Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 132: Tue May 13

Nightshift (Rose, 1981): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.20pm

Introduced by Jon Jost, filmmaker, cinematographer and friend of Robina Rose

Demonstrating the influence of Meshes of the Afternoon and Jeanne Dielman, and starring punk icon Jordan, the moody, atmospheric Nightshift (1981) by Robina Rose is newly restored from original camera elements, and looks beautiful.

BFI introduction:
Legendary punk stayover The Portobello Hotel provides the location for Robina Rose’s stunning, psycho-dramatic long-night-of-the-soul. The thankless, dreamlike monotony and stillness of nocturnal reception work shifts and mutates with the eruptive arrival of eccentric guests from London’s counterculture, including Heathcote Williams and Anne Rees-Mogg. The Penguin Café Orchestra’s Simon Jeffes soundtracks the uncanny temporal fluctuations and strange events. Tonight’s screening is dedicated to the memory of Robina Rose, who died in January.

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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