AUTUMN 2017 AT THE V&A MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD
A season of three films in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Childhood Culture
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Ratcatcher (Ramsay, 1999)
The debut film from the director of We Need To Talk About Kevin, Ratcatcher explores a young boy’s troubled childhood on a housing estate in Glasgow during the national garbage strike of the 1970s.
Followed by a panel discussion with:
- Olu Alake, The End Child Poverty Coalition
- Sandra Hebron, Head of Screen Studies at National Film and Television School, former Artistic Director of London Film Festival
- Roslyn Law, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families
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Whistle Down The Wind (Forbes, 1961)
A portrait of childhood innocence where three Lancashire children find a murderer on the run in their barn and believe that he is Jesus Christ.
Followed by a panel discussion with:
- Steve Baker, Association of Child Psychotherapists
- Bonnie Evans, Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, History Department, Queen Mary University of London.
- Mark Glancy, Reader in Film History, Queen Mary University of London.
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Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973)
In this bewitching portrait of a child’s inner life in post Civil War Spain, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie screening of Frankenstein and becomes obsessed by the memory of it.
The film screening will be followed by an informal discussion and Q&A with:
- Helen Graham, author of The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction and Professor of Spanish History, Royal Holloway University of London
- Isabel Paz, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
- Sarah Wright, author of The Child in Spanish Cinema and Professor of Hispanic Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
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