Rear Window (1954) by Alfred Hitchcock Screening
Date: 19 September 2025
Venue: Woodburn Urban Park, Derry-Londonderry, BT47 5PQ
Outdoor screening of Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock, as part of Culture Night 2025.
What does a neighbourhood sound like when you really listen? The life of the community is revealed through the noises that drift into open windows and across shared courtyards. Join us for a special outdoor screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) - presented in collaboration with Excite WNP and Waterside Together.
The screening will be introduced by a short audiovisual piece created by young people in the community, using field recordings to build a sound map of the city—inviting us to listen more deeply to the places we live.
In Rear Window, a photographer who is forced to stay at home with a broken leg, begins spying on his neighbours from his apartment window. As he pieces together stories from glimpses and sounds, suspicion grows that something sinister has happened. The film uses snippets of conversations; footsteps, drifting music, clinking dishes, laughter, arguments—and sudden silence—to guide our attention to the life of a tightly packed urban community, turning the neighbourhood itself into a living, breathing character.
The Outdoor Cinema Programme is a collaboration East Side Cinema, and Excite, that is being run as part of Waterside Together, a shared green spaces events and festival project which aims to reanimate spaces that are perceived as belonging to the ‘other community’, transforming them into areas that are open, welcoming, and safe for all members of the Waterside community. Programmes will be delivered in parks, greenways and community spaces, targeting a range of participants including families, children and young people, older people, and members of the BAME community.
Waterside Together is supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) and funded under the theme of Community Regeneration and Transformation, and it is also funded through Derry City and Strabane District Council’s PEACEPLUS Local Co-Designed Action Plan.
Excite programmes events, activities and workshops to give young people the opportunity to experiment and develop creatively through multimedia, art, and creative technologies. It is funded by the Department for Communities as part of the Waterside Neighbourhood Partnership.
East Side Cinema is a project funded by Awards for All.
Sounds of the city - A creative soundmap
Workshop series for young people aged 15+
8th, 10th, 12th September
5pm -7pm
Locations throughout the Waterside - details to follow
Every city has its own soundtrack—layered with footsteps, birdsong, traffic hum, distant music, and overheard conversations. In this hands-on workshop, you'll explore the art of field recording to capture the everyday sounds that shape urban life. Learn how to listen for hidden sonic textures in familiar places, and help create a collaborative sound map that reimagines the city through its acoustics.
No experience necessary.
All equipment provided
Age 15 +
To sign up please complete this form.
Please be aware this workshop takes place the week before the festival so that the film can be screened along with the feature film.