Around the world in seven films...

In 1935, during the formative years of amateur filmmaking in Britain, the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers (IAC) sent out a package of seven award-winning films on a 'World Tour'. Arranged in conjunction with cine clubs across the globe (including Australia, India, and Japan), this tour represented the breadth of filmmaking styles and genres open to the amateur filmmaker.

To mark the 90th anniversary of the IAC, this specially curated programme features new 2k scans of the tour films, recently digitised at the East Anglian Film Archive and Filmoteca de Catalunya as part of the research project 'International Amateur Cinema Between the Wars, 1918-39'.

We are thrilled to welcome musician/tutor Chris Letcher and students of the Reid School of Music to perform premieres for their new compositions for Sister (Japan, 1933) Memmortigo (Spain, 1933). The five remaining films in the programme will be accompanied by John Sweeney.

Content warning: the film Memmortigo represents a character with suicidal feelings.

Performing live: students at the Reid School of Music (Edinburgh College of Art) and John Sweeney (piano)

1h 30m incl. Q&A. BSL-English supported event

In association with the East Anglian Film Archive, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, University of Calgary, and the Social Sciences and Humanties Research Council of Canada.