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2–19 Sept 2010 Artist's Eye Free Admission 600 New Films 2–19 Sept 2010 artist’s eye free admission 600 new films PORTOBELLO Weekdays 6pm–11pm, Weekends 1pm–11pm FILM FESTIVAL 2–19 Sept 2010 SUN 12 SEPT Highlights Planet 51 TABERNACLE 11AM REPEATED AT POP UP CINEMA 2.30PM 4 15th BIRTHDAY THU 2 SEPT Drama; The Boat / Patrick Hughes Grand opening; Greg Halls SSDD POP UP CINEMA 6:30pm 11 EXTRAVAGANZA POP UP CINEMA 6:30pm 1 London Film-makers WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 1pm 12 FRI 3 SEPT Holy Mountain / Dotmasters; MON 13 SEPT FREE Performance / Blek Le Rat International Drama Stuff the recession. Free admission to POP UP CINEMA 6:30pm 2 plus Video Cafe The Empire Strikes Back WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 6pm 13 all events. WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 6pm 3 TUE 14 SEPT ARTIST'S EYE SAT 4 SEPT Documentaries plus Video Cafe Surfs Up WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 6pm 13 Le Rat, Logan, Hughes, Clark, Inkie & TABERNACLE 11AM Dotmasters introduce their favourite REPEATED AT POP UP CINEMA 2.30PM 4 WED 15 SEPT Mr Hulot's Holiday / Inkie Caribbean Film Corner films. POP UP CINEMA 6:30pm 3 TABERNACLE 7pm 14 Horror Art Documentaries 600 PREMIERES WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 1pm 3 WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 6pm 13 Documentaries and Drama The state of the independent art hot SUN 5 SEPT INN ON THE GREEN 6pm 14 off the edit suite ...mostly shorts. Alvin & The Chipmunks 2 TABERNACLE 11AM THU 16 SEPT REPEATED AT POP UP CINEMA 2.30PM 4 Caribbean Film Corner JUST FOR YOU Animation; Barbarella / LIVE TABERNACLE 7pm 14 LONDON ThisisBabooshka Dutch films POP UP CINEMA 6:30pm 5 WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 6pm 14 A week of masterpieces and master- Spanish Films Africa Night; Emotan LIVE classes from the Capital’s filmmakers. WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 1pm 5 INN ON THE GREEN 6pm 15 MON 6 SEPT FRI 17 SEPT VIDEO CAFE London Film-makers; Video Cafe Animation; Thoroughly Modern Bear pit gong show & Bring Your Own WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 6pm 6 Millie / Andrew Logan POP UP CINEMA 6:30pm 15 Films TUE 7 SEPT Drama London Film-makers; Video Cafe WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 6pm 15 PORTOBELLO POP UP WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 6pm 7 Where the Westway meets Bad Taste SAT 18 SEPT INN ON THE GREEN 7pm 8 Carribean Films for Kids 9AM 14 Portobello Road. WED 8 SEPT Princess & The Frog 11AM 4 TABERNACLE London Film-makers; Video Cafe Plus decicated Caribbean, African, Princess & The Frog 2.30PM; 4 WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 6pm 8 Sanish, Dutch, German, Animation, Comedy Hamburg Films with talks 16 POP UP CINEMA 6.30PM INN ON THE GREN 6pm 8 Documentary, Art, Horror, Comedy, & Comedy and Drama Bad Taste evenings. THU 9 SEPT WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 1pm 16 London Film-makers; Video Cafe SUN 19 SEPT THIS IS LIVE CINEMA! WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 6pm 9 Punkvert Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang TABERNACLE 11AM INN ON THE GREN 6pm 9 REPEATED AT POP UP CINEMA 2.30PM 4 FRI 10 SEPT Programmers Choice ART EXPOS AT POP UP WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 1pm 16 Spanish; Freestyle / Kolton Lee Best Of and Awards Ceremony CINEMA, WESTBOURNE POP UP CINEMA 6:30pm 9–10 POP UP CINEMA 7pm 17 AND THE MUSE London Film-makers WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 6pm 9 SAT 11 SEPT Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs TABERNACLE 11AM ENTRY TO REPEATED AT POP UP CINEMA 2.30PM 4 Music Videos and Documentaries; ALL EVENTS The Passion Of Joan of Arc/ In The Nursery LIVE IS FREE POP UP CINEMA 6:30pm 11 London Film-makers Convention WESTBOURNE STUDIOS 1pm 10 600 NEW FILMS START HERE: portobellofilmfestival.com SSDD: Same Shit Different Day – 2 Sept Art at Portobello Film Festival 2010 Westbourne Studios courtyard and Pop Up Cinema throughout the Festival, plus 8–26th at The Muse Gallery – see page 20 for details. Dotmasters - detailed stencils with attitude... Peter Dunne – well travelled, self-taught Dublin born , living in London who is not afraid of colour. Virgin Media Shorts Love Does Grow on Trees Thu 2 Sept See boxed section. Bevan Walsh 10 minutes 15 A coming of age comedy about a teenage boy whose GRAND OPENING 8pm life is thrown into chaos when he discovers adult POP UP CINEMA magazines, girls and the embarrassment that goes WORLD PREMIERE with both. It’s a sweet, nostalgic story of lust, guilt and SSDD: Same Shit Different Day ultimately - first love. Drama. 6:30–10:00pm Greg Hall 87 minutes 15 The Addiction Trilogy Echoes of the Underground A slice of life in the east end of London following Lee, Harald Schleicher 15 minutes 18 Lee Harris and Hicham Benassi present a live recently released from prison, and Phil, a squatter and The experimental found-footage project The Addiction Happening with Giles Walker robaots and prejections former rider, who both work night shift together. Trilogy deals with addiction and its depiction in motion of the counter culture history of Portobello Road. Drama. London pictures. The first part deals with smoking, the second Featuring: Writer / Director Greg Hall came to early notice with part with alcohol and the third with drugs. Gold Fish Bowl his no-budget debut feature film “The Plague” (2004) Art. Germany Hicham Benassi when aged only 22. Receiving the inaugural Katrin Portobello Rocks! MuTATE 09: Cartlidge Foundation Award from Mike Leigh at the Sarajevo Film Festival, who described it as “very BA5H leaves his mark on the One Foot In The Grove floor - super-glued... Joe Kargbo 40 minutes U exciting 21st In November 2009, an art ‘collective’ primarily Century cinema”. consisting of Mutoid Waste and Coroy House put on an “Kapital” (2007) art exhibition under the westway 2010. This his second feature documentary features interviews, behind the scenes film was a “look”and cutting edge soundtrack! commission by the Art Documentaries. London Manchester International Festival and a unique collabo- THU 2nd SEPT ration with POP UP CINEMA renowned composer Steve Martland as a film-to-music project. Currently Virgin Media completed third feature “SSDD Same Shit Different Day” (2010), Greg Hall has also acquired the film Shorts rights to anarchist Ian Bone’s autobiography “Bash 7.30pm The Rich” which he is currently adapting for the screen. www.brokebutmakingfilms.com Virgin Media Shorts is all about shining a light on Britain’s best film makers and giving them the biggest possible arena to showcase their work. The short film competition awards one Love Does Grow on Trees – 2 Sept Grand Prize winner each year with £30K film funding and a chance to work with the UKFC Simon Tyszko known for his powerful subversions and Virgin Media on their next film. of pre-existing films. Watching the 1936 Olympics backwards offers a wry corrective to strident ideas of the importance of being a winner. Giles Walker, member of the THE MUTOID WASTE COMPANY, has been working with robots for the last 20 years. At PFF, Virgin Media Shorts showcases the 12 shorts up for this year’s Grand Prize and will set the stage with last year’s winning film, the BAFTA nominated, Mixtape. Each film is 2 minutes and 20 seconds! www.virginmediashorts.co.uk 1 portobellofilmfestival.com takes, both want that parking place. Comedy. Britain university and on their graduation night, they roam Fri 3 Sept PLUS: the streets of Karachi to have their one last dinner The Portwine Stain together as a group. Comedy. Pakistan ART COMEDY Mick Foley 11 minutes 12A POP UP CINEMA WESTBOURNE STUDIOS Ex-punk producer Dave has a severe port-wine stain Terry, a cat for success on his face. His only way to attract attention is by Silvio Mason 30 minutes U telling whopping lies or awful jokes. Trying to impress William is a stylist in crisis.terry a special little cat. 6:30–10:30pm Artist Eye: 6–11pm a girl at a party he goes too far. Comedy. Britain Together will become famous. Comedy. Italy Performance selected by Blek Le Dhood-PatiJibran 8pm Rat and Holy Mountain selected The Parking Place Daniel & Simon Griggs 45 minutes 12A Khan 49 minutes 12 by Dotmasters Acres Of Time The film is an English situation comedy about a This film is a light hearted comedy which revolves around four guys who have just graduated from their Talat Gokdemir 17 minutes 12 See boxed section. parking place, that two men fight over, whatever it The tale of Chris, a struggling writer and Labib, his window cleaning friend. When Chris falls for a beautiful waitress, it’s up to labib to convince him to ARTIST’S EYE get his act together. Comedy. London The Morning After FRI 3rd SEPT – POP UP CINEMA Alex Sufit 4 minutes 15 A young woman wakes up, hung-over and bleary 18 eyed, and tries to piece together the night before. Holy Mountain selected/introduced by Dotmasters 6:30pm unfolding in a series of flashbacks. Comedy. London Wild Africa Chronicle (Chronique De L’Afrique Sauvage) Issam Mathlouti 15 minutes 12 One night, at a bus shelter where six youths like to hang out, an old North African man waits. The youngsters inform him that the last bus has left already... Comedy. France Tea & Sympathy Patrick McMahon 12 minutes 12A A suicide candidate rings a charity worker in a final cry for help - but which of them is really cracking up? Tension, toilets and... tea combine in this black comedy. Comedy. London Terry & Titania Patrick McMahon 7 minutes 15 This movie is nuts! A visual, visceral feast! Jodorowsky has been many things, occult leader, a As The Dotmasters, Leon has stencilled half toned masterpieces Terry’s an office worker. Titania’s a fairy, or insane. cartoon collaborator, director and artist, but it’s when he makes movies that i think he truly across the fronts of high profile galleries worldwide, poking fun Potentially both.
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