The World's First Mobile Solar Powered Cinema celebrates 11 years of presenting independent and underground film screenings at 
Glastonbury festival. 

Highlights include the Green Screen Carbon Neutral Film Festival, the Solar Cinema video selectors, Junk TV,  Iconcious, Live video remixing from the

Vjamm Allstars, Live multimedia comedy from Hattie Hatstar and the

famous Groovy Movie Multimedia Cabaret. 21st century, interactive,

underground cinema, with a host of special guests and surprises from the

world of alternative video.

HIGHLIGHTS

Thursday

  From 9pm. Sneak preview. A night sampling what’s to come in the Solar

 Cinema. Featuring Junk TV, Iconcious, Undercurrents. Live music and comedy from Hattie Hatstar, and a ridiculous video jam featuring all of our movie selectors.

Friday

2pm: Three miles north of Molkom.

 Hidden deep in the lakeside forests of Sweden, lies Angsbacka; a 21st Century playground for adults. Once a year, their gates open to a thousand international participants, placed in ‘Sharing Groups’ at random. A Swedish celebrity, a Californian hippy,  a Finnish grandmother and a back-packing Australian rugby coach, who stumbled on the wrong party, are amongst the group that take us on an

unforgettably quirky, two-week emotional roller-coaster. Will they ever be the same again?

after an amazing run at the Gothenburg International Film Festival, Three Miles North of Molkom picked up the Audience Award for best feature  (out of 450 dramas and documentaries screened).

Midnight:. Undercurrents. Pioneers of  Underground media, Undercurrents, screen news, views, opinions, satire and positive propoganda. News you wont see on the news.

1am. Junk TV. The best of the last ten years of JunkTV’s short film nights.

2am. Iconcious. Wild and whacky selection of comedies, music, video

remixes and cheeky bootlegs from Iconcious

3am: Heima - Sigur Ros

Last year, in the endless magic hour of the Icelandic summer, Sigur Rós played a series of concerts around their homeland. Combining both the biggest

and smallest shows of their career, the entire tour was filmed, and now provides a unique insight into one of the world’s shyest and least understood

bands captured live in their natural habitat. www.heima.co.uk

Saturday, 2:30pm Green Screen Carbon Neutral Film Festival.

 Screening inspiring and informative films from all over the world, based on

concerns and responses to the environmental situation. Highlights

include...

2.30, Friends of the earth presents, Palmed Off – a film showing the downside of bio fuels + Q&A  with Friends of the Earth, special guests and short films from the FoE film festival

4.30 The Ethical Trader - a fly on the wall of an ethical trader who runs a small scale charity buying and selling west African Arts and crafts,

and ploughing all the profits back into those same small villages. The filmakers were invited back to film 2 music festivals put on by the charity;

 one situated on the coast at an old slave trading fort, and one at a village near the border with Burkina Faso,7 miles form the nearest road,

 on the other side of the white Volta River. A lively and enlightening documentary, narrated by David Bellamy.

Plus many more eco shorts hot off independent edit suites from around

the world.

Midnight:. Undercurrents. Pioneers of the Underground media, Undercurrents present news, views, opinions, satire and positive propoganda. News you wont see on the news.

1am. Hattie Hatstar’s Multimedia Cabaret. A 21st century Cinema Verite.

A fast and furious live selection from hundreds of shorts, covering

comedies, music video, classic dance routines, Video remixes, satire,

sillyness, and regular live comedy interventions from acclaimed songwriter and

accordianist, Hattie Hatstar. Interactive cinema at it's best.

3am. Black Cat White Cat

- A riotous mix of farce, romance and crime. Set within a community of gypsy people, it tells a story of dodgy deals,

 family ties, young love and magical occurences. Zare is in love with beautiful Ida but his crooked father Matko, having botched up a black market deal,

intends to marry him off to the sister of a powerful gangster - a woman so tiny that her nickname is Ladybird. Beautifully filmed on the banks of the

Danube this colourful comedy is crammed with spectacle, incident and the powerful music of Emir Kusturica's famous travelling gypsy band. Thanks to

Artificial Eye for permission to screen this film (www.artificial-eye.com)

Sunday – Activist Cinema from way Underground

  10pm. SOCPA - the movie .

 The serious organised crime and police act 2005, was designed to rid parliament square of veteran peace activist Brian Haw. He's still there, and many others have fought the law in imaginative and sometimes comic ways. this hour-long documentary shows the enormous creativity and tenacity of Brian and other campaigners appalled at the idea that we have to ask for permission to protest near parliament.

Featuring an original music soundtrack and contributions from all the main players who have challenged this law, this film is at times frightening, funny, shocking and deeply moving.

11pm On the verge.

  This film gained notoriety when the Police began a campaign of pressuring cinemas and venue owners not to screen it. This misguided official censoring resulted in a huge wave of publicity, inspiring countless underground screenings

In 2004 a group of Brighton peace campaigners began to bang pot and pans outside their local arms manufacturers EDO MBM in disgust of their

part in the Iraq war. This has grown into a campaign, which has cost the company millions, and has tested the right to protest in the UK. Using activist, police and CCTV footage plus interviews with those involved in the campaign, On The Verge tells the story of one of the most persistent and imaginative campaigns to emerge out of the UK's anti-war movement.

Midnight. The Hattie Hatstar Show. Award winning accordionist, song writer and

comedian presents her multimedia show, with big screen video trickery,

and a wit as sharp as her tongue.

1am. Vjamm Allstars Video Jamm. Remixes, bootlegs, mashups, video shorts and comedies from one of the world’s top Audio/ Visual teams. Featuring contributions from all the Solar Cinema video selectors, and some very special guests.

  www.groovymovie.biz

  solarcinema@groovymovie.biz

Here is some information about the groovy Movie Picture House Solar
  Cinema and the Green Screen Carbon Neutral Film Festival which we
  will be curating in the Green Fututres field this year at Glastonbury
  Festival. I hope it is of use. If you require any more information,

  do not hesitate to contact me.
  Jerry  - Groovy Movie Picture House - Solar Cinema

  For the past ten years we have been running the Solar Cinema -  The
  Groovy Movie Picture House. This is the World's First Mobile Solar
  Powered  Cinema. 
  We began the project as a reaction to the complete lack of provision
  for screening independent and underground film at arts festivals. 
  Over the years we have built the venue into a fully featured, high quality
  mobile cinema, which tours a wide range of outdoor events around the
  UK and Europe. We are dedicated to promoting the work of film makers
  at all levels, and have inspired many potential filmmakers to have a
  go. Our cinema is quirky, cosy, comfortable, informal, intimate and
  friendly. We provide the ideal space to road test films in front of a
  receptive festival audience - including many who would not 
  necessarily attend film festivals.
  We all have a background in environmental activism, and the cinema is
  partly a continuation of this. From the beginning we have been 100%
  Solar Powered, generating all our electrical need with a large bank 
  of solar panels. This, we hope provides a clear message to our audiences
  that Solar electricity is a viable option. Big, bright, exciting
  things can be achieved with small amounts of power and a little
  thought. By coincidence we have also discovered that solar energy is
  the ideal power source for a mobile cinema, giving us the freedom to
  set up anywhere, without the distraction of a noisy generator.
  The Groovy Movie Picture House operates within a beautiful custom
  built, blackout marquee, so we can screen in the day or at night. We
  can comfortably accommodate up to 200 people - or squeeze in 250+ 
  when we have a party. During the day our panels charge a large battery
  bank, which provides up to 20 hours worth of reserve power for use at
  night or in bad weather. All of our equipment has been chosen for
  energy efficiency, without compromising quality at any level.
  The Solar Cinema operates as a low profit project. We have always 
  been reluctant to accept corporate sponsorship. We rely on booking fees
  from events, and the occasional grant or donation to cover our 
  running costs and wages. Our integrity has won us many friends over the 
  years, and many conscientious film makers from around the world support us 
  by allowing their work to be screened  in our unique venue, for which we
  are very grateful.
   
     The Green Screen Carbon Neutral Film Festival

  Now that Global Warming has finally been accepted by the mainstream,
  we though the time was right for the World's First genuinely carbon
  neutral independent film festival. The Green Screen Film Festival 
  will be screening the best new films from independent producers, inspired
  by all aspects of the environment. Green Screen will include
  documentaries, comedies, animations, music videos and multimedia
  performances from a wide range of concientios producers. 
 
  Films include:

  Garbage Warrior (about the rogue architect who invented the 
  earthship - an eco house design made from recycled materials)

  Naked Bike Ride (about a mass naked cycle protest in London)

  Surplus  (Stunning, hard hitting, beautifully crafted audio/visual
  montage inspired by the dissatisfaction and inequality caused by
  consumer society)

  Crowd bites Wolf (an informative black comedy set in the anti
  globalisation protest in Prague)

  Stonehenge Cycles (following the Rinky-Dink and a colourful
  procession of cycle activists to stonehenge for summer solstice)

  Out of The Frying Pan (Tongue in cheek eco-road movie. A familly of

  travellers drive accross europe using only vegeatable oil for fuel)

  Animations from Nina Paley (a selection of animations from the award
  winning american animator, using comedy to explore themes such as
  over population)

  Undercurrents (The original video activists present a selection of 
  environmental and social documentaries and a good dollop of satire)

  ZenTV (a selection of music videos from our friends at Ninja Tune,
  including Coldcut and Mr Scruff)

  Live performances include:

  Vjamm Allstars (Award winning team of audio/ visual performers
  present their live show, remixing sound and vision on a bank of
  computers. Plenty of social and eco comment, humour and fat beats)

  Hattie Hatstar Multimedia show (acclaimed songwriter, accordianist, 

commedienne and activist Hattie Hatstar interacts live with the Big
  Screen in her hilarious multimedia show. With a wit as sharp as her
  tongue this is not to be missed)

  Website: www.groovymovie.biz

  
  solarcinema@groovymovie.biz