Lab Nights

Lab Nights Film Lab is coming!

Are you looking forward to seeing vintage film-making technologies, magic lanterns and animations? Do you feel like going back to 8mm and 16mm film for a while? Do you just want to meet people who are interested in these, or could even teach you how to make them? Then FILM LAB is for you!

On June 25t...h. Doors at 7:30, showing starts at 8:00. Don't miss it!


Prices: Adult £5 - Concessions £4
Box Office: 01622 758611

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Come and watch short film, video and animations by award-winning filmmakers and local art students



Be enchanted by Professor Mervyn Heard's Magic Lantern show



Meet the artists; make your own animation, or just soak up the magical atmosphere at this unique event.

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A hand-picked selection of film and video, featuring

Professor Nicky Hamlyn, filmmaker and writer, has shown films at venues around the world. Recent screenings include New York and Toronto Film Festivals, 2007. Professor of Film at University College for the Creative Arts, Maidstone.

Ian Helliwell, award-winning Super 8 filmmaker, and maker of electronic instruments, has produced over 40 films since the 1990s. His work has been screened at film festivals internationally and is distributed by LUX. Ian has served on two international film juries: Norwegian Short Film Festival 2005 and Stuggart Film Winter 2006. We will be screening two of Ian’s super 8 films.

Lilly La Mia - Super 8mm film

Lu Elliott - Experimental 16mm film

Performance by
Professor Mervyn Heard, Magic Lantern Expert, has shown work at Hayward Gallery, Tate Britain, National Portrait Gallery and Oxford Literature Festival. His work has been described as “part historical, part hysterical”. Mervyn will present a pictureshow experience from before the movies, with comical stories, pictorial curiosities and magical transformations.

Light, Video and Slide Installations

Artist Networking

Creative Activities


Film Lab will showcase a selection of work themed around light and projection; representing local, regional and national artists and performers, from student-level right through to established practitioners.