After the buzz of first ever Whirlygig Cinema event last month, I hope to hold another event of a similar nature sometime in the autumn. Keep checking back for further details and notice of an official open submission.
In the meantime, Clapham Picturehouse (where I work) are currently looking for films submissions to show in their Sound In Vision music film festival in late August. This all day event will feature an array of different music-inspired films plus a smattering of live music acts throughout the day.
Please send in your short films – music videos, artist videos, short films with strong soundtracks, music footage (such as recordings of live music); anything with both strong audio and visual elements. The aim to show as many submissions as possible throughout the day. The strongest films to show in one of the cinema screens and the rest will be projected on the big screens in the bar.
Please send your films by August 7th and include the following information:
- when the film was made
- all credits (including musical credits)
- your contact details, website address etc.
- any extra information you wish us to know about the film.
The address to send this to is:
Sound in Vision Festival
Clapham Picturehouse
76 Venn Street
London
SW4 0AT
This event will support the cinema’s charity Plan
http://plan-international.org/
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Clapham_Picturehouse/
For more information you can contact me through this website. Details of an official festival email address will be posted soon.
Well that was fun! It’s hard to believe that only 3 months ago I was hunched over a laptop thinking, “how the heck am I going to collate enough films to pull off a short film event?”. And yet, it was easier done than said! 16 films were showcased tonight, including animations, music videos, artist videos and many more films delving into the audio-visual unknown.
The candlelit Pangea Project proved a perfect venue for the event and we couldn’t have asked for a more wonderful and receptive audience. Thank you to everyone that came along and supported the artists and thanks to artists themselves who submitted such high quality work, including Tom Flynn who demonstrated his interactive online media work to audience members during the break.
Without a doubt there will be more Whirlygig related events to come in the future, so please keep an eye on this website for further details. In the meantime if you are a filmmaker and have work you would like us to consider for future events, please do not hesitate to contact us!
Thanks again to everyone for helping to get Whirlygig Cinema off the ground, it’s all really exciting!
Poster design by Sam Rees.
“Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music” Stanley Kubrick
Whirlygig Cinema will present a series of short films by up-and-coming artists and filmmakers in the UK. These works vary greatly from animation and artist video to documentary and narrative film and have all been made for different reasons, but they do have one thing in common; music.
Music is an incredibly influential tool in the filmmaking process and can instantly change our perceptions of what we see on screen. It can turn a potentially sorrowful scene into one of ironic slapstick and heighten our expectations of an otherwise uneventful storyline. It can twist, probe and toy with our emotions, leaving us feeling like quivering wrecks or elated gods. And at any point it can bugger off, leaving us to deal with the awkward and desolate void of silence.
Music is cruel and manipulative, and for this reason it should be celebrated. Come to Stamford Hill’s most endearing bar on Sunday 13th June and be amazed at the number of possibilities involved with mixing music and video. Observe the happy marriage between the two formats as they tease and torment you in many different ways, then nurse your abused emotions with some beautiful and captivating music from guitarist Wooden Spoon.
With less than a month to go until Pangea Project opens its doors to film lovers and makers of all different creeds, the open submission for short films for this event is now closed. A massive thanks to everyone who sent me their work, I never expected to get such a huge response. If, however, you have work that would have been suitable for this but have arrived too late, please contact me and and I may be able to consider it for possible future events.
In the meantime please support this event by coming along ad bringing friends! Whirlygig Cinema will take place on Sunday 13th June at Pangea Project on Stamford Hill. Doors will open at 6.30pm for a 7pm film start, and there will be live music from Wooden Spoon after the films.