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Bergman Island (15)
Cinema 1 Summerhall, EdinburghBergman Island is a drama film in which a filmmaking couple visit the Swedish island retreat where Ingmar Bergman lived and worked.
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DR. WHO CLASSIC MOVIE DOUBLE BILL (PG)
Cinema 1 Summerhall, EdinburghLovingly restored and remastered in 4K we are delighted to reveal a first look at the artwork and trailer for our Dr. Who: Classic Movie Double Bill this July. Directed by Gordon Flemyng, featuring the legendary Peter Cushing as everyone’s favourite timelord and also starring Roy Castle, Bernard Cribbins, Jennie Linden and Roberta Tovey. Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
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Screen Horizons
Paris 1900/paris mil neuf cent (PG)
Cinema 1 Summerhall, EdinburghConsidered a tour-de-force of editing, featuring excerpts from over 700 films, Paris 1900 is a fascinating glimpse of a bygone era. Step back in time to the French capital at the beginning of the 20th century, and the final years of La Belle Époque.
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Screen Horizons
Gallant Indies/indes galantes
Cinema 1 Summerhall, EdinburghThirty dancers from hip-hop, break, vogue, and other non-traditional genres descend on Paris’s legendary Opéra Bastille to reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes. Intense, mesmerising, energetic and a powerful ode to life and art – this is an inspiring documentary, unmissable.
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432 Presents
Richard Dawson + Circle
Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United KingdomA Northumbrian singer/songwriter with a flair for shambolic psych-folk and exploratory rock, Richard Dawson became a fixture in the underground folk scene with his distinctive blend of traditional English folk music.
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Bergman Island (15)
Cinema 1 Summerhall, EdinburghBergman Island is a drama film in which a filmmaking couple visit the Swedish island retreat where Ingmar Bergman lived and worked.
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All My Friends Hate Me (15)
Cinema 1 Summerhall, EdinburghALL MY FRIENDS HATE ME is a psychological drama concerning a man whose friends seemingly turn against him on a college reunion weekend.
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Good Luck To You Leo Grande (15)
Cinema 1 Summerhall, EdinburghGOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE is a British drama film in which Nancy, a 55-year-old widow, meets with a sexworker in search of sexual fulfillment, but comes across something so much more.
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lonely carp
KATABASIS: an underworld opera
Demonstration Roomlonely carp’s studio debut, funded by Help Musicians UK, is a concept album curated as a gripping descent to the underworld. ‘KATABASIS: an underworld opera’ progresses through seven movements of coalescing mythology, each more intense than the last.
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Good Luck To You Leo Grande (15)
Cinema 1 Summerhall, EdinburghGOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE is a British drama film in which Nancy, a 55-year-old widow, meets with a sexworker in search of sexual fulfillment, but comes across something so much more.
Exhibition, Late/Club Nights, Music
Focus Skate Shop
Focus x Carhartt WIP Launch Party
Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United KingdomSkateboarding, music and a celebration of 21 years of Focus.
Music
lonely carp
KATABASIS: an underworld opera
Demonstration Roomlonely carp’s studio debut, funded by Help Musicians UK, is a concept album curated as a gripping descent to the underworld. ‘KATABASIS: an underworld opera’ progresses through seven movements of coalescing mythology, each more intense than the last.
Exhibition, Late/Club Nights, Music, Theatre
Summerhall Festival 2022
Summerhall 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United KingdomSummerhall’s programme for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 is now live!
Summerhall is a space for everyone. Whether you’re engaging with our performance programme, partying at one of our club nights, grabbing a drink in the pub, or simply soaking up the atmosphere in our hidden courtyard, there is something at Summerhall for you to explore, discover and enjoy this August.
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Los Bitchos
Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United KingdomPanthers prowling through a desert. Cowgirls swaggering into a saloon and kicking up dust. Riding shotgun with a Tarantino heroine. Having the fiesta of your lives under a giant piñata with all your friends. Los Bitchos’ hallucinatory surf-exotica is as evocative as it is playful: the London-based pan-continental group could well be your new favourite
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Nothing Ever Happens Here
Cate Le Bon
Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United KingdomThe past few years have seen Le Bon emerge as a much lauded and sought-after collaborator, producing albums for contemporaries such as Deerhunter (Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?), John Grant (Boy from Michigan), and forthcoming albums from both Devendra Banhart and H. Hawkline. She’s not so much a gun for hire as a multi-faceted artist
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Richard Demarco
Main HallRichard Demarco was blessed by his personal experience of the Edinburgh Festival and that is every Festival since 1947. In this year celebrating them75th anniversary, he will speak about his personal experiences of every Festival, including the very first when attended the world premiere of ‘The Thrie Estaites’ directed by Tyrone Guthrie in the Church
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Nothing Ever Happens Here
Tune-Yards
Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United KingdomThe duo of Merill Garbus and Nate Brenner, tUnE-yArDs combines soulful vocals, unusual percussion, and trenchant social commentary into uniquely vibrant music.
Their 2021 album Sketchy., builds on the introspective feel of their previous work with an energetic, dynamic approach.
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Nothing Ever Happens Here
Efterklang
Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United KingdomFor over twenty years, Efterklang have been pushing the barriers of experimental, electronic, emotional chamber-pop. Announcing their sixth studio album Windflowers, their first for City Slang, the Danish trio of Mads Brauer, Rasmus Stolberg and Casper Clausen continue a creative journey that’s brought them closer together, even as their lives grow apart. Channelling the motifs of hope and change its namesake flora represents, the album sees their many years of collaboration and experimentation distilled into some of their most concise, most direct and confidently Efterklang-style pop songs to date.
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432 Presents
Deerhoof
Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United KingdomOne of the most acclaimed acts of the early 21st century, Deerhoof mix vibrant melodies, noise, and an experimental spirit into utterly distinctive music. Their approach was so singular that they could explore any style or influence — from classic rock to classical music — and make it sound purely Deerhoof.
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432 Presents
The Weather Station + Circuit De Yeux
Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United KingdomIgnorance, the critically acclaimed album by the The Weather Station, begins enigmatically; a hissing hi hat, a stuttering drum beat. A full minute passes before the entry of Tamara Lindeman’s voice, gentle, conversational, intoning; “I never believed in the robber”. A jagged music builds, with stabbing strings, saxophone, and several layers of percussion, and the
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CREATOR & PERFORMER - SARAH HOPFINGER. MUSIC COMPOSITION - ALICIA JANE TURNER.
Pain and I (Audio)
OnlineWhat does it mean to care for our bodies, ourselves, and each other in times of personal and collective pain? Pain and I is a bold exploration into chronic pain experience by Sarah Hopfinger, which unashamedly celebrates the rich complexities of living with pain.
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My Old School + Q&A (15)
Cinema 1 Summerhall, EdinburghIn 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend. Brandon had been privately tutored in Canada while he accompanied his mother, an opera diva, on tour before her tragic death. The preternaturally bright student surprised