Events

An award-winning documentary that uses the cargo bike as the vehicle for exploring parenthood in this digital age of climate change. 

Motherload is a crowdsourced documentary about a new mom's quest to understand and promote the cargo bike movement in a gas-powered, digital and divided world. As Liz explores the burgeoning global movement to replace cars with purpose-built bikes, she learns about the bicycle's history and potential future as the ultimate "social revolutioniser." Her experiences as a cyclist, as a mother, and in discovering the cargo bike world, teach Liz that sustainability is not necessarily about compromise and sacrifice and there are few things more empowering, in an age of consumption, than the ability to create everything from what seems to be nothing. Motherload features unconventional production methods (including crowdsourcing from non-filmmakers), genre-bending storytelling (experimental/personal/doc), and themes of movement-building, activism and courage to "go against the grain."

This screening is organised by Women in Tandem, a women-led, Nottingham-based bike collective committed to breaking down barriers and creating spaces for women to thrive and opportunities to access cycling. Join us for the discussion after the film!

This is a screening by Jackie Treehorn Productions, an independent film club showcasing a large variety of films throughout Nottingham.

A puritan Police Sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl who the townsfolk claim never existed; stranger still are the pagan rites that take place there.

The film follows the real-life struggle of converting the UK’s first fishing boat to solar and electric power to fish at a competitive and commercial level. 

It's set on Scotland’s West coast in the scenic and alluring Argyll village of Tayvallich. Over the course of almost a year it runs with the highs, lows and challenges related to the venture as well as the determination and skillset of the builder and skipper. 

The young local director Joe Osborn has skilfully engrained the seasonal moods, the strong local community spirit and the Argyll way of doing things into a compelling story of our times. One fisherman’s conviction towards the carbon free future we all need to embrace. A small film, but a powerful one.

Find out more about their story at
https://itllneverwork.boats/our-story/our-story

This is a screening by Jackie Treehorn Productions, an independent film club showcasing a large variety of films throughout Nottingham.

An American actor Bob, lands in Tokyo for an ad film and ends up meeting Charlotte, who's left behind by her photographer husband. Gradually, the two discover a friend within each other.

This is a screening by Porlock Press, an independent Nottingham-based film club showing a wide range of cult film, with a focus on animation of all kinds. 

A young couple resort to extreme and unconventional measures to bring a ‘child’ into their lives, with bizarre and deadly consequences! Director Jan Švankmajer blends live action and stop-motion animation to great effect in this absurd and darkly comic story, inspired by the Czech fairy tale Otesánek. 

"Rivals The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, and Eraserhead as a disturbing treatise on the fear of parenthood.” - The New York Times