31 Aug - 17 Sept 2017 www.portobellofilmfestival.com Cover art: Joe Rush 22 years of free fi lms and street art in Portobello Road, remembered at The Muse from 7 September with an exhibition Portobello FREE Festival of PFF covers by the likes of Blek Le Rat, 31 Aug - 17 Sept 2017 Dotmasters, Lucy Sparrow, Sickboy, Pure Evil and Ralph Steadman. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WESTBANK : 3-5 Thorpe Close, London W10 5XL Out of our offi ce back window lurks the blackened spectre of Grenfell. The sooner 6:30–10PM they pull it down the better. It is not a HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH memorial, it is a traumatic reminder of MUSE : 269 Portobello Road W11 1LR unnecessary horrors. International Films 6–11PM We’re bigging up W10 culture and fi lms HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH this year as well as our usual selection MAXILLA HALL SOCIAL CLUB : 2 Maxilla Walk, London W10 6NQ of brand new independent UK and world movies providing a fl avour of the state of A Song For Notting Dale - Friday 1st Sept from 6–10PM the independent art. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH You don’t need money or corporate TAVISTOCK SQUARE : Tavistock Road, London W11 1AN backing to make movies, you just need Greatest Hits and Winners - Sunday 17th Sept from 6–8:30PM enthusiasm and love (and maybe a bit of HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH talent) and a digital camcorder. Many thanks to Courttia Newland for his Thursday 31 August page Sunday 10 September moving post-Grenfell short story, to Joe Grand Opening Ceremony Animation 11 Rush - artist in residence at Glastonbury with London Overground & Monday 11 September Festival, anyone see Cineramageddon Iain Sinclair 3 this year? - for the cover, Tom Vague and Common People and more Mark Jackson for the Portobello Movie Friday 1 September London Film Makers Convention 5 Psychogeography, and all the fi lmmakers A Song For Notting Dale 3 who contributed. Documentary Films 12 A Night of French Films 7 CREDITS Tuesday 12 September Jonathan Barnett - Director Saturday 2 September Mr Rudolpho’s Jubilee Raymond Myndiuk - Programmer & Russian/Eastern European Films 7 and Comedy 5 Projectionist Sunday 3 September A Night of Drama 12 Alan Smithee- Programmer Documentary Films 10 Wednesday 13 September Leona Flude - Coordinator Greg Edwards - Technician Monday 4 September Films from France/Switzerland 12 Dave Pitt - Troubleshooter WLFN presents a West London Thursday 14 September Hugh Gulland - Special Projects Showcase 3 UK Independents Day 5 Thomas Szabo - Website Tuesday 5 September Spanish Films 13 Phil Underwood - Design Octavia Foundation, Art Movies, Friday 15 September Press - Groveworks and Bristol Film & Video Society 4 Special thanks to the venues: Damian Ken Russell’s The Boyfriend International Films 10 Rayne & Gosia Lapska-Malawska at The Remembered with Vicki Russell Muse, Suzie and Paul at Westbank, Joe Wednesday 6 September and Richard Strange 6 at Maxilla Social Club. A Night of German Films 11 Dutch Films/Certifi ed Dead 13 Thursday 7 September Sunday 17 September NFTS BFI Young People’s Portobello 2017 Greatest Hits PORTOBELLO and Winners live in Tavistock FILM FESTIVAL Film Academy plus London Film Makers Convention 4 Square 6 Portobello Film Festival, Unit 11, ACAVA, 22 Years of PFF - public view 14 54 Blechynden Street, London, W10 6RJ Admission free to all events Friday 8 September e-mail [email protected] Films are shown in the order listed. /PortobelloFilmFestival To Dream and London Film Programme subject to change. Makers Convention continued 4 www.portobellofi lmfestival.com Films from North America 11 WESTBANK GALLERY LONDON FILM MAKERS With the support of: CONVENTION free entry to all events Portobello Film Festival - Admission free to all events 18.30 - 22.00 Skoobie Dootle (Funkasm) 5 mins Friday 1 September A teenager and her blue monkey friend escape PORTOBELLO the boredom of indoors and find excitement on Thursday 31 August Maxilla Hall Social Club. the streets of Manhattan. Music. 2 Maxilla Walk, London FILM FESTIVAL The Long Line (Alan Bradley) 6 mins Westbank, 3-5 Thorpe Close, W10 6NQ 6pm til late London W10 5XL During a youth immigration crisis in Ireland, Liam struggles with the isolation and frustration A SONG FOR NOTTING DALE of being left behind by his girlfriend. Drama. GRAND OPENING Joe Strummer Plaque Spoken word, music and comedy of North Kensington CEREMONY (Phoenix Bay) 8 mins The unveiling of the Joe and Notting Dale in honour of the victims and Strummer plaque in Daventry St W2. Curated neighbours of Grenfell Tower. by Gordon McHarg FRSA. Documentary. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PORTOBELLO Church Street Traders FILM FESTIVAL Courttia Newland, Tony Allen, mixed ability shaman/ JC (Myrna Shoa/Timichin Dindler) 13 mins Explores the different worlds of Church Street A Ladbroke Grove Love Crime 101, worlds fastest rapper/Niall McDevitt, poet and London market, showcasing the diversity of the market (Sophie Lodge) traders and giving them a voice. Documentary. 4 mins Local walker/Princess Emmanuelle and the @Poetry4Grenfell community kids love poets/ U-CEF (dj set), “here comes the worldmusic of the their neighbourhood despite Grenfell new millenium”. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH disaster. www.24hearts.org. Music Piranha (Elcid Asaei) 11 mins A junior banker tries to get safely to work haunted by visions of chasing rioters. Drama. The Turtle Terminator Jermaine and Elsie Plus films including (C.J. Lazaretti) 3 mins Distilling a lifetime (Leon Lopez) 20 mins An unlikely friendship of romantic mishaps into a concentrated On The Ground At Grenfell (Nendie Pinto-Duschinsky) 35 mins between a racist elderly invalid and her black, collection of unreliable memories and youthful A film made by survivors, local residents, and volunteers to convey the humanity of the sexually ambiguous carer. Drama. enthusiasm. Drama. Grenfell community and campaign for the recognition of Grenfell’s young heroes. Plus a panel discussion with Grenfell survivors. Getaway (Phoenix Bay) 4 mins Boris In The Forest A song written acted by Rosa Munde. Music. (Robert Hackett) 12 mins A Californian geek Quarry Doll And The Swarm 1 goes in search of Boris Karloff. Starring Mac (Phoenix Coyle) 2 mins A fashion film created McDonald from Red Dwarf. Comedy. by Phoenix Coyle featuring the work of hair Mick Jones’ Rock’n’Roll Public stylist Sylvestre Finolo. Fashion. Library (Rosa Munde/Vesna Orel) 5 mins Quarry Doll Bee Over afternoon tea Rosa Munde talks to (Phoenix Coyle) 23mins Mick Jones about his Rock’nRoll Library on A fashion film created by Phoenix Coyle Portobello Road. Shot and edited by Louis inspired by swarms of bees. Fashion. Benassi. Documentary. Land Without Evil Marlon Jessica Palud 18 mins 12A Vuittonia (Phoenix Coyle) 3 mins Paddington Land Katalin Egely 4 mins U Marlon, 14 years old, is visiting her mother in Vuittonia is a wealthy aristocratic eccentric but (Tony Auguste) 13 mins A journey through Short film, based on Guaran mythology (Tierra jail for the first time since imprisonment. The when her husnand dies she hides all her jewels Paddington past, present, and future, featuring sin mal), offers another point of view on young girl, protected by her family and relatives, in a cake. Fashion. works by 17th Century Metaphysical poet John paradise: what if the real paradise is inside us? stubbornly believes that her mother is still her Donne. Art Animation childhood heroine... Drama. France (Paroxysms Erupting Because) Mr Rochester Does Not Get It Dismaland (Marie Stuart) 7 mins Croyde John Wheeler 4 mins U (Corinne Charlton) 3 mins Banksy’s exhibition at Weston Super Mare of Music by Alison Pople, Visuals, John Wheeler Attempting to disrupt narrative from usually his politically correct works of art. Art. merged to create a gentle mood, inciting Monday 4 September passive activity of watching a movie. Art. nostalgia and serenity. Music Video. Britain The Perfect Human, A Love Westbank, 3-5 Thorpe Close, Effucient Story Story (Wade A Jacks) 15 mins Los Angeles 1991 London W10 5XL (Clara Aparico Yoldi) 4 mins It’s Friday night. Sen has spent the whole day Zacarías & Macgregor 10 mins 18 West London Film Network presents The gate controls everything. In the art world preparing dinner for his date, Uma. She is The streets have become a hotbed of racial it’s point of view is primarily masculine. Art. perfect. They are the perfect humans. Drama. tension and hate about to burst... MOVIES FROM Drama. Spain & USA The Light (Luke Bradford) 3 mins HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WEST LONDON Voiced by Justin Welby, Archbishop Of London Overground (John Rogers) A L’Arraché (Snatched) Canterbury, celebrating a meaningless piece of 1hr 24 mins Following the legendary London Emmanuelle Nicot 22 mins 15 contemporary art until the sun rises. writer Iain Sinclair on a 35 mile walk around Raïssa and Alio have shared a room in a foster Three Films From Culture Makers the Overground railway, based on his book of home since childhood. One evening as she The Trickster Systematic Potential the same name. Documentary. Introduced by returns Raïssa discovers that Alio has left the (Wolf Howard & She Rocola) 10 mins An (Nadir Hedioued) 6 mins A short film exploring Iain Sinclair place without telling her. Drama. Belgium incubus induced nightmare of infidelity. Music. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH the future of youth services. Documentary I’m Hurting (The Bitter Cup) 6 mins Portobello: That’s Jokes Billy Childish in a full blooded acapella memoir (Izzy Collie-Cousins) 5 mins from the depths of blood tinted glasses. Music. Portobello’s thriving community tell jokes to camera. Comedy Shrodingers Shoreditch (Ellen Evans & Matthew Holman) 19 mins Ashley (Shabazz St Leonce) 8 mins When a luxury housing proposal threatens A young man struggles to maintain his St Leonard’s Parish in Shoreditch the locals relationship with his boyfriend while facing responded with a celebration of community arts bullies. Drama and an indictment of a failed housing policy, Documentary.