Juxtaposition/Fleapits
An addenda to the Kino Fist plug below:
By the way, Kino Fist are looking to start screening short non-commercial films before the main feature. If you would like to send us something you've made (no dead animals) for potential screening (preferably 20 minutes or shorter and related to the general themes that KF are into), then send an email to infinitethought[at]hotmail.co.uk.
Incidentally, in the new issue of Sight and Sound there's an excellent feature about 'the Lost World of the Double Bill' which features a 1980s flyer from the Kings Cross Scala to die for (Fassbinder and Russ Meyer triple bills, themed nights, etc etc). It makes a very convincing case for a neglected bit of film culture, and aside from the merely cinematic pleasures of juxtaposition, the death of the double-bill seems to be linked to the decline of a certain ease and sociality - the idea that one might spend all day and all night in a comfortable seat in a public place, rather than standing uncomfortably watching a band badly replicate its record, which is the current activity housed by the Scala. Of course, conspicuous by its absence in S&S is any mention of the best place to see double (plus) bills in London, i.e, the capital's foremost quasi-academic Communist film club. Admittedly we don't get our hands dirty with actual reels of celluloid and we don't occupy a 1920s picture palace (any proprietors or employees of former Gaumonts that are now Bingo Halls please get in touch), but if there's anyone else providing such a total cinematic experience I would be delighted to be informed of where, and when.
(image via...)
By the way, Kino Fist are looking to start screening short non-commercial films before the main feature. If you would like to send us something you've made (no dead animals) for potential screening (preferably 20 minutes or shorter and related to the general themes that KF are into), then send an email to infinitethought[at]hotmail.co.uk.
Incidentally, in the new issue of Sight and Sound there's an excellent feature about 'the Lost World of the Double Bill' which features a 1980s flyer from the Kings Cross Scala to die for (Fassbinder and Russ Meyer triple bills, themed nights, etc etc). It makes a very convincing case for a neglected bit of film culture, and aside from the merely cinematic pleasures of juxtaposition, the death of the double-bill seems to be linked to the decline of a certain ease and sociality - the idea that one might spend all day and all night in a comfortable seat in a public place, rather than standing uncomfortably watching a band badly replicate its record, which is the current activity housed by the Scala. Of course, conspicuous by its absence in S&S is any mention of the best place to see double (plus) bills in London, i.e, the capital's foremost quasi-academic Communist film club. Admittedly we don't get our hands dirty with actual reels of celluloid and we don't occupy a 1920s picture palace (any proprietors or employees of former Gaumonts that are now Bingo Halls please get in touch), but if there's anyone else providing such a total cinematic experience I would be delighted to be informed of where, and when.
(image via...)
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