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ISSUE 36 | MAR 2018 | WWW.GOODONPAPER.INFO ISSUE #36 INSIDE: STROUD FILM EMILY ANTON FESTIVAL HALL CORBIJN + Tankus The Henge | Stroud Women Artists: Suffrage & International Women’s Day Fractalight: Festival Of Light | Emilie Marsden & Gillian Holmes: A Mother’s Gaze Cover image by Mark Levy image by Cover #36 | MAR 2018 EDITOR Advertising/Editorial/Listings: EDITOR’S NOTE Alex Hobbis [email protected] DESIGNER Artwork and Design WELCOME TO THE THIRTY SIXTH ISSUE OF GOOD ON PAPER Adam Hinks [email protected] – YOUR FREE MONTHLY GUIDE TO MUSIC CONCERTS, ART ONLINE FACEBOOK TWITTER EXHIBITIONS, THEATRE PRODUCTIONS, COMEDY SHOWS, goodonpaper.info /GoodOnPaperStroud @GoodOnPaper_ FILM SCREENINGS AND LITERATURE EVENTS IN STROUD… It seems Stroud’s busy Festival season is well on its way with the Stroud Film PRINTED BY: Festival returning for its fourth year boasting a packed programme of film Tewkesbury Printing Company screenings, Q&A’s, exhibitions and workshops. We are happy to announce that Good On Paper is heavily involved in this year’s festival presenting a screening of Anton Corbijn’s Control at SVA’s Good Shed ft. a Q&A with local actor Craig Parkinson led by Joe Magee, followed by a Factory Records DJ set by Sean Roe from JunKroom Records at SVA John Street. We are also curating an exhibition with nine artists and illustrators reinterpreting iconic SPONSORED BY: film posters in their own unique style… If that’s not enough to get the season started we are also in for a treat with Fractalight’s month long Festival of Light which will be taking place in the epic surroundings of St Laurence Church featuring breath taking light CO-WORKING STUDIO sculptures alongside live music, talks and much more. stroudbrewery.co.uk stroudcluster.com Elsewhere many pages in this issue is dedicated to events marking the anniversary of women’s suffrage and International Women’s Day 2018 with a hoard of Stroud women artists, musicians, poets and comedians all coming together to celebrate and highlight the battle for equality… Chartered Tax Advisers IN NEXT MONTH’S ISSUE: www.chrismattostax.co.uk Third anniversary issue ft. our annual Stroud Festival Guide!! elcombestoves.co.uk chrismattostax.co.uk 4 FILM #36 | MAR 2018 Let’s get something straight, I don’t Stroud much care for film festivals. They usually comprise of committees with puffed up, missed-my-chance- in-life individuals espousing their third hand critiques of Hitchcock Film and Capra. Festival By Paul Watson #36 | MAR 2018 FILM 5 Heard of the former I assume but fancy showing. Jo and Andy merely workshops are available for all. “Capra who?” I hear you ask. Well for facilitate and do not act as some Both are semi-retired professionals the record, Frank Capra was a one- selective demi gods. This is a work from the world of theatre and time door to door brush salesman of love. production and so full of passion in pre-war America who got tired of Jo, confessing her age before I and selfless enthusiasm for the sleeping in ditches and bus stations ask, still has that twinkle of youth local community that their honesty and decided to become a film in her eyes and she gets excited as and energy hit me like some producer and director (feel free to Andy preaches his love of film and spiritual tsunami, akin to a religious Google him now) and yes, his dream more telling, his love of winning over experience. My only moan is that was realized. Zero to Nero in the film new disciples to film. She listens, they offer me just one cup of coffee pantheon. Now the relevance of his perched like an eager to serve imp in 90 minutes of interrogation… story relates directly to the reason upon the sofa as Andy details how he Jo has decades of theatrical I make an exception in my experience; covering credits preconception- that’s to say, as tutor, writer, director, how I approached being sent producer and performer to write about the Stroud in her resume, “My first Film Festival and how the memory was as a child of two organisers altered my three, acting the part of a perspective on this regional fairy in a play written by endeavor. my father” she says, eyes You see, the programme of sparkling. I imagine her events is rather exceptional running off to get changed in breadth and quality. I have back into that tutu and wings had an epiphany. Where else as she continues, “My father could you find the wonderful was a frustrated thesp- but concept of film workshops, times were different then catering for those who have and he had a desk job in recently just learned how the Navy. He wrote little to put one piece of Lego plays instead...” She drifts a atop another, right up to little as her eyes dim but the octogenarian Spielbergs, outgoing tide of reflection armed with an iPhone? is soon washed away by There is the simply brilliant Andy’s next anecdote, “I and accessible competition taught David Yates when to write and make a 60 he was a lad” in a matter second film- in a day! of fact way and certainly For those of us who not out to impress. Andy is prefer passive entertainment, actually answering one of my the two week festival previous questions, namely is a polyglot of global “why do you not outreach to documentaries and locally some household names to produced, esoteric short headline the festival?” Which films. is not a criticism but the If like impatient me, you way of all things nowadays- like your pudding first, before basically “tack on a bit of the brussel sprouts, here celebrity”. I understand then- is the treat that closes the for Andy is no opportunist festival; entitled The Queens to serve his ego. Celebrity of Syria. It is an uplifting would overshadow the very documentary following egalitarian menu on offer- female Syrian refugees as and not add to the quality. I they stage a production of was however impressed that the Women of Troy. See it. the unassuming Andy taught Please. David Yates, the director Then the grey nag on my du jour of the Harry Potter card is Even when I Fall, a franchise. feature-length documentary So here we go, the festival about the illicit indenturing is a cornucopia of filmic of child performers in the experiences for the curious Indian circus. This practice and cognoscenti. Cheaper has recently been outlawed, than a trip to the multiplex for the record. and you will learn from the For the kids, try the experience by talking to animated masterpiece that is the film makers and seeing The Red Turtle. how film is made. Bring your So who is working the imagination, forget your strings behind the scenes? inhibition. Oh! Just for me, Jo Bousfield and Andy remember to look up Frank Freedman are good mates. Capra, for he made some They live right here in Stroud. landmark Hollywood films; This dynamic duo met some not bad for a door to door 20 years ago and adopted brush salesman eh? Stroud “because of the underlying rebellious nature of the locals” says Andy. The Stroud Film Festival That’s a compliment by the runs from the 4th to the 18th way. Jo adds: “unlike other Cotswold found his own love of film as an only March, visit stroudfilmfestival.org towns it is not merely some green- child, left to watch Laurel and Hardy for the full programme, tickets and welly retreat.” or Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, in grainy updates. They declare Stroud has a creative black and white at the local flea pit. front and they too have fire and Yet after five decades as film fans, Paul Watson lives in Stroud and has passion in their bellies for film and they are extremely aware of today’s been a film maker for over thirty years the community- and I bloody like ever fragmenting viewing habits of for the BBC, Discovery, Channel 4 and them- a LOT. their audiences. ITV to name just a few. He is also a They finish each other’s sentences Andy is ahead of the game. He is screenwriter and artist. and emphasize the festival has at pains to point out the immersive no political agenda, commercial nature of the festival programme; imperative or even prizes. The film makers will appear for Q and A venues decide what films they sessions for example and immersive 6 FILM #36 | MAR 2018 Anton Corbijn By Rupert Howe Back in 2009 I interviewed Dutch-born photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn for Q magazine’s list of “The 25 Greatest Rock Movies”. Corbijn’s film Control, a haunting portrait of late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis released two years earlier, placed a respectable eighth. In the years since, Control has proved as enduring as the band’s music thanks to its elegiac visuals, unsentimental depiction of Curtis’s short, troubled life and superb soundtrack. So it seems fitting to again share Corbijn’s thoughts ahead of Good On Paper’s screening of Control as part of this year’s Stroud Film Festival… You’ve said Control is about Ian what I am now, I needed to connect bass player] Peter Hook says, I was Order were always very supportive and Curtis rather than Joy Division. Why with it again. never a friend to Ian Curtis. I hardly agreed to do the soundtrack album.