Surplus Radical Bookshop and IFAA are honoured to host veteran Film Festival Director and Programmer Trevor Steele Taylor. Trevor will recollect his years in South African Film Festivals such as the Cape Town International Film Festival, the Weekly Mail & Guardian Film Festival, the Film Festival at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival and the early years of the Labia as it changed into an independent cinema in the mid-seventies.
Beyond merely a reminiscence, he will explain the roots of cinematic subversion which was intrinsic to the thinking behind film programming at the time. A commitment to a cinema outside of Industry, Main Stream Media, Entertainment, red carpets, awards and compliance. He will reference the work of film directors such as Lindsay Anderson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini and will emphasise the need for a cinema that is not allied to corporate thinking. Special attention will be given to British filmmaker Peter Watkins.