PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL 2006: COUNTERCULTURE
3rd - 22nd August
Free admission to everything!
Film, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, Comedy, Cabaret and Combined Arts
With three weeks of non-stop screenings of new independent short films at at
least two venues every night (Westbourne Studios and Inn On The Green),
Portobello Film Festival is "the biggest celebration of independent films in
Europe" (The Independent).
Pick up a programme for comprehensive listings. A handful of highlights is
listed below.
3 THURSDAY
Thu 3 August/Westbourne Studios:
6-11pm
Opening Party.
Video Art including History Of French Video Art (7pm) and Portobello Market
Traders Fashion show (8.30pm) coordinated by Bella Freud.
Thu 3 August/Inn On The Green:
7pm
Comedy with Rob Newman
A History Of The World Backwards.
4 FRIDAY
Fri 4 August/Westbourne Studios:
6-11pm
Movies with sexual content
including Made In Secret (6pm), documentary about the worlds only feminist porn
collective, and Beyond Criticism (9pm), documentary about notorious Amsterdam
Wet Dream Festival.
Fri 4 August/Inn On The Green:
7pm
Music & Comedy
Alabama 3 playing acoustic set as Larry Love Showband in Benefit for Prisoners
Abroad.
5 SATURDAY
Sat 5 August/Westbourne Studios:
2-11pm
LONDON FREE SCHOOL REUNION AND BOYLE FAMILY
from 6pm films by Peter Whitehead (Tonite Lets All Make Love In London about
swinging 60s) and Boyle Family, including early Pink Floyd lightshows.
Sat 5 August/Inn On the Green:
2-11pm
DRAMA & COMEDY/MOSTLY FILMS FROM LONDON
6 SUNDAY
Sun 6 August/Westbourne Studios:
2-11pm
SKETCHES OF SPAIN
From 2pm a whole day of short films from Spain, including work from Madrid Film
School.
Sun 6 August/Inn On the Green:
2-11pm
DRAMA, COMEDY, ART, ANIMATION, & DUTCH SHORTS.
Special Showcase From The Video College. PoetryFilm at 6pm.
7 MONDAY
Mon 7 August/Westbourne Studios:
6-11pm
21st Century Documentaries
including Rootical about photographer Charlie Phillips and Portobello in the
early 60s, and Le Troisieme Monde from France about an Englishman and a
Frenchman rowing the Atlantic.
7 August/Inn On The Green: from 8. Gaz Mayall's Rockin Blues featuring live set
from The Trojans.
Mon 7 August/Inn On the Green:
7pm
Gaz Mayall and The Trojans.
Live set from legendary local Ska band and DJ set from superstar Gaz. Also
featuring ska and reggae beats from Django B and I-Shen.
8 TUESDAY
Tue 8 August/Westbourne Studios:
6-11pm
SUPER SHORT FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASE &
FILM LONDON ARTISTS MOVING IMAGE NETWORK
7pm Film London present Artists Moving Image Network and video art from
no.w.here plus (8.30pm) Super Shorts Soho Short Film Festival Greatest Hits.
Tue 8 August/Inn On the Green:
6-11pm
COUNTERCULTURE FEATURE FILMS
9 WEDNESDAY
Wed 9 August/Westbourne Studios:
6-11pm
SOMETHING FROM BRAZIL/
HOT SHORTS FROM SOUTH AMERICA
7.20pm Something From Brasil, selection of hot shorts from Brasil, and at 10pm
World Premiere of Rice N Peas new shock doc from Sierra Leone, Man Dem Nor
Glady'O, about ravages caused by diamond industry.
Wed 9 August/Inn On the Green:
6-11pm
AN EVENING OF ART, COMEDY, & DRAMA
10 THURSDAY
Thu 10 August/Westbourne Studios:
6-11pm
HALLOWEEN SOCIETY & ANIMATION NIGHT
7.30pm Halloween Society present Rockumentary Brittanica featuring short films
about Pete Docherty. UNKLE and UK Grime. At 9pm World Premiere of trailer for
Bolex Brothers Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers animation.
Thu 10 August/Inn On the Green:
7pm
Slam Poetry
Competition hosted by Tony Allen, with big cash prize.
11 FRIDAY
Fri 11 August/Paradise Bar:
6-11pm
Short films
Fri 11 August/Inn On the Green:
7pm
Tavistock Festival Awareness Raising Event.
Preview of September's free event in Tavistock Square featuring Screaming
Violets, Kate Meranda, The Johnsons, Ros, Azbo, and a very very Special
Surprise Guest.
Fri 11 August/Portobello Green Cinema Circus Tent:
7pm Glastonbury (Julien Temple).
12 SATURDAY
Sat 12 August/Portobello Green Cinema Circus Tent:
3pm Garfield
5pm Madagascar
7pm Bob Marley & The Wailers Live At The Lyceum
on the 12-13 august 2006 at portabello green dj splackavelli softtouch from
drive time radio will be playing live from 2pm till 8.30 pm with giveaways and
he will take you through the years of music.
Sat 12 August/Paradise Bar:
6-11pm
DRAMA & DOCUMENTARIES.
Sat 12 August/Inn On The Green:
7pm
Music and films from Warwick Castle/Rough Trade
scene in the 80s including on rare films Sinead O Connor, Vic Reeves and Joe
Strummer.
13 SUNDAY
Sun 13 August/ Inn On the Green:
2-11pm
DOCUMENTARY DAY
Sun 13 August/Portobello Green Circus Tent:
Johnny Depp double bill
3pm Pirates Of The Caribbean 1,
5pm Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.
7pm Syriana.
Sun 13 August/Paradise Bar:
6-11pm
21ST CENTURY DOCUMENTARY
14 MONDAY
Mon 14 August/Westbourne Studios:
6-11pm
Filmmmakers Against War
including (6.30pm) Rob Newman's History Of Oil and (9pm) Emily Woof's Between
The Wars.
Mon 14 August/Inn On The Green: Music Videos and Film London funding information
session (6.30pm)
Mon 14 August/Inn On the Green:
6-11pm
MUSIC VIDEOS & DOCUMENTARIES &
FILM LONDON SEMINAR
15 TUESDAY
Tue 15 August/ Westbourne Studios:
6-11pm
International Environmental Film Festival (from 6pm).
Tue 15 August/Inn On the Green:
6-11pm
DRAMA & COMEDY.
16 WEDNESDAY
Wed 16 August/Westbourne Studios:
6-11pm
Portobello Irish Film Festival
featuring shorts from Network Ireland and Irish Language Films from Cork Film
Festival.
Wed 16 August/Inn On The Green:
6-11pm
Video Café
choose your own film from a selection of over 50 hours of the best of
contemporary independent filmmaking.
Wed 16 August/Westbourne Grove Church:
6-11pm
IDEAS IN MOTION ECOLOGY FESTIVAL CONTINUES
International Environmental Film Festival
17 THURSDAY
Thu 17 August/Westbourne Studios:
6-11pm
BLACK EYE NIGHT
DRAMA & COMEDY
Thu 17 August/Westbourne Grove Church:
7pm
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
present Conversations On A Sunday Afternoon (Khalo Matabane) about life for
refugees in South Africa today.
Thu 17 August/Inn On The Green:
7pm
Ken Campbell's Eccentric.
Solo show from top alternative comedian.
18 FRIDAY
Fri 18 August/Westbourne Studios:
6-11pm
GOING DUTCH.
Dutch Films from Film Holland, and at 8pm Top iconoclastic Dutch video artists
Arno Coenen introduces a selection of his work
Fri 18 August/Inn On The Green:
7pm
Space Ritual and The Final Programme.
Nik Turner plays Hawkwinds Space Ritual and (7pm) Jenny Runacre introduces
Michael Moorcocks cult classic The Final Programme.
19 SATURDAY
Sat 19 August/Westbourne Studios:
2-11pm
HAVING A LAUGH: COMEDY FILMS
AT THE PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL
20 SUNDAY
Sun 20 August/Westbourne Studios:
2-11pm
Grand Finale
closing Party featuring some of the best films submitted to the Festival this
year including Silvestre Jacobi's Roots Time at 4pm, and top AV artists
Addictive TV in the atrium.
This year's Festival focuses on Portobello's rollercoaster cultural history
since the 50s with the programme featuring Portobello Psychogeographical
History 1956 - 2006 by Tom Vague, and photographic exhibitions of Portobello in
the 50s, 60s and 70s by Charlie Phillips, John Hoppy Hopkins and Ron Reid at the
Inn On The Green, and The Westbourne pub. Also featured are local grafitti
artists Alex Martinez at The Muse on Portobello Road, and Ripoulin (French
poster artists) and Joe Rush (Glastonbury Festival) at Westbourne Studios, and
Gordon McHarg at the Subway Gallery.
www.portobellofilmfestival.com
Portobello Green, Thorpe Close, W10
Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Rd, W10
Inn On The Green, 3 Thorpe Close, W10
Paradise, 19 Kilburn Park Rd, W10
Westbourne Grove Church (corner of Ledbury Rd) W10
The Westbourne, 101 Westbourne Park Road, W2
Subway Gallery, Edgware Rd/Harrow Rd pedestrian underpass, W12
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