Film Fest Gent released the entire programme of the 42nd Film Fest Gent today. From 13 until 24 October the festival will screen over 111 international and Belgium feature films. There's a focus on UK cinema, two film music concerts, panels and talks. Attending international guests include Colin Farrell, Hirokazu Koreeda, Pablo Larraín, Thomas Bidegain and Alan Silvestri.
Info and tickets at www.filmfestival.be
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
This year, thirteen films will compete in the Official Competition, which will be opened on Wednesday 14 October by 'The Lobster' in the presence of actor Colin Farell and director Yorgos Lanthimos. That same night, the festival also welcomes the Japanese grandmaster Hirokazu Koreeda ('Our Little Sister'). Furthermore directors Pablo Larraín ('El Club'), Thomas Bidegan ('Les Cowboys'), László Nemes ('Son of Saul') and John Maclean ('Slow West') will also present their films at the festival. The international jury members are Sir Alan Parker, Marjane Satrapi, Caroline Strubbe, Boyd Van Hoeij and Franco Lolli.
FOCUS ON UK CINEMA
After the focus on French cinema last year, the 42nd Film Fest Gent puts its spotlight on British films. The section UK Cinema includes a selection of 11 films that display the diversity of the current British cinema. Within this theme the classic 'Midnight Express' will be screened followed by a talk with director and jury president Sir Alan Parker. The concert Great British Film Music will be held on 22 October and will guide us through the rich heritage of British Cinema. Composers Craig Armstrong, Stephen Warbeck, Michael Nyman and Lifetime Achievement Award Winner George Fenton, will be attending.
BELGIAN CINEMA TODAY
Film Fest Gent presents the best and the strongest of Belgian cinema. The section includes the official opening film 'The Ardennes' by Robin Pront, 'Brak' by Laurent Van Lancker, the documentary 'Bobbejaan' by Benny Vandendriessche and Manu Riche's long-feature debut 'Problemski Hotel'. In the section Serial Madness, the last 4 episodes of the brand new series 'The Natives' (Bevergem) will be premiered at the festival. The second feature by Adil El Arbi en Bilall Fallah 'Black' is also included in the programma as well as two Belgian co-productions: 'Phantom Boy' and 'Les Cowboys' by Thomas Bidegain.
WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS
The festival will close on 24 October with the 15th World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert. Central guests are Alan Sivestri, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton. After the prestigious award ceremony, Brussels Philharmonic & Flemish Radio Choir, conducted by Dirk Brossé, will perform a selection of the oeuvre of these great composers.
The 42nd Film Fest Gent runs from 13 until 24 October at Kinepolis Gent, Studio Skoop, Sphinx, Vooruit, KASKcinema, Bijloke and Kuipke. Info and tickets at www.filmfestival.be.
The brand new clip is s extracted from the second album " Mirage post-horizon " which is out on Trinity Records on cd and vinyl...
BEAT:CANCER LIVE 2015 - ELECTRONIC / INDUSTRIAL / NOISE CONCERTS IN AID OF CANCER RESEARCH UK.
Featuring UK Exclusive headline shows from Modulate.
The Zoo, Manchester - Friday 13th November
Slimelight, London Saturday 14th November.
After releasing two successful fundraising CDs Beat:Cancer launched into their first charity gig last November, raising £1500 to help Cancer Research UK fund research into screening, treatment and cures for cancer.
This year Beat:Cancer LIVE not only returns to Slimelight in London on Saturday 14th Novemeber, but heads north for the first time to The Zoo in Manchester on Friday 13th November; boasting UK exclusive headline shows from Modulate, supported by 5 bands each night; ranging across the alternative electronic spectrum from rousing Synthpop duo 'Advance' to brutal Noise project 'Tapewyrm'. Both nights will be followed up by after parties with some of the scene's best DJ's.
Beat:Cancer started life in 2012 as the founder Mark Haigh's reaction to the loss of a friend and colleague to lymphoma. Word spread and artists were quickly pledging their support and their music. Initially envisioned as a 7 track digital EP, it became a double disc compilation of tracks featuring artists from around the world, released at the renowned festival 'Resistanz' in Sheffield, Easter 2013. Beat:Cancer v1 went on to almost sell out in it's first weekend, going on to raising over £1000 and listing as Brutal Resonance's 14th best album of 2013.
The first of this year's events takes place in The Zoo, one of Manchester's finest underground clubbing venues, followed by Slimelight, the world's longest running alternative/dark-scene nightclub (28 years this October).
Beat:Cancer LIVE 2015 draws from not just acts loved worldwide, but supports up and coming artists, with Biomechanimal making their Manchester debut on the Friday night. With crowd favourite acts such as Be My Enemy (featuring Phil Barry of Cubanate) and Dreams Divide, stunning visuals and the generous support of AnalogueTrash Records both nights promise to raise the roof, and hopefully substantial amount their vital cause, Cancer Research UK. Not forgetting the after parties featuring 3 guest DJ's; AD3K (Resistanz and AnalogueTrash), Kohl (Sinistry and Resistanz) & Zombie Chris (Infest and Club Recall).
Full details, line-ups and advance tickets are available on the official Beat:Cancer website at www.beatcancer.info
For further information please contact: Mark Haigh
e: contact@beatcancer.info
t: 07852 967343
Snowthorn is the long awaited debut album from Mike Connelly (Wolf Eyes / Hair Police) and his wife, Tara, recording together as Clay Rendering.
Perhaps the most compelling of all the many projects started by one-time members of Wolf Eyes, Clay Rendering came to life in 2013 and have since released a trio of singles for Hospital Productions that have gained them the admiration of followers spanning both electronic and metal communities.
Their material occupies unique terrain, recalling The Cure’s widescreen Disintegration-era instrumentals, cut through with a Black Metal palette and an appreciation of electronic music that imbues their production (notably assisted by Dominick Fernow) with an end-of-world quality that’s impossible to pin down. Evoking Nine Inch Nails one moment, you find yourself in a smoke-filled, strobe-lit Road House the next; bleary-eyed, head spinning, coming down.
Guitar, Accordion, Piano and electronics underpin these songs, opening with the whirling death march of ‘Maps on The Floor’ and the funereal trudge of “Swallow The Century” before the grinding fuzz of “Sight From Up There” changes pace with the addition of a forlorn piano melody and Becka Diamond’s distant vocal zooming in on half-remembered songs, rendered here with hazy definition.
“Fall Of The Bed” and “Memory Loses Momentum” find Clay Rendering at their most visceral and catchy; a reminder that they are first and foremost a band that write incredible songs, often submerged in fuzz and atmosphere, but here left exposed, bare, on display.
And yet the title track “Snowthorn”, “River Without” and the incredible album closer “Night To Perish” edge the album from the bleak and into the sublime, turning away from the snowy landscapes their music so often evokes, instead pulling you deep into night...
• Additional production by Dominick Fernow, additional vocals by Becka Diamond
• Mastered by Paul Corley, cut at D&M, Berlin
• A delicate yet uncompromising set of songs drifting somewhere between Gothic, Ambient, Black Metal and Dream Pop.
Originally available as a small-run cassette, of which the 222 copies pressed quickly sold out, “Imposing Elitism” is now finally available on CD (presented in Digipak format) and LP (both on black or gold 180 gram vinyl, with matching covers, each limited to 250 hand-numbered copies and including download code)!
Boasting the unique personality of this Swedish combo, Arditi's music taps into the darker tones of Militaristic Neo-Classical ambiance that has become the band's trademark. Ever effective in their use of crushing orchestrations and evocative speeches, the band hereby drags the listener around muddy trenches, and casts a hypnotizing veil over the turmoil of warfare-inspired Industrial soundscapes. Spearheaded by Henry Möller and Marten Björkman, Arditi first came to light in 1997, inspired by the Italian Futurist Movement of the early 20th century. But given both members' involvement in other projects (such as Puissance and Algaion), it was not until 2002 that the first recorded output would come to be released.
