The Groovy Movie Picture House








The World’s First Mobile Solar Powered Cinema










 






Once again the Groovy Movie Picture House brings its unique mix of independent and underground film, alternative news,  multimedia performance, live video remixing, audio/visual mashups, inspiring animations, enlightening documentaries, crazy comedy and cinema you can dance to till way after bedtime.








Sit down and be thoroughly entertained in comfortable cosy surroundings complete with cake, coffee and coco










 






Wednesday






 Preview Night – A taste of things to come in the Solar Cinema

 







9pm – Animation Hour – Fantastic and unusual animations you wont have seen on TV

 







10pm – Activist Cinema – Issues, Ideas and Actions from round the world







midnight - Junk TV.  Quick Flicks film festival. The funniest of the last ten years of JunkTV’s short film nights.






 






1am – Video Jamm






 





2am - Hattie Hatstar – Launching her new CD. National Treasure Hattie , in collaboration with the Solar Cinema Video crew, has devised this fiendishly ridiculous, cunningly interactive mixture of live musical comedy and big screen trickery







Thursday

 







9.30pm - Bric a Brac Productions presents - Richard's Love






Live Multimedia Theatre. 






A comic love story - with some bitter twists







In Richard’s Love, Bric a Brac Productions takes you into a magical and muddled world to tell the tale of shop girl Sarah, her unlikely hero Richard and her tricky Mother, who is determined to stand in the way of their love. 







This is a tale of love, hope, isolation and betrayal in a world where mermaids can be seduced out of the sea and gnomes might be called upon to leave the garden... 







Bric a Brac combines strong physicality and striking imagery. In Richard’s Love intricate shadow puppetry and quirky mask characters are weaved together with a strange and beautiful soundtrack and some impressively fast costume changes!






 





11pm - Cycle Cinema - An hour of bike related films featuring:







Bike2oz - two environmentally aware cyclists travel from the UK to Australia, overland, by Bicycle!







Rinky-Dink Stonehenge Procession - a strange carnival of cyclists, led by the imfamous Rinky-Dink pedal powered sound system, set off on mass to celebrate the summer solstice at stonehenge.






 





midnight The Hattie Hatstar Show. Live Multimedia Musical Comedy . Acclaimed musician, songwriter and comedienne Hattie Hatstar, in collaboration with the Solar Cinema Video crew, has divised this fiendishly ridiculous, cunningly interactive mixture of live musical comedy and big screen trickery






 





1am - Video Cabaret - a 21st century variety show featuring an astoundingly entertaining choice of short but sweet cinematic nuggets, cheeky remixes, vintage musical clips, marvellous mashups, innovative animations and foot-tapping film till way after bedtime. Chosen live by the Solar Cinema Selectors. 










 




Friday






 





Midnight – Undercurrents






Pioneers of  Underground media, screening news, views, opinions, information, satire and positive properganda. News you wont see on the news. www.undercurrents.org







1am - Tarantism live with VJ Monochrome. Classic festival band, and classic festival footage








2am - Riddles and Cupcake – From the sublime to the ridiculous. Audio/ visual delights from Mike Cupcake and DJ Riddles till the early hours.








Saturday






 





3pm – Saturday Matinee – 






Three Miles North Of Molkom







Three Miles North Of Molkom is a delightful and amusing documentary set during the aptly named No Mind Festival, an alternative therapy and meditation (hippy) festival, in Sweden. Set during the festival, rather than about the festival, this feels more like a fictional drama-comedy focusing on 6 characters and the borderline madness that goes on around, and within them. The participants get in touch with their ‘inner selves’ through a series of activities including ‘sharing groups’ with random strangers, shamanic sweat lodges and tantric sex. Or, as less-than-willing participant Nick, an Aussie rugby coach, puts it “a bunch of tree-hugging”.








The choreography of the film is so fluid, the coverage so complete and the dialogue is so drily funny that this shoestring movie is set to become an underground classic.













Midnight – Undercurrents






Pioneers of  Underground media, screening news, views, opinions, information, satire and positive properganda. News you wont see on the news. www.undercurrents.org






 





1am - Sita Sings the Blues






A brand new, multi award winning animated feature from American animator Nina Paley.







Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by e-mail. Three shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as “The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.  www.sitasingstheblues.com






 





2.30am - The Hattie Hatstar Late Show 






Acclaimed musician, songwriter and comedienne Hattie Hatstar, in collaboration with the Solar Cinema Video crew, has devised this fiendishly ridiculous, cunningly interactive mixture of live musical comedy and big screen trickery

 







3.30am – Double vision till dawn, presenting silly short attention span cinema for the sensibly challenged






 





Sunday






 





3pm An afternoon of live music and comedy from Hattie Hatstar, Cosmo, Sleepy Ed Hicks and many more






 





10pm onwards .... Video Jamm Movie mashup - A quick fire video cabaret of the most wonderful animations, short comedies, audio/visual variety, properganda, remixes, mashups, cinema you can dance to and many marvellous misuses of big screen technology. Featuring All the Solar Cinema Selectors, the Vjamm Allstars, Digital Funfair and special guests











 





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