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Caroline Catz�۪s film explores the life and creative output of Coventry born Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) ��� electronic musician, sound pioneer and female outsider in post-war Britain. She worked at the BBC�۪s Radiophonic workshop (1962-73) where she created the iconic Dr Who theme tune, which she remained uncredited for in her lifetime. Delia was both emblematic of her generation of women, whilst also a complete one off.

Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and then legendary Tapes tells Delia�۪s story through two archives, the first, a collection of lost works, 267 reels of quarter inch magnetic tape recordings of Delia�۪s work found in her attic after her death and another discovered in Delia�۪s childhood bedroom during recent renovations that revealed her school books, paintings and keepsakes. Her struggle with alcoholism, frustrations at her contribution been downplayed in a predominantly male work place as well as her intense artistic collaborations and life on the fringes of relationships are explored in the film ��� all of these themes collapse into sound, texture and harmonies.

This is a portrait of Delia made through a mix of observation and imagination. It explores the idea that no single perspective would be sufficient to gain a true understanding of Delia
replacing the solidity of biography and a biopic style with something that is more lyrical. Its playful, psychedelic mix, utilises archival materials, interviews with her collaborators and
dramatisations whilst honouring the BBC Radiophonic Workshops arranger-composer’s own questing spirit.

This is a life story told through sound using both Delia�۪s own pieces of music alongside a soundtrack constructed from samples chosen with musician and performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti from Delia�۪s attic tapes and explores the fantasy of a collaboration, an exchange of ideas across eras between two fascinating musicians and celebrates independence and imagination and how when that energy is evoked by women and creates a spark the pattern seen throughout history is that it�۪s often dismissed ridiculed or downplayed.

A cinematic exploration of a legendary musical figure written and directed by Caroline Catz who also plays Delia Derbyshire whilst tracing acoustic pathways on her archeological dig
into Derbyshire�۪s resonant life.

We’re delighted that Caroline will join us for a Q&A live after the screening, so stick around after the credits roll.

Screening as part of Summer Music Season 2023, presented by music journalist and author, David Quantick. Check out the rest of the films in the series! https://www.electricpalacecinema.com/latest/summer-music-season-2023

Based on the best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Though the backstory, we see a community of women come together to figure out how they might move forward together to build a better world for themselves and their children. Stay and fight, or leave. They will not do nothing.

This timeless parable​, which won an Oscar this year for Best Adapted Screenplay, features a stellar ensemble including Claire Foy, Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw and more.

“Superbly inventive… an atmosphere of empathy, reason and wit pervades Polley’s film”- 5 stars, Mark Kermode, The Guardian

This film is F-Rated. The F-Rating is applied to all films which are directed by women and/or written by women.

Cinema Cats exhibition

Pop along before the screening (doors open 30 mins before the film start time) to see our Cinema Cats art exhibition, on display as part of Coastal Currents 2023 during September 2023.

How you can support the Electric Palace:

• Book a ticket to a screening.
• Become an official Friend of the Electric Palace
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• Play our piano before a screening and see the film for free!
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The golden age of Sheffield pop is charted in this loving documentary about Ken Patten’s backyard studio where Jarvis Cocker recalls how synth bands in the era of Thatcher, Threads and mass redundancy made their first recordings in this most secret and sacred of signless places.

Now vacant, 32 Handsworth Grange Crescent, otherwise known as Studio Electrophonique is where the first recordings were made for early incarnations of the bands that became The Human League, ABC, Heaven 17, Def Leppard, Clock DVA and Pulp. Not to mention the more esoteric and rarer sounds of The Electric Armpits, The Naughtiest Girl Was a Monitor and Systematic Annex, whose track “Death Trades” was recorded at Ken’s in 1984 yet failed to arouse the interest of those compiling Now That’s What I Call Music 4.

Ken’s work never attracted the attention of the masses and, by the time the landmark albums Dare and Lexicon of Love  started to shift units, the bands had all bought yachts – or at least gold lamé suits – and Ken had shifted
back to his own unit, knocking out dents in a garage beneath the Wicker Arches.

Pop music pilgrims arriving in Sheffield may struggle to locate its landmark sites. They are unheralded and unmarked, yet still
emit a faint looped analogue pulse for those devoted enough to seek them out: the attic room in Lemont Road, Totley where Cabaret Voltaire first assembled, the house on Stanhope Road, Intake where Pulp’s single “Babies” came from, the condemned dead end in Barber Terrace where ABC conjured glamour out of margarine sandwiches and pure imagination.

Ore Synthesiser Club short film

We’re delighted to include a short film before the screening, by much-loved Hastings-based electronic band, Ore Synthesiser Club.

Screening as part of Summer Music Season 2023, presented by music journalist and author, David Quantick.

What does it take for us to act on the climate crisis – especially if we’re the kind of person who should already be acting? In this funny, relatable portrait, a concerned yet ineffectual dad finds the first step is letting those unbearable feelings of climate anxiety in, instead of pushing them aside.

But as he meets others like him, he discovers how oil-backed propagandists funded our denial and paralysis. They set out to unmask the vested interests responsible, helping raise a generation’s leading authors in vibrant chorus at the 2020 game-changing Tufton Street protest. My Extinction is a revealingly honest account of how to feel your feelings, act on your privilege, and get active when threatened with extinction.

Presented by Dear Future, a live cinema organisation. Dear Future explores ways of thinking into the future by bringing  together film, conversation and creativity.

A Q&A with the film’s director, Dear Future, XR Hastings & St Leonards, and MP Watch will follow the screening, so stick around for a lively discussion.

How you can support the Electric Palace:

• Book a ticket to a screening.
• Become an official Friend of the Electric Palace
• Hire the cinema for a private party
• Buy a gift voucher
• Donate to the cinema
• Sign up to receive our enewsletter
• Play our piano before a screening and see the film for free!
• Support us on social media by sharing our posts and events

Thank you.