DEAR FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL 2023
LOST + FOUND
26 - 29 October 2023
This year's festival is a gathering of films and special events on the theme of LOST + FOUND, taking place at The Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings, East Sussex.
Rebecca E Marshall, Clare Whistler and Rachel Pearson are your hosts. We warmly invite you to join us for this array of shorts, features, a woodland walk, live music, performance, conversation and other small findings along the way.
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"We're shining a light on pieces of beauty and everyday strangeness discovered with closer and slower looking. Forgotten or overlooked scraps gathered together to think what can be reused, remade or left behind"
- Rebecca
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Dear Future Film Festival 2023 is a partnership with The Electric Palace Cinema.
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Festival Programme
Exhibition of film, poetry and found objects
Come and explore our LOST + FOUND Exhibition, available for half an hour before the start of each event at the Electric Palace Cinema:
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Table top museum of curious collections
Rachel Pearson shares her personal archaeology of treasured items found mostly through beachcombing and mudlarking.
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Lost + Found collage paintings and under-stair film projection
Rebecca E Marshall's film and paintings draw together a collection of Ancient Minoan creatures who have washed up in a new world.
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Lost + Found
Poems
Clare Whistler invites you to each join her for a five minute interview to create a poem about something LOST to give back something FOUND.
Screenings and Events
The Marks We Leave - Forest Bathing workshop
Sat 28 October - 1.30pm - 4.30pm
Participatory event at Powdermill Wood
Head to Powdermill Wood to immerse yourself in a guided woodland meditation using the Shinrin Yoku techniques.
For more information email: dearfuturefilms@gmail.com
12 spaces available: £10 per person
A Year in a Field Plus 'The Marks We Leave'
Saturday 28 October - 7.30pm
A meditation on the passage of time through highlighting nature and the subtle changes of the seasons, plus a live film mix made with footage filmed during the afternoon 'forest bathing' session aaccompanied by live music from Ed Boxall.
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TICKETS £9/10 AND £5 UNDER 21
Finding Vivian Maier
Plus 'Travels from Home'
Sunday 29 October - 11am
See the world through the eyes of a mysterious nanny, who chronicled the lives of the families she worked with through 100,000 secret photos, discovered many years after they were taken. PLUS 'Travels from Home' - a portrait of photographer Roff Smith as he travels by bicycle to discover a new love of Hastings' landscapes and the surrounding countryside.
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TICKETS £9/10 AND £5 UNDER 21
