A Dream on the Screen

A Gerald Fox film

Book Tickets

Thursday 28 November

Film

Opening Times

6.15pm

Venue

The Ultimate Picture Palace, Jeune Street, Oxford, OX4 1BN

Tickets

FREE, booking required

Age Rating

All

Performances

6.15pm

A feature-length documentary that celebrates the centenary of the "dream film" in cinema, exploring their rise during the silent film era of the 1920s and concluding with Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon in 1943.

Told through the eyes of the late Harvard film professor Vlada Petric, the film references dynamic early directors, (many later becoming the most celebrated in cinema history, including Renoir, Lang, and Eisenstein), who were obsessed with the formal possibilities of film, as a means to convey dreams, that has never really been surpassed.

The documentary itself mirrors a cinematic dream, with actor Goran Kostić guiding us through this innovative period, blending recreated black-and-white sequences with film clips to evoke the oneiric nature of early cinema.

Gerald Fox is a filmmaker and artist who has won major awards throughout his career for his films about the world’s leading contemporary artists including Gilbert and George, Claes Oldenburg, Christian Boltanski, Marc Quinn, Gerhard Richter, Robert Frank and Bill Viola.

Directed, Produced and Scripted by Gerald Fox

Co-Produced and Researched by Dasha Cowley

Edited by Dasha Cowley and Gerald Fox

Director of Photography Doug Hartington

Plan your visit

Address

The Ultimate Picture Palace, Jeune Street, Oxford, OX4 1BN

Core Visitor Information

Based just off Cowley Road, the Ultimate Picture Palace is easy to find. There is no off street parking, so we recommend a car free visit if possible. However, there are two blue badge disabled parking spaces directly opposite the cinema. The number 1 and 5 bus from Oxford city centre stop right outside and there are numerous bike parks very close by.

Opening Times

We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts.

We don’t show adverts, just a couple of trailers, so don’t be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!

Accessibility

Our Grade II listed building has its challenges when it comes to accessibility, but we have put measures in place to ensure that we are an inclusive place for everyone.

Is the cinema auditorium accessible to wheelchair users?
Yes. The auditorium and box office is on street level. Book tickets as normal through the website and then email us on info@uppcinema.com to let us know that you require a wheelchair space and if you need to reserve a seat for a personal assistant.

Do you have accessible toilets?
We don’t have currently accessible toilets on site. The toilets in our listed building are below the screen down a few steps. However, if you do need to use an accessible toilet during your visit, please speak to a member of staff and they will let you into an accessible toilet in the church just opposite the cinema.

Do you show films with hard-of-hearing subtitles?
We always try to show at least one or two screenings per week with deaf/HOH subtitles. Please consult the listings for more info.

Creative Team

Gerald Fox

Gerald Fox is a BAFTA, Grierson, Royal Television Society, Prix Italia, Chicago Gold Bear, Golden Prague and FIFA Grand Prize award winning maker of arts films about all the disciplines including visual arts, film, music and dance. For many years he worked for The South Bank Show on ITV and for Channel 4 but more recently for BBC Imagine and Sky Arts.

His films have also played at many major film festivals including Rotterdam and TriBeCa and at museums internationally including MOMA, the Tate, the Met, the Pompidou Centre and the Uffizi. Several have also been released theatrically in cinemas including his most recent Janine Jansen: Falling for Stradivari. Fox is also a visual artist with past gallery shows in London, Venice, Edinburgh and Montreal and was until recently was the Member Governor of the BFI.