1–22 AUG Art Programme 2007 1–22 AUG The People Show presents Molly Parkin Inkie art The Bus Show 8–19 August westbourne studios Featuring: Gareth Brierley, Ben Carrick, Fiona Creese The Muse Gallery, 269 Portobello Road, W11 1–21 August Westbourne Studios Fri 3 – Sun 5 August Molly Parkin is best known as a writer and fashion icon. Come and meet a misfit family of ‘entertainers’. They’ve been touring for However she famously went bankrupt after several years of 40 years and are making a rare stop at the Portobello Film Festival to pick drinking at the Colony Club with Francis Bacon and his circle up fellow travellers... Featuring lessons in loviní, too much alcohol and the baby of all guitar – "if you had a choice of paying your taxes or drinking with solos.Capacity is strictly limited, so please do book early for this unique Francis what would you do" (see 5 August – Boozing With event.Running time 15 minutes. ‘People Show is a national treasure’ The Bacon at Westbourne Studios). Bacon inspired Molly to take Independent www.peopleshow.co.uk up the paintbrush. Portobello Film Festival is proud to present old and new by Molly, who calls herself a colourist and is represented by Christie Contemporary Art.

After getting busted in 1988 in the UK’s largest ever graffiti shutdown – codename Operation Anderson – Inkie went on to come second in the World Championships of 1989. He’s continued for the past two decades to push the art in his own inimitable style and ways (alongside Banksy he organized the largest ever UK graffiti event, a 1.4 km around the Bristol docks entitled ‘Walls On Fire’. Unconfirmed at time of going to press – we are also hoping to present work by Eine, Joe Rush, Gordon McHarg and Nick Reynolds in the Westbourne atrium space.

3000 Hangovers Later Shoot Portobello Photo exhibition Photo exhibition August 2–5, 11am–6pm The Roughler Gallery Archive Craze Gallery, 253 Portobello Road, W11 1LR The first major retrospective of Ray Jones’ illuminating pictures from the legendary Roughler Magazine, which captured the final flowering of Bohemian Portobello. Recently his portraits of Joe Strummer, Will Self and Damien Hirst, alongside John The Dog, John The Hat and Steve Underground, have been rediscovered. Like Harry Diamond’s portraits of 50s Soho, they capture the genius loci of a unique place and time.

1 –22 August Westbourne Grove Church, Westbourne Grove, W11 Over the weekend of the 31st March hundreds of people took to the streets of Portobello for the Shoot Portobello Weekend – a photography treasure hunt event, presented by Rough trade shops and Shoot Experience. Locals and visitors alike took the opportunity to re-discover the streets of Portobello and uncover the hidden musical history of the area by deciphering clues and recording the answers photographically. Selected photographs from Shoot Portobello Weekend will be exhibited from the 1st to 22nd August at the Westbourne Grove Church, where the event took place. The Church offers the perfect environment in which to display the photos from the event, a wonderful collection of creative, spirited and inspiring photos which capture the unique and eclectic culture of the area. For more information about the event visit www.shootexperience.com.

Snug 1–21 August westbourne studios The Dutch Pot presents... Snug has been a free lance graffiti artist & illustrator for 20 years. He trained at Chelsea and Byam Shaw Schools of Art, before taking up aerosol as a serious tool for art and design. In the summer of 2004 he was the lead artist AN OPEN MIKE on the largest graffiti mural in the British Isles; a community project celebrating the diverse cultures and life of Kilburn situated outside Kilburn JAM SESSION Underground station, the ‘gateway to London’. In Spring 2005 he completed a 150 square-metre mural at ‘Damage’ in Trafalgar Street, Brighton. Recently held at The Ion Bar and hosted by the very he has finished two commissions for Hugo Boss in their ‘orange’ stores in talented and very local singer/songwriter Carnaby Street and their head offices in North London. Noel McKoy. SNUG has been asked to paint two works depicting the theme ‘’ for the Portobello Film Festival this year showing in Westbourne Studios. An accom- Taking place each and every Thursday plished artist, he has undertaken corporate works and additionally painted live at private parties, events and music festivals. night with doors opening at 5pm and show starting at 9pm till 11pm. The Dutch Pot is a platform for singer songwriters to perform their latest songs from Galic, Folk, Indie, Roots, Reggae and Soul are just some of the styles of music you can hear on the open mike/jam section so all you ‘Bathroom Singers’ out there this is for YOU! The Ion is located in Ladbroke Grove W10 (Next door to Ladbroke Grove Tube) Look forward to seeing you. Film & Combined Arts Programme 2007 portobellofilmfestival.com

Bikini Blitzkrieg Part 1 El Hombre Feliz Lucina Gil 15 minutes U WED 1 AUG Dance Domination Does the happy man exist? Documentary Spain London psychogeog- Donald Takeshita-Guy 75 minutes 15 rapher Tom Vague conjures Westbourne Church 7–9pm Our heroine is transported through space and time to El Pan Nuestro (Our Daily Bread) Altor Merino 20 minutes 15 up the magic, mysticism and mythology of Looking For Tomorrow a weird dimension run by march-mad nazis. Comedy ’s past on a magical mystery London, ‘Andres and Elena have just arrived in Quito. Elena, Portobello Film Festival presents the Gala preview very frightened, breaks down. Andres tries to calm her tour of Hollywood Babylon W11. screening of ‘Looking For Tomorrow’. A stunning love down but reminds her that .....there is no turning story about a fourteen year old girl pressured into back.’ Ismael Martin Tach Producciones S.L. and Once upon a time there was a place called marrying an older, well-off man, growing resigned to Madrid En Corto Drama Spain Notting Hill Gate, that wasn’t inhabited by the idea she meets the young Ibrahim, who is in international bankers and TV executives, hiding waiting to take a ‘Patera’ to Spain. Stormy Elena Quiere Lino Escalera 20 minutes 12A where anything could happen and usually weather delays the voyage and the young people Elena has only one night to get her ex-boyfriend to relive the past they had together. A few hours to make did. But, in spite of gentrification and share a fugitive love, dreaming of running away IOTG (Inn On The Green) up for all her mistakes. But that is not all Elena wants. media overkill, some magical vestiges together, before reality intrudes. Filmed in the 6–11pm countryside of Larache, North Morocco which has links Drama Spain remain and not all the ghosts of the area’s with the local area. In Moroccan dialect and starring FILMS OUTSIDE 6–8PM weird and wonderful past are banished Equipajes Toni Bestard 10 minutes 15 newcomers Said Bekkeurie and Taouba Noro. Rouge st Pakurane 20 minutes U Baggage claim of an airport. Two passengers waiting from the streets. Award winning director Barney Platts-Mills started This film starts from the old man who is the owner of for the suitcase. They don’t know each other but they work in the Shepperton Studios cutting room aged 15. cafe, is telling the folkstory to the young bartender make a bet. Which suitcase will appear first? Comedy Has written and directed four features, set up Massive who likes to listen. One day the bartender falls in love Spain Notting Hill: Videos, a production company for errant young people with the lady and he gave her the surprise which is The Magical City based on the folk story... Drama New Zealand Jazz Song Jorge Gonzalez 7 minutes 15 from west London and founded the Portobello Film In a New York apartment bedroom, Charles Lewis, Festival before moving to Morocco. “Here magic flourishes, and every-where The Longest Night Jazz trumpeter, must decide between life with his one can see evidence of a growing devout Zachary Denman 13 minutes 12A partner, or love for his music. Animation Spain irrationalism. Little bookshops sell the I- It’s the 23rd December 2012. There is no sun. It’s Ludoterapia Leon Siminiani 15 minutes 12 Ching, packs of tarot cards and fat studies THU 2 AUG been dark for 42 hours, the world is in chaos. Is this the end of the human race? Sc-Fi Drama London Couple, 30-something and well-to-do. No children. of the obscure mathematics of astrology. Nothing to say to each other. Seeking help to Westbourne Studios 6–11pm You can buy Sufi watergongs to aid In The Process Richard Shaw 13 minutes 12A resuscitate dying relationship. Drama Spain contemplation and the macrobiotic Glastonbury’s Year Off Jane Everest is a sales rep more interested in a foodshop on Portobello Road, Ceres, even possible promotion than any relationship. In the run Salvador (Historia De Un David Stark 55 minutes 12A Milagro Cotidiano) Abdelatif Hwidar turns the consumption of vegetables into a Since the first festival on Worthy Farm in 1970 the up to her big interview, however, jane becomes infatuated with her female boss. Could she really get 13 minutes 15 mystical religion” festival has grown into the biggest Greenfield music One morning in March. A train wagon. A child plays and performing arts festival in the world. Every 5 the girl and the job, or has something got to give? “The people who float on the tide of Drama Britain with his father to the hiding place. years the festival has a year off, to let the land and metaphysical junk – freaks of all kinds” The Song of The Cricket (El the organisers recover, and after playing host to Level Micah Dahl 7 minutes 15 into macrobiotics, yoga, astrology, illiterate 150,000 revelers in 2005 the festival entered one of Canto Del Grillo) Dany Campos Anxious, worried and sleep deprived, Dylon, a slick mysticism, acid, terrible poetry – have its fallow years. The film tells the story of the festivals Wall Street type...around in a dream like state having 17 minutes 15 year off. Follow the progress of many of the projects Joseba Perurena, a young terrorist, wants to start a managed, at a price. The new folk magic dangerous encounters with one stranger, Kraig... of the streets promises to have some that the festival revenue goes towards and gain an Drama USA new life together with his girlfriend. However, cutting intimate insight into Somerset’s best known dairy ties with the past is never an easy thing to do unhappy political consequences but as a farmer. Documentary London, England Scarlet Alex Gascoigne 13 minutes U especially when the consequences have not been fully way of responding to the city it does reflect Having lost her father as a child, a young girl creates considered. Drama Good Spain Paul Kieve – magic in a truth about the nature of the place which a fantasy world for herself inspired by her obsession we had better learn to confront... films/theatre talk & films with Rita Hayworth and a particular red dress. Drama Twice (Dos Veces) Joseba fuentes 25 minutes 12 cinema (7–45pm) Paul has designed magical stage London, England “These people at the Gate have clearly effects for dozens of West End and Laura wants to divorce Mario. He agrees to give her productions, including the first ever live production of To The Manor...Murdered! whatever settlement she asks for on one condition: she embraced the idea of a magical city. Their The Invisible Man and the current production of The Antony James 25 minutes 15 must accept to reenact with all the details the first clothes, their language, their religious Lord of The Rings. He created onscreen magic for Fridge magnate Howard L.Ormondagondastoneson has time they met. Drama Spain beliefs, their folk art belong to a syntheti- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (in which he been murdered! Unable to crack the case, Scotland cally-reconstructed tribal culture ruled by The Parabolic Dish also appears). His first book, Hocus Pocus, 'A Tale of Yard call straight shooting New York detective Larry (La Parabolica) Xavi Sala 13 minutes 12 superstition, totems and taboos... Magnificent Magicians and Their Amazing Feats' is Ringer to shake things up. Drama Britain During the broadcast of the Pope’s visit, Vicente’s being published by Bloomsbury in October and “The Gate opens not on to the gentle pot Rabun Sarbaz Draey 30 minutes 15 television is broken. Desperate, he decides to make a features an introduction by Harry Potter star Daniel smoking whimsy of Gandalf's Garden, but A story of a pariot, Rabun, his beloved wife, Kurda, a homemade parabplic dish. Promofest.Org Drama Radcliffe. www.stageillusion.com nation at war, Kurdistan, and a modern day villain... a Spain on a ruined Eden, tangled, exotic and The Future is Unwritten terrorist. Drama London, England overgrown, where people see signs in Circulating Currents (Corrientes Julien Temple 120 minutes 15 scraps of junk and motley. It may look like Video Cafe 8–11pm Circulares) Mikel Alvarino 10 minutes U cinema (8.00–10.00pm) Temple’s masterly bio of his affectation, a boasting juvenile pretence, There are circulating currents flowing between us. friend Joe Strummer featuring Joe’s early career with but perhaps it is real – a state of natural Even if we can’t see them, they’re still there. Joining the 101’ers squatting in the Portobello area, his heady 8–11pm us together. Tearing us apart. Love is one of those magic to which the fragmented industrial days as front man for The Clash and his fascinating currents. Drama Spain city unconsciously aspires.” post-Clash career with The Mescalitos. Ken Campbell Edinburgh preview The Nut (La Tuerca) Notting Hill in the hippy days described as Richard McDougall Close up Azul Melissa Martinez 10 minutes U a prime example of ‘The Magical City’ in magic – atrium 8pm The inimitable comic genius tells scarcely believable This is the story of a little girl and a nut. It is also the A 2 hour fluid set of Astonishing Magic. Performed by true stories making the ordinary extraordinary and Jonathan Raban's 1974 ‘psychological story of a middle-aged woman who has lost all contact 4 highly individual magicians, who will be mingling the extraordinary ordinary Ken Campbell's shows are handbook for urban survival’, Soft City. with dreams. La Tuerca is about magic, memories and and interacting within the Studios and The Inn on the hilarious and mind-boggling trips into the bizarre the significance of small things that we sometimes Green, this is a first rate opportunity to see close up world of a master storyteller. As much a national forget when we become adults. Drama Spain magic at its best. Richard McDougall is a former World treasure as the Queen, Judi Dench and Basil Brush, a giant among pygmies" Open Champion for Close Up Magic, and has Before And After Kissing Maria performed in forty countries. He has gathered some of (Antes Y Despues De Besar A his favourite British magicians to join him. Maria) Ramon Alos 7 minutes 15 BLACK CARROT Michael Vincent is one of the most highly Before and after kissing Maria narrates, from the 2nd August & 19th August (6–10pm) rated pure sleight of hand artists in the world at FRI 3 AUG point of view of Raul, a 9 year-old child from a small Westbourne Studios present. www.michaelvincent.co.uk Nigel village in the Spanish countryside, his adventures to Mead is one of the UK’s busiest magicians, mixing Westbourne Studios 6–11pm kiss Maria, his 12 year-old cousin, which as every Three musicians and a storyteller very strong magic with an equal amount of charm and SPANISH FILMS summer, has come to the village to spend her combining dramatic spoken narrative humour. www.nigelmead.com Adam Keisner holydays. Drama Spain with music. Aiming for something that is is fast gaining a reputation for his magic, and is often Violeta Marc Riba & Anna Solanas 10 minutes 18 darkly funny, edgy, energetic and flown around the world to illustrate why. Violeta loves best fishing into the darkest depths. Bichos Raros 13 minutes 12A www.keisner.com Animation Spain Estibaliz Burgaleta & Alegria Collantes. spontaneous as well as offering a This is the history of three weirdos; Jose Luis belongs dramatic experience of intense In The Woods Maja Djokic 7 minutes 15 to the urban tribe of wrecks, Raul is a frikie of video- evocative storytelling. Once upon a time there was a Little Red Riding Hood games and Eva a fervent follower of astrology. They that met a Big Bad Wolf that only wanted to eat her. A three are inhabitants of a normal ecosystem that it is Two half-hour performances include a classic bedtime tale. Comedy Spain to them hostile, and choose three different forms to particularly dark and twisted retelling live their life. And indeed, it is that capacity of choice Diente Por Ojo Eivind Holmboe of Hansel and Gretel (Cannibal what makes the human being the weirdoest of the 20 minutes 18 Holocaust) and The Tell Tale Heart. nature One night seven people are brought together through If you would like to get a flavour of the a chain of desperate events illustrating that in life - we work, please visit www.blackcarrot.net reap what we sow, and how nature has it’s own merciless way of evening out the score. Drama Spain 1 SPAIN portobellofilmfestival.com

DRAMA SPAIN My Mum The Wrestler Delilah Esther May Campbell 10 minutes 12 Mark Withers 2 minutes U One day, a familiar face from long ago walks into Trojans, Celts and Long Path Of Stone (Longo An eight year old girl’s mother decides to become a Pim’s hair salon. It’s her old schoolmate, Debbie, who Romans Sendeiro De Pedra) Pablo Millan wrestler. Comedy Britain still sports long, golden hair she had as a child- and 17 minutes U still looks remarkably like the same Debbie who used The area’s only real Visual and sonorous journey where the stone is the Work Socks David Packer 7 minutes 12A to humiliate Pim. The question is, will Pim still hold a claim to antiquity main element from which emerge concepts as the Finding matching socks can be frustrating at the best grudge? Drama London, England work, death, the mystic... taking Galicia as the place of times, but in this instance it leads to inprisionment comes from being to perform it, with a submerged culture that adores and some rather nice views of the countryside. Latin Lover Francesca Fini 10 minutes 15 on the Celtic west the stone. Art Spain Comedy Britain Relationships can really suck, especially if you are trackway, 3 miles dating a Latin Lover. Drama Italy from the probable The Spell Pablo Millan 7 minutes 15 Work Out Samia Rida 35 minutes 15 Celtic settlement that would become An artist prepares everything to have a creative day. A comedy/drama pilot set in London lightly exposing Agnieszka 2039 Alcohol was an indispensable element in the ritual. and exploring the ever developing yoga and fitness Martin Gauvrean 13 minutes 15 London. In Notting Hill in Bygone Days, Drama Spain scene. Comedy London, England The Gods sent a wild boar to deliver the bhox of Florence Gladstone mentions posters on the eternity. The one to find it would become the key to underground in 1916 which ‘stated that Veines (Neighbours) Oh Sweet and Mighty Dream of the fate of the world. Martin Gauvrean. Drama Holland Park Avenue was the Via Marta E. Vilatella 15 minutes 12 Freakish Joy Ashley Slater 13 minutes 12A London, England In the guts of an old building, then life of four female Jeff, a young accountant, has never had a dream. So Trinobantia of the Romans, the chief road neighbours hides. Although they live very close to when he wakes up from his very first one, he’s Slap Uriel Emil 3 minutes 15 of the late Celtic kingdom of the each other, an almost unbreakable distance separates convinced that that it must be a premonition of the Trinobantes.’ According to Geoffrey of them. Drama Spain future. this is despite the fact that the dream faetures A battered wife gets a once in a lifetime chance to Monmouth’s mythological history, a wobbly woman who screams in Japanese, a large change her life, when her husband suddenly chokes Trinobantia is derived from Troynovant – Nocturno Fernando Uson 17 minutes 18 on the food he is eating in the middle of them having red bird, and loud classical music. he goes out into the New Troy. Alvaro is a doctor. he has a family, a nurse- and a world to find the clues that will lead him to the woman dinner. Drama London, England corpse. Drama Spain in his dream, but there’s one catch: he has to take his 7:00 In 1841 the Gentleman’s Magazine Humans With Potatoes cantankerous Grandma long for the ride. Comedy reported that workmen excavating the J.Prada 17 minutes 18 Canada The Service Industry foundations of 67-75 Ladbroke Grove had For years Damiau has run the Butchers his father left John Ryder 30 minutes 15 The Ladygrabber The service industry is a short drama about doing discovered a stone coffin, containing an to him. Damiau combines his work with his favorite Craig Sinclair 5 minutes U adult skeleton and bone and ivory pins. pass time, cannibalism. His everyday routine changed tedious menial work for barely tolerable people in the The adventures of a charismatic hero, his true love pursuit of a higher purpose. Drama London, England Further finds were expected but, as the however when Sara, invites him to her house for and the madman out to steal her from him. Shot in a speculative building boom gathered pace, dinner. Horror Spain traditional silent movie style and written by and archaeology wasn’t a major concern and starring a gentleman with brain damage. Comedy the only other record of Roman remains in Britain IOTG 6–11pm the area is in Bygone Days. Florence Video Cafe 8–11pm Gladstone wrote of a ‘trough of broken FILMS OUTSIDE masonry’ in the St John’s church vicarage “in the shadows of the light” garden, thought to be part of a Roman Daniel Griggs 30 minutes 12A sarcophagus discovered on the site of 1 A couple are late, and run to work. when a drunk SAT 4 AUG Ladbroke Square. Although this could driver, kills the man. Later his (pregnant) wife has a merely mean a few roadside burials dinner, from a candle comes the shadow of the dead Westbourne Studios 2–11pm outside the Londinium city limits, a 70s man. A little later the woman gives birth to a boy who The Prisoner Of The Month 2:00 then grows up to be the reincarnation of her dead Mario Dilcks 25 minutes 18 archaeology survey concluded that the husband. Art Britain Capri, You Love? Synopsis on the back of DVD cover. Drama Germany coffins belonged to Romano-Briton Alexander Oppersdorff 85 minutes 12 residents of a villa at the top of Ladbroke Please Kill Me Lyndon Ives 5 minutes 12 647 Matt Platts-Mill 5 minutes 15 Over the course of one weekend, in an idyllic villa Grove. Desperate to be with his recently departed wife, Everyday Paul walks the same route to stand in the close by the blue grotto, two men and two women comatose Trevor Reynolds pleads with his daughter to same place, outside the same playground come rain or meet. As the hours pass they find themselves cut him off, until a vision of death brings some shine. This is day 647; another day that Paul cannot entangled in a humorous clsh of attraction and ego. unexpected news. Comedy London, England forget his guilt and the day that two men want to Drama Germany punish him. Drama London, England Sympathy For The Devil Commuting Paul Bruce 10 minutes 12A 8:00 Michael Onder 3 minutes 12 On Michaelmas Eve The Devil raoms the Earth looking A celebration of going to work on public transport. The Urge Michael Graves 17 minutes 15 for souls to be burn, but he’s a big man who’s out of Comedy London, England A seneless death. A lack of motive. Why was a man shape. He’s got the oldest job in the universe and he’s killed? The interviewer wants answers, the suject is losing his va-va-voom. Hell has got nothing on Roslin! The World According To Liam anything but forthright. Murder was just on his mind Comedy Britain Lovelle Simon Powell 25 minutes 12A and had to be acted upon. But all is not as it seems, Set in the heavily regenarated city of Salford, Just One More Bite and the truth is not as one may expect... Drama Manchester. Liam Lovelle is a city centre hotel night Pat Garrett 13 minutes 12A Australia cleaner who arrives to discover a slight change to his Prince Osnovsky, a vampire, is interviewed at home by CAPOEIRA PERFORMANCE daily routine. He is made redundant. Liam finds the Growing David Alexander 10 minutes 15 the “Good Night” show. He reveals himself through sudden change very difficult... Why? Liam has A short study into the lives of three teenage boys, A community of people creating dynamic paintings words and song. Sometimes charming, sometimes Aspergers Syndrome. Drama Britain whose idle lifestyle of smoking, hanging out and using their hands & feet while moving to Brazilian frightening, he is always dangerous. Horror London, chasing girls, results in tragedy. Drama London, Capoeira rhythms, interacting with each other to England The Orchard Hu Ze 75 minutes 15 England produce a stunning visual performance and fresh, To collect money of mother’s treatment, Wong Bo spontaneous paintings live in Westbourne cruelly killed two woman and one of them was his The Dreams Of Lost Time Studios 4–6pm lover. In the end, he was harmed with poison and Faysal Soysal 15 minutes 12A buried in the orchard by his good friend. Feature A person who wants to return to first instance and get The performance is produced by artist Tom Norman Nutting Hill or Nothing ill Length Drama China rid of her memories. She goes to her past to find her and Capoeira Angola Palmares group, led by childhood and youth by going from one dream to Mestre Axè. In G K Chesterton’s 5:05 another. In this travel some times she lives with her For further information regarding the project whimsical ‘Cockney See It Through Rick Roberts 55 minutes 15 daughter and sometimes with her mother. 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She is faced with 2 problems: one she Intervention 6:00 Set in a fictional rehab clinic in the desert, intervention cannot fix and one that she can. The film is a tribute debate on ‘whether Notting Hill means offers a glimpse of what goes on behind closed doors Renezous Isabel Ivars 13 minutes U to the Russian Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. Drama Nutting Hill in allusion to the rich woods when an eclectic group of people drawn from all walks We are lost souls that live this world looking for our Canada which no longer cover it, or whether it is a dreams. A tale of desires, frustrated feelings and of life find themselves under one roof for 28 days corruption of the saying Nothing-ill, apathy. The story of three characters driven by their Solace Jared Katsiane 10 minutes 15 with one thing in common – addiction. Drama France A teenager wanders his neighborhood, drifting in and referring to its reputation among the expectations. Drama London, England 11:00 ancients as an earthly paradise.’ In out of the lives of friends and strangers. Drama USA See You (Vi Ses) Special Screening of Barney Platt-Mills film Cockney Notting Hill is pronounced ‘Nottin’ 9:00 Asger Lindgaard 10 minutes 18 Looking For Tomorrow Ill’, and the area was an earthly paradise Sofie arrives at the airport with her boyfriend, on the of mostly uninhabited woodland up until Ravi Goes To School details on inside front cover. surface a happy couple. But the nice image shatters in Anu Menon 30 minutes U Capoeira: painting with hands & feet while dancing – 500 years ago, then it was mostly fields front of our eyes while the rest of the world keeps The film is a about 6 year old Ravi whose life is atrium (4–6pm) for a few more centuries. moving at its own pace in this intense drama. Drama transformed when Pooja moves into the apartment Denmark block with her husband. Pooja takes Ravi (a 2 DOCUMENTARY portobellofilmfestival.com

IOTG 4pm–1am bombs by day and at night. He is a single Maybury (currently filming The Edge Of Love Shuffler" (2'10") + magical provocation. Under the father who loves his children and is committed to about Dylan Thomas with Kiera Knightley and Sienna radar, ahead of the pack, away from the crowd and Roughler night: supporting them even if they have sleepless nights Miller, and director of the best music video of all time beyond fashion – aladin continues to plough his own Whatever Happened To Mr hoping he returns to their bedside. The prologue not in Nothing Compares 2 U for Sinead) reminiscing about furrow. Saucy? Roughler TV All-Dayer the film is that he recently died in a car crash. A their drinking days with the greatest British Artist of terrible loss. The film is a dedication to Sarwet and his the 20th Century, Francis Bacon. Followed by a 8.10–9.10 Guerrilla Magic. An all day event of film, music and reminiscence that children. Documentary Australia screening of: Ishmahil Blagrove's latest will transport in time but not place. Starting with film, documentary film "With moving on to debate; ‘What’s So Great About Celebrity Bubble Love Is The Devil (John Maybury) or without Fidel " (59'). Portobello Rd? and ending in an orgy of music and Archie Lauchlan 30 minutes U 90 mins 18 Blagrove is the force self-indulgence. The Borough Cafe stood in the heart of London for Maybury's debut feature is an extraordinary study of behind RiceNPeas, the over 40 years, a period in which its local Borough the passions that drove Bacon (Derek Jacobi), charting pioneering creative hub. The film fare opens with Peter Richardson’s Golden Market transformed from dingy dockland to hip his turbulent and sadomasochistic homosexual Montreux winner The Strike, includes Roger hangout. Celebrity Bubble tells the story of changing relationship with George Dyer (Daniel Craig). Set in 9.10–9.50 Movies, Magic and Music – Conversation. Pomphrey’s Who The Fuck Is Peter urban landscape via the uniquely entertaining the Bohemian world of 60s Soho the film captures the Tunde Jegede plays kora and shares excerpts from Docherty, and the premiere of Ben Young’s. The character of Maria, the cafe’s proprietor. Documentary decadent underworld of artists models, East End thugs contrasting films "Tunde – An African Musical Journey" launch of Roughler TV offers first insight on London, England and the infamous drinking den The Colony Room and "Ara's Sojourn" (total 4') and Marcus Tomlinson Unicyle Hockey, Panto, Banksy, False Memory, etc. presided over by the hilariously foul mouthed Muriel shares his brief films for "Make Poverty History", Je suis Jean Cristina Pinheiro & Andre Scucato Belcher (Tilda Swinton). "Issey Miyake APOC" and "Hussein Chalayan" (total 4') After a panel discussion, the evening features bands, 10 minutes 12A music and Portobello Celebrity Stars A documentary of sensations on the life and art about 10:00 9.50–10.30 Magic Which Takes Time – Conversation. In Their Eyes. Jean Cocteau. Composite original track for the Cinema Ernst Fischer performs briefly and shares excerpts The Raymond Revuebar – The from the film "My Living Room is a Theatre" and ROUGHLER MAGAZINE of Poetry on a study of movement of the actors of the film Blood of a Poet, the Beautiful and the Beast, Art Of Striptease "Book of Dust" (total 4') while Ruth Rix introduces us The Roughler Magazine was the house journal of a Orpheu and Testament of Orpheu. Art Documentaries Simon Weitzman 55 minutes 18 to two images. unique group of people who frequented Portobello Brazil The only film made about the world famous Raymond Road in the late 80s, a group that included Keith Allen Revuebar, the last nude burlesque show in London. (plus kids), Joe, Mick and Paul of The Clash, Will Self, Every Step You Take The venue closed in 2004 after nearly 50 years. This IOTG (Inn On The Green) Mark Quinn, Damien Hirst, Neneh Cherry, Shane Nino Leitner 65 minutes 12 is the film’s first public showing. Documentary Good 6–11pm With an estimated 4 million surveillance cameras, Britian MacGowan, , Jake Arnott, anyone from DOCUMENTARY The Comic Strip, Vic Reeves, Davina McCall, Anna Britain is by far the most-watched nation on earth. Chancellor, Kevin Allen, and anyone else who knew a How could this come about in Orwell’s mother The Vroukounda Festival good time when they saw it. country? Documentary Austria IOTG 8–11pm Theodore Veneris 55 minutes U The archeological site, home of one of the four ancient Hessians MC Randall Wilson 75 minutes 15 Cameron Pierre on guitar and Ray The Roughler was produced by Ray ‘Roughler’ Jones, cities of Karpathos, is very well known today for the it was ID meets Tatler, Sniffing Glue meets the Big The Hessians Motorcycle Club terrorized the west coast Carless on sax from Courtney Pine’s backing and Nevada. throughout the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s the band. Expect very special guests. The very best in festival of Saint John held every year on August 29th. Issue, and retailed for whatever you had in your “The Vroukounda Festival” is an attemptto record the pocket or quite possibly free. members speak candidly on the club’s violent history, contemporary funky urban local jazz. the outlaw biker lifestyle, drugs, law enforcement and festival and the customs that go with it. Documentary Now The Roughler is risen, phoenix-like from the the day-today dangers of life on the road. Greece ashes to remind us all of an era before Richard Curtis Documentary USA Many Connections Othello De’souza – and ‘Notting Hill’ brought tourist hordes and surreal 7–10:00pm MON 6 AUG Hartley 10 minutes 12 house prices; when David Cameron was still at Eton; The film looks at lines of Caribbean youth growing up when merchant banker still meant w****r. Moll Malcolm Hart 50 minutes 18 Westbourne Studios 6–11pm in the Caribbean between the 1930’s to 1950’s and A portrait of Molly Parkin. Now 74 years old, an comparing it to the lines of Caribbean youth growing outrageously honest testament of her life and careers Film London: Art Film/talk up in London today. Documentary London, England as painter, author, fashion editor, TV celebrity, mother, Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) Mind The Gap Kate Angel 20 minutes U SUN 5 AUG grandmother- through alcoholism to sorbriety. The London Artists’ Film and Video Awards (LAFVA) is Documentary London, England “A kind of universal narrative of the dilemma faced an open submission awards scheme for artists' living by seperated generations in today’s world”. A Westbourne Studios and working in the London region. Awards up to a 12 noon –11pm Early start! 7pm sentimental and humied tribute to my estranged maximum of £20,000 are available to artists' working father, made over a few years. Documentary Britain DOCUMENTARY DAY Boozing With Bacon in the context of contemporary fine art moving image Following a screening of Molly's confessional film practice for the production of new work. Chapter XV: 12 Art From The Streets Molly, we present Molly Parkin and John Fernando Pinheipo 13 minutes 15 Blaylock 75 minutes 12 Rose Cupit, Manager FLAMIN, will discuss the LAFVA All you need is love. Documentary Brazil Art from the streets tracks the lives of five homeless scheme and other opportunities for funding for artist artists involved in a grass roots art program providing Subterania: film-makers, and will screen some films supported by Unbroken (Ungebrochen) them with courage, hope, and money. Underground rivers the scheme, including recent work by Andrew Kötting, Jolanta Hoehn 7 minutes U Art Documentaries USA Esther Johnson, Roz Mortimer and Tim Shore . Optimistic short film portrait about a former GDR The Notting Hill area is defined by two citizen and his social as well as occupational The White House Hotel – Life At streams, which both now run underground, 8–11pm development after the fall of the wall. Wolfgana, in The End Of The Bowery either side of the high ground; the Aladin "The World's Greatest his fifties, recounts with affecting openness his Graham Meriwether & Matt Rivera 85 minutes 12A Kilburn/Westbourne/Bayswater Magicians: Part1" personal story. Nostalgically, he looks back. The events The White House Hotel, one of the last flophouses in stream/rivulet to the east, and Bridge or and consequence of the years 1989 / 1990 have left , is located on the Bowery, an avenue Curator, ringmaster and magical interventions: aladin. its mark. One notices, but even so he carries on, once famous for its brothels, flophouses and saloons. Counterís Creek to the west. According to 8.00–8.10 Seminal celluloid snippets from the always gets back on to his feet – unbroken. Today, the White House is gradually being converted Florence Gladstone, there’s ‘no foundation Documentary Germany into a hostel. Our film chronicles the men still living for the statement, occasionally met with, sorcerer's vault. Early aladin from the 1999 pop video "Badder Badder Schwing" (3'45") + the T.V. pilot "The there... Feature Length Documentaries USA that a vast lake underlies the district.’ The Things We Do For Love However, the Westbourne is described as Alex Gollner 43 minutes 12A augmented by tributaries while the A documentary which explores the dating experience Bayswater area is noted for its springs, of all ages, cultures and backgrounds, from the reservoirs, conduits and general watery triumphs to the disasters, in a light-hearted and features. Since the 1850s, the legendary heartfelt way. Documentary London, England lost London river has been conveyed Put Your Helmet On through the area by culvert, no longer Guy Nott 5 minutes 15 along its original course. It emerges across Bizarre festival of rockets. Crowds pelted with small Bayswater Road to form the Serpentine in fireworks while commemorating the excorcism of the Hyde Park, the other side of which it can demons of plague. Since 1880’s this dangerous event be seen going through Sloane Square tube still is literally ‘blinding’. Looks like a music video. station via a pipe, before joining the Documentary London, England Thames at Chelsea Bridge. Something Like My Eyes Hooshang Mirzaee 30 minutes 15 At the age of 7, when he was a first – grader, Abdolvahed Esmailpour found a landmine left from the war. Thinking the mine is a toy, the boy started to play with it. The mine exploded and the boy lost both his arms and his eyesight. Documentary Iran Mine & Tablou Hossein Jehani 23 minutes 12 Mine and Tablou is a touching story about a sensitive artist, Sarwet Sawz, who lives in Iraqi Kurdistan. His Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network – 8 Aug work is famous, but in order to survive, he dismantles

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Out Of Time Suzanne Cohen 10 minutes 12 Every Step You Take – 5 Aug A young woman moved into the new Arsenal Stadium complex and goes on a personal journey from Highbury to Emirates and beyond. Documentary London, England Fisher Of Dor Lina Fruzzetti, Steven Ross & Akos Ostor 40 minutes U Glastonbury’s Year Off This documentary by filmmaker anthropologists Lina 2 Aug Fruzzett (from Eritrea in East Africa) and Akos Osbor, provides an evocative sensory glimpse into life in a What Can I Do Hugo Martine 15 minutes U Tanzanian fishing village. Feel and smell the textures A film aimed at raising peoples’ awareness of Sickle in this unique documentary that redefines ‘observa- Cell Anaemia and those who suffer from the disease in tional’ into a quiet depiction of lasting tradition in the London. Documentary London, England face of change. Documentary Good Britian Junior Internet Addicts DJ Wheelie Bag The Grace Carroll 5 minutes Documentary Cat Middle 45 minutes U A documentary about a young girls addicted to the The lights dim, the music swells. the contestants form internet. (Won’t play on DVD player w`tched it on the a circle. the hall is packed. Tonight is the long-awaited computer. Need to ring.) Documentary London, Fourth Annual Wheelie Bag Ball, part battle of the England sound systems, part parade, part knees up, and part surreal freak show. The brains behind this is Denys Surf Noir Suyen Mosley 3 minutes U Avis, entrepreneur, inventor and performance artist. Set to mozart’s mass, this avant-garde surf short Documentary London, England illustrates the fluidity, grace, and humour of the TUE 7 AUG surfing experience. Witness the birth of The Surfness. Gentle Beginnings, Giving Birth Necropolis: City of the Documentary USA With Midwives John Wong 20 minutes 15 Westbourne Studios 6–11pm Dead This is a short film about midwifery care. Join Melanie Death Of A Matriarch in the early stages of pregnancy as she explores the Aladin "The World's Greatest The original Magicians: Part 2" Ishmahil Blagrove Jr. 15 minutes 15 basic principles and advantages of midwifery care weird Ishmahil Blagrove Jr. travels to Jamaica to film the during pregnancy and childbrith. Documentary Canada Curator, ringmaster and magical interventions: aladin. bohemian cultural importance of the Nine Nights Ceremony, and Cage Fighter Daniel Quinones & Jesse 6.00–6.10 Seminal celluloid snippets from the local writer looks at how are woman can have such an impact in a was Arthur Jamaican Community. Rice & Peas Documentary Good Quinones 15 minutes 12A sorcerer's vault. London, England Dynamite Dean Bray is a Cage Fighter. in five days he aladin – films "Badder Badder Schwing" (3'45") + Machen, who has his next fight, if he wins his career will sour. If he "The Shuffler" (2'10") + magical provocation. Under lived on loses... Documentary London, England the radar, ahead of the pack, away from the crowd Clarendon and beyond fashion – aladin continues to plough his Road in the own furrow. 1880s. A 6.10–7.10 Designs for Magic – Conversation. great Sam Aloof, Lone Sigurdsson and Gee Mahabir each champion of IDEAS IN MOTION PROGRAMME bring two objects. mysticism over materialism, he was also a Westbourne Grove Church 7.10–8.10 Film Magic and Beyond – Conversation. member of the occult secret society, the Fred Rees shows us film excerpts from "Book of Cool", Order of the Golden Dawn, who met at 36 TUE 7 AUG WALKING TO WERNER 95 mins. " Wheelchair Athletes" and "The Lions Tour" (total 4'); Blythe Road in Hammersmith, along with Director: Linas Phillips. English. Michela Ledwige shares excerpts from films "Horses Aleister Crowley and WB Yeats. 6.30–7pm Orson Welles said a great director should be part for Courses" and "Sanctuary" (total 4'); Gordon Tait BLUE GOLD 24 mins actor, part writer, and part producer; which might introduces us to some of his objects, patents and ideas. In his autobiography, Far Off Things, Director: Najwa Naijar well describe Linas, the subject of his own journey Arthur Machen recalls drifting around 8.10–8.50 Getting a Voice by Magic – Conversation. English/Arabic/Hebrew. English subtitles. with a hand held camera, by foot from Seattle to North Kensington and the phantas- Water – its scarcity, ownership and exploitation is a Los Angeles where he hopes to meet the man who Melanie Harrold offers a sliver of live music and inspired him to make films – Werner Herzog. Rebecca Swift shares excerpts from film "Night magorical impression Kensal Green ticking time bomb for global conflict. Blue Gold cemetery had on him explores this contentious issue on the West Bank, in Flights". particular the Hebron area where the Israeli 8.50–11.00 Indian Magic. The Cemetery of All Souls necropolis was government control the supply of water to the Rahul Dholakia's stupendous 2005 feature film established at Kensal Green in 1832, as Palestinians. WED 8 AUG "Parzania" (130') closes "The World's Greatest London’s answer to ’s Pere Lachaise. Magicians" with its U.K. premiere. 7.00–8pm 6.30–8pm Before long, as Edward Walford put it in TIME & TIDE 60 mins WALKING TO WERNER (93 mins) With or Without Fidel Old London, ‘marble obelisks and urns Director: Julie Bayer Ishmahil Blagrove Jr. 60 minutes 12A began to rise among the cypresses in all English/Tuvalu. English subtitles. 8.pm–9.30 How do Cubans feel about their identity and freedom the variety which heathen and classical Last year, PFF showed The Disappearance of Tuvula COMPADRE 90 mins. of speech? for the first time the people of Cuba allusions could suggest.’ The entrance to which spotlighted how this small South Pacific island Director: Mikael Wistrom question the values that western democracy holds was being slowly submerged by rising sea levels. Spanish. English subtitles. the underworld, at the end of the ancient scared, and the price Cubans have paid for their footpath from Kensington to Kensal Green, Time & Time explores what happens when a group The subject of this highly subjective film, Daniel independence. Documentary London, England of islanders who had fled the relentless loss of their Barrientos, met the director, Mikael Wistrom, first in was originally to feature gothic Camelot homes to settle in New Zealand, return for a 1974 while struggling to stay alive as a garbage style towers and a watergate from the nostalgic final look. picker in Peru. Their friendship grew and in 1992 IOTG 6–11pm canal. In 1889 the funeral of the writer was celebrated in The Other Shore which chronicled 8.00–9pm Wilkie Collins, of The Woman in White his survival while raising a family in abject poverty. ALCHEMY FILM NIGHT fame, occasioned the first local case of fan FROM DUST 56 mins Compadre is the sequel but digs deeper in the strain Anachron Film Night mania with women in black fighting over Director: Dhruv Dhawan caused by the disparity in wealth between subject hosted by Hank from Alchemy English/Sinhala. English Subtitles. and filmmaker. wreaths at his graveside. In the aftermath of the devastation of Sri Lanka by Anachron cordially welcomes you to an evening of cult the Tsunami, two survivors and their families 9.30–10pm orientated, weird and wonderful film celebrating the struggle to rebuild their lives and homes and the Panel Discussion Paticipation t.b.a. work of cult director Richard Stanley, who will unexpected opposition of their own government hopefully appear, featuring his rare early shorts and Jack-in-the-Green: 10–11pm who have forbidden building closer than 100 largely locally inspired feature Hardware. Relic of tree worship in OUR OWN PRIVATE BIN metres from the ocean. LADEN 63 mins. Children Of The Kingdom modern Europe 9.00–9.30 Director: Samira Goetschel. English. The Sea of Perdition Bayswater in the 19th century is said to Panel Discussion Participation t.b.a. Samira started with the urge to discover the story have been ‘enlivened by the May Dance behind the headlines, trying to understand the rise Hardware and the Jack O’ the Green.’ In The Golden 9.30–10.45 of Islamic militant fundamentalism that lead to the TOTAL DENIAL 74 mins 9/ll turning point in history. Her private quest Bough, JG Frazer describes the Jack-in-the- Director: Milena Kaneva reveals much of the current and not-so-hidden war Green leaf-clad mummer as a ‘relic of English/Burmese/Karen. English subtitles. over economics resources despite the obvious tree-worship in modern Europe’, featuring Over five years, Milena Kaneva followed a native propaganda smokescreen of the so called ìwar on a chimney-sweep ‘encased in a pyramidical born Karen, on the death list of secret police both in terrorî and the media’s spotlight on Bin Laden. framework of wickerwork, which is covered Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand – Ka Has Wa, who Named Best Foreign Documentary and Best Film of systematically and secretly gathered evidence of with holly and ivy, and surmounted by a the Festival at the 2006 European Independent Film crown of flowers and ribbons. Thus arrayed human abuse before launching a lawsuit in the US Festival in Paris. with Earth Rights International against Unocal. The he dances on May day at the head of a results of this court case that may set standards for Out Of Time troop of chimney sweeps, who collect multinational corporate conduct worldwide. 6 Aug pence.’

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Four docs presents: The Solution Ivan Kavanagh 75 minutes 18 The Prisoner Of The Month WED 8 AUG Take Your Shorts And Shove It The Solution examines the lives of a wealthy property talks and screenings in assoc. with developer and his materialistic young wife. Drama 4 Aug Westbourne Studios 6–11pm Ireland I Remember Him Tin Can Man Ivan Kavanagh 85 minutes 18 Miles Nanton 60 minutes 15 IOTG 6–11pm A tall tale about a pushover! Horror Ireland Richard, is an abusive husband, has a string of lovers HORROR & EXTREME CINEMA whomb he regularly invites to his home. His wife and The Hand child are on the brink of walking away when he is Strange Wood David Lilley & Stephen Gray 7 minutes 15 involved in a car crash in which he develops Stephen Hedley & Nick Light 3 minutes 15 The hand is a new take on Asian horror. A girl sleeps Retrograde Amnesia. Richard now has to face a home, Kelly is dead, murdered by a boyfriend who claims but is plagued by viscious nightmares. She wakes not knowing his wife, his child, or the person he used she was cheating on him. Davey is plunged into a life- hoping to find comfort in the arms of her boyfriend, to be. Producer – Kiaran Sim (MK Productions) or-death situation; help his best mate bury her body but a much worse fate awaits her. Horror Britain Drama London, England or face his wrath. Horror Britain Halfway Karl Hart 5 minutes 18 Nicky Kentish Barnes Shelter A man wakes up to find himself captive in a Nicky has produced in recent years: Cassandra's Stephen Hedley & Nick Light 2 minutes 18 basement. Who brought him here and how will he get Dream (Woody Allen), The Good Night (Jake Paltrow), A chased man takes shelter in an old man’s basement, out? Horror Britain Scoop (Woody Allen), Match Point (Woody Allen), but all is not as it seems. Horror Britain The Shed Carlos E. Bessa 2 minutes 15 About a Boy (Chris & Paul Weitz), High Heels and Low Maggot Michael Byrne 5 minutes 15 As deeper you go, darker it gets, the shed. Horror Jack the Ripper Park lives (Mel Smith), Gangster No.1 (Paul McGuigan), An London, England Ideal Husband (Oliver Parker). Nicky will be talking A visual stimuli to basil Kirchin’s ‘World Within Worlds’ , Maggot sees the intensifying misanthropy of Avondale Park about producing high quality independent movies in Little Mickey Vesna 5 minutes 15 in Notting Dale the UK. Unconfirmed at time of going to press – we the human condition; that we are all doomed to our Art London, England own craving for survival, no matter what our stature. hope to screen Woody Allen’s Scoop which has was landscaped never been screened in Englad. That we are not much more than insects in the way we Match Box Girl Vesna 7 minutes over the former live and the way we treat others. Horror London Art London, England open sewer Mask John Wheeler 20 minutes 18 known as ‘the At times explicit trip through the most deranged mind ocean’, and of all, the gameshow host, not for the easily offended. named after the Horror London, England Duke of O What A War Clarence and John Wheeler 5 minutes 18 Avondale. This was Albert Victor, the son A montage of the atrocities performed by all sides in and heir of the future Edward VII (then the the various conflicts around the globe. In the end it's a Prince of Wales), who is now better known call for peace. Art London, England as the particularly weird looking Prince Eight corpse & A Pair of Tits Eddy, the Jack the Ripper suspect who died John Wheeler 7 minutes 18 shortly after the late 1880s Whitechapel A monster movie made in Croatia. Pretty much does prostitute murders (as portrayed in the what it says on the can. Art London, England Johnny Depp Masonic Ripper film, From Aquatic Kingdom Hell). John Wheeler 5 minutes 18 Film Eight Dan Gitsham 5 minutes 18 One man’s incredible ability to make every wrong decision you could possibly imagine. A black and blue comedy where anything goes. Horror Britain Horror Business Christopher Garetano 85 minutes 18 Have you ever wondered what makes guerrilla As the park acquired its sinister name, the filmakers tick? What is the invisible force that drives Daily News of 1892 dubbed the each and every one of them to sacrifice a normal life surrounding Notting Dale slum area a and pursue a position in one of the most competitive arts in the world? Welcome to the strange universe of ‘West End Avernus’, after Lake Avernus, Horror Business, a documentary that chronicles the the entrance to hell in classical mythology. Four Docs presents... triumphs and struggles of low-budget horror Turner’s painting of Lake Avernus at the filmmakers and the bizarre culture that drives them. mouth of the underworld was inspired by Take your Short and Shove it Feature Length Documentaries USA Virgil’s tale of Aeneas visiting the grotto of the Sybil at Cumae in the bay of Naples. 915–11.15pm Zeina Aboul Hosn – I Dominic Phillips – Rave The Sybil says: ‘First, take my counsel, Remember Lebanon Dog (4'30) Rave Dog is a look An hour (ish) of screening from (5'09) These are the last images I at the 'new rave' scene through then securely go; a mighty tree, that bears FourDocs and then an hour (ish) have of Beirut - pictures I took the eyes of Sniff the dog, muse a golden bough, grows in a vale panel discussion and heated from the airport, as I waited to and mascot to unsigned new rave surrounded by a grove, and sacred to the debate on the future of short docs, board the flight, one week before combo Trash Fashion. queen of Stygian Jove, her netherworld no especially via the internet. The the first bombs fell, on this The Wasteland W10 mortals can behold, till from the bough participants will be Charlie Phillips runway. Film Fantastic – (FourDocs), plus representatives Horsepower (4'44) Six ‘A rat crept softly through the vegetation, they strip the blooming gold.’ from Shooting People, BBC Film Jimmy Swindells – Cathy’s young people from the charity dragging its slimy belly on the bank while I Network, MySpace and Current TV. Farm (5'05) A brief glimpse attempt to break a Guinness was fishing in the dull canal, on a winter In no particular order... into the daily life and views of a World Record: run 100 metres evening round behind the gas house, in 90 year old Alpacha farmer. dressed as a pantomime horse. musing upon the king my brother’s wreck, Daniel Blore – Weston the 1870s Super Mare (4'00) The Robin Field – Country Sam Miles – A Dying and on the king my father’s death before seaside town of Weston Super Commute (4'15) On a Breed (4'18) A short him, white bodies naked on the low damp In 1923 William Mare provides the visual backdrop beautiful Cornish summers day I documentary charting a days work ground, and bones cast in a little low dry Bull wrote in the to a day in the life of Derek documented my commute by push in the life of a market trader. garret, rattled by the ratís foot only, year Bayswater Harris, budding West Country bike from Truro to Falmouth. Dan Edelstyn – Climbing to year, but at my back from time to time I Chronicle of masseur. Dave Young - Prod hear the sound of (4'53) - A humorous look at a Jeff Springer and Chris Metzler – Club (3') Led by the intrepid Portobello Road in village produce Show in a tiny Salvation mountain Lottie Child, a group of climbers horns and the 1870s: Dorset village (4'09) Leonard Knight had a get together to wander around the motors, which ‘Carnival time was on Saturday nights in vision and decided to build a city using it as a climbing frame. shall bring the winter, when it was thronged like a Katy Reid – Honey monument to Jesus. Sweeney to Mrs fair... The people overflowed from the Haven (4'00) Toby Mason left Xanthe Hamilton – Flora his city job, after suffering from Khaldoon Ahmed – Kebab and Thieves (3'08) This is Porter in the pavement so that the roadway was depression and addiction. He now (5'00) Kebab is a short piece that the story of an armed robbery, a spring. O the impassable for horse traffic which, to do it uses his new pastime – Bee tells the journey of a Doner Kebab flower arrangement and my moon shone justice, never appeared. On the left-hand Keeping – to escape troubles. in Berlin. Grandma. bright on Mrs side (the east side) were costers’ barrows, Porter, and her lighted by flaming naphtha lamps. In the daughter, they wash their feet in soda side streets were side-shows, vendors of water.’ TS Eliot ‘The Fire Sermon’ from ‘The patent medicines, conjurors, itinerant Wasteland’ 1922 vocalists...’

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England Baltic Breeze The filmmaker follows three young and convinced 9 Aug Greg hall 7–8pm idealists taking active steps in trying to bring changes to the system. Three different approaches, from active and barely legal to pacific and moderate attempts to crossing she catches the eye of an intimidating Flicker Aroozoo Wesley Leon 10 minutes 15 NO BUDGET FILM influence the politics in their country. Three different stranger. Will their path cross again and at what cost? Flicker is the fall of a young man’s desprate plight to SCHOOL MASTERCLASS points of view at themselves and at times they live in. Drama London, England make ends meet since his parents passing away. not Writer/director Greg Hall, who received Do they have a chance to achieve something? Or will being able to pay for the important medications they give up the fight and immigrate to the Western One Last Drink Before Morning recently, he goes to the extremes and unexpectedly the Best Director Award from PFF 2004 for his JD Kelleher 23 minutes 12 highly acclaimed debut ‘The Plague’, returns to Europe like tens of thousands of their peers have done ends taking an innocent little girl hostage as hope already? Set in winter and early spring, as Latvia Two working men go for a late night drink in a dark once again flickers away. Drama China present a retrospective of rare short films, and dreary bar. They try to trade their stories for a music videos and other eclectic visuals that he witnesses the run up to the controversial annual SS veterans march in Riga, the film highlights the harsh free drink from a cynical barmaid. But her story Your Numbers Up has been involved in over the past few years. trumps theirs. Drama London, England Jules Stevens 3 minutes 12A With his second feature ‘Kapital’ (2007) reality that lurks beneath the charms of the snowy Baltic capital. Documentary London, England A wrong number causes more than just Marks blood having just premiered at the prestigious The Dark Side David L Butler 13 minutes 18 pressure to rise... Drama London, England Manchester International Festival, he is quickly L’Chaim – to Life Two men have something to discuss. Place: Unknown creating a reputation of success while working Darren Sassienie 35 minutes 12 Time and date: unknown Reason: to be disclosed. “Delusion” Guy Ducker 13 minutes U no-to-low budget, and this is a great The film purpose is essentially to provide a very real Drama London, England An office worker falls in love at first sight with a opportunity to see him present his work and glamorous business-woman he sees at a station. He heirloom for Darren Michael Sassienie to pass down to A.Ireland 20 minutes 12 discuss the ins and outs of No-Budget Blokada becomes obsessed with her, and abandons his life to his children and grandchildren – the generations that Winter, war, music. Two soldiers fight and wait hoping filmmaking in Britain. pursue her. She however has plans to get rid of the unfortunately may never know all of the family to survive. Drama London, England members that he was lucky enough to know... It unwanted stranger. Drama London, England tackles issues such as life growing up during the Silent Debate ‘Opening Night’ second world war, the Jewish traditions, childhood Richie Mann & Hannah Caughlin 5 minutes U Robert Ford 10 minutes 12A memories, and how the world has changed in the last ‘Silent Debate’ sets the platform for discourse between Sarah is a film actress preparing for the opening night 50 years. Documentary London, England graphic design students and professionals who set out of a stage play in her dressing room. Constantly being their respective arguments for the pros and cons of Rumi – Turning Ecstatic interrupted and having to deflect questions about her work placements and their role within the studio private life, we see how she uses the very strife she Tina Petrova & Stephen Roloff 50 minutes 12A culture. Drama London, England A fateful accident in the California desert proplle tries to conceal to get into character. Drama London, www.richiemanu.co.uk England But The Spirit Can Only Be filmaker Tina Petrova on a journey of discovery across Cleaned By The Desert America – to the shifty sands of the Middle East, Poppy Esther May Campbell 7 minutes 12A Dietrich Schubert 85 minutes 12 celebraty the words and words of BC. Documentary Sangeeta has travelled to be with her husband in The documentary depicts a voyage in southern Tunisia Canada England; on arrival she discovers that he has taken a in 360 pan shots. Documentary Germany lover. Betrayed and alone in an alien world, she From Coats To Capes struggles against barriers of language and culture. Stella Polare David Mcindoe 13 minutes 12 Finally retreating into memories of India, increasingly Anthea Kennedy & Ian Wiblin 75 minutes 15 A profile of Mark Miller, a comic book writer from distanced from the world around her she relives a past Stella Polare is radical in its experiment. Shot in Coatbridge, Scotland. The story of a man who wouldn’t in the hope of changing her fate. Drama London, Trieste, it weaves image, sound and voiceover into an take no for an answer when it came to fulfilling his England ambiguous and temporally uncertain narrative, circling passion. Documentary Britain the death of empires, old and new. It is “A lyrical Charley Harry’s Wonderous Video Cafe 8–11pm meditation on memory, history and violent political Nothing Esther May Campbell 7 minutes 12 activism” Art London, England Pelican Pub Under the stars, in the sand dunes resides the ghost of Charley Harry, contemplating his freckle’s relationship Red And Green Psychdelia DRAMA with the constellation above. Drama London, England Kevin Whitney 17 minutes 15 A film shot entirely in red and green and highlighted Honey And Sting Fender Bender Daniel Elliott 10 minutes 15 by a red and greenstrobascope. Various characters, Sybil H. Mair 20 minutes 12A Rasmus and Alexsander struggle with their thoughts artist, models, singers, etc are filmed in close up being The Unendurable sting of love... In an other-worldly and emotions after being affected by the same subjected to this ‘Light Show” and their reactions garden a beekeeper tends his hives of magical accident. An exploration of guilt and frustration. recorded. Filmed in the late Sixties. Art London, honeybees. Each day he bids these fabulous creatures Drama Britain England leave their eden and reveal the bittersweet essence of the desire to an unsuspecting world. Drama London, When The Moon Bursts OUTSIDE England Roland Winterstein 60 minutes 12 Drama Germany Psychedelia Kevin Whitney 20 minutes 15 Tiny Dancer Stefan Georgiou 5 minutes U This two-dvd film must be shown side by side simulta- How do you deal with not doing what you love? Do it. Family Eicke Bettinga 15 minutes 15 neously the CD ‘Micky Rat Vol 15’ (Enclosed) is played Drama London, England Although Jane and Paul are newly married, they at the same time. Shot inthe early seventies, it hardly know each other and are incapable of commu- includes many stars subjected to psychdelic projections The Last Stop Silvia Felce 7 minutes 15 nicating their needs. By the time they finally realise on them including Geoffry Cleghorn and the late great Contemplating the dullness of her life, a disillusioned this, it’s far too late. A film about the phases of a Sid Barrett the founder and lead singer of . 30 years old gets into her car and begins what seems relationship and about all the things that remain Art London, England like a regular drive around London. At a zebra unsaid. Drama London, England The Lamp Benjamin Roberts 10 minutes Lily and Jim can’t afford to pay their electricity bills, The Dutch Pot presents... to the chagrin of their lamp. Drama London, England Tony Knock an open mike jam session held at The Ion Bar and hosted by the very Runaways Zaheer Ahmad 10 minutes 12A Poetry Slam talented and very local singer/songwriter Two children runaway from their violent father, until Wake Richard Shaw 20 minutes 15 IOTG 7–11pm Noel McKoy. Taking place each and he tracks them down in a barn. Drama Britain Seven lives. Three short stories. One room. An old every Thursday night with doors opening at woman has died. Her family gather to pay respects Discord Stuart Parkins 13 minutes 15 POETRY SLAM. 5pm and show starting at 9pm till 11pm. The but, confronted by their dead mother and As his life descends into a world of petty crime, david, Hosted by Jonny Flufflypunk, Dutch Pot is a platform for singer songwriters grandmother, get more than they bargained for. a rebellious teen, comes to question his faith in his Pastoral Nihilist performance poet. to perform their latest songs from Galic, Folk, Drama Britain role model Daz. david finds he must make tough Indie, Roots, Reggae and Soul are just some Open to all poets. First prize £100. choices if he is to follow the right path. Drama of the styles of music you can hear on the Jacks David Anderson 20 minutes 12A London, England Please arrive by 7pm to get your name on open mike/jam section so all you "Bathroom A mother’s love for her child is the most instinctive emotion in the world, but for Alice it is far the list for the contest as there are a limited Singers" out there this is for YOU! Mirrors Jonathan Stewart 13 minutes 15 fromnatural. Repentant for failing to prevent her son number of places. In the middle of nowhere, as darkness falls, one man The Ion is Located in Ladbroke Grove W10 from choking, she is unsure how to feel towards the begins a mysterious ritual of total destruction. Drama Show 8.30pm Next to Ladbroke Grove Tube) Look forward manifestations she begins to visualise. Drama London, London, England Free entrance for the public/audience to seeing you. England

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Indifference Signs (Senales De monotony of her work at her father’s textile mill on a FRI 10AUG Indiferencia) Javier Fernandez 15 minutes 15 SAT 11 AUG Friday eveing and secretly travels to manchester. there “She texed me. I caught a bus alter work”. “It was she meets a man on the station platform but all is not IOTG 6–11pm four o’clock in the morning.” “Alexia was drunk.” Pelican Pub 2–11pm what it seems... Drama Britain OUTSIDE 6–8PM “Susana insulted me so I threw her drink.” “As there DRAMA / COMEDY / ANIMATION was nothing to do, I took a bus and went to the city The Young Girl (TYTTONEN) Ropemakers Prue Waller 60 minutes U centre.” Drama Spain For a few marbles more (Voor Fabian Giessler 5 minutes U Huge buildings, huge ships, vivd history, a job for life: een paar knikkers meer) A young girl is sitting in a room. While she walks on fluid imagery reveals people at work in the former Una Noche Diego Herranz Andujar Jelmar Hufen 10 minutes 12 the corridor to ask who wants to play with her she Chatham Dockyard, memories, dance, drama, recon- 13 minutes 12A Four ten-years olds are kicked out of their favorite recongnizes only old people around the tables. struction and rhythmic sounds draw one back through “Man” have a really problems with girls. Drama Spain playground by two aggressive drunkards. When they Suddenly a young man arrives... Drama Germany time. Dockyard-men and women bring fresh authen- Private Lessons (Clases realize their parents are not going to help them, Heads Up Adam Rowley 3 minutes U ticity to the film, it is told in their words. Art Particulares) there’s only one solution. They have to find a way to Imagine a world where people can only see life from Documentaries London, England Alauda Ruiz de Azua 15 minutes 15 get the toughest boy in the neighborhood to help one point of view. Literally. Comedy London, England David needs to pass his linear algebra test. Raquel them. From that moment on the four friends are in for Istanbul Deniz Kana 30 minutes 12 an exciting adventure. Drama Holland Photogramme Gilad Carmel 27 minutes 12 The content of the project had been recorded in wants to learn the rules that govern personal relation- ships. The outcome of the whole thing is unexpected While trying to find out about a secret in his family Istanbul between June 2005 and September 2006. the Kinky-Kalinki Transrussian past, Sebastian meets a young girl pursued by recordings include coincidental moments and for the two of them. Ismael Martin, Oficina de Express Nina Gruschwitz 25 minutes U promocion ecam, Drama Spain strangers. Through her desperate run, Sebastian is situations... The film is about this “uncertain city” Debut film about art, music and club scene in London. progressively drawn into an anachronistic nightmare, contains only the definition of the locality on the Don Giovanni Ricard Carbonell i Sauri Arts and their inspirations is a universal language reliving the horros of the holocaust. Drama presice moments and tries to picture the silhouette of 7 minutes 15 everyone understands. Revealing ‘The Russian Luxembourg the city with the coexistences of the pieces. Drama Spain Phenomenon in London’. Documentary Norway Documentary Turkey Hollow China Matt Platts-Mill 17 minutes 15 K Juan Simons 13 minutes 18 Two And A Half Years Sam, a succeful entrepreneur will do anything to avoid Tune In Esther Johnson 15 minutes U K and Nelson live stifled by routinue-governed city Olga Koroleva 10 minutes U confronting his feelings surrounding the death of his An astute and affectionate portrait of the unseen that oppresses their identity. Drama Spain An unconventioanl documentary which explores Olga father. As his relationship with girlfriend Terry deterio- community of ham radio enthusiasts; ‘The space age Koroleva’s close friends’ experieces over the past two rates, he is immersed in a world where his brutal hobby where the world is your friend. Documentary The Coat Room and half years in Russia in her absence... Art subconscious is in control. Horror London, England London, England (La Habitacion De Los Abrigos) Documentaries Britain Nerea Madariaga 13 minutes 12A 8 bit Matt Platts-Mill 3 minutes 18 Meanwhile Wildlife Garden Comedy Spain Cheer Up London In a dangerous future Tora and Nord are two With Nature in Mind Matt Freedman & Shyla Hassan 7 minutes U Replecants who in a desperate bid to escape a Luke Pretzlik 15 minutes U Muddu Mae’s Shoes London maverick Noel Parris setsup his one man repressive and fractured human society have Meanwhile wildlife Gardens is a mental health project Miguel Campana 17 minutes 12 campaign called ‘The Society For Cheering Up abandoned civilisation. But the wilderness can hold near Portobello Road. The film gives an insight into Texas. 1870. Zacarias Teodorius Shackelton is a Miserable Londoners! He takes the campaigh to many dangers, A.W.A.L. clones are hunted like the work of the project and tells the story of idividual shoemaker whose mastery in the dressmaking of Westminster with a cheap placard and then to Oxford animals. Sc-Fi Drama London, England rwecovery through working with plants and nature. shoes makes him have clients of all the Street, but will people warm to his one man cheer up Documentary London, England origins.including Leo Snake mardigan, the most push. Comedy London, England The 5th Planet David Petrucci 7 minutes 12 dangerous outlaw of the whole state that has escaped 1 in 3 develop cancer during their lives. 1in 4 people Video Cafe 8–11pm of jail after 15 years shut up. An order to life or The Making Of Parts die from it. Our only hope lies in the future on Pluto, death. Drama Spain Daniel Elliott 15 minutes 15 the 5th planet from the sun. A man may answer to A man’s love and tenderness, which he once shared earth prayers. Sc-Fi Drama London, England Pelican Pub 6–11pm Tickets Please with his wife, is now slipping away from him. As one (Boletos Por Favor) Lucas Figueroa sexual existence ends, another is just beginning. May Nothing But Happiness SPANISH FILMS 15 minutes 15 Drama Britain Come Through Your Door Human Development A train, a pursuit, only one way to escape. (Screened Chi Yu 85 minutes 18 this film last year!) Drama Spain The Hitchhiker Jason Goode 13 minutes 12A An American, Chris arrives in London to visit his friend (Desarrollo Humano) A beleaguered hitchhiker discovers that getting a ride David Munoz 30 minutes U only for his friend to abandon him. Drama London, Portrait Jose Carrasco 15 minutes 12A from the woman who just pulled over may require England The U.N.O. publishes each year a ‘Human An exploration of the mythic journey of an artist with more than he’d bargained for. Drama Canada Development Report” with a ranking of countries. numerous obstacles in his quest for forfillment. The Earl Of Sandwich Norway ranks first, while Niger ranks last. Suprisingly, Out Of Milk Nicola Morris 10 minutes 12 Daniel Inglese 30 minutes 12 the people’s self perception about the way they live is DVD Ciro Altabas 17 minutes 12 Katy, eight, and the boy next door spend their days The Earl Of Sandwich has always believed that he was quite different from what statistics might lead us to This short film includes: scene selection / trailer / walking their substitute dogs. returning early from her destined for greatness. It is not until the creation of believe. Documentary Spain selected cut scene / alternative ending / eliminated daily errand to buy milk, Katy discovers that the TV the sandwich that his destiny is realised... But at what scene / videoclip / featurette: “What’s a freak?” / repairman has been servicing more than just the cost? Comedy Australia Atencion Al Cliente audiocommentary /character selection and a boy- television... Comedy London, England Marcos Valin & david Alonso 7 minutes U meets -girl story. Drama Spain In a cold and hostle future, a little old lady is forced to The Vagancy Just 7 minutes U break the rules in order to get some food for her Mother Ship Four canaidates go for a job interview with Neverland W11: Local filthy little dog. Some of the things standing in the Simon Warwick Green 10 minutes U unexpected results! Comedy Good Britain elves, fairies and ghosts way of the elderly woman’s loutish deed include Lost at sea. The tension rises as Bill and Doug wait in the hope for the mother ship to pick them up on its Sisters Krzysztof Borowka 15 minutes 15 On a lighter metalic security guards, foul mouthed and compulsive A young woman rides the lift up and down her shoppers, and paranoid security measures. Animation radar. Drama London, England note, JM Barrie’s luxurious apartment block, stopping on different ‘Peter Pan’ went Spain Bernard & Beryl Ben Hilton 13 minutes U floors. She meets her mysterious sister who becomes out of a window When Beryl starts dancing with another man, can her guide through unexpected events, meeting strange My Brother (Mi Hermano) of 31 Kensington Alain Lefebvre 13 minutes 12 Bernard brush up on his dancing skills to win her characters on the way to the non-existing top floor of Juan and Esteban. Two very different brothers. A back? Comedy London, England the building. Drama Poland Park Gardens, the house of the reencounter, A special night. Ismael Martin, Oficina de Kate 123 Christoph Warrack 13 minutes 12 Blood & Chips Ryan Phillips 3 minutes 15 real-life ‘Darling’ family, the Llewelyn promocion ecam, Drama Good Spain Kate comes out of her shell after her friend is killed, A heatwave has hit the city and in a south London chip Davies’s, to ‘Neverland’. Padam Jose manuel Carrasco 13 minutes 12A leaving a list of thew ways to approach a day in shop racial tensions reach boiling point. Drama Britain Pilar doesn’t want to be alone, so she decides to go to London. Drama London, England Hakimiyet Alican Serbest 7 minutes 15 On Westbourne Grove, the 20th Century a dating agency and she gets a blind date. What she The Oscars Rupert Owen 10 minutes 15 It is the year 2142 and vegation is amost completly Theatre (formerly the Bijou) hosted spiritu- doesn’t know is that her date has different plans and Upon renting a documentary about his life, Oscar perished all over the world. A police team has just alist meetings, and gigs by the original they have nothing to do with hers. Ismael Martin, discovers he is not as pleasant nor faithful to himself followed a suspect to a roof. There, they will learn a Eurythmics performance art group. Oficina de promocion ecam, Drama Good Spain as he imagined. Comedy Australia bitter truth that will affect all of the human race. Sc-Fi Do you look like Benicio del Drama Turkey The Electric cinema is said to be haunted Corpse Richard West 15 minutes 12 by the ghost of a manager who slit his Toro? (Para Ser Cajera Del Ageing thespian, Harold Brasier is hammier than a The Tourist Dan Reaney 30 minutes 12 wrists in the upstairs office (now the media Super Siempre Hay Tiempo) gammon sandwhich. However, when he’s upstaged by A man arrives in a bleak out of season coastal resort. Luis Lopez 15 minutes 12A a stand-in he begins to find his characters true The disembodied voice from a forgotten recording and club) and is associated with the local serial In October, 2005, we interviewed Minerva, Rafa and motivation. With the help of a little rat poison, Harold a meeting with a young woman form this elliptical killer, John Christie from 10 Rillington Charo, three Acting and Drama students on their way is about to give the performance of his life. Comedy drama. Drama London, England Place, who reputedly worked there as a to extincton. Before they disappear, we wanrted to Britain projectionist. The Coronet cinema’s ghost is make them the following question: if you could play Breakup Bunny an early 20th century cashier who jumped the role of your dreams, which one would you do? The Human Situation, Talking & Rachel Temerlies 10 minutes 12A Documentary Spain The Burdens Of The Eternal When an odd stranger upsets an ordinary day’s off the balcony after being caught stealing Realm Chris Daykin 5 minutes 15 rhythm, everyone starts to sing. Comedy USA from the till. Frequent Questions (Preguntas Several ideas for a simple story. Animation Sri-Lanka Frecuentes) Nadia Mata 15 minutes U The Course Miranda Edmonds 80 minutes 15 To the north, there was a phantom bus Sara makes an average of 40 telephone surveys to King of the computer nerds Ben, transforms himself scare in 1934. After a fatal car accident at Photogramme the day. After 8 hours doing questions, when she into a sonnet reading, serenading, sword fighting, 11 Aug the junction of St Mark’s Road and arrives at house does not have forces to invent cross dressing, Shakespearean Love Machine, to woo Cambridge Gardens, a witness reported answers. The silencios of their fiancee sadden to Luis, the girl of his dreams. Comedy Australia seeing the ghost number 7 bus hurtling who loses the voice mysteriously. From then both they towards the car before the crash. find a new form to communicate. Private life Abbe robinson 15 minutes 15 Yorkshire, England 1952 Ruthg Ackroyd leaves the 7 ANIMATION portobellofilmfestival.com Aaton Stefan A.Vilner 17 minutes 12A A Simple Piece Of Cloth Hip Hop artist Mz Fontaine and gay activist Peter A memorable moment in the history of mankind: A SUN 12 AUG Roisin Loughrey 7 minutes U Tatchell, the filh also features a dynanic soundtrack. very long time ago, when the struggle for survival Comparison between Irish dress and muslim woman Documentary London, England determined the daily life of humans, by accident, and IOTG 8–11pm living in modern Ireland, Documentary Ireland States Of Being because of elementary needs, the stoneage man Punky Reggae Party: Aaton invents a first form of artistic skill. As he tries to Roya and Omid Chris Gower-Rees 5 minutes U DJ Lepke DBC Elhum Shakerifar 17 minutes 15 A brief insight into the contrasts of life in Chaingmai, perform these new assets of human art to his tribe, he JC The Members – a set from faces grim resistence... Drama Germany Bardia, a young female-to-male transsexual reflects Thailand, where Buddhism is the predomianant London’s first reggae station on her childhood spent in the wrong body. His religion and the ultimate goal is enlightenment, which The Exam Maximilian Day 45 minutes 15 and The Members narrative is crossed with several male-to-female trans- many followers interpret as unmistakable, A coming of age / rites of passage story about a sexuals in Iran – Donya, Handry, Leila and Shinin, unshakable, undeniable, invigorating hapiness and teenage boy who walks out of his exam and meets the who have to endure the daily scorn of society. confidence. Art Documentaries Canada girl of his dreams... Drama London, England Documentary London, England God’s Children Dean Harman 37 minutes 12 ANIMATION SECTION: Maimouna – the life in front of God’s Children documents the work of Clive and Mary me (Maimouna – La Vie Devant Beckenham in Kenya. Since 1997 they have been Cat And Mouse Moi) Fabiola Maldonado 60 minutes 15 helping Africa’s most venerable children: abandoned Assaf 3 minutes U Maimouna-the life in front of me explores efforts to babies and infant orpans. This is their story opening Love hurts for the world’s most infamous cat and change attitudes to the traditional practice of female AIDs orphanages and schools throughout Kenya and mouse duo in this traditionally animated homage. circumcision. The film follows the work of Maimouna, the ongoing work with these communities. Animation Britain a young woman from Burkina Faso as she visits Documentary London, England villages and families as part of an NGO’s education Philophobia Shaun Clark 1 minute 12 and awarenss programme on female cicumcision. Lost In Protest Philophobia- the fear of love. A young woman relives Documentary Germany Paco Sweetman 25 minutes 15 past relationships. Animation Britian Four Irish friends make a trip to the G8 summit in The Scavengers 2001. Travelling to Genoa by Coach, their idea’s about Latent Sorrow Shon Kim 3 minutes 15 Janine Finlay 20 minutes 12 making a documentary on the event are hampered by Moving painting #7 to reach coexistent point where Fifteen thousand scavengers “scrape” together a living the fact that nothing seems to be panning out like it abstract and figure are equally fused. Animation USA from “scrape” on the xochiaca dump in Mexico City. was supposed to. Documentary London, England The Terrible Dolls line Strictly controlled by “leaders” one man has managed to penetrate this off limits subculture – Father Roberto It’s much better to love than to Chris Daykin 7 minutes 12A fight aint it? Carlos Pinatti 10 minutes 12A This is a trilogy with a theme of logical progression, ‘Guevara’ Rubid. A second journey to the city of eternal spring’ cuernavaca, just outside Mexico City, The film shows aspects of the lifes of two Falklands / sensitivity and respect in response to human appreci- Malvinas war veterans, one Welsh and one ation and awareness. Animation Sri-Lanka reveals happier families who live and work together on the local rubbish dump. Documentary London, Argentinean who both feature in the film. It is based Thing’s Way (Der Dinggang) England on a letter sent by Argentinean soldier from the Ulcike Frieddrich 2 minutes U islands to his friends in their home town, and first Inspired by F.W.Bersein’s “Thing’s way” the movie of Last Of The Scottish Wildcats account from the Welsh soldier about his experiences the same title tells the odyssey of things, who are Steve Piper 60 minutes U during the conflict. Documentary Britain seeking for an end which they may never find... and Wildlife / current affairs documentary investigating the imment extinction of Britain’s only wild, feline, the Final Examination soon becoming a new beginning. The search for apt David Whitehead 10 minutes 12 solution turns out to be a life-task with an open end. Scottish Wildcat, through wild footage and expert interviews. Documentary Britain A teacher, invigilating an exam, looks at the students Animation Germany in his class, bringing back memories of teaching and Kite Rescue Rune Eriksson & Erik Erikersson Cathouse (Laufhaus) his life. Drama London, England 7 minutes 15 Stefanie Gaus 30 minutes 15 Little Igor celebrates his birthday with a present from As a journey in pictures, the film enters into Europe’s his dad and his drinking buddy. Animation Norway biggest brothel, the “Pascha” in Cologne, Germany. Kinky-Kalinki Transrussian Express Exploring its architecture, the rooms with their scenery 11 Aug Move Toward The Light and topography of the area it is situated in, the film Will Forrester 5 minutes U approaches an organism that is planned for the A glimpse into childhood, seen from the viewpoint of a forfillment of sexual satisfaction. Art Germany child. Animation USA The Noon Gun Anthony Stern 30 minutes U Nonsense Poem Matine Chabrier Record of Anthony Sterns journey – 1971 on the 3 minutes 12 trail ... portrait of Afghanstan that has since The Nonsense Poem was a project on sound with a been destroyed. Art Documentaries London, England simple animation and story. Animation London, Punky Reggae Party: A live set from Europe’s first England reggae station DBC and eighties Punk band The The Reality Of Boxing Members (Sunday 12th August IOTG) – need to get Lillian Mkocha 7 minutes 12A Reservoir Dogs Remake DBC image from google images A short documentary on the negative and positive Matine Chabrier 2 minutes 12A aspects of boxing from doctors, physicians and boxers The Reservoir Dogs Remake is a stop motion Lepke aka Leroy Anderson was born in Jamaica and grew up in the Notting Hill area. themselves. Doctors explain exactly what happens animation remaking a short scene from the film when you get hit against the skull. Informative Reservoir Dogs. Animation London, England He started Europe’s first black owned radio station without being judgemental. Documentary Britain Me & You Michael Aubtin Madadi Dread Broadcasting Corporation/Rebel Radio in 1981. The station played a variety of African derived music A Snowy Day 3 minutes 12A Hossein Jehani 10 minutes 12A The story of a relationship between a toy and a including Reggae, Soul and Funk; early Hip Hop played by Neneh cherry, Soca, African, Rhythm n’ It is early morning and the sky is getting brighter on a battery. Animation London, England Kurdish village as it starts to snow. people gradually Notting Dale: Blues and Jazz. In 2003 Lepke, The Ranking Miss P A place of evil, mister Do You Mind? David Myriam 3 minutes 12 and original DBC member Mike da Bike compiled a CD emerge from their homes and tend to their everyday Will the child of the future have still enough powerful celebrating a 25yr history, which was released on chores. We follow a little boy visiting his father’s grave and then to his house where his mother tells us about In the run up to the 1958 race riots, Colin dreams to be able to get out of a cold and functional Trojan records. MacInnes’s Absolute Beginner locates the world? the death of her husband. During the Iraq-Iran war JC Carroll the area was covered by mines and the father died Notting Hellmouth: ‘Still in the W10 bit, Animation France Punk Rocker, Multi instrumentalist and Film Music trying to retrieve one to sell it back to Iran for money. there’s another railway, and a park with a Composer. JC uses his music to tell the Story of the Every Friday the little boy visits his father’s grave and Beta valentine – Curse of the name only Satan in all his splendour could Portobello Road Music Scene over the last 3 decades. pretends he is a soldier defending his home. Midnight Idol Jeff Conway 3 minutes 12 have thought up, namely Wormwood From its Squat Rock to Punk Rock to Reggae and Folk. Documentary Australia An action packed animation where the band are Scrubs... a long, lean road called Latimer Expect special guest stars and the Unexpected. transformed into super-humans to retrieve the stolen You and me (at veani) Road which I particularly want you to ‘Midnight Idol’, but are they heroes or villains? Esti Amrami 10 minutes 12 remember, because out of this road, like Animation London, England A journey to the subconscious from the past to the horrible tits dangling from a lean old sow, Pelican Pub 2–11pm present. An enigmatic dream and its relation to a Hip Hip Hurray! Dana Dorian 1 minute U there hang a whole festoon of what I think surprising childhood memory. Momme Peters. Drama A four year old boy talks about birthday parties in The Boat People must really be the sinisterest highways in Germany Scotland. Animation Britain Rob Curry 90 minutes 12A our city, well, just listen to their names: Alice brings her new boyfriend, Jared, to her seaside Berlin Diary Esti Amrami 15 minutes Adjustment Ian Mackinnon 7 minutes 12 Blechynden, Silchester, Walmer, Testerton cottage. His dreams hint at a tragedy in her childhood. A young Israeli woman moves to Berlin. Her grand- A diarist searches for flickers of hope in a drama of and Bramley... And just where this railway Alice’s sister, Cleo, appears. She knows Jared’s dreams. parents had to leave Germany in the 1930 ies. she technical and emotional obsession. Animation London, is slung over the big central road that cuts Jared’s paranoia escalates. He realises his destingy has decides to send them a videoletter about her new life England across the area north to south, there’s a become tied to the dreams trapped within the house. in the Berlin of today. Momme Peters. Art Drama London, England Documentaries Germany hole, a dip, a pocket, a really unhappy valley, which, according to my learned Vajra Sky Over Tibet You don’t know Me John Bush 90 minutes 12 Dad, was formerly at one time a great Soledad Zarate 20 minutes 12A non-agricultural marsh. A place of evil, A cinematic pilgrimage to some of the most revered This documentary examines LGB issues, with an temples, monasteries and fsstwals still surviving exploration of anti-gay hate crime, including the tragic mister. I bet witches lived around it, and a incentral Tibet. Feature Length Documentaries Ireland murder of David Morley. With contributors including lot still do.’

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Paging Dr Freud hypnotic and uncertain presence in an air-conditioned Erika Yeomans 17 minutes 15 environment with recycled oxygen, deaded by Comprised of archival materials from Yeomans’ tenure electronic emissions, the characters in Monitor are FILMMAKERS AGAINST WAR as Artistic Director of experimental theatre group rendered inert against a cold dark slab of office Westbourne Studios 6–11pm Doorika, Paging Dr Freud is a multi-frame montage infinity. Art London, England based on images, music and sound bites pulled from Another lively evening of film and discussion from FAW. This years line-up includes various media elements from Doorika performance. The Snow White File a film by Spearhead’s Michael Franti plus a music doc about a group of Palestinian Art USA Rainer Niaman 15 minutes 12A “The Snow White File” is a musical film with a twist, rappers. Get there early for a seat! Reasons Why I Cannot Fall shadding new light onto the beloved story of Asleep Hisae Aihara 7 minutes 12 snowwhite, revealing a devious plot behind the fairy- 6.50pm TAKING STOCK: AFGHAN 8.50pm BRITISH GOVERNMENT In this capitalist oriented world, numerous people have tale. Art London, England WOMEN AND GIRLS FIVE AND INTERNATIONAL problems with sleeping. We hav so many things to do YEARS ON Womankind 45 mins WAR LAWS and think about. I am also one of them. No matter Nijuhan No Borei (200 000 Afghanistani women speaking about their lives five 6 mins. Bridget Reiss/Filmmakers Against War what happens the next day comes. Art USA Phantoms) years after the fall of the Taliban. Followed by a Over the past 80 years British governments have Jean-Gabriel Periot 10 minutes 12 discussion with the film producers. given firm and binding undertakings to the world River Sanzu Mai Yoshida 10 minutes 12A Hiroshima 1914–2006. Art Documentaries France Documentary & Discussion regarding its behaviour. Yet over the past five years it This short film presents a story of the man, who is has reneged on every one of them. Documentary taken to the ‘Beyond’. The combination of intertitles And The Colours Are Like 7.35pm SOCPA THE MOVIE and some objective sounds contribute to the Summer Gabriel Tupinamba 5 minutes 18 IndyMedia Rikki 9pm I KNOW I’M NOT ALONE mysterious atmosphere of the narrative. This visual- Short film that witness the passage from a fight to a The Seriously Organised Crime Prevention Act crimi- 90 mins. Dir: Michael Franti sound film style aims at entertaining both hearing and reconcilliation without a break point, as if one was the nalised "unauthorised" demonstrations around In 2004 American musician Michael Franti traveled to hearing-impaired audiences equally. Art Britain a intiution of the other. Art London, England Parliament, a great accompaniment to the war torn neighborhoods of Baghdad, the West ‘Taking iberties’ featuring an original Bank and Gaza Strip armed with only a guitar and The Mirror Luis 7 minutes 12A One Minute Guide To Planet music soundtrack, frightening, funny, the intent to experience first hand, the human cost This short movie deals with our desperate efforts in Earth Armen Antranikian 1 minute U shocking and deeply moving. of war and occupation. Feature Film life to be someonelse... Art Italy An attempt to summarise modern life on planet earth Documentary in sixty seconds. Art London, England This is me at the Swimming 8.35pm DAM 15 Elliot Manches pool Sasha Tieman 5 minutes U Normal Jakub Vrba 20 minutes 12A DAM are three Israeli-born She’s taking pictures of herself at the swimmingpool, A look to a world with past and future but no Palestinian rappers to make sure she was really there. “I find it presence. Art Austria who bring a clear fascinating to image a surrounding that is not really What Are You Doing human message to there.” Art Holland Mary Soan 23 minutes 15 a frequently disen- Headshot Bell Jennifer Lyon 10 minutes 15 A sensual journey of a young woman using word, chanted audience. image and music as she grieves in the arms of other Music Inspired by the1963 Andy Warhol silent film “Blow Job” this is a surprisingly intimate portrait of sex, men. Art London, England accomplished without any expliclt imagery. In contrast Los 60 Yolanda De Los Bvets 2 minutes 18 to the original, however, “Headshot” chooses to The experience of viewing images that are unidentifed embrace what “Blow Job” omits- the emotional can have a seductive, even spellbinding effect on the context that makes sex more than just a physical viewer. Its material and aesthetic qualities act as a experience. Art Holland trigger to desires, evoling a sense of the persverse or MON 13 AUG Erotography Etienne Desrosiers 5 minutes 18 conjuring up fantasies. Art London, England Bedknobs and A search for erotic ghost in the porn universe. Six Tve Sahm Hai Morgan Beringer 5 minutes U Broomsticks Westbourne Studios 6–11pm 8mm found footages from the sixies are stripped An ambient work inspired by the various inaccircies of naked to reveal intimacy. Floating figures escape their FILMMAKERS AGAINST WAR: language. Music Videos London, England Often derided and dismissed as not a real sexual content triggering a saturated canvas solved by FILMS & DISCUSSIONS Notting Hill film, Bedknobs and spontaneous climaxes. Art Canada the nina! the pinta! - Black rabbit Rollerder by Micah Dahl 5 minutes U Broomsticks is in fact the most magical Driving With The Jones Elephants, fake mustaches, chase scenes, boomboxes, local film apart from Performance. The IOTG 6–11pm Alice Scott & Ollie Alsop 7 minutes 12A ballons, confetti, tis always a rock and roll adventure 1971 follow-up to Mary Poppins stars Shown at the Venice binale – a film using CG when the nina, the pinta are around. Music Videos ART NIGHT Angela Lansbury as a white witch who animation to depict a sinster alternative reality: USA summons up the spirit of old England to Girl Climbing trees madness suburbia. Art London, England the Umbrella Sequence - Urban Jared Katsiane 5 minutes U repel the Nazi invasion. Towards this end, Moulding Space Lull (at once charmed) A girl climbs trees as a familiar voice talks about she retrieves the missing half of a magic Per Linde & Lena Mattsson 15 minutes 12A Micah Dahl 5 minutes U freedom. Art USA book, The Spells of Astroth, from a In a series of events we have explored how interactive Journey with the Umbrella Sequence as they travel Disneyland Portobello market with her Urban Cricket technologies, tangible mixed media and skulptural from the moon to a party, a schoolroom to a political evacuee kid charges. The search begins Alejandio Valbuena 3 minutes 12 displays creates certain kinds of space transformations stump speech. It all one take and they move to the with the bogus professor David Tomlinson The old man suffers from pandemic forestation, but that can be a dynamic part of artistic performance. most peculiar places. Music Videos USA it’s too blue to go out the window. Art Canada Art Sweden saying, ‘There’s only one place to get it.’ Black or White Cue: Portobello Road sign and zoom in on Kanga Vs. Werewolf The Final Trip Lena Mattsson 3 minutes 15 Debbie Howard 3 minutes 12 Disneyland London set. Rick Ralen 5 minutes 12A Lena Mattsson’s installations and films often display We asked a list of neutral either/or questions to a Animala, babies, Len Chaney and Kangroos in small shifts that form reminders of that reality is huge cross section of society with fascinating results. Confirming the film’s local street cred, the beautiful colourful cels; music by mossman. Art really different from what we believe. Art Sweden How does a three year old white girl relate to the novel on which Bedknobs is based was Canada 11:59 Benjamin Cooper 7 minutes 15 same questions as a blck male asylum seeker. Will written by the grandmother of Joe Rush of 11:59 is a film that deals with implied interconnected they conform to stereotypes or surprise us with their the Mutoid Waste Company. Sometimes Scott Ames 25 minutes U answers? Documentary Good Britian A melancholic reflection on the unintended dystopia of narratives occuring within the same time. Setting up a life. Art Canada space so that the viewer can make multiple connections. Constantly exciting narrative desire, Walking In The Snow With arousing a wish for solutions and closure by refering Russians Steven McGlinchey 5 minutes 12 to crime, horror, psychological films. Art Britain In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. The world, it appeared, was no longer devided in two. In 2007, we An Even Briefer History Of Time are building walls again in Israel and Iraq. Art Ireland Karea Hanson 2 minutes 15 Raymond learns an important lesson on the true They Come At Night nature of time-he just hopes that his girlfriend doesn’t Volker Sattel & Mario Mentrup 30 minutes 12 find out where he is tonight. Art Canada A secret, unauthorized street-art exhibition in the city of Wuppertal in August, 2006. The city is the exhibtion Long Shore Drift Jc Van Dal 3 minutes U space for a group of artist that includes BLU A poem about the natural process of erosion. Art (Bolognia), MARE 139 (New York City), ZEVS and JR London, England (Paris) OS GEMEOS (Rio). They execute massive works Postcard from the continent of art on the grimy walls and tunnels of the once Prosper de Roos 15 minutes 12 thriving industrial city. The schwebebahnn (elevated A bricolage of eight banal observations based on a train) and central squares are the sites of illegal zoo of silly thoughts. Much similar to what most . Art Documentaries Germany women carry in their handbags, much of it is useless, Nobody’s Pet (Dependent Independances) just a few essential items and much that falls in Aysagul Guryuksel 7 minutes between. Art Holland A woman from the past goes to the future and then Monitor goes into the past but that’s still her future. In the David Moore & Paul Burch 7 minutes U nature of nothingness with no law, no causation and Monitor explores a modern enslavement to instant Headshot no limits-except limits of minimal sustained communication and information overload. 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Salsa Guy Gus Alvarez 15 minutes 12A TUE 14 AUG Nigel is a middle-aged wage slave, a lonely fantasist still haunted by his long-failed marriage. Desperate to Westbourne Studios 6–11pm reconnect with the world, he discovers the vibrant Halloween Film Fest DRAMA salsa scene and is reborn as... Salsa Guy! A highly enegetic black comedy that asks: “Can salsa dancing presents THE VX AUTEUR THEORY The Survivor be bad for your health? Comedy Britain Christoph Warrack 25 minutes 12A (Tuesday 14th August 7-8pm, westbourne studios) Prada & Prejudice Britain, 1956: a meter destroys a village leaving one A top hit at the 4th Halloween Short Film Festival 2007, Tom Emunds 5 minutes U survivor, a woman with mysterious powers. But, as The the VX Auteur Theory programme is a platform for new Things spiral out of control when a woman goes into a Government experiment on her and shady organisa- directors with strong visions and a personal hands-on cobbler’s to pick up her prada heels. her first mistake tions try to reach her, the psychologist on the case approach to filmmaking. The search for this more is to ask the clown if he’s joking...unfortunately it’s not helps her plot her escape. Drama London, England personal film, whereby nothing is watered down or her last... Comedy London, England Out There Herve Constant 23 minutes 12 compromised by group decision, has pulled in these This chilling tale of one man’s descent into madness Best Shot Andy Kellener 10 minutes 15 little gems; it’s pure, it’s funny, itís dark, its a new was published shortly before the author was institu- A black comedy involving a small crew of generation of D.I.Y Auteur! Strong films with a twisted tionalized for insanity and so ‘out there’ has inevitably documentary makers who prepare to interview the vision and a D.I.Y get-your-own-hands-dirty premise of been seen as informed by Guy De Maupassant mental notorious film director Rex Clayton. Comedy London, filmmaking, this collection is as pure, quirky, disturbing illness. Drama London, England England and individual as the filmmakers themselves. Nothing here is generic. That’s a promise! Curated by Lucia Affairs Of The House The Last Thing To Go Through A Helenka. www.shortfilms.org.uk Oli Maitland Hudson 13 minutes 15 Fly’s Mind Steve Webb 10 minutes 15 www.vxcollective.co.uk A young conservative MP is thrust into the murky A man dies and is given an ultimatum by God, repent www.myspace.com/halloweenshortfilmfestival3 world of politics. He is haunted by distorted visions of or suffer for eternity. He refuses and is reincarnated as lowlier and lowlier creatures until he finally Margaret Thatcher. Will he survive in this cut throat MY FRIEND MARJORIE KNOCK KNOCK (Chris Grimes, 6 min) repentsonly to be ribbed of happiness at the last world? Comedy London, England (Louise Wilde, 5 min) A film about addiction, but an addict with a minute. Comedy London, England 7:00 Marjorie is an 89 year old retired vaudeville difference and a dealer with a twist... 9:00 actress; fortunes have faded, but the memories are HALLOWEEN FILM FEST – cinema magnificent and vibrant. CRUSH (Franca Chretien, 1 min) Soho Rushes Fest: Winners A young lemon goes for a walk and meets an 8:00 selection – cinema (9–10.30pm) GROWING (David Alexander, 11 min) enigmatic stranger. Three teenage boys whose idle lifestyle of smoking, Love You RUSHES SOHO SHORTS joking around and chasing girls results in tragedy. A MOUSE FUNERAL Joseff Hughes Dan Hartley 10 minutes U ON TOUR (Greg Butler, 2 min) On a remote welsh island, an innocent game of catch Now in its 9th fantastic year, the Rushes Soho Shorts A STORM AND SOME SNOW This dead mouse gets a proper send off by the leads Anna and Joseff into an ancient graveyard. Festival has, since 1999, provided a platform for (Simon Ellis, 2 min) Soldiers of the Bathroom. Venturing deeper onto the island, their play evolves hundreds of filmmakers, showcasing the most exciting A two hour electrical storm in two minutes. GET GOOD (Francois & Rozi Plain, 10 min) into an exploration of life, love and loss. Drama and influential filmmaking talent around. The festival LIGHTHEADED (Iain Finlay, 4 min) Bristol based acoustic folk duo Francoise & Rozi London, England supports filmmaking at its best; it receives thousands People with light bulbs for heads have become make and perform in this quirky video for their of entries each year and enables newcomers to have 1969 Paolo Guglielmotti 7 minutes 12A outcasts. Music by OdD. own song. 1969 is a journey led by our narrator, who finds her their work viewed alongside that of some of the most mothers diary which enables her to retrace the well established and respected artists currently THE POST IT NOTE PRISON CHRISTMAS IN HUDDERSFIELD mysterious circumstances which led to her parents working in film production. Here you can see the (Ricky Martin, 3 min) (Peter Spence, 9 min) fateful last holiday in Italy in 1969. The film winners and runners up of Rushes Soho Shorts 2007 - How will our character escape from his post-it note The Sex Pistols play a children’s party on Christmas evocatively weaves from the past to present, we hope that you enjoy them as much as we did! prison? Day 1977. www.rushes.co.uk hightened with passion and intrigue from the past, to WITH DICKINSON AND I DEAD BIKE (Kieron Dennis, 5 min) a realisation of the present, and to a final closing of a 10:30 (Miles Carter, 4 min) The city streets are like a bicycle graveyard. dark chapter. Drama London, England The most commonly used word in an argument is Teer Sacha Polak 25 minutes 15 ‘but’... SCREEN KISS (Steve Sander, 2 min) Karlijin (23) is a young woman who should’ve been Behind the scenes of a movie snog. happy: She’s intelligent, healthy, she has friends and doesen’t have to deal with any serious problems. But Getting The Fear Karlijn isn’t happy. Maybe it is because she finds Push/Pull Sahra Girshick 7 minutes 12A Neterritorializacion herself trapped in a life where nothing really happens. A little girl takes a magical journey to arrive at her Javier Alvarez 35 minutes 15 In The Ministry of Fear, Graham Greene’s Every day seems like an exact copy till she causes an own rebirth. Drama London, England In the remains of a failed society, a couple struggle to accident wherin Mbarote, an illegal from Sudan, gets come ti terms with their lost ideals, until they are 5th Columnist novel filmed by Fritz Lang in The Street Cleaner 1944, the key sÈance scene takes place at hurt. Finally Karlijn got herself a goal: taking care of crushed by the iinruption of a televised colonization Mbarote. Drama Holland David Early 17 minutes 15 tour. Drama Colombia ‘Mrs Bellairs’ house’, which Greene A young man helps a waitress solve the mystery of describes as ‘old and unrenovated standing The Dark Jack Noddinus 7 minutes 18 her fathers murder, as London’s first superhero! No Chance Javier Alvarez 17 minutes 15 among the To Let boards on the slopes of I wanted to make a horror film that was scarey money, no powers, no competition! What could A street lottery seller has to stop her brother from Campden Hill.’ Spiritualism also features in because you can’t see anything untilit is too late. possibly go wrong? Drama Britain betting the rent. Drama Colombia Horror Britain Vere Hodgson’s local wartime diaries Few Wasted Liam Benzaken 10 minutes 18 Colour Mai Yoshida 1 minute U Eggs and No Oranges, as she worked as a A gritty insight into violence in Britain. Wasted follows This one minute film carrys a simple, positive, and a day in the lives of three men, showing how their strong message about life. The story is told by a pre-welfare state social worker for IOTG (Inn On The Green) actions effect each others lives resulting in tragic young fresh girl’s perspective. Drama London, England Winifred Moyes’ Christian-Spiritualist 6–11pm events. Drama Britain Greater World Association, which was Forbidden Dream Purgatory Christopher C.F. Chow 10 minutes 15 based at 3 Lansdowne Road. Miss Moyes Alice’s Summer Alicja Pahl 7 minutes 15 Faysal Soysal 5 minutes 12A Purgatory is a dark psychological thriller. Parker is an was a former Telegraph journalist-turned- Every summer brings its changes. The same faces but Policemen try to put up a man who is near to make out of the ordinary funeral director. He buries his all grown up a little, a little apart. She was drawn to an accident in his dreams. But they cn’t fget him up in psychic, who was believed to be a medium unwilling victims alive taking their possessions as his the solitude of the balming sea and the beating sun, time. The men crash the girl in his dream. When for the spirit guide Zodiac. fee. Aaron wakes from his drug induced state and which melted within her blood. And one could see by policemen take him the man see the girl lying dead in Parker reacts with a devastating fatality, leading to his the confidence of her step, that she was comfortable... front of his car. Does the dream really happen? Drama own painful end. Drama London, England Drama Germany Turkey Rotting Hill Pose Down Aaron Levine 90 minutes 15 Wyndham Lewis gave such groups short Pose Down is a dark comedy set in Southwest Florida Tetsu 14 Aug that revolves around three former high school shrift in his post-war book Rotting Hill: ‘As classmates – the Body Builder, the Good Ol’ Boy and to the mysticism, and its big vogue (5 the Homecoming Queen – whose lives become lodges in ‘Rotting Hill’); people troop... to entangled after an esisode of tabloid news program sit entranced before pythonesses who bring airs. It opens with dueling Florida bodybuilders and tidings from the other side of death to slowly downshifts into a story about a woman, enable them to turn their backs if only for Markena Gate, returning to her hometown to bury her a while upon life – more vile and ill- mother and her past. A very tall southern tale about smelling daily.’ the destructive nature of desire. Drama USA Tetsu Tania Chen 5 minutes U A study of alienation and unrequited love set in Tokyo. Drama London, England A Short Collection Of Hilary Flamingo’s Dream Vocations Harriet Fleuriot 5 minutes 12A A dissatisfied factory worker escapes into a delicious selection of cake-fuelled fantasies. Drama Britain 10 ART DANCE ANIMATIONportobellofilmfestival.com

Westbourne Studios 6–11pm Art Brazil IOTG 6–11pm ART NIGHT 57 Production Collection Poetry The Seeds Of Change Films Various 60 minutes 15 Jessica Ashman 5 minutes 12 When Bad Things Happen To Featuring top poets Jean Binta Breeze, Patience Possed with a unique power. Colin is literally trapped Good People Aggababi and top street poets. Art London, England in a horrible nine-to-five existence, doing a job he Mani Nasry & Thomas Lieu 7 minutes 12 once adored. Hoewever, technology provides Colin Professor Steven E. Jones of BYU which accuses the 8–9pm with an unimaginable and unconventional shre of Bush adminstration of deliberately allowing the 9/11 poetry hope. Animation Britain attacks to happen and placing explosives in three of DANCE SELECTION: the world trade Centre to make sure they would be Fritz Wolle Dance totally destroyed. Nothing was the same for middle Shelter Kevin Kane 25 minutes 12 Antonio Berardi 2 minutes U easterns after 9/11 “Brown Skin People”, crossing the A yellow sock monkey is danking for his little doggy- Last Thing To Go Through Shelter, an abstract narrative dance film, explores a border, being on a plane, walking down the street, friend. Funky moves and steps from a sock. Animation A Fly’s Mind 14 Aug world of displacement and survival through here is the experience of one individual. Art Canada movement, gesture and various dance forms; with a London, England cast of twenty-one. Dance USA Fade Gert Fokkens & Peter Sreben 5 minutes 12 Conscientious Objector Wall Tales Richard Oldfield 3 minutes U He who seeks inner peace, is bound first to confront Colin Stevens 10 minutes 12 In Stone Margaret Williams 7 minutes U A man’s crime fantasy played out in graffiti on London himself. Drama Holland A powerful and emotional montage of voices and In Stone is the second collaboration between dancer, walls. Animation London, England faces united in the words of the anti-war poem by Maria Munoz and filmmaker Margaret Williams. In Mr.Lucky. Hot Zone Older Mark Chapman 10 minutes 12A Edna St. Vincent Millay. Art Britain 2006, La Pedrera Educacio asked Maria to make a ‘Older’ is an unusual and disqueiting drama focussing Rodrigo Santos 1 minute U Camouflage With White Shirt short film for La Pedrera’s web site. The brief for this Mr.Lucky is a young man always looking for treasures on the daily rebellion of an ailing older man. Drama film was to use Antonio Gaudi’s building La Pedrera in Good Britian Stuart Pound 10 minutes 12 around the world. This time he will travel to an island Most of the source footage for “Camouflage With Barcelona as inspiration and starting point. Dance and face a volcano to find his prize. Rodrigo Santos Home Movie Mark Chapman 7 minutes 12A White Shirt” is selected from “Man with a Mission”, a London, England Sant. Animation Brazil ‘Home Movie’ is a hunting drama focussing on the TV documentary about Tony Blair. For the first six Plaza De Toros – Birmingham Mr.Lucky – Navio Pirata splintering and emotional destruction that occurs when minutes, image and sound are cut and alternated to Margaret Williams 7 minutes U a child is taken away from their young parents. create a flicker effect with a rhythmic soundtrack, only Rodrigo Santos 1 minute U Plaza de Toros is a metaphor for modern urban living. Mr.Lucky is a young man always looking for treasures Drama Britain snatches of it intelligible. The second part offsets Blair A ‘road’ movie where Joel finds his way around an inspecting troops against Hugh Grant making his around the world. this time he will travel to the deeps Harbord Horror Zoe Harvey 5 minutes 12A exhausted city. Cpmpared with the car and the archi- famous speech from “Love Actually”. In the third part, of the ocean seeking for a pirate’s teasure. Animation When Charlie tests his animal magnetism on Francine, tecture of contempoary road systems we are all small Peter Mandelson’s voice is heard praising Blair, against Brazil with the help of a little chemistry, he soon finds and vulnerable, but Joel takes the bull by the horns a shot of a wall in Berlin with an anti US/UK slogan himself fanning the flames of desire. Sometimes, and with grace and imagination is masterful over the Rose Dollz Rolnei Bueno 1 minute 12A painted on it in English. Art London, England sparks really do fly... Drama Australia urban sprawl. Dance London, England Rose is a smart and confident girl. Croton her dog is Chez Pigeon Stuart Pound 3 minutes 12 the best friend. Cao is a competitive boy. Usually Rose Room 302 (Habitacion 302) You Cuba Margaret Williams 13 minutes U Monsieur and Madame Charles Pigeon at home in and Cao have a difference of opinion or conflict. This Juan Camilo Villarreal 13 minutes 15 The many different qualities of Cuba provided Montparnasse. The image is a motion path across a time the reason of the controversy is a lost and The dreams and fears of Edwin Trujillo become real in motivating starting points for the film You Cuba: the still photograph and the soundtrack is a Sardinian desired object. a hotel room, leading him towards a destiny from people and its many poetic metaphors, the culture; the choir singing in Latin. Art London, England which he won’t be able to escape. Drama London, politics, physical location and environment. The dance ANIMATION BRAZIL itself is abstract yet passionate and emotional. Shot on England She’s Not There Stuart Pound 3 minutes 12 The Human Experiement A video interpretation of the sixties pop classic.The DVcam, it was filmed entirely on location in Havana A Part Of This Will Mcgregor 13 minutes 12 Zachary Denman 5 minutes 15 size of the image responds to the loudness of each and on Santa Maria beach. Dance London, England Nathan ia dyslexic, this film shows how he is outcasted Set in 2056 after world war 3. Aricon has found a way note. Art London, England from school soceity due - top his diability and how he Impulse Passia Pandora 2 minutes U to infiltrate the droids, will he escape in time...? Impulse was an excercise for Passia during the ‘Dance uses Ruby as an escape, where he can feel as if he Life On Mars Stuart Pound 5 minutes 12 ANIMATION BRITAIN belongs to something, as a part of a team. Drama “Life On Mars” is a digital mix from three different for the camera” program 2005. Her skill with the Britain sources, two of them still photographs and the third a camera in capturing the choreographer intention make The Kid Fernando Pinheipo 5 minutes U moving image. Together they create a space of their for a satisying experience of reflection on movement. Condemned by playing. The story of a child in black Cat’s smack Joon Goh 5 minutes 12 own, the ‘Mars” of the title. The soundtrack is Dance Canada and white and waterclour doll in painting on canvas. In an abandoned church hall a woman dances with the composed of sound elements from a spoken poem, Animation Brazil ghost of her past lovers. Drama London, England Into The Light Christin Keeler 3 minutes 12A about a solitary artist who survives by creating a Mars An experimental, evocative illustration of the Weiss Florian Grolig 5 minutes 12A Summer Loving Nick Marcq 15 minutes 12 of the imagination, populated with drawings of its experience of woman going through what is now In the middle of white is monotone balance,jolly blasé Grease in the ghetto, summer loving is an urban rap inhabitants. Art London, England called “perimenopause”. Dance Canada marking time. One definition of space is the absence take the classic film devised with a group of young Hotel Sevilla Stuart Pound 5 minutes 12 of embarrassing contact. But gridlock is definitely people in Barking. Musical London, England Tunnel Vision Pamela Millar 5 minutes 12 One of the many Hotel Sevilla, this one in Las Palmas, A dramatic... of shape, light, and movement in death. Animation Germany Once Upon A Time In Barking Gran Canaria, though the sound is Cuban. A woman’s another dimension. Dance Canada Startle Pattern Nick Marcq 17 minutes 15 portrait passes back and forth, changing in response Back Space Eric Patrick 13 minutes 12A Western set in a school – Hoodies for hats, bikes for to the loudness of music. Comedy London, England Startle Pattern is a farewell card to the film medium. horses and if the school is our town, the playing fields Morgan Runacre-Temple & Jessica Wright 5 minutes U Bus Stop Stuart Pound 5 minutes 12 In this late age of emulsion, this essay is a call of the are our desert. Drama London, England The film is a documentation of an interactive The sky is nice / I negotiate / with its gauzy clouds on performance of live dance and film performed at the cinematic gaze to a state of crisis. The film functions blue / for an immediate bus. /Remarkable that years Ballet Perljocaj Theatre. Dance London, England as a deconstruction of spectatorship and authorship in / of my bad temper at / missed buses (for example) the moving image… a puppet’s form tattered and / is absorbed by these streets / and has no effect / EXTREME ART: decayed, hinting at the Protagonist's delicate WED 15 AUG on the blamelessness of the blue sky / or its little relationship with reality, voyeurism, the director and In Suspense (In Sospeso) the apparatus. Animation USA wings of cloud. The framing of the image, clouds in Antonella Pintus 50 minutes 18 the blue sky, changes with the loudness of the Through “improvisation and provocation” Freaks’ Alien game Alan Denman 85 minutes 15 The X-Files: soundtrack, a composition made entirely of elements bloody tricks – A group of performers based in Italy – A young guy tells police a girl he was with has been The View Over Atlantis from the spoken poem, which is best listened to on sets up extreme and hard shows, where we see and abducted by aliens. They think he’s a killer. He tells his stereo headphones. Art London, England from Powis Terrace feel an interesting and deep approach to life and pain. story of a “game”– clues – a trek into the wilderness Abyss of soul Art Documentaries Germany with seven others to find aliens. It sounds weird. Is he The weirdest street in Notting Hill has to be Cristina Pinheiro & Andre Scucato 13 minutes 15 lying or were there real aliens? Sc-Fi Drama USA Powis Terrace aka Hedgegate Court; The poet, play writer, director and actor, Antonin Ceremony 4 largely due to John Michell, the local Artaud, lived nine years of his life in sanatoriums in Flavio Sciole 30 minutes U esoteric cult author and landlord. Aside France. It is believed that during this time he could A ceremony for Syd Barrett. Art Italy from his property X-files, John Michell was have undergone more than fifty electroshock sessions. the underground press resident expert on Dollgatory Tony Vogiantzis & Robert Armstrong 85 minutes 15 all things mystical; the holy grail, leylines, A Dollar Store owner has lost faith in life and has Stonehenge, UFOs; and has published Michael Horovitz Wednesday 15th august 8–9pm resorted to attempting to murder his wife to collect life numerous arcane books including The View insurance to pay off his debts of the dollar store. God Over Atlantis and The Flying Saucer Vision. Michael Horovitz will read, sing and perform is watching and awaits those who have done wrong. Comedy Canada After Powis Terrace was converted into self- jazz poems, sound-poems, songs and chants contained flats, acted as the from various New Departures anthologies and Coldcurt – Sound Mirrors Various 60 minutes 12A letting agent, and the notorious Rachman his books 'Wordsounds & Sightlines' and street gained further renown from David Music and interviews. Music Videos London, England Hockney’s studio, a Performance influence 'Midsummer Morning Jog Log', and also from great train robber hideout, the London his latest and most political book, 'A New Waste Free School, a residence of the murdered Land: Timeship Earth at Nillennium'. hippy fashion designer Ossie Clark, hells angels, Rastas and Graham Bond. He will also play some music, and be open to Q & A, and haggling.

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The Old Son Jong Hwang 43 minutes U original!!! Genuinely versatile, his talents range from also should remember people’s telephone numbers. THU 16 AUG An old man, after realizing he is dying of cancer, tries that of a fine Singer-Songwriter, to that of Pianist, A.S.Hakan Gok Drama Turkey to reconcile himself with his family who are all Guitarist, world class Jazz-Singer, as well as his unique Westbourne Studios 6–11pm immortal and never age. Sc-Fi Dram USA standing as 'Vocal Trumpeter, Trombonist and True to Form & Spoon Clarinetist'. Mark J. Blackman 20 minutes 15 DRAMA/ AMERICAN/CANADIAN Rolling Billy Samoa Saleebey 100 minutes 15 A cold mother confronts the homeless stranger who Chocolate Factory A med student, a teenage runaway, a high school Earl has appeared alongside everyone from Paul hospitalised her young son in a battle of wills and a Sam Wild & Ellie Walton 45 minutes 15 basketball player, a drug dealer, and a teacher all McCartney and Van Morrison to Benny Carter, race against time. Spoon: A boy. A girl. A fish. A Chocolate City explores the rapid gentriacation of “Rolling” is a turbulent journey that takes a tough Stephane Grappelli and Cleo Laine. He has entertained spoon. Drama Britain Wahington DC through the eyes of a group of yet entertaining look at this unique drug the Queen and Princess Margaret. phenomenon. With the pace and style of a Save The World impovrised Black Women forced from their city centre David Casals-Roma 10 minutes 15 homes to make way for new development only a documentary, “Rolling” captures the essence of Ecstasy culture, exposing the delicate balance of relationships Richard is a young executive that decides to leave his stone throw from the world famous ssymbols of U.S. Pelican Pub girlfriend, quit his job and leave his family, and focus power. Documentary London, England and responsibilities while chasing this drug-induced euphora. Drama USA DRAMA on saving the world in a very special way. Drama Bill Poznanski 7 minutes 12A Britain “Intro” ‘The Beholder’ Aidan Elliott 10 minutes 15 A music video of “Intro”, a song by the morning 4o Adam – a city failure now living on Hampstead Heath Friend (Dzug) Lala Akhundora 25 minutes U federation, a New Orleans band from the 9th IOTG – shares the company of the world’s greatest philo- This film tells about a friendship of a young man and ward/bywater section of the city. Filmed entirely on a horse and of choice made between libery and 8pm sophical minds as he struggles to grasp the location in February 2005, the video is a precious time troublesome relationship between our hearts and prison. Lala Akhundora. Drama Russia capsule of the pre-hurricane Katrina. Music Videos USA Comedy from eyes, and the seemingly inexplicable decisions Ted Spota Brian Reodin 13 minutes 12A Baron Samedi Dan Macmillan 7 minutes 18 Chippington, people make when looking for love. Drama London, John discovers that not every dog is a man’s best A visual odyssey through American counter culture. Earl Okin and friends England friend. Drama Good Ireland Exploring the life, the music and the legend Robert Ted Chippington recently featured Aldo Paternostro 17 minutes 12A Silence Wrong Number Johnson, father of the Missipi Delta Blues. Legend had on The Culture Show as the comedians comedian of Silence is a beautifully shot short film told in reverse. it that Johnson evoked the voodoo diety Baron Samedi Ivan Plyasov 17 minutes 12A choice. The word genius is rarely heard in connection It is a contemplation on the frailties of love and a Film is based on black-white version of “Wrong to the crossroads and batered his mortal soul to play with living comics but Stewart Lee, R. Gervais, and study in the effect the absence of words has on a guitaar like man before him. Horror London, England Number” comics by V.Evans, published on official Mark E Smith from The Fall queued up to call Ted "a young couple. Drama London, England “Matrix” trilogy webpage. Leading heroine, named DAWN WESTLAKE: genius". Come along tonite at 9 to see "the funniest The Purgatory Of Mrs “Angel”, persecuted by agent Shepherd, is trying to INDEPENDENT FILMING IN THE USA – CINEMA man on earth". Trimmings Siou Thomas Markham 5 minutes U escape from the Matrix, but there is no phone line 7–8.30PM Earl Okin is one of those rare performers... a true Mrs Trimmings Knits and waits. She is alone. intact. Occasionally, one line becomes open by a Constantly waiting for the phone to ring but will and if phlegmatic fitter... Drama Ukraine ever does would she have the determination to answer Wooden Soul the call.... Drama Britain Rehana Rose Khan 10 minutes 12 AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILMS NIGHT Nothing (Nichts) Jan Freshe 10 minutes 12 Displacement of grief. Charming to some, shocking to INTRODUCED BY TOP US INDY FILM DIRECTOR DAWN WESTLAKE Taylor hangs around with his friends Ralle and Manne others. Drama Britian in a tavern. A word – meager man friendship connects The Admirer Petros Silvestros 15 minutes 15 them. When Bee and Tina emerge Ralle and Manne A brother is trying to protect his mute sister from a flirt with them, while Taylor goes away. Tina however mysterious admirer. Drama London, England is interested in Taylor... Drama Germany Eightball Linda Fiorella 13 minutes 15 “A Lone Soldier” (Chayal Boded) A young woman looses her virginity to a prositute who Eyal Boers 23 minutes 12 picks her up in a bar. Drama USA A lone Israeli soldier, on special leave to meet his Dutch father, forgets his weapon on a ride, only to Message From the Sea find it in an Arab Town with the help of a local Gokce Pehlivanoglu 17 minutes 12 policeman. Drama Israel There is no love in this city anymore. Drama Turkey Two Good Fellas (Due Bravi BBOBBOLONE! Ragazzi) Toney Palazzo 15 minutes 12A Daniele Cascella 10 minutes 15 Michael returns from New York after 20 years. Gino Aurelio, thirty-year-old, is supposed to act as a lookout picks him up at the airport. So, a roadmove starts with in a robbery. Meanwhile, some boys playing football a psychologycal game between the two fellows. ask Aurelio to save a penalty by acting as a Drama Italy goalkeeper. In a flashback he sees his father as the goalkeeper: a still unsolved trauma. Drama Italy The Wake Matthew Byrne 20 minutes 18 In this American “Southern Gothic” folk tale, an old lady mysteriously straves a young boy. Her bizarre method is seeminly without cause, but as the story unfolds, the truth is revealed in a stunning climax. Drama USA Rendition James O’Brien 10 minutes 18 Thursday 16th august 7–8.30 ...no ticket ..no address...no papers...an offence you can be arrested for? Take him in...We’ve got a few Dawn Westlake is president of Ron de Cana Prods. Inc. in Los Angeles. 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Music Documentaries London, England Videos Ireland Sketch From Melbourne My Three Little Children Seeta Muller 2 minutes U Leo the Last Passion Is Accurate Luis Carlos Soares 3 minutes U 3 sketches made in Melbourne 2007, black paper with John Boorman’s 1969 film Leo The Last Bevan Walsh 3 minutes 12 Three little girls play and have fun themselves for the pencil drawings. Animation Australia This video by The Kills is about a relationship on the camera. Art. Brazil captured the local psychogeography as rocks, the lyrics representing words unspoken between Havana Jazz Anthony Stern 17 minutes U successfully as Cammell and Roeg. Or a couple trying to re-ignite their passion over one Requiem of a muse Portrait of havana shot in impessionistic style during succeeded in making an equally night in a hotel room. Music Videos London, England Andre Scucato 15 minutes 12A the Havana Jazz Faestival 2006 – features local ‘infuriating symbolic fantasy’, as far as Based on a poem of Fernando Campos and interpreted Cuban musicians and jazz performance. Anthony Stern Go Away Joachim Aust 3 minutes 12A Halliwell was concerned. Marcel by the actress and director Cristina Pinheiro. Requiem Art Documentaries London, England Mastroianni (from La Dolce Vita) stars as The everyday life of a homeless woman in abstract of a muse symbolizes the death of the art. Art Brazil Leo, an alienated aristocrat who brings images. She is always in danger and having massive Idea Marco Rusca 3 minutes U about a ‘firework revolution’, in which his health problems. The death is around her all the time. A simple idea. Art Italy façade house across Testerton Street (on The film “Go Away” is also a musical and surreal episode about a social outsider. Musical Germany Polar & Hula Ruud Vrugt 2 minutes U the site of the Lancaster West Estate) is No one really knows what goes on in a fridge. Ruud destroyed. Atmosphere – ”God’s Bathroom Vrugt Animation Holland Floor” Heri Mkocha 5 minutes 15 Time Lords of the Manor: Not all great musicians have the budget or inclinations The Veres to put some of their best tracks into the visual realm. Kensington’s mystical history Their Satanic Majesties’ Especially if their songs are about depression, religion can be traced back to the Request and numbingness of drugs. step in the fans who use their own creativity to support a worthy artist. And Hassan-I-Sabbah Doomesday Book and the With his identity crisis complete, atmosphere is definately that. Music Videos London, and the Assassins weird Norman lord of the manor, Aubrey Fox/Jagger, as Chas/Turner, walks out of England During the de Vere. Throughout the middle ages, 25 Powis Square to John Lennon’s awaiting Aubreyís descendants were Lord Great Cry For Help Stephen George 5 minutes 15 magic Chamberlains of England, Earls of Oxford, Rolls, and the 60s were over – bar a bit A girl meets a man – an encounter with a tragic mushroom- more chanting and protesting. In the ending. Music Videos London, England induced mind and landlords of Kensington. immediate aftermath, most of the film’s blowing of In Laurence Gardner’s Realm of the Ring main participants turned to hard drugs. S.O.S. Jorge Torres 10 minutes 15 A music video for Ona Zetta’s “S.O.S.” is somewhat of Chas, Turner Lords, in which the Veres become mystical Anita Pallenberg was accused of witchcraft, a dream where tigers are killed a long to milk baths. says ‘Nothing elf kings of Kensington, or ‘the shining James Fox became a born-again Christian, Music Videos USA is true, ones’; descended from Rainfroi de and even Mick admits to losing it, as Vagrant Emma Blackwood 5 minutes 18 everything is Verrieres en Forez and, through his wife Cammell’s Crowleyan ‘Turner’ persona permitted’; Princess Melusine, the 2nd century King stayed with him to Altamont. At the time of Anarchistwood in ass-slappin’ glory – You’re in for a tough ride motherfXckess!! Music Videos London, quoting ‘the last words of the old man of Ver of Caledonia, ancient Irish kings, Performance, the Stones were at the height England the mountains’ Hassan-I-Sabbah, which Scythians, pharaohs, and the Lords of the of their powers, between ‘Their Satanic Piana – ’Something’s Lost’ echo Aleister Crowley’s most notorious and Rings. Robert Vere, the 3rd Earl of Oxford, Majesties’ Request’ and ‘Beggars’ Banquet’ celebrated line, ‘Do what thou wilt shall be becomes merged with the outlaw Robert (featuring ‘Sympathy for the Devil’). Thomas Hilland 5 minutes U Music video for Japanese singer-songwriter Piana: the whole of the law.’ Then he strums Fitzooth/oath/odo, better known as Robin ‘Something’s Lost; A journey through a world of snow ‘Come On In My Kitchen’ by the blues Hood, due to being a woodlord claimant to Tapestry Goes West Part 1 and ice. Music Videos Sweden legend Robert Johnson, who sold his soul the earldom of Huntingdon. Then there’s a Caroline Catz 30 minutes 15 I Had To Stop The Rain for rock’n’roll at the crossroads. The classic theory that the 16th Earl, Edward Vere, a Barry Stilwells dream to set up a completely David L Butler 7 minutes 15 Performance soundtrack includes an instru- student of John Dee, writer, poet and independent festival closer to the spirit of the Rock An experimental music video / A film that charts the mental entitled ‘Natural Magicí’, and ‘The ‘friend of the muses’, was Shakespeare. Festivals of the 60’s and 70’s than tol modern ethos of course of a relationship, and the womans reason for Hashishin’ featuring the American Indian financial gain is fulfilled and capured in this two ‘Oberon’, the King of the Fairies in A her action. Music Videos London, England parter that explores Barry’s journeyh from club singer Buffy Sainte-Marie and Ry Cooder. Midsummer Night’s Dream, is the promoter and painter decorater in Camden Town to The Blues Willie Dixon Never This track, and Turner’s accompanying equivalent of Aubrey/Albrey/Alberic or festival organiser in the wild west, collaberating with Wrote Peter Leder 3 minutes 12 potted history of Hassan-I-Sabbah and the Arthur, and synonymous with overlord, Cornish cowboys. Music Documentaries London, A walk through a cemetery. Pictures of a child. The assassins, has been dismissed by Michael high/light/shining/elf or dwarf king. Peter England saddest blues? Or just the blues of affluent society? Moorcock as a hippy clichè, but post 9/11 Ackroyd seems to back up this theory, once Music Videos Germany True Skool Clay Lipsky 5 minutes 12A has the heaviest resonance of all the film’s noting how the ‘self-locking’ inscription on Music video London, England mystical sub-plots. There’s also some a sewer manhole cover had worn away to Arthurian mythology in there. reveal ‘elf king’.

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Direct Drive TV present SUN 19 AUG Bikini Blitzkrieg Part 2 Dance Domination 19 Aug the launch of a yearly free music festival Westbourne Studios 2–11pm Portobello Green 2:00 DAY ONE: Sat 18 Aug 6pm–10.15pm Return To Ravenswood Marq English 70 minutes 15 6.00–7.00 pm: DJ Daz IQ (Bugz In The Attic) In the 1960’s, the village of Ravenswood witnessed a playing music in line with the festivals policy. UFO incident that catapulted the village into a close 7.00–7.15: Compere: Mr Gee introduces the encounter of a rural kind. And today, with the UFO two day event, giving information on the acts allegedly returning; a tribal conflict is brewing coming up over the next two days, and the between local residents and ‘spiritual pirates’ who event facilities, during which he performs a have invaded their green and pleasant land! Comedy piece of spoken word on the theme of abolition. Britain 7.15–8.00: THABANI (African Soul) Classwork (Compito In Classe) 8.00–8.05: Compere introduces live band Daniele Cascella 15 minutes 15 8.05–8.50: Lyric L www.myspace.com/lyricl The teacher of a primary school class asks her pupils 8.50–8.55: Compere to introduce PA to do classwork. It is a normal examination, which is part of the course of studies. The title is suggested by 8.55–9.10: Restlessoul feat: XAN SIKA PA. the pupils themselves: An important person in your 9.10–9.15: Compere to introduce band life: your father. Drama Italy 9.15–10.15: Mark De Clive-Lowe “Compassion” Tom Geens 20 minutes 15 Compere to promote the next day line up A woman sees an old man going through bins on a After party “INN ON THE GREEN” number of occasions. Every time her face fills with the utmost compassion. One day she decides to follow him DAY TWO: Sunday 19 Aug and ends up trapped in his house. How much of her Johnny Oddball: Two Episodes Of Skank 2.00–3.00: DJ Daz IQ (Bugz In The Attic) compassion was truly compassion? Drama London, 24 Hour Film Challenge Black Eye 60 minutes 15 playing music in line with the festivals policy England screening cinema 5–6.00pm Comedy London, England 3.00–3.05: Compere Mr Gee introduces the Guilty By Nature day’s line-up and first band Joseph Barnett 10 minutes 12A 6:00 8:00 3.05–4.05: BrazenBunch Set on a mutant plant nursery, guilty by nature follows The Sickie Rupert Jones 13 minutes 12A Bikini Blitzkrieg Part 2 4.05–4.10: Compere the life cycle of a wild and vigorous shrub. Shot with When events at work prove too stressful for Douglas Dance Domination extreme close ups, varied framerates and an 4.10–4.25 Spoken word: Zena Edwards. knott, adiligent and extremely busy office manager, Donald Takeshita-Guy 90 minutes 15 exagaerated sound scape. Art London, England he decides to throw a sickie. Unfortunately, his Sci Fi sex opera concludes. Comedy London, England 4.25–4.30 Compere introduces live PA’s attempts to enjoy a day off are soon sabotaged by the Chicken Soup 9:30 4.30–4.50: Marcus Begg & Maro Doucoure PA Farah Abushwesha 7 minutes 12A insidious voice of his conscience. Literally. Comedy 4.50–4.55: Compere to introduce second band A chance encounter at an airport and an odd London, England Green Pages Sasha C. Danjanovski 17 minutes U 4.55–5.40: Heidi Vogel coincidence lead to an awakening for a man who Salt & Vinegar Mark Jackson 7 minutes 18 5.40–5.45 Compere next band learns to forgive. Drama London, England An animated punk musical about forbidden love, A man, a woman and a company that forbids any school rebellion and chips. Comedy Britain personal interaction between employees. Not even 5.45–6.30: Dego (4hero) 2000 Black label live 4:00 talk. But a relationship is inevitable, under the very 6.30–7.20: TBA Barnet Shuffle Stripped Mark Jackson 3 minutes 15 eye of the security camera. Excuted in a single, 7.20–8.05: Wunmi Charlie Creed-Miles 17 minutes 15 Uncover the dark secrets of a smokin’ hot babe in this continuos take, this futuristic comedy is also the first Mark entrusts flatmate Jesse to re-decorate their living great comedy short. Comedy Britain ever film adaption of the phone book. Comedy London, England room before Mark’s girlfriend returns from holiday. Sandy’s New Diet But when Mark also receives a miracle cure for his Mark Jackson 3 minutes 18 Cabinet Of Dr Calagari 77minutes baldness in the post, his problems are just beginning. Sexy Sandy has a new diet. It’s a real mouthful. Dreyer’s deliriant supernatural black and white poem Comedy London, England Comedy Britain brought to 21st century light by a specially commis- The Last Thing To Go Through A sioned soundtrack by top VJs In The Nursery plays out Codehunters Ben Hibon 10 minutes 15 the 12th Portobello Film Festival. Fly’s Mind Steve Webb 10 minutes 15 Four heros join forces to battle evil forces. Sc-Fi Drama A man dies and is given an ultimatum by God, repent Britain Black Carrot: Fairytale or suffer for eternity. He refuses and is reincarnated Performance as lowlier and lowlier creatures until he finally Pale Blue Dot atrium (4–7pm) Steven McGlinchey 5 minutes 12 Planet Alice, repentsonly to be ribbed of happiness at the last minute. Comedy London, England A Parting Shot From Voyager 1991 Inspired by the Motown Majic and words of the late Carl sagan. Whatever each of us the Wiiija board The Birthday Treat believes in, this image is something we all share, and Dean Charles 15 minutes 15 through sharing, we might one day learn humility. Art BLACK CARROT The Planet Alice shop at 284 Portobello When Darren reluctantly agrees to take his girlfriend, Ireland 2nd August & 19th August (6-10pm) Road made a tenuous acidhouse connection Annette to a local clairvogant as her birthday treat, his Westbourne Studios in the mid 80s psychedelic revival, scepticism is shattered when the mystic tells Annette Dear Steven Spielberg featuring Doctor and the Medics and the more than Darren wanted her to know. Comedy Stefan Georgiou 20 minutes 12 Three musicians and a storyteller Alice in Wonderland club. The Mau Mau London, England Paul Buring has been writing letters and sending combining dramatic spoken narrative with scripts to Steven Spielberg for just under a year music. Aiming for something that is darkly bar at number 265 started out as the Strange Brew Robert Wauace 15 minutes 18 without reply. Now, due to his persistence he becomes Motown Majic Company’s Original Soul Bar, When a young man is seduced by an older woman in embroiled in a cospiracy involving Spielberg, hi funny, edgy, energetic and spontaneous as remembered in the ‘Majic’ stone in the a remote pub he doesn’t know that her interest in him lawyers and Hollywood thats been milking audiences well as offering a dramatic experience of pavement outside. The early 90s Rough is permanent. Drama Britain for 30 years. Comedy London, England intense evocative storytelling. Trade shop label, wiiija, was concocted 5:00 7:00 Two half-hour performances include a from their postcode W11 1JA, not as a particularly dark and twisted retelling of goth ouija board reference. Blackeye: Films/discussion cinema (NB. They also have another 2 hours of films Hansel and Gretel (Cannibal Holocaust) to be programmed in somewhere) and The Tell Tale Heart. If you would like to get a flavour of the work, Hello Satan, I believe it’s The Sickie19 Aug please visit www.blackcarrot.net time to go In 1975 Jimmy Page appeared at a party thrown by the hippy socialite Sally Sparkle Portobello Film Festival at the southern end of Portobello, which Director: Jonathan Barnett turned into a heavy rock jamming session, Programmer: Ray Myndiuk also featuring Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Coordinator: Leona Flude Website: Thomas Szabo Jeff Beck, Ronnie Wood and George Butler. Subscriptions: Geoff Mann In due course, this caused what has to be Administration: Noemie Prudhomme the hippest local noise complaint of them and Claire Arnaud all, followed by the least heavy Portobello police incident – in which the rock stars were politely ushered to their limos. ‘Hello Satan, I believe it’s time to go.’

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SaLon Gallery Equinox on Holland St. Stairway to Heaven Dracula is Dead and Well 82 Westbourne Grove W2 from Basing Street and Living in London 1–22 August Led Zep’s phenomenal success and various tragedies associated with the group, To get back to Notting Hell/Heaven W11, In other local diabolist film links, The including the death of the drummer John Led Zeppelin frequented the Island studios Satanic Rites of Dracula (originally Dracula Bonham, were attributed to a Robert (now Sarm West) on Basing Street. It was is Dead and Well and Living in London) Johnson-style Faustian pact. Jimmy Page here in 1970 that they recorded some of features actual hells angel Satanic bikers was a renowned collector of Crowley their Crowley-influenced 4th album, known kidnapping a girl on Bard Road, off manuscripts and first editions, to the extent as ‘Led Zeppelin IV’, ‘Untitled’, ‘Four Freston Road, and a property speculating of opening an occult bookshop named the Symbols’ or ‘The Runes album’, including vampire. In The Omen 3 film, The Final Equinox after Crowley’s magazine, which ‘Stairway to Heaven’ and Sandy Denny of Conflict, Lansdowne Rise stars as the specialised in his stuff at 4 Holland Street, on ‘The Battle of location of the runaway pram scene. off Kensington Church Street. Evermore’. ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is influenced by the 1946 classic English mystical romance film, A Matter of Life The Loch Ness Monster, The House and Death by Michael Powell and Emeric and Desolation Row Monty Python and the Pressburger (which was released in the US Holy Grail as Stairway to Heaven), and assorted In early 1967, as Erno Goldfinger said mythological Celtic women. The track is excuse me while I kiss the sky and began also said to contain the subliminal work on Trellick Tower, was staying at 167 From 26 July to 10 September, the SaLon Gallery will message, ‘here’s to my sweet Satan.’ showcase the 25 best recent graduates from all major Westbourne Grove, art colleges in London. A panel of celebrity judges when the property including John Hoyland, Hakan Rosenius, Mary was painted FitzPatrick, Keith Khan, and Penny Smith, will not only After Anger rented Aleister Crowley’s purple. According help curate this exhibition but grant five awards Scottish retreat, Boleskine House on Loch to rock legend, reflective of SaLon’s ethos. The most important being returning from a the SaLon Summer 2007 Show Award which provides Ness in 1969, Jimmy Page bought the property the following year. Whilst staying UFO club trip one its recipient with a twelve month contact with SaLon morning, the sight and a solo exhibition within that time. at Boleskine in the early 70s, he was filmed mountaineering for a Led Zep film of the house Furthermore, a percentage of sale proceeds will go inspired his second towards a children's charity NSPCC which helps in the role of the Hermit from the Tarot. Robert Plant, meanwhile, took the King single. At the 1970 children to overcome abuse they were subjected to in Isle of Wight their childhood using art and art projects as a therapy. Arthur role, and Led Zep co-financed Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Pink festival, Floyd and Chrysalis. Page did come up with remember him a satisfactory soundtrack for the 1982 film being too depressed to jam of his Melbury Road neighbour, Michael Lucifer Rising Winner, Death Wish 2. In another on ‘Desolation Performance link, John Bindon, who After Page outbid Anger for an Aleister Row’ but, they played the most convincing gangster, Crowley Book, he agreed to do the claim, he agreed became Led Zep’s security chief, or ‘master soundtrack for Anger’s psychedelic diabolist to play Stonehenge with them. assassin’ in their ‘private strike force’ as film Lucifer Rising. But the pair fell out he’s described in Stephen Davis’s Hammer with Anger saying Page’s ‘attitude was of the Gods. As such, Bindon was playing contradictory to the teachings of Crowley.’ Marc Bolan’s Toadstool out his own Performance sequel for real, Lucifer Rising starred Marianne Faithfull Studios as Chas/Turner’s hitman/roadie in (when she was going out with Mick Jagger) America. as Lilith, ‘the kabbalistic goddess of In 1968 Marc Bolan and June Child moved destruction’, a ‘female demon, probably of into the attic of 57 Blenheim Crescent. In Babylonian origin, supposed to haunt their ‘chateau in the west’, as Marc called Jimi Hendrix Experience wildernesses in stormy weather’, and the it, just off Ladbroke Grove down the hill Performance director Donald Cammell as from Hendrix’s last residence, the Bolans ‘In this sacred grove there grew a certain Osiris, the god of the dead/after- lived a frugal macrobiotic existence. Marc tree round which at any time of the day, life/resurrection; at one point, Mick Jagger is recalled sitting cross-legged on the floor and probably far into the night, a grim was to appear in the title role. worshipping a figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand statue of Pan he carried a drawn sword, and he kept (which he peering warily about him as if at every The Samarkand Hotel called ‘Poon’) instant he expected to be set upon by an on the enemy. He was a priest and a murderer; On September mantelpiece, and the man for whom he looked was 18 1970, studying sooner or later to murder him and hold the Hendrix ended Buddhism, priesthood in his stead. Such was the rule up on Ladbroke and making his own Christmas cards while of the sanctuary.’ JG Frazer The Golden Grove in the June sold lampshades on Portobello. Bough 1890 basement of 22 Lansdowne During his Tolkienesque Notting Hill hippy ‘Hi,’ said the newcomer. ‘I’m looking for phase Marc’s ‘Toadstool studios’ in a corner Shakey Mo. We ought to be going.’ The Crescent, which was then of the attic were frequented by the original black man stepped across the others and Tyrannosaurus Rex bongo drummer Steve knelt beside Mo, feeling his heart, taking named the Samarkand Hotel after the Silk Road staging post in Uzbekistan. Peregrin Took and their MC, the DJ John his pulse. The chick stared stupidly at him. Peel, who then lived up the hill on Stanley ‘Is he alright?’ He’s Oded,’ the newcomer Lansdowne Crescent is at the top of the hill, in the centre of the Ladbroke Estate, Gardens. The former (real name, Stephen said quietly, ‘he’s gone, d’you want to get Ross Porter) was re-named, ‘probably at a doctor or something, honey?’ ‘Oh, Jesus,’ probably on the site of a Roman villa. Having taken barbiturates earlier, he Bolan’s command’, after Tolkien’s hobbit of she said. The black man got up and walked the shire ‘Peregrin Took’, the loyal to the door. ‘Hey,’ she said, ‘you look just polished off a bottle of sleeping pills and was sick in his sleep. When his last companion of ‘Frodo Baggins’ in The Lord like Jimi Hendrix, you know that?’ ‘Sure.’ of the Rings. ‘You can’t be – you’re not are you? I girlfriend, Monika Dannemann, realised mean, Jimi’s dead.’ Jimi shook his head something was wrong she called round In the March 1969 issue of Oz magazine and smiled his old smile. ‘Shit, lady. They various rock personalities, and buried her there’s an ad for the new at can’t kill Jimi.’ He laughed as he left.’ dope in the garden, before calling an the Royalty Theatre (the former cinema on A Dead Singer (in ambulance. According to the police report, the site of Royalty Studios) on Lancaster memory, among others, of Smiling Mike he was alive when the ambulance arrived Road, off Ladbroke Grove; featuring gigs and John the Bog) from Moorcock’s Book at Lansdowne Crescent but DOA at St Mary by Tyrannosaurus Rex, Caravan, Country of Martyrs 1974 Abbot’s hospital in South Kensington. Joe and the Fish, and Steppenwolf.

17 Portobello Headshops Quintessence: In Blissful The Sacred Geometry of Macrobiotic Fantasia Company the Great Pyramid, Through the 70s, 305 Portobello Road was Jonathan Raban singled out the Sams’ Stonehenge, Glastonbury Ross Grainger’s Sunflower ‘alternative As the hippy movement went horribly macrobiotic healthfood store, Ceres on and 307 Portobello Road shop’, which specialised in chillums, wrong with the Altamont and Manson Portobello Road, as the most disturbing Kandahar shirts, incense, natural oils, murders, to Quintessence ‘things look great In 1971 the second was aspect of the early 70s acid Fantasia: ‘The Morrocan leather bags, Tibetan prints, rock in Notting Hill Gate, we all sit around and mobilised by Arabella Churchill (Winston’s girls who drift about the store, filling wire posters, head books by Jack Kerouac, meditate.’ According to the ‘Hippy hippy granddaughter), whose Revelation baskets with soya beans, miso and Herman Hess and Aleister Crowley, and Atrocities’ Oz 25 review of their debut Enterprises were next door to Frendz at wakame sea weed, have the dim studies of Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism. Island album, ‘In Blissful Company’, the 307 Portobello Road. This one featured a inwardness of gaze of Elizabeth Siddall in In the Frendz 29 ‘Clasifadz’ plug for track ‘Getting it Straight in Notting Hill predominantly Notting Hill-based or Rosetti’s ‘Jenny’. In bedsitters in Ladbroke ‘Ross’s toys Gate’ ‘transcends a tendency towards total associated line-up; Bowie, Bolan, Traffic, Grove, they create themselves over gas and bags’ at banality in the lyrics and achieves the rings, feeding their immaculate insides on the Friends status of a minor classic.’ harmoniously balanced amounts of yin and shop and the yang foods. It is hard to tell whether their After getting it straight in All Saints church Family Dog beatific expressions come from their hall with a lot of Grateful Dead-style Shop at 2 convictions of inner virtue or from under- ‘collective jamming’, Quintessence became Blenheim nourishment.’ known as the ultimate or worst Crescent, progressive-jazz-rock-blues-Indian-cosmic- The Sams family store first appeared as Ross is hippy group, or trance pioneers, with their the Macrobiotic Restaurant on Campden described as ‘a sailmaker by trade’ who own in-house guru Swami Ambikananda. Hill Road, with Graham Bond playing in ‘specialises in real sail canvas flax, the the basement. After that you could find ‘a ancient Egyptian magic material.’ had seen them ‘swanning whole universe in a bowl of brown rice’ at around the Grove in their robes and Today the Portobello headshop tradition is 136 Westbourne Terrace, where Marc sandals’, and was expecting ‘an oriental maintained, and personified by Lee Harris Bolan met Mickey Finn, while the Ceres trip at least as heavy as George Harrison’s’ and Hank of Alchemy (originally at Bakery on Freston Road was subject to when he met the singer, Shiva (formerly number 253, now at 261), who had a drug Here & Now gigs. Aside from dishing up Phil) Jones, on Portobello. And he wasn’t Mighty Baby, ’s debut with paraphernalia counter-culture trial in the muesli, bean stew and brown rice to the disappointed. In due course, Anderson Hawkwind, the and Skin Alley; 90s. hippy festival masses, the Sams family found himself ‘cross-legged on a cushion in with posters by , and was (Craig, Greg, Ann) were wholefood his incense laden pad, sipping peppermint filmed by Nic Roeg and David Puttnam. suppliers to the Bolans and the Lennons. tea, slightly distracted by the Indian petit- Frendz reported that ‘Arabella Churchill put Steve Peregrin Took/ point of the carpets and wall hangings, up a lot of the bread and suffered constant Shagrat the Vagrant mesmerised by the caste mark on his hassles from her family.’ The origin of the As Marc went into glam rock T Rexstacy, forehead.’ Glastonbury festival and the cosmic signifi- Hollyweird W11 with ‘Hot Love’, ‘Get It On’, ‘Jeepster’, cance of the site was explained by Andrew Shiva explained Quintessence, and their Gillian Anderson, ‘Scully’ out of X-Files, ‘Metal Guru’ etc, further along the Grove, Kerr, as to do with sacred geometry: take on oriental hippyness, telling him: was injured in a mystery fall at her flat Took descended into Hell W10 heavy rock ‘Occasionally we have kirtan which is ‘Worthy Farm is linked to Stonehenge, the opposite Tesco’s on Portobello – The truth drug culture at 100 Cambridge Gardens, devotional singing used to invoke Krishna Glastonbury Zodiac and the great cosmic is out there. accompanied by . With their consciousness. It produces a state of pattern of ley lines and energy points. The freak hair-dos growing unkempt, their Matthew Vaughn, the Notting Hill based complete relaxation and happiness. Getting whole system is a mind-bender... Sacred snakeskin boots wearing thin and their producer of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking audiences to join in, which we always try to geometry is to do with the measurements velvet coats threadbare, the tattered Barrels, turns out not to be the son of do, frees their minds from fetters, makes of the Universe... all the stone circles and troubadours Took and Farren epitomised Robert Vaughn, who played ‘Napoleon them forget earthly matters... At the megalithic structures in the world are built the dissident street hippy ‘freak’. Solo’ in The Man from UNCLE, but of moment our sound is simple, but eastern according to sacred geometry. The George de Vere Drummond: So he’s not a In his contemporary Revolt into Style influence is likely to grow, and we may freemasons who built the ancient churches new Napoleon of Notting Hill but an old definition, George Melly (who lived across issue an album devoted entirely to and cathedrals guarded those secrets until lord of the manor. Ladbroke Grove from Took on St Lawrence chanting, which may be more difficult to they became obscured by establishment Terrace) has a freak, in this sense, as ‘a understand... The message that we are ritual and archaeological arrogance. These , the local beatnik strange but admirable person within the trying to put across in our music is that it is secrets are gradually being unearthed by playwright/poet/graffiti artist etc, recently current mores of pop and (conversely) one within the grasp of everyone to attain divinely inspired men like John Michell, reappeared in the holy grail conspiracy whose appearance or behaviour especially infinite knowledge, love and peace. Every Keith Critchlow and Nosher..’ thriller Revelation, along with Trellick infuriates the ‘straights’. Hence also ‘acid track on the record reflects upon the Tower. freak’. One whose excessive use of LSD or infinite consciousness which pervades one of the new hallucinogenic drugs is everything.’ Getting It Straight In Notting considered to form the basis of his Hill Gate is also the title of a short film by The Third Ear and the behaviour or appearance.’ Joe Gannon, the Pink Floyd and People Bands Quintessence lighting whiz kid. In Mark Paytress’s Bolan book, Took goes In the late 60s, All Saints high church from ‘eternally drifting along Ladbroke services were also given by David Bowie – during his mime phase, the Crazy World of Grove in a Tolkienesque haze’, to repre- Blenheim Crescent – doing ‘Fire’, the Edgar In another Masonic hippy local link, the senting ‘the darker underbelly of Ladbroke Illuminati Grove alternative culture.’ In his post- Broughton Band – doing ‘Out Demons ‘never ending genesis’ over 10 years of Tyrannosaurus Rex cosmic punk role of The last issues of the underground papers, Out’, the with Tina’s Light Peter Gabriel’s £5 million townhouse off ‘Shagrat the Vagrant’, a malign orc ‘dark Oz, IT and Frendz, Theatre, and the People Band. The Carnival Ladbroke Square; incorporating the old lord of the black land’ from Lord of the were designed by founder Rhaune Laslett recalled an All freemasons’ hall next door into a recording Rings, Took was a proto-Sid Vicious/Bez of Richard Adams and Saints happening studio, meditation centre and swimming Happy Mondays/Pete Doherty rock Barney Bubbles at 2 involving Jeff pool; caused much local anger and a court casualty waiting to happen. He somehow Blenheim Crescent, Nuttall of the case in which Gabriel sued the builders for survived the 70s, but only just. On October above the hippy Dog People Band, £1.5 million. Shop. Adams went on ‘motorbikes and 27 1980, whilst celebrating the arrival of In breaking magical local news, Robert to found the Open Head Press with very scantily his last Tyrannosaurus Rex royalties Pattinson, who played the schoolboy Heathcote Williams, and through the 70s dressed girls riding cheque, on magic mushrooms and wizard Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and they shared the upstairs offices with the pillion, throwing jam covered newspapers morphine, Steve Peregrin Took choked to the Goblet of Fire, appears in the Index of Possibilities, Emma Tennant’s and other paint dripping missiles at the death on a cocktail cherry stone at 100 forthcoming local film How To Be. Cambridge Bananas surrealist quarterly, Hasslefree audience.’ Press/Knockabout Comics, the Legalise Gardens. On Westbourne Park Road, the Third Ear Cannabis Campaign, John Michell, Michael His plastic Band performed ‘cosmic ragas’ every Moorcock, Hawkwind, Gong, Marianne toy covered Thursday at the Safari Tent Caribbean store Faithfull and Boss Goodman. Open Head grave in at number 207 (which also hosted the publications have included The Fanatic Invoked from Tom Vague’s Kensal early 60s Jazz club). Down Lancaster proto-X-files magazine, and the Getting It Straight In Notting Hill Gate Green, paid Road, in the Methodist church hall, there programme for Ken Campbell’s Illuminatus pop history www.historytalk.org Vague 41 for by his fan club, maybe isn’t London’s was ‘music, poetry, theatre every conspiracy theory fringe theatre epic, answer to Jim Morrison’s Pere Lachaise Wednesday’ at the Crypt folk club, Full text of Tom Vague’s Magical West 11 starring the Frestonian Time Bandits star tomb, but now rivals Marc’s Barnes featuring ’s experimental jazz Mystery Tour is on the Talking Pictures David Rappaport. Common crash site with its own website. People Band and the Third Ear Band. page of www.portobellofilmfestival.com

18 portobellofilmfestival.com IOTG 8–11pm 2, 3, 9 and 10 August Video Café Now spread over 4 evenings, this ever popular bear pit of PFF screenings gives audience and film-makes alike the chance to choose a menu film on the night from this menu. Get there early, bring your friends and request a film (by reference number) to the projectionist. 13 The Meaninglessness Trilogy 99 Who Is Me? Andrew Bradley 10 minutes U 153 Suzie Warren Matthews 45 minutes 18 280 After the Flood Alex Rossiter 45 minutes. Art 15 Attempts to explore what makes me, who I am. By He lives in a world where the edges of fantasy and Nick Fletcher 10 minutes 12 4 Steam looking at old family photos and film footage to inter- reality are blurred, where deception and voyeurism A video about the flood that hit Malton in North Nick Fletcher 5 minutes U viewing my parents. Documentary Britian consume him. She comes from the not to perfect plastic Yorkshire. Nick Fletcher Documentary. Britian A video documentary about the day a famous 103 Anchor Eddy’s people, where to be loved is all she wants. Drama NZ 282 Portrait Of An Artist locomotive visited York station. Documentary Britian Davd Dellecese 90 minutes 15 154 Realtime Paul Windridge & Koo Bhangra Alex Emslie 17 minutes 12 15 A Day In The Life OF Xmas In this lighthearted throwback to 1960’s beach movies, 10 minutes U Elliot Higson is a young up and coming artist struggling Nick Fletcher 7 minutes U a genial bartender needs the help of his devoted friends A couple are returning home on a conjested motorway to make an impact in the art world. Comedy London A real time film about xmas in a market town in North (and a bit of supernatural assistance) to save the family when they are faced with a split-second decision which 285 Self-Portrait Lee Whitfield 7 minutes U Yorkshire. Documentary Britian business. Comedy USA will either save or destroy them. Drama Britian Part of my compilation of work about me. Docu Britian 29 Agent Vs Murdo 105 Grand Pete Chris Kouros 17 minutes U 159 Swift Justice Chris Sanders 17 minutes 15 286 Silent Walkout Kiran Ranpise 3 min U Barker-Mill & Horace Page 13 minutes 12 An eight year-old child with a heart defect loves playing A crimewatch style show goes awry during the hunt for Short about depressed teenage girl “Merry”. Drama 2 agents battle against evil genius , Thad, and his Kung-Fu games on playstation. Amazed by the virtual an almost supernatural killer. Horror Britian India fighter’s ability to recharge life, he decides to collect as assasin, McCoy. Drama London, England 162 Yesterday Nick Fletcher 7 minutes U 292 Tony Graeme Webb 5 minutes 15 many pens as possible. Drama Britian 42 Love Thy Neighbour A film about life on a fair in North Yorkshire in 1980. Reflections on a mispent youth. Drama London 108 The Mind Of Henry Lime Shot on super 8 cine. Documentary Britian Georgina Mavrommatis 5 minutes 15 293 “SM” Lacopo Di Girolamo 5 minutes 12A Michael Glover 90 minutes 12 A short film about the lack of neighbourly love in our 164 Sinceranigntz The beginning of a new day of work becomes a Henry Lime lives a quiet and contented life, alone in his society. Comedy Britian Juan Junqugra 10 minutes 15 nightmare. Drama Italy tiny Beverly Hills home, watching a lot of television – There is a second at the end of a sleepless night in 48 11 Take Pedro Teodoro 1 minute U 313 Influenza Gender he sees a commercial for a new medication, a strong which to each human being the possiblity of finding The reality of filmmaking. Comedy London, England Kevin Larder 1 minute 12 anti-depressant and sleep-aid called Lazarine. It works absolute solitude with hinself is offered. Drama Spain 50 Ayanda like a charm - with one small side-effect: a hallucination An exploration of gender responses to illness through 170 3AM Night Lights M.Yousof Rouyan 85 minutes 15 by the name of Amanda. Comedy USA visuals, sound and a poem! Drama Britian Yvette Farmer 5 minutes U The movie Ayanda (future) is about an Afghan family 316 No Trace Kuljit Chuhan 20 minutes 15 109 Number Crunching A mysterious, magical ‘electric’ firefly suddenly appears that are refugees in the UK. Drama London, England Darrly Johnson, a black, low-life private detective, Kevin Maynard 5 minutes U and embarks on a journey to investigate, observe and 51 23 Eddie Saint-John 15 minutes 15 forever haunted by his past in the army. Addicted to his Roll up! Roll up! Come and see the amazing, incredible play with the brightest lights. Art London, England Mark Sanderson gets drunk on a night out with the lads insomnitron as he battles his own mind and body in a job finding run-away children... Drama Britian 174 Crush Franca Ghretien 1 minute U and wakes up later locked in a room without windows quest for sleep. Art Britian 320 Still Life Joanna Barker 10 minutes 12 A young lemon goes for a walk and meets enigmatic and without doors. Drama London, England About taxidermy, exploring philosophical thoughts and 113 Insomnia Karen Sayle 3 minutes 15 stranger. Franca Ghretien. Animation London, England 61 The London Da Vinci Code About a girl suffering with severe insomina, and her ideas behind it. Documentary London, England 181 Sebastien Foucault Rupert Ferguson confusion between dreams & reality. Animation Britian 321 Dinner Party In The Salon Of Ladma 7 minutes 12A Mystical London Documentary Gertrude Stein. Fumiko Matsuyama & Ilona 115 New York Story Sebastien Foucault is the emotional tale of one man’s 61 37 Relfroad Tom Ross 7 minutes 15 Zarypow 5 minutes U Nicolas Jenkins 7 minutes 15 struggle against his own past. Comedy Britian A black comedy musical about a homeowner who is Breyer P-Orridge, also know as Genesis P-Orridge and Concentrated performance video. Inspired by text by 199 Venice-Strike being burgled. Comedy London, England life partner Lady Jaye, have garnered attention in Gerturude Stein. Art Germany Raymond Myndiuk 10 minutes U 62 The Afternoon recent years by undergoing medical procedures to 324 Bush Fran Apprich 7 minutes U A trip through strike bound Venice. Art Documentaries Daniel Stocker 15 minutes 15 eliminate their physical differences. Art USA A little girl talks about the ‘Bush”(es). Docu Ireland London, England Meeting in a secluded place, Alice mentions a chance 118 The Gospel According To Mr. 328 Plastic Skirt Mike Kllminster & Chris Silver 223 Malton Dickens Festival 96 encounter with an old flame which pushes Vincent into a John Eduardo Souza Limdi / Sodo Mordes / 10 minutes 15 Nick Fletcher 10 minutes U jealousy fuelled rage. Drama London, England Leonardo Gomes 17 minutes 12A One night in the life of hermit Bryan, who spends his A video about Malton’s link with Charles Dickens. 64 A Self-Portrait (Landscape) About a man of 74 years old who commands “Folias” time repairing discarded dolls. Horror Britian Documentary Britian Lee Whitfield 10 minutes U since he was 18 years old. He is illiterate, but he has 333 Twilight Code Luca Libertino 17 min 12A 225 ‘change’ Jamie Munn 5 minutes 12A For me the actual parachute jump was an action to the function of being a master who cannot leave Packed products’ labels lie, and staying up is just a kind Why does it take a dramtic experience to ask the release an emotional childhood wish. Docu Britian questions without answers. Documentary Brazil of less naive sleep. Images from TV are just lessons question: ‘What do you change?’ Drama Britian 74 Animalia Tommaso Cerasuolo 5 minutes 12 119 Blind Man’s Alley about fear. Drama Italy 229 Dead Conversation A cyclist rides his bicycle across the countryside. On his Tony Kelly 7 minutes 15 351 Tomorrow Never Dais Gareth Croic 5 minutes way, he witnesses animals struggle for surviving Five new players arrive at this year’s secret location to Antony James 10 minutes 12A What happens when a man finds himself in conflict? mankind. Animation Italy take part in the ninth annual game of “Blind Man’s Dai does trains. Dai does books. Daieven does special Does he ignore the situation or does he try to sort out 78 The Mapmaker Alley”. Drama Britian laser tactical attack squad. Comedy Britian the problem that faces him? Drama Britian Thomas Cochrane 23 minutes 15 124 Lewis M.Isabel Sanchez-Melo 10 minutes 12A 353 Monologue Triptych - Primero 230 This Is Me Max Brill 2 minutes U The Mapmaker is a film based on a suicide. It is a series Lewis thinks he is so ugly he will never be loved by a Simon Aitken 10 minutes 15 Deals with my feelings of responsibility and guilt over of assumptions after the fact - it is told in still images woman and starts having nightmares. Drama Spain Benjamin Green stars as an artist who recounts the story the war in Iraq. Documentary London, England liked to a third party prose narration. Drama Britian 127 All Kinds Of Questions of the “5th or 6th worse thing” he has never done. 79 The Bird Said Kraa Kraa Miroslav R. Mitrovic 5 minutes U 232 I’m George, She’s Ringo Drama London, England Will Morris 7 minutes 12 Mats Udd & Henrik Skold 5 minutes 15 He had many questions about his life. She was passing 354 Monologue Triptych - After bringing his date home for coffee paul is faced A man desires - like companion, and therefor buys an by. She gave him all answers when she started to speak. Segundo Simon Aitken 10 minutes 15 with an agonising dilemma. Comedy Britian egg in a zoo shop. Horror Swedia Drama Britian. About how a big show of his art leads to him having to 80 Zorvan Hooshang Mirzaee 25 minutes 15 132 End Of The Line 240 Happy Enty avoid everyone in his life. Drama London, England Francesco Cincotta 17 minutes 12A Mohammad Rahimi is a Municipality employee who Scott Eldridge 100 minutes 12A 363 The Other Woman A collaboration between three artist working independ- moonlights as a cemetery guard in Kouhdasht in Four stories that happen on the underground. Cara Birch 7 minutes 12A ently – meeting only to view the result. Art London Lorestan Province. Documentary Iran Feature Film Canada Virtually imprisoned in her own home, her controlling 81 The Flood Nick Fletcher 10 minutes U 133 Formal and informal 242 A Short Film About Nothing and overbearing husband is her only link to the outside A candid video diary of the floods in a north YORKSHIRE mechanisms, vol.6: Betwixt Alex Gascoigne 2 minutes U world, everyday she faces a dull monotony as she tries Town. Documentary Britian liminal and paracompact Jeremy takes a day out at the seaside. Drama London. to find ways to escape herself. Drama Britian 82 The Carousel Nick Fletcher 3 minutes convergence 446 Metacorpus Suni O’Connor 30 minutes 12A 367 Asteroid! The last Moments Of A surreal film about a carousel. Documentary Britian Maro Bowald & Jean-Claude Campbell 10 minutes 15 Exporation of inner anatomy through costume based Earth Timothy Hawkins 10 minutes 12A In a world of topographical space, closed locally finite performance. Art Documentaries Britian 83 Sid’s Guitar Medley When George Putnam: outstanding news reporter refinement and infinite sequences, we are becoming Nick Fletcher 3 minutes. An aspiring acoustic guitarist 249 Shoot announces the imminent destruction of the world by a intrigued by ambiguous limbo of the tissue of transi- shows off his skills. Music Videos Britian Breven Angaelica Warren 30 minutes 12A huge asteroid. The people of earth all react in very tional logic-provided... Drama Switzerland A creative collage of documentary, archived, student different ways. Sc-Fi Drama Britian 86 After The Flood 137 Nicked! Nick Maltby 5 minutes U and professional works. fact, fiction and fantasy of Chris Spence & Nick Fletcher 23 minutes 370 Destiny Beware! Not filling in a ‘silly little form’ sends one artist, actress and filmmaker. Art USA A video documentary about the floods of 99/2000 that Ayga Yaykin & Yelda Agikgoz 17 minutes 12 frustrated woman on a crusade against injustice. hit a north Yorkshire town. Documentary Britian 32 Tapestry Goes West Part 2 A girl who waits for her destiny since, a man who is a Comedy Britian Caroline Catz 40 minutes 15 thief... one day these two lonely people find each 87 Recognize Myself 145 Malton Montage Barry Stilwells dream to set up a completely other....The destiny is there... Drama Turkey Eva-Marie Elg 20 minutes 15 Nick Fletcher 7 minutes U independent festival closer to the spirit of the Rock Recognize Myself tells the story of a man awakening in 375 Father (Ata) Kayim Azimi 10 minutes 12 A video portrait of a market town in North Yorkshire. Festivals of the 60’s and 70’s. Music Documentaries his bedsit, alone after ending a relationship which was Drama Iran Documentary Britian London, England destroyed by his depression and drug addition. Drama 399 Confession of A Ransomed London, England 146 York-Summer In The City 259 Kill Your Ideals Francesco Greco 3 mins Mind Vanessa Mills 10 minutes 15 Nick Fletcher 7 minutes U Surrounded by a depp void, he keeps on forging and 92 The new Anny Peter Leder 7 minutes U D.I.Cooke needs a confession.....now! Anyone will do, A video portrait of one of Englands most cherised cities hammering iron, as he used to when he was six years A film sequence for and out of the stage play “Attempts just a signature, he’ll do the rest. Drama London at the height of summer. Documentary Britian old, like he was left perfectly untouched by progress on Her Life” by Martin Crimp. The different levels of this 401 Morning Praise and mass production. Art Italy experimental film are the ending up in audiovisual 152 Makers Of The Dead Daniel Smalley 7 minutes 12A overkill. Art Germany Bob Short 30 minutes 15 268 Nation Mark Norfolk 10 minutes 15 Alex has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. At 22 Mina wishes up a vampire to solve her problem. Horror A scientist on the verge of a great discovery sets of a 93 Traces Mauri Pasanen 35 minutes 12 she’s been given one month left to live. Drama Britain London, England chain of events... Drama London, England One person’s quest to re-establish a family connection broken by the Holocaust / Iron Curtain. Docu Belgium 19 498 The Best Man Jon Croker 75 minutes 15 587 Speranza Sperimento 682 Baby Father D Dotun Adebayo 30 minutes Video Café menu continued Addy: the man who has it all, including his bride - Flavio Sciole 2 minutes 12A Drama London, England prettiest girl around. Baily is Addy’s best man – looking Experimtential Video. Art Italy 402 Vern Ser Ronaldo De Souza 85 minutes 15 684 Big Man Issues 75 minutes for anecdotes for his speech. But Bailey uncovers Documentary about some Brazilians living in 588 Sperarespermento Comedy London, England something that changes everything. Drama London ontario and their struggle. Documentary Canada Flavio Sciole 3 minutes 12A 685 Incidents 3rd Thought 20 minutes 12 507 Love Runs Faster Than Blood Experimtential Video. Art Italy 403 Gone Fishing 9 short incidents across London. Drama London, England Hideki Kitagawa 80 minutes 18 Samuel & George Clemens 23 minutes 15 589 D’io Svbb Lime 582 The Price Teco Behson 105 minutes 15 Mihino and Hideki shut them up in the atelier and get Small time criminals Ben and Jerry go to meet an Flavio Sciole 1 minute 12A Pastor Ken was a faithful minster who knew god deeply, absorbed in having a sex. Drama Japan unknown contact for their first big deal. Drama London God is a svb lime. Art Italy the devil stepped into his life with blackmail, framed up, 513 The Longing Linda Landers 10 minutes 12A 405 Spare Change 590 Pasquaitaliana 2007 and later excommunication from church, but finally, the Explores the relationship between thought and reality Eric Omani 20 minutes 12A Flavio Sciole 5 minutes 12A truth was known. Drama Nigeria and vise versa using texture, movement and b/w After a night out three friends miss their last train An ztawan easter Art Italy 680 Seed Mission: A Homecoming themes. Art London, England home. They decide to take a short cut through a nearby 591 Immortal Life 4 Sciole For Jobs In Africa Rice ‘n’ Peas 60 minutes park and unexpectedly witness an unspeakable act. in 514 Charlie Wil Rottgen 15 minutes 15 Flavio Sciole 5 minutes 12A Documentary Good London, England A street clown goes to extremes to protect the welfare the hours that follow they are forced to return and end Life is nothing. Art Italy 131 Zohros of a young girl. Drama London, England a mystery with a chilling conclusion. Drama London 592 Ciao Ciao Sciole Loeura Azvc Manuel Herrera 150 minutes 15 406 Flashback Mani Nasry 5 minutes 15 515 Tolerance Andy Mack 15 minutes 15 Flavio Sciole 7 minutes 12A This film is about the life of the popular aclaimed Cuban A young man intensly sees vivid mental images of his Jack (Keith Patrick) is a professional fighter. His live in A suicide Art Italy music group Los Zafidos. Feature Films USA girlfriend feels so neglected that she embarks on an past battles and traumatic experiences in LA. Drama 593 Delirio A Scocchi 541 Everyday Is New affair with someone who’ll give her the attemtion she Canada Flavio Sciole 3 minutes 12A Jared Katsiane 65 minutes 15 craves. Drama London, England 412 Gold Tooth Salim Raja 13 minutes 15 A delirium Art Italy A young man wanders through his neighborhood, 516 Adeleis Secret Leroy is ready to die, he’s reached the end of the road 594 Stasipervn’opera meeting friends and strangers, in search of solace after Daniel Griffiths 15 minutes 18 until a stranger motivates him. Drama Britian Flavio Sciole 13 minutes 12A the death of his friend. Drama USA Rich girl, Adele meets a group of sadistic pornographers 413 The Gaze Adedayo Ojo 7 minutes U Opera and delirum. Art Italy 672 Reflections NDTC & Me 10 minutes 15 to offer herself to star in a snuff movie. Drama London A woman dumps her fiance for a man she met online. 595 Stasi_Roma _2006 Racial drama, with suicide bomber mission that makes 521 Eleanor: Portrait Of A The new man turns out to be her fiance. Drama London, Flavio Sciole 3 minutes 12A you think! Drama London, England Teenage Mother England A static situation. Art Italy 382 Trippy Just 1 minute 15 Sandra Sykorva 20 minutes 12 415 Thirteen: Seven A touching portrait of young life lost to mental illness. This documentary follows a journey of 17 years old 596 Derlirum 4 Pergolesi Alex Paterakis 13 minutes 12A Drama Britain Eleanor and her son Mohammed as they face the Flavio Sciole 7 minutes 12A “And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, challenges of everyday life. Documentary London A Derlirum 4 Pergolesi Art Italy 383 Trippy Triptyline Just 7 minutes 12A and to overcome them: and power was given him over Homeless girl Stella talks to a documentary crew about 538 Icon Mario Hamad 10 minutes 12A 598 One Minute Silence all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. Drama London her experiences with mential illness. Drama Britain A painter searches for his iconic muse in the physical Clare Harvey 5 minutes 416 Behind The Bar realm. Drama Britian 4.3 Minnies sister died tragically one year ago. Out of 534 Dreamland Charlie Cattrall + Nico Mensinga Conrad Blakemore 15 minutes 15 respect for Minnies loss, her teacher orders one minute 75 minutes 15 539 The Losers (Chcipaci) A barman is closing up when an stranger comes in silence before class. Through sound, we explore minnies Two men meet over the internet site and agree to Radek Beran 65 minutes 18 asking for a whisky. The stranger unexpectedly leaves strength and composure. Drama London, England commit suicide together. We follow their last day and the bar then reappears in a dishevelled state. A man Fatal clash between good and evil, love and loneliness, 633 Shrine For Luis journey to their death. Drama London, England has been murdered in the gents. Drama London guilt and forgiveness. A mystical fight between two brothers. Drama Czech Republic Emma Blackwood 5 minutes 12 653 My Other Half 419 Synaptic Workout Art installetion designed by Baroness Carrie von Riechart Stine Kjaer H. Hasman 50 minutes 12A 543 Fernando’s First Snow Antonio Berardi 1 minute 12 as a tribute to deathrowvictim Luis Ramiriz. Art London A modern adaptation of the cult novel Steppenwolf by Jared Katsiane 5 minutes 15 Reality twisted by a melon in less than a minute or Hermann Hesse. My other half is a jorney of Fernando remembers his sister and the first time he saw 634 Tales From The Treatment Sigmund Freud’s favorite dessert. Drama London development and growth, a thoughtful story about the snow. Jared Katsiane (Tita Films) Drama USA Rooms: The Luis Ramirez Story 422 The Walk Alica Ferguson 7 minutes U Emma Blackwood 60 minutes 12A bigger questions of life. Drama London, England 545 Where Is Estel? A young girl gets ready to confront her fiance with the Baroness von Reichardt was penpal with convicted Death 417 Gorgeous Labour Of Love Jared Katsiane 3 minutes U news that she is going to loose her eyesight, Will love Row inmate Luis Ramirez. Art Documentaries London Stacy Harrison 10 minutes 12 Yesterday Estel joined the JROTC youth military conqued all? Drama London, England A surreal short film set in the ruins of London, driven by program... today she is just hanging out with her 640 As Is? Gennie Rose 13 minutes 12 424 Lemonade L. Kalo Gow 10 minutes 12A a contemporary music-hall libretto. Drama Britain friends. Drama USA March 20th 2003, The day a coalition of the willing , Lemonade is the story of how three woman turn sour including British forces launched an attack on Iraq. 18 Just One More Night 546 Superhero Jared Katsiane 5 minutes U events in their daily lives into small, sweet victories. People took to the streets of London in Parliment Pat Garrett 7 minutes U A young artist waits for a bus. What is he drawing? Comedy Canada Square in protest featuring a speech by Brian Haw. Fictional Documentaries USA A tribute to faded celebrity, this tells the story of an 439 Dostoiesky Tendency (La Tendencia Documentary London, England almost forgotten screen star ending a long career 555 The dark Hunter Johnnie Oddball, Dostoievski) Suso Hernandez 10 minutes 15 641 Yitik Abdurrahman Oner 20 minutes U wherever she can get a booking. The story is told Duncan Cowan, & Mark Jackson 90 minutes 15 Comedy Spain Osman is a nightwatcher. He loses his wife and starts to through the lyrics of her song. Musical London, England Two wannabe filmmakers are trying to make a 441 Balloon Party Will Mcgregor 3 minutes U lose his mind. Drama Turkey documentary about The Black Pathers of Shropshire. 638 Pirates Of Coldharbour Lane An entertaining short where a girl recieves an invite to a Horror London, England 642 Ebb Tide Colton Sears 80 minutes 12 Nick Marcq 23 minutes 15 balloon party. Drama Britian 1804 – Napolean Bonaparte is master of all Europe. He A young rapper gets out of his depth when he goes to 557 Encore Colin Downey 65 minutes 15 442 The Year Of Memories plans to invade Britain and sends spies to England to the wrong people for money. Comedy London George suspects that his fiancee is cheating on him, but Louis Price 10 minutes 15 draw maps of the British Coastline. Drama Britian when he confronts her, her denials are so convincing 645 911 Confronting The Evidence A man sits in a concrete room recording his memories of that he begins to question his own sanity. Drama Ireland 646 Thugs / Runners XII J. Walter 150 minutes 12A the year into a dictaphone – creating a portrait of a Robert Hertner 65 minutes 15 One of the major independent investigations into 911 558 Waterfall Colin Downey 70 minutes 15 character losing all sense of reality of human Using video to expose chicanery with a few interesting with free distribution + screening rights. Docu London Luis is suspicious of his neighbour, Mr dennis and interaction. Drama London, England characters thrown in. Documentary London, England believes he is trying to seduce his wife. Drama Ireland 65 In Memory Andy Marsh 13 minutes 12 443 Khalfan and Zanzibar 654 The Tunnel Nindra, a girl who shapes her memory to cover up her 559 Woman Of The Shadows Lina Fruzzetti, Alfred Guzzeti, & Akos Ostor 25 mins U Stine Kjaer H. Hasman 13 minutes 12A loss, comes face to face with her own deep, dark Val Phoenix 10 minutes 12A An innovotive, uplifting documentary following three Jonathan finds himself stuck in life, taking care of the conscience. Drama Britian interwined stories. Documentary Britian Gender-bending reo-noiz. Drama London, England house for his distant wife and disobeying children. But 72 Nation Mark Norfolk 10 minutes 12 561 Desperately Seeking Morris 445 Alone (Alene) one day he’s had enough and everything is about to A man looks back to his days as a scientist. When he (DSM) Roland John - Leopoldie 10 minutes 12A John-Kristian Daleth 17 minutes 12 change. Drama London, England changed the world. Drama London, England Nicholas and David have been friends for a long time. A scholar from abroard comes to London to finalize his 660 Empty pockets 77 A Plaster, A Paper And A The fact is that in David there is a dark past they’re all study on Morris dancing. Comedy London, England Johnnie Oddball 3 minutes U Cheese & Pickle Sandwich S trying to deal with. Drama Denmark 565 The Bloodsucking Witch Mr Mrgoo style silent film. Man trys to get a light for his heena Holliday 20 minutes 12 (A Meiga Chuchona) Pablo Millan 7 minutes 15 459 In Water Dominique Golden 5 minutes U joint which he wants to smoke looking over the sea!! A film obsessed young man inherits a flat next door to Galician traditional legend that tells the story of a ‘In Wate’ is based on the fluidity and support that water Comedy London, England the cranky and mildly odd Frank -they develop an woman that loses all her children because of a strange gives to the body. Which in turn explores notions of 661 A Contour State Of Mind unusual and blackly comic relationship. Comedy Britian evil that weaken them till they’re dead. Animation Spain control by allowing oneself to be taken by this element. Andrew Mackay 27 minutes 18 84 The Acappella Show 580 Highway To The Grave It echos the musical productions of Busly Berkeley. Art Vaz Klatch is asleep, experences a horrid nightmare. If Nick Fletcher 3 minutes Teco Behson 100 minutes 15 London, England he can’t wake up, the clandestine goverment produced The pilot to a new phenomenomen sweeping the Chief Tarcoh had been trailed and captured by a 473 Becoming Quentin virus he has contracted will kill him. Horror Britian internet. Music Videos Britian mermaid water spirit possed girl. Since then he lost all A.Delaplaine 120 minutes 15 662 Partners In Crime possessions, peace and joy as evil spirits keep hunting 136 Phlegm Noir Nick Maltby 7 minutes U A chronicle of novelist David Leddick’s journey to create Joel Urbina 7 minutes 12 him. Drama Nigeria Noir meets new wave with a touch of jazz and a dash of a one man musical show about his 20 year friendship Two friends run a house painting. Drama London gibbberish. two strangers wax lyrical nonsense about 581 End Of The Wicked with British raconteur Quentin Crisp. Docu USA 670 Destiny Mr Alagan 75 minutes 15 love and life. Drama Britian Teco Behson 140 minutes 18 479 III Images of life and time A man is released from prison after 7 years for crime Unknown to his Chris Aaicelii was the fact the witch that 147 Off The Wall Nick fletcher 5 minutes U (III Pilti elust ja ajast) Minna Hint 35 minutes 15 guilty / not guilty of... Outside he feels more confined was bewitching him was in his house. Drama Nigeria A pliot to a new comedy sketch with new characters This documentary shows three extreme lives. Each of than in his cell. Drama London, England performed by Nick Fletcher. Comedy Britian these people has its own relation to time and life. 585 Sperasperimentare 675 Coffee 255 Streets Of Sorrow Documentary Estonia Flavio Sciole 1 minute 12A Experimtential Video. Art Italy 676 Deceit Nick Fletcher 2 minutes U 489 Fiery Mysterious Hole A homeless man meets a stranger after an enviromental 586 Spersci Sperimento 677 A Midsummer Nightmare Prof. Sedat Cereci 17 minutes U disaster in UK. Drama Britian People use a kind of oven which is used to bake bread Flavio Sciole 2 minutes 12A 678 Roses Are Red 275 Dog Eat Dog Nick Fletcher 5 minutes 12 and look in ground. People who live in Eastern Anotolia Experimtential Video. Art Italy 679 The Letter The year is 2005 – Global Warming has reached a have a culture around oven. Documentary Turkey Wayne Harrison Comedy London, England peak. England is in a state of emergency... It is a dog eat dog world. Drama Britian 20

– 2AUGUST1–22 PORTOBELLO einadatok hlpstvst.o oe yRcadAasadA Grauze. Design and artwork: [email protected] Cover by Richard Adams A. Sunday 12 August. The Members appear at a Punky Reggae Party the Inn On Green on Local musical heroes Lepke from DBC playing old school reggae and JC Westbourne Studios on Thursday 9 August. Cult urban director Greg Hall gives a talk on low budget filmmaking at Saints Road featuring special evenings of Spanish and London films. A new venue for the Portobello Film Festival this year is The Pelican on All Green where filmmakers can come along on the night a screen their movies. Throughout the Festival a Video Café will be running at The Inn On UK showing of Allen’s UK comedy Scoop. producer in UK, talks about working with the great man and screens first On 8 August at Westbourne Studios, Nicki Kentish Barnes, Woody Allen’s Westbourne Grove Church. International Ecology Film Festival – Ideas In Motion over from Canada at On Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 August, Martin Robertson brings his August. on 7 N Peas and the UK premiere of controversial Indian Film Parzania World Greatest Magicians including contributions from Marcus Tomlinson, Rice On 6 and 7 August, Indian magician Aladin presents two evenings of the Love Is The Devil featuring Daniel Craig and Derek Jacobi. recalling Boozing With Bacon plus a screening of John Maybury’sMaybury Sunday 5 August at Westbourne Studios features Molly Parkin and John Hart and Andy McDowall. Westbourne featuring Ian Studios sees the World Premiere of Intervention Roughler editor Ray Jones. The same evening at Allen curated by legendary tions from Jake Arnott, Don Letts, Pete Docherty, Peter Richardson and Keith Green all day on Saturday 4 August with specially commissioned contribu- Another big celebration of Portobello culture appears at the Inn On The Festival is free. Film to all events at the Portobello Entry his Edinburgh solo show. appears the same night at Inn On The Green with an exclusive preview of Temple’s Joe Strummer biography The Future Is Unwritten. Ken Campbell Potter films) and a special screening at 8 of Julien the magic for Harry to all featuring top magicians Richard McDougall and Paul Kieve (who does The following day sees the official Launch Party at Westbourne Studios open on Portobello Rd. Gallery Cherry, Will Self, Paul Simenon and Keith Allen at the newly opened Craze Church, and a photo exhibition of Portobello stars Joe Strummer, Nina Moroccan romantic comedy Looking For Tomorrow at Westbourne Grove August with the premiere of Award Winning Director Barney Platts-Mills’ new Portobello Magic Film Festival blasts into the Capital’s consciousness on 1 www.portobellofilmfestival.com Portobello Film Festival, Unit 11, ACAVA, 54 Blechynden Street, London, W10 6RJ or e-mail [email protected] For further information please call: 020 8960 0996 FILM FESTIVAL 2007 VENUES Festival. Prizes and Awards will be given at The Electric Cinema on 21 August. from all around the world, will be screened at this year’s Portobello Film Over 700 brand new independent productions, mainly from London but also Bang. the World Premiere of Don Guy’s Sci Fi sex fantasy Bikini Blitzkrieg: The Big Studios. Other films that night include in your face satire from Black Eye and that will be screened at the grand finale on Sunday 19 August Westbourne filmmakers will be given a title and theme for film to make in 24 hours Westbourne Studios. There will also be a 24 Hour Film Challenge where On The Green on Saturday 18 August and its Rock Roll movies all day at Rchard McDougall from The Magic Circle performs close up magic at the Inn Vincent Cassell’s Koutrajme Paris banlieu production company to the UK. 17 at Westbourne Studios we introduce the films of Matthieu Kossovitz and The Tell and storytelling evening dedicated to poetry Tales Experience. On the London Show, and on 17 August local author Courttia Newland presents an Opera’s favourite comedian and inspiration Ted Chippington gives a rare Springer The At the Inn On The Green on 16 August Stewart Lee from Jerry Westlake. work from the USA including a presentation top US director Dawn Waste Land. On Thursday 16 August we present an evening of Independent Olympics Michael Horowitz reads from his magnum opus The New Poetry Festivals. On Wednesday 15 August original Beat Poet and Founder of the Soho Rushes Festival screen highlights from two of the best London Film works by Filmmakers Against The War. On Tuesday 14 August Halloween and At Westbourne Studios Monday 12 August sees a whole evening devoted to Basement, 253 Portobello Road W11 The Craze Gallery Ladbroke Grove (next to tube station) W10 Ion Bar 269 Portobello Road W10 Muse Gallery Buses: 31, 28 Nearest tube: Ladbroke Grove / Westbourne Park All Saints Road W10 Pelican Pub Buses: 23, 7 Westbourne Grove W11 Westbourne Grove Church Buses: 31,28, 52, 23 Nearest tube: Westbourne Park / Ladbroke Grove 242 Acklam Road W10 Westbourne Studios Buses: 52, 70, 295, 23 Nearest tube: Ladbroke Grove 3 Thorpe Close W10 Inn On The Green –2AUGUST 1–22