Manchester Film Festival 2016

The Manchester Film Festival’s objective is to champion great story telling that translates brilliantly onto the screen. The inaugural festival took place last year and the second edition will run from March the 3rd to March the 6th 2016 in venues across the city centre…. Read more »

Nico Vascellari at the Whitworth Gallery

Italian artist Nico Vascellari occupies the Whitworth’s Landscape Gallery. Visitors are invited to explore the haunting installation Bus de la Lum (‘Hole of Light’), which draws on the arcane powers of the forest and suggests the deep secrets within it. Vascellari also connects us to… Read more »

Ben Rivers at the Whitworth Gallery

The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers is Ben Rivers’ most ambitious work to date. Migrating between documentary, fantasy and fable, and shot against the dramatic Moroccan landscape, the films are a compelling adaptation of A Distant Episode, Paul Bowles’ savage and brutal short story of… Read more »

Kinofilm Festival

2016 sees the 13th Edition of Kinofilm – Manchester’s International Short Film Festival – and a series of screenings will be hosted at various city centre venues between the 22nd and the 28th of February. Expect a fantastic range of awarding winning short films and… Read more »

The Imitation Game at Manchester Art Gallery

The Imitation Game is an exhibition by eight international contemporary artists, who explore the theme of machines and the imitation of life. The title is inspired by Alan Turing’s Turing Test, which was devised to determine whether a computer had the ability to imitate human… Read more »