Projections Commissions 2020

Cinema is about encounter—with people, places and ideas. Often, the richest encounters are those that are unexpected, and the history of cinema corroborates this: whether short films and cartoons, travelogues, B-movies or musical interludes, surprise was for a long time an essential ingredient of the cinema going experience. We think it can be still…

The annual Projections commissions from Tyneside Cinema aim to address this by asking artists to make films specifically for the context of the cinema. For the artists, it’s a unique challenge and a huge opportunity, to reach a truly mass audience. For cinemas, it’s a chance to expand programmes and connect with audiences and ideas in a different way.