FEATURE PROGRAMME: MUSIC
VISIONÄRE If the East End Film Festival is a cinematic celebration with a sonic heart, that heart beats long into the night. Following on from 2010’s riotous collision of film, underground music and street performance, Visionäre pop-up cinema’s collaboration with the East End Film Festival returns this year with a very special trio of events exploring urban music scenes from around the globe. Featuring cutting edge sound from Downtown New York, Jamaica, Notting Hill, and Senegal, and everywhere in-between, our trio of filmic events incorporate documentary, fiction film and live performances and DJs from as far afield as New York, taking you from the screen to dance floor until the early hours.
Dirty Old Town Thursday 28 April Dirty Old Town 8.00pm – 9.15pm Captured 9.30pm – 11.00pm Party 11.00pm – 5.00am A night exploring the sound clashes and idiosyncratic subcultures of Downtown New York. Featuring misfits, freaks and renegades, screenings of Dirty Old Town and Captured take us deep into the NYC underground scene, from drag to hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos and ultimately to gentrification, all leading into an all night DJ set from NYC mainstay Rub n’ Tug
The sonic experiments continue long into the night with a very special trio of events exploring urban music scenes from around the globe. From the bohemia of Downtown New York’s punk and dance scenes, to the vitality of Jamaica’s Dancehalls, and from Notting Hill Carnival to Senegal’s burgeoning Hip-Hop scene, we will be using cinema to explore the world of cutting edge sound. Presented in conjunction with the mighty Visionare popup cinema, these events incorporate premieres of documentary and fiction films in the incredible space of the Red Gallery (previously The Foundery), followed by live performances from the artists, DJs and VJs inspired by these varied genres, including luminaries such as Roots Manuva and DJs from as far afield as New York, taking you from cinematic brevity to the dance floor until the early hours. The film and music programme, then, covers every point on the spectrum between light and noise, and that’s not even mentioning the cinematic adventures the EEFF will be presenting with partners Clash and Rough Trade as part of our Movie Mayday programme (See Page 46). With some very special musical guests in tow, it will ensure that our commitment to closing the gap between film and other art-forms is asserted once again, making the EEFF the place where sound and vision meet to fight it out.
Friday 29 April Good Times 9.00pm –11.00pm Tape Party 11.30 pm – 5.00am A celebration of sound system culture, this special night features a screening of Good Times, assessing Norman Jay’s contribution to the spread of black music and the Notting Hill Carnival, following him from the Brooklyn street parties of his youth to the London warehouse parties and prate radio stations that that made his name, followed by a night of the dub reggae, rare groove, hiphop, punk, disco and US garage that he championed in a Tape Club Party run by the Red Gallery.
Furious Force of Music Saturday 30 April Furious Force of Rhymes 8.00pm – 9.30pm Hit Me With Music 10.00pm – 11.30pm Party 11.30pm – 4.00am Chronicling the force and power of two of the world’s most politically important musical genres, this night features Furious Force of Rhymes, showing how hip-hop is giving a voice to marginalised communities around the globe, and Hit Me With Music, an inside take on the growth and social role of Reggae and Dancehall in Jamaica. Followed by a night of live performances and DJ sets from the acts they inspired, including Roots Manuva, Banana Clan, and the David Rodigan Reggae Experience.
Tickets for all Visionäre are available from www.wegottickets.com/visionare
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Features: Music
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