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Hakim & Slater Publishing House Films
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These films are presented in a compressed, medium-quality state for ease of viewing. If you would like to view DVD quality un-compressed versions please email us on info@hakimslater.com to find out when the next film show evening is taking place. 'The Lamps of Damascus and The Road to Aylesford' - Following The Band of Historical Hillwalkers as they visit Medway's 'Damascus Lamps' in Borstal and then continue in the footsteps of Donald Maxwell, a painter and author who lived in Medway during the early 20th Century, on one of his favourite walks from Borstal to Aylesford. 7.52 minutes in length.
'Field Trip 2008 - Krakow/Auschwitz' - Following The Band of Historical Hillwalkers as they visit Poland, focusing on a day spent at Auschwitz. 7.33 minutes in length.
'Xtra Betrayal' - The follow up to 'Betrayal in the Paddock'. Medway Council are up to their tricks again, destroying the towns to make way for a bus station and paths that nobody wants. If the film angers you enough that you want to stop their destruction then please do make the effort to complain to the council. Petitions are no good, even if 10,000 people sign them they only count as a single objection, you all have to complain individually to make your voice heard. Do it, go all the way. 11.57 minutes in length.
'Memoriacide' - Live music from Lupen Crook and Oliver Burgess played at locations in the Medway Estuary, showing Cockham Wood and Darnet Fort, Hoo Ness Island and Darnet Island. The title refers to the killing of history, which is what Medway Council are guilty of by refusing to save the forts and islands from the river, and also what the film-maker believes he is doing by showing this film and introducing the locations, which will in time encourage others to go there and no doubt ruin them, as we generally do. A very human failing, this lust for passing on information to please; to get close in some way. As the old traveller writer's saying goes, we each kill the thing we love. 17.12 minutes in length
'Full Moon over Deadmans Island'- In September 2009 four members of the Historical Hillwalker group took to canoes to explore the Medway River Estuary for three days, recording the sights as they went with paintbrush, pencil and cameras of various design. This is an account of their trip. 8.11 minutes in length.
'Betrayal in the Paddock' - A public information film featuring the music of Lupen Crook and Oliver Burgess and my Pinhole Photography. In 1815 the Paddock area of Chatham was made into a public garden which the people of the time stated they wished to see remain for a period of at least 400 years. Now, less than 200 years later, Medway Council has made plans to destroy part of it and build a bus station in it's place. They need to build a new bus station because if they simply refurbish the old one they'll have to hand back a 6 million pound grant, and that means some will loose out on a lot of brown envelopes. 12 minutes in length.
'Final Curtain At The Theatre Royal' - featuring the poetry, music and art of Billy Childish, Lupen Crook and Oliver Burgess, all recorded at the Theatre Royal in Chatham a few days before it was demolished in May 2009. 21.36 minutes in length.
'The Pilgrimage'- A pilgrimage, on foot with a pinhole camera, to Greece and the resting place of writer and traveller Bruce Chatwin. 9.14 minutes in length.
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