Solar Flares Burn For You
Friday 16th September, 20h
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 42-44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB
An evening of psychedelic cine-sonic shape-shifting
Featuring:
*rarely seen psychedelic underground films from the BFI - pow!
*cosmic music by Raagnagrok - k-blamm!
*guest DJs Julian House and Jim Jupp (Ghost Box Records) - zonk!
*light projections by Bardo Light Show and Anti-Gravity Chamber - zap!
‘Solar Flares Burn For You’ presents a specially curated programme, of rarely seen short psychedelic and pop-art films (1967-73), all originally produced with the financial assistance of the BFI and now preserved in the BFI National Archive. To mark this triumphant return to the public psyche, the films will be screened at East London’s Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club on Friday 16th September from 8pm.
Famed for hosting underground burlesque nights, performance art and raucous music events, for this evening only the venue will be transformed into an immersive moving image environment to invoke the spirit of the original underground arts lab culture from which the films emerged.
Moving outside of the staid and reverential space of the traditional cinema theatre, ‘Solar Flares Burn For You’ will harness moving images and sonic experimentation to take you beyond the screen and into the fabric of a live happening in which all are welcome to participate.
With the 90 minute programme of short films forming the centrepiece of the event, the screening will segue into a special live music performance by Raagnagrok, visually augmented by a live mix of visuals by the Bardo Light Show and the Anti-Gravity Chamber.
Beyond this final frontier our guest DJs, Julian House and Jim Jupp of Ghost Box Music, visually enhanced by their own official video loops will shift the mood up a gear and into after-show party overdrive with an eclectic sound-collage of way-out library music, obscure folk, soundtracks, electronica and psychedelia until the small hours of the morning.
Related official BFI DVDs and Blu-Rays will be on sale at a special bargain price.
Fusing together the spirit of psychedelic culture and the arts lab happenings of the ‘60s with the music cultures, performance art and spontaneity of contemporary concerns, ‘Solar Flares Burn For You’ will collide the visionary world of the artist-filmmaker with the auditory environment of the sound collagist, retro-futurists with tribes of psychedelic adventurers, DJs with manipulated film and video loop projection experiments, analogue with digital.
Tickets are on sale now and available in advance for £7 via We Got Tickets
£10 on the door, £5 after midnight