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FRIDAY 23RD OCTOBER - SATURDAY 25TH OCTOBER 2009

READING EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
Rising Sun Arts Centre
Day tickets £6.00 (concs £4.00),
two-day tickets £11.00 (concs £7.00) (useable on any two days)
three-day tickets £15.00 (concs £9.00)
Tickets can be reserved on 0118 967 4706 or tickets@reff.biz.
Tickets will be held until 15 minutes before the performance starts.


FRIDAY 23RD OCTOBER
7.30pm - 11.00pm (Doors Open 6.45pm)

MATT HULSE - Double bill film programme.
Part retrospective, part master - class and partsafari through an eclectic, subversive and creative mind, Matt Hulse will treat you to a survey and exploration of his Super8 gems and award- winning short films.
Matt's debut feature film 'Follow The Master' (70 mins) will follow.
Plus a brief Q and A.

THE FORM GROUP - Music to film
Sparse, drifting music that floats between Fripp and Eno guitars, the pastoral drone of Boards of Canada and some of Broadcast's sweeter instrumentals. Soundtracking a segment of Wim Wenders' 1973 film 'Alice in the Cities'

JON LOCKHART - We Can Do This
Upstairs Installation - running all night
REFF Special Bursary winner, Jon creates an interactive, collaborative experience where viewers are encouraged to contribute to an evolving and unique piece.


SATURDAY 24TH OCTOBER
7.30pm - 11.00pm (Doors Open 6.45pm)

LONDON FILM MAKERS CO-OP - Retrospective
In conjunction with Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo's performance which follows, a carefully curated programme (by REFF curator Philip Newcombe) of some of the highly influential short films made by the artists of the London Film Makers co-op, from the early 1970's.

Annabel Nicolson / William Raban / Anne Rees-Mogg / Lis Rhodes
Malcolm Le Grice / John Smith / Ron Haseldon / Rosalind Nashashibi
Chris Welsby / Tina Keane / Tanya Syed / Jayne Parker / David Hall


GUY SHERWIN AND LYNN LOO - Live performance
END ROLLS (UK Premiere), CYCLES #3,
CAMDEN ROAD STATION, MAN WITH MIRROR
Guy's films and performances explore basic qualities of cinema such as movement, light and sound. Often using live elements during a screening, sometimes appearing within the image or working with the projector as a performative instrument. Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo, who have been working together since 2005, combine several 16mm projectors and experimentation with fi lm loops and the projectors' optical sound system. Short Q and A follows.


SUNDAY 25TH OCTOBER
6.00pm - 9.30pm (Doors open 5.30pm)

BURSARIES / SUBMISSIONS / COMMISSIONS
Special guest MARK AERIAL WALLER
REFF'S resident curator, Philip Newcombe compiles two programmes which include the REFF submissions and bursaries and a WORLD PREMIERE of a film created by Mark Aerial Waller, commissioned by REFF, and filmed in Whitley, Reading, using actors and non actors from the town.

Busary winners: Emma Hart / Wai Yan Chan / Kirk Palmer / Simon Raven.
Open submision screenings: Films by: Emma Charles / Daun Chung
Michael Day / Abbe Leigh Fletcher / Edmund Harcourt / Kirk Hendry
Sam Holden / Jasmine Johnson / Anna Malni / Farah Mohamed
Simon Payne / Giulia Ricci / Christopher Steel / Mike Taylor.

THE PAWN BROKER - Music to film
The Pawnbroker use a piano and two voices to create their sparse landscape. Following last years haunting soundtrack to 'The Pawnbroker', they will present a suite of brand new music to accompany Tarkovsky's 'Solaris', marrying the fi lm's endless space and turmoil to their characteristically taught sound

JON LOCKHART - We Can Do This
Upstairs Installation - running all night
See Above