Changes

A course at Alston Hall College, Longridge, Preston 2-4th February 2007 led by Dave Watterson.

Cinema, as the art form of our age, reflects on all the changes in our lives and through narrative helps us come to terms with it. The weekend examined the way cinema from different parts of the world deals with the change in the human condition: the break from tribal to global thinking; from hidebound tradition to flexibility; from jungle danger to urban terror and how it handles the ever-present changes of life, love and mortality.

Dave Watterson is a familiar personality at North West events and had previously led several study weekend including Five Weddings & Three Funerals, Flaming Families, Food Glorious Food. The Misfits, Cards of Identity and Film is Fun! The event included many shorts and extracts as well as six complete feature films presented on a large screen:

Still from 'Melinda and Melinda'.

Still from 'Whale Rider'.

Still from 'My Life Without Me'.

Melinda and Melinda
Woody Allen has two writers argue how to handle a story. Life can be a comedy or a tragedy, it all depends on how you look at it.

Whale Rider
Times have to change in Maori culture. A tale of individual and societal change.

My Life Without Me
Sarah with just two months to live, sorts out her family's future ... and falls in love.

Still from 'Night of the Truth'.

Still from 'City of God'.

Still from 'King of Masks'.

Night of the Truth
(La nuit de la vérité)
Personal vengeance and tribal loyalty clashing with a forward-looking diplomacy in an African setting.

City of God
(Cidade de Deus)
Fight and you'll never survive ... run and you'll never escape.

King of Masks
(Bian Lian)
The old man needs an heir to taken on his theatrical skills but is this the one?


*Melinda and Melinda* Woody Allen has two writers argue how to handle a story. Life can be a comedy or a tragedy, it all depends on how you look at it.	*Whale Rider* Times have to change in Maori culture. A tale of individual and societal change.	*My Life Without Me* Sarah with just two months to live, sorts out her family's future ... and falls in love.

Night of the Truth (La nuit de la vérité) Personal vengeance and tribal loyalty clashing with a forward-looking diplomacy in an African setting.	City of God (Cidade de Deus) Fight and you'll never survive ... run and you'll never escape.	King of Masks (Bian Lian) The old man needs an heir to taken on his theatrical skills but is this the one?