Swim Season - includes special offer with Samphire Sauna
Wild Water plus Glitter and Storm
Get a deep dive into the cold water swimming community with new feature Wild Water, plus a short film shot in the sea off the coast of Hastings by local filmmaker Rebecca E Marshall.
Director: Ben Davies / Rebecca E Marshall
Cast includes: N/A
Swim season
52 mins/ 16 mins // 2023/2012 // UK/UK
Wild Water is a dive into the cold water swimming community at Gaddings Dam, home of England's highest beach.
"Gentle and rather lovely...made with real affection and enthusiasm" - The Guardian
Before the feature presentation, we will also screen the captivating short film Glitter and Storm by Rebecca E Marshall, filmed on Hastings beaches and featuring our very own home-grown wild swimming community. Water, sunlight, breathing and skin – this is a submersion into the joy of sea swimming by night and by day.
Can't make Thursday 2 May? Look out for an extra screening coming very soon! Check our website and social media for news.
“With what magic of witness Rebecca E Marshall has captured the marine process of reverse evolution: how citizens of Hastings long to become one with their neighbour ocean; how they twirl and twist in eroticised tumbles, feeling for gills, stroking salt-smoothed dolphin skins. This film is a delight, a drench, a dream: as reviving as the thing it depicts, the elective rinse in the English Channel.” - Iain Sinclair, British writer and filmmaker
Special Samphire Sauna offer for ticketholders for this Swim Season screening
In partnership with the Electric Palace cinema, Samphire Sauna would like to offer all cinema ticket holders for the Swim Season films, a special discount of 15% to all of its sauna sessions until May 27th 2024.
Samphire Sauna is a Nordic style, wood-fired sauna based on Hastings Pier. Taking a sauna, particularly after a wild swim in the sea, allows you to relax, reconnect with nature and benefit from the healing properties of both heat and cold-water therapy - boosting circulation and the immune system in the process. All this with beautiful views of the south coast, in your own private seafront sauna experience!
The sauna accommodates up to 5 people at a time for 30 mins & 1 hour sessions. Both communal & private hire sessions available. For further information, please visit the Samphire Sauna website, or if you're on Instagram: samphire_sauna
Just show your ticket booking for this screening to Samphire Sauna to claim your discount. Offer available until 27th May 2024.
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