Metro Screen Cinema Bar to Pop Up in Paddo

Every Wednesday during Art & About 2013, the bohemians at East Sydney Creative will be providing working folk with a good excuse to knock off early. Their 'Escape Early on Wednesdays' extravanganza promises to transform Darlinghurst, Paddington, East Sydney and Surry Hills into a hive of activity, where art is Queen Bee. Over 20 organisations will play host to exhibitions, installations, yarn bombing, live music and talks.

At the heart of it all will be the Metro Screen Pop-Up Cinema & Bar. Designer Gui Andrade is transforming the Metro Screen Studios at Paddo Town Hall into not just a movie house but a visual and kinaesthetic experience. "The idea that I had for the pop-up cinema was 'the glitch'," Andrade told us. "It can be hard to pick up on when you're watching a film. I want to play with people's perspectives as soon as they walk into the theatre. I want to make them wonder if what they're seeing is real or illusory — if it's what they're supposed to be experiencing."

Each week, a different program of short films will screen, each arranged by a different curator. On September 25, Rich Warren (former coordinator of the UK's Encounters Festival) will deliver 'Subliminal Psychosis and Paranoid Perspectives', "a trip into the twisted minds of filmmakers and the inhabitants that lurk there." October 2 will see 'The Lena Dunham Love In', a journey through "the origins of Lena's world, where characters were born, grew up and took shape on the big(gish) screen". October 9, titled 'Feed Me Weird Things', is promising "an evening of pretty things, twisted pixels and classic retro psychedelia". The final session, 'Prototype', to happen on October 16, will be curated by Craig Boreham, who's currently working on feature film Teenage Kicks.

The Metro Screen Pop-Up Cinema & Bar will open between 5pm and 8pm every Wednesday during Art & About 2013 (25 September and 2, 9 and 16 October) at Paddington Town Hall, Cnr Oatley Road and Oxford Street (Oatley Road entrance, under the Chauvel Cinema). Entry is free but RSVP is essential, as numbers are strictly limited.

Image: Tiny Furniture.