Lanterna Magicka
Length: 60 Minutes
Director: Sean Martin, Louise Milne

What many people do not know about Bill Douglas was that he was also a passionate collector of cinema memorabilia and pre-cinema optical devices. He used early optical devices to magical effect in his final film, Comrades. Lanterna Magicka recounts the story of Douglas's collection, the making of Comrades and the remarkable legacy Douglas left us with. This documentary explores the poetic vision expressed in that film and in his astonishing collection of pre-cinema artifacts.

The directors will be in attendance for a Q&A session after the showing.


Intent On Getting The Image
Length: 65 Minutes
Director: Andy Kimpton-Nye
In career spanning nearly 20 years, Bill Douglas only made 4 films, three of which were shorts. Yet he was highly acclaimed, winning the Silver Bear at Venice for his first film, garnering praise from the likes of Lindsay Anderson, Francois Truffaut and Satyjit Ray, and picking up the 'film of the year award' in a poll in the Independent newspaper for Comrades. This documentary explores Bill Douglas’s remarkable struggle from childhood poverty to becoming a truly great, and unique, filmmaker.