Thursday 28 March 2013

Learning and Events Somerset House- April
Somerset house
© British Film Institute
April 2013
We’re delighted to have an accompanying programme of workshops, tours and films for the critically-acclaimed Landmark: the Fields of Photography, a wide-ranging and ground-breaking exhibition featuring more than 70 of the world’s most highly regarded photographers.
For families
Playing Fields
Saturday 13 April
12.00–15:00
Meet at Seamen's Hall Info Desk, South Wing
Free
From sublime skyscrapers to ridiculous rivers, we’ll be collaging custom-made landscapes in this drop-in workshop inspired by theLandmark: the Fields of Photography exhibition. For families with accompanied children aged 6-12.
For adults
Landmark Spotlight Tours
Thursdays until 25 April
13:15-13:45
East Wing Galleries, East Wing
Free
Edward Burtysnky ‘Nickel Tailings no. 34’ © Ed Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier, Toronto/Flowers, London
Join a member of the Learning Team for a spotlight tour aroundLandmark: the Fields of Photography. We’ll be taking a look at some of the ideas and stories that have shaped this exhibition, examining the changes that are happening to our environment.
Exhibitions on Film
© British Film Institute
Red Desert
Saturday 6 April
14.00-16:00
Screening Room, South Wing
Tickets £8
Legendary Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni brings a haunting landscape of factories and power plants to life in this story of a wife’s isolation in a lonely and fast-changing world. Starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris. Cert 15. 
Stalker
Saturday 13 April
14.00–16.40

Screening Room, South Wing
Tickets £8
Two men are guided through a wasteland by the enigmatic Stalker into the forbidden ‘Zone.’ Andrei Tarkovsky’s retelling of the sci-fi novel Roadside Picnicremains as breath-taking as it did upon its 1979 release.
Cert PG.
© The Ronald Grant Archive