3pm, Sunday 12th November 2023. £10
Fabrica, 40 Duke St, Brighton BN1 1AG.


As part of the BFI's Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger season, we present a touring expanded screening of the aclaimed 'Black Narcissus', the 1947 British psychological drama film written, produced, and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu and David Farrar.

Based on Rumer Godden's 1939 novel of the same name, the film is set in an old Indian palace situated high in the Himalayas where a small convent of Anglican sisters are trying to establish a school and hospital. Our multi-sensory presentation will augment the unfolding narrative and the Academy Award winning cinematography of Jack Cardiff.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Luci Holland
luciholland.com

31st Oct 2023 to 6th January 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Generative animation by Aberdeen-born composer and conductor Luci Holland representing the phases of activity our brain's experience during sleep, created in partnership with neuroscience researcher Narelle Freeman, who is also a musician. Neurological and diary data become a liquid dreamscape, visualising the five stages of human sleep.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Bright Side Studios
brightsidestudios.co.uk

9th Jan to 30th March 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

German scientist Ernst Chladni (1756-1827) was a pioneer of experimental acoustics. One of his inventions was a technique to study the motions of vibrating metal plates. In this exploration of 'Cymatics', the science of visualising audio frequencies, Bright Side Studios will reveal the visual patterns of audio by experimenting with a Chlandi Plate.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Andrey Chugunov
andreychugunov.com

5th Sept to 28th Oct 2023. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

This project explores the coastal areas of Scotland where industrial and natural structures have become interwoven. These areas, where life began the evolutionary journey from ocean to land, are at risk due to rising water levels. This anthropogenic impact on the coast is highlighted by the artist via photogrammetry of the emerging assemblages.

Production Awards

• Donna Leishman
  Magna Marina
• Frances Priest with Sam Healy
  Imbrication
• Nina Stanger
  Merge
• Robert Powell with Louise Wild
  Chronoscope
• Theodore Koterwas
  ...in place of what is here and endures.

For details of our last Atmosphere click here.

Atmosphere is our most popular research and event programme. First premiered at the 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival, it re-imagines the concept of Atmospheric movie theaters from the 1920s and 30s.

Each expanded screening uses a team of guest artists and creatives to work with technology old and new, multi-sensory interactives and live elements too. Expect some smoke and mirrors, before the bells and whistles.