Nairn Film Festival: The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams

[Muban]

Well it isn't quite Cannes but having been called the Riviera of the North I think Nairn will do just nicely. This month sees Nairn having it's very own film festival.

Originally Posted by The Ballerina Ballroom

A while ago, on an impulse, a quixotic seizure, Tilda Swinton rented a ballroom in an old Victorian stone building in Nairn in the North East of Scotland, a seaside town where Chaplin used to holiday and which has a balmy microclimate and vistas across the Moray Firth to the Black Isle, Cromarty and Sutherland. The ballroom is called Ballerina......

After renting the Ballerina, Tilda emailed Mark Cousins to ask if he’d help her put on a film festival in it. As quixotic as she, he said yes. Tilda took Mark to see the place – they were making a wee film about being 8 1/2 and falling in love with cinema – and he loved it and so, together, they dreamt up a festival of beanbags on the floor, that would run 8 1/2 days, that would be a 6 out of ten on the grunge scale, that would serve home-made cakes and fish finger sandwiches, whose tickets would be £3/£2, and that would transform the Ballerina into something like a ghost train...

So I have my tickets booked to see 'High and Low' as I am rather fond of a good Kurosawa/Mifune film. Well, it would just seem improper not to go when it's only 8 doors up I am feeling lazy, however, so I bought the tickets instead of baking cakes

[Feek]

Saw that on the Beeb website a couple of weeks ago (as you well know!), it sounds like a lot of fun, quaint and interesting and as you say as it's only 8 doors away you really must go.