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Brudnell Social Club

July Fifteenth 2006

Our first ever night at the Brudenell Social Club featured an eclectic and jam-packed programme of no less than 26 films!  As well as the showreel of films and performances, we set up monitors around the club to screen video work created by local filmmakers/artists.  The event kicked off with a selection of new film and video provided by Short Circuits. (pictured)

Highlights of the first section included ‘Eaten’ by Anne Haydock (USA), a super 8 film with hand foley-ed sound, ‘TANZ!’, an stroboscopic take on a traditional Jewish wedding by Neil Ira Nedleman (USA) and Leo Bridle’s (UK) ‘Still Life with Flowers’, a trans-global tale of desert island castaways, giant flowers and baked bean tins.

The Inecto School (Leeds) provided a 40 minute improvised set to accompany a selection of silent super 8 films/performances and video, featuring films made by members of EXP24 and Leeds super 8 filmmakers.

The final section of the showreel brought you the instant classic ‘Double Biology’ by Tom Stubbs and Lucy Bailey (UK): a modern day super 8 recreation of a 1970’s German sex-education film and Dan Baker’s (USA) ‘Tranaension’, a 16mm psychedelic meditation on exploration and the self destructive use of technology.

We were privileged to be able to screen two Ian Helliwell (UK) films as part of the programme with direct support from the artist.  Helliwell makes intense super 8 shorts – the soundtracks created with his own handmade electronic machines.  Please see www.ianhelliwell.co.uk for more details on this D.I.Y. experimental filmmaker.

The event culminated with performances by members of EXP24: ‘Work in Process’: live disintegrating 16mm film and radio interference; ‘Cinity Build’ an electronic improvised celluloid seduction of a city construct.  ‘Colleague #1’ by Chris Hall (UK), a strobing deconstruction of a staff training video, was the final film of the night.

With thanks to Leeds Film, Short Circuits, Lumen