Dear Future Film Festival 2023 is here!

Dear Future Film Festival returns for its third year of films and special events, this year on the theme of Lost and Found, says Annie Waite. Join the festival for short films, new releases, forest bathing, live music, performance and conversation, from 26 until 29 October at the Electric Palace cinema in Hastings.

Former director of the Electric Palace, Rebecca E Marshall, and the Dear Future team (including Clare Whistler and Rachel Pearson) will be displaying an exhibition of found objects from mudlarking and discoveries from the beach, available to view before every screening. Also part of the exhibition is a film installation with ancient Minoan figures and poetry.

“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,” says Rebecca E Marshall.

Dear Future Film Festival line up

Events run from Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 October 2023 at the Electric Palace cinema.

The Gleaners and I – Thursday 26 October, 11am

In this warm and witty film, Agnès Varda gathers together objects, ideas
and people to infuse a sense of care and beauty in what is usually
overlooked.

Scrap – Thursday 26 October, 7.30pm

A love letter to the things we use in our daily lives. This cinematic
documentary tells the stories of people who each have a connection to
objects that have reached their ‘end of life’. The film features a Kent-based collector of discarded red telephone boxes.

Live Music and Film: ‘Turning the Stones’ – Friday 27 October, 7.30pm

A special one-off live music and film collaboration between Liz Pearson (folk singer from the film The Nettle Dress) and filmmaker Rebecca E Marshall,
plus short films showing Hastings on screen through the decades, captured and edited by Glenn Veness.

A Year in a Field plus short film and live music – Saturday 28 October,
7.30pm

Weathering the elements in the centre of a field in West Cornwall is the
Longstone, a natural relic that has quietly witnessed 4,000 years of
tumultuous history. An elegiac, meditative, yet profoundly important film is
the record of a year in the life of the monolith, beginning on Winter Solstice 2020.

“The film is inspiring, uplifting and engaging . . . The film illuminates
the magic of nature and evokes a profound love for nature . . . Watching A Year in a Field is a transformative experience.” — Satish Kumar, founder, Schumacher College, and Editor Emeritus, Resurgence & Ecologist magazine.

Plus a short film by Rebecca E Marshall, accompanied with live music on
home-made instruments by local musician and illustrator Ed Boxall.

Finding Vivian Maier plus short film Travels from Home – Sunday
29 October, 11am

A critically acclaimed documentary about a mysterious nanny, who over the
course of five decades secretly took over 100,000 photographs. Vivian Maier
would further indulge in her passionate devotion to documenting the world
around her through home-made films, recordings and collections, assembling one of the most fascinating windows into American life in the second half of the twentieth century.

Plus a film made by Hastings-based husband and wife documentary makers
Dave and Nell Thomas, filmed in the local countryside.

Book online on the Electric Palace website or pay on the door: 39a High Street, Hastings Old Town.

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