Shorts On Tap present WOMEN IN REVOLT
There doesn’t need to be a special day to celebrate the talents and triumphs of women, particularly in film. As this event proves in every essence, celebrating the theme of women by female filmmakers.
The Art of Female-film-making
On April 6th Shorts On Tap will present its first recurrent series: Women In Revolt in London’s Stow Film Lounge. This will be the first of three screenings that will take viewers on an exploration into female-film-making. The programme is in collaboration with Club Des Femmes: a positive female space for the re-examination of ideas through art and is funded by Film London’s Boost Award.
The night promises to deliver the best of female film- making talent with a selection of extraordinary work depicting, challenging and describing every essence of womanhood.
The series also investigates the female form and the casual use of female nudity that is a topic silenced by our generations commodification over sex and sexuality. This event aims to give power and ownership of the female body back to the women who possess them.
But this is not a warning to men, who are welcome to join women on this emblematic march for equality through film.
The first chapter of the series The Chase focuses on the pursuit of a normal childhood. The transition into womanhood and the interior conflicts and challenges encountered along the journey. Chasing happiness, normality and dreams as well as being chased.
As always with Shorts On Tap, the films will be unveiled on the night and after the films have been screened there will be a platform for discussion and Q&A with the films directors and guest speakers.
Apart from a guaranteed good night out it will be an amazing opportunity to watch some radical independent films, debate social and political ideas and pave the way for more female recognition in the film industry.
What more could you be doing that evening?
Films screening start at 8pm. Show ends approximately at 10pm
RSVP & tickets | Apr 06 2015 20:00 - 22:30 | Stow Film Lounge
Orford House Social Club 73 Orford Road Walthamstow London E17 9QR , E17 9QR London
Addictive TV present: Orchestra of Samples
On Thursday, 26th February, production duo Addictive TV are bringing their unique brand of sampling to the Rich Mix Studios in Bethnal Green.
On Thursday, 26th February, production duo Addictive TV are bringing their unique brand of sampling to the Rich Mix Studios in Bethnal Green.
Formed at the hands of veteran audio/visual remixers Graham Daniels and Mark Vidler, Orchestra of Samples takes clips, videoed by the pair over the course of five years and globally sourced, and melds them together live.
An analogue accompaniment of Beatbox Collective’s Bass6, violin, BBC young musician of the year Shona Mooney and sitarist Baluji Shrivastav will offer a live, physical presence beneath the towering wall of pre-recorded video.
The conceptual inspiration for the project is one rooted in diversity. Alongside the competent, seemingly contrasting live task-force are a mixed platter of noises, melodies and rhythms, picked up from everyone from acoustic guitar players and hang drummers to flautists and a man hitting a spring with a stick.
The resultant effect, backed as it is with a small visual glimpses of whichever of the fifty countries the pair travelled to for the project, is one that implies a richness of culture and genre; brought together by a pair who have been at the forefront of live DVD turntable and AV mixer work throughout the entirety of their 10 year career.
So far Orchestra of Samples has been performed in France, Spain, Brazil, Russia and Morocca before it closed the RomeEurope festival last week. Thursday’s concert will be the first time Addictive TV have graced London since May, when they played the Looking Outside my Window festival. For £9 advance and £12 on the door, punters will not only be offered the broadest, most intricately crafted version of a live show that has won Addictive TV two DJ Mag best visual DJ awards, but accompaniment from veteran electronic experimentalist, Howie B.