Exploding Cinema: Two nights of underground short films featuring live music & mind-bending visuals

Film screening nights: Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 December, 6.30pm - 9.30pm

Workshops: Sunday 4 December, 11am to 4pm

ArtHouse Jersey is delighted to present Exploding Cinema, two jam-packed nights of underground short films at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House next week. Taking place between 6.30pm and 9.30pm on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 December, both nights will feature experimental, documentary and fiction films accompanied by live music and immoderately mind-bending visuals, offering a very different kind of night out.

For over 30 years Exploding Cinema, a raucous London film collective, have platformed short film in all its hybrid forms. With two fingers defiantly thrust in the face of convention, they have tirelessly championed rough and ready outsiders, the outrageously below radar, the ‘quirkishly’ beautiful and sometimes downright ugly. Showcasing work from all over the world in squats, basements, car parks, swimming pools - anywhere they can project an image, they explode cinema beyond the screen across walls and ceilings wherever they go. And in their own words, it’s “high time they lit a torch for underground film in the Channel Islands”.

Jersey based filmmakers were also invited to submit their own short films for the opportunity, which will be shown on both nights. These will be special events presenting work by members of the Exploding Cinema collective alongside work submitted through the open call. By submitting work via the Exploding Cinema website local filmmakers were also submitting to the general programme, so as well as being screened in Jersey, their work could be shown in London or elsewhere at future Exploding Cinema events.  Tickets for the screening evenings cost just £8 and are available via ArtHouse Jersey’s Eventbrite page.

WORKSHOPS

The Exploding Cinema collective will also be holding workshops on Sunday 11 - 4pm and those who pay £4 entry fee can access all of the workshops which will be taking place simultaneously at the exhibition space. They will include a bunch of exciting hands-on DIY filmmaking techniques, which will run concurrently including:  Film Hacks (scratch, colour and cut 16mm), Slide (stain, scratch, draw, chem), Cut-ups, (super 8 re-assemblages and loops), VJ (manipulation of film strips, loops using both analogue & VJ software) and for those who like their explosions less moving in time there will be Zine making following the cut & paste aesthetics that the Exploding Cinema Collective are famous for. There might even be a bit of digital image mapping.

Director of ArtHouse Jersey, Tom Dingle, said: “This will be the first time we’ve produced film events at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House and we’re excited to be able to do so with a collective as vibrant and exciting as Exploding Cinema. This has been a great opportunity for local filmmakers to showcase their skills and work with the support of a respected London based collective. The weekend screening nights should appeal to anyone who’s looking for a fun and alternative night out compared to the usual St Helier offerings. The content will be lively and entertaining; visitors are recommended to bring an open mind…”.

Exploding Cinema Tickets/Booking: Screenings £8, Workshops £4 are available via 

ArtHouse Jersey’s Eventbrite page