Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Richard Billingham joins us for a special Q&A screening of his acclaimed 2018 drama - presented in partnership with Village and MACK on the occasion of the publication of Ray’s a Laugh (2024).

Renowned photographer Richard Billingham makes his feature-film debut with this intricate family portrait, inspired by his own memories of growing up in the West Midlands in the late 70s and early 80s, and then his father and mother in the late 90s. Billingham revisits the figures of his earlier photographs — his alcoholic father Ray; his mother Liz; and his younger brother Jason — with a series of family vignettes where life, lived on the margins of society and societal taboos, can spiral out of control.

Presented in partnership with Village and MACK, Richard will join us on stage after the film for a live director Q&A.

Following this there will also be a book-signing in our Community Room, where copies of Billingham's acclaimed photo book Ray's a Laugh (MACK, 2024) will be available to purchase.