The Bristol Magazine October 2011

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city, as well as workshops, talks and other events; some people will already have enjoyed the Solar Powered Outdoor Cinema, which showed family-friendly animations in St George, Montpelier and Totterdown during September. A pop-up cinema will appear on College Green and remain there throughout the week, showing mainly Bristol-made films, plus there’s another chance to visit the Vintage Mobile Cinema. This extraordinary 22-seat cinema-on-wheels is the last remaining one of seven built for the Government in the late 1960s, to promote the homegrown film industry. In Bristol we’re promised, as last year, a weekend of archive short films. A number of special guest events are also planned, including the regular favourite Desert Island Flicks, in which a champion of animation – guests in the past have included Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening – discusses their favourite animations. The identity of this year’s guest was still being kept under wraps when we went to press. An exciting piece of news that we can pass on is that Francine Stock, presenter of The Film Programme on BBC Radio 4, will be opening this year’s festival on Tuesday 15 November with an illustrated talk. Big Ideas, Big Screen is a collaboration with the Bristol Festival of Ideas, whose director Andrew Kelly, will

interview Francine. She will be drawing on material from her new book, In Glorious Technicolour, which explores our relationship with film over the past 100 years, with chapters covering the birth of celebrity in the 1920s, the influence of Freud and the unconscious in Film Noir, sci-fi and bodysnatching horror in the 1950s, and social change in the 1960s. It’s fitting that a festival with such a grounding in cinema history (it began, after all, as a centenary celebration) should open with a lively introduction to film history. With vintage films on offer as well, we will end the week with a good idea of how cinema got where it is today. More significantly, we’ll have some clues as to where it’s going next. More than ever before, Brief Encounters offers an opportunity for new, up-and-coming film makers to get their work shown and – if successful – to move from here into European and world competition. The ten-minute short you see this November could be the beginning of a remarkable career, and it might be different from anything you’ve seen before. ■

A girl’s best friend

Diamond crossover ring Total weight: 8cts Estimate

£30,000 - £50,000 To be included in the jewellery section of the pre-Christmas Specialist Sale Thursday 24th November

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The 17th Encounters Bristol International Film Festival runs from, 16-20 November, venues around Bristol. For more information visit: www.encounters-festival.org.uk

Clevedon Salerooms are holding a free valuation day for jewellery, silver & gold at the salerooms on Tuesday 18th October in advance of the pre-Christmas Specialist Sale. No appointment is necessary and the saleroom valuers will be on hand to give free verbal estimates between 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 5pm. A selection of very fine pieces of jewellery and silver have already been consigned for the Sale on the 24th November as Christmas is traditionally the best time of the year to sell jewellery and silver.

Jewellery Silver & Gold Free Valuation Day

Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers

Tuesday 18th October

The Auction Centre, Kenn Road, Kenn Clevedon, BS21 6TT

10am - 1pm & 2pm – 5pm

Tel: 01934 830111 www.clevedon-salerooms.com

At the salerooms

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