Join us for a new season of community screenings at Morningside Library. We’ve put together an amazing programme of films that blend imagination, comedy and family stories.

• Where: Morningside Library (184 Morningside Road, Edinburgh, EH10 4PU)
• When:The first Tuesday of every month at 14:00
• FREE ENTRY

Accessibility:

• SDH captions
• English subtitles
• Wheelchair accessible

Next event will be on the 3rd of December

Volcano Cinema: Of Eruptions and Other Stories, a season showcasing the diverse ways volcanoes have been documented and reimagined through film. Displacing the central role of the disaster movie, the programme approaches volcanoes and their metaphoric power, from different landscapes, cultural mythologies, and with political potency and provocation.

Films:

🌋My Dad and the Volcano | Gavin Reid | 2024 | Scotland | 15’

Gavin built a giant volcano sculpture that’s now in his dad’s shed. Gavin seeks his dad’s understanding but he’s uninterested in modern art and refuses to participate in the documentary.

🌋Pompeia | Maria Castan de Manuel | 2022 | Spain | 10’

A young just-married couple enjoys their honeymoon in a Mediterranean paradise. Around them, the atmosphere keeps changing.

🌋Can A Mountain Recall? / Puede una montaña recordar | Delfina Carlota Vázquez | 2021 | México/Argentina | 20’

The diary of a period lived in Mexico and a portrait of Popocatepetl, an active volcano. During the conquest, the Mexican revolution, the uprising of the EZLN and today the feminist outbreak.

🌋Dark Paradise: Humans in Galápagos | Paul Rosero Contreras | 2016-19 | Ecuador | 18’

As an element that appeals strongly to the imagination, an island may be the incarnation of anti-nationalist dreams, primitive inspirations or the desire for isolation. Following their discovery in 1535, the Galapagos Islands remained largely uninhabited until 1832, when they were annexed to Ecuador. Contreras’s project investigates the first settlements in the archipelago as a paradigmatic social experiment. Dark Paradise brings together historical archeology and mythological narrative to develop a metaphor about resilient underwater species and their seemingly paradisiacal appearance.