Thurs 3rd December - Weds 23rd DecemberMon - Sat 12pm - 6pm Artist Reception Weds 2nd December 7:30pm In the spirit of our eclectic history, The Horse Hospital is proud to present its first annual print show. Featuring collages, etchings, prints, lino cuts, fanzines, artists books and anything and everything paper by 18 legendary and emerging artists from diverse traditions and disciplines. Hannah Bays // Christian Brett // Alex Czinczel // Stephen Fowler // Carl Hoare // Serena Korda // Le Gun // Laurie Lipton // Stu Mead // Frederic Morris // Mark Pawson // Patrick Moran // Rob Ryan // Savage Pencil // Gee Vaucher // Cathy Ward // Ski Williams // Joe Wilson // Zeel Come join us on Wednesday the 2nd of December for the private view and pre-xmas drinks with DJs Nervous Stephen and Rocky.

Friday 18th DecemberDoors 7:30pm £5 Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Dir: Nicholas Webster 1964 Martians, upset that their children have become obsessed with TV shows from Earth which extoll the virtues of Santa Claus, start an expedition to Earth to kidnap the one and only Santa. While on Earth, they kidnap two lively children that lead the group of Martians to the North Pole and Santa. The Martians then take Santa and the two children back to Mars with them. Voldar, a particularly grumpy Martian, attempts to do away with the children and Santa before they get to Mars, but their leader Lomas stops him. When they arrive on Mars, Santa, with the help of the two Earth children and a rather simple-minded Martian lackey, overcomes the Martians by bringing fun, happiness and Christmas cheer to the children of Mars.

Thursday 10th DecemberDoors 7pm £3 Songs of prose, psychedelic visuals, spoken word, musical mayhem.. Zoe Street Howe and Fortune Teller Press present: YOU FILL ME WITH INERTIA THE JOHN MOORE ROCK & ROLL TRIO Partying like it's 1959! Back to basics from members of the Jesus & Mary Chain, Black Box Recorder, Lush and Ride. VIV ALBERTINE: Delights and insights from the original Slits member. MR SOLO: Further genius from the David Devant & His Spirit Wife legend, and current guitarist in Glam Chops. Readings from: ZOE STREET HOWE: author of Typical Girls?, the new and esteemed Slits biography...and musician, actress, etc. GRAHAM BENDEL: author of A Nasty Piece Of Work & Director of Billy Childish Is Dead. Poetry from: SYBIL MADRIGAL (ace, wondrous poet/backed by the musical talents of Alex Ward) PLUS Terry Edwards (Gallon Drunk) as DJ.

Wednesday 9th December 2009 Doors 7.30pm performance begins 8pm Tickets: £6/£5 (concessions) To reserve tickets email: guy@theculturalpick.com Each ticket includes a copy of Plectrum magazine issue 4 & one night only entitlement copies of Straight from the Fridge, Dad, which Max will be happy to sign, at the specially reduced price of £14.00 (Please note no credit or debit card facilities are available on the night) To all you hipsters, zip-gun angels, wolf-trap blondes, throttle jockeys, dungaree dolls, hepcats, bobby soxers, big baracudas, cool cats & real gone daddies... Plectrum is scoring it straight for you, with a night that will fry your wig: Max Décharné: Writer (Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang, Hardboiled Hollywood: The Origins of the Great Crime Films, King's Road: The Rise & Fall of the Hippest Street in the World) Rock Musician (The Flaming Stars, Gallon Drunk, Earls of Suave, & Nikki Sudden) & Righteous Lounge Lizard will be Waxing lyrical about Hipsterville from the 1920s to the late 1960s with an illustrated and record accompanied performance centred on the jam packed new edition (more entries, more pictures, more juice, more jive) of Straight from the Fridge, Dad (No Exit Press) Playing live a set list of the songs that have inspired him In conversation with Guy Sangster Adams, editor of Plectrum, telling tales from 20 years of combining the writing of short fiction, non fiction, and music journalism, with singing, song writing, recording, and world tours Max Décharné The Flaming Stars PLECTRUM - THE CULTURAL PICK is a multi-platform arts magazine edited by Guy Sangster Adams, with a bi-monthly print edition, filmed interviews, profiles, and performances available on the Plectrum Broadcast Player on the website, which is also home to the Plectrum Webzine, and regular Plectrum Live Edition events mixing spoken word, live music, screenings, author readings, fashion shows, art and more. www.theculturalpick.com Plectrum Live Editions put their best foot forward in shoes and boots from www.jeffery-west.co.uk

Saturday 5th DecemberDoors 7:30pm £5 The Ginger Light is a unique collaboration between poet and novelist Jeremy Reed and musician Itchy Ear. Together they create a performance dynamic unparalleled in British poetry and an excitement usually only generated by pop. Jeremy Reed has been called by JG Ballard 'the most gifted poet working today', and has published more than 40 books of award-winning poetry and fiction, the latest being This is how you disappear (2007), West End Survival Kit (2009) and Bona Drag (2009). Of his recent novel The Grid (2008), Pete Doherty wrote, 'Jeremy Reed is a legend. What more can you fucking ask?' Since forming his musical collaboration with Itchy Ear as the Ginger Light last year they have taken in the Horse Hospital earlier this year, a sold-out headline performance at the ICA this summer and the Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon alongside Gilbert and George, Richard Hell and Brian Eno this October. They aim for the stars. The Ginger Light will be screening some of their favourite short films before their performance: "Bill and Tony" by Antony Balch Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico in perfomance at Le Bataclan in Paris, on January 29, 1972. And the first movie version of Lewis Caroll's novel 'Alice in Wonderland', directed made 1903 by Cecil Hepworth, with new electronic score by Itchy Ear. www.jeremyreed.co.uk myspace

Tuesday 8th DecemberDoors 7:30pm £3 The Light & Shadow Salon is a place for artists, writers and audience to meet and share ideas about the past, present and future of the moving image in all its forms. The Salon is a place for exchange, interaction and cross-pollination and it welcomes active contributions and interventions from all its participants. The Salon endeavours to support a structured and informed dialogue around film, the moving image and all that it involves: from magic to science, from sound to the eye, from ritualism to storytelling, from myth-making to hypnosis. The Salon intends to act as a temporary and ephemeral container for all the work, ideas and people with an independent, radical and idiosyncratic nature, who renounce to find a home in existing movements/institutions but rather embrace the nomadic and transitory nature of art. The Salon supports individual thought, inquisitive minds and a desire to further knowledge through dialogue and exchange. The Light & Shadow Salon The Light & Shadow Salon presents... "BIZARRE, SURREAL AND HORROR IN THE MOVING IMAGE" An evening of open conversation and exchange featuring moving image work by RUDOLF BUITENDACH // OLIVER CHEETHAM // MARTIN EARLE // YUI HAMAGASHIRA // SHELLY LOVE // MATTEO PIZZARELLO // JAMES ROGAN // CARL STEVENSON compositions and soundscapes by JAMES HESFORD and the participation of writer and editor MARK PILKINGTON and painter Nicholas McArthur plus live music by GEORGES KAPLAN 'So when you hear yourself invited to 'see', it is not the sight of this eye (of the flesh) that I would have you think about. You have another eye within, much clearer that that one, an eye that looks at the past, the present, and the future all at once, which sheds the light and keenness of its vision over all things, which penetrates things hidden and searches into complexities, needing no other light by which to see all this, but seeing by the light that it possesses itself.' (Hugh of St Victor)

Exhibition: Saturday 7th - Saturday 28th November 2009 Monday - Saturday 12 - 6pm Alejandro Jodorowsky & Pascale Montandon Guerilla Zoo presents an exclusive exhibition of an exciting new series of collaborative artworks by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Pascale Montandon. Together they have created a wonderful merging of talents, with pen and inks by Alejandro and watercolours by Pascale, covering various themes including; Love, Violence, Spritiuality, Psychomagik / Psychogenology, Tarot, Absurdism and other Jodorowskian subjects. In this new series of work, which echoes back to the Panic Fables, Jodorowsky continues his ever developing personal themes and concepts. Together with his partner Pascale Montandon, they have created a 'third mind' through their art. The work appears as a powerful combination of both artist's unique creative process. Jodorowsky's clearly recognisable characters and Montandon's evoking colourscapes merge beautifully. This series of work is in their own words, 'our child!' Alejandro Jodorowsky During the late 1960s Jodorowsky started mixing his avant-garde projects with mystical curiosity. In 1966, editor Luis Spota invited Jodorowsky to publish a regular comic strip in the cultural pages of the daily paper in 'El Heraldo de México', under the title 'Fábulas Pánicas'. These 'fables' had a thinly veiled autobiographical tone while covering all kinds of esoteric subjects, where Jodorowsky submitted to the most arcane Oriental wisdom with humorous non-attachment. The comic strip enjoyed great popularity, and Jodorowsky kept producing and publishing if until the end of 1973, leaving an excellent eyewitness report on the spiritual restlessness of a nation prevalent in those years. His mystical experimentation proposed a sort of faithless mysticism. Getting away from the truth or falsity of religious concepts, he concentrated on the "magical" healing effects produced by his actions: "If this is a trap, it's a sacred trap." Pascale Montandon Pascale Montandon has been exhibiting her emotional charged art works since 1989. She paints on paper and canvas using inks and collage creating a perfect balance in handling spaces and silent pauses that punctuate her compositions. She masters a science of abstraction of forms and balances. Her work on is set on and hangs in a perfect rhythm, which constantly resonates in the contemplation of her work. * Part of A SEASON OF JODOROWSKY www.guerrillazoo.com

Friday 27th NovemberDoors 7:30pm £5 The Holy Mountain Screenplay : Alejandro Jodorowsky Cinematography : Raphael Corkidi Director : Alejandro Jodorowsky Music : Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ronald Frangipane, Don Cherry Run Time: 1H 54M The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe. * Part of A SEASON OF JODOROWSKY www.guerrillazoo.com

Friday 20th NovemberDoors 7:30pm £5 Santa Sangre Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky 1989 A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother. Against his will, he "becomes her arms" and the two undertake a grisly campaign of murder and revenge. * Part of A SEASON OF JODOROWSKY www.guerrillazoo.com

Thursday 12th November - Sunday 15th NovemberDOORS OPEN 7:15PM SHOWING 8:00PM QUID IN SHRAPNEL PRODUCTIONS Presents CALL OF THE HUNTER - LONDON PREMIERE Plot Summary In the summer of 1962, three teenagers went on a camping trip into Herongate Woods. What started out as a fun trip ended in a nightmare as one of the boys met with a tragic death. The other two escaped, but could only relay a tail of a hooded and horned man who terrorized them. Forty years later, Caroline (one of the survivors) meets with a mysterious and tragic death. Ralph now the only survivor returns to the scene of the original incident with a documentary crew intent on filming the Legend of Herne the Hunter. As he relives the unfortunate episode the past catches up with him and members of the crew die in horrible circumstances. The hooded man has returned and the spirit of the forest has been awoken. The survivors are on a desperate search to find what the spirit of the forest wants before it's too late. BOOKINGS: www.callofthehunter.com

Saturday 31st October 2009Doors: 6pm Tickets £5 advance purchase Buy tickets HERE £6 on the door from 6pm. As a little bit of fun and in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the epic television series The Twilight Zone Inheritance will be presenting two mini-marathons of the show at the Horse Hospital. The first installment will take place on HALLOWEEN, Saturday 31 October with post-screening live music until midnight. The mini-marathons will include episodes from every series from 1959 and will be thematically curated into "Everlasting Youth & Plastic Surgery", "The Homoerotic", "Mental Health", "Fascism" with an "Actors & Directors Special" including directorial debuts from Stephen Spielberg and Wes Craven and episodes starring Bette Davis, Dennis Hopper, Dan Akroyd, Portia De Rossi and Bruce Willis. Bands: Trash Kit + Halloween dance party until midnight INHERITANCE PROJECTS

Monday 26th OctoberDoors: 7:30pm FREE Café Scientifique presents 'Making Noise', a night of perceptual exploration. Join our scientists, artists and musicians as we ask the questions: When does noise gain meaning? And - Are we nearly cyborgs? Short talks: Dr Mick Grierson's demo of his computer brain interface - generating noise environments from brain waves! Patrick Degenaar, on visual prosthetics for augmented vision - and the prospects for bionic eyes Lauren Stewart on what our brain does with music, and why some people (with amusia) just don't get it. Joydeep Bhattacharya on why sounds stir our emotions. Also: Strings - an interactive sonic textile installation you can play. Make You Own Damn Instruments workshop with Ella & Iain from Shootin' Breeze and Electronic music by From Honey to Ashes with their custom built sound environments Myspace There will be talks and there will be sounds. Take some in and make your own! This events is FREE and is sponsored by BIS as part of The Learning Revolution Festival.

Exhibition/Presentation (music/painting/installation and video)Friday 23 October 18.00 - 21.00 Saturday 24th October 14.00 - 18.00 Artists Ivanov + Chan and composer James Hesford will complete the 6th work in the series of an international site-specific collaboration created during a 24 hour non stop period - at the Horse Hospital, starting on 22d October. (Previous sites include Berlin, Papa Westray (Orkney), London - River Thames) The Canvas - a suspended round tent - like structure enclosing the artist for a non stop 24 hour period. The Composition - created at the same time period and site - for 12 musicians in a 50 meter diameter circle. The Video - created as an interaction with the Circle Performance. Viewing the Circle Experience - after 24 hours performance the viewer can enter the Circle. A completed recording of the composition and score will be presented. INFORMATION : Land Art - Papa Westray James Hesford Ivanov Tsz Man Chan

Thur 15th | Fri 16th | Sat 17th OctoberDoors open at 7:30 £15 BOOK HERE "Tarnished, bittersweet music that conjures up Portishead" - The Guardian Dearest Friends, I take great pleasure in inviting you to the world premiere of my new show. A collection of songs and stories following the cursed paths of a clutch of troubled souls - with music and light relief provided by my infamous companions, The Clockwork Quartet. - The Raconteuse Discover The Horse Hospital transformed into a run down Victorian music hall, where you can enjoy a cup of tea, a glass of port, or something more potent, and refreshments crafted by the band chocolatier. Advanced booking recommended. "The Clockwork Quartet is a Dresden Dolls-esque collective of 20-odd musicians, actors and cabaret performers who all play various bizarre and morbidly dark characters. Intrigued?" - NME The Clockwork Quartet consists of a core quartet of guitar, bass banjo, violin and cello, with help from accordion, oboe, piccolo banjo, Stroh violin, musical saw, and the magnificent Steamdrone, as well as the percussive possibilities of clocks, metronomes, discarded mechanical parts and found objects. Members include two trained luthiers, a carpenter, a jeweller, a prop maker and sculptor, a chocolatier, and a doctor of zoology. Listen & book tickets at www.clockworkquartet.com

Friday 9th October & Saturday 10th October Doors 7:30pm £6 or £10 for both days Shadows is a festival that focuses on Chinese independent cinema, an alternative cinema defined by an aesthetic which is deeply informed by the digital era. When independent Chinese filmmakers grab their digital cameras, they capture an invisible world that is prohibited in the official audiovisual landscape, images that show, among other things, the breakup of rural communities, outcasts at the heart of towns and a young generation beset by doubt. The aim of the Shadows Festival is to expose a radically alternative vision of the country, through films and new talents that we have brought back from China. www.festivalshadows.info www.aestheticamagazine.com FRIDAY: 1. Selection of shorts : 67' ● A Bridge Blown Up / Chen Zhong / 14' / 2008 ● Da Shi Dai / Zhang Ding / 14' / 2007 ● The Explosion Is A Voice At Time The Generation Hear / Huang Xiaopeng / 5' / 2007 ● Heres And Theres / Zhang Yi / 19' / 2006 ● Fragment / Ni Keyun / 25' / 2006 2. Fiction ● Mid-Afternoon Barks / Zhang Yuedong / 78' / 2007 SATURDAY: 1. Focus : Sun Xun and Pi Animation Studio : 70' ● Utopia In The Day / Sun Xun / 5' / 2004 ● The Lie Of The Magician / Sun Xun / 5' / 2005 ● Chinese Words . War / Sun Xun / 3' / 2005 ● Shock Of Time / Sun Xun / 6' / 2006 ● Lie / Sun Xun / 8' / 2006 ● Mythos / Sun Xun / 11' / 2006 ● Requiem / Sun Xun / 8' / 2007 ● Heroes No Longer / Sun Xun / 9' / 2008 ● Coal Spell / Sun Xun / 8' / 2008 ● The New China / Sun Xun / 6' / 2008 2. Documentary ● Though I Am Gone / Hu Jie / 70' / 2007 FULL PROGRAM

Friday 9th October: 1. Selection of shorts : 67' ● A Bridge Blown Up / Chen Zhong / 14' / 2008 Taken from a series of videos dealing with the Three Gorges Dam's construction, Chen Zhong uses the demolition of a bridge to create an experimental film. ● Da Shi Dai / Zhang Ding / 14' / 2007 A sophisticated young man's night and equestrian runs in Shanghai. ● The Explosion Is A Voice At Time The Generation Hear / Huang Xiaopeng / 5'/ 2007 Set on a traditional chinese street, decelerated hip-hop music mixes and mimics the crowd's walk and movement. Sensless subtitles appear at the bottom of the screen which are the result of successive translations from English to Chinese through an automatic translator. These subtitles seem to invite the audience to take part in an absurd karaoke. ● Heres And Theres / Zhang Yi / 19' / 2006 Divided in three parts, this documentary by Zhang Yi divides time into fragments while isolating visual components of a house, a train station and a stadium. Reduced to graphic and audio qualities, people, places and things reconstruct the scenery of a small town. ● Fragment / Ni Keyun / 25' / 2006 Using Jiangnan area poetic language, No Keyun makes his characters evolve into fissures of time, space and emotions. 2. Fiction ● Mid-Afternoon Barks / Zhang Yuedong / 78' / 2007 A shepherd and a stranger meet by chance over a bottle of alcohol. As night falls, they are told that they can spend the night in the inn provided they pitch an electric pole in the field. The following day, when they wake up, the pole has disappeared. The two men become disconcerted and wonder if it was a dream... Saturday 10th October: 1. Focus : Sun Xun and Pi Animation Studio : 70 A rising figure in the animation world, Sun Xun is the founder of Pi Animation Studio where he has engendered a world that exists between dreams and apocalypse. The following ten movies are the result of four years of intense work. They deal with the question of construction and interpretation of history. ● Utopia In The Day / Sun Xun / 5' / 2004 A disturbing puppeteer pulls the strings of a world of chaos and pain. ● The Lie Of The Magician / Sun Xun / 5' / 2005 A magician transforms his body into a landscape of a new imaginary world. His skin is the canvas on which a painted universe appears. ● Chinese Words War / Sun Xun / 3' / 2005 Chinese symbols become the soldiers engaged in a written war. ● Shock Of Time / Sun Xun / 6' / 2006 In this film about power and lies Sun Xun uses black ink and newspaper to denounce the manipulation of history. ● Lie / Sun Xun / 8' / 2006 The top-hatted magician moves recreates his apparition in a warlike setting. ● Mythos / Sun Xun / 11' / 2006 Using the technique of collage, Sun Xun explores both personal and collective memory. ● Requiem / Sun Xun / 8' / 2007 The apocalypse has arrived: streets are burning and the mosquitoes are ready for the attack. ● Heroes No Longer / Sun Xun / 9' / 2008 The revolutionary background music of this movie emerges us into the soviet past of 1950's China. ● Coal Spell / Sun Xun / 8' / 2008 Using various techniques, Coal Spell relates recent history and highlights the crucial impact of coal on our environment. ● The New China / Sun Xun / 6' / 2008 "In magician we trust" 2. Documentary Though I Am Gone / Hu Jie / 70' / 2007: The starting point of this film is photographs taken at the very start of the Cultural Revolution by a currently retired professor, Wang Jingyao. These images show the corpse of his wife Bian Zhongyun, at the time vice-principal of an elite college in Beijing, humiliated and beaten to death by her young pupils. The old man's account and that of his colleagues, shed light on this assassination, one of the first in a long list of men and women prosecuted during the Cultural Revolution.

WEDNESDAY 7th OCTOBER 7:30 pm £5 Cartune Xprez: 2009 DARK VOYAGE a roadshow of animated videos from America. Throughout the fall of 2009, Peter Burr is touring across Europe presenting the freshest incarnation of Cartune Xprez. This program of contemporary cartoons from North America celebrates the wilderness of imagination through motion pictures, projected through an inflatable backdrop of glowing crystals. The touring program will provide a rare opportunity to see videos by emerging artists as well as internationally known artists whose collective resume includes collaborations with Frank Zappa and major exhibitions at the Whitney Biennial, the MOMA in New York, the Sundance Film Festival, and many other institutions across the world. In addition, Hooliganship will be doing a live performance of their newest cartoon theater. + FAMICON www.famiconexpress.co.uk: 4-person art collective based in London, in addition to making animations/cartoons they produce comics and books together DARK LENSES Our world upside down, reinterpreted by a baffled mob of american artists. (RUNNING TIME: 48:00) Martha Colburn, MEET ME IN WICHITA (2006. 7:00) Adrian Freeman, SHAME FELLOW (2006. 2:00) Shana Moulton, THE MOUNTAIN WHERE EVERYTHING IS UPSIDE DOWN (2008. 4:00) Takeshi Murata, UNTITLED PINK DOT (2007. 5:00) Bruce Bickford, THE COMIC THAT FRENCHES YOUR MIND (2008. 6:00) Jeff Kriksciun, SINGSONG (2006. 2:00) Jacob Ciocci, BOOTY MELT (2008. 3:00) Amy Lockhart, WALK FOR WALK (2005. 10:00) Peter Burr, Christopher Doulgeris, + Cassandra C Jones, SLOW DANCE RECYTTAL (2006. 8:00) Hooliganship, SATANDEATHSNAKETRAINAWESOME (2006. 1:00) Hooliganship TRASH LIVE Live music, cartoons and video game worlds cross paths in a surreal adventure through a trash landscape. We watch a high-energy hoodie-clad boy musically and physically interact with the cartoon images on the screen behind him (including his own crudely animated doubles). Pure absurd rainbow bliss, Trash is a wacky journey into media oversaturation inspired by a hypnotic abundance of digital information. www.cartunexprez.com hooliganship@gmail.com

Sat 12th September - Sat 3rd OctoberMon - Sat 12pm - 6pm Artist Reception Fri 11th September 7:30pm At first sight Stu Mead's paintings and drawings exude a naïve and syrupy quality, they seem caught within a playful 50's era of innocence that dissimulates a deeper and darker underlying obsession with the 'Lolita' sexuality. Throughout this comprehensive exhibition Mead explores a fantasy, fairytale-like eroticised world inhabited by archetypal dream-nymphets that appear consumed and guided by heady girlhood mythology. Inquisitive and forthright these fetishized girl-children remain immaculate within Mead's vast catalogue of perversions and subversions and appear to possess an impossible power over the natural world and both its visible and hidden forces. In an art context these preoccupations have an established historical tradition within which Mead is clearly positioned. Artists such as French recluse Balthus, outsider artist Henri Darger, in particular his 'realms of the unreal' and Morton Bartlett's perceptive statues of impish children resonate strongly in Mead's work. Mead's narrative undoubtedly reels precariously between the outer extremities of taboo and the immoral, but is persistently saved from that looming abyss by a sense of comedy and a touching sensitivity in its execution. This strange juxtaposition of a bubblegum innocent style that often depicts highly explicit content raises difficult yet important questions that surround taboo, censorship and the elastic moral sphere within which representation awkwardly sits. Stu Mead was born in 1955 and earned a B.F.A from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He has garnered a wide cult following in the underground art community, exhibiting his paintings in galleries across the world for over twenty years, and currently residing in Berlin, Germany. His work was featured extensively in the legendary book "Apocalypse Culture 2", published by Feral House in 2000 and the infamous French publisher, Le Dernier Cri, have release several books of his artwork over the years. BUY STU MEAD PRINTS HERE _________________________________ The Impossible World of Stu Mead KINO Friday 2nd October Doors 7:30pm £5 Stu Mead animated short + Anna Krimmerman video: 'My Daddy He Treats Me So Well' Don't Deliver Us From Evil (1970) Director: Joël Séria Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on the nuns, they set aside their communion wafers; they make a pact of devotion. Summer vacation starts: Anne's parents leave her alone with the servants for two months at the family château. She and Lore are free to make mischief. They are cruel as well and play games of seduction. As summer ends and fall term begins, things come to a head.

Monday 28th SeptemberDoors 7:30pm £5 Mark Boswell: Subversion Agency Nine years in the making, shot on location in Miami, Florida and Havana, Cuba, The Subversion Agency relates the exploits of an American arms dealer (Pierre Kozlov) who is invited to the K-Zone -- "a communist country somewhere in the Caribbean" -- to participate in a one-on-one golf match for one million dollars (winner take all). A self-confirmed nihilist, Kozlov becomes embedded in a morass of international politics when he discovers the prize in store for the loser, which he appears destined to become. Boswell's K-Zone Republic, "formed circa 1960 during a staged soccer riot in the K-Zone capital," is awash with two-bit politicians, American black panthers on the lam, anarcho-pranksters on the underground airwaves, double agent feminists, and a golf champion formally convicted of "cultural parasitism." Threatening the narrative of the film, a Brechtian blitzkrieg of missives take form through experimental montage, double jump cuts, over edits, and aural asides that crackle with political satire and hard boiled sarcasm. Combined with Boswell's on location footage, the film's recontextualized archival images of Miami and Cuba work to create a fictional netherworld reminiscent of the twilight zone. Ken Hollings: Welcome to Mars Bad science in suburbs, mood music for alien encounters and paranoia in low Earth orbit: lifting the lid on 1950s fantasies of outer space, Ken Hollings presents a reading from his latest book, accompanied by found footage and a specially-composed radiophonic soundtrack. 'Ken Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just out culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today.' Adam Curtis Welcome to Mars is available from Strange Attractor Press. For more information please go to www.strangeattractor.co.uk or www.kenhollings.blogspot.com

Wednesday 30th September 2009 Doors 7.30pm In Conversation/Screening begins 8pm Entrance £9/£7.50 concs To reserve tickets in advance email: guy@theculturalpick.com Each ticket includes a copy of Plectrum issue 3 Beyond Biba posters signed by Barbara Hulanicki, and artwork and books by Daisy de Villeneuve, will also be for sale on the night Plectrum presents a special screening of Beyond Biba Introduced by the film's director Louis Price PLUS Pre-screening Model Jan de Villeneuve & artist and illustrator Daisy de Villeneuve in conversation with editor of Plectrum Guy Sangster Adams, telling Biba tales and discussing Biba's continuing influence. Beyond Biba (2009, November Films, 55 mins, director Louis Price) Featuring Barbara Hulanicki, Molly Parkin, Gerald Posner, Twiggy, Ronnie Wood Barbara Hulanicki will always be remembered for Biba, the shop that changed the face of fashion in the 1960s and 1970s. A phenomenon in the truest sense of the word, Biba would leave an indelible mark on the minds and the wardrobes of those who ventured through its doors. Just as Barbara was a key ingredient in the cultural explosion that occurred in London in the 1960s, she also found herself at the birth of the incredible cultural regeneration of Miami Beach in the late 1980s and 1990s. This is where she still resides, and continues to work as highly influential interior designer. The film provides an invaluable glimpse into Barbara Hulanicki today. A rare insight into the woman herself, her memories of her father's murder, the impossible glamour of Biba, the impact of her husband Fitz on her life, her thoughts on modern America, and her refusal to give up and live in the shadow of the past. Jan de Villeneuve Moving to London from the USA in the 1960s, model Jan de Villeneuve very quickly became an habituée of Biba. Through her husband to be, the photographer Justin de Villeneuve, she met and became close friends with Barbara Hulanicki and her husband Fitz. Daisy de Villeneuve Artist and illustrator Daisy de Villeneuve has been referred to as 'The Last Biba Baby'; born when Big Biba, the last incarnation of the store, was closing down her mum and Barbara Hulanicki surrounded her not only with Biba clothes, but also furniture, objects, and fittings from the shop, even down to her cot, bedclothes and pram. Immersed in Biba colours and style from the word go, Biba as remained a key influence on her personal style and her work. www.daisydevilleneuve.com Plectrum Magazine Plectrum - The Cultural Pick is a multi-platform arts magazine edited by Guy Sangster Adams, with a bi-monthly print edition, filmed interviews, profiles, and performances available on the Plectrum Broadcast Player at www.theculturalpick.com which is also home to the Plectrum Webzine, and regular Plectrum Live Edition events mixing spoken word, live music, screenings, author readings, fashion shows, art and more. www.theculturalpick.com Plectrum Live Editions put their best foot forward in shoes and boots from www.jeffery-west.co.uk

Wednesday 16th September Doors: 7:30 UnicaZürn - debut album: Temporal Bends - Album Launch UnicaZürn celebrate the release of their debut CD album 'Temporal Bends' with a launch event at The Horse Hospital. Unicazürn will perform a short set and copies of 'Temporal Bends' will be available for purchase on the night. Label: uZu Music Catalogue Number: UZ01 Release date: 16th September 2009 UnicaZürn are: Stephen Thrower (Cyclobe; Coil) David Knight (Arkkon; Shock Headed Peters; Danielle Dax; Lydia Lunch) Both are also members of the improvisation group The Amal Gamal Ensemble. Composed from recordings and improvisations made between 2004-2009 (with guest vocals by Danielle Dax), by the banks of the Thames and the East Sussex coast, Temporal Bends is a journey through time, and a dive into the depths. Recording sessions throughout have been accompanied by the spectre of water; slow currents or lapping waves, windows of streaming rain, seashore horizons. Temporal Bends is aquatic, coastal music, connecting UnicaZürn's experience of the rivers and seas of England with the micro-waterways of memory and the mind, through decompression and dehydration to full flood and saturation. The oceans and estuaries of late evenings past and yet to come. UnicaZürn's core musical instrumentation is processed electric guitar, clarinet and saxophone. Knight is renowned for his pulverising fretwork in Shock Headed Peters, and his cavernous guitar treatments in Arkkon; Thrower's reed playing provided a distinctive 'free-melancholy' in Coil and emerges as electro-acoustic texture in Cyclobe. To this duophonic arrangement, UnicaZürn add copious analogue synthesizer, mellotron and piano, with influences echoing back through Tangerine Dream's early albums to the VCS3 days of Roxy Music. UnicaZürn offer a deeply immersive music which hovers at the brink of abstraction, seeking to conjure at that threshold fantastical coastlines and subterranean narratives in the mind's eye. www.myspace.com/unicazurnofficial www.cyclobe.com www.arkkon.com

Friday 4th SeptemberDoors: 7:30 £7.50 and £6.50 concessions WCMO "Squeaky Singles" plus "Charon", a short film by Chiara Ambrosio (produced by Michael Nyman) Cellorhythmics WCMO ( Working Classical Music Orchestra) return to the Horse Hospital after two years of performing their groundbreaking Cellorhythmics Acoustic Project featuring eleven exceptional musicians from the worlds of jazz, classical and experimental pop. Their next venture - "Squeaky Singles" - is a multifarious blend of 50's and 60's pop instrumentals, contemporary classical and jazz condensed into a 3 minute pop single format. Also featuring guest artists - "Dave Hindermiff and the Tritones" and Andrew Bailey, an extraordinary surreal comedian, who will join WCMO for the premier of "Nine Bagatelles for Chamber Group, bingo caller and terminally ill patient". "CHARON". Charon, the mythic demon sailor over the river Styx, sets off on a journey to recover his mortality. He renounces his role as ferryman for the dead and sails away on a sea of oblivion in search for the archetypical home, the mythical place of his childhood where he can finally abandon his boat and die. This film is about memory, mortality and time. www.wcmorchestra.com

Audiovisual FestivalSaturday 5th September £7 at the door £5 in advance from www.wegottickets.com 20.00 - Doors open 20.30 - 21.00 Short Films by Future Shorts 21.15 - 22.00 Manekinekod + Graphshet 22.15 - 23.30 Arbol + Testphase A groundbreaking celebration of advanced electronic music, digital media, cutting edge visuals and short film Announcing Alpha-Ville 2009, the first in a series of audiovisual events that aims to administer a much- needed shot in the arm of London's flagging music scene. Taking place within the plush environs of Bloomsbury's Horse Hospital, the night promises to be the first in a series of events that dare to deviate from the predictable, bringing the cutting edge of European multidisciplinary talent to the heart of London. Alpha-Ville's ethos is ambitious but focused: to celebrating the relationship between digital media, visual art, short film and music. To achieve this we have teamed up with leading short film label FUTURE SHORTS who will be presenting a selection of short films on the night. In addition, Alpha-Ville has worked hard to assemble a truly international line-up which promises to be outstanding. Highlights include sonic innovator ARBOL, one of Spain's most prolific electronic producers and regular collaborator with such prestigious names as Bigas Luna and Leo Obstbaum, he is no stranger to both London's ICA and Barcelona's Sonar festival. Also from the field of electronic music is classically trained Athens-based Eleni Adamopoulou who will be showcasing her noise collage project MANEKINEKOD. A pioneering exploration of foundsound and melody, the project has released work on Berlin's Monika Enterprise and recently garnered acclaim for her improvisational performance at WorldTronics Festival. From the field of digital art are the Barcelona-based VJ collective TESTPHASE, while Parisian GRAPHSET, who has worked with the likes of kraut disco sorts Zombie Zombie, will be bringing his experimental take on print design and VJ-ing to the festival. Finally we present visual artist and designer MACHINES DESIRANTES, aka Madrid's Jose Salas whose live video sets at Benacassim and collabs with Berliners Jeans Team render him an essential addition to the line-up. www.alphavillefestival.co.uk

Wednesday 2nd SeptemberDoors: 7:30pm FREE Screening of "Rocky's Bike" A short film directed by Andrew Tidmarsh and written by Nick Phillips. Duration 13 mins Also showing: Tortoise. A short film written and directed by Andy Bloom. Duration 15 mins. The films will be screened on the hour at 8pm, 9pm and 10pm. From 10.30 pm Rocky Alvarez (the same) and Nervous Stephen will be playing music till late. Please join us for a drink and a dance to celebrate the completion of our films! Rocky's Bike / Dir: Andrew Tidmarsh and written by Nick Phillip Written by Nick Phillips and directed by Andrew Tidmarsh, Rocky's Bike is a gentle comedy which tells of one man's attempt to retreive his stolen bike against all odds. When his bike disappears outside his local pub, Rocky has an inspired plan to get it back. Faced with only discouragement and negativity from his two closest friends, Rocky remains sullen, but hopeful as he puts his plan into action. As the afternoon progresses, it becomes clear, that although accompanied by his friends on this odyssey, Rocky is really all alone. Featuring Joseph Macnab, Luke Alan-Gale, Emily Butterfield and Harry Feltham, the action of Rocky's Bike takes place around the recognisable landmarks of Shoreditch. It is shot on HD and the director of Photography is Luke Flegg. Tortoise / Dir: Andy Bloom: Two teenage brothers reach tipping point with their emotionally damaged father. They decide to leave, without anything but each other and a little hope. Tortoise is a brutal, reflective thriller, played out on some less trodden and windswept shore of England.

Friday 28th August - Sunday 30th August Doors 6:30 £10 The UK's largest animation festival - The London International Animation Festival (LIAF) - returns for it's sixth year and this time the festival kicks off with three astonishing nights of animation at the Horse Hospital. Fri 28 Aug - International panorama programmes 1, 2 and 3 Sat 29 Aug - The Best of the Next - International Graduation Festival programmes 1, 2 and 3 PLUS the Late Night Bizarre programme Sun 30 Aug - The Muzeek music video programmes Sessions 1 and 2. Tickets for each night are £10 London International Animation Festival information: www.liaf.org.uk Email: info@liaf.org.uk There's plenty more animated goodness happening at 3 other venues from August 28th - September 6th. Check out the LIAF website for full details. FULL PROGRAM ---->

International Panorama Programmes FRI 28 AUG, International panorama 1 - 7pm International panorama 2 - 8:15pm International panorama 3 - 9:30pm Welcome to LIAF's first international panorama series. This is a chance to show films that are just too good to be left out, films that didn't get the consensus nod in the jury room, arrived too late for Competition selection, or simply films the LIAF Director thought you should see. Programme 1 - 7PM Spare Change Ryan Larkin and Laurie Gordon Canada, 2008, 7'15 A surreal journey through the late animator Ryan Larkin's powerful and liberating imagination. The Invention of Happy Hour Sal Cooper Australia, 2009, 2'35 A horse walked into a bar. The barman said "Why the long face?" That was until they invented happy hour. Man is the only bird that carries his own cage Claude Weiss France, 2008, 12'00 A macabre allegory in which the souls of civilisation strive to escape the cages that hold them. Bill's Visitors Simon Deshon UK, 2008, 4'00 Bill has an understanding with local teenage boys, that he will buy beer for them. However when Cowan takes along his friend Jim for the first time, something about Jim encourages Bill to reveal more of himself to the boys than he ever has before. About Socks and Love Michaela Copikova Slovakia, 2008, 7'00 A film about love, but mostly about socks. Zoologic Nicole Mitchell USA, 2008, 4'25 Within the zoo's walls an overbearing zookeeper arranges the animals to his own liking. A Bicycle Trip L Varacini/N Nanbiar/M Avoletta Italy, 2009, 4'10A scientist accidentally ingests a chemical concoction and trips around town on his bike. Weltraffer Lukas Helmbrecht Germany, 2008, 4'00 The last 5 million years of history compressed into 4 minutes and 625 square centimetres. The Butter Dilemma Fabrice Fouquet France, 2008, 6'15 A recipe for brioche disguised as a love story (or vice versa). ____________________________________ Programme 2 - 8 - 15PM Mr Hasingers Homecoming Eva Becker Germany, 2009, 6'20 A film about the strangeness in the familiar and the familiar in strangeness. ECT: The Story of Two Women Laura Piraino USA, 2008, 5'15 A personal documentary about two women with clinical depression who 'return' to the lives they love after positive experiences with ECT treatment. Deconstruction Workers Kajsa Naess Norway, 2008, 6'00 Two construction workers and an everyday conversation about an existential question. Will they find the answer to one of the most common questions in the western world? This is JO3 Rory Lowe/Tom Shrapnel UK, 2008, 3'00 An 8bit digital man is stuck in our 21st century analogue world searching for a way home. Palimpsest Pia Borg UK, 9'00 A narrative compression of time, place and persons that captures the spirit of a 300 year-old building. For Socks Sake Carlo Vogele France, 2009, 4'45 A sock escapes from the clothesline to go clubbing in this stop-motion extravaganza. The Trap J Mannisto/J Kukkonen/J P Saari/J Korhonen Finland, 2008, 4'30 A tender story about a girl, her father and a fish. Mrs G Michael Zabka Czech Republic, 2008, 12'00 A puppet love-story about the co-existence of man and his very unusual life-partner. ____________________________________________________________ Programme 3 - 9-30PM Ed Pierre Alran/François Hosy/Olivier Renard/Nicolas Juncos France, 2008, 6'10 Ed stumbles on a Lego brick and life changes. Big Plans Irmgard Walthert Switzerland, 2008, 4'00 Despite well developed plans, it's very hard to construct a machine which sells apples. But a great idea occurs that should solve the case... Agenda Diek Grobler South Africa, 2008, 7'20 An everyday tale about a tea-girl serving tea to very important people. Khoda Reza Dolatabadi. UK, 2009, 5'00 6,000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create this psychological thriller. Birdy Woznicka, Agnieszka Poland, 2009, 7'15 A lonely outsider takes desperate measures to realise his dream of flight. 2 Metros Javier Mrad/Javier Salazar/ Eduardo Maraggi, Argentina, 2008, 5’45 Two beings caught in a dispute of tiny proportions while time goes by, rolls and bounces. Colchique Jean-Luc Greco/Catherine Buffat France, 2008, 10'00 Ferdinand is a little boy who lives with his Mother and Aunt and their feisty dog, Colchique. Rhum Sale Remi Vandenitte Belgium, 2008, 5'00 After a shipwreck a man finds himself all alone on the open sea. Nico and Tina Rodolfo Pastor Spain, 2009, 8'30 Nico and Tina, hardened chain-smokers are preparing themselves for their date. A romance about the delights of tobacco. _________________________________________________ Best of the Next International Graduate Animation Festival SAT 29 AUG 7pm International Programme 1 8pm International Programme 2 9pm International Programme 3 Spirited, break-all-the-rules films packed with raw energy and vibrant ideas. Join us at the Horse Hospital for the next generation of creative animators. Best of the Next screenings are made up of the best graduate films from more than 60 schools in 20 countries in a special marathon of three not-to-be- missed programmes. 7pm International Programme 1 Frat Sebastian Durand, Julien Limon, Auretien Peis, Cedric Trezeguet Germany, (ESMA), 9'45 My Tough Animation Project Reggie Schickel USA, 6'15 Signalis Adrian Fluckiger Switzerland, (HGK), 4'45 Tale Of Rock Steven Payne, John Godwin UK, (Hertfordshire), 4'00 The Laboratory Animal Mark Smith New Zealand, (Media Design School), 2'15 The Coin Hsun-Chun Chuang Taiwan, (National Taiwan University of Science & Technology), 5'30 Hanna Was A Moron Ferderico Martin Germany, (Kunsthochschule Kassel), 1'15 Seconde Classe Boris Belghiti France, (Emile Cohl), 5'30 Ocean Size Romain Journderu, Adrien Chartie, Gilles Mazieres, Fabien Thareru France, (Supinfocom), 7'45 _____________________________________________________ 8pm International Programme 2 The Airship Danger Erik Benson USA (Calarts) 3'30 Accro David Martin, Marie Opran, Leonard Cohen France (ENSAD), 3'00 Yankee Girl Celine Desrumaux, Gary Levesque, Antoine Perez, Francois Pons France (Supinfocom) 4'45 The Last Temptation Of Crust Dax Norman USA, (Ringling), 2'45 2 Zhi Jin Korea, (Seoul National University), 4'30 Les Voyageurs Agnes Chevreau France, (EMCA), 3'15 The Deeply Concerning Dreams of Jayne Fortesque Jayne Fortesque, Alice Dunseath UK, (Goldsmith) 4'30 Rainbow Slide Sarka Stosarowai Czech Republic, (Zlin), 3'15 Trickster Alexander Pohl Germany, (HFF "Konrad Wolf") 15'30 9pm International Programme 3 I Have Seen The Future Cam Christiansen Canada, 6'00 Boyhive Jason Boesch USA, (Calarts), 2'45 Le Son Du Pignon David Martin France, (ENSAD), 2'30 IO Alex Ward, Rob Nelson, James Swindells UK, (Bournemouth), 3'15 Café Voyeur Low Don USA, (SCAD), 2'30 La Theorie Des Ensembles Juliette Hamon Damourette, Marc Herichor, Jao-Eka M'Chamgama France, (ENSAD), 4'15 Snegur Anastasiya Sokolova Russia, 5'45 Feet On The Floor Franz Kirchner France, (La Poudriere), 4'30 Bus Stop Boogaloo Gus Hughes, Paulina Brinck UK, (Institute Of Digital Inovation, The University of Teesdale) 4'45 Urs Moritz Mayerhofer Germany, (Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg), 9'00 _______________________________________________________________ Late Night Bizarre SAT 29 AUG, 10PM Warning, this program contains offensive material Pretty much what it says on the can - a compendium of the strangest or funniest (not always the same thing) films drawn from the 2000+ submissions we received. Expect smatterings of mindless violence, intriguing alternative views of the world, a few gutbusters and a visual overload or two. A LIAF tradition nowadays and a reminder - if one is needed - that animation knows no imaginative boundaries! I Live In The Woods Max Winston USA, 2007, 3'45 It has to be every crazed hillbilly's dream to kill all the cuddly animals with his bare hands. But what about God? Is nothing sacred? If you like your Gods intact and all powerful, this is probably not the film for you. Cuddle Sticks Mike Geiger Canada, 2008, 2'30 Crossing a line that even Kricfalusi might have drawn. A demented look at the origins of kiddie ice treats. Rescued Peter Parlegreco USA, 2008, 8'15 A stranger arrives in a surreal world where nothing is as it seems. Not even close. Yesno Antonio Amaral France, 2008, 8'00 Surrealism meets up with Crumb for a coffee and takes a long walk through Crazytowne. Morph Mush Mash Alex Cormack USA, 2007, 2'30 A crazed, wonderful head-warping extravaganza. Ex-Ergo Yolyanko William Cuba, 2008, 1'00 A text book example of how to eat yourself set to the music of Aphrodite's Child. Fantasie In Bubblewrap Arthur Metcalf USA, 2007, 3'45 Even bubblewrap has feelings. Lots of feelings. Especially when you start popping them one at a time. They begin to wonder out loud which bubble will be next. Morris And The Other Edwin Rostron UK, 2008, 4'00 A most peculiar collection of arms, legs, heads, kites, tanks, trucks and trolleys. Turducken Steve Stark USA, 2008, 3'15 What do you get when you stuff a chicken into a duck into a turkey? "Three birds, One Hell Of A Detective", that’s what. Clean The Restroom Hung-Hsin Shih Taiwan, 2008, 2'15 It's not a career that suits everyone, but a little rhythm makes cleaning restrooms a lot more fun than it could be. Happy Birthday To Me Hui-Shan Lee Taiwan, 2008, 4'15 A heart-felt birthday greeting from the furthest reaches of a wondrous psychedelic soul. Odeki+Naoki Yamaji Japan, 2007, 4'30 OK - where to begin! A chronicle showcasing the explosively painful mishaps of a slightly mutated variant of the male of the species who has problems keeping his tenderest appendage under cover. Another Way To Fly Eva Andujar Spain, 2008, 5'00 After a midnight insect attack, a man goes through a brain-rattling, full technicolour transformation. Superjail Aaron Augenblick USA, 2007, 12'00 Welcome to Superjail, an ultra-violent prison complex run by a mad Willy Wonka-esque warden channelling some kind of warped combo of Fred Astaire on speed and a wild-eyed Year 4 school teacher. ____________________________________________________________________ Muzeek - Music video panorama SUN 30 AUG, 7PM AND 9PM - HORSE HOSPITAL 44 of the world's best and most innovative music videos in two 90 minute programmes - hand-picked by the Museek Festival in Russia. Here's a chance to see singing Turkish market workers, a Japanese pyjama dance, Russian street performers, a flipbook based film, a home movie of Animal Collective having fun at night and much, much more. Session 1 7PM Animals - Minilogue Kristofer Strom Sweden, 2008, 3'40 One with the Freaks - The Notwist Keith Schofield USA, 2006, 3'31 Shorebound - Epic45 Paul Banks UK, 2008, 2'25 Lights - Lyapis Trubetskoy Alexei Terekhov Russia, 2008, 3'30 Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros Arni and Kinski Iceland, 2005, 4'28 Sundown - Daedalus Clay Lipsky USA, 2006, 3'19 Satellite - 4 Bonjour's Parties Takayuki Kozyma Japan, 2007, 5'00 Dubus - Zelany Rashoho AV Russia, 2005, 4'09 The Rain - Lou Rhodes Virgilio Villoresi & Erica il Cane Italy, 2007, 3'26 Girl and the Sea - The Presets Lee Lennox UK, 2005, 4'40 Wasted - Matthew Bryan Raymond Prado USA, 2008, 4'11 OK - Shitdisco Price James UK, 2007, 4'20 Central and Remote - Grizzly Bear Jesse Ewles USA, 2007, 4'28 Love Park! - Mujuice Roma Litvinov Russia, 2008, 5'20 Papal Broken-Dance - Psychic TV Marie Losier USA, 2008, 6'00 Boa - Eglantine Gouzy Sophie Gateau France, 2006, 3'00 A Joy - Four Tet and Kieran Hebden Jodie Mack USA, 2005, 3'03 You Got Me Up - Jamie Lidell Tom Scholefield Scotland, 2006, 2'00 Fugaz - The Pinker Tones Celia Galan & Ana Lorenz Spain, 2008, 4'28 Sloup - Susumu Yokota Imery Watson UK & New Zealand, 2006, 4'50 Motherfucker - Fordamage Kids of Eighties France, 2007, 2'53 Just Like A Drummer - The Wave Pictures Eduardo Benchoam Guatemala, 2008, 4'37 _____________________________________________________ Session 2 9PM Russian Wanderer - Celtic Folk Song Andrei Kagadeev & Nikolai Kopeikin Russia, 2008, 4’00 Rock My Boat - Dntel Jenny Coburn & Thomas Hicks & Will Perrens UK, 2006, 4'10 Summertime Cowboy - Husky Rescue Miikka Lommi Finland, 2007, 3'27 Untitled 1 - Gianluca Porcu Masha Godovannaya Russia, 2005, 4'00 Apple & Ei - Marco Meister Ahmet Tas Germany, 2007, 5'35 She's the One - Caribou Daniel Eskils Sweden, 2008, 4'00 Toe Jam - The BPA Keith Schofield USA, 2008, 3'27 Silver - Dolphin Pavel Egorov Russia, 2005, 4'00 Squeeze Me - Kraak and Smaak Andre Maat & Henk Loorbach The Netherlands, 2008, 3'25 Lightning Bolts and Man Hands - Hymie's Basement Markus Wambsganss Germany, 2004, 6'16 Breasts on his Back - Son of Robot Scott Coello UK, 2008, 1'46 You Act Like a Baby - Tribes of the City Edgar Dubrovskiy Latvia - UK, 2008, 5'20 Micronomic - Lali Puna Catrin Sonnabend Germany, 2005, 3'40 Florian - Cocorosie Andrew Gibbs UK, 2008, 4'34 My Way - Starskee K + Me Japan, 2008, 4'00 House of Cards - Radiohead James Frost UK, 2008, 4'32 4xtra - Sheiks Tilman Hatje & Lukas Thiele Germany, 2008, 2'38 Insomnia - Electric President Radical Friend USA, 2007, 4'17 An Average Idea - Love in October Lindsey J. Testolin USA, 2007, 1'42 Will the Summer make Good For All of our Sins? - mum Marc Craste UK, 2004, 4'02 Fireworks - Animal Collective Jon Leone USA, 2007, 6'50 Bedroom Bossa Band - Lullatone Lullatone Japan, 2006, 2'53

Thursday 27th AugustDoors 7.30pm Tickets £5 on the door AXXONN is a two-piece band based in Brisbane, Australia consisting of Tom Hall 9solo sound artist, Secret Birds) and Ian Rogers (Iron On, No Anchor). With influences spanning the likes of M83, Fuck Buttons, Ratatat, No Age, Sunn O))), Tim Hecker and Mstrkrft, AXXONN create unique sounds that fuses the best of IDM, pop, metal, noise and ambient. In 2008, disheartened with the local music scene, Tom Hall started to curate shows around Brisbane that merged the city's blossoming experimental music community with receptive rock, pop and metal bands. As part of these cross-over events Hall booked Ian's band doom-metalers No Anchor and the two were surprised to find they shared many of the same ideas about music. Together they embarked on their dream project: a streamlined, portable electronic outfit that performed, recorded and toured like a rock band. On first hearing AXXONN, Lloyd Barret described them as 'like Eno mixing Sunn O))).' Hail! Hail! The band's current release is 'Masters of The Epic Day' - a tour EP to celebrate the band's July/August 2009 UK/European Tour. Featuring two new AXXONN songs (and two newies from Tom and Ian's respective solo projects), 'Masters of The Epic Day' is the band's most refined and polished work to date. AXXON + PSUEDO NIPPON Pseudo Nippon crafts his sound out of little toy keyboards and a little vibraphone to create something so full of joy, that it could only come from a distant universe. A sound full of space and cosmic vibrato, and a live show that is harder, faster and so packed with energy that fans exclaim "my head explode...so much fun!". PSUEDO NIPPON + Support from: POWER UP Power Up + MORE TBA

Monday 24th AugustKINO #8 Doors 7pm, films start 7:45pm £4 After a barnstorming screening in July, Kino takes over the Horse Hospital once again on Monday 24th August for our late-summer evening of shorts, sushi and song. Popcorn will be served freshly popped on site. Born at this year's London Short Film Festival, Kino is London's most inclusive screening experience, offering London's indie filmmakers a truly open platform in a non-competitive and fun, fun, FUN setting. HOW IT WORKS For those new to Kino, there's no pre-selection - filmmakers book themselves in on a 'first-come first-served' basis. You then turn up with your film on the night, ready to pop into the player! Follow our rules for a pleasant screening: - films must feature 'Kino London' logo (or simply the words) + screening number (8) at the end - films must be under 6 minutes - films must be presented on DVD FREEBIES The night also features free popcorn, free sushi and a live performance from one of London's best emerging artists. Alongside that, all filmmakers screening on the night will be entered into a prize draw to win a selection of filmy giveaways. Previous prizes have included annual passes to the Prince Charles Cinema, IMAX tickets and books and DVDs from the BFI. WANT TO SCREEN? If you want to screen at Kino #7 email submissions co-ordinator Laura at: screen@kinolondon.com ********** Please note: All films screened remain the property of the filmmakers. The inclusion of the Kino London logo or text is for this screening only. ********** To screen: screen@kinolondon.com Enquiries: info@kinolondon.com Web: www.kinolondon.com

Wednesday 19th August 2009 Spoken word, author readings, live music, cult film, & more from 6.45pm (performances between 7.15 & 9pm ) Entrance £5 (includes issue 3 of Plectrum magazine - retail price £2.50) www.theculturalpick.com In person: TRAVIS ELBOROUGH presents a vinyl accompanied reading from his latest book THE LONG-PLAYER GOODBYE: THE ALBUM FROM VINYL TO IPOD & BACK AGAIN (Sceptre), described by The Spectator as a "wonderful book", The Independent as "highly entertaining", Mail on Sunday as "richly enjoyable", and the Sunday Telegraph as "engaging - and often very funny." JANINE BULLMAN and LEE BULLMAN (co-author of Blowback) reading from PUNK FICTION: AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES INSPIRED BY PUNK (Portico) edited by Janine Bullman, which features stories from 32 contributors including Johnny Marr, Billy Bragg, Cathi Unsworth, & Max Decharné. "You leave its pages realising that being a punk really just means being young, high on the fumes of freedom and puffing your lungs up big enough to breathe life into the world" - The Guardian. Plus short fiction performed by GUY SANGSTER ADAMS, editor of Plectrum. Playing Live: FALLING LUCID were the new band on everyone's lips at July's Lounge on the Farm, taking the festival by storm along with The Horrors, Billy Childish, and Kid Harpoon. The Kent based duo, Lauren Bateman (vocals) and Al Evans (guitar), have a sound which instills atmospheric and filmic music references into stripped down acoustic guitar and vocals, weaving infectious melodies into erudite narratives of county town culture and urban malaise. Mixing a diverse array of influences from Bat for Lashes to Reverend Gary Davis, Laura Marling to The Cure and, as is evident in their great cover version of Running Up That Hill, Kate Bush. "Great set by a great duo - please come back next year!!" - Sean B. (Founder, Lounge on the Farm Festival) On Screen: LES BICYCLETTES DE BELSIZE (UK 1969, 27 mins) PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH OPTIMUM RELEASING Shot entirely on location in Hampstead, North London in 1968, Douglas Hickox's enjoyably capricious musical love story follows the Raleigh riding Boy (Anthony May) in pursuit of the object of his desire, The Girl (Judy Huxtable). From the fashions and soundtrack, to the whimsy, joie de vivre, naivety and knowing, this dreamlike and trippy film is entirely redolent of the late 1960s and very much a cult classic. Plus interview and performance short films featuring: THE WOLFMEN: MARCO PIRRONI & CHRIS CONSTANTINOU KATE DAISY GRANT & from The Horse Hospital archives rare and previously unscreened footage of KRAFTWERK in conversation with Guy Sangster Adams Plectrum Live Editions put their best foot forward in shoes and boots from www.jeffery-west.co.uk

BOOK LAUNCHWednesday 5th August Doors 7.30pm Poppers: Photographic Portraits by Ruth Bayer With introductory essays by Stephen Thrower and Cathi Unsworth and Michael Atavar. To capture a moment in which the subject loses control, or at least slackens their grip on the reins, is a frequent goal in photography... In 'Poppers', photographer Ruth Bayer achieves a simple but effective frisson between the composed, formal relationship of camera and subject, and the rogue element introduced by her subjects' inhalation of Poppers - the street name for a compound belonging to the alkyl nitrate family; a muscle relaxant which causes the dilation of blood vessels, leading to increased blood flow and a rush of heat and euphoria. Fascinated by the watery, dilated eyes and sensually heightened faces of those she saw taking Poppers in nightclubs, Ruth set out to capture those fleeting moments of euphoric aware/unawareness in the series of photographs presented in this book. Hardcover 88 pp Published 2009 by Tyto Alba ISBN: 978-0956243102 ruth@ruthbayer.com

Thursday 6th August 2009Doors 7.30pm Screening starts 8pm Tickets £7 on the door UK premiere screening Raising funds for the Nowhere Omnibus project Join us for a special screening of Dust & Illusions, a new film by Olivier Bonin charting 30 years of the history and background of Burning Man, from its roots in late 1970s counter-culture right up to such recent events as the Borg2 movement and the early burning of the man in 2007. Through 21 interviewees the film presents the philosophies behind Burning Man's creation and the influences that directed its evolution from a small gathering of friends to a desert city of 50,000. It offers a new perspective of the meaning of the event, and questions whether its organisers are more concerned about making sure the show is ready when the gate opens or if they still truly engage in building a community and fostering art. Olivier Bonin will be joining us by live link from California for a Q&A session after the film, followed by a short discussion. The screening will be raising funds for the Nowhere Omnibus project at Burning Man 2009. www.dustandillusions.com nowhereomnibus

Tuesday July 28th - Friday 31st July12-6pm Private View Monday 27th 6:30-9pm 'If I could only make a movie as textured and evocative as John Foxx's music I would be a happy man,' says Alex Proyas, the director of I,Robot, The Crow, Dark City and Knowing - this year's Number 1 box office hit in the UK and America. Proyas is the first contributor to be announced for the forthcoming DNA exhibition curated by ArtHertz, which celebrates John Foxx's influence on a wide selection of musicians, film-makers, visual artists, graphic designers and even Manga comics. The Australian director's film, GROPING is one of a number of short films that will be shown through the week-long event. According to Proyas: 'The film I made at film school, inspired by John's music - really from a mainly stylistic and atmospheric perspective - is called GROPING. When it was shown at the Sydney Film Festival in the early '80s, I used a section of lyrics from the early Ultravox track, 'The Quiet Men' in the programme... 'Waiting, we were waiting, as the traffic moved...' etc, which I found strangely fitting to the narrative... actually I almost called the film Waiting at one point. The film is about the brutal rape/murder of Kitty Genovese in NYC in the '60s but done in a very post-modern style.' 'John Foxx's 'Underpass' is an absolutely seminal inspiration to me,' he adds. 'While making GROPING, I actually heard 'Underpass' for the very first time - I remember it clearly - it was actually on my little bedside radio alarm very late one night - the only soure of music I had in my share household room and I used to play an alternative music station here in Sydney while writing my scripts. This incredible piece of music came on and it captured me from the first riff - it seemed someone had made music from the sounds of the city traffic, that struck me immediately. I turned up the radio and listened enthralled and waited to hear who the artist was. The vocals seemed familiar but I didn't recognise them. When they announced John Foxx I was so excited as I obviously recognised him from Ultravox, the band I was so impressed with. 'I think there's definitely a link with John's music to my film Dark City (and probably to anything I make!). Dark City had its origins in an early script I wrote at film school at the time I was particularly enthralled by Ultravox's Systems of Romance. I imagined the opening titles would be underscored by 'Slow Motion'. And 'Dislocation' featured in a sequence where the detective hero is slipped a drug and has an hallucinogenic episode. So while Dark City was not specifically influenced, I think the spirit of early Ultravox and John's Metamatic album is definitely in there. 'I think apart from his incredibly cinematic lyrics - John's music has always conjured entire movies in my head when I listen to it - I think it is his mastery of atmosphere that has stayed with me through the years. If I could only make a movie as textured and evocative as John's music I would be a happy man.'