BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:12206@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261201T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261201T200000 DTSTAMP:20261009T054328Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/lets-make-films-the-director-ser ies/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Let's Make Films: The Director Series DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin Let’s Make Films for their new weekly series explo ring filmmakers\, with sessions offering a deep creative breakdown of thei r films\, influence and wider place in cinema.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWeekly session s from Tue 1 Sep - Tue 15 Dec\nLed by Sammy Holden\, The Director Series focuses on four directors: David Lynch\, Agnès Varda\, Jafar Panahi a nd Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Each month explores a single filmmaker\, with sessio ns offering a deep creative breakdown of their films\, style\, themes\, vi sual language\, sound\, editing\, influence and wider place in cinema.\n\n £8 per session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Lynch: Dreams &\; Subconscious L ogic\nThe Director Series begins with the dream logic of Mulholland Dr.\, before we build a short dream sequence of our own\n\n\nTue 1 Sep\, 5-8pm\n £8 (booking required)\nBook now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Lynch: Industrial So und &\; Uneasy Spaces\nUsing selected extracts from Mulholland Dr.\, we look at how Lynch uses sound to disturb an ordinary space before anything is revealed.\n\nTue 8 Sep\, 5-8pm\n£8 (booking required)\nBook now\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nDavid Lynch: Doubles &\; Fractured Identity\nThrough the Myst ery Man scene in Lost Highway\, we examine how performance and film form c an make a character’s identity begin to slip.\n\nTue 15 Sep\, 5-8pm\n£8 (booking required)\nBook now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Lynch: Making the Influ ence Your Own\nFor our final Lynch session\, we take what his films have t aught us and use it to shape a new scene without copying their familiar su rface.\n\nTue 22 Sep\, 5-8pm\n£8 (booking required)\nBook now\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nAgnès Varda: The Everyday as Film Material\nBeginning with The Gleane rs and I\, we look at how Varda builds cinema from the objects\, routines and details that people often pass by.\n\nTue 6 Oct\, 5-8pm\n£8 (booking required)\nBook now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAgnès Varda: Voice\, Memory &\; Sel f-Portrait\nThrough The Gleaners and I\, we look at how a filmmaker can en ter their own work without taking control of everything it means.\n\nTue 1 3 Oct\, 5-8pm\n£8 (booking required)\nBook now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAgnès Vard a: People\, Politics &\; Care\nUsing Black Panthers\, we look at how a political portrait can hold a clear point of view while giving the person on screen room to speak for themselves.\n\nTue 20 Oct\, 5-8pm\n£8 (bookin g required)\nBook now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAgnès Varda: Serious Subjects\, Play ful Form\nFor our final Varda session\, we explore how a serious subject c an meet a playful form without losing its meaning.\n\nTue 27 Oct\, 5-8pm\n £8 (booking required)\nBook now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJafar Panahi: Restrictions as Structure\nBeginning with This Is Not a Film\, we examine how Panahi u ses one room\, an absent film and the limits of the frame.\n\nTue 3 Nov\, 5-8pm\n£8 (booking required)\nBook now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJafar Panahi: Cars\ , Rooms &\; Moral Pressure\nUsing the opening of Taxi Tehran\, we look at how one fixed camera and a cramped car can hold an argument much larger than the space itself.\n\nTue 10 Nov\, 5-8pm\n£8 (booking required)\nBoo k now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJafar Panahi: Where Fiction Meets Documentary\nReturn ing to Taxi Tehran\, we examine how a film can move between observation an d construction\, and the responsibility that comes with bringing real life into the work.\n\nTue 17 Nov\, 5-8pm\n£8 (booking required)\nBook now\n\ n\n\n\n\n\n\nJafar Panahi: Urgency at Low Volume\nFor the final Panahi ses sion\, we ask how a film can feel urgent without becoming overtly loud.\n\ nTue 24 Nov\, 5-8pm\n£8 (booking required)\nBook now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKiyos hi Kurosawa: Atmosphere &\; Quiet Fear\nUsing the Forbidden Room sequen ce from Pulse\, we look at how distance and time can make an ordinary room frightening without a jump scare.\n\nTue 1 Dec\, 5-8pm\n£8 (booking requ ired)\nBook now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKiyoshi Kurosawa: Technology\, Loneliness & amp\; Unseen Threat\nThrough Pulse and Cure\, we ask what carries more fea r: seeing the threat or only sensing that it has entered the room.\n\nTue 8 Dec\, 5-8pm\n£8 (booking required)\nBook now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKiyoshi Kur osawa: The Slow-Burn Clock\nUsing Cure\, we trace how small changes in tim e and control build dread without rushing towards a conventional payoff.\n \nTue 15 Dec\, 5-8pm\n£8 (booking required)\nBook now\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2026/09/bluecoat-director-series.jpg CATEGORIES:Film,Talks LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR