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FILM JAM (Sun 27th / 8pm / £2 or £1 for those with some media in the pocket) Film Frenzy! Obliterate the screen with all media - 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, slide, video, dvd and computer. Bring your old family super 8, your VJing Laptop, or your favourite slide and we'll add to the chaotic collage. Calling all DJs! Bring your cds and records and contribute to the sensory overload. Anything goes in this no rules, joyous juxtaposition. A real MULTI-media mash-up. Plus - after the screen is blasted out by your light there will be a wee performance of live TV remixing by VJ RODELL and MR HOPKINSON.
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HEAVY HEADS DISCO: IRON MAIDEN with screening of 'The History of Iron Maiden - Part 1: The Early Days' (Mon 28th / 8pm / £2) Come and join the Heavy Heads in celebrating the early years of this British institution, IRON MAIDEN. We'll be screening a unique collection of archive material charting the Maiden's inexorable rise in just 5 years from a struggling East London pub band to a stadium filling worldwide phenomenon (all without any radio support to speak of!) An honest and revealing insight into just what it was like early on in the world of Eddie and Maiden. With HEAVY HEADS DISCO in the bar.
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(Jim Jarmush / 2004 / USA / 90mins / cert 15) (Tues 1st / 7:30pm & 9:30pm / £2ttt) Charming deconstruction of the mindsets and etiquettes of western cafe culture, explored through a series of quirky little b/w films. 20 years in the making, the film overall has all the laid-back attitude of its various tobacco-smoking, java-gulping protagonists, each of whom spends their screen time ruminating on a host of arbitrary issues involving class, race, and physics. A very popular, accessable and funny feature returning to the Cube after January's sell-out show. Featuring such luminaries including Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, the White Stripe's Meg and Jack White, and the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA and GZA with Bill Murrey!!! And many, many more.
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(Jim Jarmush / 2004 / USA / 90mins / cert 15) (Tues 1st / 7:30pm & 9:30pm / £2ttt) + (Wed 2nd / 8pm / £4/3) Charming deconstruction of the mindsets and etiquettes of western cafe culture, explored through a series of quirky little b/w films. 20 years in the making, the film overall has all the laid-back attitude of its various tobacco-smoking, java-gulping protagonists, each of whom spends their screen time ruminating on a host of arbitrary issues involving class, race, and physics. A very popular, accessable and funny feature returning to the Cube after January's sell-out show. Featuring such luminaries including Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, the White Stripe's Meg and Jack White, and the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA and GZA with Bill Murrey!!! And many, many more.
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(Peralta / USA / 2004 / 35mm / 100mins / cert 12a) (Wed 2nd March / 8pm / £4/3) This new jaw-dropping, hot-dogging documentary from Stacy (Dogtown and Z Boys) Peralta is a must see not only for surf enthusiasts but any one trying to understand why people would devote their lives to the pursuit of great danger. It starts with an historical primer of surfing's Polynesian beginnings, right through to revival in the 1950's. Then as the movie draws to the present, it concentrates our attention on the innovative likes of Greg Noll, Jeff Clark and Laird Hamilton, who amongst others, abandoned the more fun and social aspects of the sport and went looking for a challenge. The quest for bigger, more perfect waves in the ensuing years takes the documentary around Hawaii, then around the world. Along the way the film touches on the physics of wave formation, and the evolution of the equipment. With gritty (literally) archive footage and Peralta's trademark enthusiasm and cinematic acumen this is likely to get many beach-bums on seats.
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(Thurs 3rd / 8pm / £5)
Hailing from West London, Douglas Benford (SI-CUT.DB) has been releasing
some of the most gorgous, warm and crackly electro-dub commited to vinyl
over the last five years. Expect hypnotic reverberated melodies, low end
bass pulses and snappy microbeats. Benford manages to pull off the rare
trick in his field of making music which is strange yet highly likeable and
accessable. Releases on BIP HOP, FALLT, WARP, BACKGROUND & 12k confirm his
pedigree. As well as producing his own music Benford curates and runs
SPRAWL club which has showcased some of the finest experimental electronic
music for 9 years. He promises an audio/visual set which will delight
electronic fans especially those of POLE and BASIC CHANNEL/MAURIZIO.
Bristol musician YLID (CACTUS ISLAND RECORDINGS) returns to the cube
after a lenghy absence with new material, showcasing his exciting and
engaging, phat electronica. Which is expertly composed from mangled static
beats, spurting, whittering melodies and backed by soothing atmospheric
synths tones. On the surface there are definate nods to BOARDS OF CANADA
and early U-ZIQ but the music has a life and soul completely of its
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(Kar-Wai / 2000 / Hong Kong (subtitles) / 98 mins / 35mm / cert PG) In Hong Kong, 1962, the editor Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and his wife, and the secretary Su Li-Zhen Chan (Maggie Cheung) and her husband simultaneously move to an old building. With their respective partners away from home, Chow and Li-Zhen develop a friendship, based on their love of noodles and kung-fu stories. Inevitably their feelings for each other deepen through close contact, but Li-Zhen's shyness and sense of repression keeps the romance at a platonic and, ultimately, impossible level. Possibly Wong Kar-Wai's greatest achievement as a filmmaker, the attention to period detail, lush cinematography and beautiful observations of the minutae of human desire make this vital viewing.
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(Kar-Wai / 2004 / Hong Kong (subtitles) / 129 mins / 35mm / cert 12a) (Fri 4th + Sun 6th-Thurs 10th @ 8pm + Sat 5th @ 4pm / £4/3/2ttt) In this new feature, a sequel of sorts to Kar-Wai's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, journalist Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) returns to Hong Kong in the late 1960s, an unhappy man trying to exorcise the love of his past with a string of frivolous sexual liaisons - including a stay with Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi of CROUCHING TIGER and HERO fame). Inspired by these episodes, Chow writes an erotic science-fiction novel called '2046', about a mysterious train which takes passengers on a one-way journey to a future year where they hope to recapture their lost memories. The director spent 4 years editing the piece and it shows! It is an object of rarely witnessed refinement and complexity, with some of the most satisfying futurescapes seen on screen since BLADE RUNNER. TALES FOR THE REST OF US, a new film by Carmel Doohan will precede each screening. In a cardboard city, where reality is a fairytale with pages missing, what would make a happy ending?
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(Kar-Wai / 2004 / Hong Kong (subtitles) / 129 mins / 35mm / cert 12a) (Fri 4th + Sun 6th-Thurs 10th @ 8pm + Sat 5th @ 4pm / £4/3/2ttt) In this new feature, a sequel of sorts to Kar-Wai's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, journalist Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) returns to Hong Kong, an unhappy man trying to exorcise the love of his past with a string of frivolous sexual liaisons- including a stay with Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi of CROUCHING TIGER and HERO fame). Inspired by these episodes, Chow writes an erotic science-fiction novel called '2046', about a mysterious train which takes passengers on a one-way journey to a future year where they hope to recapture their lost memories. The director spent 4 years editing the piece and it shows! It is an object of rarely witnessed refinement and complexity, with some of the most satisfying futurescapes seen on screen since BLADE RUNNER. Veteran collaborator Christopher Doyle again provides delicious cinematography lingering heavily on the actors faces as they smoke, smirk and cry there way to heartbreak. 2046 is also the last projected year that Hong Kong will remain a semi-autonomous entity, before being fully reunited with China, underlining that the present is always intrinsically linked to the future and the past.
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Indymedia Party [like its] 2099
5th / 7.30pm / £4 - all proceeds raised go to indymedia!
This is a public event open to all and is to celebrate the gathering of the
Indymedia clans in Bristol for the UK IMC gathering!
DJs
Rawkus (ATV, Big Time 7) punky-reggae-party
Diss Miss (Dutty Girl, Girl Wonder) hip-hop heroine
Parasite (Toxic Dancehall, Death$ucker) Bristol breakcore legend
Live Sounds
North Sea Navigator
"...something entirely beauteous...slashingly distorted guitar,
harmonium and drums, alongside the more familiar cello, is little
short of revelatory..." (Julian Owen - Venue Magazine)
Figment
"Young and talented, this trio offer up a slice of lively,
energetic rock from the disaffected yoof of today." Decode Magazine
Fruit of the Doom
"Blistering ire from this six-pronged South Bristol rock-hop
machine. Kind of like what Public Enemy would have sounded like if
they had grown up listening to 80's anarcho punk, NWA & Slayer in a
cider drenched bus shelter in Ashton Vale." (Developments In
Disorder - EP Review)
Visuals over the music: The award winning and highly visual
documentary 'Surplus-Terrorized into being consumers'
FFI: http://bristol.indymedia.org
hey rebecca/julian
I don't know if these guys have sent you a press release yet for this and
no doubt it's too late already but if you can fit it in your listings or
find a lil way to plug it I'd be grateful...
hope yr well
Mark
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PUBLIC VIEWING & EXHIBIT LAUNCH (Sun 6th / 1pm / free) Pinhole cameras may seem something of an analogue anomaly in this day and age of digital dazzlement, yet local artists NEIL HALL and KYLA TICHKOWSKY have struck a blow for the back-to-basics approach to photography. Building cameras from tin-cans and gaffer tape in their kitchen, the two have created a beautifully off-kilter and quietly surreal vision of the world we all think we know so well. The exhibit also presents a challenge to you, the Cube public, to take up thy tins and snap: DIY posters and pamphlets will complement the photos, and a workshop will be held to help prepare you for the pinhole revolution!
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(Kar-Wai / 2000 / Hong Kong (subtitles) / 98 mins / 35mm / cert PG) In Hong Kong, 1962, the editor Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and his wife, and the secretary Su Li-Zhen Chan (Maggie Cheung) and her husband simultaneously move to an old building. With their respective partners away from home, Chow and Li-Zhen develop a friendship, based on their love of noodles and kung-fu stories. Inevitably their feelings for each other deepen through close contact, but Li-Zhen's shyness and sense of repression keeps the romance at a platonic and, ultimately, impossible level. Possibly Wong Kar-Wai's greatest achievement as a filmmaker, the attention to period detail, lush cinematography and beautiful observations of the minutae of human desire make this vital viewing.
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(Kar-Wai / 2004 / Hong Kong (subtitles) / 129 mins / 35mm / cert 12a) (Fri 4th + Sun 6th-Thurs 10th @ 8pm + Sat 5th @ 4pm / £4/3/2ttt) In this new feature, a sequel of sorts to Kar-Wai's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, journalist Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) returns to Hong Kong in the late 1960s, an unhappy man trying to exorcise the love of his past with a string of frivolous sexual liaisons - including a stay with Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi of CROUCHING TIGER and HERO fame). Inspired by these episodes, Chow writes an erotic science-fiction novel called '2046', about a mysterious train which takes passengers on a one-way journey to a future year where they hope to recapture their lost memories. The director spent 4 years editing the piece and it shows! It is an object of rarely witnessed refinement and complexity, with some of the most satisfying futurescapes seen on screen since BLADE RUNNER. TALES FOR THE REST OF US, a new film by Carmel Doohan will precede each screening. In a cardboard city, where reality is a fairytale with pages missing, what would make a happy ending?
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(Kar-Wai / 2004 / Hong Kong (subtitles) / 129 mins / 35mm / cert 12a) (Fri 4th + Sun 6th-Thurs 10th @ 8pm + Sat 5th @ 4pm / £4/3/2ttt) In this new feature, a sequel of sorts to Kar-Wai's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, journalist Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) returns to Hong Kong in the late 1960s, an unhappy man trying to exorcise the love of his past with a string of frivolous sexual liaisons - including a stay with Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi of CROUCHING TIGER and HERO fame). Inspired by these episodes, Chow writes an erotic science-fiction novel called '2046', about a mysterious train which takes passengers on a one-way journey to a future year where they hope to recapture their lost memories. The director spent 4 years editing the piece and it shows! It is an object of rarely witnessed refinement and complexity, with some of the most satisfying futurescapes seen on screen since BLADE RUNNER. TALES FOR THE REST OF US, a new film by Carmel Doohan will precede each screening. In a cardboard city, where reality is a fairytale with pages missing, what would make a happy ending?
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Francois Truffaut / 1959 / France / 94 mins / cert PG (Fri 11th @ midnight & Sun 13th @ 4pm / £4/3) When the 27 year old FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT's debut film was released in 1959, it heralded not only the arrival of a major new cinematic talent, but also the beginning of a new movement in European film: the French New Wave. However, unlike the naïve, mawkish films so often associated with that movement, THE 400 BLOWS was a mature work of filmmaking craft that didn't try to break any filmmaking rules, merely refresh the way the existing ones were used. The story is both a study of childhood and a paean to cinema, and most importantly, it charts the intersection of both. The 12 year old Antoine Doinel is easily recognisable as a surrogate for the director. He also serves as a very identifiable way into the film for an audience, demanding empathy that is expertly nurtured by his representation and the gently subjective portrayal of his experiences. Doinel grows notably in the film, perhaps not becoming cynical but certainly making a transition in his child hood. This is contrasted with many other children seen throughout the film, often shown with unfettered, skipping innocence. Furthermore, Truffaut counterpoints Doinel's awareness of his elder's motives with their persistant misunderstanding of him. This is perhaps a partly deliberate misunderstanding - but if so, that is a question the film asks without pretending to know the answer to.
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(Fri 11th / 8pm / £5)
LINUS, ANDY TAYLOR, SOAP SOUP, ANNA STEWART, MARK STEPHENS, TIM RYAN,
BUREAU OF INVERSE TECHNOLOGY, ASTLEY, PETER RIDSDALE, JEN GLOVER,
ANAKIN, THE PICK TEAM
music:art:jewellery:performance:film:sound installation:comics:puppetry
::: LINUS - Let's just call it 'punk-pop', shall we? ::: ANDY TAYLOR -
psychedelic guitar implosion antics ::: SOAP SOUP THEATRE - present 'Wyrd
Science' surreal tabletop puppetry and live sound score ::: ANNA STEWART &
MARK STEPHENS - introducing a series of miniature performances inspired by
different objects. e.g. Singing sex toys, babies with long nails ::: TIM
RYAN - extracts of new Comic 'Both Ends Burning' ::: BUREAU OF INVERSE
TECHNOLOGY - The BIT Agent's hand baggage camera captures the tension
amplify between notions of mobility and control in an airport ::: ASTLEY
'Heldfast' short puppet animation ::: PETER RIDSDALE - presents 'pianobot'
a piano frame that is played by a robot ::: Jewellery stall from - ANAKIN :::
plus our resident artist JEN GLOVER ::: and the ultimate in DJ delight from -
THE PICK TEAM :::
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(Sat 12th / 8pm / £5/4) rePUBLICof return to the Cube with a collision of music, performance, spoken word and dance, all processed on screen in a high-tech, low-fi night of digital cabaret. rePUBLICof are Bristol’s prime innovators in the use of live video for entertainment and consternation; from surveillance to found footage, the messium is the medage. Bristol’s plastic pop star, KID CARPET, performs electwrongica with kids toys. Graffiti artist, gHOSTbOY, offers poetry emailed from Bristol City Council street info points. RIK LANDER's giant rabbit invasion is a satire on another fictionally motivated invasion. JON DOVEY asks if Huxley’s 'Brave New World' is set now. MC IDLE spits conscious rap, MAT DUNLOP presents video and spoken word, as does JENNY SANDERSON with her lament for the last dodo. DEBORAH WEYMONT offers a critique of ritalin use in education in a video with simultaneous signing by AKA BULLY. Middle Eastern dancer, ZAFIRAH, brings glamour and a bare midrif. And rePUBLICof sound supremo, the legendary DJ DAD, spins tunes accompanied by jazz trumpeter, DOLAN JONES, and the house quartet, BARD. www.republicof.net
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(Sun 13th / 6.30pm / £12.50 - all profits donated to Comic Relief Tsunami Appeal)
Come celebrate all things Indian at ExtravaBhangra!
For one night only come catch the hit romantic comedy, KUTCH KUTCH HOTA HAI
(Something Is Happening), a story of love, life and friendship. Starring two of
Bollywood's biggest stars, Shahrukh Khan and Kajol, this is Bollywood at its best!
Enjoy a a delicious Indian meal and a chance to dance the night away to some of
the finest Bhangra beats all included in the price.
All proceeds to Comic Relief, who through thier International Grants programme,
are working to rebuild tens of thousands of lives shattered by the Tsunami.
Tickets available from Replay Records, Park Street.
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(Mon 14th / 7.30pm / £3/2 - nobody turned away due to lack of fundage)
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism.
He owns The Sun, The Times, Sky TV and the uber-rightwing US TV news channel Fox
TV. This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have
been running a 'race to the bottom' in television news. This film provides an
in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of multi-national corporations taking
control of the public's right to know. This version of the film is shown under
the creative commons licence (see www.creativecommons.org for more
information.) Plus a supporting cast of short films.
http://bristol.indymedia.org
http://www.outfoxed.org
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ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE... IN VENEZUELA (Elisabetta Andreoli, Gabriele Muzio and Max Pugh / 90 mins) (Tues 15th / 7.30pm / £3.50/£3cons) Today Venezuela represents the only country where a democratically elected government has chosen an autonomous path away from the dogma of globalisation and neo-liberalism, and chosen instead to further the interests of it's people starting from the weakest sections of society. This is the story of a different world that is not just possible but exists in reality. Programmed as part of Central America Awareness Week, the film will be followed by a discussion on what we can learn from the Venezuelan experience. Irish Journalist, Michael McCaughan, who wrote 'The battle of Venezuela' will speak.
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(Wed 16th / 7pm / donations) Why ask God for a used car when you could ask for a brand new Cadillac? A one night stand of video, 2D, 3D performance and sound pieces from an open submission of work by young artists working in Bristol. - If you believe you will receive - Come park your pink Cadillac in our dark drive-in of dreams.
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MOOG Hans Fjellestad / USA 2003 / 70mins / DVD (Thu 17th / 8pm / £6/5) Bristol premiere of this unmissable documentary about ROBERT MOOG, inventor of the modern synthesiser. Permanently changing the face of music, the Moog synthesizer went from a kitsch late-60s craze to an indispensable ingredient in Prog rock and beyond, laying the foundations of modern day electronic music in the process. In Hans Fjellestad's film Moog himself traces the history of his invention and meets those influenced by his work. And there's a serious cult of Moog fetishists - look forward to appearances and (Moog) soundtrack from KEITH EMERSON, LUKE VIBERT, STEREOLAB, MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO, TORTOISE and more! There will be a Q&A session with the Executive Producer of the film after the screening. Some of Bristol's most respected musicians (Adrian Utley, Jim Barr, Tony Orrell and a SPECIAL GUEST) form an impromptu synthesiser troupe specially for the Kavalier Klub. There will be much Moog action plus rare outings for some seriously vintage electronic artifacts. Prepare for an almighty bout of improv electronique complete with visual stimulation. http://www.zu33.com/moog/
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The MMM for March is so much of a mystery that even we at the Cube are not entirely sure what it will be yet. Suffice to say that whatever you will be watching, it will be influenced in no small part by the Kosmiche event which precedes it. So much so, that anyone holding a ticket for the Theater of the Eternal Drone can gain free access to the film!
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THEATER OF THE ETERNAL DRONE with special guests Kosmische + The Amal Gamal Ensemble + Grok (Fri 18th / 8pm / £5) Enter the dream house! We'll take you by the hand through a world of minimilist mantras and galactic intervals, Velvet distortion and isolationist drones in a monumental evening of statis, film and live performance. Tonight we're joined by London's legendary krautrock utopia, the KOSMISCHE CLUB, who'll man the decks with deep sound (NEU!, CAN, POPOL VUH, FAUST) from the outer reaches of the Kosmos. They bring the notorious AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE in tow featuring Stephen Thrower (MATMOS/COIL) and Dave Knight (ARKKON/LYDIA LUNCH) among its members, whose hynptic and hermetic blend of wild improvisation, kraut rock and melody will transport you along the cosmic autobahn. Earlier in the evening GROK will be performing a live improvised soundtrack of drones, tones and arpeggiated motorisms. Come drone with us. http://www.kosmische.org/
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(Sat 19th / 1pm / £2.50 for materials & please bring a tin can & lid) Pinhole cameras may seem something of an analogue anomaly in this day and age of digital dazzlement, yet local artists NEIL HALL and KYLA TICHKOWSKY have struck a blow for the back-to-basics approach to photography. Building cameras from tin-cans and gaffer tape in their kitchen, the two have created a beautifully off-kilter and quietly surreal vision of the world we all think we know so well. The exhibit also presents a challenge to you, the Cube public, to take up thy tins and snap: DIY posters and pamphlets will complement the photos, and a workshop will be held to help prepare you for the pinhole revolution!
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(Sun 20 / 8pm / £6) A music/film clash like no other. DEPTH CHARGE goes up against Steven Chow's martial arts classic KUNG FU HUSSLE with serious damage due in the cinema. Prepare yourselves. 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! Support for the night comes in the shapely guise of the second ever screening of MOTORBOY's 30 minute re-edit of Ridley Scott's classic film BLADERUNNER. With local turntable maestro JAY LE SURGEON mixing it up in the bar. This event is likely to sell out, arrive early!
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Qu presents JOSEPHINE FOSTER + James Blackshaw
(Mon 21st/ 7.30pm / £5)
Hear it here first....a beautifully nuanced voice that fragments raw
country-folk with soaring operatic undertow and primal forest rock
emotion. A voice that conjures up deep dreams. Just listen and wonder.
JOSEPHINE FOSTER (...and the Supposed (Locust), Born Heller, Children's
Hour) is up there with Elizabeth Cotten, Billy MacKensie, Mary Margaret
O'Hara and Iris Dement with her affectingly warm song and undulating
voice. She stands far from from the crowd of pretenders by her beatific
simplicity and quasi-mystical imagery held together by a
folky/bluesy/woozy backing that is Low-like or Jandek-esque in its
pureness. Playing ukulele, banjo, guitar and harp amongst other
instruments, she manages to glide us, one-on-one, through the delightful
tangle that is the forest of her song. You will be moved. This is spectral.
http://www.100songsising.com
JAMES BLACKSHAW tells us "there's a new finger picker in town" His twelve-
string fairly rattles along, resonating to produce unbridled raga-like
flurries, bursting with energy, yet harnessed with melody. The drone/raga
epic 'Lost Prayers and Motionless Dances' is on Digitalis Industries. A
split-album with US-based free-folk collective Davenport is due out on
Static now.
http://shoryobuni.f2g.net/sunshrine
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(Tue 22nd / 7.30pm / £4) JEM COHEN is a New York-based film and videomaker. Often shooting in hundreds of locations with little or no additional crew, Cohen collects street footage, portraits, and sounds. The projects built from these archives defy easy categorisation, thriving on the collision between documentary, narrative, and experimental approaches. CHAIN (with original soundtrack by Godspeed You Black Emperor!) Jem Cohen / 2004 / USA / 99 mins / Video / Cert tbc 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. CITY STORIES & MUSIC WORKS Jem Cohen / Various / USA / c.140 mins / Video / Cert tbc Among the films presented in this programme will be BLOOD ORANGE SKY, a beautiful portrait of Catania, Sicily, the magnificent LOST BOOK FOUND, a visual notebook of city life collected over a five year period evoking the work of Walter Benjamin, as well as short films produced for REM, Elliot Smith and Jonathan Richman. Cohen has made two feature-length documentaries: INSTRUMENT (with and about FUGAZI) and BENJAMIN SMOKE (co-directed by Peter Sillen). He has worked with musicians including SPARKLEHORSE, MIRACLE LEGION, BLONDE REDHEAD & PATTI SMITH.
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(Wed 23rd / 7.30pm / £2) After a break of two months, storytelling is back. Tell anything - something you made up, a family tale, a memory, something you have written or read, improvise - anything goes. But you don't have to say a word, alternatively sit back and listen. There is nothing like the low lit auditorium and people talking about amazing stuff that's happened to them (true or not) to give you a kick out of being human.
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A Benefit Production for Women’s Aid (Thurs 24th & Fri 25th / 7.30pm / £10) More performers, More monologues, More Moans… Please come inside, open your mind and spread your legs… This is Bristol’s official 2005 benefit production of Eve Ensler’s award winning play The Vagina Monologues, part of V-Day’s worldwide campaign to raise awareness and funds for local organisations working to end violence against women and girls. It is a play that is an astonishing balance of the incredibly intimate and the amazingly universal. Eve's words have inspired and empowered people and transformed consciousness about women's bodies and experiences throughout the world. They will do the same at The Cube. So be there to see what they can do for you. More entertainment after the show, so stay with us til late… www.womensaid.org.uk / www.vday.org
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International Tree Climbing Day ( 1pm onwards / free ) LIBERATE THE HORIZONTAL Integrate the vertical SUPER_SURFACE Integrate the vertical SUPER_SURFACE Integrate the vertical SUPER_SURFACE Located at (General areas): -Ashton Court Park, Bristol, United Kingdom. -Fairlands valley park, Stevenage, United Kingdom. -Parque Nacional Conguillio, Chile. -Diagonal, Mar Park - Skyscraper area ,BCN, Spain -Ipswich ( all along the A12), United Kingdom -Belfast, Northern Ireland -Vondel Park, Amsterdam, Holland -Barcelona diagonal _Anywhere that you are _Redwood Forest Canada Become routed in ascents, transitions, swings and jumps. Bring refreshments. Lets hope it doesn't rain. http://duo.irational.org/international_tree_climbing_day/2005/
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(Jeunet / 2004 / France (subtitles) / 133 mins / 35mm / Cert 15) As World War One comes to an end, a young French woman's greatest fight is about to begin. Mathilde receives word that her fiancee Manech is one of five soldiers who have been court-martialed and pushed out of allied trench into no-mans land...and into certain death. Whilst the film re-unites Audrey Tautou with the director of her star-making vehicle, the film is a complete turnaround after the impish delights of AMELIE, depicting the horrors of war with a visceral blood and mud brutality and examining the nature of fantasy and love with a more decidedly sombre tone.
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(Jeunet / 2001 / France (Subtitles) / 123 mins / 35mm / Cert 15) One of the most successful French films of all time, Amelie was a labour of love for it's writer and director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who spent over 20 years collecting stories, anecdotes and observations to build up the final screenplay. Making an overnight star of the lead actress - 23 year old Audrey Tautou - the film is a wonderfully whimsical look at life and love, and for all its chocolate box charm, is a damn-sight less fattening than a dozen eater eggs.
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(Mon 28th / 8pm / £2) Let the Heavy Heads take you on a Psychedelic Journey To Tyme. A night of far out live footage of some of the best garage punk and psychedelic bands from the sixties. Featuring rarely seen T.V. appearances from amongst others The Seeds, Love, Electric Prunes, Amboy Dukes, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, The Yardbirds, Janis Joplin and The Doors. Turn Up and Tune In to watch these bands performing to a kaleidoscope of tripped out visuals and groovy go go dancers. Heavy Heads DJs playing Psychedelic sounds in the bar.
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BLUESCREEN
(Wed 30th / 7.30pm / £3/2}
Bluescreen returns for another audio-visual exploration of local short filmmaking.
Just turn up tonight with your film and it will be shown!
Plus bring along another copy for the bluescreen archive, for possible future
screenings on other cube nights!
And dont forget bluescreen Hi-Fi... expanding the bluescreen ethos through the
music played in the bar. So bands, solo artists, producers, dub plate maestros -
send us your toones in advance only to: Bluescreen Hi-Fi
Mail any enquiries to us at: bluescreen@sparror.cubecinema.com
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Controlled Conditions Presents THEE MORE SHALLOWS + Angel Tech
(Thurs 31st / 8pm / £5)
Hark at San Franciscan lords of dreamy downsound THEE MORE SHALLOWS. Second album
'More Deep Cuts' (Monotreme) blends technicolour-blue melody with adventurous
sound collage and songs about mass graves. Ploughing the same emotionally
fertile terrain as LOW, SPARKLEHORSE and YO LA TENGO, the TMS crop is as fresh
as it is beautifully forlorn.
Having perplexed and hypnotized audiences for almost ten years with their
genre-dodging hymns to modern life, ANGEL TECH appearances are currently select
and few. Tonight they select us.
With sadness spun in the bar.
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no copy yet
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(Fri 1st / 8pm / £4) The crazy skiffle wonderousness of the fun in a jar duo that is the awesome Bucky head up a load of ridiculously young and talented home grown performers from the REMIX Music Mentoring Scheme including The Naturals, Infinity's End, and Incured, with the dazzling artist, poet and visionary Sofia Gradin intertwining it all into a light hearted evening that'll leave you light headed with pleasure. ffinfo: theo@remix-music.org.uk
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