Films are shown in English without subtitles, unless otherwise indicated.
Key:
TTT = Ticket Tout Tuesday
Films are shown in English without subtitles, unless otherwise indicated.
Key:
TTT = Ticket Tout Tuesday
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20:00 09/03/2010
(Tue 9th, 8pm / Weds 10th, 11am (babycinema) / £4/3, £2: babycinema only) (Kent MacKenzie / USA / 1961 / 72 minutes)
20th Century Cube presents a cult classic: The Exiles chronicles a weekend night in the lives of a group of young native Americans living on the boundaries of society in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. The film is
based entirely on interviews with the participants and their friends - scenes of which were then re-enacted by the original interviewees playing themselves.
As the night hots up the film follows the group of "exiles" who have moved to the city from south west reservations as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and boogie the night away to jukebox garage rock. The fast paced dialogue and shadowy black ad white footage have influenced and inspired many films (spot the Tarantino references!) MacKenzie manages to capture the hard reality of the standing of the native American population in LA matched against the youthful energy and feisty attitude of the group towards the society that is
marginalising them.
(Wed 10th / 11 am / £2, babies free)
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. We follow the weekly film program so you don't loose out on the latest blockbusters, foreign language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
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17:30 10/03/2010
A regular free rehearsal, we are an improvisational group based at The Cube. Musicians and non-musicians of all standards and backgrounds are welcome. If that sounds scary then come anyway. If you haven't played your instrument for years or you don't think you're very good, rummage it out and come anyway. If you think this isn't for you, you're wrong, come anyway. Bring your instrument, your voice, your noise machines, pots and pans and any ideas you have for Orchestra Cube. It's GREAT skate!
Orchestra cube is a melting pot of musical styles, abilities and ideas. Come along and add your own to the ever-changing mix. The only requirement is a willingness to experiment.
To take part please email orchestra@orchestra.cubecinema.com
http://www.orchestra.cubecinema.com
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20:00 10/03/2010
with support from Matt Nolan and Dan Bennett
(Wed 10th / 8pm / £6/5 advance)
The Cube Microplex welcomes back the increasingly in-demand bassist Dominic Lash who stunned audiences last October with the remarkable quartet which featured Tony Bevan, Tony Buck and Joe Morris.
This time he returns to the stage with two more improvising legends, John Butcher (Saxophone) and John Russell (Steel Amplified Guitar), both are among the UK's most internationally respected and innovative musicians. Between them they have worked with everybody from Derek Bailey and Evan Parker to Tony Conrad. They combine intense investigations of their instruments' possibilities with delicately poised interplay. All three players push the possibilities of acoustic instruments to their limits, sometimes resulting in sounds of an almost electronic quality. With three hands on the tiller changes of direction can happen at any moment, keeping alive improvised music as the sound of surprise.
For more information and video clips of this trio performing please go to http://www.studio282.com/dl/butcherlashrussell
Individual Biographies
John Butcher
("The best saxophone player in the world." - Andy Moor, The Wire, June 2009) John Butcher was born in Brighton and has lived in London since the late 1970s. He began playing the saxophone while studying physics at university. Since leaving academia to focus completely on music, he has developed his own style that embraces free improvisation and electronics, often distorting his sound until it is unrecognisable in the traditional sense. Over the years, Butcher has worked with musicians including Chris Burn, Derek Bailey and Phil Minton, as well as with John Stevens in what was the final version of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. His recent Octet composition, Somethingtobesaid, was commissioned by the Huddersfield Festival, broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and released on his own label, Weight of Wax.
http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/
John Russell
Radical improvising guitarist John Russell has, since around 1977, concentrated exclusively on acoustic guitars ("Every sound from his steel-amplified guitar thus feels as if it is perceived in stark close-up" - One Final Note). He organises the monthly Mopomoso concerts - the longest running series on the London improvising scene. His current groups include trios with Evan Parker & John Edwards, and with Michel Doneda & Roger Turner. Russell and Butcher have a playing relationship that has lasted a quarter of a century - including duo concerts, a highly regarded trio with Phil Durrant, and larger groups. http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/mrussell.html
Dominic Lash
Bassist Dominic Lash ("endless efforts to veer left of every known note or chord" - Newcastle Journal) was born in Cambridge in 1980 and has since 2001 been part of the improvisational scenes in London and Oxford, where he is based. His regular collaborators include Tony Bevan, Pat Thomas, Philipp Wachsmann and Alex Ward. He is a member of The Convergence Quartet with Taylor Ho Bynum, Harris Eisenstadt and Alexander Hawkins, and also performs from time to time with Tony Conrad, Evan Parker and Steve Reid.
http://www.myspace.com/dominiclash
Matt Nolan and Dan Bennett
Dan Bennett (Hunting Lodge, Totton Glass) plays guitar through a living, breathing organism of effects pedals to create the most amazing and unexpected atmospheres and soundscapes. Matt Nolan (The Birdman, The Baron & The Bat) plays his own hand-forged cymbals, gongs and other metal sound sculptures with sticks, mallets, bows, chains,...
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=341512088615
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19:00 11/03/2010
with Jonny Berliner, Bert Miller & the Animal Folk, Chris Dunsford and Oort Kuiper & Phatmattbaker
(Thu 11th March / 7pm / £6/5)
Calling all out and proud geeks. The interweb’s annual celebration of science, music and creativity, Geek Pop, is branching beyond its virtual festival beginnings into the physical world, starting with a launch party right here in Bristol. Supported by Computer Geeks and the British Science Association, the Geek Pop crew have assimilated a scintillating selection of science-inspired stars for this, the first Geek Pop live event. Join your host, nerd comedian Chris Dunsford for an evening so square you could fold it in half and call it an isosceles triangle. Jonny Berliner plays tunes from his recently released science EP. The Animal Folk entertain with whimsical songs about worms. And Oort Kuiper and Phatmattbaker clash in a freestyle rap jam session that has to be seen to be believed. For a preview of what you can expect from Geek Pop ’10 (virtual and physical) check out http://www.geekpop.co.uk for the crew’s February podcast.
Dress code: geek chic. Be there *and* be square.
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20:00 12/03/2010
(Fri 12th / 8pm / £2)
Who said 'your future is all used up'? When was 2010: A Space Odyssey released? Who did the soundtrack to Midnight Cowboy? Come and join us for cakes, ale and a fun film quiz with cinema tickets for the buffest film buffs.
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23:00 12/03/2010
(Fri 12th / 8pm / £4/3)
(Roger Corman / USA / 80 minutes / certificate 12)
Roger Corman's adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales proved that he was more than just a schlock shock B-movie director. In 'The Pit and the Pendulum' his flair for pace, dazzling colour and mastery of spine-chilling menace are unsurpassed. Vincent Price is superb as the son of a notorious Inquisitor whose wife has recently died. Her brother (John Kerr) arrives to investigate her death and discovers a castle full of torture devices and a man on the brink of insanity. A classic gothic horror which needs to be seen on the big screen.
(Sat 13th / 8pm / £6 advance, £7 on the door)
A welcome return from 'New York's angriest yodelling banjo player' Curtis Eller. With songs about circus fires, pigeon racing and heroes, Curtis' biggest musical influences are Buster Keaton, Elvis Presley and Abraham Lincoln. Yodelling and some strong language can be expected.
Support comes from Bristol band Boxcar Aldous Huxley, a procession of dapper gullyjumpers recounting the dramas of times past through woeful yet belting songs, rich with layers of banjo, harmonium, euphonium, clarinet, saw and drums.
Keep an eye out for additions to the line-up.
http://www.curtiseller.com/
http://www.myspace.com/boxcaraldoushuxleyband
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20:00 15/03/2010
(Mon 15th - Fri 19th, 8pm; Wed 17th 11am (babycinema) / £4/£/2 ttt/babycinema) (John Hillcoat / USA / 2009 / 112 minutes / Certificate 15)
John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's stunning novel, The Road, realises a colourless, unfamiliar world found several years after an unnamed apocalyptic event. Here, where the land is barren, and animals are long gone, food is at a premium, and company is cannibalistic. Through this almost unremittingly bleak landscape, father and son travel the road south, one which cuts through the falling forests of dead trees, and the ghostly shells of long ago looted towns - some of the most eerie of which were shot in the remains of post Katrina New Orleans.
Constantly posing the question at what point is it better to choose death over life, the pervasive sense of doom and danger is further ensured by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' oppressive score.
(Wed 17th / 11am / £2, babies free)
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. We follow the weekly film program so you don't loose out on the latest blockbusters, foreign language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
A regular free rehearsal, we are an improvisational group based at The Cube. Musicians and non-musicians of all standards and backgrounds are welcome. If that sounds scary then come anyway. If you haven't played your instrument for years or you don't think you're very good, rummage it out and come anyway. If you think this isn't for you, you're wrong, come anyway. Bring your instrument, your voice, your noise machines, pots and pans and any ideas you have for Orchestra Cube. It's GREAT skate!
Orchestra cube is a melting pot of musical styles, abilities and ideas. Come along and add your own to the ever-changing mix. The only requirement is a willingness to experiment.
To take part please email orchestra@orchestra.cubecinema.com
http://www.orchestra.cubecinema.com
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20:00 20/03/2010
Saturday March 20th/ 8pm/ £5/£6
The Paper Cinema with The Cube Orchestra presents *The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Nightflyer (*might be subject to change).
The Paper Cinema returns to The Cube for a highly anticipated collaboration with The Cube's very own orchestra.
Charmingly lo-tech, with the cast of hand-drawn marionettes magically brought to life in front of you, it’s a mix of inkblots, angle-poise lamps, video technology and improvised music.
In The Lost World four gentlemen set out on a head-long journey across a continent searching for the existence of pre-historic life. One is journeying to prove his findings right; one to prove the other wrong; one to win the hand of his sweetheart; and the last just for adventure.
The Night Flyer tells of a hero crossing the night on a mysterious train to find the lost girl of his dreams.
Not to be missed.
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11:00 21/03/2010
Sunday March 21st/ 11am – 1pm/ £ 5
Papercinema and Nanoplex presents…all ages workshop.
Get ready for a fantastic day with the amazing Paper Cinema. Learn how to create marionettes and bring them to life in a world of shadows using film and light. Creator Nic uses drawings and paper to make his atmospheric films and will take you on an amazing journey in this brilliant workshop.
After the workshop, the participants will be encouraged to contribute in rehersals for the afternoon performance accompanied by the magical Cube Orchestra.
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15:30 21/03/2010
Sunday 21st/ 3.30pm/ £ 3/ £4/ suitable for all
Nanoplex presents: The Paper Cinema
A very special performance from The Paper Cinema promising light, shadows, handmade marionettes and puppets also made by Paper Cinema workshop participants.
Expect athmospheric scenery, shimmering images, enchanting stories and music from The Cube's very own Orchestra.
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20:00 21/03/2010
AURACLE NIGHT: JÁNOS GÁBOR’S ERW DINMAEL ALBUM LAUNCH AND FILM SCREENING
“Acknowledging the distance we are closer to the source”
To launch his latest album ‘Erw Dinmael’ under the name of János Gábor, endurance artist and sound alchemist Juan Gabriel Gutiérrez is hosting an evening of film and performance to recreate the haunting landscape that inspired his album and films.
These were recorded with vintage equipment to capture the essence of Erw Dinmael in North Wales, including a Marantz CP430 stereo cassette recorder and a Canon 814XL Super 8 camera.
Juan Gabriel will be joined by dancer Denise Rowe who features in the films, and Dan Balla from Erw Dinmael, to unweave the myth of this ancient land.
There will be an exhibition of photos in the main bar, and projection on Super 8 film.
Tickets are priced at £10 with CD, or £5 with the MP3 download.
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20:00 22/03/2010
(Mon 22nd - Wed 24th / 8pm + 11am babycinema Wed/ £4/3/2 ttt)
Gake no Ue no Ponyo/Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
(Hayao Miyazaki / 2009 / Japan / 101mins / Cert U / dubbed)
Another modern fairy-tale from master animator Miyazaki who brought us Howl's Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke. A five-year old boy named Sousuke finds a fish trapped in a bottle, saves her and names her Ponyo. Turns out Ponyo is a magic talking fish with a playful personality. Unlike other Studio Ghibli films Ponyo has a simple, child-friendly plot but the complexity of the hand-drawn scenes is typical and mesmerising. Children and adults will be swept away. The film will be preceded by the short 'The House of Small Cubes'.
wed 24th/ 11am/ £2
BABYCINEMA PRESENTS ponyo plus the house of small cubes
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. We follow the weekly film program so you don't loose out on the latest blockbusters, foreign language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help
A regular free rehearsal, we are an improvisational group based at The Cube. Musicians and non-musicians of all standards and backgrounds are welcome. If that sounds scary then come anyway. If you haven't played your instrument for years or you don't think you're very good, rummage it out and come anyway. If you think this isn't for you, you're wrong, come anyway. Bring your instrument, your voice, your noise machines, pots and pans and any ideas you have for Orchestra Cube. It's GREAT skate!
Orchestra cube is a melting pot of musical styles, abilities and ideas. Come along and add your own to the ever-changing mix. The only requirement is a willingness to experiment.
To take part please email orchestra@orchestra.cubecinema.com
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20:00 25/03/2010
Thurs 25th/ 8pm/ £3/£2
The Heavy Heads Disco Present: Dirt Road to Psychedilia – Austin TX during the 1960’s
Austin, Texas is now best known for the South by Southwest Festival which started up in 1987. Now musicians and music industry types clamour to the Texan capital every year from around the globe. This March join the Heavy Heads in discovering an alternative Austin to show why this city has long been considered as a hotbed of musical innovation and creativity.
Presenting a rare UK screening of the film ‘Dirt Road to Psychedlia’. This documentary tells how it happened in Austin during the 1960’s when beatnik-inspired hipsters were drawn together by folk, country and Blues while dabbling with peyote and LSD. Austin was a fertile ground for the emerging counter culture, from a folk singing Janis Joplin to the dawning of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators and the creation of the legendary psychedelic venue The Vulcan Gas Company.
Featuring interviews with the people who were there, a wealth of Super 8 film footage and raw live recordings. In the bar the Heavy Heads DJs will be playing Heavy Psych, Garage and Blues with a Texan flavour.
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19:30 26/03/2010
Friday 26th, !9.30 £6/5 advance
The Cube are pleased to announce a very special night curated entirely by bristol's premier indie pop group Arctic Circle! Details are currently being kept tightly under wraps but expect some of the city's best loved bands as well as some very excellent special guests, short films, lovely decor and phantastical on stage projections. Should be a special night indeed.
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20:00 27/03/2010
8pm / £7 / £8
Roll up and Tune in as Zuleika H. Ziegfeld and Pappy O'Paradise present Radio Curio from ZBC!
We want you - yes YOU! - to come and join the live audience for an auditory amazement! A sonic spectacle! A radiophonic revelation!
We'll be presenting a variety of features from dance, comedy, circus and burlesque live from the auditorium!
For one night only, The Cabaret of Curiosities celebrates three years of vaguely vintage vaudeville and variety, a magnificent melange of merry music, a bountiful bevy of beautiful burlesque and an astounding abundance of alliteration!
Stay tuned for updates. Evening dress required.
~ This programmes is brought to you by Cube Cola, a refreshing alternative, Standing on the Hands of Giants. ~
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20:00 28/03/2010
Alt Vault is a Bristol based club night which focuses on live
improvised electronica.
Artist are encouraged to perform within a remit of "unrehearsed
improv" which
allows for creative freedom within their performance. These
performances are a
prelude to the Alt Vault "collective improvised jam"!! Past Alt Vault night have hosted
improv acts: Infinite Livez, Tim C Holehouse, Gusset, Vid Warren, Sj
Esau, and Dj Dysu.
The Line Up For The First ALt Vault @ The Cube is as Follows!!
Company Fuck
Dj Tendraw
Agentblu (Hoonboy) Album Launch Set
Kev Da Poet
Alexander Thomas
http://www.myspace.com/alexanderthomasmusic
http://www.myspace.com/kpknowledgeispower
http://www.companyfuck.com/
http://www.myspace.com/theagentblu
http://www.myspace.com/djtendrawandthegypsiesdog
Http://www.altvault.org.uk
£4/3
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20:00 29/03/2010
A Single Man
Tom Ford/ USA/ 2009/ 101mins/ cert 12A
Mon 29th-Tue 30th/ Thurs 01st-Fri 2nd/ 8pm/ £3/£4/£2(TTT)
Set in Los Angeles in 1962, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer (Colin Firth), a 52-year-old British college professor who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his longtime partner, Jim (Matthew Goode). George dwells on the past and cannot see his future as we follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters ultimately leads him to decide if there is a meaning to life after Jim. George is consoled by his closest friend Charley (Julianne Moore), a 48-year-old beauty who is wrestling with her own questions about the future, and is stalked by one of his students, Kenny (Nicholas Hoult).
A Single Man is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life. Directed and co-written by acclaimed fashion designer Tom Ford (making his feature debut), based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood.
Babycinema presents A Single Man
(Weds 31st / 11 am / £2, babies free)
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. We follow the weekly film program so you don't loose out on the latest blockbusters, foreign language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
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20:00 31/03/2010
BLUESCREEN
Wed 31st /8.00pm /GBP 3/2
Bluescreen is back for another session of short film action!
BRING your films down on the night - 20mins or under - be they Low budget, No budget, Mini featured dramas, Animations, Music promos, Skate vids,
Experimental, whatever shorts! Not got a film? Come along anyway and be inspired!
So forget your youtubes, come and screen it on the Cubes Big Blue Screen, films on the cinema screen, as it should be!
Kicking off most Bluescreens now, the CUBE’s very own in-house ORCHESTRA will be re-scoring archived bluescreen Films.
Then YOUR Films! Bring DVDs, Mini DVs etc.
And dont forget the Bluescreen Hi-Fi DJ's, who will be spinning old and new tunes in the bar.
We here at Bluescreen have been screening films since 2001 and we are Bristols longest running independent OPEN screen Film event, so come down to the Cube and check out the best of Bristols new and old Filmmakers.
FFI: bluescreen@sparror.cubecinema.com
http://www.myspace.com/cubebluescreen
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19:30 03/04/2010
(Sat 3rd April / 7.30 / £6/5)
Ala Muerte is essentially Bianca Bibiloni from New York City favoring a minimal folk style augmented by dark, psychedelic sounds and vaguely dissonant noise and field recordings; the result sounds like a sixties folk singer playing in a field as cities burn behind her. Her beautiful yet amorphous singing owes a lot to the ethereal styles of Belinda Butcher and Liz Frasier, and her playing references not only pure sixties folk but the hypnotically repetitive style of mid-period Swans, not forgetting contemporaries such as Grouper and Inca Ore.
Using vocal loops & cello; evoking gregorian chants and 60's girl groups with a smattering of post-rock & Motown soul, its hard to pin-down Broken Heart narrative but this is music that has that rare quality of being hauntingly melancholy yet upbeat and life-affirming at the same time.
Charlie Romjin usually performs as one third of Bristol's own Thought Forms but tonight will be doing the solo jig as Silver Stairs of Ketchikan. Sometimes a low brooding menace, sometimes the thought of your last thought of the last second of your life a long time away in a beautiful future unknown to you.
Something approaching a very soundtrack of Heaven is what Alexander Thomas conjures up. Through the use of his Theramin, loop pedals and found sounds Mr Thomas manages to evoke that very Summerland that Emmanuel Swedenborg first discovered.
Join us for a party in the bar afterwards with music from DJ Grumpy Coin Collector.
myspace.com/alamuerta
myspace.com/bleedingheartnarrative
myspace.com/silverstairsofketchikan
myspace.com/alexanderthomasmusic
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14:00 04/04/2010
Nanoplex Presents:
'BE A BUNNY!' Nanoplex Easter fundraiser including Haiti screenings and The Singing Ringing Tree.
Sunday 4th/ 2- 5pm/ £3 children/ adults £4/ Suitable for all
The Cube is taking a mobile cinema to children in Haiti. We have two Cube volunteers currently there, screening and making films with Haitian kids. Today is a fundraising event.
Following on from the enormous success of February’s Nanoplex, in which children in Bristol made film postcards to take to kids in Haiti, today we will be screening films Haitian kids have made for the Cube, along with the magical, cult children's classic, The Singing Ringing Tree. We will also show Encounter's short films, while children here can make new films for kids in Haiti.
There’s cakes, tea, coffee, scribbling, even an easter egg raffle, perhaps a hunt, and all sorts of fun. Come as a bunny!
All for the price of £3/£4 a head, this is a delicious, great Easter afternoon. Tickets on the door.
2.00 pm draw film postcards, make films
2.30 pm watch haiti kids films
3.00 pm The Singing Ringing Tree
4.15 pm short films, making films, easter egg hunt
5.00 end
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Francesco Stefani | Germany | 1957 | 74 min | Cert U
A prince, a princess, a quest, a strange land behind a waterfall, a huge goldfish, a tree that trills. The East German fantasy film that entranced and haunted a generation of British kids when it was shown on TV. See it on the big screen, its colour palette of turquoises and pinks beautifully restored.
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20:00 04/04/2010
Bruce Bickford Night presenting Cast'l
£3
Well we nearly managed to host the man himself on his European tour but it was not to be but we do have his personal permission to screen his long awaited new film Cast'l and a selection of shorts. Bruce Bickford is the genius clay animator of 70s Zappa fame and much more. Cas'l is a new and unreleased 45-minute stop-motion clay animated film and we are very excited to be able to screen it.
Bristol Radical History Group and Bristol Indymedia present....
Us Now!: Popular Democracy and the Internet, Film and public debate
Monday April 5th 2010 8pm (£3/£4 no one refused entry due to lack of funds)
The film US NOW tells the stories of the online networks whose
radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of
government forever. From picking the team for your football club to
Zopa, a bank in which everyone is the manager and Couch Surfing, a
vast online network whose members share their homes with strangers;
the principles of these projects -transparency, self-selection,
open participation - are coming closer and closer to the mainstream
of our social and political lives.
To launch a month of events on the history of the struggle for
democracy in Britain, Bristol Radical History Group and Bristol
Indymedia bring together key writers, activists and controversial
bloggers in a public debate about the impact the internet has had
on the struggle for popular democracy. The panel, chaired by
Bristol Indymedia and includes Alice (Trapeze Collective), Roy
Norris (Bristolian), David Goldblatt (author of the seminal work on
the history of football 'The Ball is Round'), Chris Chalkley
(People's Republic of Stokes Croft). Join us to discuss the pro's and con's of internet activism from football clubs owned by their fans to struggles to control the nature of our communities to
freedom of information and political organising through social
networks. Has the internet opened up opportunities for new forms of
political struggle and democracy or as some argue, forced us into
impotent and atomised behaviour in front of screens, divorced from
the real world?
http://www.usnowfilm.com/
www.bristol.indymedia.org
www.brh.org.uk
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20:00 06/04/2010
Exit through the Gift Shop weds 7th and thurs 8th April £4/3
dir. Banksy/ 87 mins/ USA/UK/ cert 15
Well wether you like his work or hate him for selling out the street art scene (ouch), Banksy has made a documentary film about himself and by himself. It premiered at Sundance this year getting the industry seal of confused approval. A couple of fans set out to find out the identity of famous invisible Banksy and he essentially turns the camera on them instead. There are some great insights into his ingenuity and how street artists stay under the radar...and of course he is a bristol boy.
babycinema presents exit through the gift shop
(Weds 07th / 11 am / £2, babies free)
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. We follow the weekly film program so you don't loose out on the latest blockbusters, foreign language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
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20:00 08/04/2010
(Doors 8pm, Thursday 8th April, Tickets £6 adv. £7 door)
The Cube is pleased to announce a rare UK appearance from Asthmatic Kitty’s latest export DM Stith.
David Stith comes from a musical family: his father is a college wind ensemble director and former church choir director; his grandfather is professor emeritus in the music department at Cornell University; his mother is a pianist; his sisters sing opera, play piano, tap dance, play timpani and are excellent soft ball players. David Stith grew up dreading the family ensemble's appearances in church, preferring instead to draw mazes on the blank sides of church bulletins during services. In fifth grade, a harrowing performance of Phantom of the Opera at a school assembly (accompanied by his mother on piano) nearly turned him off to music for good. He started a noise band in high school, called Starchild (or Starchildren, or The Pool --they never did quite decide); but they preferred painting their guitars over playing them. David wrote a lot of bad poetry during this time.
In college, David attempted writing a novel and a children's book, illustrating his work with original woodcut prints. His pursuit of writing and illustration brought him from Rochester to Brooklyn, where he took up work as a graphic designer. While in Brooklyn, David befriended Shara Worden (of My Brightest Diamond), and soon after began facilitating, in small technical ways, the recording of her album Bring Me The Workhorse. This, in turn, spurred David to begin writing and recording songs of his own. It was a casual, private affair. He spent countless days stored away in his bedroom, sketching folk songs with epic electronic gestures, a rekindling of passions for his first familial love: music.
David completed his first catalog of songs for an album called Ichabod and Apple, written and recorded in the first month of his song-writing experiments. His first full length album is Heavy Ghost, on Asthmatic Kitty Records.
It was no grand injunction that encouraged David to return to music. He writes songs for the same reasons he enjoys a good conversation: it's just natural. His songs come out of a knock-about life, pressed by the urge to overcome
insecurities, to probe questions, to revisit dreams and visions.