NIGHTSHIFT (Archival Assembly #3)

In the organizer's words:

21h, guest: Robina Rose, at the Arsenal cinema

NIGHTSHIFT Robina Rose GB 1981 engl. OF 67'

Robina Rose's low-budget film was shot in just five days at the Portobello Hotel in West London. The film is one of a series of important works by British filmmakers of the 1970s and 80s that examine the work of women in relation to politics, film, desire and society. Punk icon Jordan as a receptionist lives through the monotony of a night shift, juxtaposed with dreamlike passages full of eccentric hotel guests, embodied by prominent protagonists of London's counterculture such as poet and actor Heathcote Williams or experimental filmmaker Anne Rees-Mogg. US independent filmmaker Jon Jost was behind the camera and the music was composed by Simon Jeffes from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. NIGHTSHIFT had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1981 and was screened at the 12th International Forum of New Cinema the following year. The digital restoration of the film was commissioned by the Lightbox Film Center at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia) in collaboration with the British Film Institute & Cinenova. It was sponsored by Ron and Suzsanne Naples.
The restoration was done in 4k based on the 16mm reversal original (A-B reels) and 16mm optical sound from the British Film Institute archive. It was supervised by Ross Lipman, Corpus Fluxus.