Price
- £6.50 Full Price
- £5.50 Concessions
- £4.50 Student Members
Length
- 120
The camera is a fantastic machine. To explore, explain and expose how our unchecked obsession with image has grown, filmmakers Axel Danielson and Maximillien Van Aertryck turn their cameras directly on society itself to take a look at how this obsession has begun to change our behaviour.
From the Camera Obscura and the Lumière brothers to YouTube and the world of social media, Fantastic Machine chronicles how we went from capturing an initial image of a backyard to a multi-billion-pound content industry in just 200 years.
With exclusive use of both archival and found footage, this outstanding new film uses the very medium it examines in an exhilarating, hilarious and thought-provoking way.
Country: Denmark
Language: Arabic, French, German, Swedish (with English subtitles)
Talking Pictures
Join us in the bar after the Wednesday 15 May screening for Talking Pictures. Talking Pictures is a relaxed way to watch a new release and discuss it with other film lovers. Watch the screening and join us in the bar afterwards for an informal discussion led by a film expert.
Talking Pictures is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.
This searing and shocking examination of our popular culture, where content is king, is strongest when it scares the viewer
Robert Daniels, RobertEbert.com
Seeing is believing in Fantastic Machine, an entertaining, whistle-stop tour through two centuries of image-making from the first precious photograph to an era in which everyone is a potential ’content provider
Allan Hunter, Screen International
Danielson and Van Aertryck, through a flurry of fascinating images, make the sharp point that we need to get smarter about how we process what we see
Sean P. Means, The Movie Cricket
