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Family Flux: Live Music and Film Event

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 11:11 AM PDT

Friday 31.5.2013
Friday Night Films

Family Flux: Live Music and Film Event

Friday 31 May 2013

7pm / £3. Pre-book on 01908 676 900

Mary O'Connor studied at Dartington where she majored in performance and studied violin with Oliver Butterworth.Whilst teaching she became increasingly interested in the approach of Jaques Dalcroze which tied together her skills as a musician, contemporary dancer and silent film accompanist. In 2008 Mary started her training as a Dalcroze Eurhythmics teacher with Karin Greenhead, Cyrilla Rowsell and Jacqueline Vann.

Leave 'em lauging, 1928

Dir. Clyde Bruckman. Cert U. 21 mins

Leaving the dentist's office, where Hardy's teeth have been extracted by mistake, the boys, still under the influence of laughing gas, meet up with a traffic cop (Kennedy) and cause a huge traffic jam.

Leave 'em lauging, 1928

Dir. Edgar Kennedy. Cert U. 20 mins

Classic comedy famous for the pants-ripping scene at the end. Laurel plays the clarinet, and Hardy plays the French horn in a band. During a concert, they destroy a musical performance and drive the conductor crazy and are fired from their jobs.

Warp Films Shorts

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 10:55 AM PDT

Friday 24.5.2013
Friday Night Films

Warp Films Shorts and Q&A with 2013 Bafta winner Diarmid Scrimshaw

Friday 24 May 2013

7pm / £3. Pre-book on 01908 676 900

The evening will play host to one of Milton Keynes sons!

Diarmid Scrimshaw is producer at Warp Films and winner of this year's Bafta in the Best Short Film category. Diarmid will introduce his two short films and talk about his career at Warp.

Dog Altogether, 2007

Dir. Paddy Considine Cert 15. 16 mins

Dog Altogether is the story of Joseph, a man plagued by violence and rage and driven to self destruction. As he falls further into turmoil, Joseph scours the landscape in search of a single grain of redemption that might restore hope to his fractured life.

Swimmer, 2012

Dir. Lynne Ramsay Cert UC. 18 mins

Lynne Ramsey's Swimmer sees a young man swimming through the rivers and lakes of Britain to a soundtrack of assorted nationalistic music. As he passes people on the banksides including children, lovers and a tramp he hears their thoughts and conversations.

An Evening of Modley Entertainment

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 10:45 AM PDT

Friday 17.5.2013
Friday Night Films

An Evening of Modley Entertainment

3 short films with live improvised score featuring Emak Bakia, 1926

Dir. Man Ray Cert UC. 

Friday 17 May 2013

7pm / £3. Pre-book on 01908 676 900

Neville and Herbert Modley are international free form musicians, artists magicians and marmalade makers.A dadaist evening of music, movies, mirth, magic and marmalade. Love music? Love Movies? Love Magic? Love Marmalade? Love Modley!

In conjunction with North Bucks Young Surrealists Association. Man Ray's Emak Bakia is an extraordinary Dadaist collection of images seemingly unconnected. It is subtitled as a cinepoeme. Man Ray described the films he made in the 1920s as "inventions of light forms and movements". The title of his 1926 film Emak Bakia comes from an old Basque expression that means "don't bother me"

Amour

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 10:40 AM PDT

Friday 10.5.2013
Friday Night Films

Amour, 2012

Dir. Michael Haneke Cert PG. 127 mins

Friday 10 May 2013

7pm / £3. Pre-book on 01908 676 900

The story of married couple Anne and George Laurent played by Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant whose cosy retirement is transformed when Anne has a stroke.

"Michael Haneke's effortlessly graceful picture will come to be seen as one of the greatest films about the confrontation of death and ageing" Phillip French, The Guardian

Avant Gardening Caroline Smith: The Shame Show

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 09:25 AM PDT

Thursday 30.5.2013
Thursday Scratch Nights

Avant Gardening & Caroline Smith: The Shame Show

Thursday 30 May / 6.30pm

The Shame Show is an interactive game/variety show hosted by Mertle (performance artist Caroline Smith) who will be subverting notions of popular entertainment as she investigates concepts ofshame with her audience.

The evening will be divided between Mertle's probing her guests in a series of interviews with guests such as a psychotherapist, philosopher and unrepentant ne'er do wells and a participatory game show where the audience can confess and relieve themselves of their burden of shame.

Like a flashback from the golden days of light entertainment combined with an informal supper club, where the canapés of shame absolve the participants of their negative emotions, The Shame Show is an emotional exorcism that deals with psychological complexities in a manner that is both surprising and enlightening.

Caroline Smith is a performance artist whose work explores the peripheries of stand-up comedy and art. In her Mertle persona she has looked at people's complex relationships with food and eating disorders. Mertle herself is from another time, the 1950's, where a housewife was as adept at emotional self-restraint as she was with making a Victoria sponge and consequently she acts a repository for people's intimate moments of self-doubt or insecurity . Mertle becomes a nonjudgemental listener and the audience become increasingly aware that beneath the confidently domestic exterior is a woman who shares their insecurities and self-doubt.

For this performance Caroline will be collaborating with Avant-Gardening whose ongoing curatorial project In Every Dream Home a Heartbreak takes a fresh look at sexuality and gender representationin non-mainstream culture. Avant-Gardener Paul Green will be animating the space with moments of shame in popular culture and documenting Mertle's performance and the two will use the performance as a way of exploring future collaborations.
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