As part of the London Migration Film Festival (LMFF), you are warmly invited to “Moving Pictures,” an expanded film performance, artist talk, and panel discussion at the Zoroastrian Centre, formerly the Grosvenor Cinema in Rayners Lane, Harrow. Funded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), this project examines the adaptive reuse of cinemas as places of worship by diaspora communities. Using the artistic methodology of “site-integrity” (developed in 2017), the project actively involves the faith community in the creative process, generating grassroots perspectives. A custom-designed filming and playback device captures religious practices from the congregation’s viewpoint. Drawing inspiration from early cinema, particularly the Lumière Brothers’ Cinématographe, the films are projected back into the site with the same device, maintaining the exact scale and time as the image maps onto the architectural space.

The project is funded by the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) and led by artist filmmaker Julie Marsh and architectural historian Kate Jordan at the University of Westminster. This event partners with CREAM (Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media) and HOMELandS (Hub on Migration, Exile, Languages and Spaces).

For more information about the Moving Pictures project please see: https://moving-pictures.info/

For information about the artist Julie Marsh please see: https://www.site-integrity.com/

There will be refreshments served (doors open at 5:50pm).

Book your free ticket here.