Wow - well the fab Roundeye technicolor film Getting Ready is having another screening tomorrow night - the fifth this year to be exact, but who's counting eh?
This time it's at the super Showroom Shorts night, held at Sheffield's legendary Showroom Cinema. Here's the info blurb from the programme:
Join us again for a FREE evening of top-quality short films. This instalment of the immensely successful shorts night is a strong one featuring ten new films - so don't miss it! We’ll also be giving away a Showroom Take Two package on the night (that's two main meals, two cinema tickets and a bottle of wine).
Showroom Shorts - March 1st @ 7.30pm
Sounds good, don't you think?
Look - we can't confirm anything right now - but we can say something très exciting will be happening as part of the 2012 Folkestone Triennial Fringe.
Let's just say it might have something to do with a screening of Ben Barton's Roundeye films at an exclusive show right here in Folkestone and that it might be at super-duper local venue the Quarterhouse... but we aint promising anything yet, okay?(We are super excited though... keep watching this space!)
Well you know even your own family think you're crazy when you get quizzed about this!
Yep, Folkestone has been abuzz this week with people gossiping about some grisly decapitated pigs' heads, which were supposedly planted on a grave by local artists. It's probably the most exciting event to happen here in around 800 years, so you can only imagine...
"When I first heard about it, I prayed it wasn't another one of your film projects" my mother-in-law said to me this afternoon. Well what do you make of that?!
Here's some of my fave extracts from the local rags...
TWO severed pigs' heads found in the grounds of a Folkestone church were left there by students on a photography course, police believe.
Passers-by were horrified to see the grisly art work last Wednesday morning. Local resident Lisa Challis said "I saw them on my way to work. They were real pigs' heads. It wasn't a pretty sight."
A police spokesman said "We have established that you can't actually buy pigs' heads from a butcher's shop, so they would have to have been ordered. [The artists] could have been more thoughtful about the impact on the local people who may have been passing buy. [sic]
You don't expect to find severed pigs' heads as you're walking past a church first thing in the morning."
That last line is my favourite - no shit!
You can read the articles in full [HERE] and [HERE] if you're so inclined.
So to answer anyone, including my own family, who are thinking this was some new Roundeye film, the answer is no!
...for what it's worth, I'd just like to say that all of the Roundeyes are vegetarian and support the work of PETA. So there!
Ciao art lovers.
Ben Barton
We're back to our favourite city in the whole wide world next Sunday - yep - the ancient streets of LONDINIUM aka LONDRES aka LONDON TOWN...
It's our bestest film Getting Ready that's being screened, for the Cinema Varieté event which is being pushed as "the capital's new vibrant arts night".
Cinema Varieté is held at 10 Gales, hailed as Bethnal Green's 'best kept secret' and offering the curious but cool mix of contemporary art space, live venue, second-hand boutique, coffee shop and hair salon - all tucked under the railway arches by Bethnal Green tube station. If you wanna go, it's Sunday 20th February at 7pm.
As well as the films you can look forward to an edible art installation from Tony Di Chirico and plenty of live performances - all for the diminutive sum of £3. Sounds good eh?
