Contemporary art event transforms multi-storey car park into sublime cinema experience.

A sublime experience is on offer to Highland filmgoers next week when a multi-storey car park in Inverness will be transformed into a cinema with a difference on 22 - 24 September. On each of the three evenings, cinema buffs will view open air screenings of artists’ films on the rooftop of Old Town Rose Street car park.

Commissioned by The Highland Council’s Inverness (IOTA) Old Town Art project, the contemporary arts event, titled “Sublime”, is the first of a series of arts events that have received £37,000 supported by Creative Scotland.

A whole range of moving image works will be presented in Sublime from contemporary art films, to classic cinema, new documentaries, and Gaelic shorts followed with live music by Brian Ó hEadhra and Fiona Mackenzie.

Welcoming the IOTA initiative Provost Jimmy Gray, Chairman of The Highland Council’s Inverness City Committee said: “Old Town Rose Street Multi Storey Car Park is very popular with locals and visitors to Inverness and our TEC Services staff work very hard to improve and maintain the high standards of this excellent facility.

“I hope that this inspired collaboration between IOTA and the council’s car parking team will bring some new people into the facility for the first time to see how excellent it is and also enable existing users to experience something different in the building.”

Sublime Curator Lorraine Wilson’s aim is to bring different film audiences together, merging gallery and cinema audiences, she said: “I'm interested in what happens when you encourage audiences to cross over and merge - visual art with music, commercial film with artistic works, art-going audiences with non attendees. Having a public space like the car park as a location for different types of films lets us bring all these different audiences together for one really unusual experience.”

The programme profiles artists from the Highlands who have forged successful careers alongside high quality international artists like Francis Alÿs and Nicholas Provost.

Films from artists with Highland connections include:

Works by international artists include:

Other highlights include:

All events are free on a first come first served basis. Details of the Sublime events programme at Old Town Rose Street Car Park, Inverness, IV1 1NQ are on IOTA’s website at www.invernessoldtownart.co.uk