TTT = Ticket Tout Tuesday
Andrei Tarkovsky / West Germany-Soviet Union / 163 min / 35mm / Cert PG (Sun 9th / 5pm / £2) Miserablism Sunday examines high art with low brow humour, screening a slow paced experimental art movie from Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. His masterpiece Stalker has been chosen as part of our event to reflect the perils of a Sunday, albeit in a comical shroud. Surrounding the movie is interesting soundtrack movie music from DJs and a pleasantly twisted vibe to polish off your weekend. If things get too stressed a character from a legendary movie over the rainbow will be on hand to sooth the strain of this Russian epic. From her ladle porridge makes a prestigious addition to the Cube snack menu. Critical writing and short video edits from the organisers combine with oddball critical readings to mould this experimental showcase to the Cube. Call it a surreal yet contemporary academic look at film.
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(Mon 10th / 7.30pm / £2) October = Autumn proper. Summer is gone again and we are left with sunny, sad memories - let's hear them. Let's hear stories about anything. Melancholic or just plain cholic. This night is for you to experiment with narratives. Use props, film, sound, your work or someone else's. Each seat holds two ears as well as one mouth so come and listen if you don't fancy talking. Let us know of any tech you need. FFI: hannahg@sparror.cubecinema.com
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(Tue 11th / 8pm / £4/3) Cult director David Markey has been making films and music videos for over 25 years, collaborating with bands such as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Black Flag and the Meat Puppets as well as visual artists like Raymond Pettibon and Cameron Jamie. His extensive body of work includes the music documentary 1991: The Year Punk Broke - the acclaimed film about the Sonic Youth/Nirvana 1991 European tour, which also features Dinosaur Jr, Babes In Toyland, Gumball and The Ramones. The Desperate Cinema Touring Programme showcases a range of his work including the yet to be released music documentary, (This Is Known As) The Blues Scale, a 40 minute postscript to 1991: The Year Punk Broke that has been cut from outtakes of the original footage and features previously unseen performance and off stage material. FFI: http://www.desperatecinema.org.uk
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Simon Bright / Zimbabwe / 1990 / 52mins / video / no cert with live performance from Charwell Durito (Wed 12th / 8pm / £4) Many of the rhythms and melodies found within the irresistible beat of Zimbabwean music derive from the mbira, a small traditional instrument with flat metal keys. Its sweet notes are intended as a call to the spirits of the ancestors to advise the community about current problems. This charming, award winning documentary features performances by many of Zimbabwe's finest traditional and contemporary musicians, and shows how music has been interwoven with the country's history. The director Simon Bright will introduce the film. Plus Charwell Durito (originally from Zimbabwe who features in the documentary) gives a live mbira performance. He has been playing mbira for 35 years (since the age of 4). In 1986, he joined the world-famous band Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited. Since 1994 Chartwell has been based in Britain where he teaches and performs mbira. Presented as part of Africa Focus events happening city-wide this month.
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THE LIGHT FANTASTIC #2: the second monthly event bringing together live and screen-based dance and performance with a microplex slant. An evening for everyone working in (the vicinity of) dance, in (the vicinity of) Bristol to present their work - the rough, the polished, the thoughtful, the frivolous, the raw and the cooked... And for anyone interested in dance, performance or experimental film to see ideas on the wing, from the tentative take-off to the fully-fledged flight Come early to see everything. Stay late to catch up and hatch plans 8pm onward £4 fullprice £3 concessions Get in touch if you have something you'd like to do/ show/ make/ talk about: email kyra@compactdance.org.uk or call 07779 726 370
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with Russian Futurists + Float Party Wing DJs (Fri 14th / 8pm / £7) London-based Canadian chameleon Dan Snaith eschewed the fractured folk and jittery rhythms of debut Start Breaking My Heart (released on Leaf as Manitoba in 2000), trailblazing off on the sun-soaked highway to meticulously crafted melodic psych nirvana. Second LP Up In Flames went some way towards realising Snaith's technicolour sound dreams, and now The Milk Of Human Kindness - his first since an enforced name switch to Caribou - adds a stiff krautrock measure to the brew. Two drummers, stunning visuals... Caribou: another Cube coup! With support from The Russian Futurists, also from Canada, a one man indie pop orchestra for fans of Magnetic Fields and The Flaming Lips.
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(Sat 15th / 8pm / £4/3) Lurid blood, joke shop fangs and a sense of style last seen on a postcard - if this is what British horror means to you, then either read no further, or allow the Cube to introduce you to an evening of classic horror from a golden age when the UK had a film industry worth mentioning. Outside of the Hammer cliches, some of this country's best filmmakers used what means they could to create challenging works within the confines of studios often no more glamourous than Bray. Tonight we are proud to present you three of the best. Satan's brews: Bat soup cocktails, hot bloody marys Devil's threads: Party shop chic Anyone in a costume comes in free...
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One of the greatest French filmmakers of all, Bresson developed an approach to filmmaking almost entirely without precedent - a pure, cinematic language that broke away from heavily theatrical film convention. His legacy endures in a body of work that continues to inspire generations of filmmakers. Tonight we present his two greatest films. PICKPOCKET Robert Bresson / 1959 / France / 72mins / 35mm / Cert PG (Sun 16th / 7.30pm / £2) Vital research meant Bresson's tale of a Parisian misfit contained one of the most stunning scenes of thievery in cinema history, as a group of pickpockets work the central Paris train station in a silent symphony of close-ups. An obsessed Paul Schraeder based his Taxi Driver script around the story. L'ARGENT Robert Bresson / 1983 / France / 81mins / 35mm / Cert PG (Sun 16th / 9.30pm / £2) Based on Tolstoy's story 'The Forged Note', Bresson comments on the corrupting power of money and the cruellness of fate in a timely 1980s satire, that despite lean running time, is epic in scope and amibition. A fitting swan-song for a director who felt that with this film he had said it all.
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Miranda July / USA / 2005 / 90 mins / 35mm / Cert 15 (Mon 17th - Wed 19th / 8pm / £2) Indie cool queen Miranda July presents her debut feature, which she writes, directs and stars in. July plays protaganist Christine Jefferson, a performance artist making art using fantastical visions to make objects of desire come closer. Whilst out doing her day job as an "elder cab driver" she meets recently single shoe salesman Richard Swersey (John Hawkes). The film captures the lives of the everyday characters that surround the two - a pair of teenage girls who play out a blow job competition, an older guy who leaves written messages for the two girls, the daughter who keeps a hope chest, the sons embroiled in a risque internet relationship with a stranger... Full of plenty of bizarre and surreal moments that make you wonder in awe about the nature of our mundane, yet extraordinary existences.
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Miranda July / USA / 2005 / 90 mins / 35mm / Cert 15 (Mon 17th-Wed 19th / 8pm / £2) Indie cool queen Miranda July presents her debut feature, which she writes, directs and stars in. July plays protaganist Christine Jefferson, a performance artist making art using fantastical visions to make objects of desire come closer. Whilst out doing her day job as an "elder cab driver" she meets recently single shoe salesman Richard Swersey (John Hawkes). The film captures the lives of the everyday characters that surround the two - a pair of teenage girls who play out a blow job competition, an older guy who leaves written messages for the two girls, the daughter who keeps a hope chest, the sons embroiled in a risque internet relationship with a stranger... Full of plenty of bizarre and surreal moments that make you wonder in awe about the nature of our mundane, yet extraordinary existences
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A regular FREE open rehearsal initiated by Jesse from 'The Greatness' in
conjunction with Peter Reynolds, leader of Scandinavian Circus Bizarre
orchestras. We are an improvisational group based at The Cube. Musicians of all
standards and backgrounds are welcome.
If that sounds scary then come anyway. If you haven't played your instrument for
years, rummage it out and come anyway. If you think this isn't for you, you're
wrong, come anyway. Bring your instrument and any ideas you have for Orchestra
Cube. It's GREAT skate!
We are also interested in collaborating with other art forms such as visual
artists and physical performers of all varieties. If this interests you, please
conduct us.
Available for random parades, funerals, bar mitzvahs, film re-scoring, anything.
PARTICIPATION IS BY ADVANCE BOOKING ONLY.
To take part please contact:
* Marcus: marcus@irational.org / 0117 935 0054
* Belinda: brassybel@yahoo.com.au / 07931 434 191
* Richie: captainrichw@yahoo.co.uk / 07880 756 369
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plus My Ambulance Is On Fire + Tristan Burfield (Thu 20th / 8pm / £5) A triple bill of wonderous ambient warmth. Adam Wiltzie is The Dead Texan, a lone drone taskforce from USA's Kranky Records forging drifting, orchestral somnambulant sound. Treading the same delicate terrain as that of his other project Stars Of The Lid, this is incredibly cinematic chamber music, impressionistic sounds from a sunken cathedral allied with bespoke video art from Christina Vantoz. The resultant audiovisual spongebath will surely find no better home than here. Support comes from My Ambulance Is On Fire whose thoughtful phased guitar and undulating Frippertronics provide antidote to his antics with noise chorus Geisha; plus a short retro electronics gameboy set from Tristan Burfield featuring visuals generated via gameboy camera. With Theater of the Eternal Drone DJs.
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ICH BIN EIN BERLINER A weekend of Berlin home and away (Fri 21st - Sun 23rd / £12 for a ticket to all events) JFK famously declared "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to the city - an intended vote of solidarity with the populous that actually translates as the surreal "I am a jelly doughnut". Drawing inspiration from this famous gaffe, we celebrate the contemporary ex-pat Berlin culture in three days of music, performance and film. The city has been a home from home for artists through the years - from David Bowie, Christopher Isherwood, The Russian Disco, to Jamie Lidell - and since the wall came down artists have been flocking there to take advantage of its slow pace, cheap rent, and excellent cross cultural opportunities. On Friday and Saturday, full on party antics featuring an international cast of electronic musicians now resident in Berlin who are setting the place alight with a shared taste for theatrical performance and surrealism; on Sunday, in Berlin > New York, two films examine Berlin as cultural export. ELECTRONICAT, VANISHING BREED & MISS LE BOMB (Fri 21st / 8pm / £5) Kicking things off, a triple bill of extroverted electronic cabaret from Berlin with dancing in the bar. Electronicat is Fred Bigot from Laval, France, who lives and works in Berlin. Renowned for collaborations with the likes of Kid 606, Khan, Depeche Mode and Felix Cubin, he combines sleazy Germanic electro with a taste for B movie horror soundtracks. Vanishing Breed is Alexander Homes, a one man live looping machine inspired (appropriately enough) by the theme of modern dislocation. His contemporary anthems go out to all foreigners, international commuters and long distance lovers. Miss le Bomb aka Catriona Shaw produces a unique brand of messy abstract disco. Expect a high octane and accident-prone live show with plenty of punk attitude.
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Whoever said electronic music was cold and emotionless? Crazed psycho-sexual fantasies are the order of the evening. Join us for an emotional rollercoaster ride of a party! Vulnerable, delusional and neurotic, Kevin Blechdom is not a girl you can trust at the controls. A bouncing, graceless theatrical powerhouse from the US, she's relocated to Berlin and signed to Chicks on Speed. A singular musical personality right up there with Mike Patton, Peaches and Drew Daniel, her irreverence and warped sense of humour give electronic music a much needed kick in the teeth. Wild woman Planningtorock hails originally from Bolton but has likewise made the move to Germany. A highly performative audiovisual show lies in store, featuring dextrous Kate Bush-esque vocals and a band of make believe characters. Plus from Bristol, it's Twocsinak, a specialist in breakdowns, both rhythmic and nervous. This is music concrete in its most discrete form (karaoke).
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with screenings of The Nomi Song + Visitors (Sun 23rd / 8pm / £4/3) The Nomi Song is director Andrew Horn's strange and fascinating documentary about the late New Wave singer and art object, Klaus Nomi. An androgenous, trained countertenor from Berlin singing pop music like opera, he was on the verge of international fame when he tragically became one of the first gay artists to die of AIDS in 1983. The film is a riveting time capsule of late 70s and early 80s New York punk Bohemia, also featuring music by David Bowie, Wire, The Marbles, Pylon, and Chi Pig. Visitors is Deborah Schamoni's surreal 2005 film starring Berlin band Chicks on Speed, who arrive as aliens in New York City, becoming homeless. The band have gained critical acclaim as artists in the fields of pop music, painting, graphic design, fashion, and live art. The three members started as a fake band at the Munich Art Academy in 1997 before taking the music world by storm. The most important element in their work is dialogue and the cross fertilisation of art mediums with music.
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Greenstreet / 2005 / USA / digital / 88mins / no cert (Tues 25th / 8pm / £2) A raw and riveting examination of the heated "red versus blue" rift in the US. Utah Valley State College announced that liberal filmmaker Michael Moore would speak on their campus two weeks before the 2004 US election (Utah is one of the strongest Republican strongholds). Instant fundamentalist and community protests explode all over the media and hysteria rises, to the point where some even claimed Moore's arrival will trigger the Apocalypse. Death threats, shouting down, bribery, law suits and resignations follow as the student body attempt to defend that old chestnut, the 1st ammendment! Will conservative activists prevent Michael Moore from speaking? Can the liberal Utahans win their fight for freedom of speech? The answer lies somewhere within this jaw dropping, critically acclaimed documentary. UK PREMIERE!
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A regular FREE open rehearsal initiated by Jesse from 'The Greatness' in
conjunction with Peter Reynolds, leader of Scandinavian Circus Bizarre
orchestras. We are an improvisational group based at The Cube. Musicians of all
standards and backgrounds are welcome.
If that sounds scary then come anyway. If you haven't played your instrument for
years, rummage it out and come anyway. If you think this isn't for you, you're
wrong, come anyway. Bring your instrument and any ideas you have for Orchestra
Cube. It's GREAT skate!
We are also interested in collaborating with other art forms such as visual
artists and physical performers of all varieties. If this interests you, please
conduct us.
Available for random parades, funerals, bar mitzvahs, film re-scoring, anything.
PARTICIPATION IS BY ADVANCE BOOKING ONLY.
To take part please contact:
* Marcus: marcus@irational.org / 0117 935 0054
* Belinda: brassybel@yahoo.com.au / 07931 434 191
* Richie: captainrichw@yahoo.co.uk / 07880 756 369
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(Wed 26th / 7.30pm / £3/2} bluescreen returns with another packed session of the best in local film shorts. So just turn up tonight with your film (20mins or under) and it will be screened! And bring along another copy for the bluescreen archive for future screenings and compilations. Plus Bluescreen Hi-Fi.....expanding the bluescreen ethos to the music played in the bar. So feel free to send/bring along your self-produced toones to play. contact: bluescreen@sparror.cubecinema.com
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(Thu 27th / 8pm / £4) A year after the great man's death and he remains sorely missed. There was always a surprise to be had listening to the John Peel show, and that's what you'll get tonight, as SJ Esau steps in to curate an evening of Peel-approved live music, film, records and fun. Perhaps there will also be some god-awful happy hardcore thrown into the mix too!
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(George A Romero / 1968-1978-1985-2005 / USA / 96-126-101-93 mins / Cert X) (Fri 28th / 7pm / £10/8) As Halloween looms, the Cube offers you the chance to see all 4 of George A. Romero's 'Dead' films back-to-back. Up the ante by coming dressed in your finest zombie regalia and enjoy the whole lot for a bargain 8 quid! The phemonenon began in 1968 with his chilling debut NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, part inspired by the cult novel I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson. Its a claustrophobic b/w yarn about a group of hapless strangers forced to barricade themselves in an abandoned countryhouse, defending themselves against a strange and brutal mob of seemingly braindead marauders. Ten years later the story has moved into the city in DAWN OF THE DEAD as a small band flee to the reletive safely of a shopping mall filled with rotting, passive-as-ever consumers. A cameo from make-up artist TOM SAVINI (who went on to make the Thriller video, and featured in FROM DUSK TIL DAWN) is just one of the many highlights of this absurd satire cum gore fest. In the 80's Romero delivered the bleak and outlandish DAY OF THE DEAD where the zombies have seriously begun to establish themselves! The story is set in a government facility where hordes of living dead are stored in underground caves for research, and again the heros are backed against the wall. Nearly 40 years after the inception of Romero's zombie vision LAND OF THE DEAD promises to be a unique horror experience, where the ever increasing scale of the 'epidemic' has now trapped the only remaining humans within a single city. Boasting a great cast including Dennis Hopper (and a cameo from Simon Pegg of SHAWN OF THE DEAD fame) this is an unmissable for any gore fan. What unites these films is a masterfully executed depiction of paranoia that inevitably grows as the prospects becomes more desperate until otherwise rational citizens turn on each other dispite the greater, outside threat, confronting the audience with an all too believable breakdown-of-society-in-the-wake-of-a-natural-disaster senario.
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(Sat 29th / 8pm / £5) Please attend the digitally projected Universal Premiere of the "Cutting Up My Friends" film, a long, gloriously entertaining ride into the world of David Hopkinson's video art. A long, long time in the making in a far off studio, deep in the confines of Hopkinson Heartland comes an Arts Council supported video piece by visual/music/media artist David Hopkinson, based in Bristol, UK. The video piece features many local characters (Amy Jarlett, Ben Hereshop, Dani Landau, Grim Evelyn, Lev, My Dentist, Patrick Joyce, Tom Cobs, Unai Requejo and trillions more) captured performing sounds, music, dance and noises alone. They have then been filmed, digitalised, cracked, cut up and spliced back together in multi-loop format. For the orchestral, micro-prom, maximum potential they have then been brought together through meticulous editing to make a virtual widescreen ensemble. For this night only, support comes from three live orchestras in situations suggested by Mr Hopkinson: The Turntable Orkhestra, organised by Jay Le Surgeon and featuring many skilled turtablists such as Beanz performing using multiple copies of the 1960s record "An Introduction to the Orchestra". 9V Cell culled together by Tom Bugs' performing with light sensitive instruments in the dark space beneath the audience's seats in the auditorium with a live night-vision feed on the big screen. Orchestra Cube, the improvisational and ever-changing set up performing live to instruction from a disembodied virtual video conductor. In the Bar RLF & Diss Miss DJ in combination with inspired and improvisational pianist Colin Smith. Fair to say you will get your fill. Be courteous and Cut Up Your Friends.
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(Mon 31st / 8pm / £2) Heavy Heads pay tribute to the orginal heavy metallers this Halloween with blistering footage of the band on tour at their peak in 1970. Featuring the original line up of Ozzy Osbourne, Toni Iommi, Bill Ward and Geezer Butler unleashing an unstoppable arsenal of Paranoid-era songs, they would never again recapture the sheer monolithic power of their legendary live shows from this period. From a time well before The Prince of Darkness went in league with the devil (or at least MTV) having snorted one ant too many, and with a metal/doom revival apparently underway, this is a timely reminder of a what an important band Black Sabbath once were.
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presents Eastern Easton Film Night (Tue 1st / 8pm / £3.50) Local workers co-operative Action Time Vision present a night of film celebrating the Easton area and the complex nature of Eastern influences on the area. The feast of films draw on the rich culture in Easton, ending with a Palestinian feature. Premier of “BREAK” - comedic twist on 1960’s film Sleuth, shot and acted by local young people: 5 minute short. Ealing comedy handling. Eastern Easton - Celebration of dance and film featuring local artists reflecting Bollywood styles from predominately Hindu India, Lollywood from predominately Muslim Pakistan, and contemporary Bhangra, Hip Hop and fusion styles. Hype, Krupa and Minakhshree featured. Excerpt from “Undadawgs” powerful drama about gang culture in Easton - all based on real life occurrences and draw from the raw material of Easton street life: young people playing out scenes from their own lives.Written by Bev and Ramone Thompson Excerpt from “ A Letter To The Prime Minister” - based on Nobel Peace Price nominee and Easton Based activist Jo Wilding’s diary blog of her time in Iraq and featuring harrowing footage of life before, during and after the war. The film has been critically acclaimed by John Pilger. Directed by Easton based filmmaker Julia Guest. Feature Film: Gaza Strip by James Longley “The absence of voice-over narration and talking head interviews gives this portrait of human life under duress a riveting immediacy” New York Times “A Documentary to make the stones weep” Village Voice
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BABY CINEMA: THE EDUKATORS Hans Weingartner / Germany / 2004 / 127 mins / 35mm / Cert 15 Wed 2nd / 11am / £2 The Cube Cinema is delighted to invite you to our Baby Cinema Screenings. The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/ carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring. With our unique, bi-weekly program you’ll be able to see the latest blockbusters, foreign language films and classic favorites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium. There will always be a Front of House team on hand to help. Membership to The Cube Cinema is £1. Tickets cost £2 per film (babies free). Screenings take place Wednesdays, bi- weekly, at 11 am. Doors open 10:30 am.
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Hans Weingartner / Germany / 2004 / 127 mins / 35mm / Cert 15 (Wed 2nd & Thu 3rd / 8pm / £2) Back after a sellout in September. Evicted from her flat, Berlin student Jule moves in with her boyfriend Peter and soon learns that Peter and his flatmate, Jan, are breaking into the homes of middle class suburbans at night. Instead of stealing or vandalising, though, they carefully and ornately rearrange furniture and valuables, leaving messages such as "Your Days of Plenty Are Numbered" (the original German title of the film) as a mark of their naive political intent. However their idealistic activities are shattered when their meticulously planned civil disturbances have unforseen repercussions and they are forced to take desperate measures. A perceptive political tale of our times featuring another superb performance from hot German actors Daniel Brühl (GOODBYE LENIN!) and Julia Jentsch (SOFIE SCHOLL)
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(Fri 4th / 8pm / £5)
The Cube ushers in Ninja Tune - the most successful leftfield label ever to
emerge from the UK - for a night of their trademark forward-thinking beats and
multimedia pieces.
Playing live is Los Angeles resident Daedelus, a loveable scamp who renders
skewiff electronic rhythms and carefully spliced sampleage as cuddly postmodern
nursery rhymes for hoodies with hearts, as evidenced on fabulous new Ninja album
Beautiful Corpse.
Get down early for an exclusive screening of Keep In Time, a compelling DVD
document of a live collaboration between today's finest crate-digging beatmakers
including DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist and Madlib, and two LA drummers whose influence
lies at the very root of modern hip hop's inspiration: Paul Humphrey and James
Gadson. One for the headz.
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As a special Bonfire Night treat, Game and Watch take you back to a gentler age when the threat of complete nuclear annihilation lay just around the corner. A fine selection of classic, bleak responses to this possibility from the world of filmm and television will play onscreen, whilst in the bar irradiated djs play nuclear tunes whilst serving white-hot cocktails. Dress: Radiation Suits and Atoll Bikinis. Eats: Tinned food barbecue. Watch out for fire-in-the-sky shennanegins in the garden! (Costume wearers come free)
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Nanoplex is the version of the Cube that accommodates active learning, makes way for young peoples minds and encourages creativity. This month we are delighted to be able to present a series of bi- weekly Sunday afternoon film screenings for children over 5 years of age. Nanoplex gives the whole family the chance to see their favorite films all over again. The tickets are just £ 2 for kids, and adults get in for free as long as they are accompanying a child, that is!. Nanoplex screenings are Sundays, bi- weekly at 2pm. For further information, check our website or contact us on: nanoplex@cubecinema.com http://nanoplex.cubecinema.com/ The Cat Returns Hiroyuki Morita / Japan / 2002 / 75 mins / Cert U (Sun 6th / 2pm / £2) The Cat Returns follows the adventures of a young girl named Haru who is unknowingly drawn into the secret world of cats. After saving a cat from being hit by a car, Haru is then told that this cat was actually the prince of the cat kingdom, and finds herself pledging to marry him as a reward for her heroic act. Luckily Haru is protected and guided by a big, fat, white cat called Muta and a smaller cat known as the Baron, who set out to rescue the young girl from having to marry the prince of the cat kingdom, which would mean she could never again return to her human life. A charming Studio Ghibli classic for the whole family.
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Assayas / 2004 / UK-France-Canada / 111 mins / 35mm / cert 15 (Sun 6th + Tues 8th - Wed 9th / 8pm / £2) Dispelling the myth of 'heroin chic', this moving and convincing drama centres around a young widow of a pop star, who fights for custody of her child and against addiction. Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung (famous for her roles in Hero and Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood For Love and 2046) turns out a heavyweight portrayal of a woman trying to rebuild her life having been released from jail. Nick Nolte plays her suitably gruff, benevolent and protective father-in-law who tries to shelter his grandson from his mother's wayward habits. Unlike most films about drugs Clean does not sensationalise its subject matter but is performance driven as Chueng's flawed character compels the viewer into considering the way in which one judges and measures another. The action shifts from British Colombia to Paris and then London and includes appearances by Tricky and Mazzy Star’s David Roback (acting as themselves and in concert) plus a soundtrack credit for Brian Eno. An important contemporary deconstruction of pop-Utopian lifestyle.
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Bristol Indymedia Film Night - Terrorism featuring 'The Battle of Algiers' Monday 7th Novemeber @ Cube Cinema £2/3 though nobody turned away for lack of funds. Doors open 7.30pm, films start at 8pm. Banned in France upon its release, this film looks at the battle between the Algerian independence movement and the French colonialists in the 1950s. It is a powerful human drama shot in a documentary style that never flinches from showing the reality of both sides of the terrorism/freedom-fighter coin. A powerful tale for today's so-called 'war on terror'. The film was described by one critic as, "...a model of how, without prejudice or compromise, a film-maker can illuminate history and tell us how we repeat the same mistakes." This is director Gillo Pontecorvo's masterpiece that won him the Golden Lion at the Venice Festival. To accompany this screening, and in response to requests, we will also be showing a repeat showing of the short documentary ^ÑGreen With a Vengeance^Ò looking at the Earth Liberation Front. http://bristol.indymedia.org
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THE LIGHT FANTASTIC #3: the third monthly event bringing live and screen-based dance and performance to the Cube Microplex. An evening for everyone working in (the vicinity of) dance, in (the vicinity of) Bristol to present their work - the rough, the polished, the thoughtful, the frivolous, the raw and the cooked... And for anyone interested in dance, performance or experimental film to see bespoke ideas appear from up the sleeve and off the cuff Come early to see everything. Stay late to catch up and hatch plans 8pm onward £4 fullprice £3 concessions Get in touch if you have something you'd like to do/ show/ make/ talk about: email kyra@thelightfantastic.co.uk or call 07779 726 370
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Jane Taylor launches her album ‘Montpelier’. (Sat 12th / 8pm / £12) Jane is one of Bristol’s celebrated & best loved songwriters and the launch comes as a welcome relief to JT fans everywhere. It was recorded in a country in winter, the old fashioned way. Haystacks, candlelight and woolly hats - We can’t wait to hear the results... www.janetaylor.co.uk
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