We all meet up in a bar that has a big screen (like The Eagle, or wherever), and watch something UX related. Afterwards we can hang out, drink and discuss what we've learned. Please add your ideas below by editing this page. Feel free to suggest anything e.g.talks / podcasts / screencasts / feature films!

Ideas

The social life of small urban spaces

Filmed in the late 1970s, fascinating account of social behaviour in the USA in small urban spaces by William H. Whyte. Ultimately he discovers why some city plazas are complete failures and some are sucessful social hubs.

Kitchen Stories

A swedish film that involves a very whacky ethnographic research project (amazon page). A researcher is sent to observe a single man use his kitchen - and he does so by sitting on a tennis umpire’s seat and tracking the flow of his subject’s movements around the room in his notepad. The US trailer below is awful - the actual film is really good.

Ideo shopping cart "deep dive"

In 2000, IDEO was the subject of the "Deep Dive" episode of ABC's Nightline; they redesigned a shopping cart in five days. There's a clip of the episode here. (gets going about 1/2 way through). This program provides a nice insight into Ideo's design process (A variant of UCD), and is a must-watch for any budding UXers.

Paper Prototyping: A How-To Training Video

This might be a bit dry for a film night but anyway…

"This training video demonstrates how to design and build paper prototypes of user interfaces in order to get early usability data from testing with real users."

Starfire, the Movie

The film, developed in 1992, predicted the explosive growth of the world wide web at a time before graphical web browsers even existed. Starfire: The Directors' Cut [big mp4] explores in candid detail a technological future based on industry cooperation, human-centered design, and the continued presence of bad guys.

How Buildings Learn

"Brand founder of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly, launches a populist attack on rarefied architectural conventions. A hippy elder statesman (once one of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters), Brand argues that a building can "grow" and should be treated as a "Darwinian mechanism," something that adapts over time to meet certain changing needs."

Apple Knowledge Navigator

The following are transcribed from UX Brighton Helpers mailing list…

Suggestions from Athrodesign mailing list
http://www.thefutureschannel.com/movies/design_movies.php

Power of 10 (contained on Disc 1 of The Films of Charles & Ray Eames, also sold separately)

Helvetica (2007)

Rivers & Tides (2003)

My Architect (2003)

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Tucker: The man and his dream (1988)

Wings of Desire

WGBH's People in Motion series.
Good for showing how people (in this case those with special needs) function and use the environment.

Play Time
Movie directed by Jacques Tati: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062136/ Sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4XYKmTV8WM&NR=1

Mon oncle

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050706/
Sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmTnJFLZJtA .

Frederick Wiseman's Central Park

Rash

Documentary directed by Nicholas Hansen: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479983/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtlVu-jkx7k

Dirty handz 3

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfpe9l15b4s

Isle of flowers

And this one just for the pleasure of its presentation! Provocation turn us all into artists :)
Documentary directed by Jorge Furtado: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097564/
Part1&2/2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3AyWcptRx0 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yI7STDk5nQ&feature=related .