Passport to Pimlico's screening on Wednesday November 15 will be followed by a discussion group at the cinema's bar hosted by Dr. Grazia Ingravalle.
The accidental explosion of an undetonated German bomb left over from World War II unearths a long-buried cellar containing both fabulous riches and a previously unknown royal charter from King Edward IV that cedes the surrounding land to the last Duke of Burgundy. Since the charter has never been rescinded, the London district of Pimlico is now legally the long-lost Duchy of Burgundy, and therefore no longer subject to British law, including postwar rationing and pub closure hours.
Dr. Grazia Ingravalle is Lecturer in British and Minority Cinemas at Queen Mary University of London. She writes about film archives, early cinema, digitisation, and decolonisation in academic journals (such as The Moving Image, Screen, Viewfinder and the JCMS) and her book Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital will be out at the end of 2023. Grazia has also worked as curator, focusing on experimental, colonial, and repertoire film programmes.