About me: In the Year of Our Lord 1991, in rat-infested Dickensian England, two decades of state pensions for artists and filmmakers came to an abrupt end. Embarrassingly, the ‘independent’ film culture that had sucked up all that lucre disappeared over night.
Deprived of the opportunity to become state-subsidised culture producers, some filmmakers grew bitter and banded together. Swearing to do something or other, come what may, they set about a bunch of stuff. Without the benign influence of arts funders, many filmmakers reverted to their native state, and a new Underground, with nasty, slightly rotted teeth, leered and coughed itself to life.
In dreadlock infested, dope smoking South London, Exploding Cinema was born in a damp room from the mystic unity of a projector, a sheet, and cheap grog.
Exploding Cinema, London's 16-year rolling seance in search of a living film culture, continues to draw the circle and invite all-comers.
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The Exploding Cinema is a coalition of film/video makers committed to developing new modes of exhibition for underground media; from DIY screenings in all kinds of venues to low/no budget film tours, cable T.V. and the internet.
We hold regular OPEN SCREENINGS of film/video for makers who want a popular audience for their work, we have no preference as to the kind of work ...drama, experimental, documentary, splatter, animation, true confessions, protest, pop promos, home videos, found footage....and we're looking for performance work and musicians. We have facilities for Super 8, 16mm, Standard 8, VHS, tape/slide, performance..... if you want to bring your own equipment or set up an installation that's no problem neither.
The group is voluntary and totally democratic, anyone can contribute, anyone can join the group.
Because the cinema is unfunded and non-profit making, we are unable to pay contributors but we do offer an exciting interactive public forum for work and ALL the money we make goes back into the events and buying better equipment.
Saturday 17th May at the Horse Hospital (8pm membership £5/ £4 concs)
The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1HX By tube: Russell Square, Piccadilly Line - buses: 7, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
May, month of revolution and soft mellow fruitfulness... here at Flixation central we have been busy planning an ocular orgasm of films, performance, music and high jinks to amaze and alarm you. Presenting that Dr of gab Duncan Reekie, films from Hector Pascales, Grace Connor, Jon Storey, Caroline Kennedy and many many more. Disc spinning by that sticky Tar Baby + special guests, Slides and decor from those lovable scamps the light Urchins and to celebrate 40 years since the Paris uprisings.....our May Meat Raffle! So gather yourselves comrades & join us at the Horse Hospital.
If you have any work you'd like to show or a performance you'd like to do - contact Clive on 07966201826 or email duncanreekie@yahoo.co.uk
Shot By Both Sides heads to the frozen hinterland that is North London on Tuesday April 29th, with a Spektakular FREE Soireé at Islington's OLD QUEEN'S HEAD - expect degeneracy and bloodlust!
Fanzine handout, cakes, poetry, stories, a gritty psych/freakout jazz/fucked-pop/post-punk soundtrack, and some disturbingly delightful live sets from TOM HATRED, FILTHY PEDRO & more...
Shot By Both Sides heads to the frozen hinterland that is North London on Tuesday March 25th, with a Spektakular FREE Soireé at Islington's Old Queens Head - expect degeneracy and bloodlust!
Fanzine handout, cakes, poetry, stories, a gritty psych/freakout jazz/fucked-pop/post-punk soundtrack, and some disturbingly delightful live sets from The Mules, The Woodsmen & more...
Needleandthread presents... {yet another series of} dirty great big nights out.. @ JAMM bar, 261 Brixton road.. {nearest tube : oval / brixton} {buses: 159,N59,333,133,N3} running 8pm-4am, £4 before 9pm, (afterwards its £6 / £5 with flyer, or NUS)..
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its the night out you've been waiting for! so far, on friday march 14th, we have experimental lectronics, live bands, hiphop crews, artists, bizarre performances, live visuals, singer/songwriters, dj's playing funk, hiphop, reggae, soul, rock n roll, gypsy breaks, ragga, dubstep, breakbeat, jungle, drum n bass, dancehall, glitchcore, and generally good stuffness..
LIVE ROOM
DJ TENDRAW {gluerooms} VS. INFINITE LIVEZ {bigdada} -twisted toycore with vocal oddities.. FRAZER KING - Mancunian psych-rock, harmonic rebels.. QUEENS ENGLISH -lyrical hiphop, bouncing bass.. BUNTY - self-looping vocal beats.. GREETINGS - new lancastrian cross curiosities..
DJ’s
D-CYFER - junglist classics, and vintage drum and bass.. SUNMONKEY - eclectic party blend..
with appearances from the tealeaf collective, surreal musings of a goliath frog, decor by cafe cairo, an animated depa, and the ink-stained scratchings of illegal guff.. beleive me, it all makes sense on www.needleandthread.org
Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis. Written, directed and starring Cory McAbee of the legendary cult band The Billy Nayer Show, this sci-fi, musical-western uses flinty black and white photography, rugged Lo-Fi sets and the spirit of the final frontier. We follow Curtis on his Homeric journey to provide the all-female planet of Venus with a suitable male, while pursued by an enigmatic killer, Professor Hess. The film features music by the Billy Nayer show and some of the most original rock n' roll scenes ever committed to film.
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EXPLODING CINEMA Friday 15th February at the Half Moon in Herne Hill
London’s most experimental OPEN ACCESS folk cinema returns to the satellite suburbs !
Mend that broken/lonely heart with our evening of underground aphrodisiacs. Animations, documentaries, sci-fi, dada and radical rants: Our irregular round up of the latest lo-budget/no-budget work from some of the best film-makers around is sure to set your pulse racing and your endorphins pumping. As if that isn't enough you'll also be able to sit back and relapse during the intermissions while James III and the Puritan lure in all sorts of amorous creatures with their merciless pheremones.
OFTEN IMITATED BUT NEVER APPROPRIATED !
The Half Moon, 10 Half Moon Lane , Herne Hill SE24 9HU Doors open 8pm/ Films start at 8:30. £5 membership
Rail: Herne Hill Bus: 3, 37, 68, 196, 201, 322.
Contact: explodingcinema@hotmail.com or the Half Moon: 0207 274 2733
Toby Tatum is very pleased to announce the completion of his new film Crime Scene
With Crime Scene Toby Tatum engages with his obsession with crime and, in particular, crime films – abstracting the genre's stock characters, situations and plots and reworking them outside the boundaries of conventional cinematic narrative.
The cast includes punk legend Gene October of Chelsea who, along with enjoying a successful music career which spans some thirty years, has also appeared in films including Derek Jarman's Jubilee (1978) and Caravaggio (1986).
Come to The Half Moon this friday, It's going to be a great night!
Kaparte presents NOCTURNE FOLKS:
TYMON DOGG & THE QUIKENING with support from: GERTRUDE MR. IRVINE PLANETZIM
Punk-folk veteran and Joe Strummer's pal Tymon Dogg touts his latest world music/C&W/punk project, giving an outing to a musical instrument of his own invention – 'the pyramid harp'. Plus cello-playing grrrl punk stalwarts Gertrude, 'ambient-rapper' Mr Irvine and ukulele virtuoso Planetzim!
Quite Pleased to say... that "Marta's Sex Tape" will be Basking in the Sun. *Thanks for Supporting this Pop Art Comedy. Starring Pilar Padilla (Ken Loach's Bread & Roses) From Designer & Filmmaker Anthony Rivero Stabley
6 January, The Forest, 124 Boundary St, West End. 6:30 for 7:00 start.
It's been another whole year of media beat-ups, let-downs, sell-outs, back-biting, bear-baiting, fratricide, cannibalism, hysteria and boredom, and even again Exploding Cinema is back to take a deep breath and let it pass.
*sigh*
Straight from crusty hipster-infested Brixton, Exploding Cinema, London's 17-year rolling seance in search of a living film culture, will once more draw the circle and invite all-comers.
This year's show features more stop-frame slapstick from Jim and Heinz, close instruction from Mick the Minicab Driver, existential considerations and puppetry from Paul and the Badger, 3-D film, nightmares involving ex-lovers, strange repetitive dialog, and a special appearance by
We had such a great time last night, we're gonna do it again, with live webcast and songs from director Cory McAbee.
FREE SCREENING Saturday 22nd December THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT Cory McAbee, 2001 Live webcast with the director after the movie
Opening Times & Location Details
Doors Open at 7:30pm till late
Film Starts 9:00pm Fridays & Saturdays
WHIRLED CINEMA 259-260 Hardess St Loughborough Jctn Off Herne Hill Road next to Austin's Garage Under railway arches Behind the hot water pipes! London SE24 OHN 2mins BR Loughborough Junction;10 mins Brixton
Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis. Written, directed and starring Cory McAbee of the legendary cult band The Billy Nayer Show, this sci-fi, musical-western uses flinty black and white photography, rugged Lo-Fi sets and the spirit of the final frontier. We follow Curtis on his Homeric journey to provide the all-female planet of Venus with a suitable male, while pursued by an enigmatic killer, Professor Hess. The film features music by the Billy Nayer show and some of the most original rock n' roll scenes ever committed to film.
