Mathematician

Music Film Festival No.1 - Day 2/3 : ARTFUL @ THE PICTUREHOUSE
Saturday 29th October - Doors 6.30pm Films 7pm - £5 a ticket
Greenwich Picturehouse, 180 The High Street, London SE10
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk - Box Office 0870 755 0065

Follow Me Around - directors: Nazare & Samuel (approx 45 mins)
The story of every band is largely defined by having fans... here's one told from a different angle - this travelogue/documentary made with Radiohead’s co-operation - on the Summer 2002 tour of Spain and Portugal which previewed songs from the album 'Hail To The Thief' and includes live footage and band interviews. Radiohead appear courtesy of Parlophone Records.

Elton John Is A C*nt - director Nicky Magliulio (3 mins)
British artist Nicky chronicles contemporary culture through a series of captured momentary fragments exploring a hypertext of realism - humorous, banal, violent and absurd. Often all at the same time. Encapsulating and amusingly poignant www.newcontemporaries.org.uk

Faction - director: Patrick Jones (30 mins)
A collection of short films, projections and film poems by Patrick Jones; father, playwright, poet, speaker, teacher and film maker. Some were used by Manic Street Preachers (Patrick's brother Nicky Wire is their bassist) on their Lifeblood Tour at the end of 2004. Patrick has developed writing groups, drama workshops, set up projects and so much more - in short he is a national treasure of positive history.

Ephemera - director : Paul Johnson (8 mins)
A response to the nostalgic melancholy of Espen Sommer Eide's 'End Of All Things II'. Emotinal endurance, memory and the fragility of identity. Many of the evocative opticals were achieved in-camera. Paul is looking to produce more short form work including music videos and documentaries. His first live video performance is imminent with the Sinistry of Mounds collective.

May Day - director: Emory Ruegg & Ben Strebel (4 mins)
'Fresh from jaunts all over Europe on the Electro circuit, the acclaimed Spektrum cause a politically charged riot with this limited edition single from 2005. A trained actor, Emory is currently gaining invaluble experience working on commercials and promos. He wants to direct and this is his first music video. Ben is a skilled VJ which has led him to hone his visual skills as a director.

Monuments - director: A C Winter (5 mins)
' Visually recontextualised by long term collaborator A C Winter, Monuments is a solo cut served up by Random Woman of Gertrude's Storm and the fearless aheM! Records collective. a song that captures the immeasurable beauty of regime change and the bittersweet melancoly of relationship breakdown.
http://www.gertrudesstorm.co.uk

Mathematician - director: A C Winter (4 mins)
Lifted from the recent' Chapter of Accidents' EP. A C has reworked and rejigged live footage of London rock band corporation:blend and spliced it with his directorial vision. www.corporationblend.com

Self Portrait - director: Zeb Lamb (10 mins)
'You want to know the truth behind the art and the true vision of the artist you commissioned to celebrate your very being?

Free Speech - A Blaine Brothers short (4 mins)
Dirty water. Dirty minds. Danny Dyer and Jacqueline Oceane in this wry observation of honesty. The Blaines are part of the Digital Sneakers collective whose documentary ‘Rocklands - Live In New Cross’ is a cornerstone of Artful, some of which is being filmed to update the story. Involvement invited.
www.digitalsneakers.co.uk

Yorkshire Rapper - director: Nick Rutter (4 mins)
'He's straight out of Bradford and his name is Yorkie! He ain’t talkin chocolates, kids - he's bigger than Snickers and badder than Mars. Nick, on the other hand, has been busy forging his own career with four years experience as a junior producer at MJZ - a company responsible for some of the best current crop of commercial directors in the world. Yorkshire Rapper was also screened at Cannes '04.

Rhythm and Poetry - director: Josh Sanders (12 mins)
'Rap music is commonly associated to crime and violence. This film attemptes to break down stereotypes and take a closer look at lyrical content and live performance. Josh is currently exploring his career with music promos and is interested in getting involved in further documentary films.'

Mo Solid Gold (4 mins)
A montage of live footage from the legendary, incendary Mo Solid Gold. A complete live experience of the amazing but often appreciated talent that fuels the thriving home grown scene. Now disbanded without their potential being lost, Mo Solid Gold still incite whistful sighs from those their magic touched.

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The newly established Greenwich Picturehouse has opened it's doors to the Artful festival helping establish a platform for new exciting passionate film makers plying their trade and sharing their wares in the name of honest expression, vocation dedication or even first offerings.

Artful is a non-conventional convention of entertainment and exhibition throughout October 2005. Generating something fresh by providing opportunity, exposure, experience and new contacts to bands, film-makers, artists, dancers, theatre, cabaret, comedians, promoters. A situationist celebration. Artul is an open invitation to the fearless and imaginative, mixing and mashing, subverting and creating and most important of all SHARING THE JOY.

Tonight we have a stellar line-up of cinematic treats and triumphs for your pleasure combining content both unknown and globally recognised, coupled up with quality VJing courtesy of the enigmatic Bill Posters - so sit back, sup your tipple and take it all in... Again, a love music and theatrical sound tracking is a common theme

(in Artful style, a ticket stub gets cheap entry into Amersham Arms New Cross - down the road - for partying until 2am).

Music Film Festival No.1 concludes on 31st October at Brixton Ritzy with the world's first showing of Julien Temple's films THE FILTH & THE FURY and THE GREAT ROCK N ROLL SWINDLE on one bill, followed by a Q+A with the director (whose film GLASTONBURY is out next year) afterwards.

http://www.artful.ik.com