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There’s A Riot (Grrrl) Goin’ On With The Punk Singer: A Film about Kathleen Hanna Kathleen about Film A Singer: Punk The With On Goin’ (Grrrl) Riot A There’s 19:30 23 Fri

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Programme Design laurenceware.tumblr.com THERE’S A RIOT (GRRRL) GOIN’ ON WITH THE PUNK SINGER: A FILM ABOUT KATHLEEN HANNA Fri 23rd/ 7.30pm/ £5 advance/ £7 on the door Sini Anderson/ 2013/ 80 mins/ USA/ Cert: TBC

We’re having a very special Friday night screening MICHELSON MORLEY + of the new Kathleen Hanna doc with added music, ALBERT AYLER STRING performance, discussion and DJs. Brought to you PROJECT + Guest DJ THE DOUBLE by the team that gave you Divinely Dirty Trash Thu 1st/ 7.30pm/ £8 advance Mon 12th - WED 14TH/ 8pm/ in January this is sure to be a provocative, fun, £5/£4/£3(TTT) supercharged party. Watch this space for exciting Launch pad for the debut album by a new band to BRFF PRESENT THE Richard Ayoade/ 2013/ 93 details to come. emanate from Bristol’s jazz quarters feat ‘Get the mins/ UK/ Cert: 15 INDYMEDIA FILM SERIES: ERIC CHENAUX & ERIC Blessing’ sax player Jake McMurchie. Lift off your QAIS NAJIM ON IRAQ seats as you bear witness to seriously beautiful Richard Ayoade follows up the critically-acclaimed CAZDYN PLAYTHECUBE & THE BBC Submarine with The Double, based on Fyodor Sat 24th/ 8pm / £4 passages of music from the epic Michaelson Morley. Mon 5th/ 8pm/ £5/£4 (though Dostoyevsky’s novella. An offbeat comedy about a For extra pleasures the evening will feature the debut no-one refused entry man who is driven insane by the appearance of his Witness something pretty unique, very playful. The show for Albert Ayler String Project whose new take through lack of funds) doppelgänger. Set in a creepy, dystopian universe culmination of a 10 day playthecube residency, on the legend’s sax entwined music is something else. Qais Najim & BBC / Various where they never glimpse daylight The Double is an musician/artist Eric Chenaux (Constellation) and countries & runtimes exceptional work of imagination and storytelling. esteemed Canadian film-maker and writer Eric Cazdyn will construct a brand new show based Working as a journalist in a war zone can be ISLAJA + on research conducted, and visual/audio artefacts dangerous enough, but there can be particular PICASTRO + SNAILS created, during their time in Bristol. Dig around for Fri 2nd/ 8pm dangers that are unknown. Qais Najim, an Iraqi KILL YOUR DARLINGS more details on the Qu Junktions website. £7 advance/£9 on the door journalist who worked in the BBC’s Baghdad office Thu 15th /8pm /£5 advance/£6 for the last 11 years, will be at the Cube to discuss his on the door Futuristic ritual music from Helsinki’s Islaja, star of ongoing struggle. Qais sent his family into hiding and WE ARE THE BEST! the Finnish free folk scene, with Torontonian sleep sought asylum in the UK after receiving death threats Kill Your Darlings is a monthly night of literary variety (VI ÄR BÄST!) rock duo Picastro creating folorn string-led post-rock last year. He will be showing excerpts of the work he’s and cabaret from a collective of novelists, poets, Mon 26th/ 8pm/ Tue 27th - dramas. produced for the BBC. theatre-makers and comedians. Each month the Weds 28th/ 8:30pm/ £5/£4/£3 resident performers and special guests present new (TTT) COMEDY COMBO: LIVE LOOKING FOR LIGHT: work based on a collective theme set at the previous Lukas Moodysson/ 2013/ STAND UP + SWINGERS month’s event. Sweden/ 102 mins/ Cert: 15 Sat 3rd/ 7.30pm doors/ £4 JANE BOWN KYD is brought to you by writer and performers advance/£5 on the door Tue 6th/ 8pm/ £5/£4 Byron Vincent & Chimene Suleyman, award-winning An adaptation of the graphic novel written by Doug Liman/ 1996/ 96 min/ Luke Dodd & Michael Whyte/ novelists Nathan Filer, Chelsey Flood and Nikesh Moodysson’s wife Coco, We Are the Best! revolves USA/ Cert: 15 UK/ 2014/ 90 mins Shukla, acclaimed comedian Tom Clutterbuck and around three girls in 1980s Stockholm who decide to form a punk band - despite not having any A beautiful portrait of British portrait photographer BBC Radio 4’s Molly Naylor. Doug Liman’s 1996 cult classic follows the wise- instruments and being told by everyone that punk is Jane Bown, and her process of working as a cracking gang from coffee shop to bar, lounge to dead. A film that perfectly captures the exhilarating photographer; using basic equipment and often THE WORST OF SCOTTEE cocktail party and from LA to Vegas, baby! Nearly and mortifying nature of teenage life with warm- relying on available light, she has honed a Fri 16th and Sat 17th/ 8pm/ twenty years on from release, it’s not just the before- hearted affection for its characters - a paean to deceptively simple technique to produce highly £10/£7 /Door sales cash they-were-famous cast and crew that are ahead of only /AGE GUIDANCE: 18+ friendship and the joys of making a racket. their time… distinctive photographs. This candid and intimate Preceded by six fantastic stand-up sets from Bisha documentary focuses on her personal history, mixing interview footage from Rankin, Nobby Clark and Don The Worst of Scottee, by Scottee. Everyone has done THE PUNK SINGER // K Ali and Becky Brunning (both finalists in 2013’s stuff they regret. Most of us bury it. But six months Funny Women awards), Nick Hall, Alex Hoyle, McCullin, with many iconic portraits from her career, A FILM ABOUT featuring such luminaries as Samuel Beckett, Orson ago Scottee hired a psychotherapist and a filmmaker KATHLEEN HANNA Marian Lawrence, and Andrew West. Your host is to dig up his past. Scottee encounters past flames, Welles, Mick Jagger, Queen Elizabeth II and Bjork. Tue 27th – Weds 28th/ 8pm/ Micky Baker. ex-friends, and people who no longer like him. This is Presented in conjunction with Bristol Festival of £5/£4/£3 (TTT) a darkly comedic, occasionally musical and ultimately Photography 2014 - www.bfop.org Sini Anderson/ 2013/ USA/ 80 PAKA PIKI MUSIC devastating attempt to find out where he went wrong. mins/ Cert: TBC Sun 4th/ 1pm/ Advance “A theatre-maker who’s up there with the very best” tickets £3 children, £5 **** (The Guardian) adults; under 2s FREE BREADCRUMB TRAIL From the confrontational DIY punk of Bikini Kill, to the Wed 7th/ 8pm/ £5 electronic pop perfection of Le Tigre - Hanna’s rally ICHI & Rachael Dadd’s concert for children in Lance Bangs/ 2014/ BLUESCREEN cry against the sexist, heteronormative music scene USA/ 90 mins proved a source of constant encouragement for over collaboration with Small World Animations and Wed 21st/ 8pm/ £3/£2/ a decade, until she disappeared from the public eye The Singing Umbrella Collective. ICHI (Japanese Filmmakers in for Free (one In 1991 a band of teenagers from Louisville, with no explanation. But where has she been for the one-man-band extraordinaire & playful inventor of per film) instruments and songs) and his wife Rachael Dadd Kentucky released one of the most extraordinary last few years? albums in rock history. That band was Slint, the (experimental folk multi-instrumentalist) will join forces Bluescreen is the night to bring and screen your short album Spiderland. Breabcrumb trail, directed by for a concert for children. Join in on your handmade films. Made a film? Then bring it along... Films can be Lance Bangs is a documentary about Slint, that album 20TH CENTURY FLICKS instrument or try your hand at live drawing during the up to 20 mins long & must be formatted to play in a PRESENTS SMOKE performance, or simply watch wide-eyed, engulfed in and the band’s legacy. DVD Player. Plus resident DJs - Bluescreen Hi-Fi in the Thu 29th/ 8pm/ £5/£4 the colourful musical whirlwind. bar and Cube Orchestra film re-scores & Films from Wayne Wang/ 1995/ USA/ 112 ARTWANK! VINTAGE PORN, the Archives! http://bluescreenfilms.weebly.com/ mins/ Cert: 15 MODERN TOSS Fri 9th/ 8pm/ £TBC/ Over 18s ICHI, RACHAEL DADD A film about time, place and transience from writer only AND VERY SPECIAL CONCENTRICISM Paul Auster and director Wayne Wang. Auggie SECRET GUEST Thu 22nd/ 8pm/ £6 Wren (Harvey Keitel) runs a tobacconist on an ArtWank! Vintage Porn, Modern Toss Ophelia Bitz Sun 4th/ 7pm/ £7 advance/ £9 intersection in Brooklyn, providing a haven from the presents a light-hearted peek into the shadowy on the door An evening of all things noisy and photographic. hustle and flow for his coterie of peculiar customers. history of erotic film combining vintage pornography Adam Brown of Buncefield Records demonstrates Every morning he takes a photograph from the same with cabaret, original music, games and guest “What on Earth is this? It’s brilliant!” Steve Lamacq with a live DJ performance, opening up new ways of spot outside. Every day a network of strangers grows lectures from sex industry professionals. recently exclaimed about ICHI’s ode to an insect. working with photography via audio and homebrew more familiar. Every night Tom Waits reminds us, The Japanese inventor and pioneer returns to the code; cutting photographic images to vinyl disc, ‘You’re innocent when ya dream’. A Jarmuschian Cube with life partner, experimental folk multi- neither analogue nor digital, neither old nor new treat for fans of Auster, Waits and photography. instrumentalist Rachael Dadd, in celebration of their RADIO BALLADS media, neither an art project or a commercial Presented in conjunction with Bristol Festival of first joint release on Toki Doki Records. The split single WEEKEND: MICHAEL venture. Lathe-god Henry, of Bristol Dub Studio, will Photography 2014 - www.bfop.org 7” is a milestone in their musical relationship and a ROSEN AND “UNDER THE discuss his vinyl cutting wizardry, plus we’ll have H+H taster of what’s in store from them as individuals. CRANES” DJing vinyl gimmicks in the bar. Sun 11th/ £6 advance/ £8 on Presented in conjunction with Bristol Festival of HELLFIRE VIDEO the door/ Weekend ticket Photography 2014 - www.bfop.org CLUB HITS THE £15 ROAD, FEATURING Under the Cranes: Emma- VANISHING POINT Louise Williams/ 2011/ UK/ 56 Fri 30th/ 8pm/ £5/£4 mins/ Cert: 12A Richard C. Sarafian/ USA/ 1971/ 99 mins/ Cert: 18 Poet Michael Rosen heard the Radio Ballads as they were broadcast through his childhood and teens. This month HFVC is hitting the open road with a Later, he worked with both Ewan MacColl, the Critics duo of road trip/car chase flicks - so eat our dust, Group and Charles Parker so the method, style and suckers! Lead feature ‘Vanishing Point’ is no generic themes of the Ballads echo in his head. When he petrol-head film – it’s the dreamy European aesthetic was writing the play that Emma-Louise Williams and heavy ‘end of the hippie era’ vibes which elevate adapted for her film, ‘Under the Cranes’, these this into a must-see. echoes helped him shape the material into a montage Plus, be sure to stick around for the second feature - a of remembered speech, documentary quotes and lesser-spotted New Hollywood gem that is one-part traditional songs. The screening will be followed by a character study to one-part bleak car chase movie, Q&A with Michael Rosen and Emma-Louise Williams. with an amazing cast. HFVC DJs in the bar playing counter-culture grooves and fuzz.