March 31, 2006
THE HORSE HOSPITAL / APRIL 2006
HIP SURVIVAL BULLETIN 56
Z FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday 6th April, 7.30pm
doors 7.30pm, entry UKP 7 / 5 members / concessions
Chirpy chirpy baby!! The Z Film Festival is an annual Chicago-based festival of microcinema, aiming to "showcase movies that defy or redefine boundaries" & "test the limits of acceptability", which basically means an hour of total fucking lunatic animated & live-action obscenity & bafflement. This programme gathers together the best of the Z Film Festivals into a genius night of unforgettable shorts, curated by Usama and Kristie Alshaibi, the nastiest husband and wife film programming team in the world!!
Includes John Goras' Chirpy, banned by Westminster Council in 2002.
showing with:
BLOOD OF A POET
Jean Cocteau (1930)
With new score by Tristan Burfield (2006)
Tristan Burfield blends the surreal ambience of Cocteau's silent classic Blood of a Poet with his own surreally ambient electronic score. "The edgy surreal ambient soundtrack parallels Cocteau's dreamy subconsious visual ambience", he says. He's the man. Plus, he sent it in this dinky little handmade DVD case, which was pretty neat.
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Horse Hospital TV presents
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE
(horribly at the hands of Traffic Wardens)
Thursday 13th April, 7.30pm
entry UKP 7 / 5 members / concessions
"If you are a bit of a Goth and a suicidal type, then instead of listening to Marilyn Manson and Slipknot, go and watch The War Game and Threads in one night and see if you can keep your drugs and pot noodles down," said Amazon. Care to try?
THE WAR GAME
Peter Watkins (1965), 48mins
Originally banned in Britain so as not to put us off our tea.
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THREADS
Mick Jackson (1984), 110mins
"I had to shower after seeing this film" (Imdb)
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DARK NIGHTS OF THE SOUL - a magical anthology
Friday 14th & Saturday 15th April, 7.30pm
doors 7.30pm, entry UKP 7 / 5 members / concessions
CYCLE III: Emergence
Third in the increasingly popular series of one-night-only magickal happenings from the Foolish People theatre company, written & directed by John Harrigan.
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'THE OTHER AMERICA(S)' LAUNCH
Thursday 20th April, 7.30pm
free entry
Launch of this series of books from Black Apollo Press celebrating "original voices from (the) US". Includes work by John Gerassi, Matthew Lasar, Renee Hubert, Bob Biderman.
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TAPESTRY GOES WEST TWO
Friday 21st April, doors 7.30pm
free entry
Caroline Catz (2005)
Follow up to last year's "Tapestry Goes West", this 36 minute film documents the event of July 2005 in a Wild West town in Cornwall, with performances from Circulus, Archie Bronson, Simple Kid, Chrome Hoof, Tokyo Dragons, Rod Stern and more. Tickets for the next Tapestry will be available.
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kinoKULTURE presents the very first
KINO KETAMINEMA - a night to forget
Saturday 29th April, 7.30pm
entry UKP 7 / 5 members / concessions
Programme includes:
FELL IN LOVE WITH A FREEMASON
Aryan Darzi (2006)
World premiere of this short film by the unspeakably unrepeatable Aryan Darzi. A ketamine spasticated surveillance of London's Grand Lodge & its curiously fat inhabitants.
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THE SloMO VIDEO FESTIVAL
Sizzurp cinema! A hundred films by a hundred artists from all over the world, all one minute long, all in sllloooowww mottttiiiiooonn. Kick celerity in its skinny pants as we join Japan's Sloth Club & the Society for the Deceleration of Time in kicking back & pondering the mysteries of time & space in one of the druggiest hundred minutes of your life. Cinema chopped & screwed. (Bring your own codeine. There may be a corking charge.)
posted by James on March 31, 2006 04:12 PM