Battleship in a Peckham car park

Think drive-in cinema and you probably imagine a field in the Mid-West of America in which dating teens ignore a B-Movie projected onto a vast screen.

What does not spring to mind is silent Soviet propaganda projected in a multi-storey in Peckham, south London. However, on 18 September Battleship Potemkin will be screened in the Peckham Multi-storey on Rye Lane as part of the Peckham & Nunhead Film Festival.

Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 polemical masterpiece depicts the mutiny of a Russian battleship’s crew, culminating in a recreation of the mutineers being massacred by Czarist forces on the Odessa Steps.

The car park screening is just one of many unusual events taking place during the festival. These include the Ealing black comedy The Ladykillers being screened in Nunhead Cemetery on 9 September while there will be a bicycle-powered presentation of camp Sci-Fi adventure Flash Gordon on Peckham Rye on 17 September.

The 2011 Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival runs from 8-18 September.

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