The World's First Mobile Solar Powered returns to Lounge on the Farm to present independent and underground film screenings, multimedia performance, Audio/Visual Verite, Video Cabaret and Cinema you can dance to…

Plus special guests and surprises from the world of alternative video.

As well as the usual antics from the finest purveyors of festival cinema this Summer we are also working with Screen South, who are the regional screen agency for a large amount of the film festivals and independent film makers across the whole of the South East. www.screensouth.org

The Groovy Movie Picture House and Lounge on the Farm would like to give a big thankyou to all contributing film makers.

 

Highlights

Friday – An evening of alternative music Films

9pm: VIDEO JAM

A live selection of unusual and hard to find music videos from the most eclectic independent producers. With submissions from Coldcut, UNKLE, Sonar Kollektiv, Ninja Tune, Animusic and many more.

10pm: HEIMA - SIGUR ROS

Last year, in the endless magic hour of the Icelandic summer, Sigur Rós played a series of concerts around their homeland. Combining both the biggest and smallest shows of their career, the entire tour was filmed, and now provides a unique insight into one of the world’s shyest and least understood bands captured live in their natural habitat. www.heima.co.uk

12am: JUNK TV

Quick Flicks film festival. The best of the last ten years of JunkTV’s short film nights in Brighton. A wild and whacky selection of comedies, animations, video remixes and cheeky bootlegs.

1am: Breakthru films and Storm Studio present “FREE JIMMY”

Four Stoners, three gangsters, five vegans and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant. This new, feature length animation is a true festival classic. Screenplay by Simon Pegg, with the voices of Jim Broadbent, Kyle Maclachlan and Samantha Morton. An outrageous, hilarious, very grown up cartoon. www.freejimmy.com

2.30am – VIDEO JAM

A live, quick fire selection of great old musical clips, funny animations, vintage adverts, dance routines, rock n roll, singalongs and cinema you can dance to.

 

Saturday Afternoon – Lounge on the Farm and Screen South present the Summerscreen Sneak Peek!

3pm: CANTERBURY MASH

A live mixed Audio/Visual montage, blending footage from the festival with local scenes from the past, remixed by DJ “Riddles” and VJ Monochrome.
Archive courtesy of Screen Archive South East - http://www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/

4pm: GARBAGE WARRIOR (Intro & Q+A by OLIVER HODGE)

American outsider architect Michael Reynolds creates beautiful ramshackle homes in the New Mexico desert out of discarded beer cans, reclaimed wood, old tyres and clay, the physical manifestations of his life's passion for sustainable living. But Reynolds is not so much an architect as a one-man eco-movement, a visionary whose ideas will either help us save the planet or just land him in more trouble with the local authorities. Shot over three years in the US, Mexico and India, this is an extraordinary, intimate portrait of a man possessed by his dream of changing the world.
Director Q&A and introduction.
Screening courtesy of ICA Films.
www.garbagewarrior.com

5.30pm: SCREEN SOUTH PRESENTS DIGITAL SHORTS

A programme of outstanding short films made in partnership with the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund South, celebrating the best new filmmaking talent from the South East of England. Saturday evening – a night of unusual films from around the world.

9pm: THE ETHICAL TRADER

A fly on the wall documentary about an ethical trader helping a small African villages. The film was made at two music festivals, one situated on the coast at an old slave trading fort, and one at a village near the border with Burkina Faso,7 miles form the nearest road, on the other side of the white Volta River. A lively and enlightening documentary, narrated by David Bellamy.

10pm: BIKE TO OZ

A couple’s adventures cycling overland from the UK to Australia.

12am: HATTIE HATSTAR'S MULTIMEDIA CABARET - A 21ST CENTURY CINEMA VERITE

A fast and furious live selection from hundreds of shorts, covering comedies, music video, classic dance routines, Video remixes, satire, sillyness, and regular live comedy interventions from acclaimed songwriter and accordianist, Hattie Hatstar. Interactive cinema at it's best.

2am: BLACK CAT WHITE CAT

A riotous mix of farce, romance and crime. Set within a community of gypsy people, it tells a story of dodgy deals, family ties, young love and magical occurences. Zare is in love with beautiful Ida but his crooked father Matko, having botched up a black market deal, intends to marry him off to the sister of a powerful gangster - a woman so tiny that her nickname is Ladybird. Beautifully filmed on the banks of the Danube this colourful comedy is crammed with spectacle, incident and the powerful music of Emir Kusturica's famous travelling gypsy band.

Thanks to Artificial Eye for permission to screen this film www.artificial-eye.com

 

Sunday – Family Films. Rest your weary heads while we entertain the kids.

4-6pm: KIDS MATINEE

A selection of films suitable for kids of all ages. Please make sure your kids are accompanied by a responsible adult. We are not a crèche, and can take no responsibility for your children

 

Sunday Evening - Activist Cinema from way underground

9pm: SOCPA - THE MOVIE

The serious organised crime and police act 2005, was designed to rid parliament square of veteran peace activist Brian Haw. He's still there, and many others have fought the law in imaginative and sometimes comic ways. this hour-long documentary shows the enormous creativity and tenacity of Brian and other campaigners appalled at the idea that we have to ask for permission to protest near parliament. Featuring an original music soundtrack and contributions from all the main players who have challenged this law, this film is at times frightening, funny, shocking and deeply moving.

10.30pm: ON THE VERGE

This film gained notoriety when the Police began a campaign of pressuring cinemas and venue owners not to screen it. This misguided official censoring resulted in a huge wave of publicity, inspiring countless underground screenings In 2004 a group of Brighton peace campaigners began to bang pot and pans outside their local arms manufacturers EDO MBM in disgust of their part in the Iraq war. This has grown into a campaign, which has cost the company millions, and has tested the right to protest in the UK. Using activist, police and CCTV footage plus interviews with those involved in the campaign, On The Verge tells the story of one of the most persistent and imaginative campaigns to emerge out of the UK's anti-war movement.

12am: MONDAY MORNING MASHUP

A mighty Video jam, full of Remixes, bootlegs, A/V mashups, video shorts, animations and comedies from all the Solar Cinema video selectors, and some very special guests. Interactive cinema till way after bed time.

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