Cinema at The Deptford Project

 

Urban cool meets outdoor cinema as The Deptford Project hosts its second season of Silent Cinema as part of their regular Summer events programme. In its inaugural year Silent Cinema @ The Deptford Project proved to be of London’s most unusual, exciting and popular movie experiences. Due to demand, this year the run has been extended to four weekends in July and August, with each featuring films themed around 80’s Classics, Sci-Fi Alien Invasion, Americana and Weepies. Highlights include Coppola’s brilliant coming-of-age movie ‘The Outsiders’, starring a baby-faced and almost unrecognizable Tom Cruise, Brat Pack classic, the nostalgia and heartthrob-tastic ‘St Elmo’s Fire’, Ridley Scott’s Oscar winning Sci-Fi horror ‘Alien’ and the ultimate tear-jerker ‘Beaches’.

Located next to Deptford station, only six minutes from London Bridge, The Deptford Project (TDP) is one of the capital’s creative gems. As well as housing London’s famous railway carriage café, it is home to a group of creatives-in-residence who are based in studios within TDP’s railway arches.  The community is a collaborative one and this year resident designers, Jamie Elliot and Liam Healy of Jail Make and textile up-cyclers, Crafty Bitches, have again contributed to the Silent Cinema experience by building the screen, furniture and British-weather-proof canopy. Jail Make’s innovative and eco-friendly palette chairs have been redesigned to make them even more movie friendly and Crafty Bitches have hand-made unique and event-specific cushions and fabrics making the whole experience comfortable and beautiful. They will also be creating specially commissioned hankies, which will be gifted to the Weepy Weekend audience!

Throughout the screening season, the Deptford Project team will again be running their delicious barbeque and this year the food, which is made using fresh ingredients grown onsite by the collective, will be customized to suit each weekend’s theme. Mega- burgers and coke-floats that any red-blooded American would be proud of, ‘Salty Tears’ pop-corn and comfort food to help you through ‘Terms of Endearment’ and ‘Space Dust’ Ice-Cream anyone? Enjoy a meal before or during the film, the soundtrack is run through headsets so you can fully immerse yourself and you won't miss a second of the movie grabbing a snack or popping to the loo. 

Silent Cinema provides the perfect private-public cinema experience - It's like enjoying a movie at home only you're in a big group.  You can laugh, crunch and scream as loud as you like - in Silent Cinema no one can hear you! 

 

DATE	FILM	DOORS OPEN	FILM BEGINS
80’s Classics Weekend
14.07.11	St Elmo’s Fire	7pm	9.15pm
15.07.11	Pretty Woman	7pm	9.15pm
15.07.11	Dirty Dancing	7pm	9.15pm
Sci-Fi Alien Invasion Weekend
21.07.11	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	7pm	9.15pm
22.07.11	Total Recall	7pm	9.15pm
23.07.11	Alien	7pm	9.15pm
Americana Weekend
28.07.11	Easy Rider	7pm	9.15pm
29.07.11	The Outsiders	7pm	9.15pm
30.07.11	Grease	7pm	9.15pm
Weepy Weekend
11.08.11	Terms of Endearment	7pm	9pm
12.08.11	Brokeback Mountain	7pm	9pm
13.08.11	Beaches	7pm	9pm

 

For all further information, press enquiries please contact Danielle Bridgland D.Bridgland@cathedralgroup.com number 0207 939 0800