Put on your socks, comb your locks, and get down to The Horse Hospital for:An Inverted Xmas Thursday 20th December 2007, 8 till Late Entrance: Free with a Festive Edible Delicacy Dress: Bring a Beard We Present For Your Delight Playing Live in the Music Stable Santa's Little Helpers - DJ Baron Bromide & The Notarious Big Daddy Dave Free Yuletide Manger Orlando's Poker Sleighs - Laden with Treasure On The Screen The Horse Hospital Xmas TV Special - inverted by the Ragemeister + Win Presents Galore in our Xmas Raffle All washed down with lashings of Xmas Horse Hospitality You can download the invite HERE, pass it on the more the merrier!

Sandow Birk Preview and book signing: Friday 30th November 7:30pm Exhibition Saturday 1st December - Friday 21st December Mon - Sat 12 - 6pm Screening of Dante's Inferno Dir: Sean Meredith 77 min USA (2007) Saturday 1st December 7:30pm Friday 14th December 7:30pm £7/£5 members & concessions In conjunction with the screening of the feature film adaptation of Dante's Inferno The Chamber of Pop Culture is proud to present an exhibition of original lithographs by Sandow Birk that illustrate the Cantos from his book of the same title. Sandow Birk's powerful imagery explores and chronicles America's political history and the concrete reality that has been constructed from the diverse policies that have surged throughout its short and unsettled history. Birk paints realistically, drawing stylistically from the historical traditions of American and European landscape painters. Using classical and familiar compositions of religious and pseudo-historical paintings, Birk replaces the historical with the contemporary, divorcing these scenes from the impenetrable "glory of the past" straight into the chaotic explosion of the present. In turn these scenes become complex and vital but also slightly humorous now that they have been distanced from the momentousness of the canon. Perhaps this sense of the familiar and popular was also intended to be present within the paintings that Birk appropriates but all sense of materiality and relevance has been swallowed and digested into the rigid stomach of history. Dante's Inferno is a contemporary reworking of the classic tale, bringing it back to modern life. Shot on HD and Directed by Sean Meredith using Victorian toy-theater techniques all the sets and characters have been exquisitely hand painted by Birk. Working with writer Marcus Sander, Dante's original text has also been adapted into present-day urban vernacular. Set amidst the vast urban entropy of present-day Los Angeles, Dante's Hell is brought to magical and original life in a darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all too familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, logos and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps, and the Prince of Darkness himself. Unmissable!!!

Sandow Birk Preview and book signing: Friday 30th November 7:30pm Exhibition Saturday 1st December - Friday 21st December Mon - Sat 12 - 6pm Screening of Dante's Inferno Dir: Sean Meredith 77 min USA (2007) Saturday 1st December 7:30pm Friday 14th December 7:30pm £7/£5 members & concessions In conjunction with the screening of the feature film adaptation of Dante's Inferno The Chamber of Pop Culture is proud to present an exhibition of original lithographs by Sandow Birk that illustrate the Cantos from his book of the same title. Sandow Birk's powerful imagery explores and chronicles America's political history and the concrete reality that has been constructed from the diverse policies that have surged throughout its short and unsettled history. Birk paints realistically, drawing stylistically from the historical traditions of American and European landscape painters. Using classical and familiar compositions of religious and pseudo-historical paintings, Birk replaces the historical with the contemporary, divorcing these scenes from the impenetrable "glory of the past" straight into the chaotic explosion of the present. In turn these scenes become complex and vital but also slightly humorous now that they have been distanced from the momentousness of the canon. Perhaps this sense of the familiar and popular was also intended to be present within the paintings that Birk appropriates but all sense of materiality and relevance has been swallowed and digested into the rigid stomach of history. Dante's Inferno is a contemporary reworking of the classic tale, bringing it back to modern life. Shot on HD and Directed by Sean Meredith using Victorian toy-theater techniques all the sets and characters have been exquisitely hand painted by Birk. Working with writer Marcus Sander, Dante's original text has also been adapted into present-day urban vernacular. Set amidst the vast urban entropy of present-day Los Angeles, Dante's Hell is brought to magical and original life in a darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all too familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, logos and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps, and the Prince of Darkness himself. Unmissable!!!

Wednesday 12th December7pm FREE For our Xmas Film Club special Raindance is screening one of its favourite Christmas films and celebrating with mince pies, Christmas crackers, and of course free beer courtesy of Cobra. To gain entry, simply turn up at 7pm with some mince pies and a box of Christmas crackers. If you turn up with nothing, then it will be kind of annoying. I mean the beer is free so don't be so damn cheap. SCROOGED Director - Richard Donner Cast - Bill Murray, David Johansen, Carol Kane 100 mins USA Frank Cross (Murray) runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Frank's childhood wasn't a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn't really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past (the New York Dolls' very own David Johansen), present and future, Frank realises he must change his cynical ways. Film Trivia: It's rumored that after seeing David Johansen starring in the film, New York Dolls bass player Arthur "Killer" Kane was so overcome with jealousy that he threw himself out of his window suffering severe injuries. However, it's probably more true that he got incredibly drunk Check out the website for more info. Please note, the doors open at 7pm, screenings start when the venue is full. If you come late, you may have to stand. Film Club is first come, first serve so there's no need to RSVP. Remember the rules of Film Club: 1) Great Films 2) Free Admission 3) Free Beer! You won't find a cheaper date in this city... For more information ring us on 020 7287 3833. www.raindance.co.uk

Thursday 13th December 7pm£5 Donation THE OPEN VEINS OF AFRICA - WATER, CULTURE, SURVIVAL - We all have this dream... Buying a second-hand four-wheel drive and blasting off into the unknown, crossing a whole continent from coast to coast... Back in 1999, Paolo Novelli did exactly that. A motor sports television producer, Paolo drove from Morocco all the way to Cape Town - with his camera at the ready. It was the first of his several documentaries about Africa. His latest is "A Journey Among the Water People" (In viaggio tra i popoli dell'acqua, 2006). Thirty minute long, this work treats water as its recurring theme as it examines the varied geography- human as well as physical - of Ethiopia. This is not another African travelogue dishing out panoramic vistas spiced up with "exotic" details. Paolo's documentary is a reflection, at once lyrical and thoughtful, on how water is a precious resource - in more ways than one - for the people of every African nation and culture. In the West, we take water for granted and consume it without thinking. In Africa, water is the absolute pre-condition for life - and is revered as such. Access to water, its allocation, uses, and preservation, are crucial issues all over the African continent. It is not a mere matter of economics: water is crucial to the very identity of local cultures, and to their survival. Paolo Novelli will attend the screening in person, give a first-hand account of his travels through Ethiopia and Africa, and share the reflections these travels have inspired. This African-themed evening organized by Italian Nights in collaboration with Perspectives will combine the screening of Paolo's documentary with a discussion and Q&A - to be followed by refreshments. The event will be in English.

Friday 7th December 7:30pm£7/£5 members & concessions IFCT is a non-profit organization now in its 6th year and dedicated to "discovering the undiscovered film." Each year the festival presents touring events showcasing the best of international cinema and highlighting digital innovation. One of the festival's main focus points is experimental cinema and animation from around the world. The experimental content truly is an international selection from European countries, South America, Asia, Australia/New Zealand and US/Canada. So lots of experimental films never before seen in the UK. MORE INFO>>>>

The Untrue Bird Bird Built my Ba-Ba-Bomb (music video to rock to) Till Konig Germany COMMUNAUTÉ RAPHAËL GIRAULT France Cosmic Fridge Raphael Siboni France Argumente Philipp von Werther Germany Argumente is a satire on the tole of media as an instrument of propaganda. In mass media, the interpretation of the author becomes information for the viewer. In this movie, a representative for War (G.W. Bush) as well as a representative for Terror have, once again, the opportunity to justify themselves. Being well informed, the viewer can decide who is right. Or can he? Post-Oil Man James W Johnson US Since people may think this guy is an idiot,he is getting prepared for life after oil. Johnson has studied and made art for more than 30 years. While being primarily a painter, he has produced a large and complex body of work which includes over 1800 unique pieces in a wide variety of mediums such painting, video, drawing, sculpture, etching, digital, mixed media and furniture. James W Johnson has participated in over 150 exhibitions worldwide and has over 600 pieces included in more than 200 public and private collections on five continents. Dead End Claude Pérès France A ballet of hundred images of the world, war, fight, sex, love, hope, dream, violence, happiness... Noturno Daniel Aalaroli Brazil In one dark room, fantastic beings appear as specters of an old cinema. Häschen in der Grube (The White Bunny) Katja Straub Germany Transformation in a train compartment. "The White Bunny" explores the conscious and sub-conscious longings of the human mind, told through the story of a woman, an injured boy, a small girl in a red dress, and a white bunny. A tale of four strangers as they travel together on a visual exploration of pain, love, memory, and the loss of innocence. The woman's trauma reveals itself through the haunting form of a German nursery rhyme and we follow her into her past. Obscura Andre Lascaris USA Obscura is about a lonely artist with photosensitivity who creates a unique projection system to view his beloved neighbor. Recipient of the Hollywood Press Award from the AFI, LA-based cinematographer Andre Lascaris began his career as a fashion photographer. His first major exhibition in New York's Soho led him to begin experimenting with film, and from there to his life as a cinematographer. Over the next 5 years his narrative work took him on projects all over the world: the United States, Central and South America, and across Africa from coast to coast. During this time he has had the pleasure of working with a wide array of talented filmmakers, including Bill Butler, ASC (The Conversation, Jaws). Andre is currently busy launching The Armory, a Los Angeles based film and commercial production company. O petroleo e nosso? (The oil is ours) Uriel Perrera Brazil In a desert, two peoples, of cultures completely distinct, they fight for the ownership of the oil and the imposition of its commercial products. Milwaukee to Portage Stacy Barton USA As the day progresses, it becomes evident that this trip isn't about where you're going but how you get there. ArcLight Jason Britski Canada Arc Light is a film essentially about travel. It is the second part in a series of North American landscape films that I have been shooting since 2003. The central aim of the film is to formally examine two of the most photographed landscapes on earth. Simple formal devices are utilized in creating this simple portrait of Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon. Jason Britski is an independent film and video-maker, who is based out of Regina, Saskatchewan. In 1991 he received his BA (Advanced) in History from the University of Saskatchewan, and in 1997 he received his BFA in Film Production from the University of Regina. Jason has worked in a variety of positions in the film industry as a producer, director, cinematographer, videographer, sound recordist, and in all areas of post-production. In 2004, Jason and Ian Toews created a documentary TV series, Landscape as Muse, which is broadcast on Bravo!, SCN, and Knowledge Network in Canada. In 2006, Jason and Dianne Ouellette created a documentary TV series, Truth or Tale, which will begin broadcast in 2007 on SCN. Jason is currently a member of the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association, Blackchair Distribution, and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Genesis Sébastien Pesot Canada Read by an astronaut from apolla 8 mission, the video is inspired by a text from the bible which describes the beginning of the universe. Sébastien Pesot, a founding of Perte de Signal, received a BFA in art history at Université de Montréal in 1996,and an MFA at the École des arts visuels et médiatiques de Montréal (UQAM) in 1999. His recent productions have appeared in about a hundred festivals and events, including the Tampere International Short Film Festival(Finland), Wro 01 and 03, media arts biennial (Poland) or Chroma (Mexico) where he was awarded the public prize for best video. His work presents an electronically transformed universe in which the real is represented through visual metaphors. SOUVENIR Stephen Rose USA Low-tech meets high concept in this bittersweet fable of epic proportions shot entirely with a toy camera. SOUVENIR'S Writer, Director, Art Director, & Music Composer, Stephen Rose's Biography: Film making has been at the center of the various interests that Stephen has undertaken, and directing is probably the job that best describes what he is most interested in. His remarkable projects have always had the distinction of being a bold mix of wildly original visions - fused with deeply heartfelt material. He graduated from college with a degree in theater, but has a large repertoire of interests that have become a source for many different projects. These include original theater pieces, making films, designing - building - and working in haunted attractions at Halloween, creating original props for the film industry, writing music, writing a book, and creating his own artwork to name a few. He considers his house the biggest and most personal project - which is a spectacular working and living space completely filled with his artwork, collections, and various eccentricities that create a sort of hyper visually overloaded environment. The Zoo Jamie Raap Germany/London Zeitguised's love for the artificial and strange is shown in their disrespectful handling of 3d geometries and disobeying the rules of animation narrative, but has earned them no underground fame so far.

Thursday, 29th November 2007 7:30pm Entry is £7 by RSVP or £8 at the door The Italian Film Society of London dates back to 1915 but has ceased to exist for many decades. It's revival took place on 19 September at the Horse Hospital with a screening of the legendary 8 1/2 by Fellini to a audience of over 80 people. The Italian Film Society is back. The Italian Film Society cordially invites you to Mediterraneo Gabrielle Salvatores - (1991) - 96 minutes This film won an Oscar in 1992 for Best Foreign Language Film. A beautiful, clever comedy which plays on the nature of both Greeks and Italians in a rather unbelievable story as far as the total isolation of a platoon of Italian soldiers on a Greek island for the entire duration of the World War II. But the beauty of the comedy is based on this very isolation and the way these soldiers became part of the community on the island, which was deprived of the men who were taken prisoners by the Germans or were away fighting the war. The humor is intensive, logical and tangible and the conversations brilliant especially in the original languages. For those who know the character of both Greeks and Italians this film will be considered wonderful and worth seeing it more than once. The comedy is not an effort to make the evils of the war appearing unimportant but an appreciation that soldiers on both sides of a conflict have a lot in common rather than differences. The direction of Gabrielle Salvatores at its best. Details: 7:30 aperitif courtesy of Peroni and Stormhoek Winery 8:00 screening starts Entry is £7 by RSVP or £8 at the door Space is limited; Kindly RSVP total number of guests to info@italianfilmsociety.co.uk (visit www.italianfilmsociety.co.uk for more info)

Tuesday 27th November8:00pm £7/£5 members & concessions Inventor and musician Sarah Angliss (Spacedog UK) joins forces with performer Caroline Radcliffe to bring you their latest offering of live music and electronic curiosity in this highly entertaining evening of theremins, automata and sensible footwear. Highlights include an all-too-rare performance from Clara 2.0, the theremin playing robot doll, and Repeat Repeat - a new dance piece that mixes live beats from Lancashire cotton machinery with original video loops. The evening includes a commemoration of Laika, the word's first cosmonaut who went into orbit on Sputnik II, 50 years ago. "Tremendous fun - eerie, evocative and hilarious", Roger Highfield www.spacedog.biz

La Nuit du Meccano Thursday 22nd November 2007 £7/£6 members & concessions Doors 7pm 1st Performance 8pm 2nd Peformance 10pm Pierre Bastien has built an 80-piece mechanical orchestra from MECCANO pieces, the component parts of which (arranged in sections) 'play' a range of acoustic instruments. Pierre is at turns conductor and soloist, selecting which of his mechanical creations will play each piece, as well as taking centre stage himself at times, showing off still further his virtuosic musical skills. All thie intricacies of this wondrous automatic orchestra are captured by a video camera and projected onto a screen behind the ensemble Pierre Bastien has achieved world recognition and respect, artists as diverse as musician Robert Wyatt and designer Issey Miyake have worked alongside Pierre and Mecanium. Fellow composer Michel F Côté describes Mecanium as A timeless sounding orchestra, both futuristic and slightly dada, conjuring ancient traditions in its surprisingly sensuous music... The musicians of his orchestra are machines, and the idea behind it is simple, efficient and poetic: to have traditional instruments such as Chinese lute, Morrocan bender and Javanese saron, koto, violin and sanza played by a mechanical instrument made of meccano pieces and recycled turntable motors. PLEASE NOTE: BOOKING RECOMMENDED BUY TICKETS HERE BUY CONCESSION TICKET HERE WE CAN NOT SELL TICKETS ON THE PHONE For more information: www.pierrebastien.com www.fertilizerfestival.com

PhotographsPreview: Saturday 27th October 7:30 - 10pm Monday 29th October - Saturday 17th November Mon - Sat 12 - 6pm Sunday 28th October 5pm Special screening of Miron Zownir's films + Q&A with artist Friday 9th November 7:30pm £7/£5 members & concessions Further screening of Miron Zownir's films (watch this space for more details as they emerge) New York 1982 In a walk on the wild side that spans over thirty years, and has taken in periods spent in New York, Moscow and Berlin, German photographer Miron Zownir has recorded countless arresting images of human desolation and decline. Drawn to the margins and extremes of society, he sought out the damned and the dispossessed in the shadows of the city - the whores, bums, junkies and transsexuals. The freaks and outcasts who had no place to go. 'I am drawn to people who are 'lost', in an existential or metaphysical way,' he explains. 'If you are lost, you move in your own world, blocking out the outside, but looking for something to connect with. I have an empathy for these kind of people, for their emotional condition and the vulnerability they reveal in that state.' Zownir also moves in his own world, one as acutely-focused and defined in theme and subject matter as those of his favourite photographers, Weegee, Diane Arbus and Robert Frank. His pictures are usually shot in black and white - all the better to emphasize the extremes and the grey area in-between - and marked by the kind of cold, blank stare usually associated with film noir. Born in Karlsruhe, South-West Germany in 1953 to a German mother and a Ukrainian father, Zownir was raised by his grandparents until he was five years old, an experience pivotal to his own sense of estrangement. His first impulse was to write and make films. But after failing to get a place at the Berlin Film Academy, he moved to London (in 1978), where he took up photography out of a need to engage with unfamiliar surroundings. He emigrated to the US in 1981, spent 15 years living hand-to-mouth. In New York, he worked the door at decadent 80s clubs like Danceteria and Mudd Club and, camera in hand, stalked the slums of the city after hours. In 1995, he spent several months in Russia capturing images from the street of the social vacuum left after the fall of Communism. On returning to Germany, he published a retrospective book called Radical Eye, and now lives in Berlin, where he has written crime novels and made films (including Estrangement Is Death, an award-winning documentary about artist and musician Bruno S, best-known as a star in 70s films by Werner Herzog). - Chris Campion www.mironzownir.com

Friday 16th November7:30pm £7/£5 members & concessions EPISODE 7 ODD SOCKS Cellorhythmics' nucleus is the intensely talented partnership of James Hesford and Alfia Nakipbekova. Around them are gathered other virtuoso musicians Martin Radford (cello), Sergio Laviola (bass/guitar) and Brett Findley (percussion), together with an ever growing number of guest musicians. For each episode James Hesford composes music based on found objects and in some cases "found" musicians. This project generates its own momentum and energy presenting people and things to inspire the next instalment.

Friday 9th November 7:30pm£7/£5 members & concessions Screening of 4 short films by Miron Zownir + ZOWNIR - Radical Man Dir: M.A. Littler, 60 Min. A documentary about one of the most censored photographers, filmmakers and crime writers of our time. Zownir has achieved cult status and notoriety through his photography, films and literature depicting sexual and cultural outcasts in Berlin, London, N. America and in the former Soviet Union. His portrayals are harsh, brutal, at times pornographic, yet full of dignity and magic. Unlike most fringe photographers, Zownir not only portrays outcasts. He has also always lived in their midst. Therefore his work reaches an intimacy unknown to most artists depicting outlawed subjects. Thematically the film deals with Zownir's childhood in post WW II Germany, the rise of the punk movement in London and Berlin in the late 70's, the rise and fall of the sexual revolution of the early 80's in NYC, the social decline of the Former Soviet Union and Zownir's tragic but at times hilarious account of outcasts and mavericks of every colour. The film features in depth interviews with Zownir, scenes from his films, readings from his novel "Kein Schlichter Abgang" and montages of his photographic work.

Entry is £8 Dating back to 1915, this London-based film club is dusting off the cobwebs and relaunching, just as Italian cinema is experiencing a major revival. The Italian Film Society cordially invites you to join us for an Italian horror night Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) by Dario Argento. 1975 (126 min.) Doors open at 7:30 for an aperitif, courtesy of Peroni and Stormhoek Winery. Nibbles available for sale from the Blue Grotta. Screening starts at 8:00pm. Legions of horror fans the world over consider Deep Red to be Dario Argento's finest work to date, above event the highly renowned Suspiria. It was during this rich vein of cinematic form that Argento was given the unofficial titles of being "The Italian Hitchcock". Dario Argento's striking terror tale involves a series of bizarre murders predicted by a dead psychic and probed by English jazz musician David Hemmings and reporter Daria Nicolodi. Delving into the case, the pair encounter a haunted house, a little girl who likes to impale lizards, and other creepy goings-on. "Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror by the same standard is that of fearful anticipation"---Dario Argento Entry is £8 Space is limited; kindly RSVP total number of guests to info@italianfilmsociety.co.uk (visit www.italianfilmsociety.co.uk for more info)

Friday 26th October7:30pm £7/£5 members & concessions CELLORHYTHMICS ACOUSTIC PROJECT Episode 6 - "The Stiletto Factory" Cellorhythmics Acoustic Project is a series of 12 performances, devised by the ensemble's founder members - composer/multi instrumentalist James Hesford and a classical/experimental cellist Alfia Nakipbekova in collaboration with film maker/designer Chiara Ambrosio. The concept of synchronicity and chance plays an important part in the creative process. Like using found objects in sculpture, harmonic and rhythmic material, titles and even additional instruments are sourced from whatever presents itself as a "happy accident". The theme for each Episode is derived from the title ("a found object") of a new composition. "Unsung" is a new piece composed for 2 cellos, violin, flute, oboe, guitar and various percussion instruments. New shorts and visuals from an avant- garde artist Chiara Ambrosio.

Weds 24th OctoberDoors 7:00pm FREE On this month: Exhibit A 85 mins UK Director: Dom Rotheroe Exhibit A is the videotape of evidence captured on a young girls new camcorder, which reveals snippets of the family's last few weeks leading up to "the incident". We are first introduced to this suburban family as the girl is offered her camcorder. From here on we accompany this seemingly normal family through a series of birthdays, barbecues and gatherings that gradually points us in a much darker direction. Director Rotheroe puts the family unit on trial. The family's inability to communicate, listen or even care for each other's individual desires and ambitions is played up against the family's financial and circumstantial problems that effect each and every family member. As the tension increases and relationships crumble it becomes increasingly difficult not to symapthise with all involved, for how on earth will things be resolved?. Winner of the Best UK Feature Award at the 15th Raindance Film Festival Check out the website for more info. Please note, the doors open at 7pm, screenings start when the venue is full. If you come late, you may have to stand. Film Club is first come, first serve so there's no need to RSVP. Remember the rules of Film Club: 1) Great Films 2) Free Admission 3) Free Beer! You won't find a cheaper date in this city... For more information ring us on 020 7287 3833. www.raindance.co.uk

Friday 19th October8.15 - 8.45pm Magic Lantern: Michael Reeves Directs - by Mark Ferreli THE CHAPEL OF REST On the morning of February 11th, 1969, Michael Reeves, a young English horror film director, was found dead in the bedroom of his flat in Yeoman's Row, Knightsbridge, by his cleaning lady. The later coroners report stated that Reeve's untimely passing from an overdose of barbiturates was probably accidental, though most of the director's intimate circle, aware of his recent troubled personal history, believed he had commited suicide. He was twenty five. During the performance of "Michael Reeves Directs", a new work for the Victorian Magic Lantern conceived by artist Mark Ferelli, the gathering illumination of projected images, spoken word, and ambient sound, seek to summon the still resonant voice of the young director. All elements composing a haunting, elegiac portrait before its watching audience, there in a dark space. Ferelli's use of the Magic Lantern, an instrument once reaching a height of popularity in the 19th Century, represents the very beginnings of cinema, rich in its echoes of the 'phantasmagorie' of past Lanternist performers such as Robertson, Oehler and Phillipstahl. It is the almost ritualistic cycle of its operation during the twenty five minutes of the performance that governs the lyrical calling of his series of "apparitions" and their subsequent, gentle, lay to rest. Saturday 20th October 8.10pm - 9.00pm The McCarricks THE CHAPEL OF REST Performed by cellist Martin McCarrick ( This Mortal Coil, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Therapy?) and Violinist Kimberlee McCarrick. The McCarricks create a unique marriage between their dark, evocative music, and stunning projected imagery. The initial concept? to create new dynamic soundtracks for old silent movies shown in tandem with their music was hindered by increasingly restrictive rules on film usage. Undeterred, The McCarricks enlisted the talents of independent filmmakers to create new films specifically tailored for their music. The result is a startling display of abstract imagery and sound which transports the audience into a world where the boundaries between reality and fantasy collide opening a series of different dimensions and emotions. The historic Chapel of Rest in St Georges Gardens provides a wonderful setting for The McCarricks show. Like slipping down a rabbit hole, or stepping through the door of a wardrobe - the venue is diminutive, but once inside, expect to be transported to a larger than life world where slow motion contortionists dance atop towering skyscrapers, and nightmarish fairytale characters really do exist. Saturday 20th October 9.00pm - 9.30pm That Night They Said Was Last But Unfading - Tai Shani Please meet at the Chapel of Rest. Don't be late! A performance with rabbits, majorettes, lovers singing old world lust and revenge in the company of the ghost of Kurt Cobain. Like the smallest hamburger in the world! Tai Shani's performances unfold like recondite, foreboding school plays, over-spilling with familiar imagery and DIY chaos. St Georges Gardens, Handel Street entrance, WC1 www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=530454&Y=182473&A=Y&Z=1 PART OF THE BLOOMSBURY FESTIVAL www.bloomsburyfestival.org

Friday 19th October, 4-7pmSaturday 20th October, 12 - 6pm Visual artist Veronica Puleio and composer Walter Koerte join in collaboration to read the imprints of daily life in Bloomsbury throughout time creating an audio-visual multimedia record. Using time layers, sounds of real life and artistic skill, a world is unraveled following the footsteps of not only those creative people who, through art, crafted the identity of contemporary Bloomsbury, but also our all paths that make this a blooming neighborhood - our neighborhood. PART OF THE BLOOMSBURY FESTIVAL www.bloomsburyfestival.org

UNDERGROUND GALAThursday October 18th 2007 7.30pm till late Tickets £4 To celebrate the launch of Duncan Reekie's new book Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema there will be a gala night of film and video from the London underground cinema club scene featuring optic gems from the the NO-BILITY of the NO-WAVE, rare documentary footage of the birth of the movement, sensational live performance, kaleidoscopic visuals and mystery guests. MC the author.

Thursday 11th October - Saturday 13th October12pm - 6pm Artists' Reception: Thursday 11th October 6:30pm This exhibition of cinematic imagery puts into practice Freud's concept of deferred action ('Nachtraglichkeit'), taken from his book the uncanny. Taking one Image as a trigger, the artist begins to explore the affect of cinema on our memory and subconscious. The artist recreates a remembered scene that has reoccurred in dreams, which is a response to the viewing of Ola Kolehmainen's 'Who Is Afraid Of Red' (2002). www.hermanlense.co.uk

If you don't come in on Sunday, don't come in on Monday:Is contemporary clothing manufacture coming clean? A two-day film event + panel discussion 12-13 October 2007 £7/£5 members & concessions PROGRAMME Friday 12 October 2008 8:00pm "Knitoscope Testimonies" video piece by Cat Mazza, 2006 (2,58 min) "No Sweat" dir. Amy Williams, 2006 (54min) Screening will be followed by a Q+A session with director Amy Williams Saturday 13 October 2008 7:00 pm "China Blue" dir. Micha X. Peled, 2005 (86 min) 8:30 pm Panel discussion (speakers TBC) This event will feature two documentaries and an artist video revisiting the highly troublesome subject of clothing sweatshops. In the beginning of the twentieth century, signs on the New York City sweatshop doors infamously announced: "If you don't come in on Sunday, don't come in on Monday." Since then, issues of exploitation in the garment industry have been subject to much criticism, debate and action, culminating in the 1990s labour legislation changes and formation of organisations such as the Fair Labour Association. So, just what has happened to sweatshops since these new regulations came into force? Two documentary filmmakers, Micha X. Peled's (China Blue, 2005) and Amy Williams' (Sweat X, 2006), recently brought (or smuggled) their cameras inside clothing factories in Asia and North America respectively. Their intention was to show that despite the garment industry legislations, factories continue to operate in shady ways with labour conditions that continue to be alarmingly poor. The ever topical issues raised by Peled's and Williams' documentaries will be picked up by a panel of clothing designers and manufacturers, representatives from trade unions and fair trade companies, journalists, academics and auditors. The discussion will address the garment workers current conditions, good practices of clothes manufacture, successes and failures of the 1990s campaigns against sweatshops, the effectiveness of labour legislations and codes of conduct, consumer responsibility and the future of the apparel industry.

Since the Nike, the Gap, Wal-Mart and even Disney sweatshop scandals of the 1990s, trade unions and the garment industry have taken action implementing codes of conduct and social audits in factories. Having to acknowledge the existence of labour exploitation and abuse to their offshore manufacture, Nike may have "cleaned up" by putting into practice stricter codes and audits. In an effort to become "transparent" the global retailer even recently published details of 700 of their contracting factories. But has this practice been followed by other manufacturers? Today, numerous anti-sweatshop campaigners and pressure groups work alongside companies, aiming to improve labour and pay conditions. At the same time, new clothing companies crop up branding themselves "sweatshop-free." Still, thousands of manufacturers don't participate in the anti-sweatshop movement and bad practice such as grave negligence or falsifying evidence during audits remains a recurrent pattern. Clandestinely shot, China Blue (dir. Micha X. Peled, 2005) follows the 17-year-old factory worker Jasmine and her friends through the meanders of a blue-jeans factory in China. Jasmine, who had to leave her home province for a job in the city, is soon bitterly disillusioned with the harsh working environment she encounters. Despite appallingly low wages, Jasmine and her fellow workers are constrained to work around the clock in order to meet the tight delivery schedules imposed on them by big orders from the West. Fined if found asleep and forbidden to strike, Jasmine and her friends need to find alternatives to their exhaustion in order to keep going. China Blue is a poignant testimony to the persistent inhumanity of the Chinese garment manufacture and a comment on the economic pressures applied by the global fashion industry. No Sweat (dir. Amie Williams, 2006) takes us to Los Angeles, the largest and most dynamic area of garment production in North America. The film follows two self-proclaimed ethical labels American Apparel and SweatX T-shirt which have been widely recognised for providing fair working conditions in their factories. Founded by the entrepreneur Dov Charney and built from the ground up, American Apparel's anti-sweatshop rhetoric broadcasts care and workers benefits such as healthcare, paid leave, company-subsidised lunches, free English language classes and even on-site masseurs. Similarly, the T-shirt company SweatX, with a start-up capital of 2.5million US dollars funded by Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen, started with a determination to operate ethically. No Sweat takes us behind the scenes of these two 'worker-friendly' companies and unveils a different much more distressing reality. Knitoscope Testimonies (Cat Mazza, 2006) is a computer-animated programme that translates the artist's hand-knitted panels into moving images. The video focus on labour movement, continuing Mazza's involvment with anti-sweatshop activism.

Saturday 15th September - Saturday 6th OctoberOpen Mon - Sat 12 - 6pm Artists' reception Friday 14th 7 - 10pm Saturday 29th September Doors 7:30pm £7/£5 members & concessions GONE KinoKULTURE Queen of the Whores, a performance by Annouchka Bayley + A Hole in my Heart - Dir: Lukas Moodysson, 2004 - (98min) The works selected for this show all have a close relationship to loss and dispossession, they symbolically capture an intense personal memory, experience, atmosphere, sign or impressionable moment in time. The resulting imagery forms an evocative, moving, juxtaposition, confronting the viewer with a world that is at once familiar and yet strangely disturbing. Artists: Annouchka Bayley, Anna Courcha, Lisa Cradduck, Giada Ghiringhelli, Amanda Greenidge, Anna Krimerman, Laurie Lipton and Tuva Novotny

Annouchka Bayley, Performance Annouchka Bayley is a performer, multi-instrumentalist, singer and poet. She trained in the Roy Hart method in Paris and has apprenticed "long song and overtones" among the wild women of Mongolia. She is the voice and face of the band Radio Mori, and her work for Gone promises to be overwhelmingly unusual. Anna Courcha, Paintings Sometimes painted on detritus or found objects these paintings bear words or letters borrowed from de-contextualized conversations, ordinary familiar phrases reprocessed through the act of painting into a secret internal language, saturated with memory and personal meaning. In Gone Courcha will exhibit a series of paintings that reveal an astounding amount of honesty and vulnerability, like delicate coded notes to a very personal, intimate narrative. Lisa Cradduck, Floral tributes Lisa Cradduck is a florist, "Proletarian Art Threat", and reverend of the Universal Life Church. Cradduck's work uses and plays with the associations and floral aesthetics that surround rituals in our culture: Funerals, weddings, romance, etc. These immediate readings are averted in the detail of the work which leads us into other surprising directions creating new inter-textual interpretations of death and celebration. Giada Ghiringhelli, Video Giada Ghiringhelli is a multimedia artist and filmmaker; her works principally concern the body - usually the artist's own -- both in space and in the void: in her own words, "eternal obsession and narcissistic dilemma, companion and co-operator." Coolly sensual, spatially cerebral, her films and photographs create the sense of being suspended in the present. Amanda Greenidge, Illustration Amanda Greenidge is an illustrator and artist living and working in London. She is a recent graduate of the University of Westminster and has had works featured in the Free Range exhibition at the Old Truman Brewery. She makes tough, hard-hitting, intensely personal images, often using her [found] materials as inspiration - in the work Domestic Violence, for example, we see an arguing couple and a small frightened child painted on a domestic door, the centre of which looks as if it was smashed by someone in a genuine fit of rage. Greenidge also combines collage, digital, freehand drawing and photography to construct the complexity of urban lifestyles, broken families, and womanhood. Anna Krimerman, Video Anna Krimerman is a Berlin based photographer and video artist. About her video "My Daddy he treats me so well" she says: "The moment when trust stops to be something one can have blindly…. Trust is a rare thing, more valuable than gold that can be found in rare moments. The search for it is what leads people in relationships, the way they move in the world, and perceive it. It is a choice to trust, to mistrust, to misuse trust. Usually, what we find when we look for trust are traps. We want to trust blindly, but we know it is impossible. It always contains fear.It is physical.It begs the possibility of revenge. But it still exists." Laurie Lipton, Drawings Laurie Lipton is a "self-taught artist" who was born in New York and has been based in London since 1986. Her intensely intricate, hyper-realistic drawings reveal a world as familiar and foreign to us as our own bodies, they materialise all the loss, disillusionment, hope and fallibility of the human experience with tender sensitivity and dark humour. "We frantically... throw vitamins, creams and money at death. Death only happens to other people. Only losers die", say's Lipton. Her work for Gone reveals the dark truth - and the bright side - of death, life and everything in between. Tuva Novotny, Photographs Tuva Novotny, a screen actress since the age of sixteen, has been travelling "all of her grown life", obsessively taking evocative photographs both on location in her native Sweden and on her travels throughout the world. These photographs seem to capture a sense of loneliness but they also seek warmth and intimacy, they appear as an archive of grounding actions that catalogue familiarity in an unfamiliar world. They are an affirmation that "home is where the heart is". "Things go, people go, all the time... I've been gone all the time" EXHIBITION SHOTS

Saturday 15th September - Saturday 6th OctoberOpen Mon - Sat 12 - 6pm Artists' reception Friday 14th 7 - 10pm Saturday 29th September Doors 7:30pm £7/£5 members & concessions GONE KinoKULTURE Queen of the Whores, a performance by Annouchka Bayley + A Hole in my Heart - Dir: Lukas Moodysson, 2004 - (98min) The works selected for this show all have a close relationship to loss and dispossession, they symbolically capture an intense personal memory, experience, atmosphere, sign or impressionable moment in time. The resulting imagery forms an evocative, moving, juxtaposition, confronting the viewer with a world that is at once familiar and yet strangely disturbing. Artists: Annouchka Bayley, Anna Courcha, Lisa Cradduck, Giada Ghiringhelli, Amanda Greenidge, Anna Krimerman, Laurie Lipton and Tuva Novotny

Annouchka Bayley, Performance Annouchka Bayley is a performer, multi-instrumentalist, singer and poet. She trained in the Roy Hart method in Paris and has apprenticed "long song and overtones" among the wild women of Mongolia. She is the voice and face of the band Radio Mori, and her work for Gone promises to be overwhelmingly unusual. Anna Courcha, Paintings Sometimes painted on detritus or found objects these paintings bear words or letters borrowed from de-contextualized conversations, ordinary familiar phrases reprocessed through the act of painting into a secret internal language, saturated with memory and personal meaning. In Gone Courcha will exhibit a series of paintings that reveal an astounding amount of honesty and vulnerability, like delicate coded notes to a very personal, intimate narrative. Lisa Cradduck, Floral tributes Lisa Cradduck is a florist, "Proletarian Art Threat", and reverend of the Universal Life Church. Cradduck's work uses and plays with the associations and floral aesthetics that surround rituals in our culture: Funerals, weddings, romance, etc. These immediate readings are averted in the detail of the work which leads us into other surprising directions creating new inter-textual interpretations of death and celebration. Giada Ghiringhelli, Video Giada Ghiringhelli is a multimedia artist and filmmaker; her works principally concern the body - usually the artist's own -- both in space and in the void: in her own words, "eternal obsession and narcissistic dilemma, companion and co-operator." Coolly sensual, spatially cerebral, her films and photographs create the sense of being suspended in the present. Amanda Greenidge, Illustration Amanda Greenidge is an illustrator and artist living and working in London. She is a recent graduate of the University of Westminster and has had works featured in the Free Range exhibition at the Old Truman Brewery. She makes tough, hard-hitting, intensely personal images, often using her [found] materials as inspiration - in the work Domestic Violence, for example, we see an arguing couple and a small frightened child painted on a domestic door, the centre of which looks as if it was smashed by someone in a genuine fit of rage. Greenidge also combines collage, digital, freehand drawing and photography to construct the complexity of urban lifestyles, broken families, and womanhood. Anna Krimerman, Video Anna Krimerman is a Berlin based photographer and video artist. About her video "My Daddy he treats me so well" she says: "The moment when trust stops to be something one can have blindly…. Trust is a rare thing, more valuable than gold that can be found in rare moments. The search for it is what leads people in relationships, the way they move in the world, and perceive it. It is a choice to trust, to mistrust, to misuse trust. Usually, what we find when we look for trust are traps. We want to trust blindly, but we know it is impossible. It always contains fear.It is physical.It begs the possibility of revenge. But it still exists." Laurie Lipton, Drawings Laurie Lipton is a "self-taught artist" who was born in New York and has been based in London since 1986. Her intensely intricate, hyper-realistic drawings reveal a world as familiar and foreign to us as our own bodies, they materialise all the loss, disillusionment, hope and fallibility of the human experience with tender sensitivity and dark humour. "We frantically... throw vitamins, creams and money at death. Death only happens to other people. Only losers die", say's Lipton. Her work for Gone reveals the dark truth - and the bright side - of death, life and everything in between. Tuva Novotny, Photographs Tuva Novotny, a screen actress since the age of sixteen, has been travelling "all of her grown life", obsessively taking evocative photographs both on location in her native Sweden and on her travels throughout the world. These photographs seem to capture a sense of loneliness but they also seek warmth and intimacy, they appear as an archive of grounding actions that catalogue familiarity in an unfamiliar world. They are an affirmation that "home is where the heart is". "Things go, people go, all the time... I've been gone all the time" EXHIBITION SHOTS

Saturday 29th SeptemberDoors 7:30pm £7/£5 members & concessions Queen of the Whores, a performance by Annouchka Bayley Loss- Loss of innocence, of memory, of womanhood. "Queen of the Whores" is a journey through the darker aspects of our fantasies, fears and dreams of femininity. One by one the characters appear and surrender themselves to the phantoms of commerce, desire and addiction. And the Queen collects. Annouchka Bayley's "Queen of the Whores" is the result of many months of direct interviews with prostitutes and punters in London. Every story featured is based in truth, directly transcribed or transposed into lyric text, image-text and performance art. (Some material may offend and contains true accounts of rape, violence and abuse.) Annouchka has been writing and performing one woman shows extensively in theatres and found spaces London. She trained in Mongolian voice technique with the Tumen Ekh Ensemble, Mongolia; Roy Hart vocal extension in Paris where she became very active in Paris' Slam scene; Lecoq based theatre at London International School of Performing Arts; and directed and performed as part of the KyoRyuKan experimental theatre company in Kyoto, Japan. Her plays to date include, Fine Dining, Saoshyant, The Valiant General, Games of Waste, Four Horsemen And the Fish, and Queen of the Whores. A Hole in my Heart - Dir: Lukas Moodysson, 2004 - (98min) From his debut feature, Fucking Amal, Swedish director Lukas Moodysson has always pushed boundaries in terms of subject matter, but his most recent , A Hole In My Heart, is by far his most transgressive. Shot under extreme secrecy and set in a dingy suburban apartment, the film features some of the most shocking and unsettling images in recent memory. Moodysson focuses on Rickard and his painfully shy son Eric, who spends most of his days holed up in his room, listening to spectacularly abrasive industrial music, presumably in an attempt to drown out what's going on in the rest of the apartment. His father, an amateur pornographer, is shooting his latest opus with a friend Geko and a young woman named Tess. As the trio gets drunk and more used to each other they lose what little inhibitions they had - and their behaviour grows more and more disturbing. Suffused with a near apocalyptic rage, A Hole in My Heart is a deeply courageous and disturbing film by one of international cinema's most exciting young filmmakers. It is definitely not for the squeamish. In a world overflowing with shit this film just tells it like it is.

Saturday 29th SeptemberDoors 7:30pm £7/£5 members & concessions Queen of the Whores, a performance by Annouchka Bayley Loss- Loss of innocence, of memory, of womanhood. "Queen of the Whores" is a journey through the darker aspects of our fantasies, fears and dreams of femininity. One by one the characters appear and surrender themselves to the phantoms of commerce, desire and addiction. And the Queen collects. Annouchka Bayley's "Queen of the Whores" is the result of many months of direct interviews with prostitutes and punters in London. Every story featured is based in truth, directly transcribed or transposed into lyric text, image-text and performance art. (Some material may offend and contains true accounts of rape, violence and abuse.) Annouchka has been writing and performing one woman shows extensively in theatres and found spaces London. She trained in Mongolian voice technique with the Tumen Ekh Ensemble, Mongolia; Roy Hart vocal extension in Paris where she became very active in Paris' Slam scene; Lecoq based theatre at London International School of Performing Arts; and directed and performed as part of the KyoRyuKan experimental theatre company in Kyoto, Japan. Her plays to date include, Fine Dining, Saoshyant, The Valiant General, Games of Waste, Four Horsemen And the Fish, and Queen of the Whores. A Hole in my Heart - Dir: Lukas Moodysson, 2004 - (98min) From his debut feature, Fucking Amal, Swedish director Lukas Moodysson has always pushed boundaries in terms of subject matter, but his most recent , A Hole In My Heart, is by far his most transgressive. Shot under extreme secrecy and set in a dingy suburban apartment, the film features some of the most shocking and unsettling images in recent memory. Moodysson focuses on Rickard and his painfully shy son Eric, who spends most of his days holed up in his room, listening to spectacularly abrasive industrial music, presumably in an attempt to drown out what's going on in the rest of the apartment. His father, an amateur pornographer, is shooting his latest opus with a friend Geko and a young woman named Tess. As the trio gets drunk and more used to each other they lose what little inhibitions they had - and their behaviour grows more and more disturbing. Suffused with a near apocalyptic rage, A Hole in My Heart is a deeply courageous and disturbing film by one of international cinema's most exciting young filmmakers. It is definitely not for the squeamish. In a world overflowing with shit this film just tells it like it is.

Friday 28th September 2007Exhibition (1 night only) 5-7pm free entry. Performances 7:30-11:30pm £10 Exhibition and Performances The exhibition features new drawings by Orryelle for hir Graphic Grimmoire in progress, 'Conjunctio' , forthcoming from FULGUR LIMITED (publishers of AOSpare, Grant, Bertiaux). The book focuses upon the reflective relationships between pairs of divine lovers and sacred twins upon opposite pages. Most of these new images have never been displayed anywhere until now. Some new sculptural work of Orryelle´s -in clay and other media- will also be displayed. The PERFORMANCES following the Exhibition feature a combination of METAMORPHIC RITUAL THEATRE (including 8 GATES -see below) and Magickal Music by: Orryelle (violin & voice), solo and collaborating with 'This Too Shall Pass' (experimental electronica) with Babalon and the Beast ritual theatre. Plus Raagnagrok (London synth-sitar duo) Exhibition (1 night only) 5-7pm free entry. Limited Numbers. Tickets or enquiries please email info@theatreofophidia.co.uk or ring 0800 5300251

Starring THE HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS, SAM SHEPARD and DENNIS HOPPERWednesday 26th September - 7:30pm £7/£5 members & concessions A documentary by: Douglas, Fisher, Hatch and Lovelace. When fiddler Peter Stampfel collided with guitarist Steve Weber during the "Great Folk Scare" of the early sixties in New York, the two musicians formed a powerful bond based on their shared fascination with American roots music and early psychedelia. Dubbing themselves The Holy Modal Rounders, these eccentric outsiders have been playing their unique brand of psychedelic folk for over four decades, barely surviving on the fringes of the music industry while drawing a dedicated following of luminaries and lunatics. From their origins in New York's Greenwich Village folk scene and their involvement in the Easy Rider soundtrack, to the lost years of constant drug use, endless touring and a final shot at redemption, Bound To Lose recounts the unique forty-year history of these true American originals. With startling intimacy, Bound To Lose also documents the band's arduous, amusing, and sometimes heartbreaking struggle to capitalize on their recent resurgence in popularity, culminating in an unpredictable 40th anniversary concert in Portland, Oregon. More than just a chronicle of an obscure band, Bound To Lose is a raucous celebration of a lost American outlaw subculture as it draws its final rebellious breaths. Bound To Lose features endearing and hilarious appearances by playwright (and former Rounders drummer) Sam Shepard, Dennis Hopper, John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful, Peter Tork of the Monkees, Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs, Loudon Wainwright III, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, music editor Robert Christgau of the Village Voice, Wavy Gravy and many more.

The Horse Hospital is proud to present the second Flash Film Festival. Saturday 22nd September & Sunday 23rd September 12-6pm Screening of a selection of pieces from the festival 7-9pm Flash Film Festival screening Doors 6:30pm £5/£4 members & concessions The Flash Film Festival will feature guerrilla-style shorts to commercially focused products; presenting the team at Tokyoplastic their manic Motospeed Micro Series, through to Mike Crook's play with visual distortion in the theatrical - Soap Shakespeare. The festival promises to be an adventure of irreverent humour and political debate, showcasing the broad variation of aesthetics and imaginative works available to use with this Adobe programme that will deliriously delight your senses. The humour of Layla Atkinson's, The Whistler where a budgie murders a kitten; through to Pedro Lino's disturbing commentary on our working lives in, A Film About Us, offers a beautifully dark insight into contemporary angst. The Flash Film Festival continues to provide a platform to visually excite with technicolour daydream and epic storylines forming an eclectic array of ground-breaking animation.

Weds 5th September at 7:00pmOn this month: CAVITE USA, 80mins Directors: Ian Gamazon & Neill Dela Llana Genre: Thriller Adam is an American citizen who works as a security guard in San Diego, California. His spirits are dampened when he receives a call from his girlfriend who wants to have an abortion. Adam, a Muslim, is quite offended and hurt. He breaks down on an airplane flight to the Philippines where he is going to attend his father's funeral. Upon his arrival, he finds that no one is there to meet him. Instead, he discovers a cell phone in his backpack along with some pictures of his mother and sister. A Muslim terrorist has kidnapped them and says they will be killed unless Adam follows his instructions. Adam is led down the streets of Cavite and is introduced to the underside of this society where poverty is rampant, children sell their bodies for prostitution, and the odor of a polluted swamp forces him to cover his nose. At one point, he witnesses a person being brutally murdered in an alley. The man behind all these sinister moves is associated with the infamous Abu Sayyaf group that is fighting the government. He has a reputation for violence and shows it; Adam is sent his sister's finger in a cigarette package. Cavite is a riveting drama about the viciousness of terrorism and the extremes to which individuals will go to advance their cause. The film is written and directed by Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana has won several awards at film festivals (including Raindance) around the world. The pressure on the protagonist is incredible since the terrorist knows his every move and toys with him, happy to make an American squirm and quake in his boots. The ethical choice that Adam is given in the end is one that no human should ever have to make. Check out the website for more info and to watch the trailer. Please note, the doors open at 7pm, screenings start when the venue is full. If you come late, you may have to stand. Film Club is first come, first serve so there's no need to RSVP. Remember the rules of Film Club: 1) Great Films 2) Free Admission 3) Free Beer! You won't find a cheaper date in this city... For more information ring us on 020 7287 3833. 15th Raindance Film Festival: 25 September - 7 October 2007 www.raindance.co.uk

Friday 24th August 7pm £7/£5 members & concessions Mind- boggingly bizarre animation! The London International Animation Festival (LIAF) returns to the heart of London with an exciting, intriguing, inspiring, sometimes controversial, thoroughly comprehensive collection of animation from 21 to 26 August. This is the UK's fastest growing animation festival, only in its fourth year, but the largest festival of its kind in the UK. The best, new animation in the world will be brought to London audiences with over 200 films, most of them British premieres, represented in a series of amazing programmes and satellite events. LIAF 2007 promises an exciting and eventful six days of the best in local and international animation. With films from 28 countries LIAF will proudly showcase the whole spectrum of creative animation, showing that animation is so much more than slick blockbusters and special effects. LIAF 2007 is sure to challenge, engage and inspire its audience through a comprehensive presentation of outstanding animated shorts. This year we are very proud to be screening a special programme of films at the Horse Hospital. Bubble, The Woodsmen, Bach is Dead, Kuzai Heart You Girl and Daddy and James For more details check out the LIAF website at www.liaf.org.uk or email info@liaf.org.uk

Mind- boggingly bizarre animation! Crazy, weird, impossible to explain plots, a boggling compendium of crazed ideas horse whipped up to warp speed and transported back from parallel universes. A tribute to imaginations cut - completely - loose. Join us for this collection of the London International Animation Festival 07's nuttiest moments. Curiosity Lorcan Finnegan, Ireland, 2'30 Curiosity killed the weird little wobbly legged things. Bach Is Dead Audrey Spiry, France, 1'30 Bach Is Dead! Bach Is Dead! Bach Is Dead!...... sing with me now.... The Woodsman - "The Hole" Bart Batcher, Chris Neilson, Canada, 4'30 Tres weirderino! How much fun can two guys have in a hole in the ground? The Woodsman - "Claudenapped" Bart Batcher, Chris Neilson, Canada, 4'30 Tres weirderino II! A hopelessly flawed attempt at a double self-kidnapping. Hello, My Name Is Joe Dillon Markey, USA, 2'00 "Hello, my name is Joe and I work in the button factory". Prelude to a meltdown. Once Upon A Time In My Wife Joost Lieuwma, Holland, 4'15 The title says it all. Bring a flashlight. Bubble Arpad Miklos, Hungary, 3'00 Out there..... way, way out there. Super K-Net Ali Rahmoun, Belgium, 6'30 Tin cans, electrical appliances and a fish out of water. A vicious fight for domination. Sharing Bears Steven Ford, USA, 1'15 Too cute.... no, seriously.... way TOOOOO cute! Earthman Taylor Freshley, USA, 9'30 Somebody's loosing their grip on reality here. The Tale Of How The Blackheart Gang, South Africa, 4'30 A swirling, surging, digi-psychedelic romp through a bizarre ocean floor. Daddy And James Dave Carter, Australia, 1'30 There's more than one way to bring da chicken home! Kuzai Heart You Girl ShineStrength, New Zealand, 2'30 A beautifully animated music video with the imagination meter set to "Out There" Susie Cathy Snelling, Cathy, UK, 3'45 Even a written synopsis for this one would have trouble passing the censor. Far West Fernando Nieto, France, 4'00 Self imposed surgery in the pursuit of a more rapid form of animating. The pain! Taste Of Life Ulo Pikkov, Estonia, 11'15 Extreme surrealist massage as a metaphor for the big issues of life.

A coded history of alphabets and communicationArtist Paul Flack With film & performance by Annie Machon Exhibition runs from Mon 6th August - Saturday 11th August 2007 EXTENDED TILL WEDNESDAY 22ND OF AUGUST Private view Mon 6th August 6.30 - 9pm Friday 10th August, An evening of film and performance doors 8.30 £7/£5 members & concessions Kate Shortt is a cellist/singer songwriter and comedienne. She will delight you with her musical chutzpah, heightened reality and abstract spontaneity at the cello! She will also musically caress you at the piano with items from her latest album 'Something To Tell You' not to be missed. Inspired by the complex evolution of alphabets, words and symbols sculptor Paul Flack has been interested in language and its meaning for many years. Cryptic meaning suffuses his work, which is a blend of words and symbols from many different cultures. Hieroglyphs and runes jostle for space with modern alphabets and binary code on painted canvasses, stone carvings and sculptures. The outcome is a fluid mixture of man-made meaning and universal, geometric shapes. Paul's collaboration with Annie Machon - a leading activist of the 9/11 Truth Campaign and former MI5 intelligence officer - has enabled him to take his understanding of codes, censorship and the secretive side of language to a new level. "We live in an age of spoon-fed information and extreme censorship. I want people to think about the origins of language and how it binds cultures together, as opposed to separating them" Paul Flack "It's a cliche, but you really shouldn't believe everything you read. History is written by the victorious and today's ruling elite is certainly no less ruthless in its approach to secrecy and censorship." Annie Machon "If this sounds a bit controversial, all the better. Some alternative views of recent events are encoded into the work, and if you look hard enough you will find them." "Of course, what you do with the information is up to you," Paul Flack Images and additional information can be obtained from Paul Flack Email paul.flack@phonecoop.coop