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SAT 5 AUG
Westbourne Studios 2–11pm

LONDON FREE SCHOOL REUNION AND BOYLE FAMILY

2:00

Something Else
Domitien Chen 55 minutes 18
Cloe leaves New York to start a job in London at the British Museum. Soon after she meets Antoine, an unforeseeable and carefree French guy. Drama Britain

With You
Thomas G Carter 10 minutes 12
An action-adventure family short in which an old man goes to rescue his wife from a nursing home. Drama Britain

3:05

Blink
Nicole Saganice 7 minutes U
Timmy has been living happily in a colourful imaginary world of his own, which is suddenly destroyed when his anxious mother and zealous optician decide that he needs glasses. Drama London, England

Der Handschuh (The Gloves)
Henning Backhaus 7 minutes 12A
Four 13 years old hang out on a railway bridge, going around in circles. Instead of talking things through, they concentrate on their own little pecking order. Drama Austria

Strange Little Girl
Savina Dellicour 17 minutes 15
Two teenage girls go to town. They are determined for their day of adventure. Feeling grown up and in control, they test the boundaries of the adult world until they are exposed. Drama London, England

Shaken Not Stirred
Bonita Bromander 3 minutes 12A
James has everything a boy could wish for...literally! Drama Britain

The Most Frightened Man In Britain
R.Mcindoe 7 minutes U
Ed comes to the attention of the Keele Psychology Department. With 21 irrational fears, could he be, the most frightened man in Britain? Drama London, England

Dolls
Susan Luciani 13 minutes 12A
A dark fairy tale revealing how an unconditional love can unravel a lifetime of happiness. Drama London, England

4:00

Good Bad Karma
David Takemura 15 minutes 15
A desperate junkie. A dangerous femme fatale. Trying to outsmart each other, they both receive a karmic lesson. Drama USA

Ricochet
Joel Santiago 30 minutes 18
When a gun is lost, we are taken on a journey through the intertwining lives of urban characters. Drama USA

Sequins, Soca and Sweat
Stephan Rudder 50 minutes U
An insight into the extraordinary people who bring the spectacle of Carnival to London’s Notting Hill. Documentary London, England

The Silent Killer in the Countryside
5 minutes 15
League Against Cruel Sports film about snare traps in the countryside from the animals’ viewpoint. Fictional Documentaries London, England

Portobello: Attack of the Clones
Paul McCrudden & Alexander Thomas 20 minutes U
‘Portobello: Attack of the Clones’ focuses on the local Notting Hill campaign to preserve Portobello Road as Britain’s first business conservation area. Documentary London, England

6:00

Tonite Let’s All Make Love In London
Peter Whitehead 57 minutes 15
Peter Whitehead invented the pop video with his iconic ‘We Love You’ film for the Rolling Stones. “In the right place at the right time, documentary filmmaker Peter Whitehead wrestled with the contradictions of the Sixties counterculture—and embodied them as well”

7:00

Boyle Family films
Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, events and projections 1965 – 1969

Mark Boyle and Joan Hills lived in and around Ladbroke Grove in the middle 1960’s organising events and making sculptures that attempted to present reality as it is. The events included various projection pieces presenting physical and chemical change: boiling water, burning slides and bodily fluids that led to them being asked by John Hoppy Hopkins to do a presentation at the first night of the UFO club on Tottenham Court Road in December 1966, where their liquid light of exploding colours became the main visual accompaniment to the bands that performed there. Pink Floyd, Soft Machine Jimi Hendrix, the underground scene and psychedelic lightshows exploded out of UFO, across London and around the world. Mark and Joan by and large stopped doing projections in 1969 to concentrate on other art projects, notably their Journey to the Surface of the Earth sculptures. Here is a glimpse of what underground London was like and where some of it came from:

Oh What a Lovely Whore (1965) was a (non) event at the old ICA, when the audience were told that if they wanted an event they would have to do it for themselves, which they duly do in true London style. Film and separate sound recording made by various members of the crowd as part of the event. Running time 5m 21s.

Dig (1966). An early example of art and archaeology when Boyle and Hills invite friends to dig on the site of an old ornamental garden statue factory in Shepherds Bush. Silent, 5m 54s.

Black on White (1967), shows some of the simple early projection effects Boyle and Hills had been developing since 1962, including zinc being destroyed by acid, ink dropped into water, slides melting and worms wriggling. Sound effects by Boyle Family, 4m 5s.



Chromoprobe (1967) is a film version of the kind of projections they were doing at UFO. Music by Soft Machine, 5m 28s.

Earth, Air, Fire and Water (1969) was a film made for four projectors in a circular screen environment at a Boyle exhibition at the ICA. Shortened edit 2003 with music by Soft Machine, 4m 16s.

Son of Beyond Image (1969) was Boyle and Hills goodbye to lightshows. Made for the same ICA circular screen environment, two films were shot to run both forwards and backwards, making an infinitely long 360degree film. Short edit (2003) with music by Soft Machine, 7m 8s.

Soft Machine: poem for Hoppy (1967), world premiere of a film recently discovered in the Boyle Family archives of Soft Machine performing a poem for John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins who had been sent down on a drugs charge. Projections by Mark Boyle and Joan Hills. Thought to be at UFO 2 June 1967, 5m 23s.

London Free School Reunion
Informal Q&A with surviving 60s movers and shakers including John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins and Micheal Horrowich.

Wholly Communion
Peter Whitehead 27 minutes 12
Whitehead’s record of Micheal Horowich’s Poetry Olympics at the Albert Hall featuring Allen Ginsberg and Adrian Mitchell and a host of beat poets.

I Am A Terrorist
Daevid Allen 10 minutes 15
Soft Machine star’s latest video work in which he destroys 33 telephones.

Later in the bar: multi screen projection of full length versions of Beyond Image and Son of Beyond Image (1969). Digitally restored for the exhibition Summer of Love at Tate Liverpool last year, presented with contemporary projections and music from Warp Records.