Geoffrey Jones: Snow, Rail, and Locomotion FILM SCREENING (FRaeE ENTRY but booking recommended)

Since the 1950s Geoffrey Jones has been making films that are rhythmic, frenzied, and accelerated. Join us at the IMA as we screen short films commissioned by British Transport Films: Snow (1963), Rail (1967), and Locomotion (1975). Edited with craft and intensely soundtracked, Geoffrey Jones creates a living, pulsing journey.

Snow was Geoffrey Jones’ first film for British Transport Films (BTF). Beginning as a slow throb, countryside railway stations and tracks are buried beneath mountains of snow and ice. The film’s pace increases exponentially with the workers clearing the tracks. Snowreceived over fourteen major awards upon its release, as well as an Oscar nomination in 1965.

In Rail, Geoffrey Jones elaborates the style, abstraction and excitement of his earlier film Snow with an astonishing tonal palette.

Locomotion is the third and final of Geoffrey Jones’s commissions for BTF. An extraordinary, accelerating montage, the film draws upon found footage to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, scored by Steeleye Span.

Jones’ films will be introduced by IMA Director, Robert Leonard.

Spaces are limited. Booking recommended.