Cargo, Camera… Action!, Shuffle festival: this week’s new film events

Cargo, Camera… Action!, Glasgow

All aboard for a one-day cinematic spectacular event on the banks of
the river Clyde, celebrating both Glasgow’s shipbuilding past and its current grassroots arts scene. The event revolves around the shooting of a fictional movie involving a Russian ghost ship crewed by cannibal rats. The mocked-up set, complete with shouting director and rat-headed cast, hosts
five performances during the day, with different live music at each (they’re free but you’ll need to book tickets). Then, in the evening,
the ship becomes an outdoor cinema showing specially commissioned shorts focusing on Govan’s shipbuilding heritage, the history of playground games and other locally-specific fare. There’s also a chance to see Scotland’s first Oscar-winning film: 1961 documentary Seawards The Great Ships.

Custom House Quay, Sat

Shuffle festival, London

An urban festival that’s against bland gentrification, Shuffle has some powerful allies behind it – chiefly local resident Danny Boyle. Spread across Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, it features live music, comedy and kids’ events but the main draw is two outdoor screening sites. Urban degeneration seems to be a theme this year: Boyle talks to Clio Barnard after her terrific The Selfish Giant, while Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive is followed by a twilight bat-walk around the cemetery.

Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, E3, Wed-3 Aug

Beasts Of The Southern Wild, London

It’s usually silent classics and Hollywood epics that get the prestige orchestral treatment, but Benh Zeitlin’s 2012 film is used to being the exception by now. A magical yet earthy post-apocalyptic bayou fable led by an uncanny six-year-old (Quvenzhané Wallis), it’s a movie like no other that has struck chords and won awards around the world. And part of its unique spell was undoubtedly the score – a stirring blend of modern classical and Cajun folk (with possibly a touch of Beirut). It was co-written by Zeitlin and Dan Romer. What’s more, they both perform for these special live screenings of the film, as part of the Serious Orchestra, conducted by Ryan McAdams.

Barbican, EC1, Wed & Thu

Hip-Hop All-Dayer, Nottingham

Find out the five elements of hip-hop with a day of screenings, discussions and food, plus DJs and an open mic session. The films include some seminal back-in-the-day texts. Charlie Ahearn’s barely fictionalised, endlessly sampled Wild Style, from 1983, captures early players including Fab Five Freddy, the Rocksteady Crew and Grandmaster Flash at the turntables. Later, Ahearn pays homage to Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer, the scene’s unofficial chronicler. Stations Of The Elevated captures the early days of New York train-tagging, and there’s more up-to-date fare with Freestyle: The Art Of Rhyme, capturing the spontaneous side of rap. There’s also the dramatic career doc Beats, Rhymes & Life…, which charts the rise and falling out of A Tribe Called Quest.

Broadway Cinema, Sun