No, it has nothing to do with the incessant warblings of newly-preggars Celine, but rather a funky new film night, which is launching May 27th at the Achromat Gallery in Hove.
As you can see, ‘Near, Far, Wherever You Are’ is the curious title, and you lucky peeps can look forward to a hand-picked selection of short films, from documentaries, non-narrative work, video art, music videos and more... And yes, they will screening some of Benny B's fab super-8 films too...
So if any of you ‘popcorn loving film watchers willing to donate a few coins for drinks’ are interested, get your bums down to the gallery on Queens Place, Hove (near the Sussex County Cricket Ground) at 7pm this Thursday.
Well what better way to celebrate Benny B's birthday weekend than with this fab new film festival?
Enjoy two days of films, performances, workshops, masterclasses and conferences during the inaugural Lancashire International Film Festival.
All tickets are free and there is good food and a licensed bar area to sit back and relax between shows.
We invite you to enjoy the films and the opportunity to share time and space with other film lovers, makers, writers and creators. This is LIFE in its many shorter forms.You can read the full programme for our screening here - it's being held in the Media Factory's Theatre 1 on May 23rd at 9pm.
Above are some (of the best) screenshots from the first reel to come back from the lab. Fantastic aren't they?
This 50ft reel of super-8 was supposed to be the romantic ending of our new Roundeye opus, 5,000 Miles From Hollywood. We hired the magically retro Silver Screen Cinema in Folkestone for the scenes - and Benny B and Jimmy D made great big tits out of themselves, praying to the icons of old Tinsletown and munching on popcorn all loved-up, and much more besides. But the sad sad thing is - you'll never get to see it!
Lab error, faulty film, broken camera - we don't know what's gone wrong here folks. But we are crossing every crossable part of our bodies and hoping that the remaining three colour reels (currently at another lab) will be ok. So maybe we'll be able to salvage something and still have a film to show you... If not - suicide or something else suitably dramatic will be on the cards...
Please leave us alone to go have a wee cry.
See you soon.The Roundeyes
NEWSFLASH!
It will be part of the Saltburn Shorts night, which promises “a selection of shorts from emerging film makers around the UK”. At the end of the night the audience will vote for their favourite film... so keep everything crossed for us! (crossed – geddit?)
Saltburn Shorts is next Thursday 13th May, in the Saltburn Community Theatre, at 7pm. Admission is 100% fab and free of charge too!
That there be the undeveloped film for the latest Roundeye work-in-progress, 5,000 Miles From Hollywood. I gave them a wee kiss for good luck before packing them off to the lab, so fingers crossed my compadres!
Ben Barton
