FUTURE SHORTS AT SECRET GARDEN PARTY 2008

Future Shorts’ second year at the Secret Garden Party involved late night summer fuelled programmes of SUMMER, LOVE and DANCE.   SGP spectators enjoyed an eclectic mix of short film, animation and music videos on a myriad of screens scattered around the site – from Centre Camp and Fish seeks Bicycle tent, to a personal favourite – the silent disco, where I watched whimsical music videos such as Animal Collective’s Leaf House whilst dancing absurdly to a set of headphones.

 

 

Future Shorts’ principal programme, ‘Come the Revolution’, inspired by this year’s festival theme – ‘Revolution’ – proved popular, including the likes of Paintballing and City Paradise.

Secret Garden Party high points – live rescore by the Gypsy band, She’koyokh, to Future Shorts ‘Dreamy Animations’, cycling to disco, the cider tent, Animal Collective + silent disco = WHAM!!, oven baked pizza, and GRACE JONES doing ‘I’ve seen that face before’.

She'koyokh

 

 

 

 

Centre Camp

 

 

GUILLEMOTS RESCORE ROCKS LATITUDE FESTIVAL

The Guillemots rescored David Lynch’s cult film ‘Eraserhead‘ at the Latitude Festival on Friday night as part of the Future Cinema Live event. The band improvised a score to the 1979 cinematic classic in front of a packed audience in the film and music arena.

Guillemots are all big David Lynch fans and Eraserhead is one of their favourite films. They improvised a haunting and dynamic instrumental set to accompany the film, then playing a final incantational song as the credits rolled, with Fyfe repeating the line from the film, “In Heaven, everything is fine”.

Warming up the crowd before the Guillemots, Future Cinema Live presented a dance sequence by the Chamelion Collective, cosmic rockers Invasion rescoring short films from the Future Shorts festival as well as another specially curated programme of short films, including Oscar-winning animation Peter and the Wolf.

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