Mayton Street Festival

Saturday 11 June 2011 1-5pm
Thanks to everyone who came to these free events on the street and in the Old Fire Station Community Centre, including Urban Craft Club, singing workshop, poetry readings, talk with local author Caitlin Davies, performance from Instantly Theatrical and pop-up cafe.

LOCATION: Old Fire Station Community Centre, 84 Mayton Street London N7 6QT.

Screening summary:
1 pm – Damaged Goods – 10 mins
2 pm – Missing, The Adventure of the Lonely Can, Recycled Man, Out of the Mouths of Babes – 10 mins
3 pm – Green, The Fairy Tale of New Islington, Carl the Insane Vacuum Cleaner - 12 mins
4 pm – Dodo and Emu Fly – 8 mins
4.50 – Cocoon – 10 mins


FILM DETAILS

1.00 pm – DAMAGED GOODS (Barnaby Barford short, shown at Puppets on Film) – 9:50″

2.00 pm – MISSING (Tariq Rimawi short, shown at Puppets on Film) , THE ADVENTURE OF THE LONELY CAN, RECYCLED MAN, OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES (All directed by Steve Hammal) – 10:00″

THE ADVENTURE OF THE LONELY CAN (Dir. Steve Hammal) – 2′15″
Once a can’s contents have been drunk, that’s the end of its life, right? Wrong. From town to beach to country the discarded can’s journey has just begun.

RECYCLED MAN (Dir. Steve Hammal.) – 3′00″
A normal couple. A normal conversation. Kind of. This meeting is brought to you in association with the little book of recycling.

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES (Dir. Steve Hammal) – 2′00″
Re-cycling – it’s child’s play.



3.00 pm – GREEN,
THE FAIRY TALE OF NEW ISLINGTON (both directed by Ronis Varlaam) and CARL THE INSANE VACUUM CLEANER – 12 mins

GREEN (Dir. Ronis Varlaam) – 3′30″
A perfect green screen turns white in this poetic essay on all forms of Green.

THE FAIRYTALE OF NEW ISLINGTON (Dir. Ronis Varlaam) – 3′30″
A child’s fairy-tale story to oblique images of trash, Islington and greenery.

CARL THE INSANE VACUUM CLEANER (Yerbury School childrens’ film made in association with First Light)  - 5′11″
Carl the Vacuum Cleaner has had enough of sucking up human’s rubbish…

4.00 pm – DODO AND EMU FLY (Yerbury School childrens’ film made in association with First Light)  - 7′50″
Dodo and Emu want to fly like the cool birds, but their ambitions get the into trouble.

4.50 pm – COCOON (Yerbury School childrens’ film made in association with First Light)9′50″
Deep underground, scientists are growing a new race of humans.

To get involved or for more information please email: info@reelislington.com.