Introducing…ART HOUSE
Ormeau Baths Gallery and Queens Film Theatre are delighted to announce a new collaborative venture entitled Art House. This is an exciting new film programme for Belfast which will run alongside QFT’s existing film programme and OBG’s existing exhibition programme. Art House will take place at OBG during each exhibition and incorporate a wide range of alternative, experimental and art house films relating to themes in exhibitions showing at OBG.
Art House I: Tuesday 5th July 7pm £3- Tickets can be bought through QFT Box office Please click here to book
Exhibiting artist Hannah Starkey was asked to select a film that has inspired her work and she instantly chose ‘Wings of Desire’ by Wim Wenders (1987).
Hannah Starkey: ‘When I first saw this film I thought it was good but difficult to engage with. The second time I saw it was 15 years later, after I had experienced the death of my parents and the birth of my children- I then understood it so much more and it affected me and my work deeply’.
Hannah will introduce this screening.
Art House II: Tuesday 9th August 7pm
Paul Seawright is one of the artists exhibiting work in ‘Detonating Rough Ground’, an exhibition showing at OBG from 21st July – 27th August which engages with the representation of trauma, memory and the sensory aspects of conflict as laid into the ‘haunted rubble’ of the post conflict landscape. He selected Werner Herzog’s ‘Lessons of Darkness’ (1992) to screen as part of the Art House series.
This film was made about the first Gulf War in 1991 and explores the ravaged oil fields of post-war Kuwait, decontextualising the landscape and emphasising the terrain’s strangeness. Seawright has cited the film as important to the development of his work and will introduce the screening.
This film was not released in U.K and this is a rare chance to see one of Herzog’s most important works.
TICKETS COST £3 AND CAN BE PURCHASED THROUGH QFT’s BOX OFFICE
