:: BRIGHTON FRINGE FESTIVAL 2004 - fifth screening ::

:: PROGRAMME: Saturday, May 27th @ Hanbury Arms, Kemptown ::

Our last-night festival screening and party featured a host of new music videos and music-related films plus live sets from local bands Acoustic House Party Happiness and Tailspin. Special guests were Brighton's free-styling maestro MC Buzz and rising stars of the London hip hop scene, Border Crossing - with legendary reggae DJ/ MC, Ricky Rankin. Plus support from several of the gorgeous dancin' girls featured in the Border Crossing MVs, including More To Life, which was shown tonight.

Full-On Films and Boarder Crossing DJs played a mix of Dance Hall reggae, Old/Nu Skool hip hop and slinky funk and disco and the guys from Brighton's Rare Kind gallery were along to display a selection of their renowned graffitti art and give a demonstation of how it's done - plus we showed a short film about the local graffitti art scene.

If that wasn't enough, there was our exciting Sixty-Minute MV Challenge in which five teams of camera/editors competed for a cash prize. Click here for more information.

:: OMINOUS - Director Mark Jay - 16 mins ::
First public screening of this fascinating film about Border Crossing, recently aired on E4. It takes a look at their background, history and musical influences and includes ultra- rare B&W Super-8 footage the director shot in the mid 80's at various warehouse parties and raves. Border Crossing's AJ was captured on this rare celluloid, along with other first-wave Hip Hoppers who were part of the seminal Smart Boys and Radical Crew.

Border Crossing performed live after the film

For more information about Mark Jay's films, visit www.fullonfilmproductions.com

:: RIGHT-ON BRIGHTON - Director Keiron Butler - 5 mins ::
Unusual and slyly humorous documentary-MV from local film-maker, Keiron Butler, who's prolific output includes the 2002 feature film, Venus and Mars. This one features popular local band, Acoustic House Party Happiness, during a recording session at their home studio in Hassocks.

Acoustic House Party Happiness performed live after the film.

For more information about the band, visit www.thehappiness.co.uk

:: STEREOTYPE SPECS - Director Tetsugaku-san - 4 mins ::
Inspired by bands as varied as The Pixies, Sex Pistols, Garbage and Blondie, Tailspin have been performing their unique brand of girl-fronted punk pop in and around Brighton for over two years. This MV promotes a song written by guitarist Steve Hayes that sends up society's narrow-mindedness, playfully sending-up the various ways in which band members have been misinterpreted.

Tailspin performed live after the film

:: REMEMBER 99 - Director Duncan Raitt - 5 mins ::
Brand-new animated MV released just three weeks ago to promote a song from Brighton performer, TM Juke, from his recent album Maps From The Wilderness. Set in a futuristic robo-world, it tells the poignant story of the search for love by a lonely robot.

:: BUZZ'S GUIDE TO HIP HOP BRIGHTON - Director Will Jewell - 10 mins ::
Brighton character and front man of local hip hop heroes Digitek, MC Buzz takes us on a high-speed trip around the City's hip hop landmarks and outlets. Meeting a host of local characters along the way he takes us into the record shops, the clothes shops and the legendary Rarekind Graffiti Gallery between slipping into impromptu street freestyles.

MC Buzz performed live after the film

:: GEMINI - Directors Christinn Whyte & Jake Messenger - 1 min ::
Performed by dancer, Franck Baranek, this improvised music/movement ultra-short cleverly uses a split-screen technique in which one side plays forwards while the other plays backwards. Based on a song from Craig Armstrong, the film has been shown at a variety of festivals including London's Northern Exposure and last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

:: SURELY - Director Marc Roels - 4 mins ::
This MV promotes a song from the band De La Vega and is definately for fans of Quentin Tarrantino as it combinies live Japanese-style sword action and animation to produce a film with more than a just nod in the direction of Kill Bill.

:: MORE TO LIFE - Director Mark Jay - 4 mins ::
The new single from Border Crossing is a soulful groove with a dancehall flava and Mark Jay's MV promotes it with a set of stylistic references ranging thru Foxy Brown, 70s TV and early Nic Roeg (Don't Look Now). As with their previous MV, also directed by Mark, the band play a gang of West London wider-than-wides. This time, they're trapped in a hotel room waiting for a mysterious deal with reggae legend, Ricky Rankin, and a couple of Yardie sidekicks. They are also being tailed by a cartel of international agents! Singer Alex Watson wants out and looking into a mirror remembers better times, thinking there's More to Life than this...

For more information about Mark Jay's films, visit www.fullonfilmproductions.com

:: BIG BROTHER 2 - Directors Tracy Hyde & Avrelian Dallaserra - 6 mins ::
Dark, brooding exploration of urban paranoia with a deeply atmospheric, mixed-down scratchy soundtrack. Don't walk home alone!

:: FISCHERSPOONER (WIP) - Director Nicolas Jenkins - 7 mins ::
The second film from this talented NY director we have shown in the festival, the first being Crutchmaster which was screened on May 6th. A work-in-progress, this visually stunning documentary combines behind the scenes concert footage with revealing interviews in its search to discover what makes this camp extravaganza tick.

:: NOW WE ARE FREE - Director Ste Mcgregor - 4 mins ::
New MV from local animator, Ste McGregor, promoting a big club hit from the band, Gladiator. A trance version of the film theme, it features the Brit-nominated classical singer, Izzy, Goddess of the beatbox, who oversees a battle between two gladiators in a huge arena.

:: THE DARK CONTINENT - Director Sam Needham - 3 mins ::
Funny, explicit music animation cleverly utilising (and sending-up) porn imagery to reveal the fragility of male sexuality.

:: GRAFFITI - Directors Mary Browning, Dave Ulliot & Alice Williams - 6 mins ::
Revealing documentary about the local graffitti scene. It features a typically weird bunch of Brightonian talking heads plus, oddly, the warden of a well-known city church with a particularly dry sense of humour (we think).

:: WORSE THAN DEATH (TRAILER) - Director Dominic Jones - 1 min ::
Although this new horror gore-fest from Brighton film-maker, Dominic Jones, is still in post production, it is already being talked about in the local media. This trailer has been specially prepared for Final Cut audiences, giving them a sneak preview of what is to come.

:: THE DOLL COLLECTOR - Director Annetta Marion - 1 min ::
Second screening of this spooky ultra-short from talented New York director, Annetta Marion. It tells the story of a weary traveller, relieved to find a room for the night. But, it's never that simple, is it?

:: 1987 - Director Rachel Junior - 4 mins ::
Do you remember the Hungerford Massacre? Michael Ryan? Local film-maker Rachel Junior, does, because she shared a taxi with the notorious mass murderer the night before he committed his crime. In the premiere screening of this powerful film, she tells her story.

:: BROADSIDED - Director Michael Ward - 4 mins ::
The song is from Brighton's Landmine Spring and is the third music promo from Muckspreader Productions. Its merciless director forced the band to play the song for many hours in their Lewes Road studio until he was happy. Loads of preparation, trick photography and amphetamines resulted in this hilariously high-energy MV.

:: SEEING RED - Director Oblong - 4 mins ::
Using a combination of live footage and 3D computer graphics, this MV features Killing Joke frontman as a vengeful and demented god who lays atomic waste to a world lost to the evils of capitalism.