August 20th-24th at the Forest Cafe (Bristo Place), Edinburgh.
WTCD,TD & Graven Images Presents
MIDNIGHT MOVIES IN THE EVENING
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Every night from 7, we turn down the lights and pull back the curtains for an evening at the pictures. For four nights our big screen presents anything from mumblecore to diary films to psychedelic video nasties. Come see young lovers, broken hearts, foreign lands and open roads. See creatures of the night and karaoke songs on our silver screen. Be our cheap date.
Wednesday 20th – WHAT THEY COULD DO SHORTS (Various, UK, 30 mins)
What They Could Do, They Did presents a programme of underground films to amaze and surprise. See poor fiends, invisible cities and cursed vampires in a revue of the work of Tom Moore. Travel across the sea to Russia in Tom Latter’s “Russia Is A Different Country”. Hear visions of the future and watch beauty pageant danses in Garry Sykes’ “Ecstasy”, and experience a cut-up subjective history of the cinema in Ad-Hoc & Mixpaste’s showcase reel. These films come from gutters, but all of them have stars, and tonight you will see them born.
Thursday 21st – QUIET CITY (Aaron Katz, USA, 2007, 90 mins)
With recent screenings at the ICA and on FilmFour, Aaron Katz is a name to watch. One of the breakout talents of the movement dubbed ‘mumblecore’ – a group of loosely affiliated NYC filmmakers with no budgets and heavy emphasis on improv, creative passion and heart – Katz’s second film Quiet City is a masterpiece of subtle emotion and genuine romance as a young woman adrift in New York meets a young man and they wander together through two unforgettable days and nights in the city. These films are your life. We’re proud to have this rare opportunity to share this one with you tonight.
Friday 22nd – JESUS RIDES SHOTGUN (Burke Roberts, USA, 1997, 50 mins)
A near legendary cult classic funded by dole cheques, Jesus Rides Shotgun has blazed a trail across the world since it’s 1997 midnight Cannes premiere. Shot over a period of years, and with a striking visual style, the film follows its hapless doormat protagonist as he discovers his fiance making hardcore porn without him and flees on a journey of self discovery across roads and plains in a mini-van. As he presses on the van fills with hitchhikers – musicians, Biblical prophets, vagrants, rappers and dead rock stars – driven always onwards by a unique, schizophrenic soundtrack, and all ending somewhere completely unexpected. You’ve never seen anything quite like this before.
Saturday 23rd – KARAOKE (Garry Sykes, UK, 2008, 35 mins)
This is a world premiere, these karaoke songs. Starring Tom Moore and introducing beautiful new starlet Alice Saint to the eyes of the world, these songs they sing tell who they are, were, and who they’re becoming. Karaoke is a no wave musical, a video portrait and above all a romantic picture. Karaoke is compromise, obsession and addiction. Karaoke is change, determined spirit and love.
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