Wax n Reels this Sunday!

This Sunday, 6th July WAX ‘n’ REELS returns. The venue has changed but the format remains much the same.

The Lansdown in Clifton (8 Clifton Road, Clifton, Bristol. BS8 1AF. Tel: 0117 973 4949) will now play host to WAX ‘n’ REELS. We have the whole of the upstairs booked out and the doors will open at 7pm.

The night is a showcase of talented local short film makers, where film makers are invited to introduce and show thier own retrospective. This gives the audience more of an insight into the art and minds of the film makers themselves. This Sunday, there’s something a little special lined up for the first night in a new venue. WAX ‘n’ REELS is very proud to introduce an all female line up of film makers, a bit of a ‘ladies night’.

Introducing:

Paige Copsey – Having recently finished directing her first film, this is Paige’s first official screening of ‘Inhumanity’. Paige is happy to receive comments and feedback.

Cineformation’s very own Lizz Hoskins – Lizz has a specific interest in documentary and narrative driven music video. Lizz will be showing ‘Just another Drink’ which is a Valentine Villains promo. Lizz will also be screening a documentary called ‘Children of the Revolution’ which details Lithuania’s 1991 revolt against the communist rule of the Soviet Union. The documentary exposes how a determined self-belief lives on from mother to daughter.

Tracy Foster – Tracy says ‘drawing feeds my soul’. Tracy’s work is a continued exploration of comic mechanisms from slap-stick to surrealism. Tracy will be showing ‘Die Zeit’, ‘Hard Hat Area’ and ‘Carousel’.

Missed the Music For Film event?

If you didn’t manage to get a ticket to April’s Music For Film event due to the speed of their selling out, do not fear.

You can check out what went on at Cineformation, but also at the South West Sound daytime convention by clicking here & reading composer Alan Deacon’s fantastic write-up.

0117 - Made in Bristol

For those Cineformation members who missed the boat and haven’t sent submission forms for the new 0117 – Made in Bristol publication, you’ve got a few days to get them in to us.

The exciting annual publication will launch this September and will feature over 300 of Bristol’s leading design, digital, animation and marketing companies along with interviews and in depth features on many of the city’s creative entrepreneurs and movers and shakers.

The official deadline for submissions has passed but if you are a Bristol based film/media professional or student and think you and your work should be featured, outline who you are, what you do and why it’s worth shouting about and email it to beth@cineformation.com by no later than WED 7 MAY.

Competition will be extremely high so we can’t guarantee your you will be featured but please get in touch if you think you should be included.

Hear Martin Kiszko's new work

The Emerald Ensemble featuring Elektrodome

Part of ElektroStatic – The Emerald Ensemble’s New Music Series

Wednesday 7th May, 8pm, Colston Hall Bar, Bristol, £8, £5 (concessions, under 26s)

Players from the Emerald Ensemble will be joined by interactive technology pioneers ‘Elektrodome’ and their unique Soundbeam equipment. In award-winning composer Martin Kiszko’s newly composed piece, the themes of spying and covert surveillance rendezvous with music in a work that explores secret messaging, bugging, phone tapping, pursuit and chase. ‘Vi Spy’ is scored for Violin and Soundbeam – an ultrasonic device that enables a performer’s movements to trigger sound and image.

Shubunkin (Stewart Freeland) performs music that is constantly evolving due to the way that it is composed and performed through live interaction with electronic devices. Using Soundbeam movement sensors to play notes, melodies, manipulate and trigger samples. Shubunkin frees himself from the desk and laptop, developing an individual act demonstrating how a digital artist is able to engage physically with the music creating a live element to the performance.

This concert is part of Colston Hall’s ElektroStatic bar series – a series of four concerts featuring Bristol’s premier professional chamber group The Emerald Ensemble. In each concert, players collaborate with pioneering artists at the cutting edge of musical innovation. Come along to encounter unique sonic and visual experiences, world premieres and rarely heard classics of the avant-garde.

Click here for more details.

Bursary opportunities - SW Sound

We have a small number of bursaries for this year’s South West Sound convention at Watershed on Thurs 24 April.

Delegate passed are £45 but with the bursary you will only have to pay £5 for the full day’s events.

Email info@cineformation.com if you’re a composer or performer & are interested.

Missed the Film & Media event?

Thanks to all those who made it to last week’s Film & New Media event, hope you enjoyed your virals!

If you missed it, don’t worry… just click here to get a blow by blow account & to view the content.

And click here to view more photos