NY Premiere of Brit film, SHOOTING MAGPIES
NEW YORK THEATRICAL PREMIERE A FILM BY AMBER COLLECTIVE
SHOOTING MAGPIES November 10-15 at 7 & 9 pm & addtl. weekend screenings at 5pm.Wednesday, November 16 at 9:30 only Anthology Film Archives is proud to present the first ever US theatrical premiere of a film by the Amber Collective. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, the Amber Collective formed in 1968 with the declared aim of documenting working class communities. Pooling their earnings, they paid themselves a relatively low equal wage and subsidized early production work. Since then, they have produced over 20 documentaries and nine feature films. SHOOTING MAGPIES is their latest feature film and first use of digital video. Emma, a mother at fifteen, now in her early twenties, wants some kind of normality for her two daughters. Local gold dealer Ray tries to steer an addict son back towards harness racing. Barry, single father and ex-youth worker, keeps an eye on the streets and encourages his son's interest in ferrets. “You used to come across the kids you worked with in the court round-ups… you're getting them in the obituaries now,” he observes. When, one last time, Emma tries to get her partner Darren off heroin, Barry is drawn into a chain of events that begins to threaten the relationship he has built with his son. Beyond the edges of the mainstream economy, gold chains can be more useful than savings accounts; bad decisions have hard consequences; but people keep going, trying to construct new lives, watching their children. SHOOTING MAGPIES is a film about hope and survival. Heroin and the hopelessness it both feeds off and inspires are just a part of an everyday landscape that has to be negotiated. Shot on digital video, it grew out of a process that has seen over fifteen photographic commissions and community-based projects. Developed in collaboration with people from the community, some of whom play versions of their own lives, the film blurs the edges between fictionalized narrative and documentary.
“Amber are to be cherished as an enduring highlight of Britain’s cinematic landscape.” – Geoff Andrews, TIME OUT
GRAEME RIGB, of the Amber Collective, will be present during the run to answer questions about the film and the history of the Collective.
Anthology Film Archives is located at 32 Second Ave. at Second Street and can be reached by the Second Avenue F and V train or the #6, Bleecker Street stop. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for students & seniors, and $5 for AFA members. www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
SHOOTING MAGPIES November 10-15 at 7 & 9 pm & addtl. weekend screenings at 5pm.Wednesday, November 16 at 9:30 only Anthology Film Archives is proud to present the first ever US theatrical premiere of a film by the Amber Collective. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, the Amber Collective formed in 1968 with the declared aim of documenting working class communities. Pooling their earnings, they paid themselves a relatively low equal wage and subsidized early production work. Since then, they have produced over 20 documentaries and nine feature films. SHOOTING MAGPIES is their latest feature film and first use of digital video. Emma, a mother at fifteen, now in her early twenties, wants some kind of normality for her two daughters. Local gold dealer Ray tries to steer an addict son back towards harness racing. Barry, single father and ex-youth worker, keeps an eye on the streets and encourages his son's interest in ferrets. “You used to come across the kids you worked with in the court round-ups… you're getting them in the obituaries now,” he observes. When, one last time, Emma tries to get her partner Darren off heroin, Barry is drawn into a chain of events that begins to threaten the relationship he has built with his son. Beyond the edges of the mainstream economy, gold chains can be more useful than savings accounts; bad decisions have hard consequences; but people keep going, trying to construct new lives, watching their children. SHOOTING MAGPIES is a film about hope and survival. Heroin and the hopelessness it both feeds off and inspires are just a part of an everyday landscape that has to be negotiated. Shot on digital video, it grew out of a process that has seen over fifteen photographic commissions and community-based projects. Developed in collaboration with people from the community, some of whom play versions of their own lives, the film blurs the edges between fictionalized narrative and documentary.
“Amber are to be cherished as an enduring highlight of Britain’s cinematic landscape.” – Geoff Andrews, TIME OUT
GRAEME RIGB, of the Amber Collective, will be present during the run to answer questions about the film and the history of the Collective.
Anthology Film Archives is located at 32 Second Ave. at Second Street and can be reached by the Second Avenue F and V train or the #6, Bleecker Street stop. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for students & seniors, and $5 for AFA members. www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
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