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JUNE | ||||
| mon 13 | 20:00 | ........ | MARIA FULL OF GRACE | |
| tue 14 | 20:00 | ........ | MARIA FULL OF GRACE | |
| wed 15 | 17:00 | ........ | CUBE ORCHESTRA | |
| 20:00 | ........ | MARIA FULL OF GRACE | ||
| thu 16 | 20:00 | ........ | MARIA FULL OF GRACE | |
| fri 17 | 20:00 | ........ | GAME&WATCH - DOUBLE BOGEY | |
| SAT 18 | 20:00 | ........ | KAVALIER KLUB WITH THE KLINKER | |
| SUN 19 | 20:00 | ........ | Closed for private event. | |
| mon 20 | 10:00 | ........ | SPONSORED INFLUENZA PANDEMIC EVACUATION REHEARSAL | |
| 20:00 | ........ | EXCLUSIVE DEPTH CHARGE RESCORE | ||
| tue 21 | 19:00 | ........ | MELINDA AND MELINDA (TTT) | |
| 21:00 | ........ | MELINDA AND MELINDA (TTT) | ||
| wed 22 | 16:30 | ........ | CUBE ORCHESTRA | |
| 19:30 | ........ | STORYTELLING | ||
| thu 23 | 19:00 | ........ | MELINDA AND MELINDA | |
| 21:00 | ........ | MELINDA AND MELINDA | ||
| fri 24 | 00:00 | ........ | MIDNIGHT MOVIE - BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA | |
| 20:00 | ........ | CLUB CHOKE PRESENTS BENDER | ||
| SAT 25 | 20:00 | ........ | MAX BLACKOUT'S MOVIEOKE | |
| SUN 26 | ||||
| mon 27 | 20:00 | ........ | HEAVY HEADS: FAUST TRIBUTE | |
| tue 28 | 10:00 | ........ | Closed for private event. | |
| 20:00 | ........ | TTT - TARNATION (TTT) | ||
| wed 29 | 17:00 | ........ | CUBE ORCHESTRA | |
| 20:00 | ........ | JEM COHEN'S CHAIN | ||
| thu 30 | 20:00 | ........ | THE BILLY NAYER SHOW | |
| 22:00 | ........ | THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT | ||
JULY | ||||
| fri 01 | 20:00 | ........ | DARREN HAYMAN (HEFNER) | |
| 23:55 | ........ | MIDNIGHT MOVIE -THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT | ||
| SAT 02 | 18:00 | ........ | UNDER_SCORE'S MID-SUMMER SHOWCASE AND GARDEN PARTY | |
| SUN 03 | 14:00 | ........ | Closed for private event. | |
| 19:30 | ........ | Closed for private event. | ||
| 20:00 | ........ | JULY EXHIBITION MANIFEST-E PREVIEW | ||
| mon 04 | 20:00 | ........ | CLOSED | |
| tue 05 | 18:30 | ........ | STITCH STITCH CYCLE TOUR | |
| 20:00 | ........ | HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (TTT) | ||
| wed 06 | 20:00 | ........ | SCRATCHING THE SURFACE | |
| thu 07 | 19:00 | ........ | FRESH FIVE FESTIVAL: FILMS THAT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD | |
| fri 08 | 20:00 | ........ | CIRCLE | |
| SAT 09 | 19:00 | ........ | FRESH FIVE FESTIVAL: FILM JAM PARTY | |
| SUN 10 | 20:00 | ........ | Closed for private event. | |
| mon 11 | 19:30 | ........ | STORYTELLING | |
| tue 12 | 20:00 | ........ | BRISTOL INDYMEDIA FILM NIGHT | |
| wed 13 | 19:30 | ........ | BLUESCREEN | |
| thu 14 | 20:00 | ........ | THE ALBERT AYLER PROJECT | |
| fri 15 | 19:00 | ........ | HEAVY HEADS: BBQ WITH JIMI HENDRIX | |
| 23:55 | ........ | MIDNIGHT MOVIE - ZABRISKIE POINT | ||
| SAT 16 | 20:00 | ........ | CLOSED | |
| SUN 17 | 20:00 | ........ | Closed for private event. | |
TTT = Ticket Tout Tuesday
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(Joshua Marston / 2005 / USA-Columbia / 101mins / Cert 15) (13-16th June / 8pm / £4/3/2ttt) Wasting away in a Columbian flower sweatshop, 17 year-old Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) is tired of her work, her family, and the unresponsiveness of her boyfriend. When she learns that she's pregnant, Maria discovers a quick, but dangerous, way to make big bucks: to volunteer herself as a drug mule. Asked to ingest small heroin pellets and fly to New York for retrieval, Maria agrees, but soon realizes just how hazardous the mission can be. Marston's debut film is one of the year's best so far, engaging in the complex moral debates surrounding the drug-trafficking industry with a detatchment that steers away from sermonising and glib sentiment. His intelligent formal approach to the filming means that the punchy, economic narrative exists within a loose, documentary style, allowing for superb naturalistic performances, notably from Oscar nominated first timer Catalina Sandino Moreno.
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(Fri 17th June / 8pm / £4/3) Bogey - definitive movie icon of the 20th century, golden boy of the silver screen, star of over 70 films from slapstick silents to matinee idol. Double Bogey - two of Humphrey Bogart's finest film outings screening in a special double-bill only at the Cube. Respects should be paid in ice-white tuxedo, with a Chesterfield between the lips and a scotch onhand. Here's looking at you, kids. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz / 1942 / USA / 102mins / CertU) & Other title to be announced
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with FUCK OFF BATMAN, THE WORM POET, MEN DIAMLER (aka MARIO VENDREDI) + FREEZE PUPPY (Sat 18th / 8pm / £4) The Klinker is London's longest running, most consistently challenging and downright hyperactive (three events every week!) call-to-arms for performers from across the board. Film maker, performance artist, poet and self-declared dubious musician, Hugh Metcalfe has rallied the troops for over 23 years now and shows no signs of slowing down... This sees a visit to Bristol from FUCK OFF BATMAN, a quartet led by Metcalfe with drummer Jonny Mitchell (Nought), bassist Darren Morris (otherwise keyboard player with Gabrielle!) and poet Sibyl Madrigal on backing vocals (as well as dancing and squealing). Enter worm world with the WORM POET - some say she's too worm; plus naturally, your compere, the inimitable CABBAGEHEAD. Also tonight, for the first time, the region's two most idiosyncratic talents are put together on the same bill. FREEZE PUPPY and the artist formerly known as MARIO VENDREDI are two peas in an odd-pod - look forward to accessible, expertly crafted songs from two top notch performers, all distorted through a wildly unpredictable prism. Join us for an invigorating and surreal Saturday night, complete with a healthy dose of the unexpected. http://www.klinkerclub.info/
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A summer camp for survivalists. 20-30 June 2005. http://duo.irational.org/siper/ A component of Nothing Can Surprise US (NCSU) http://irational.org/kayle/NCSU/ The next influenza pandemic is long over due and expected to kill at least 50 million people worldwide in 12 months. The survival of urban dwellers can be assisted by a 1 month evacuation to the country. Evacuated yourself and chosen companions to a safe haven, avoiding population centres and transport, which would both be dysfunctional and dangerous during the real thing. If alone, feel free to join the cube staff for refuge in the caves of Skye, living on a diet of snails and seaweed. Raised funds to be donated to your chosen disaster relief fund e.g. recognised international NGO or friends utility reconnection fee.
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(Mon 20th / 8pm / £3 - FREE to those who signed up in March) J. Saul Kane aka DEPTH CHARGE has some making up to do... he made it down the Cube (just!) back in March to perform a brand new, specially commissioned martial arts soundtrack... then it all went pearshaped, his computer crashed, and the weeks of sweat and toil he'd put into the project came to nothing. So we screened the original cut instead. Tonight, we finally get to see his amazingly involved rescore. Brace yourself for a music/film clash like no other with serious damage due in the cinema. J. Saul Kane has recorded under numerous pseudonyms including Depth Charge, Alexander's Dark Band and The Octagon Man for the likes of Electron Industries/DC Recordings. He's been concocting a heady brew of hip hop beats, soundtrack snippets and obscure analogue bleeps for many moons. His influence is now everywhere, from Wu Tang to Electroclash.
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(Woody Allen / 2005 / USA / 100mins / Cert 12A) (Tue 21 & Thurs 23 / £4/3/2(ttt) Over a meal in a French restaurant, Sy poses a conundrum to his fellow diners: Is the essence of life comic or tragic? For the sake of argument, he tells a story, which the others then embellish to illustrate their takes on life. The story starts as follows: A young Manhattan couple, Park Avenue princess Laurel and tippling actor Lee, throw a dinner party to impress Lee's would-be producer when their long-lost friend Melinda appears at their front door, bedraggled and woebegone. In the tragic version of what happens next, the beautiful intruder is a disturbed woman who got bored with her Midwestern doctor-husband and dumped him for a photographer. Her husband took the children away and she spiraled into a suicidal depression that landed her straight-jacketed in a mental ward. In the comic version, Melinda is childless and a downstairs neighbor to the dinner hosts, who are ambitious Indy filmmaker Susan and under-employed actor Hobie. Back and forth the stories go, contrasting the destinies of the two Melindas. Maintaining an enviable film-a-year schedule Woody Allen, seemingly on a late-career roll, wows again with this startlingly acerbic take on an old chestnut. Acting as a vehicle for career-long obsessions love, death, comedy and tragedy, Allen weaves together threads of his own personal philosophy with a similar success and sense of completion
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(Wed 22nd / 7.30pm / £2) So what for June? Maybe have some food outside, maybe not. Have a drink in the garden, laze and listen. Those summer evenings might lull you into talking to strangers... here are some strangers who are willing you to talk. This is a night for telling us what's on your mind - story, memory, tale, lore, law. Come and speak up. It's summer, and who knows, you might get a tale between your legs.
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(Sam Peckinpah / 1974 / USA / 112mins / Cert 18)
(Fri 24th / midnite / £4/3)
A rare chance to see what is, for many, the definitive Peckinpah masterpiece.
Shot in Mexico, far away from the beady eyes of the Hollywood money men, the
director felt free to realise his vision undisturbed and untainted. What we
have here, then, is unrepressed Peckinpah, with all the transgressive energy
this might imply. Having already committed to celluloid two or three of the
most challenging mainstream genre films which brought audiences a poetic, yet
brutally nihilistic, vision of men pushed to the edge ('Straw Dogs', 'The Wild
Bunch'), Sam really felt that with 'Garcia' he could let himself go. In doing so
he created one of the grimly funny and, frankly, odd films in the revenge genre
- a film that has had more than a little influence on the shape of the history
of subsequent films (Tarantino and Rodriguez are both fans, as recent work will
attest!)
A family scandal causes a wealthy and powerful Mexican rancher to make the
pronouncement--'Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!' Two of the bounty-hunters
thus dispatched encounter a local piano-player in their hunt for information.
The piano-player does a little investigating on his own and finds out that his
girlfriend knows of Garcia's death and last resting place. Thinking that he can
make some easy money and gain financial security for he and his (now) fiancée,
they set off on this goal. Of course, this quest only brings him untold misery,
in the form of trademark violence.
A truly unimissable experience!
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with Steveless + Soeza (Fri 24th / 8pm / £5) Bristol's Legendary D.I.Y. love-in returns for its first ever collaboration with The Cube. BENDER - jagged, harrowing bluescapes from photographer Steve Gullick (Loose Lips Sink Ships, Careless Talk Cost Lives), Gallon Drunk frontman and Bad Seed James Johnston in collaboration with filmmaker Geraldine Swayne; STEVELESS, the world's only post-one-man-band; plus the swinging post-punk-big-band sounds of SOEZA. With Choke DJs and a classic Fall performance on the big screen to top it all off. See you down the front!
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(Sat 25th / 8pm / £4) Let your host, the digitally-challenged, nitrous-voiced Max Blackout introduce you to New York's latest cine-craze in this new monthly night. Do you style yourself as on a screen idol? Have you always wanted to share your love of a particular scene or movie-starlet with a captive audience? Well now you can channel your inner De Nero in a safe and sympathetic arena. Perform a scene from your favorite film- karaoke style- and get a taste of the fame you've only previously had dreams about. Last months event was a total gas. We are still fine-tuning the tech side of things, but the night left us in no doubt that Movieoke offers the West a unique entertainment service. FFI: tom@sparror.cubecinema.com
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HEAVY HEADS: FAUST TRIBUTE
with Bristol premiere screening of FAUST "IMPRESSIONS" DVD
(Mon 27th / 8pm / £2)
"There is no group more mythical than Faust," wrote Julian Cope in his
seminal book KRAUTROCKSAMPLER. Crafting their uniquely cacophonous sound
in almost total isolation in the early 70's, FAUST exerted a pivotal
influence on the development of later ambient and industrial textures and
sit as equals to CAN, NEU! and KRAFTWERK.
IMPRESSIONS is the first FAUST DVD, a full Surround 5.1 Experience. This
is a Cube exclusive: 11 classic FAUST tracks from 1971 to 1994 (three of
them previously unreleased) meet a frenzy of raw, wild and organic
images courtesty of FAUST ringleader Zappi-W-Diermaier. Plus a vintage intro
of archive film footage of the band from 1971.
Join the Heavy Heads to pay homage to the German band in a night of film &
music, complete with a killer Krautrock soundtrack in the bar.
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(Caouette / 2003 / USA / 91mins / 35mm / cert15) (Tue 28th June / 8pm / £2ttt) A raw tale of love, tragedy and fierce histrionics hewed from a trove of Super-8 home movies, photo booth portraits, and answering machine messages, Jonathan Caouette's precocious memoir-cum-psychodrama claims a ridiculous three-figure budget (but that can't have included the costs of the beautiful soundtrack with plenty of NICK DRAKE). When he was a boy, Caouette's mother Renee underwent electro-shock therapy that probably broke something that didn't need fixing. With his father gone, Caouette was brought up by his grandparents and managed to find his own niche in Texan subculture. He has the film material to prove it: a self-portrait at the age of 11 in drag, at the age of 13 in new wave gay clubs lip-syncing to Liquid Sky, a performance of Blue Velvet, the high-school musical featuring the songs of Marianne Faithful. As Jonathan grows up on camera over a two-decade span, he forges an unbreakable, often heartbreaking bond with Renee, discovering along the way his own personal difficulty - depersonalization, an affliction involving feelings of detachment from one¹s own body or thoughts. Tarnation is a strange little outing with a hopeful ending. Dubbed as the first masterpiece of the MTV generation, this is a very compelling film, fasinating and disturbing in equal measure.
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(Jem Cohen / 2004 / USA / 99 mins / Video / Cert tbc) Back again, due to popular demand, this full length feature from one of the American underground's most startling and original filmmakers is at once a paen and a requiem to the modern world's love affair with corporate culture. As regional character disappear and corporate culture homogenises our surroundings, it's increasingly hard to tell where you are. In CHAIN, malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centres worldwide are joined into one monolithic contemporary superlandscape seen through the eyes of two women caught within it. Cohen contrives to turn the entire planet into a stretch of New Jersey commercial property a universe that feels entirely real yet has the distinct smack of JG Ballard otherness. Featuring a specially prepared soundtrack by Canadian post-rockers Godspeed! You Black Emperor.
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(Thurs 30th June / 8pm / £5) Hot on the heels of their Glastonbury debut, The Billy Nayer Show crashland at the Microplex for along-time awaited live show. Explaining The BNS is like the Supreme Court trying to define pornography. Their specialty is a dark and sometimes cryptic sarcasm that encases a surprising core belief in the power of love. BNS is a band infused by an entirely unique, internal mythology outside and beyond any trends. Their newest album RABBIT (2004), offers this question: Is this a story about rabbits and bears or is this a story about saying your prayers? At once slinky and angular, lush and bright, rough, raw and refined, the bands current direction sparkles with a glam rock aesthetic delivered with straightforward garage attitude. The San Francisco born, New York based Billy Nayer Show is fronted by singer/songwriter/electric autoharpist Cory McAbee- director and star of THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT the band’s feature length film, a space western musical that we are fortunate enough to welcome back for a screening after the gig.
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(McAbee / US / 2001 / B/W / 91 mins / 35mm / cert 15) (Thurs 30th June (+ friday midnite movie!)/ 10pm / £4/3) The Cube welcomes back the wacked-out talent and charm of writer/director/ musician/actor Cory McAbee in this his first feature. It follows the exploits of greasy, laconic interplanetary trader Samuel Curtis, who travels through space exchanging various human cargoes between sex-starved, single-gendered Jupiter, and Venus. We are introduced to this juicy scheme through the conversational interludes of Professor Heiss, a wildly eccentric and unstable scientist- and too late you realise that you made friends with the wrong kid on the first day of camp. ASTRONAUT is filled with psychotic song and dance sequences, and off the wall characters such as 'Boy Who Once Saw A Womans Breast'. Billed as a 'surreal sci-fi midnight musical', it features the sounds of the bizzaro underground band THE BILLY NAYER SHOW (playing before the movie you lucky puppies!). There is great use of shadow in the flinty black-and-white photography, plus zero-budget sets and the spirit of the final frontier. This independent effort crashlands somewhere between FLASH GORDON and TWIN PEAKS. Do not miss this rare opportunity to catch this wonderfully original feature.
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DARREN HAYMAN (HEFNER) with Steveless (Fri 1st / 8pm / £5) Launch party for Darren Hayman's debut solo release. Darren was the singer/songwriter in Hefner, cult indie Peel favourites who put out five critically acclaimed albums between 1996 and 2002. He's also the man behind post-Hefner electronic outfit The French. After the demise of Hefner, not to mention a host of contractual difficulties, he retreated North East England in his caravan with his wife, his dog, two ukeleles and a mini-disk recorder on board. The results are released today on the wonderful Static Caravan label (Bronnt Industries Kapital, Tunng), four sparse acoustic jems displaying Darren's trademark obsession with the minutiae and melancholy of modern life. Tonights live show includes songs from Darren's entire career, performed on guitar, ukelele and keyboards. Plus Steveless, whose improvised, fucked up one-man-blues can't fail to win you over. Armed with broken cymbals, kazoo and added electronic bleepery, he'll oscillate wildly between a folky strum, wailing banshee guitar and delay ravaged feedback. Proper, genuine, expressive blues music with added noise!
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(McAbee / US / 2001 / B/W / 91 mins / 35mm / cert 15) (Thurs 30th June@ 10pm + Fri 1st July @ midnite / £4/3) The Cube welcomes back the wacked-out talent and charm of writer/director/ musician/actor Cory McAbee in this his first feature. It follows the exploits of greasy, laconic interplanetary trader Samuel Curtis, who travels through space exchanging various human cargoes between sex-starved, single-gendered Jupiter, and Venus. We are introduced to this juicy scheme through the conversational interludes of Professor Heiss, a wildly eccentric and unstable scientist- and too late you realise that you made friends with the wrong kid on the first day of camp. ASTRONAUT is filled with psychotic song and dance sequences, and off the wall characters such as 'Boy Who Once Saw A Womans Breast'. Billed as a 'surreal sci-fi midnight musical', it features the sounds of the bizzaro underground band THE BILLY NAYER SHOW. There is great use of shadow in the flinty black-and-white photography, plus zero-budget sets and the spirit of the final frontier. This independent effort crashlands somewhere between FLASH GORDON and TWIN PEAKS. Do not miss this rare opportunity to catch this wonderfully original feature.
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with FIVE artists from Highpoint Lowlife, Adaadat and Stuff Records (Saturday 2nd July / 6pm - late / £5) Bovaflux ( Highpoint Lowlife ) Germlin ( Adaadat ) Marcia Blaine School For Girls ( Stuff Records / Highpoint Lowlife ) Miklos ( Adaadat ) Tigrics ( Highpoint Lowlife ) *EARLY START WITH BBQ* under_score kick off the summer with an almighty line up featuring five artists from the best of the UK's new wave of electronic labels, complete with mind-blowing visuals, summer garden fun and sweaty micro-dancing. Highpoint Lowlife records bring forth their indie-electronic goodness in the form of BOVAFLUX who effortlessly moves from melodic clicks to mutant gabba. Label mate is up and coming Hungarian musician TIGRICS. Next up are ADAADAT records who will unleash mentalalist cut ups with tumblin' breaks and twisted pop with GERMLIN and MIKLOS. Based in Glasgow, STUFF RECORDS are purveyors of the intersection between electronica and hip hop. Boards of Canada-esque MARCIA BLAINE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS will connect with fans of Warp's golden era. With FLOAT and CUBE DJs in the bar.
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This month cycle straight to the cube carpark from work for some alternative
cycle touring.
Autonomous cycle tours are open events for the sharing of urban knowledge
via the brilliant bicycle. Meet in the Cube carpark at 6:30pm and we will
map our way around the city via each cyclists' chosen destinations, routes
and sites.
Come along for a 10mph conversation with a stranger while sharing you urban idyll.
check out www.sparror.cubecinema.com/yahoi/cycletours
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(Garth Jennings / 2005 / UK-USA / 109 Mins / Cert PG) (Tues 5th / 8pm / £2ttt) One of the most enduring cult comic creations of the late 20th century, Douglas Adams' well trodden tale of a man who wakes up one day to find his best friend is an alien and that his planet is about to be destroyed to make way for a hyperspace by-pass, has threatened to find its way onto the big screen for well over 20 years. Adams' himself spoke with great passion about the project at every given opportunity, and spent much time and effort working to solve the inherent narrative problems in what was essentially an open-ended meandering picaresque tale which served as a vehicle for his observations on contemporary British life. Sadly Adams never lived to see his life's work complete - one of the bitter ironies being that his death sparked renewed interest in the project. One can be sure that were he still around, he would not be disappointed in the exceptional job by first time feature director Garth Jennings, who manages to capture the light wit and verve of the original radio series, whilst injecting a lively cinematic force into the overall narrative distinctly lacking in previous incarnations. Heralding a fine cast, and exceptional animations by London based collective Shynola, this certainly gives certain other sci-fi summer blockbusters a run for their money!
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(Hassan / 2004 / Japan/UK / 61mins / Beta SP / no cert) (Wed 6th / 8pm / £4/3) Rehearse the Curse returns with more fresh documentaries examining street culture. Beautifully filmed, this is a lyrical discovery of Japan’s hip-hop scene. A thoughtful study, SCRATCHING THE SURFACE journeys through Tokyo, Osaka, Kanto and Kansai capturing a lively, evolving subculture and a creative facet of the international movement that hip-hop has become. Although taking some influence from American hip-hop culture and philosophising about the all pervasive issues of one’s street and hood, Afra, DJ Baku, Kan and their peers have their own unique perspective and talents. Renegade graffiti artists who discuss the minutiae of the spray cans they use and risk extortionate fines if caught in the act of ‘writing’. Whilst exploring the global nature of hip-hop, director Suridh Hassan immersed himself in Japan’s hip-hop milieu, interviewing rappers, beatboxers, breakers, graffiti artists and DJs to provide us with a refreshing and reassuring document of the continuing dissemination of the culture. Hip-hop DJ's in the bar...
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(Thu 7th / 7pm-9pm / free) Amateur videos were once thought of as shaky footage of a baby¹s first birthday, but now they conjure the idea of being undercover exposés from community minded filmmakers. Increasingly new media technologies are being used by people to address issues of importance that matter to them. * What radical films are being made? * Who are the new producers? * How is this work exhibited and who gets to see it? And more importantly: * How can you get involved yourself? This event, part of the Fresh Five Young People's Film Festival, will screen a range of work produced with this independent spirit. Invited guests will speak about their experiences of activist filmmaking, and will give tips of how you can take the power of the media into your own hands. This is a FREE event, but tickets can be booked in advance via the Watershed Box Office: 0117 927 5100, or will be available on the door at The Cube on the night. Event organised by Firstborn Creatives, as part of Fresh Five, the South West's film festival for young people. To find out what else is going on at Fresh Five look at www.watershed.co.uk or contact Laura Gardner on 0117 927 6444 or laura@watershed.co.uk.
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A Qu Junktion (Fri 8th / 8pm / £6) Unmissable Finnish firepower from incredible six-piece Circle. This is one of two rare UK dates for an unpredictable ensemble whose epic live shows and limited releases have earned them a worldwide reputation - catch them while you can! Five musicians effortlessly circumnavigate a world of skewed progressive rock rhythms, gleaming minimalism and hymnal incantations, plotting an irresistible course from celestial calm to motoric Krautrock and back again, all held together, pulled apart, and pushed to the limit by their sound engineer on the mixing desk. For fans of Acid Mothers Temple, Sunburned Hand of the Man, and, of course, Can. http://www.circlefinland.com/
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(Sat 9th / 7pm / free) To bring the Fresh Five young people's film festival to a dazzling finale this digital film jam party will fill your vision with a rush of images. I am the mighty jungulator VJs will jam with VJ Rodell alongside young VJs from Knowle West, London and beyond in a multi-screen spectacle. The Festival's films will make fleeting appearances as multiple projections fight for screen space and Djs use their magic to bind the film collage together. If you¹ve got a film that you¹d like screened at the festival or during the Film Jam, download an application form at www.watershed.co.uk Tickets for tonight¹s event (ages 15-21) can be reserved in advance through Watershed Box Office on 0117 927 5100. Fresh Five is the South West's film festival for young people, with screenings and workshops from 7-9th July. To find out what else is going on at Fresh Five look at www.watershed.co.uk or contact Laura Gardner on 0117 927 6444 or laura@watershed.co.uk.
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((Mon 11th / 7.30pm / £2) Mooosick for the stawreees. That's right, friend, tell a tale with a turntable or tambourine, a squwak or a whistle. Melody and talk. As long as your trill has a story then do it. Put a soundtrack to your head rambles. Make a narrative with a note-able friend. Any special staging requests ask me, hannahg@sparror.cubecinema.com. This is a listening and doing event (you don't have to do the doing but listening is highly recommended). OH, MAMA, BRING ME THAT SLEAZY BASS!
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(Tue 12th / 7.30pm / £2/3 - though nobody turned away for lack of funds) It's taken 11 years to get out, but Platform Film's account of 1994's "Anarchy in the UK festival" is finally here! This journey into the heart of the punk scene features the likes of Crass, The Smut Festival, Alice Nutter, George Melly and a host of others. Also tonight a selection of punk'n'video local shorts to thrash alongside the maincouse. Join us at the Cube and shout "Punk's Not Dead!" http://bristol.indymedia.org
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(Wed 13th / 7.30pm / £3/2} Another session of the best in local short films. So just turn up tonight with your film (20mins or under) and it will be screened! Also bring along another copy for the bluescreen archive for possible future screenings and compilations. Plus Bluescreen Hi-Fi... expanding the Bluescreen ethos to the music played in the bar. So go on, send us your self-produced toones to play. Mail any enquiries to us at: bluescreen@sparror.cubecinema.com
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(Thu 14th / 8pm / £4) A concert inspired by the free and spiritual music of one of the most charismatic and mythologised jazz musicians of them all. In the era of Vietnam, civil rights, and hippy culture, Ayler rewrote the saxophone rulebook with his unhinged, free form, holy other kind of blues. Drawing on spirituals, folk song, marches and, as he saw it, the word of God Himself, he had become the catalytic force in free jazz by his death in 1970. Tonight two specially commissioned performances from THE ALBERT AYLER PROJECT, a loose knit pool of leading musicians from the South West and London, bringing reworkings, improvisations and a little of their own cosmic transcendence to the Cube. FIRST PERFORMANCE: John Grieve (Tenor Sax) Graham Mackeachan (Double Bass) Roger Skerman (Drums) SECOND PERFORMANCE: Geoff Hawkins (Tenor / Soprano Sax) Pete Judge (trumpet) Diana van Loock (violin) Graham Mackeachan (Double Bass) Roger Skerman (Drums) In memory of John Boulding, musician 1947-2005
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(Fri 15th / 7pm / £2) Roll on down for pre-Ashton court festival fun with the Heavy Heads. The star of tonight's show requires little introduction... Just arrive early for BBQ action in the Cube Garden before soaking up some of Hendrix's most electrifying performances on the big screen. Plus a smattering of carefully selected surprises. Afterparty at Espionage @ Thekla later on - £2 with Cube stamp!
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(Michelangelo Antonioni / 1970 / USA-Italy / 111mins / Cert 15) (Fri 15th / 11:55pm / £4/3) In the late 1960s, buoyed by his phenomenal success as an avant-garde filmmaker in Italy, Michelangelo Antonioni was invited to shoot a feature length film in Hollywood. The result was released in 1970. Zabriskie Point began as a commercial failure and a target of harsh criticism in the United States. At issue was the film’s lack of narrative focus and its verité accounts of the mounting civil unrest on American campuses, all in marked defiance of California boosters who were eager to placate the increasing political tensions that threatened speculative profits. Over time, however, it has come to be seen as one of the defining films of the counter-culture, capturing with halluciogenic precision the wasteland of post-hippy disaffection, and the alienation felt by many at the love generation's failure to change the world. Plotwise, there isn't much to speak of: at a student demo in California in 1969, mistakenly thinking that his bullet has killed a cop, Mark goes on the run. In the desert he hooks up with Daria, a secretary with a property company. Mark returns to LA in his stolen plane, while a frightened Daria carries on to her meeting with her bosses. However, from the early scenes of violent student protests and the faceless homogenisation of corporate America through to the explosive, iconic finale in the Californian desert, Antonioni's bold impressionistic images tell a far more important story. In fact, watching the film some 35 years since its first release one thing becomes clear: very little has changed but the soundtrack. Which, by the way, is a searing who's who of psychadelia, featuring original material by Pink Floyd, John Fahey and The Grateful Dead. Far out!
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