Ate De Jong has a mesage:

Dear friends,

The production team behind the forthcoming British independent movie ‘Love Is Thicker Than Water’ are delighted to announce that we’re in the final throws of post-production after an extremely successful shoot! The film illuminates the screen with a great cast including Lydia Wilson, Johnny Flynn, Juliet Stevenson and Henry Goodman and with our talented Directors Ate De Jong (Drop Dead Fred) and Emily Harris at the helm we are very excited for you to see the final product. 

To help propel us through the finishing tape please visit the link to our Indiegogo campaign below! The Campaign is filled with behind the scenes info/ videos/ sound bites and perks for your enjoyment. Please share this with as many people as you can as every extra person we reach will be an enormous help- and of course, any donations are hugely appreciated!

Love is Thicker than Water is a collaboration between veteran cult film director Ate de Jong (Drop Dead Fred) and Emily Harris, multi-award winning short film director and Head of Film Production at the Victoria and Albert Museum, making her feature film debut.

Cast includes: Lydia Wilson, Johnny Flynn, Juliet Stevenson and Henry Goodman.

We had a brilliant shoot and have completed principle photography. Now we need YOUR help to complete the movie!

Please visit our Indiegogo Page to learn more about how you can get inovlved in our beloved project 

www.indiegogo.com/projects/love-is-thicker-than-water#/story

Out in Belgian theatres on 2nd September: CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Stars: Banlop Lomnoi, Jenjira Pongpas, Jarinpattra Rueangram

Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with no family visitors. Jen befriends young medium Keng who uses her psychic powers to help loved ones communicate with the comatose men. Doctors explore ways, including colored light therapy, to ease the mens' troubled dreams. Jen discovers Itt's cryptic notebook of strange writings and blueprint sketches. There may be a connection between the soldiers' enigmatic syndrome and the mythic ancient site that lies beneath the clinic. Magic, healing, romance and dreams are all part of Jen's tender path to a deeper awareness of herself and the world around her.

Cemetery of Splendour

Trailblazing psychiatrist R.D. Laing changed the way mental illness was treated with his unique approach to therapy and in the early 1970s he allowed a film crew access to a group of his patients in one of the most incredible fly-on-the-wall documentaries ever made, Asylum. Now this fascinating film makes its UK DVD debut courtesy of OEG Classic Movies.

With David Tennant on board to play the renowned Glasgow-born analyst Ronald David Laing in a major new biopic, this timely release gives an insight into mental illness as filmmaker Peter Robinson and his crew enter the world of the schizophrenic residents of a hospital in Archway, London.

Filmed over a seven-week period the film takes us behind the doors and into the lives of mentally ill patients and Laing’s controversial approach to healing them through compassion and freedom.

Originally released in 1972 this groundbreaking film comes to UK DVD for the first time on 10 August 2015 complete with a slew of fascinating special features.

The 2nd Chapter:

2034: The Year We Make Contact.

A strange device has been discovered from deep beneath the surface of our planet.

Its origins: unknown. Its age: older than life, and its purpose: to change mankind.

With their soundtrack and in their unique inconceivable way, the two architects of sound

Artaud Seth (Merciful Nuns) and Ashley Dayour (Whispers in the Shadow, The Devil & The Universe)

manage to unreel an imaginary movie in the listener’s mind. 

This film does not require a movie theatre. It requires your intellect. 

NEAR EARTH ORBIT delivers a complex blockbuster masterpiece

with a perfect mixture of post-apocalypse, paranoia and fiction. 

Following a string of US shows this summer inc. dates with Total Control and Lust For Youth, San Francisco's Flesh World will finally be hitting the UK in September, playing an extensive tour including two shows in London at Oval Space on the 5th and New River Studios on the 12th...

4th September - Brighton - Hope & Ruin

5th September - London - Oval Space

6th September - Manchester - Gullivers 

7th September - Glasgow - The Flying Duck 

8th September - Nottingham - The Chameleon

9th September - Sheffield - Lughole

10th September - Norwich - Rumsey Wells 

11th September - Leeds - Temple of Boom

12th September - London - New River Studios

Check out Flesh World's newest video 'Just To Tear Me Down' which just debuted over at Noisey, taken from their debut full-length that's out now on Iron Lung Records. 

Flesh World began with Scott Moore (Limp Wrist) and Jess Scott (Brilliant Colors), in a microscopic lofted-bedroom in San Francisco's Panhandle district. Scott and Jess merged their respective musical histories of hardcore and pop, almost by accident. 

Without any mention of their previous bands, they bonded over the films of Kenneth Anger, the guitar work of Lou Reed and William Reid, the writing of Jean Genet, and the shirtless figures of David Hockney paintings. The pair slowly built songs in between hanging out at drag bars and punk shows, watching SF decay into some sort of inverted Detroit, isolated wealth which sent a lot of young artists running in the last couple of years. 

Flesh World is sort of what's left of that, where the only places to have fun are still leather bars, house music clubs, basement punk shows. After the music and vision of Scott and Jess began to coagulate they brought in Diane Anastasio also of Brilliant Colors to complete their basic and primitive sound.