Title: ' Fall of the House of Usher' Silent movies with the Southwell Collective
Date: 28/10/12
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 28
Type: Film and Music
Title: '101 Dalmatians'
Date: 28/01/01
Start Time: 16:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 83
Type: Film and Music
Title: '16 Years Till Summer' Film
Description: Director and Cinematographer Lou McLoughlan will cycle to Skye to introduce her film and field some questions. '16 Years Till Summer' (Scotland, Iceland, 2105, 87 mins) is directed & Filmed by Lou McLoughlan and developed with assistance from Scottish Documentary Institute When Uisdean returns home to nurse his dying father, after spending 16 years in prison, he attempts to re-build a normal life in his home village. Set in the healing and beautiful landscape of the Scottish Highlands, the film inevitably explores themes of redemption but the director’s main focus is on the trusting relationships Uisdean builds with his father and girlfriend; both of whom are inspired by the ‘new start’ he promises to share with them. But is Uisdean able to change his destructive ways? “It manages to gracefully explore the effects of isolation and the justice system on the individuals affected before building to a quietly devastating climax. A simple but powerful film.” – The Skinny
Date: 12/08/17
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 27
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Airs of Scotland' - Screen Machine
Description: World Premier of a new venture for the Screen-Machine, the Highlands' own mobile cinema. A Silent Movie with a theme of flight and a newly commissioned live music track from Iain Drever and friends.
Date: 26/05/00
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 20
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'An Sgàilean Ùr' - Gaelic films
Description: 'An Sgàilean Ùr' is a remarkable first project involving local schools. Bòb am Bòcan: Bob the Ghost (Sleat School ), Robo-sgoil: Robot School (Plockton High School ) and Am Poca Guail: The Bag of Coal (Portree High School ) are all five-minute films, in Gaelic with English sub-titles. Each took just three days to produce. The pupils were supported by a small team of professionals, but took responsibility for every aspect of film-making: storyboarding, scripting, casting, acting, filming, directing, editing and even composing and performing their own sound-tracks. Interspersed with these, will be a selection from another story-telling cartoon project from local and international schools. Finally, the programme will include some little seen Wallace and Gromit shorts. These films will delight adults and children alike. Also - Meet the 'FilmG' team and find out what Scotland's Gaelic short film competition is all about!
Date: 22/07/08
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 11
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Babette's Feast' in the Food Festival
Date: 19/09/02
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Buena Vista Social Club'
Date: 25/02/01
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 45
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Cinema Paradiso'
Date: 25/11/00
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 50
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Dinosaur'
Date: 25/11/00
Start Time: 16:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 67
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Drochaid' ~ 'The Bridge Rising' Film
Description: This feature-length film is a lively and often humerous documentary account of the ten-year battle against the Skye Bridge tolls. Using current interviews and archive media footage it follows the many twists and turns of events through the words of the protagonists themselves, from protesters to prosecutors, engineers to financiers, politicians to police officers, uncovering several surprises in the telling. The film's score is by leading Cape Breton composer and guitarist Scott MacMillan, features his fiddle-wielding compatriot Colin Grant, with Scotland's Angus MacDonald, Arthur Cormack, and Mary-Ann Kennedy.
Date: 27/08/14
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 15
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Festival' (18)
Description: The lives and dreams of a dozen people intersect in this darkly comic ensemble tale built around the Edinburgh festival. Writer-director Annie Griffin's acerbic satire on the frayed edges of the Edinburgh Fringe. A one-woman play about Dorothy Wordsworth, a Canadian performance-art piece in which the audience sniff fresh-cut grass, and a cat fight between mendaciously competitive, unfunny comedians all ring horribly true. A strong ensemble cast, including Green Wing's excellently loathsome Stephen Mangan. "Festival is an endearing British comedy that captures the vibe and surreal charm of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It’s as cluttered full of crazy characters as the Royal Mile on a Saturday in August." Anna Smith - Empire 'Trout' was directed by Johnny Barrington from Sleat, one of many young people making a career in contrmporary culture and music from Skye. Fish, exploding caravans in the serenity of the Hebridean coast.
Date: 22/07/07
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Finis Terrae' and 'St Kilda' - Southwell Collective
Description: Jean Epstein's classic black and white documentary of 1929 is set on a remote Atlantic island outcrop. A dramatic human story unfolds againstthe stark beauty of the Brittany landscape. The 5-piece Southwell Collective perform a new and highly acclaimed score live beneath a large-screen presentation of this silent movie. Finis Terrae is 88 mins long. 'St Kilda, Britain's Loneliest Isle' was a short film commissioned in the 1920s by the steamship company that ran a service between Glasgow, the west coast of Scotland and the island of St Kilda. After two highly successful tours of England and Wales the Southwell Collective bring the film and their music to Scotland for the first time. Supported by Regional Scottish Screen. "The best silent film event we have ever presented" National Msueum of Film, Bradford.
Date: 12/08/09
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 94
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Gregory's 2 Girls' launching Club Film
Date: 04/12/99
Start Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Inbetweeners' - World Premiere
Date: 27/08/11
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 190
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Inbetweeners' - World Premiere 2
Date: 27/08/11
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 148
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Jazz on a Summer's Day' - NYJOS and Film
Description: The Jazz Ambassadors, part of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland, play a short session, before we screen ‘Jazz on a Summer’s Day’ (1960, 85 minutes). This documentary, with a great sound track, is from the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, filmed and directed by commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern and director Aram Avakian. The film mixes images of water and the city with the performers and audience at the festival and features scenes of the 1958 America's Cup yacht races. Nightly Jazz Club and Community Sessions. Come along early for a pre-concert meal, bookable on 01471 844774.
Date: 16/07/13
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Armadale, The Stables Restaurant
Audience Numbers: 33
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Man of Arran' and 'Fra Diabolo'
Date: 29/03/03
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Millions' (12a)
Description: Directed by Danny Boyle, The UK is about to switch from Pounds to Euros. A gang rob the train loaded with money on its way to incineration. But one of the big bags falls literally from the sky onto Damian's playhouse. He is a 5-year old given to talking to Saints. A fun, masterly-written, directed and acted, film. With 'Foighdinn', the Gaelic short aboaut a small boy and his grandfather.
Date: 22/07/07
Start Time: 14:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Oh Brother, Where art Thou?'
Date: 28/01/01
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 42
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Paris Blues' 1961 Film and NYJOS
Description: NYOS Jazz Orchestra (The National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland) holds a Summer School at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig each year and we find an excuse to screen a jazz-related film. Tonight we are showing 'Paris Blues' (1961, 1hr 38 mins), a cool, breezy and laid-back character-led romantic drama with strong turns by the four likable leads, including Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman with a rich, plentiful score by Duke Ellington, and an on-screen appearance of Louis Armstrong. The evening opens with a short live set from some of the young jazz players, led by Rick Taylor.
Date: 12/07/17
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Seòmar Chruinneachaidh
Audience Numbers: 28
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Rabbit Proof Fence' Australia
Date: 11/07/03
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 0
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Roll Out Cowboy' Matt Hulse and Elizabeth Lawrence
Date: 06/09/11
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Salt for Svanetia' film with Moishe's Bagel
Description: A concert set from Moishe’s Bagel followed by the film screening after the interval. Moishe’s Bagel are Phil Alexander, keyboards; Greg Lawson, violin; Mario Caribe, bass; Pete Garnett, accordion; and Guy Nicolson, percussion. ‘Salt for Svanetia’ (1930, USSR, 55 mins, b & w, PG) is the last great documentary of the Silent Era from Director Mikhail Kalatozov. the band bring their exhilarating blend of jazz inflected Eastern European and klezmer music to create a new score for Mikhail Kalatozov’s remarkable Soviet film. Kalatozov’s visually striking and at times disturbing film originally promoted Soviet measures to modernise the isolated Svan people of the Caucasus Mountains in north-west Georgia and is a dramatic combination of ethnographic history and socialist realism. ‘Exhilarating, full-flavoured stuff, often breathtakingly intricate but played with jubilation … the Bagels acquire the momentum of an express train’ The Herald Please note that the film contains scenes depicting animal cruelty and slaughter which some viewers may find upsetting.
Date: 03/10/15
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 39
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Seachd - the Inaccessible Pinnacle'
Date: 24/02/07
Start Time: 19:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Seachd - the Inaccessible Pinnacle'
Date: 25/02/07
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Seachd the Inaccessible Pinnacle'
Date: 12/08/14
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 45
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Small Time Crook'
Date: 25/02/01
Start Time: 16:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 22
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Son of the Sheik' 1926, archive film and Steven Gellatly
Description: 'The Son of the Sheik' (1926, 68 mins) stars Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Banky. It is a film of passion, betrayal and redemption. Valentino appears as both the father and his son, the passionate desert leader who falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl. It is Rudolph Valentino’s last film and he often cited as the 'silver screens' greatest lover. This film demonstrates why his reputation is so justly deserved. The evening will start with a short Buster Keaton film. Steven Gellatly provides the live music. Ever heard of Harpo Marx? The poor sod lasted just two weeks as a silent film pianist- and it’s no wonder. Harpo only knew two songs which he could rotate, speeding up or slowing down his fingers in hopes of fitting the music to the action on the screen. Steven Gellatly has a few more songs up his sleeve to fit the action. Scientist by day, composer and pianist by night, he has written and performed live scores for films such as 'The Lodger', 'Nosferatu', and 'Sunrise'. + 5 mins 1933 film of visit to Rona and Raasay with Dr AD Peacock, zoo-ologist Dundee University and students This is a 'Pay What You Like' event
Date: 04/08/17
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, An Talla Mhòr
Audience Numbers: 32
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Spirit of the Beehive'
Date: 26/02/01
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 25
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed' Archive film and 'Sink'
Description: Edinburgh's leading independent cinema, Filmhouse is delighted to work with SEALL to present a Scottish tyour of one of cinema's earliest animated features 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed', with a specially musical score performed live by acoustic trio 'Sink'. Widely considered to be the first full-length animated feature in the history of cinema, 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed' is a beautifully crafted piece of storytelling based loosely on the Arabian Nights. The film is an exciting tale of sword fights, genies and adventure told using a silhouette animation technique pioneered by director Lotte Reiniger. Filmhouse Edinburgh have commissioned acoustic trio Sink to bring their live sounds to this very special animated feature as part of a Scotland-wide tour. Reaching beyond their usual instrumentation of violin, accordion and saxophone to create a score that is in part conjured, Sink set the quiet air into magical vibration. "mysterious and beautiful" Brian Morton of The Wire (Germany 1926, Dir. Lotte Reiniger, U, 1h 5m) with a free glass of wine.
Date: 02/09/16
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 26
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'The Growth of the Soil' Film and Orchestra
Description: A special Film and Orchestra night promoted by SEALL arts and Club Film, and presented by the Northern Periphery Programme and the Lochaber Music Partnership. ‘The Growth of the Soil’ ~ ‘Markens grøde’ (Norway - 1921) Black and White, Silent 100 mins The Growth of the Soil is the first Norwegian feature length film made, based on the Nobel Prize winning book by Knut Hamsun. This screening of the film is accompanied by a 32 piece live orchestra of musicians from Norway and Lochaber. The film concerns the tentative growth of a fragile mountain community out of the great tracts of virgin forest in the north of Norway. It was lost until two incolkpmete copies were found in 1971. Both the film and score were reconstructed in 2002 and this is a unique chance to see the original film and hear the original live music.
Date: 14/02/06
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 95
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'The Inheritance' - film, Tim Barrow
Description: An interesting twist on the classic road movie formula, this follows two brothers as they journey across Scotland to collect the inheritance left to them by their father. This film is concerned with story and character as opposed to dazzling effects, and in all honesty the Scottish countryside provides all the aesthetic wonder a film needs. The inheritance succeeds in creating scenes of heightened tension and drama by drawing the viewer right inside the car with the brothers. Written in 2 months, and filmed over 11 days on a budget of £5000, The Inheritance is a dark, touching look at brotherhood, identity and the stereotype of the Scotsman's inability to express his feelings. David (Tim Barrow) and Fraser (Fraser Sivewright) are two brothers who haven't seen each other for years thanks to Fraser staying in Scotland and his sibling moving down to London. But their lives intersect once more when their father (Tom Hardy) dies and they both attend the funeral. Later, they reluctantly discuss what to do with their inheritance, which seems to be various belongings, a house and their father's workshop. David doesn't want any part of it and can't wait to leave, but Fraser finds a letter and a key; the letter tells them to head off to the Isle of Skye to win their true inheritance - but it doesn't mean the brothers are going to get on during the journey... "Essentially a two-hander, this is a film of astonishing conviction." Q and A session with producer Tim Barrow
Date: 20/07/08
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 23
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'The Inheritance' - film, Tim Barrow
Description: An interesting twist on the classic road movie formula, this follows two brothers as they journey across Scotland to collect the inheritance left to them by their father. This film is concerned with story and character as opposed to dazzling effects, and in all honesty the Scottish countryside provides all the aesthetic wonder a film needs. The inheritance succeeds in creating scenes of heightened tension and drama by drawing the viewer right inside the car with the brothers. Written in 2 months, and filmed over 11 days on a budget of £5000, The Inheritance is a dark, touching look at brotherhood, identity and the stereotype of the Scotsman's inability to express his feelings. David (Tim Barrow) and Fraser (Fraser Sivewright) are two brothers who haven't seen each other for years thanks to Fraser staying in Scotland and his sibling moving down to London. But their lives intersect once more when their father (Tom Hardy) dies and they both attend the funeral. Later, they reluctantly discuss what to do with their inheritance, which seems to be various belongings, a house and their father's workshop. David doesn't want any part of it and can't wait to leave, but Fraser finds a letter and a key; the letter tells them to head off to the Isle of Skye to win their true inheritance - but it doesn't mean the brothers are going to get on during the journey... "Essentially a two-hander, this is a film of astonishing conviction." Q and A session with producer Tim Barrow
Date: 20/07/08
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 23
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'The Inheritance' - film, Tim Barrow
Description: An interesting twist on the classic road movie formula, this follows two brothers as they journey across Scotland to collect the inheritance left to them by their father. This film is concerned with story and character as opposed to dazzling effects, and in all honesty the Scottish countryside provides all the aesthetic wonder a film needs. The inheritance succeeds in creating scenes of heightened tension and drama by drawing the viewer right inside the car with the brothers. Written in 2 months, and filmed over 11 days on a budget of £5000, The Inheritance is a dark, touching look at brotherhood, identity and the stereotype of the Scotsman's inability to express his feelings. David (Tim Barrow) and Fraser (Fraser Sivewright) are two brothers who haven't seen each other for years thanks to Fraser staying in Scotland and his sibling moving down to London. But their lives intersect once more when their father (Tom Hardy) dies and they both attend the funeral. Later, they reluctantly discuss what to do with their inheritance, which seems to be various belongings, a house and their father's workshop. David doesn't want any part of it and can't wait to leave, but Fraser finds a letter and a key; the letter tells them to head off to the Isle of Skye to win their true inheritance - but it doesn't mean the brothers are going to get on during the journey... "Essentially a two-hander, this is a film of astonishing conviction." Q and A session with producer Tim Barrow
Date: 20/07/08
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 23
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'The Inheritance' - film, Tim Barrow
Description: An interesting twist on the classic road movie formula, this follows two brothers as they journey across Scotland to collect the inheritance left to them by their father. This film is concerned with story and character as opposed to dazzling effects, and in all honesty the Scottish countryside provides all the aesthetic wonder a film needs. The inheritance succeeds in creating scenes of heightened tension and drama by drawing the viewer right inside the car with the brothers. Written in 2 months, and filmed over 11 days on a budget of £5000, The Inheritance is a dark, touching look at brotherhood, identity and the stereotype of the Scotsman's inability to express his feelings. David (Tim Barrow) and Fraser (Fraser Sivewright) are two brothers who haven't seen each other for years thanks to Fraser staying in Scotland and his sibling moving down to London. But their lives intersect once more when their father (Tom Hardy) dies and they both attend the funeral. Later, they reluctantly discuss what to do with their inheritance, which seems to be various belongings, a house and their father's workshop. David doesn't want any part of it and can't wait to leave, but Fraser finds a letter and a key; the letter tells them to head off to the Isle of Skye to win their true inheritance - but it doesn't mean the brothers are going to get on during the journey... "Essentially a two-hander, this is a film of astonishing conviction." Q and A session with producer Tim Barrow
Date: 20/07/08
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 23
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'The Inheritance' - film, Tim Barrow
Description: An interesting twist on the classic road movie formula, this follows two brothers as they journey across Scotland to collect the inheritance left to them by their father. This film is concerned with story and character as opposed to dazzling effects, and in all honesty the Scottish countryside provides all the aesthetic wonder a film needs. The inheritance succeeds in creating scenes of heightened tension and drama by drawing the viewer right inside the car with the brothers. Written in 2 months, and filmed over 11 days on a budget of £5000, The Inheritance is a dark, touching look at brotherhood, identity and the stereotype of the Scotsman's inability to express his feelings. David (Tim Barrow) and Fraser (Fraser Sivewright) are two brothers who haven't seen each other for years thanks to Fraser staying in Scotland and his sibling moving down to London. But their lives intersect once more when their father (Tom Hardy) dies and they both attend the funeral. Later, they reluctantly discuss what to do with their inheritance, which seems to be various belongings, a house and their father's workshop. David doesn't want any part of it and can't wait to leave, but Fraser finds a letter and a key; the letter tells them to head off to the Isle of Skye to win their true inheritance - but it doesn't mean the brothers are going to get on during the journey... "Essentially a two-hander, this is a film of astonishing conviction." Q and A session with producer Tim Barrow
Date: 20/07/08
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 23
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'The Island Tapes' Archival Hebridean film
Description: Premiered in January 2006 at Celtic Connections in Glasgow, 'The Island Tapes' features original live music and five silent films recording life on St Kilda, Harris, Skye, Orkney and Shetland in the 1920s and 30s. Scottish Guitarist David Allison who wrote the music, is joined by Scotland’s foremost classical guitarist Allan Neave, the Berlin-based fingerstyle maestro Ian Melrose and the superb Gaelic singer Alyth McCormack. "It’s amazing seeing faces from so long ago up there on the big screen. The films all have a story to tell, so it’s important to let that come through in the music, but we are where we are now, and this is definitely not simply a nostalgia trip."
Date: 27/06/07
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 80
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'The Jazz Ambassadors' Film night
Description: The Jazz Ambassadors are on Skye this week with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland's Summer School. Following a screening of XXXX??? six young brilliant Scottish jazz musicians play some sets in our jazz house.
Date: 14/07/14
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, An Talla Mhòr
Audience Numbers: 33
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'The Shipping News' film
Date: 14/07/02
Start Time: 3.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 0
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Topsy Turvy'- the new Film Club
Description: Gilbert and Sullivan's life as they struggle to continue to produce their successfull Operattas/.
Date: 28/04/00
Start Time: 19:30:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 30
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Venus Peter' - Film
Date: 12/07/01
Start Time: 21:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Venus Peter' Launching a bid for Club Film
Date: 04/02/00
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: 'Watership Down'
Date: 26/02/01
Start Time: 1.20 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 63
Type: Film and Music
Title: African Film Festival
Description: Africa in Motion (AiM) comes to Skye withAfrican Film Fest 350 its touring film festival ‘Sports Stories from around the African Commonwealth’, as part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme. “On foot” two films focused on running, in the ‘Shebeen Screen’ In South Africa, ‘shebeen’ describes an informal drinking place in a township, and in Scotland it also refers to an unlicensed bar or pub. TheAiM Shebeen Screenwill replicate the way Africans watch films through an African-decorated mobile cinema. The AiM Shebeen Screen will travel to Dundee, Isle of Skye, Cromarty, Inverness, Coll and Dunoon, in addition to pop-up screenings in Glasgow and Edinburgh. “Sabbat El Aid” ~ “My Shoes” Anis Lassoued | Tunisia 2012 | 30 mins | Tunisian dialect with English subtitles | Short Nine-year-old Nader loves to run, Africa in Motion Nader Tlili in My Shoes by Anis Lassoued 350as if he wants to defy gravity. We follow him as he journeys through his village, down winding paths bordered with lush green forests, greeting each neighbour as he passes, until he climbs up a large mountain to the tallest point where he looks down over his small village with a sense of awe and freedom. While shopping for Eid clothes with his parents, he sets his heart on a pair of expensive shoes beyond what his father can afford. From this moment on it is as if nothing else matters, he prays for the shoes, dreams about the shoes, he can’t eat or sleep. The film then captures this emotion by transporting the audience into his dream through the magic of animation. “Town of Runners” Jerry Rothwell | UK/Ethiopia 2011 | 52 mins | (15) | Documentary Town Of Runners is a feature documentary about Africa in Motion Town of Runners 350young people from the Ethiopian rural town of Bekoji, whose runners have won 8 Olympic Gold medals, 32 World Championships and broken 10 world records in the last 20 years. The film follows two girls as they strive to emulate their local heroes, making the journey from school track to national competition and from childhood to adulthood. Their mentor is a former PE Teacher who has discovered and trained many of the world’s leading long distance runners including Tirunesh and Genzebe Dibaba, Kenenisa Bekele and Deratu Tulu. Adults £6, Students and young people £5 at the door. Find out more at: http://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/
Date: 12/06/14
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: Animated Islands - Puppet Animation Scotland
Description: Puppet Animation Scotland presents its first bi-annual Animated Islands Festival, on Bute, Islay, Mull, Skye, Lewis, and many other Isles in between... We will present a rich and varied programme of animated films and shorts from all over the world for children, for family audiences and for adults. The work on offer will range from main-stream box office successes to the most innovative and challenging of contemporary animation. Common to everything we show will be a deep respect and a vivid excitement for this most versatile and beautiful of visual art forms.
Date: 24/09/11
Start Time: 19:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: Bannan film screening
Description: with MG Alba
Date: 20/08/14
Start Time: 19:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: Charlie Chaplin's 'The Kid'
Description: ‘The Kid’ (68 mins) is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama film written by, produced by, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. It follows the story of a tramp (Chaplin), who attempts to raise an orphaned boy (Jackie Coogan) on his own. It was a huge success when released, being the second-highest grossing film in 1921, behind 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'. The screening will include another Short and will be accompanied live by composer and pianist Steven Gellatly. Steven has performed across Europe, from Sweden to London. He appears regularly in Scotland and this is his second appearance at the Skye Festival. He has composed scores for films such as ‘Foolish Wives’, ‘The Lodger’, ‘Son of the Sheik’, ‘Sunrise’ and various short films.
Date: 28/07/18
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig,TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 42
Type: Film and Music
Title: Discovery Film Festival
Date: 29/10/11
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 0
Type: Film and Music
Title: Discovery Film Festival
Date: 29/10/11
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 0
Type: Film and Music
Title: Festival Films for children
Date: 14/07/01
Start Time: 14:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 0
Type: Film and Music
Title: Festival Films for children
Date: 14/07/01
Start Time: 14:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 0
Type: Film and Music
Title: Film 'Bridges of Madison County'
Description: WIth Meryl streep and Clint eastwood. 16mm film as part of the Eden Court outreach.
Date: 10/07/96
Start Time: 8.30 pm
Venue: Ardvasar Hall
Audience Numbers: 54
Type: Film and Music
Title: Film - 'Braveheart'
Description: The story of William Wallace.
Date: 18/06/96
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Armadale, The Stables Restaurant
Audience Numbers: 57
Type: Film and Music
Title: Film - 'Casper'
Description: Lively children's film about a friendly ghost.
Date: 10/07/96
Start Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: Ardvasar Hall
Audience Numbers: 50
Type: Film and Music
Title: Film - 'Indian in the Cupboard'
Description: Indian in the cupboard
Date: 16/07/96
Start Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: Ardvasar Hall
Audience Numbers: 21
Type: Film and Music
Title: Film - 'Jumanji'
Date: 01/08/96
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Ardvasar Hall
Audience Numbers: 17
Type: Film and Music
Title: Film - 'The Maggie'
Description: Archival 16mm film of the area
Date: 16/07/96
Start Time: 8.30 pm
Venue: Ardvasar Hall
Audience Numbers: 21
Type: Film and Music
Title: Film Night
Date: 18/07/04
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 0
Type: Film and Music
Title: Film Night - 'The Rocket Post'
Description: The Festival Film Night presents a remarkable short documentary about Highland writer Iain Crichton Smith, made by Don Coutts, the film Director who lives on the Black Isle. "It was one of the privileges of my life getting to know Iain. He was the most gentle, bright lovely man." "The Rocket Post", (2002 - 118 mins) is a moving tale of how a remote Scottish community on the Hebridean island of Scarp became enchanted by a dashing German scientist and his plans to link them to the outside world via a rocket postal service during the late 1930s. He struggles to assemble his new invention while the quirky inhabitants look on with a combination of humour, scepticism and distrust. But just when things might come together, the scientist is pressured by his fatherland to assist with its preparation for war. "Beautifully written - breathtaking cinematography."
Date: 30/07/06
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: Film Night: 'Himalaya - L'Enfance d'un Chef' (pg)
Description: An epic French (subtitled) film evoking the culture of remote comunities in another mountainous part of the world. With the Tibetan way of life totally under threat from Chinese colonial rule, Eric Valli's film may be the last to record the traditional trek across the mountains. From the village of Dolpo, 5000 ft. up, a caravan of yaks sets forth once a year, ladened with sacks of salt to be exchanged in the far off Nepalese valley for enough grain to last them through the winter. The story of this race across the Himalayas, symbolising a clash between the old ways and the new, is exhilarating enough. What lifts the film to a high level is the wonder of the cinematography, the music and the spirit of a unique people.
Date: 17/07/05
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 0
Type: Film and Music
Title: Film Night: 'Himalaya - L'Enfance d'un Chef' (pg)
Description: An epic French (subtitled) film evoking the culture of remote comunities in another mountainous part of the world. With the Tibetan way of life totally under threat from Chinese colonial rule, Eric Valli's film may be the last to record the traditional trek across the mountains. From the village of Dolpo, 5000 ft. up, a caravan of yaks sets forth once a year, ladened with sacks of salt to be exchanged in the far off Nepalese valley for enough grain to last them through the winter. The story of this race across the Himalayas, symbolising a clash between the old ways and the new, is exhilarating enough. What lifts the film to a high level is the wonder of the cinematography, the music and the spirit of a unique people.
Date: 17/07/05
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 0
Type: Film and Music
Title: Film: 'The Bridge Rising / An Drochaid'
Description: Prior to its launch at Glasgow's Celtic Connections, the Skye audience gets a chance to see this feature-length screening of An Drochaid/The Bridge Rising, a lively documentary account of the ten-year battle against the Skye Bridge tolls. A Scottish/Canadian co-production previously broadcast in shorter form on BBC Alba, with the full cinematic story supported by Creative Scotland, it follows the many twists and turns of events through the words of the protagonists themselves, from protesters to prosecutors, engineers to financiers, politicians to police officers, uncovering several surprises in the telling. The film's score, by leading Cape Breton composer and guitarist Scott MacMillan, features his fiddle-wielding compatriot Colin Grant with Scotland's Angus MacDonald, Arthur Cormack, and Mary-Ann Kennedy, as well as MacMillan himself.
Date: 11/01/14
Start Time: 19:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: Film: Forgotten Kingdom of Lesotho
Description: Set in Lesotho, Southern Africa
Date: 29/08/14
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 40
Type: Film and Music
Title: Fèis on Film: 's Tusa an Stiùiriche
Description: During the week, students at the college have been creating and directing a video film. Here they present and talk about their results. Cùrsa fiolm is ioma-mheadhan airson daoine eadar 16 is 18 bliadhna a dh'aois.
Date: 22/07/05
Start Time: 16:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: Highlight Arctic - archive film, Atzi Muramatsu, Jessie Kleemann
Description: Please note change of date from our printed programme An ‘Arctic’ evening of contemporary poetry, film and music. Highlight Arctic’s ‘Our Reels: Ideas of North’ Tour is a continuation of the highly successful programme of events that took place in Edinburgh and Glasgow in March 2017. Events in Skye and Inverness will bring together in creative dialogue the work of Scotland-based contemporary composer Atzi Muramatsu, Greenlandic Inuit performance artist Jessie Kleemann and rarely seen filmic works by pioneering Scottish botanist and explorer Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
Date: 09/12/17
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: An Crùbh, Duisdale
Audience Numbers: 52
Type: Film and Music
Title: Irish Focus Film Show
Date: 29/03/95
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, An Talla Mhòr
Type: Film and Music
Title: Jazz Film 'Bird'
Description: Director Clint Eastwood, a noted jazz aficionado, directs this heartfelt study of pioneering bop saxophonist Charlie Parker (Forest Whitaker). Moving forward and backward through Parker's brief life before his death of a heroin overdose at age 34, the film foregrounds the saxophonist's difficult relationship with his wife, Chan Parker (Diane Venora), but also features lengthy scenes of Parker improvising on stage, lit with the neon and cigarette smoke of vintage jazz clubs. 1988, 155 minutes
Date: 16/07/18
Start Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Seòmar Chruinneachaidh
Audience Numbers: 14
Type: Film and Music
Title: Jazz and Film 'Lady Sings The Blues'
Description: A night of live music and great Jazz film. We start with a live set from this years Jazz Ambassadors: Ru Pattison, Richard Foote, Alan Benzie, Andrew Robb, Jonathan Silk and Rick Taylor. In 'Lady Sings the Blues' (1972, 144 mins) pop star Diana Ross portrays legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in this biographical drama. Beginning with Holiday's traumatic youth, the film depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay (Billy Dee Williams), her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life.
Date: 14/07/15
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Seòmar Chruinneachaidh
Audience Numbers: 26
Type: Film and Music
Title: Lord Puttnam in conversation with 'Local Hero' (PG)
Description: Club Film and Sabhal Mòr Ostaig are honoured to receive a visit from David Puttnam, producer of 'Local Hero', the bittersweet fable with Burt Lancaster excellent as a Texan oil magnate falling under the spell of folksy Scottish locals. David Puttnam will ontroduce the film and answer questions about the film afterwards.
Date: 07/09/02
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music
Title: Movies on the Move - Archival Skye film
Description: Short archival films, to suit local interest, two of which are silent with live piano accompaniment, celebrating 100 years of cinema in Scotland. Featuring "Mairi, Romance of a Highland Maiden 1912", "Crofting in Skye 1939" etc.
Date: 31/10/96
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Seòmar Chruinneachaidh
Audience Numbers: 51
Type: Film and Music
Title: National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland - Jazz and Film night
Description: The National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland are in residence at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig this week. The Jazz Ambassadors, led by Skye Jazz resident Rick Taylor present a programme of jazz followed by a showing of 'Round Midnight' - Herbie Hancock's Oscar-winning score jazzes up this tribute to be-bop starring Dexter Gordon as a sax player and Francois Cluzet as the young man who idolizes him. Berangere: Gabrielle Haker. Buttercup: Sandra Reaves-Phillips. Darcey: Lonette McKee. Sylvie: Christine Pascal. Ace: Bobby Hutcherson. Hancock also appears as Eddie, and Martin Scorsese cameos as Goodley. Bertrand Tavernier directed. The story of Dale Turner, a famous tenor saxophone player in Paris in the 1950s is befriended by Francis, a struggling French graphic designer specializing in film posters, who idolizes the musician and who tries desperately to help him to escape alcohol abuse. As he succeeds, the budding friendship they develop changes their lives forever.
Date: 13/07/16
Start Time: 20:00:00
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Seòmar Chruinneachaidh
Audience Numbers: 27
Type: Film and Music
Title: Short Films from Skye and Lochalsh
Date: 17/07/08
Start Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 11
Type: Film and Music
Title: Skye Shorts
Date: 23/08/11
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 36
Type: Film and Music
Title: Skye Swing Jazz - 'A Hallowe'en night' film and Graeme Stephen
Description: The Skye Swing Jazz Festival kicks off with an Oscar-winning film, accompanied by an innovative musical score, played live by one of Scotland’s most exciting and prodigious musical talents. Graeme Stephen’s score for F W Murnau's visual masterpiece Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans won him the innovation award at the Scottish Jazz Awards in 2012. The film won the Unique and Artistic Picture Award at the First Academy Awards in 1929. Harnessing influences from various musical styles including folk, classical and jazz, Graeme will be performing with a world-class band featuring, Pete Harvey, cello; Phil Bancroft, saxophone; and Tom Bancroft, drums/percussion. The show involves the projection of the classic silent movie accompanied by the quartet performance of Graeme’s specially written soundtrack. The event will take the form of a fancy dress Hallowe’en-themed evening to get the festival going with a swing. There is a prize for the best costume and the bar will be open from 7pm. "Murnau’s Sunrise is a compelling story full of drama, with storms both emotional and meteorological, private moments, bustling public scenes, a twisting plot and a not easily reached happy ending. It calls for a detailed score, and it got one here as Stephen set the scene with hypnotic guitar work that gave way to a veritable harvest of beautifully written vignettes." The Herald ★★★★★ "Stephen’s daring writing and willingness to complement conventional lyricism with sonic experiment makes for a powerful experience.” The Scotsman ★★★★★ "Guitarist Graeme Stephen has emerged as one the Scottish jazz scene's most capable, exportable and distinctive talents. His group is a beacon of original, ambitious and brilliantly realised music.” The Herald
Date: 27/10/17
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Talla Dhuisdeil, Isleornsay
Audience Numbers: 40
Type: Film and Music
Title: Skye World Music - Film Café 'Buena Vista Social Club'
Description: A cabaret style film-bar and coffee house and a showing of 'Buena Vista Social Club' and other multi-media. Ry Cooder caused an international sensation when he introduced the world to Cuba’s son musicians. In 1999 Wim Wenders released his documentary which profiles the legendary Buena Vista Social Club musicians. "splendid, a sheer delight" (NY Post)
Date: 26/03/05
Start Time: 9.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Seòmar Chruinneachaidh
Audience Numbers: 21
Type: Film and Music
Title: Skye's World Music - Film Café - 'La Revancha de Tango'
Description: Four our late night relaxing Film Café, with good coffee and a bar, we bring you the winners of Radio 3's World Music award for best newcomer, the Gotan Project is a unique fusion of dance dub, house, jazz beats blended with the core sound of Argentinian Tango. 'Gotan' - a play on tango, are three French DJ and producers and a host of Argentinian musicians including Cristina Vilallonga, Nini Flores and Gustavo Beytelmann. 'La Revancha de Tango' is a total sonic and visual experience. It seduced audiences by projecting images onto an enormous screen veiling the stage infront of the musicians. Midway through the concert the veil drops and the musicians are revealed. The crowd screams as if they had just witnessed the final act of a torrid striptease. A film of the events was the logical next step and was shot in December 2003, during the 'La Revancha del Tango' tour.The exploraiton between the sensual rhythm of Tango and the film images make this much more than a mere concert recordning.
Date: 15/04/06
Start Time: 9.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 25
Type: Film and Music
Title: The Screen Machine - Films
Description: Pilot visit
Date: 27/05/00
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 30
Type: Film and Music
Title: The Skye Swing Jazz Festival 'Nosferatu'
Description: Graham Stephen, Chris Stout, Phil Bancroft, Ben play Graham's score for the 1922 black and white original Dracula film. No colours - everyone in black and white only. Award winning Guitarist and Composer Graeme Stephen tours his SilentSSJF GraemeStephen 350 Film SSJF Nosferatu 350Scores with some of the most adventurous and talented musicians in the UK. His scores take influence from Folk, Jazz and Classical music giving these classic films a fresh, exciting update. The group will perform Graemes score to a screening of the classic Silent Horror Film “Nosferatu”. “…..the contents of guitarist Graeme Stephen’s latest album offer further evidence of his mastery of sound, melody and feeling” – Herald Graeme is joined by Phil Bancroft – Saxophone, Ben Davis – Cello, Mario Caribe – Bass and Tom Bancroft – Drums
Date: 31/10/14
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Talla Dhuisdeil, Isleornsay
Audience Numbers: 47
Type: Film and Music
Title: ‘Azur et Asmar’ ~ ‘The Princes’ Quest’ (U)
Description: 2006. Fr. Dir Michel Ocelot, 99min Arabian Knights Award Winning French animation, about two little boys who grow up to become kings. Gorgeously painted frames around fantastic Arabic tales. An International children’s hit.
Date: 30/03/08
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Type: Film and Music