Short Films Evening

Tickets

Tickets from £20, including CAST Café supper from 6pm £20

Location

CAST, Helston

Dates

Thu 1st October, 2026
6:00 pm |
CAST Café supper from 6pm | Introduction and screening, after supper, from around 7.15pm

About this event

An evening of short films introduced by Ben Rivers.

Artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers creates intimate portrayals of solitary beings or isolated communities, using a documentary style as a starting point from which to imagine alternative narratives and existences in marginal worlds.

Ben Rivers’s new feature film Mare’s Nest follows a young girl called Moon, who travels through a mysterious world free of adults. The film is currently touring the South West and will be shown at several cinemas in Cornwall in the days leading up to Rivers’s visit to Helston.

For this special evening at CAST, Ben Rivers has put together a selection of rarely seen short films (including one of his own) that reflect on childhood experiences in different ways. He will introduce the films and there will be an opportunity for questions following the screenings.

The House is Black, 1963 – Forugh Farrokhzad (22 min)

Ah, Liberty!, 2008 – Ben Rivers (19 min)

The Horse, 1973 – Charles Burnett (14 min)

CAST Café supper from 6pm, followed by the screening
Tickets from £20, booking essential – https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/an-evening-of-short-films-introduced-by-ben-rivers

Contact

https://castcornwall.art/

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