Artist Petra Szemán presents a rare screening of Makoto Shinkai’s 2007 anime alongside a selection of their own video work. A Tyne Valley Film Festival screening at Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle.

Petra Szemán is a moving image artist working with animation and game-like landscapes. Using a virtual version of themself as a protagonist journeying through animatic realms, they explore liminal spaces and threshold situations, looking to dissect the ways our memories and selves are constructed within a landscape oversaturated with fiction (both on- and off-screen).

In 5 Centimetres per Second, director Makoto Shinkai (Your Name, Weathering With You) tells the tale of two close friends separated by chance and reunited by determination. A journey into three interconnected tales of love and lost innocence that span the minutes and months of their lives.

Please note this screening takes place at Star and Shadow Cinema, please arrive to the venue in good time.

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Image from ‘About their Distance’, by Petra Szemán, 2023.