26 Apr 2023
Cahoots LabThird Run Cinema curated by Hannah de Feyter
Description
Cahoots Lab 2023: trialing a microcinema
Cahoots Lab is a testing ground not only for artworks, but also for curatorial process. Hannah de Feyter is utilising Cahoots Lab as a small scale test for a larger project she is exploring, called THIRD RUN CINEMA. Specifically, she wants to test a venue, explore ways of talking about the films she programs, and figure out whether she can legally screen the films she wants to show without going broke.
THIRD RUN CINEMA is a forthcoming microcinema (“mi-ci”) (you have to pronounce “cinema” the Italian way, aka. as “chinema”). Curated by Hannah de Feyter, it prioritises programming experimental, arthouse and classic world films that are otherwise unavailable to view or stream (legally) in Australia.
The pandemic left us exhausted by staring into our small screens, scrolling Netflix, then Stan, then Disney+, then back to Netflix, finding ourselves unable to choose, somehow bored by everything. Third Run Cinema is an attempt to heal our relationship to screen culture by providing a curated, social experience of The Movies.
Third Run Cinema is also an attempt to move ~experimental film out of an art gallery context – a setting which makes these kinds of film seem lofty & inaccessible, like something you should have Important Thoughts about. Instead, THIRD RUN CINEMA happens in a cool, fun, chatty, relaxed bar context. Hannah believes the best way to love & understand experimental film is to just watch a lot of it and have a good time, rather than worrying about whether or not you “get” it.
Her motto in this regard is : THERE IS NOTHING TO GET ! THERE ARE ONLY THINGS TO ENJOY ! THERE ARE ONLY THINGS TO FEEL CURIOUS ABOUT !
These screenings are open to absolutely anyone and everyone who has a curiosity about film and who would like to see cool films in Canberra. If you have ever heard Hannah talk about a film at Stronger Than Fiction documentary film festival (which she co-directed) or read her descriptions of films on her Isolation Film Festival facebook group, you know that half the delight is in hearing what she has to say, and the other half is experiencing a film you otherwise probably never would have heard of.
Hannah will be announcing the three films on the line up soon!
WEDNESDAY 26 APRIL, 3 MAY & 10 MAY | JULIET ROOM AT VERITY LANE MARKET
DOORS OPEN 7:00PM | SCREENINGS START 7:30PM
TICKETS $33 WAGED / $22 UNWAGED OR LOW INCOME
Your ticket purchase will grant you entry to all three screenings, but you are welcome to just attend one or two. If you need a free ticket please choose that option on the order form, no questions asked.
All ticket proceeds will be used to program future Third Run Cinema events.
HANNAH DE FEYTER
I’m a filmmaker, musician & curator. I’m currently working on my curatorial practice, or more broadly, what I consider my practice of Talking About The Movies.
Hannah was a Cahoots resident in 2019.
Third Run Cinema takes its name from the sociological concept of the “Third Place”* and the small, rural “terza vizione”** cinemas that thrived in Italy between the 1950s-1980s.
*(In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home (“first place”) and the workplace (“second place”). Third places are “anchors” of community life and facilitate and foster broader, more creative interaction. In other words, “your third place is where you relax in public, where you encounter familiar faces and make new acquaintances.”)
**During this time there were three “classes” of cinema in Italy: prima visione (first-run theaters, located in the sixteen major Italian cities); seconda visione (second-run houses); and terza visione (third-rate movie houses located in the more rural and industrial residential regions). Films would often open at the prima visione theaters, trying to maximize their box-office receipts, followed by short runs at the seconda visione houses, and only then would be released to the terza visione screens. However, due to the demand for product at the terza visione houses, many cheap (and interesting!) local films would often play only there. The audience of the terza visione cinema was more like the television audience than like a prima visione cinema audience – the viewer went to the cinema nearest to her house after dinner, at around ten o’clock in the evening. The programme changed daily or every other day. She would not bother to find out what was showing, nor would she make any particular effort to arrive at the beginning of the film. She would talk to her friends during the showing whenever she felt like it, except during the bits of the film that grabbed her (or her friends’) attention (plus, the film would stop anyway at an arbitrary point for an intermission). People would be coming and going and changing seats throughout the performance.
Third Run Cinema takes place in a bar, with a big projector screen.
You are welcome to purchase drinks before and during the screening. There is food available at the Verity Lane Market downstairs… you can eat before Third Run Cinema or bring food from Verity Lane Market upstairs with you.
Tickets are general admission, and seating will be “cabaret style”, with tables and chairs facing the screen.
There is a small outdoor courtyard attached to the bar if you want to step outside.
The Juliet Room is above Verity Lane Market on Northbourne Avenue. There are stairs or a lift.
The final city tramstop is nearby, as is the city bus interchange.
Paid parking is available across London Circuit.
We will release more details about the thematic content of each film soon.
If you have questions or access requirements, please email Ono Chowdhury at access@youareherecanberra.com.au or call 0450 904 282.
