:: PROGRAMME: Wednesday, October 29th 2003 ::
This months screening was part of BBC Radio 1's Live in Brighton week involving live broadcasts from different venuesa around the city. Final Cut was invited to take part in recognition of the importance played by music videos in promoting popular music. As a result, our programme tonight was big on music with premieres of several locally-produced MVs and other films with music themes.

:: FIRE'S BURNING - Director Dominic Jones - 4 mins ::
MV promoting Brighton punk band, Phinius Gage, recently signed to Deck Cheese Records. The video mixes b/w scenes shot on Brighton beach with live colour material filmed on TV sets placed around their recording studio. The video was originally premiered on Sky's now defunct P-Rock music channel.

:: GIVE THE FINGER TO WINTER! - Director Lars Schuy - 4 mins ::
On Saturday night, September 20th 2003, Brighton's Laptop Jams raised a collective digit(al) to winter with the world's first Wi-Fi Beach Jam. Webcast live to the world from Brighton beach, it used the unique Pier2pier.net wireless network to unleash the output of six synched laptops on an unsuspecting internet. To the uninitiated, Laptop-Jams might sound like a sticky residue found on a businessman's trousers after a visit to Spearmint Rhino, but in fact they sound more like eeeeeeeeoooowwww! whump! whump! dogger! dogger! scccccrrrreeeeekow! doompf!!! Well, that's what their Press Release says. The last bit was German, by the way.

This fascinating film captures the excitement and weirdness of the event and poses the ultimate question: are they Geek or Chic? It also features a great soundtrack of original ambient funk and some stunning laptop-driven images.

For more information about Laptop Jams, visit: www.laptop-jams.com

::THE ADVENTURES OF BLUE - Director Herve Rebolj - 3 minutes::
This ultra-low budget animation from a French film-maker (and chef) currently based in Brighton is a satire on modern life that combines original music, hand drawings and clay-mation to hilarious effect. The film reveals what happens when a high-tech yuppie crosses the path of super-cool dinosaur with a warped sense of humour.

:: BORDER CROSSING (Directors Cut) - Director Mark Jay - 4 mins::
Brighton director Mark Jay has re-edited his latest MV specially for Final Cut which now includes previously unseen material.

The video features West London Hip Hop outfit, Border Crossing, with guest artist JEHST on MC duties. Filmed in a West London boxing gym, Alias has a distinctly Raging Bull feel with burlesque card-girls and a gangsta contingent. It also features Chris Eubank’s twin brothers, Peter and Simon, as robot boxers in a Robot Wars-style game played by band members. The single was released last month.

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

:: RODS & MOCKERS - Director Chris Daw - 4 mins ::
Assured, intelligent film set in an English country garden one summer afternoon. It tells the story of an elderly bee-keeper as she sifts through distant memories to recall the roots of her love for honeybees.

:: COLLECTORS OF WOOD STREET - Director Mark Windows - 13 mins ::
Since its bustling heyday in the 1970s, Walthamstow's unique Collectors Centre has declined to the point where it barely survives. Nowadays, only a few traders and eccentrics remain in this almost forgotten part of East London. One of them (left) owns a record stall and his prodigious musical memory is able to come up with the song title and artist of any (vinyl) record - 45 or 33 rpm - merely by being given its catalogue number.

:: BOGLIFE - Director Will Jewell - 15 mins ::
This fast-paced and genuinely quirky film charts the descent of a nightclub toilet from a clean happy hygenic commode to a vomit-stained, shit-caked den of drugs and cheap sex. Set during the early 90's rave scene, it has a great soundtrack of original songs, fantastic costumes and is full of 'period' detail. It'll make you squirm, it'll make you flinch... it will make you wonder why you ever went a night club!

:: SOCK - Director Sean Baldwin - 5 mins ::
One man's bizarre relationship with a troublesome sock leads him on a surreal journey to his local launderette.

:: JUMPIN' PILLS - Director Herve Rebolj - 3 mins ::
New animated MV from the director of Adventures of Blue. This one is set in a surreal electronic world mysteriously resembling the inside of an old TV set and concerns the rescue of a lonely 'pill' from certain death. Fast, furious and very funny, it features loads of dodgy special effects and knock-out music from Brighton's DJ-prave.

:: GOOD TIMES - Director Ste Mcgregor - 4 mins::
Welcome return of this excellent computer animated MV from local animator, Ste Mcgregor. It promotes a recent single from Brighton band, The Lifters.

:: TRANSCENDIA - Director: Daniel Williams - 11 mins ::
Transcendia is a journey into and beyond India, supporting the music of Temple Hedz (Brighton-based producer, Paul Savery), a hot new name in global and electronic music. This extended MV is a fascinating montage of images comparing the urban and natural worlds that was shot in London, Brighton and India. It also includes footage of this year's anti-Iraq war march.

For information and production stills, visit: www.templehedz.co.uk

:: THE 12.37 TO LITTLEHAMPTON - Director: Lucy Ball - 4 mins ::
Rdiculously low budget commuter-nightmare tale from local animator, Lucy Ball. Using original music by Jim Robertson ('a friend of mine'), she proves that a good idea, well executed, is worth thousands (of pounds).

:: NOTHING IS WRONG - Director: Steve McGregor - 4 mins ::
The latest MV from Brighton animator, Steve McGregor, in which he refines the computer techniques first seen in his previous video, Good Times, which is also in tonight's programme. This one promotes the third release by F.C. Kahuna from their Machine Says Yes album, released at the end of July.

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