THE MERCURY CINEMA

The Mercury and Iris Cinemas are run by the Media Resource Centre to enhance screen culture and to give screening opportunities to emerging South Australian film, video and digital media artists.

Cinemas are also available for hire. For more information CLICK HERE.

CONTACT
Operations Manager, Jeremy Chance e-mail

Exhibition Manager, Toby Bramwell e-mail
Ph. (08) 8410 0979

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MERCURY for hire

The Mercury and Iris Cinemas are available for hire. We offer highly competitive rates for your screening, conference, lecture or party. We can screen just about anything from 35mm CinemaScope to your Powerpoint or web based presentation. AND we can look after your catering and liquor requirements with the minimum of fuss!

andrzej waJda: from ashes to iron

15 May - 29 May 2008

Andrzej Wajda (b.1926) has earned widespread recognition for his amazing ability to consistently adapt to the political, cultural and aesthetic shifts of his audience both in Poland and internationally. This cross-section of his incredible filmmaking trajectory provides an important introduction to the key aspects of Wajda's cinema, moving from his widely celebrated trilogy on Polish Resistance and the last years of World War II, through his extraordinary revisions of Polish history and national identity to the stirrings of the Solidarity movement. Imported, newly restored 35mm prints courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa.

KANAL || MAN OF MARBLE || DESMOISELLES DE WILKO
ASHES AND DIAMONDS || LANDSCAPE AFTER BATTLE

7:30pm Thursday 15 May

KANAL (18+)

Dir: Andrzej Wajda Poland 1957 91mins 35mm
The second entry in Wajda’s intense War trilogy is a stark and moving depiction of a group of partisans’ hellish descent into the claustrophobic sewers of Warsaw as they escape the Nazis during the September 1944 uprising. Deftly mixes poetry and realism while providing an extraordinary portrait of a country scarred by the horrors of war.

Winner Special Jury Prize Cannes Film Festival 1957.

7:30pm Monday 19 May

MAN OF MARBLE (18+)

Dir: Andrzej Wajda Poland 1977 165mins 35mm
A feisty and intense student finds that she’s getting the run around from official sources when investigating the fate of her famous subject, inspirational 1950s bricklayer hero Mateusz Birkut. This stinging critique of Stalinism marks a major contribution to Poland’s “Cinema of Moral Concern”. Remarkable for its disturbing, far reaching implications about truth, myth and the media.

Listed in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.

7:30pm Thursday 22 May

DEMOISELLES DE WILKO (18+)

Dir: Andrzej Wajda Poland/France 1979 118mins 35mm
This dark romance switches to a more internal, reflective mode as Wiktor Ruben returns to the place where he once spent halcyon holidays in his youth. Here he re-encounters a past life and past loves, leading the audience through a world of bittersweet loss, tremulous mood swings and the poignancy of trying to capture the ineffable.

7:30pm Monday 26 May

ASHES AND DIAMONDS (18+)

Dir: Andrzej Wajda Poland 1959 103mins 35mm
The final entry in Wajda’s War Trilogy concentrates on the Polish resistance movement in the final days of World War II. Often regarded as the director’s pre-eminent masterpiece, this complex political film was controversial in Poland at the time of its release and remains a potent historical marker.

Listed in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.

7:30pm Thursday 29 May

LANDSCAPE AFTER BATTLE (18+)

Dir: Andrzej Wajda Poland 1970 101mins 35mm
Two concentration camp survivors, one a young poet, the other a headstrong Jewish girl, meet and fall in love amidst the chaos of Poland’s liberation in 1945. Their intense relationship unravels across the trauma-scape of a devastated society attempting to come to terms with freedom, nationhood and homeland in this haunting tale of youthful passion challenged by the bitter ironies of war and its aftermath.

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