Baltic Cinema: Hale County This Morning, This Evening

How to express the reality of individuals whose public image, lives, and humanity originate in exploitation? Baltic Cinema: Hale County This Morning, This Evening (adv 15) Thursday 11 March | 18:30 £6 / £4.50* per person Dir. RaMell Ross / USA / 2018 / 1h 16m Hale County This Morning, This Evening is a lyrical innovation to the form of portraiture that boldly ruptures racist aesthetic frameworks that have historically constricted the expression of African American men on film. In the lives of protagonists Daniel and Quincy, quotidian moments and the surrounding southern landscape are given importance, drawing poetic comparisons between historical symbols and the African American banal. Images are woven together to replace narrative arc with visual movements. As Ross crafts an inspired tapestry made up of time, the human soul, history, environmental wonder, sociology, and cosmic phenomena, a new aesthetic framework emerges that offers a new way of seeing and experiencing the heat, and the hearts of people in the Black Belt region of the US as well far beyond. ‘There is something visionary in this film.’ —The Guardian ★★★★★ --- Doors open 18:00; Film starts 18:30. Pop-up cinema bar open from 18:00 for drinks. Please note we cannot offer refunds on this event. *Concessions: under 18s, unwaged & 65+ --- Shooting the Messenger November 2026 – March 2027 Films on Photographers, Photographers on Film. What drives photographers to frame, to capture, to record? Sometimes compulsion, sometimes necessity, always curiosity. Across five documentaries, this season looks at photography and photographers – their desires and struggles, passions and fears – to accompany Baltic’s current exhibition Tish Murtha & Kuba Ryniewicz: Close to Home. The films propose photography as a lifetime’s quest and suggest that for many photographers – whether railing against the system, documenting their communities or pushing the boundaries of the medium – the more they take photographs, the more they know themselves. View the full film schedule --- Baltic Cinema Baltic Cinema is a year-round cinema programme at Baltic, lighting up our Level 1 Cinema with the best new and archive films. Expanding on our exhibition themes and bringing otherwise rarely-screened work to the North East. Supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network. Accessibility We want our events to be inclusive and accessible. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email [email protected]. Ahead of your visit, you can find out about Baltic's facilities and accessibility here.