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FEATURED CONTRIBUTORSFilm & Animation
This festival is all about giving wandering audiences the opportunity to see films in very unusual locations, like Vanishing Of The Bees screening in a polytunnel. The third Branchage International Film Festival takes place 23 – 26 September on the island of Jersey, with film screenings, live music eventsts and partparties in an array of weird and wonderful locatations.
Making use of island’s many unusual indoor and outdoor settings such as the 13th Century Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey War Tunnels, several churches, the grandiose Jersey Opera House and the festival’s hub, a century old Belgian Spiegeltent crafted from wood, canvas and mirrors, Branchage really is unlike any film festival you’ve ever attended.
One of the most striking aspects of the festival is its marrying of film and music; with a programme packed full of music documentaries, live soundtrack events, parties and performances, there is plenty for the discerning music festival-goers to sink their teeth in to. Such as
IMMERSIVE SOUNDWALK: ALWAYS SOMETHING SOMEWHERE ELSE
Always Something Somewhere Else, by artist Duncan Speakman, is a sound walk that takes you on an journey and makes you feel like you’re inside a reflective film inside your own head. Wearing headphones and a special media pack enabled with GPS, you will wonder alone around St Helier to haunting narration. This type of art encourages people to physically and emotionally engage with their environments through media in new ways. Dr Constance Fleuriot, from the Digital Cultures Research Centre and Pervasive Media Studio, in Bristol, will be available to tell you more about pervasive media and art, and where it’s heading.
SCANNER PERFORMS TO VICTORIAN MAGIC LANTERN SHOWHOW
London-born electronica artiste Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, is one of the most important avant-garde musicians around today; having worked with the likes of film composer Michael Nyman and also a member of Githead with Wire’s Colin Newman, his sonic art work has been commissioned by the Tate Modern, The Barbican and Royal Ballet, and won the ICA’s Imaginaria 99 Award for Digital Arts. He will perform a live set to a Victorian magic lantern show consisting of scenes of old Jersey and London, at Jersey Museum’s Merchants House. Magic Lanterns were the Victorian forerunners to modern cinema, and their antiquated charm combined with Scanner’s sonic tapestry ensure a unique event for all.
@ MERCHCHANTS HOUHOUHOUSE, JERSEY MUMUSEUMUM, SATURDAY 25TH
ZOMBIE ZOMBIE PERFORM TO BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
Parisian experimental duo Zombie Zombie perform to Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 classic Battleship Potemkin on a tugboat in St Helier’s harbour. Fusing krautrock, italo-disco and electronica influences, along with a penchant for vintage analogue synthesizers, the two-piece take their inspiration from the creepy soundscapes of John Carpenter (The Thing, Halloween) films and are one of France’s most important contemporary dance acts. Eisenstein’s classic Battleship Potemkin has been cited as one of the most important propaganda films of all time, and will be screened on a tug boat anchored in the St Helier’s harbour. Film fans are invited to watch this free event from the Albert Pier, and boat owners are encouraged to bring their vessels along to enjoy the action.
@ ST HELIER HARBOUR (ALBERT PIER), SATURDAY 25TH
