The Working Class Movement Library is running its first film festival starting on Tuesday. In keeping with the Library's eclectic collections there are a range of screenings with a radical history flavour and some interesting tie-ins to Salford and Manchester. All the screenings are free.
Tuesday 14 May 2 pm - Australian union films. The Waterside Workers’ Federation was the only union in the world to fund a film unit. It tackled subjects that commercial filmmakers would not.
Wednesday 15 May 2 pm - The Condition of the Working Class, a new documentary followed by a Q&A session with directors Michael Wayne and Deirdre O'Neill.
Thursday 16 May 7 pm – The White Bus. A prelude to director Lindsay Anderson's acclaimed If, this little-seen 1967 film has a screenplay by Shelagh Delaney. And Salford's streets and people play an important, if surreal, role.
Friday 17 May 7 pm - Museums at Night event. The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott. An invitation to celebrate the start of Museums at Night weekend with late opening at the Library. From 7 pm browse the exhibition about critic, historian and activist E.P. Thompson`s classic text The Making of the English Working Class on its 50th anniversary. At 7.30 a showing of Luke Fowler's new film, which reflects on Thompson's life and times. Glasgow artist Fowler was shortlisted for the Turner Prize last year for his work exploring the boundaries of documentary film-making.
See you at WCML, 51 The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WX.
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