduu People.
Queen Katwe Directed by Mira Nair, PG, 2016, running minutes 2hr 4mins
A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
The We Are Parable programme is part of Film Feels: Hopeful, a UK-wide season, supported by the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) and The National Lottery.