The Bioscope’s maiden screening festival got underway last night at Arts on Main. The desired objective was to screen the film open air, on the rooftop in the venue’s courtyard. But alas, Johannesburg was hit with a week long bout of thick rain. But thankfully, Arts on Main as a venue, is a really incredible space. At the forefront, it’s an artist residency, so much of the spaces can be shifted accordingly for any kind of show or exhibition. The team brought out gas heaters, pop corn and snacks, and despite the nasty weather the turn out was fantastic.

The screened film was Marc Singer’s documentary Dark Days. A film that follows the lives of the people that lived inside the abandoned subway tunnels in New York City. With Arts on Main’s great warehouse esthetic, and the sounds of Johannesburg city being scrubbed down by the rain, so much texture and life was added to Singer’s gritty black and white film.

The next screening in the Summer Series is earmarked to be on Fri 11th Dec. More info will be displayed here as well as on The Bioscope