I am in the unusual position of covering two concurrent film festivals, albeit 346 miles apart. Yesterday I attended the first day of BFMAF, which is running through Sunday. This year for the first time the festival is staging relaxed screenings, so I spent much of the day sitting in the town hall under the watchful gaze of Queen Victoria! She was not amused.
Although I missed the final screening, I did catch the first three, which included Shari Frilot's Black Nations/Queer Nations?, Cece Wyss's All Good Medicine, Jenny Brady's The Glass Booth and Rehana Zeman's Soft Fruit, which were documentaries of various vintages, as well as the highly experimental Q-Loxx and a live performance by Roy Claire Potter.
Being in the relaxed screening room meant we did not get the Q&As that accompanied the other screenings and Potter's performance was streamed as audio + captions, which I found quite interesting. I actually viewed that one lying on one of the cushions and it gave a different flavour to the experience.
But I did not detect any real differences in the relaxed screening, although there were options to move around, speak or visit a chill-out space. It's good to have options.
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival continues through 22 March.
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