Film
Festival
Mobile
Cinema,
Saturday
14th and Sunday 15th June,
Millennium
Square
Admission
Free
The
Mobile Cinema is an independent nomadic venture. As a 1970's Sprite
caravan it epitomises the freedom to roam new places and new ideas.
The Mobile Cinema is a low-tech/hi-tech space where the public can
easily access and experience moving image, sound and installation
art, close up in the comfort of the caravan. It will be parked in
Millennium square on the opening weekend of the festival, for all
to enjoy.
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Bahman
Ghobadi: Half
Moon,
Martin
Firrell:
Heroes
for Iraq,
Monday
16th, 8:30 pm,
Gala
Cinema
Tickets
from the Gala
Half
Moon is a 2006 film written and directed by the Iranian Kurdish
filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi. Half Moon is a joint production of Iran,
Austria, France and Iraq. This movie was commissioned by the New
Crowned Hope festival, a celebration of the 250th birthday of Amadeus
Mozart, and the story plot has been inspired in part by the Requiem.
Mamo,
an old Kurdish musician in the twilight of his life, plans to perform
one final concert a cry of freedom in Iraqi Kurdistan. The village's
elderly warn him that as the moon becomes full something awful would
happen to him and urge him not to proceed with his plan. After several
months of trying to overcome the red-tape, he begins a long and
dangerous journey along with his sons. Along the way, the group
picks up female singer Hesho who resides in a village of 1,334 exiled
women singers. This adds to the complications of the trip as women
are not allowed to sing in Iran. Despite all these obstacles, Mamo
is determined to continue with his journey across the border.
Martin
Firrell has been described as a cultural activist, placing text
in public space to promote positive social change. In this piece,
on special loan from the Curzon cinema in Soho, London, Martin explores
the hero phenomenon – how they are made, why they persist and what
we think a hero is.
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Dennis
Da Silva vs VJ Karborn:
Audio
Visual Experiments
Monday
16th June, 10.00 pm
Dunelm
House
Let
the UK's finest visual producers and DJ's blow the doors of perceptions
off their hinges, draping you in exquisite digital images that will
send you spinning through space and time...
Dennis
Da Silva has shared the bill with acts the likes of Layo & Bushwacka,
The Propellorheads, Ladytron, Infadels, taking headline slots at
Pacha and Heaven. He was the first DJ (by special permission of
the Ministry of Defence) to spin on the world's most advance stealth
ship - RV Triton! Expect Justice, Simian Mobile Disco,Hot Chip,
New Young Pony Club, Klaxons, LCD Soundsystem, CSS, Kraftwerk, Bowie,
Roxy Music, Michael Jackson and Madonna...
Karborn
received global recognition for his iconoclastic approach to digital
art. He has gone to work with brands like Nike and cult LA collective
Arkitip. VJing his own animations, footage, effects and visualscapes
in a live, raw and unashamed mashup and stepping up with exclusive
acetate dubplates.
Also
featuring AV performances from:
TOP
BUTTON DJ'S (Holdtight)
MULLY
(Planet Mu)
NOID
XIMER(Resonance FM)
With
lighting from Bubble Vision
and
4hrs of free music from Junc Productions
:Animation,
Graphics, Image Mashup and Visualscapes:
:Anthems,
Dubstep, Bass, Acid, Electro:
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Premiere:
Dariush Mehrjui: Santouri/
Adrian
Clarke: Gary’s
Friends
Tuesday
17th June, 8.30 pm
Gala
Cinema
Santouri,
directed by Dariush Mehrjui, Iran’s most respected and influential
film maker, follows the life of a santour player named Ali Bolourchi.
A talented musician, Ali’s life is dominated by his heroin addiction
– the film is an account of this slow demise and the devastating
emotional and physical consequences of heroin addiction. The santour
is a hammered dulcimer of Iran, a trapezoid-shaped box often made
of walnut, with 72 strings. It is noteworthy that, in Farsi "playing
the Santour" is also the euphemism for injecting heroin. Before
the screening a digital montage of Adrian Clarke’s Gary’s Friends,
produced by HPM, will be shown. Both artist’s work will be discussed
at the ‘Santouri, Art and Addiction’ open forum.
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John
Foxx: Cathedral Oceans III
Wednesday
18th June,
Fellow’s
Garden, Durham Castle
£12,
Concessions £10
John
Foxx is a pioneering electronic composer, who produced the first
electronic music album released in England after founding seminal
electronic group Ultravox. For the Durham Arts Festival, he presents
his widely acclaimed Cathedral Oceans III project in a very special
evening at the Fellow’s Garden of Durham Castle. Cathedral Oceans
is an awe-inspiring piece that brings together images from John’s
travels across the USA, Europe and Great Britain merged into a cluster
of digital windows, projected high onto the Castle walls from a
series of projectors hidden within the garden. John will accompany
the projections with a live soundtrack, synthesized in harmony with
the images in what promises to be a moving and unforgettable evening.
Tickets
for this event are limited, so please book early.
