Screenings in harbours, not cinemas. Burlesque instead of after-film Q&As. Sipping urine instead of Frascati. Chris Michael on the new breed of film festival rejecting the Cannes way
Name the festival at which the following event took place. Cult American musician Ian Svenonius stands on an 18th-century military tower a mile from the shore, his gravity-defying hair whipping around in the breeze. He begins an impromptu play, with three randomly selected audience members improvising a rap behind him. Svenonius is talking as fast as he can in order to finish before the tide rushes in and we all get stranded in the English Channel overnight. Latitude? The Brighton biennial? A Comintern club night? None of the above.
If you answered the Branchage film festival, however, you'd be bang on. Svenonius's deadpan performance of "post-apocalyptic cinema" is part of an energetically loopy and welcoming event – now in its third year...
Name the festival at which the following event took place. Cult American musician Ian Svenonius stands on an 18th-century military tower a mile from the shore, his gravity-defying hair whipping around in the breeze. He begins an impromptu play, with three randomly selected audience members improvising a rap behind him. Svenonius is talking as fast as he can in order to finish before the tide rushes in and we all get stranded in the English Channel overnight. Latitude? The Brighton biennial? A Comintern club night? None of the above.
If you answered the Branchage film festival, however, you'd be bang on. Svenonius's deadpan performance of "post-apocalyptic cinema" is part of an energetically loopy and welcoming event – now in its third year...
- 10/28/2010
- by Chris Michael
- The Guardian - Film News
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