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Wed 21st Don't You Wonder Sometimes presents MINIMA: live soundtrack to the surrealist classic 'The Seashell and the Clergyman' + Lautrec (live video-art / electro act) + TooLoose (dubstep / electro dj set) + hosts for the evening; The Lumiere Sisters
Doors 7.30
Don't You Wonder Sometimes returns to The Luminaire for a second outing with their heady mix of live acts, hostesses, DJ sets and video art for your aural and viewing pleasure.
Arguably the first example of surrealist cinema, 'The Seashell and the Clergyman' is a dark erotically-charged film, a hallucinatory story of tormented desire, guilt and conflict. With daring imagery, startling effects and editing and a sense of the absurd, it was banned by the British Board of Film Censors with the words: "The film is so cryptic as to be almost
meaningless. If there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable." (BBFC 1928).
Whilst the writer of the piece, Antonin Artaud, had to be ejected from the cinema for hurling abuse at the director Germaine Dulac during the film's premier, it has since quite rightly taken it's place as one of the most celebrated avant-garde movies of all time and is a direct predecessor of classics such as Bunuel and Dali's 'Un Chien Andalou'. Acclaimed
post-rockers "Minima, whose performance at Latitude Festival this summer was a true highlight of the weekend's Film and Music tent, provide a suitably evocative soundtrack.
"Minima provide a terrific new soundtrack to the film." [Resonance FM]
Watch a clip here
Don’t You Wonder Sometimes is the latest outlet of song-writer, producer and programmer Ed Simpson, who has previously put on cinema / band events for the likes of Robin Guthrie
(Cocteau Twins), electronica pioneer Biosphere and artist extraordinaire Juana Molina (Domino). His video-art / electronica outfit Lautrec play a support set prior to
Minima's soundtrack.
“Dark and broody yet always catchy, Lautrec deserve to be huge." [Metro]
"Love it." [DJ Nick Luscombe]
”A dazzling live set.” [The Fly]
”Delicious sampledelics.” [The Guardian]
Dubstep and electro from TooLoose on the decks and the evening is
hosted by the Lumiere Sisters. |
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