https://mydylarama.org.uk/ en SPIP - www.spip.net https://mydylarama.org.uk/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH37/siteon0-6ddb5.png?1773223120 https://mydylarama.org.uk/ 37 144 https://mydylarama.org.uk/Day-3-N21-festival.html https://mydylarama.org.uk/Day-3-N21-festival.html 2012-06-18T20:41:56Z text/html en Kerry Gilfillan The N21 Film festival has a DIY, unpretentious feel, staging its screenings in scout halls and churches in the dark outer-reaches of north London. Greying scout masters serve the wine, and eats take the shape of red fairy cakes with coiffures curling an inch high. Most of the screenings are accompanied by film-maker talks. Last night was a Future Shorts screening with enjoyable pieces from Scotland and Korea, dealing with lost Vikings and adulterous parents respectively. Wednesday and (…) - <a href="https://mydylarama.org.uk/-Festivals-and-Events-.html" rel="directory">Festivals and Events</a> <div class='rss_texte'><p>The N21 Film festival has a DIY, unpretentious feel, staging its screenings<br class='autobr' /> in scout halls and churches in the dark outer-reaches of north London.<br class='autobr' /> Greying scout masters serve the wine, and eats take the shape of red fairy<br class='autobr' /> cakes with coiffures curling an inch high. Most of the screenings are<br class='autobr' /> accompanied by film-maker talks. Last night was a Future Shorts screening<br class='autobr' /> with enjoyable pieces from Scotland and Korea, dealing with lost Vikings<br class='autobr' /> and adulterous parents respectively. Wednesday and Thursday will show award-winning films about urban isolation and village nostalgia.</p> <p>The festival is run by John Stewart, who works with Reel Islington, a filmcharity that runs monthly film clubs, and Ellie Phillips, a recent MA film grad. The festival's general theme has to do with the problematic<br class='autobr' /> transition from village to suburb and its associated losses and gains.<br class='autobr' /> Arguably, arts activity is one of the casualties as once-particular<br class='autobr' /> villages become indistinct suburbs and London's magnetic force draws<br class='autobr' /> resident creatives out of their original neighbourhoods leaving those<br class='autobr' /> neighbourhoods all the more indistinct. N21 is nostalgic for an earlier<br class='autobr' /> time, and initiatives like it might actually effect some sort of<br class='autobr' /> rejuvenation of local identity in a backlash yearning for the quaint and<br class='autobr' /> communal on the shores of London's anonymous seas.</p></div>