The Programme
6PM - TAKE 5 FILM CHALLENGE SCREENING TIME
Film Challenge Screenings, 6.00 - 8pm at Theatr Llwyn (£3 adults, £1 child) or if attending the dots. film band screening (£5 adult for both and £1.50 child)
Come and see all the amazing films made as part of the Take 5 Film Challenge, where participants only had 10 days to make their 5 minute film!
Dots. Film Band, 8.30 - 9.30pm at Theatr Llwyn(£3 adults, £1 child) or if attending the film challenge (£5 adult for both and £1.50 child)
dots. film band, a group of three musicians who compose music to soundtrack contemporary short films live.
Unique in the U.K, dots. collaborate with established and emerging filmmakers working in the fields of live-action, animation, silent film and new media filmmaking.Combining the live sound-tracking tradition established in the early days of cinema, but with the best of modern-day film subjects, styles, techniques, and a century of cinematic influences and developments. dots. film band add another dimension to the film experience using the power of live music to create exceptional multi-sensory events, embracing the swelling interest in the art of the short-film and creating a quasi-Wagnerian “total artwork” for the 21st century.
dots. have collaborated with a diverse selection of film-makers who work in a variety of media from stop-frame animation, through to live action and CGI. Artists we have worked with include Virginia Head (Best Welsh artist award 2007) who has worked for several award-winning animation companies across Europe and in the USA, and Rhiannon Evans, a young, promising filmmaker whose work has recently been shown in the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand short film festival in France.
dots. film band have performed and developed their art with showcases at SWN Festival, The Trailerpark Film Festival and the National Experimentica Festival, to an overwhelmingly positive reaction by programmers and public alike, and we look forward to taking this exciting and original project out to a wider audience.
For their current project, due to tour the UK in November 2011, dots. film band have taken six contrasting shorts, encompassing silent, animation and live-action from six up-and-coming British filmmakers, and created soundtracks to perform live on a vast array of instruments and found objects as required by each film.
These films include a painted glass animated with a tale of distance, ageing, longing and a seagull; a stop-frame post-apocalyptic Frankenstein's monster, an exploration of the consequences of immortality; and a romance that takes in the triumphs and pitfalls of love as played by people made of string.
dots. film band formed in 2009 as a splinter project initiated by members of the Cardiff New Music Collective (www.cnmc.co.uk). This tour has the support of the Arts Council of Wales.
SOME REACTIONS TO DOTS. EVENTS:
"As far as I know there aren’t any groups in the U.K. working the way dots. do with contemporary film and music...They do whatever it takes to get the right approach for each film by the sheer variety and scope of their music; guitars, synths, flutes, effects...even a bicycle! There’s a real sense of occasion with dots; they've ripped up the textbook for what you can do with a live film and a soundtrack!" John Rostron, SWN Festival Director
“stunning and extremely skilled” The Trailerpark Film Festival
“These musicians have the rare imagination to play nothing more than the essential notes that are necessary to give the images the right sound” The National Experimentica Festival
"A fantastic event. Their original performance and interaction with what was mostly a new audience had great feedback. Chapter Arts Centre is really pleased to have been able to support their performance.” Sally Griffiths, Chapter Arts Centre
