14.01.2016
Christ Church to Hold Social Justice Film Series
In a new departure this February, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin will screen a series of films based on a social justice theme.
The showings will take place in the recently refurbished music room, entered via the dean’s gate at the top of Lord Edward Street. Admission is free and all are most welcome. Wine and refreshments will also be available.
Four films will be shown in all, on each Monday in February at 7.30pm. The series will open with a classic; ’12 Angry Men’, the 1957 film concerning the jury of a homicide trial. Appropriately, it will be introduced on Monday 1 February by barrister and film buff, Dermot Manning.
The second film, ‘CItizenfour’, to be shown on Monday 8 February, is a topical documentary made in 2014 concerning Edward Snowden’s revelations of the abuse of power and trampling of privacy rights by intelligence agencies all over the world. It will be introduced by Dr TJ McIntyre, a lecturer in law at University College Dublin and the chairman of Digital Rights Ireland.
The third Monday, 15 February, will see the screening of ’Persepolis’ , a 2007 film based on Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about her life in pre and post–revolutionary Iran and then in Europe. It will be introduced by a cathedral canon, the Revd Patrick Comerford, who is a former Foreign Desk editor at the Irish Times.
The series will conclude on Monday 22 February with the iconic 1966 film, ‘Cathy Come Home’, concerning homelessness. Directed by Ken Loach in a gritty documentary style, it will be introduced by Mike Allen, Director of Advocacy at Focus Ireland.
For any queries about the series, please contact the cathedral education officer, Ruth Kenny at ruth@christchurch.ie
Details of the series will be available online at www.christchurchcathedral.ie