BFI Young Film Programmer Festival: The Overlooked
The Overlooked, a film season programmed by the BFI Film Academy’s Young Programmers, will dive into the work of film score composers who don't identify as male. 19 out of 20 film composers are men and according to Little White Lies in 2018, men accounted for 94% of all composers on feature films. A mere 6% of scores for the highest grossing films are composed by none-male artists!
With a focus on Wendy Carlos (The Shining) and Mica Levi (Under The Skin), the Overlooked film season aims to shine a light on the talented pioneers of film scoring whose work spans 70 years. By having a programme that features music from these overlooked artists, we will target this disparity and hope to connect & inspire the next generation of female and nonbinary film composers.
You can watch both The Shining and Under The Skin at the Showroom Cinema on Friday 18th February, where we’ll also be playing Carlos’ original electronic version of the score (which Kubrick rejected) in the bar. Under the Skin will be screening at 3.20PM and The Shining will be screening at 5.45PM,
Statement from the Young Programmers:
The aim of our film season is to champion non male identifying composers, as previously mentioned these composers are significantly overlooked and undervalued and deserve to be celebrated on the big screen. "The Shining" is a magnificent example of crafted suspense which is aided by its other worldly score composed by Wendy Carlos.
Similar to this, the score of Under the Skin, expertly crafted by Mica Levi, feels as if it was produced in the black void featured in the movie, giving the audience a constant feeling of dread and unease with its use of distorted instruments and harmonics.
Under the Skin (15)
Fri 18 Feb, 15:20
Visually and aurally audacious and as slippery in form as its central character, Jonathan Glazer’s elliptical sci-fi is a brilliant amalgam of fantasy and reality. An entirely distinctive film, both creepy and luminous in its metaphysical precision. Filmed on location in Scotland, the filmmaking recalls the realism of Ken Loach as much as the surrealism of David Lynch.
The Shining (15)
Fri 18 Feb, 17:45
Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of modern horror is widely considered to be the most terrifying movie of all time.