Margate Time Warp

Take a trip through time at our pop-up video archive, exploring Margate on film over the last 100 years.

The Margate Time Warp is a major new project that celebrates the town’s vibrant history and diverse communities, using archive footage and local films from 1925 – present day.

Margate is a town of many faces, shifting and changing in it’s reputation with each generation. Once known as a thriving tourist hotspot in it’s prime, Margate fell into dereliction with the rise of cheaper international travel and a move to out-of-town shopping centres. Now, Margate is changing once again with the influx of artists and affluent Londoners, since the opening of the Turner Gallery – and of course, this year’s Turner Prize.

Pop-in to the pop-up at any time throughout the week. No tickets required – stay for 5 minutes or the full hour and share your own stories with #MFF19

Suitable for all ages.

Feature clips from the BFI Archive and Screen Archive South East.