Cinematext

Exhibitions and special events exploring literature and film.

Brighton Rock (2010-2017)

Live cinema, special events and installations celebrating the film that put Brighton on the movie map. Brighton Rock Unseen (2010) A special one-off stage and screen re-imagining...

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Hangover Square (2012)

University of Brighton Gallery Saturday 5 – Sunday 27 May 2012 To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Patrick Hamilton – iconic author,...

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Pop-up Cinema Bookshop and Reading Room (2012)

Fri 16 November – Sat 1 December University of Brighton South Gallery In association with Wallflower Press, CINECITY opened a Pop-Up Cinema Bookshop for the...

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Zoom Lens: JG Ballard (2012)

Friday 23 November 2012 For the monthly Jukebox Fury at The Basement, an event described as somewhere between guerrilla cinema and pop-up gig, Zoom Lens...

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Fahrenheit 451 (2014)

Brighton Museum and Art Gallery Dir: François Truffaut. With: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack. UK/US. 1966. 112 mins. The empty shelves of the old...

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Midwich Cuckoos Live (2014)

A live re-imagining of John Wyndham’s Sci-Fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos – the inspiration for cult film The Village of the Damned (1960) – performed on stage by...

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They: A Sequence of Unease by Kay Dick (2014)

A special ‘on-location’ one-off event exploring a rare Science Fiction novel, set on the South Downs. Brighton-based author Kay Dick’s novel They: A Sequence of...

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Berg (2014)

University of Brighton Gallery Saturday 22 November – Friday 19 December 2014 A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a...

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NOT Showing At This Cinema (2015)

Looking beyond the British film industry’s cycle of boom and bust, it is possible to imagine an alternative history; an unrealised or unfinished British Cinema,...

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Fake News: The British Cinema Papers (2017)

University of Brighton Gallery 11 November – 9 December 2017 ‘BRIGHTON GANGSTER’S BODY FOUND Gravel Pit Discovery’ declared the front page of The Evening Argus...

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