MovieBar - 6th February 2012 Line-up...

 

7.30pm Monday 6th February 2012

Brighton's monthly short film event returns to the Caroline of Brunswick in February with a robot theme…because we’re living in 2012 and there should definitely be robots! Also, we haven’t done robots yet.

We’re covering all the bases with our shorts for this event which includes animation, music video and documentary as well as some excellent short dramas and comedies. Here’s the line-up of films for the night…

Trapped

Two teenagers struggle to keep sight of their dreams in Gemma Clarke’s short drama.

Mars

A neat sci-fi animation from Joe Bichard and Jack Cunningham that explores what would really happen if we made it to Mars.

Grai

Upneet Kaur-Nagpal’s documentary follows a Romany Gypsy family based in Worthing as they explain the importance of horses in their culture.

Upneet will hopefully be coming along to talk about the film.

In Which a Wife Suffers a Loss

A silent drama from Cheryl White about a middle-class household in which nothing is quite what it seems.

Cheryl will hopefully be coming along to talk about the film.

The Bored Room

Gavin Leary’s black comedy has a disgruntled employee turning a run-of-the-mill presentation into a forum for the darker side of his imagination.

Wheels of Fortune

Two wheelchair-bound actors find themselves competing for the same part in Tim Watchorn’s comedy-drama.

Backspace

Mark Stevenson’s short drama shows an incident in a café with unexpected consequences.

Mark and writer Gabriel Lesmoir-Gordon will be coming along to talk about the film.

Voices

A documentary from filmmaker Ed Dallal which combines the opinions of various members of the public into a single point of view.

Peanut Albinos – ‘To Be a Number’

Simon Olivier directs this quirky music video for Brighton band Peanut Albinos.

Simon will be coming along to talk about the video.

If you have any questions about the event or have a film you would like us to consider for screening please e-mail moviebar[at]ymail.com 

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Moviebar December 2011 Postscript

Moviebar saw out 2011 with mince pies, extra special pressies for quiz winners and, of course, a sackful of quality shorts. Here's how the last Moviebar of the year went down...

Slash-in-the-Box

We started off with a short and sweet shocker from US director Nick Everhart. A couple play with a harmless looking jack-in-the-box but it gives them a nasty surprise.

You can find out more about Nick at his site Pop Goes the Evil.

Contact


Another short from the US, Contact is a surreal, Lynchian glimpse at the world of drug addiction. Largely dialogue free, the short is a vivid descent into paranoia from director Jeremiah Kipp.

Rubberneck


An argument ends in tragedy for a bickering couple on their way home. Director Dominic Pillai joined us to chat about improvising the dialogue with his girlfriend and how he kept the ending deliberately ambiguous.

The Lift


The Lift was made as part of a Brighton Film Coalition challenge by directors Jason Davison and Dick Douglass and sees a driver regretfully picking-up a crazed hitchhiker. Jason and Dick came along to talk about how they worked together and the logistical nightmare of filming the car in a cramped garage.

The Joke


A room with three people waiting for a job interview, the pressure to know what's happening gradually building and each candidate vents their frustration in different ways. Tim Pieraccini directed a script from Gary Mepsted and both filmmakers talked about going from script to screen.

Act of Faith


We closed the night with another film from director Tim Pieraccini, this time a haunting ghost story about a woman plagued by a blindfolded spirit. Tim talked about coming up with the idea and filming it in and around Brighton.

There won't be a Moviebar in January to give everyone a chance to recover from their holiday hangovers so the next one will be Monday 6th February. See you all in 2012 (barring any apocalyptic disasters). For any feedback or submissions, you can email us at moviebar@ymail.com.

Christmas MovieBar Trailers...

Due to a technical hitch (i.e. my increasingly unreliable DVD writer) I couldn't show any trailers tonight, which was really annoying because this time there were some really amazing ones. So I've posted them here instead. 

Imagine you're at MovieBar, chatting excitedly about the amazing films on the line-up or maybe having a go at the quiz. Suddenly the lights are dimmed and this explodes onto the screen...

I obviously had to include this one...

And here's a modern classic...

I saved the best for last. This is possibly the strangest Christmas film ever (make sure you carry on watching after the teaser - there's a lot more!)...

Hopefully next time I'll manage to actually screen the trailers on the night!

MovieBar - 5th December 2011 Line-up...

7.30pm Monday 5th December 2011 – Film line-up

 
Join us in December for a vaguely Christmas-themed MovieBar! None of the films we’re screening are even slightly Christmas-related but there will be a Christmas film quiz and festive prizes!
 
Here are the films we’ll be screening on the night…
 

Slash-in-the-Box

 
Nick Everhart’s horror short is about a couple who come across a vintage jack-in-the-box with a few extra surprises inside.

 

Contact

If David Cronenberg and David Lynch decided to collaborate on a film about drugs it would probably look a bit like this really rather disturbing short from Jeremiah Kipp.

 

Rubberneck

 
A typical argument has severe and unusual consequences in Dominic Pillai’s effective existential drama.

 
Dominic will be coming along to talk about the film.
 

The Lift

 
Part ghost story, part road movie, The Lift is an innovative take on the creepy hitchhiker subgenre from directors Jason Davison and Dick Douglass.

Jason and Dick will be coming along to talk about the film.
 

The Joke

 
Tim Pieraccini directs Gary Mepsted’s script in this comedy/drama about what happens when three very different candidates are kept waiting at a job interview.

Tim and Gary will be along to talk about the film.
 

Act of Faith

 
We close off the evening with another film from Tim Pieraccini, this one a classic ghost story about a troubled girl haunted by mysterious blindfolded figure.

Tim will hopefully still be there to talk about this film as well!
 
If you have any questions about the event or have a film you would like us to consider for screening please e-mail moviebar[at]ymail.com 


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Bonus Feast of Hammers Q&A...

Feast of Hammers director Dominic Stoate couldn't make it to MovieBar last Monday but did write a few words about making the video.

'I was lucky enough to stumble upon Birdeatsbaby while on the hunt for music on an unsigned musicians website for use in a corporate training film. It was upon listening to them and realising how completely inappropriate for the commercial video they were that I decided these were the sort of people I simply had to work with if I wanted to produce anything worth looking back on and remembering. There was just a wildness and glaring originality to their material that I wanted to help perpetuate visually and, as it turned out, they were probably the most creatively accommodating and generally nice people I could have hoped to break into the world of music videos – which is always nice.

"Feast of Hammers" was definitely the video that illustrated to me the importance of preparation. We’d never been exactly unprepared in other videos but we were so keen to do justice to the films we were trying to emulate that it was going to take a whole new level of care if we were going to achieve it convincingly. For instance, a surprisingly large amount of effort was required just to undermine the quality of the technology we have at our disposal to achieve the underwhelming visual style of the films we wanted to pay tribute to.

A lot of people talking about the video have referenced films like “The Hills Have Eyes” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and while those are certainly influences, I also found inspiration in some of the lesser-known films to emerge on video after failing to get a cinema release. Small “video nasties” such as “Blood Rites” and “Driller Killer” - which often had little in the way of budget and virtually no promotional campaigns to support them - relied on their depictions of violence for publicity, often juggling their compulsion to push the boundaries of “taste” with the problems of not having the funds needed to accomplish it. This sometimes resulted in the creators’ ambitions of violence outgrowing their budgetary limits, with the seams of the low budget production on show to often comic effect. For the more violent aspects of “Feast of Hammers” I hoped, with a somewhat facetious emulation of this humour/horror juxtaposition, to stay true to the dark humour Birdeatsbaby’s fans have come to expect from their material at the same time as doing justice to the sinister and violent imagery of the song. It wasn’t just because we too had no money for effects beyond melons and mince!'

Thanks Dominic! And while we're on the subject, Birdeatsbaby released Feast of Hammers as a single today - you can find out how to get it here.

MovieBar will return on Monday 5th December - hope to see you there!

Moviebar Halloween Special - Postscript

Monday was a very special Moviebar, a collection of the macabre and the grostesque. A Halloween celebration of that spine-tingling genre known as horror and we packed in over 15 blood-soaked shorts. Watch them again, if you dare...

Welcome to Moviebar, Halloween style...

Wilhelm the Dwarf Vampire (Carsum Dim)




Don't Let Him In Trailer (Kelly Smith)



End of the Line (Rob Curry) - More about Rob can be found over at his production company Fifth Column

Vermes (Marc Burton) - More about Marc can be found over at his site Bubble Snake

Little Snaps of Horror (Graham Rathlin)




Slip (Joe Rosen)
Slip can be viewed over at Shooting People

Collar (Stuart Dunlop & Dan Birt)
Collar can be viewed over at Propeller 4 Film

The Baby Watcher & Fear View (Keith Eyles)
Part of the Urban Chiller Tales, trailer below...

Keith Eyles discusses Urban Chiller Tales

Feast of Hammers - Music Video for Birdeatsbaby (Dominic William Stoate)

Birdeatsbaby singer Mishkin

Theatre of Souls (John Hoye)

Director John Hoye talks about Theatre of Souls

ZombieZ Promo (Matt Watering)




Deathilating Machine : In The Flesh (Matt Watering)

Steadicam Operator Andy Nicholls talks about working on Matt Watering's shorts

Squirrels Of Doom (Anthony Carpendale)




Revenge Of The Information Point (Anthony Carpendale)




Death Carts (Anthony Carpendale)




If you survived that and still want more then the next Moviebar is Monday 5th December at the Caroline of Brunswick in Brighton.

HALLOWEEN MOVIEBAR - 31st October 2011

HALLOWEEN MOVIEBAR
7.30pm Monday 31st October 2011

The November event has been moved back a week to coincide with Halloween! Which is a perfect excuse to dress up as movie monsters and show horror films all night!!!

We'll be starting the first screening at 7.30pm as we've got loads to fit in!
 
In addition to the films there will be a Halloween themed quiz with prizes as well as a prize for the best Halloween costume (so you pretty much have to dress up!)

In the spirit of the best horror films I’m not going reveal the full line-up of films until the night as I don’t want to give too much away.

 
However you can expect spooky clowns, masked killers, zombies, ghosts, freaks, at least one decapitation, unnameable horrors, wormholes, ghouls, mutilation, possessed shopping trolleys and blood...lots and lots of blood. 

 
We will also be screening a film so terrifying we dare only show you the trailer!

You’ll find us upstairs at the Caroline of Brunswick, entry is free as always.

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