The night will feature award winning short films, promos, art films and will be followed by a disco to raise money for the DEC Haiti Appeal. There will be a screening of Oscar short-listed multi award winning short Gone Fishing, Shooting People Short of the Year 2009 A Supermarket Love Story, BAFTA winning short Brown Paper Bag, Bouncer starring Ray Winstone and Paddy Consodine, animation from The Brothers McLeod, as well as great shorts from local film makers. There will also be a series of promos by dub-punk multi-media threesome Jackdaw with Crowbarwho will be playing/performing on Saturday 27 at A Plasticine Party for Flatpack Festival.
Was drinking away in the Anchor, as you do (or should do) the other evening when a friend spotted a rather cleverly designed leaflet for this upcoming event at The Edge, Cheapside.
Peter Harry and Diane (PhD) will bring their varied talents to this project.
Diane and Harry, both from a fine art background will do a bit of that.
Peter will move a lot of furniture about.
Diane is a brilliant drawer so there’s going to be brilliant drawings.
Harry is a well established (misplaced) humorous performance artist, so there [...]
Yay! Outersight now have a web prescence, in their own words:
‘Space Monkeys!
OUTER SIGHT returns on SATURDAY DECEMBER 6th for our fourth outing into Psychedelic Psynema.
This time, the theme for our Super-Secret Speakeasy Cinema Programme is:
RISE OF THE ROBOTS!
To celebrate keeping things going thus far, we have started a YouTube channel, where you will find
- PROMO VIDEOS FOR UPCOMING EVENTS;
- TRAILERS FOR FUTURE PRESENTATIONS;
- PREVIOUSLY SCREENED SHORTS AND VISUAL EPHEMERA;
- AND, HOPEFULLY, A PLACE FOR YOU TO LEAVE COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS!’
Thought I’d share this freakish and frightening short film The Cat With Hands, which I saw at Outersight in The Edge last night before the main feature Phantasm. I’m not sure what films they’ll be showing at the next one but I don’t doubt they’ll be really fucking weird. Join their mailing list by emailing outersight@live.com to find out.
Join us on SATURDAY NOV 1ST at The Edge (79-81 Cheapside, Digbeth) for a dread-filled night of Obscure Horrificata, dredged from the Stygian Depths of man’s most primal fears, and cinema’s best-kept secrets!
OUTER SIGHT will be celebrating the ancient druidic festival of Samhain with a lethal blend of demented Psychedelic Psynema, a mouth-watering Monster-Mash of Mood Music courtesy of resident djs and Jim Freakbeat, and the usual deadly hemlock-infused cocktails……all for £3 / £3.50 without invite.
To whet your appetite, for this special occassion we are bending our Striclty-Secret programme rule and present a brief sneak-peak at one of our excitingly demented cult film presentations.
A bizarre, hokey, surreal masterpiece of low-budget 70s horror, packed with thrills, chills and wild imagination!
It’s only the beginning of the month but I’m already in a total tizz over what to do at the end of it.
On Halloween night of Friday 31st October, do I give my posh black dress an airing and make my way to Ikon Eastside, where I can dance and blow my mind with Lucienne Cole & Friends – Here & Now & The Future? It’s apparently ‘a welcoming environment for kooks’, so I’d be amongst my own kind.
On the other hand, it’s no secret I love a good horror film, so maybe Douglas Gordon’s 24 HOUR PSYCHO at VIVID is more my bag. Although with the Hitchcock classic being slowed down to last 24 hours, I might just see Norman Bates coming.
Or do I hang around Eastside Projects to moon over Bill Drummond, who’s giving an artists’ talk before the Strategic Questions #2 book launch at 6pm?
On Saturday 1st November do I go to The Edge for Outersight’s Halloween Horrorshow with ‘whacked-out shorts, spooky psychedelic psynema and obscure oddities…topped off with a blood-drenched feature film’? The ‘witch’s brew of cocktails’ sounds very appealing.
Or do I pair my dancing shoes with some fancy dress for Release The Bats at the Custard Factory? The band line-up looks fantastic and I have fond memories of DJ Andy Weatherall from my raving days, which I’d like to indulge.
Perhaps I’ll be too tired to do either, after not being able to sleep off my late night because of the Barbara Holub & Mithu Sen artists’ talk at Eastside Projects at 1pm.
The final £1 Arts Commission of 2008, last minute announcement and reminder:
Final commission for 2008, via open submission is Monday 6th October. The winning commission will have the opportunity to print their material in the newspaper’s tabloid newspaper with a 10,000 worldwide circulation.
Email your £1 Arts commission idea – short or as long as you like, to eccentriccity@hotmail.co.uk
And very good it was too. Whilst the last screening was creepy crawly, this one was cute and cuddly. The theme of ‘French fancies and freaky kid’s flicks’ meant that the sweet shorts were a lot easier on the eye, ear and brain.
The main feature was Jean Tourane’s bizarre Une Fee Pas Commes Des Autres (The Secret of Magic Island), none of which I understood as there were no subtitles but who cares when fluffy ickle animals are being all endearingly human? Watch this extract from his earlier film Saturnin Et La Fee Pas Comme Les Autr and you’ll see what I mean:
I was happily cooing throughout until the grumpy guts sitting beside me suggested some animals may have been harmed during the filming of this programme, which really ruined my fun. Killjoy.
Last night I went to the first Outer Sight film night at The Edge. It started with a weird and wonderful mish-mash of short film and animation pieces, with 2 small screens with headphones in the corner (Good Trip and Bad Trip) for when the big screen got a bit too much, which for me it kind of did.
The main feature was David L Woper’s The Hellstrom Chronicle. Some say Dr Nils Hellstrom is obsessive. Some say he is delusional. He says he is a scientist (except he’s not, he’s an actor). I say he’s bonkers crazy and it’s very funny.
Man’s greatest threat isn’t nuclear meltdown, it’s insects and Dr Hellstrom spends the film melodramatically explaining why. The close-up shots of creepy crawlies in action through birth, life and death were amazing and after a while I even found myself getting caught up in Dr Hellstrom’s hilarious over-the-top narration.
Outer Sight is set to become a regular monthly fixture at The Edge. To keep yourself in the loop email outersight@live.com.
It’s all happening for Friction Arts at The Edge. Shortly after the above event they’ll be hosting a film night, which Lee Griffiths tells me will consist of ’something culty and underground’ on a big screen, possibly with shorts and live soundtracks to boot. I can’t divulge the night of the first screening as organisers Scott Johnston and Max (Pram?) are keen to keep the event word of mouth, so try asking Friction Arts very nicely (with a cherry on top) if you’re interested.
Fiction Arts have received SITA Trust funding to refurbish The Edge and will start smashing stuff up over the summer. Get in touch with them if you fancy lending a hand, very therapeutic if you’ve got a lost love to get over.
