24/07/13 - Films screened at July's Bluescreen
Cube Orchestra rescore: Gordon Emmanuel - Atem (2009)
Cube Orchestra rescore: Tom Mansfield - Felix Machines (2009)
Diana Taylor - Pets in Space
Regine Babaei - The Upper Road
Richard Broomhall - Scribbled between Photons
Jez Toogood - Gravel Eye
Jez Toogood - Frome Voices
Daniel Landau - Waves
Quizmaster - Sam Haire (2012)
Z-Girl - Pete Thomas (2012)

Thank you to everyone who came to bring their films.

You brought a mix of experimental documentary, documentary, drama, music film and art installation. The films were varied and hugely captivating making for a rich and detailed evening of viewing.

Breaking from our usual format we introduced a discussion section. We chose to do this following some interesting discussions in the bar. We thought it would be good to extend this exchange of questions in private conversations to the whole audience. So after the break some filmmakers came to the front of the auditorium where they answered questions about the concepts behind their films and how they had come to make some of their decisions. Many many thanks to Regine, Jez and Dani for doing this and for everyone in the audience who asked their questions. Through this process I feel I learned so much more about the films and filmmakers and it felt very rewarding. Thanks to the Cube Orchestra for the live rescore – it was exciting and dynamic. And thank you to Tom for DJ-ing in the bar.

The next Bluescreen at The Cube is September 25th. See you there.

Wow! Thanks Bristol for another evening of great short films last night! And here’s what we screened...

Cube Orchestra rescore: Earthen  – Tom Swindell  (2008)  - (16mins)
Black Cab To Rehab – Adam Richards & Rowdy - (4mins)
Higher Channels/One Man/Total Immortal – Benji  - (4mins)
Return to Sendai – G Slater ( 12mins)
Into The Light – Declan Smith (7.07mins)
Escalation – Catarina Oliveira – (11mins)
Land of Dreams (Transpersonals promo) – Piski Films (6.34mins)
The End – Santo (10mins)
Dog End – Santo (3.30mins)
The End Point of a Circle – D Wade & R Wickings ( 13mins)
Untitled Short Film – Lukas (5mins)
Rainbow – Muscat/Southsection (4mins)
Flight of the Fly – Muscat/Southsection (4mins)

Apologies to Jammy who brought in My Farewell Ride and we couldnt get it to play; bring another copy in on dvd and we will screen it next time.

We are now off to our Bluescreen bunker to compile our yearly Bluescreen DVD compilation, so the next Bluescreen will be with you in July. See you all then and thanks all for coming down, we all enjoyed it, hope you did too :)

Films Screened in March @ Bluescreen
It is not a little humbling and also just so fabulous that Bristol filmmakers can provide over an hour and a half of thought provoking and entertaining films just two months after the last Bluescreen.

Huge thank you to all who came tonight. It was a total treat. You brought us/ we saw five absorbing and interesting documentaries, a beautiful and haunting animation of a folk tale that had a stronger message, a compelling music video and an unsettling and intriguing drama.

Below are the list of films. Filmmakers if you have your film on Vimeo or Youtube please do email us the link for us to be able to post your film on our page in future.

Many many thanks to you all for coming filmmakers and viewers alike – and to the fabulous Cube staff volunteers who made it all happen.

The films:
Andrew Williams Probing the west country. 8 minutes. (Documentary)
Dominic Wade. Decks Dance Videotape. 13.5 Minutes. (Documentary)
Piskie Films. Piper of Hameln. 13 minutes. (Animation)
Fabian Martin. A way of life. 17 minutes. (Documentary)
Fabian Martin. War Face. 9 minutes. (Music film).
Vivi Insightful donation. 20.00 (Documentary).
Santo. The End. 9minutes. (Drama).
Molly Gibney. Frog in the Water. 8 minutes. (Documentary).


Looking forward to seeing you all on May 15th.

Films Screened on January 16th

Thanks to everyone who came along to The Cube on Wednesday, particularly on such a cold night! And what fantastic films too!

So here’s what we screened…

The Cube Orchestra rescored The Cardboard Orchestra by Scott Buchanan Barden (2010).

Then we screened..
La Perida del juicio – Maria Manero
Docobanksy – Docobanksy
A Brief Comedy of Polarisation – Adam Bell
Two Detectives – Tom Betts
Exile – Adam Petruczok
Munbefenaat – Piski Films
Notorious War by Wave N400 – Pablo Mestres
Who Goes We? – Lisa Shuh

And from our 2009 Compilation, we screened..
Gordon Emmanuel - Atem
Tom Mansfield - Felix machines
Ben Dowden - Dub FX1 – Flow/Step
Tajinder Dhami - Alpha, Diagnostic, Hospitalised
Hywel George - The life and life of Horace
Andy Sowerby - Tulips
Ben Dowden - Dance Film 3
Dylan Radclyffe - Doug Tabbard, Human Curler

And the film compilation screening in the lounge was from 2005 …
The Ram Inn – Sebastian Nolan/Chris Bradford/James Atkinson
Rusty Road less Travelled – Woody James
Maja – Chris Barnett
A Royal Obsession - Dan Brown
Short Sharp Shock – Dee Kalakoti
Old Street – Jacob Parish
The Battle of Cable Street – Toby Trackman/Yoav Segal

Thanks again for bringing in your films. Looking forward to the next Bluescreen, which is March 27th. See you all again then.

Thanks to everyone who screened films at Novembers Bluescreen and to everyone who came along to watch; great to see so many past Bluescreeners there too. And some fantastic films too!

We screened our 2008 Compilation in the lounge before proceedings got underway: http://bluescreenfilms.weebly.com/film-compilations-dvd.html

The Cube Orchestra then played the audience in and rescored a couple of films from the Bluescreen archive; then we screened:

The Delivery – Wayne Lee
Piece - Vivi S
Lake - Marina E
Ruth trailer - Kris Griffin
Happy Anniversary – Martin Hall
Blaise – Ben James /Scott Warrham
The Claw – Nathan Hughes/Jacob Parish

And we chose 3 films to end the evening, picked from the last year by us…

Remembering Formby  -  Sue Elliott
Quizmaster - Sam Haire
Me and Reg - Lee Matthews

Apologies to Billie Appleton, whose film Zombie Apocalypse we couldn’t play in either of our dvd players, hopefully she will bring another version to Januarys Bluescreen.

Thanks again to all who came along, a great Bluescreen to finish the year off with.

Coming up in December… we are participating in an event called Microcosm on Dec 15th at The Cube. We will be screening a small selection of films between acts in the evening. The whole day is about buying the Cube! And it’s a free event!  Join us if you can. More details here: http://www.cubecinema.com/cgi-bin/diary/programme.pl#7215

That will be more or less it from us for this year, so thanks to everyone who has screened a film at Bluescreen in 2012, we really have enjoyed screening and watching your films this year!  Inspiring stuff! And thanks to anyone who just came along to watch the films. We do appreciate it. And lastly, thanks to the Cube Orchestra (Marcus et al) and the Bluescreen Hi-Fi Djs (Matt and Tom).

Let’s keep up the good work in 2013, our 12th year of screening your films…

And we will be kicking off Bluescreen in 2013, on Wednesday January 16th. See you then!

Many thanks to the filmmakers who brought the films along to show last night (31st Oct). We showed seven films most with horror as a theme – and varying from those made on the night (literally) to those made in 1985, Performance art to suspense-filled horror.

Michael Moustafi brought three films all with a horror and music theme. Hysteria, a worm-ridden apple of a music performance was a World Premiere at the Cube.

3AM (Part 2 of a scary trilogy by Lee Matthews and Rachael Groom) built suspense carefully while we held our breath waiting to see our heroine in the spotty dressing gown would cope with the ever-increasing sinister events in her isolated and lonely cottage.

Strange Encounters by Andrew Williams featured ghostly apparitions and time warps in the camera obscura a classic from 1985.

Thriller by Mr Hopkinson featured extreme slo mo of last week’s Bristol Zombie walk – with music by Mr Hopkinson’s computer – this film was compiled on the night.

Alice Vandelev-Booner’s performance art film swimming pools was a beautiful and serene depiction of her interaction with watery landscapes.

Thank you all filmmakers....

Strange Encounters. Andrew Williams. 10 minutes.
Thriller. Me Hopkinson. 5 minutes
3AM. Lee Matthews and Rachel Groom. 10 Minutes.
Little Fingers (Katherine Toy) Michael Moustafi. 4 Minutes.
Hysteria (Roach). Michael Moustafi. 4 Minutes.
Fear of Success ‘Calm’ (Ugly Sulk). Michael Moustafi. 11 Minutes.
Swimming Pool. Alice Vandelev-Booner . 23 Minutes.

In addition to these we also showed some films from the Bluescreen archive.

Where’s my Spleen 1 and Where’s my Spleen to. James Pendleton. 2004.
The Ram Inn. Sebastian Nolan 2004.
Who’s afeared .Borderline Jessie Tate. 2009.
Z-Girl. Pete Thomas. 2012.
Attack of the Giant Killer Robot. Jim & Alex. 2005.

We also screened some films from the archive in the 'Blue' Lounge too, including: Zombies by Al Brennard .2003 on VHS.

And thanks all for braving the rain!

We return on Nov 28th for the last Bluescreen of 2012. See you then!

Life and Times - Piski Films (Cube Orchestra re-score) 14.58
The Playground - Marina E 1.45
Repo Man Oh Cecil - Liam McConaghy    5.30
Kebab Killer - Santo Veeranki 8.45
I wanted to Kiss your Eyelids - Alice von Kohler  3.00
Southville - Diana Taylor 1.45
Inscribing The Dawn - Richard Broomhall 11.45
Orchestra in a Field - Richard Broomhall 7.50
8 - Gareth McLeavy 3.20
Lyrebird Soup (from 2011) - Naren Wilks 3.30
Flat Footed Apocalypse (from 2011) - Martin Lejeune 2.20
End This Dream (from 2012)   - Piski Films 5.00
Collide-O-Scope (from 2012)  - Naren Wilks 3.20

The Cube Orchestra were back and rescored a film and we also screened some recent films from the bluescreen archive to round off the night.
Thanks to all who came down, especially to the Filmmakers and also to Encounters Festival too.

A great weekend screening films at the Pentagram Cinema at Supernormal 2012 last week.

Hll from our archive of yearly compilations of films...

Saturday (22.00-Midnight)
2006
Culture Clash – Sid Sharma
Get Good – Francois
Weston-Super-Mare – Dan Blore
Night on the tiles – Nimph Productions

2007
Tom Swindell – Mali
John Minton - What Makes you feel Alive?
Kwesi Johnson - Screen Shift Test shoot
Chuen Hung Tsang - Frangipani

2012
Immortality - Dave Lander
As Time Goes By - Redcliffe Films
This is Brenda (Episode 3) - Brenda & Zibi
Remembering Formby - Sue Elliott
Kundama Street Song - Thetreatmentworx
Invasion of the Mutant Housewife! - Amie Nowlan

Sunday (20.00-22.30ish)
2012
My Dream/My Reality - Jon Hardy/Scubaboy
Flat Footed Apocalypse - Martin Lejeune
10 - Greg Metcalfe
Slice of Life - Steve Beckett
Quizmaster - Sam Haire
Z-Girl - Pete Thomas
Life and Times - Piski Films
Me and Reg - Lee Matthews
Nelson Street - Southsection
Seven Hills - Ben Edwards
Keeppie Uppie - James Stokes and Joe Ryan

2003-5
The Ram Inn – Sebastian Nolan/Chris Bradford/James Atkinson
Rusty Road less Travelled – Woody James
Maja – Chris Barnett

Plus
Mr Hopkinsons Dancing Hula Bear Slo-mo film
and
Fabios Supernormal Photos

Thanks to all at Supernormal, the Pentagram Cinema and the above Filmmakers. Made great watching!

On Wednesday night at Bluescreen we screened a total of 12 films with a running time of approx. 100 minutes. Some regular contributors and some first time contributors entered the dark cube on a stunningly hot and sunny evening to show their films. The range was broad from Art film, documentary to comedy and drama. Also we were privileged to see some special effects that ranged from the distinctly fishy, thanks to Sam Iles, to the head scratchingly complex thanks to Naren WIlks. We were also treated to some rather fabulous music and some sparkling cinematography too. Thank you all for bringing and showing your films.

We screened:
1 Selfs portrait – Sally Lifely. 4 min 13sec.
2 3rd floor 6h door – Laura Perez. 18 min
3 The yellow tie – Film School Bristol (Ian Pirrie, Lara Perez, Emma Shannon, Niamh Farrelly, Bicky Henriques, Bianca Munoz). 3 min.
4 Burn out – Director, DOP, Editor Jack Offord; Written by Jack Offord and Lorraine Blumenthal; Actor Lorraine Blumenthal. 1 min 30 sec.
5 Lyrebird soup – Director Naren Wilks; Actors Cameron Miller, Brian Elllowy, Scored by Minima, Set construction Shaun Luker. 6 min.
6 Dream – Director Sam Iles; Actors Fred Iles, Peter Harris, Duncan Bounds. 6 min. 33 sec.
7 Chess man – James Matthews Amattttama 8 min.
8 Scared - Wayne Lee. 18 min.
9 Burned out – Film School Bristol. Director Ian Pirrie; Starring Angus Brown, Matthew McGill, Raphael Duncan. 10 min.
10 Square pianos – Piski films. 7 min 49.
11 Esso man – Director Diana Taylor; Poem Rosemary Dunn. 1 min 28.
12 The Pitch – Director Hannah Petts; Asst Director Lewis Rogers; Sound Chris Worth; Editor, camera and cinematography; Actors Marley Hamilton, Chris Foster, Iain Gorrie, Darren Thompson, Andrew Wilkinson, Lewis Rogers. 15 Min.

Bluescreen is back at The Cube September 19th when we are teaming up with the ENCOUNTERS film festival at the Watershed. It’s likely to be a busy night. We’ll screen up to 180 minutes of short films. Arrive early to avoid disappointment, as films that arrive after we have filled up our time slot cannot be shown.

We compile a DVD of films every year that are suitable for festival screenings. We just finished the 2011-12 DVD and we’ll be showing this at the Supernormal festival August 10th and 11th 2012.

Thanks all for coming and thanks again for bringing in your films.

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