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.

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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!

cinematograph Hellenika: THEO ANGELOPOULOS

Wed 16 Apr & Sun 20 April 2008

Presented by the Media Resource Centre and SACGCM as part of Festival Hellenika 2008, celebrating Greek culture.

Born in Athens, Theodoros Angelopoulos (b.1935) worked as a film critic before beginning his directorial career in 1965. A number of themes recur in his films, the weight of history, a clinical examination of power, and a rejection of conventional narrative in favour of a fragmented one. But perhaps the most significant motif is that of the journey, usually a coming home, which represents for Angelopoulos a quest for identity. It is the journey that is particularly central the two films presented in this celebration of his masterful filmmaking.

Eternity and a Day || Ulysses' Gaze

6:30pm Wednesday 16 April

eternity and a day (m)

Dir. Theo Angelopoulos Greece/Germany/France/Italy 1998 138mins
As Alexandre, a celebrated Greek writer, prepares to leave his seaside home forever, he finds a letter from his long dead wife. Reading about an enchanted summers day spent with her, Alexandre realises that, after a life spent chasing after the words of poems and novels, all he wants is one final chance to capture the lost precious moments of true happiness, even if only for one day. Stars Bruno Ganz and Isabelle Renauld.

Winner Palm d’Or Cannes Film Festival 1998

4:00pm Sunday 20 April

ulysses' gaze (m)

Dir. Theo Angelopoulos Greece/Germany/France/Italy/UK 1995 176mins
A Greek-American filmmaker, known only as Mr. A, journeys across Eastern Europe in search of three lost film reels from the dawn of cinema. The images contained within, he believes, hold the key to lost innocence and essential truth. Internationally acclaimed for its stunning imagery and colossal scope, this is a compelling meditation on the fall of Communism and the conflict in the Balkans.

Winner Jury Grand Prix Cannes Film Festival 1995