Margy Kinmonth’s film Hermitage Revealed will be broadcast on Arte France on 19th December at 8:05 pm in an evening of Russian culture and history.
ARTE France Screens Hermitage Revealed
The Legacy of War Art
In association with Viking.TV, Foxtrot Films commemorates Remembrance Day 2021 with a talk by film director Margy Kinmonth about the making of “WAR ART with Eddie Redmayne”.
Livestream on Wednesday 10 November 7pm GMT and available on demand below:
https://viking.tv/live/wednesday/the-legacy-of-war-art-with-filmmaker-margy-kinmonth
Post pandemic “in person” film festivals return, with a major Female Visions Retrospective, screening “To the Western World” at 66th CIFF
Female Visions at 66th Cork International Film Festival
All the young girls are goin’ to America at 17, but they don’t like the life and come home… Many have worked in factories and lose their health. Here girls are robust…
As part of the Female Visions strand, the 66th Cork International Film Festival are excited to present this special screening in a series of films made by women: To the Western World.
To the Western World written, produced and directed by Margy Kinmonth, is a dramatised documentary which reconstructs a journey made by two Irishmen across famine stricken Connemara in 1905. John Millington Synge and Jack B. Yeats were sent by the Manchester Guardian to report on the “Congested Districts”, the barren, over-populated and most poverty-stricken parts of the West of Ireland. Narrated by John Huston.
Showings
Sun, Nov 7th, 2021 with Q and A.
12:30 PM @ Triskel Cinema, Cork
Margy Kinmonth on the remarkable life and legacy of Grinling Gibbons
I’ve just been to see the show of Grinling Gibbons exhibition at Compton Verney. The State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg had agreed to lend their important portrait of the celebrated Grinling Gibbons by Godfrey Kneller, but it couldn’t be sent due to Covid and the current Brexit import difficulties. Escalating transport costs and problems with freight are now making these international art loans, which we had enjoyed in the past, extremely difficult today. Some carvings of Grinling Gibbons appear in “Hermitage Revealed” my feature documentary which encapsulates the story of Russian history within the State Hermitage Museum.
My film tells how Catherine the Great purchased the Walpole collection from Houghton Hall in 1779, for her own picture collection, which is why so many of the works are now in Russia. Luckily for Compton Verney, the National Portrait Gallery have stepped in by loaning a substitution of their own Gibbons portrait for the big anniversary exhibition.
Read full article by Margy Kinmonth: GRINLING GIBBONS IS ALIVE AND WELL AND STILL IN ST PETERSBURG published in Russian Art + Culture on 27 September 2021.
Secret Policeman out of Lockdown
Remember the Secret Policeman’s Ball directed by Margy Kinmonth and produced by Roger Graef, a BBC Arena Special, Films of Record Production in association with Amnesty International, is showing on BBC4 on Tuesday 21st September 2021 at 22.30.
Watch a clip below:
