St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross is Scotland’s neglected modernist masterpiece, a triumphant creation of ‘sacred space’. Designed by two graduates of Glasgow School of Art, Isi Metzstein and Andy MacMillan, following the inspiration of Le Corbusier and the more expressive forms of Mackintosh’s GSA building, St Peter’s Seminary was considered without rival in Great Britain on its completion in 1966, a match even for Le Corbusier himself. But whether as the result of a decline in the intake for the priesthood or for other external reasons, the seminary was closed and abandoned in 1980.
In 1972 filmmaker Murray Grigor celebrated the building in a near-wordless 20-minute film, with music by Frank Spedding. In February 2009 he returned to the derelict, graffiti-ridden site with Oscar-nominated cinematographer Seamus McGarvey to film an exact shot-for-shot remake. We present the new film projected simultaneously alongside the restored original in a remarkable time-spanning cinema diptych, with a new recording of the score by students of RSAMD.
We are delighted to welcome Murray Grigor to introduce this screening.
£ All tickets £3.50
Two further non-ticketed screenings will take place at 20.15 and 20.45.
