Compass Festival

BURNS NIGHT

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Burns Night Supper, Wed 25 Jan 2012, hosted by Duncan Shaw. £22.50

3-course veggie Burns night supper, with complimentary whisky warmer, traditional Burns addresses/ toasts and, of course, poetry. Readings from the great Rabbie Burns, as well as original work from some of the UK's finest young wordsmiths: including Sally Jenkinson and Adam Kammerling. Seating at the communal supper at 7.30pm sharp. Book your place now! Inspired by The Bard? The floor will be open for you to read a Burns of your choice.

Starter: Leek and potato soup, with deep fried leek,truffle oil and homemade soda bread

Mains: Traditional Burns Night Supper, with veggie haggis, bashed neeps and tatties and wild mushroom whisky sauce

Dessert: Cranachan mess with honeycomb and 'battered Mars bar'

Compass Presents... Doppelgänger

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Doppelgänger

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The two night collaboration between Compass and The Motorcycle Showroom draws near...

25 Nov 2011 20:00 Doppelgänger: The Stokes Croft Masquarade Ball (masked) £7

"A night of auditory audacity, visual decadence and experimental aerial performance. Come on a journey through immersive artistic incursions and experimental live mixes of Avant-Gardism and modern extortionist psychedelia"

OCD (Live art instillation)

COME MASKED

26 Nov 2011 20:00 Doppelgänger: Double Bill with Live Score (unmasked) £5

"A double bill of film with full composed live scores. Visual art meets documentary in Tri Hita Karana. Silent cult classic The Seashell and the Clergyman is transformed by live experimental instrumentation"

21:00 - The Seashell and the Clergymen - scored by Minima

22:00 - Tri Hita Karana - scored by Prymedia

PLUS

Colden Drystone

Um Zimbra Limb

Weekend ticket £10

The Motorcycle Showroom

15-19 Stokes Croft

Bristol, BS1 3PY

Tickets available from the Bristol Ticket Shop

www.bristolticketshop.co.uk

0117 929 9008

“The stage revealed another, a hideous recognition, a violent repose that burned itself onto my retina and lodged itself into a memory that has always been there, since it all began.”

Unknown 1846

Doppelgänger is the long awaited collaboration between Compass and The Motorcycle Showroom, which begins its roots its ideas in the macabre and unsettling manifestation of an exact double of living human: the doppelganger. Typically representing the alter ego or a dark paranormal bilocation, the event takes on these themes and builds a set around them.

Installations will merge into each other as the protagonists (you) negotiate the space, artistic incursions take on forms that derive from: artwork as doppelganger, the double and the mirror.

It will take you on a journey through immersive VJing, performance and experimental live improvised music, to a mix of Avant-Garde cinematography and modern extortionist psychedelic eye pain. It spews forth fiction into its playground for clashes of friction to be born out of nostalgia and hyper-modernity.

Only by involving yourself in the chaos will you truly begin to disrupt your senses.

For more info on The Motorcycle Showroom, visit: www.themotorcycleshowroom.com

Coming Soon...

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Doppelgänger is the long awaited collaboration between Compass and The Motorcycle Showroom. It will take place on the weekend of 25th/ 26th November.

Look out for more details appearing here soon!

Once again Compass will bring its magic to Shambala Festival..

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This Shambala, the Compass team bring forth another diverse programme transforming their trademark sexy boudoir of velvet and voluptuousness into a devious Den of Masquerade! In a world of late night revelry, their in-house masked compares invite you to engorge yourselves in their programme of circus-freakery, visual-mastery, and party beats.

Here's a choice selection of those booked so far..

Troyka's Balkan rhythms, silent film with live piano accompaniment, slapstick sideshow performance and poetry from Adam Kamerling.

The 'gloriously disturbing' Slytones - a masked cabaret troupe of sinister clowns play Psychedelic Blues.

Prymedia- VJ installationists build a three dimensional light-emitting sculpture constructed of bike tires.

Ukulele collective The Rinky Dinks cover genres as diverse as metal, hip hop, house and pop, wrestling back all the best tunes from the ubiquitous guitar bands and paying homage to classic acts from The Cure to Johnny Cash.

Compass Jam Sessions 5 -7 daily, hosted by Stokes Croft Open Mic legend Ollie Dennison

Compares hailing from Invisible Circus to help the programme along with their masked cabaret interludes...

Plus watch out for the return of the sinister sideshow, Mr Wiggles the Clown

To check out the line-up and get your tickets, go to shambalafestival.org

Compass at Nozstock

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Nozstock - The Hidden Valley

A festival built from a curious amalgamation of performance, art, electronic supersounds and good old-fashioned guitar-strumming and drum-bashing.

"A rural slice of English eccentricity" Russell Howard

"Nozstock is the best festival of its size in the UK" Phill Jupitus and The Blockheads

Compass Film bring a programme of exciting film and visual media to the beautiful people of Nozstock. Chill out, expand your mind and let us take you on a cinematic journey!

Check out the lineup and get your tickets at nozstock.com...

Compass Film Presents... A BALKAN NIGHT

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Thursday 19th May, 7.30pm

St Werburghs City Farm Cafe

MUSIC FROM TROYKA

Come and see the Farm Cafe as it is transformed into a kafana for an evening of Balkan delights!

With traditional Balkan music from Troyka and guests, plus delicious food, dancing and more.

Entry £4, dinner £6, or combo ticket for food £8

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Venue's TOP FILM FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR

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No. 1 Compass of Lunacy

No. 2 Bath Film Festival

No. 3 Encounters

"They spoil us with excellent film festivals round these parts, making this one of the most difficult categories. This year, we decided that the small, volunteer-run Compass of Lunacy deserved our banana. The Compass folk have been around for a few years now with their themed multimedia festivals. But what really swung it for them was their creative use of a brand new space. The suitably spooky Old Coroner's Court was filled with splendid installations, including a padded cell and electric chair."

View the full article at venue.co.uk

Compass Presents.. Burn's Night

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An evening of poetry, whisky, and traditional Veggie Burns Night Supper Warm your cockles on a cold winters night!

PETE THE TEMP SALLY JENKINSON ADAM KAMMERLING + OPEN MIC
Tue 25 Jan, St Werburghs City Farm Cafe, Doors 7.30pm, Poetry 8pm
£4 entry-only, £6 Veggie Burns Supper Plate, £8 Entry + Dinner Combo ticket First come first served, arrive early to avoid disappointment.

News :: The Winners of the Compass Festival of Lunacy Film & VJ Competitions

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Best Film: Negative Head - Hazel Gore

Local Film Award: The Sack - Dan Gitsham

Young Filmmaker: Phantom Turd - Joe D'Ovidio

Audience Award: Blanche - Zoe Louise Bulbek & Maisie Utting

VJ Competition Winner: Prymedia

News :: Fundraiser for Palestine, 25th November

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We are holding a night of short films to raise awareness about Palestine. We are hoping to use momentum raised at our recent Festival of Lunacy at the Coroner's Court on Stokes Croft to bring some visibility to ideas around Palestine in film. Money raised will go towards Project Cinema Jenin, a cinema and youth project where Palestinian and Israeli children come together to create film.

Thursday 25th Nov, 7pm
at
The LeftBank
128 Cheltenham Rd, Montpelier, Bristol

DJs and partying after the screening. Please spread the word! £5/ £4 entry subject to availability

Yorkshire Palenstine Cultural Exchange Website

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Dare you delve into the topsy-turvy world of the Compass Festival of Lunacy? In this lunatic world prepare to be shocked, delighted, appalled, and entertained! We invite you to step behind the looking glass, and into the rabbit warren of the mind. Come and cavort in our dreamscapes and frolic in our fantasies, with a programme of performance, cabaret, burlesque, live music, DJs, visuals, and silent film.

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In 2010 Compass Film steps through the looking glass, loses its head, sheds its sanity like an unwieldy fur coat and embarks upon a celebration of lunacy and all things strange and bizarre. This years festival of cinema and arts presents films from around the globe as well as spoken word, burlesque, cabaret, our short film competition and our VJ competition and club night to welcome in All Hallows Eve.

The (free) launch party kicks off at 7pm on Thursday 21 October with live bands, including the excellent Dagger Bros, art installations and booze at the old coroner’s court (behind Lakota). Come along and find out a little bit more about what we have on at the festival this year.

Highlights of the festival include;

A screening of Waking Life on Friday 22, a film wildly different from anything you will have seen before, in which a man stumbles through layers of dreamworlds wondering if he will ever wake up.

On Saturday 23 a screening of classic black and white silent film The Cabinet of Dr Caligari in which a young man’s death is predicted by a psychic at a sinister fairground. With live piano accompaniment plus carnivalesque cabaret

A screening of The Hour of the Wolf, Ingmar Bergman’s only horror film, introduced by Kim Newman on Sunday 24.

Thursday 28 sees the screening of the shortlisted entrants for our short film competition. Come along and cheer for your favourite film!

Friday 29 is our spoken word evening with performances by legends such as Poet Malusi, Wilf, Pete the Temp... and you, if you'e brave enough to step up during the open mic portion of the evening.

Saturday 30 sees the competitors in our VJ competition doing their stuff, including a live performance of The Cesare Variations by Steven Severin (Siouxsie and the Banshees) and also our fancy dress Halloween Howler party to see the last weekend of the festival off in style.

On Sunday 31 there will be a screening of Svankmajer's Alice; this dark and sinister mix of live action and stop motion animation is sure to obscure all thoughts of the cute little blonde you’re used to from Disney films.

Lose your sanity, throw away your inhibitions and explore the darker side of humanities consciousness as Compass Presents a Festival of Lunacy.

Call for Artists! – Compass Festival of Lunacy Build

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Compass Festival is on the look out for volunteers to help create a lunatic world at the Old Coroners Court, Stokes Croft, behind Lakota nightclub. This is your chance to author an exciting new venue for the Festival of Lunacy, and a chance to get your name and work seen as an exhibit at the Festival. Against the backdrop of your installations will unfold a programme of film and performance. If you think you could contribute your artistic vision and flare for this year’s festival then get in touch! If you have an idea for your own individual lunatic installation we want to hear from you!

For more details contact Nicky on nicky@compass‐film.co.uk ASAP

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THE COMPASS FESTIVAL OF LUNACY!

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Compass Film CIC is a vibrant not-for-profit cultural organisation based in Bristol. We are committed to showcasing marginal film culture, as well as arts and performance. We are looking for volunteers to help out during the festival this year from 21st to 31st October, helping out in areas such as promotional and bar work, stewarding, ushering and working the door - amongst others. In exchange for volunteering with Compass you will be able to come to other events across the festival for FREE, gain experience of working on an up and coming film and arts festival and get references from us to aid future job applications. If you are interested in being involved please contact Nicky Butcher on nicky@compass-film.co.uk for more details on how to get involved!

Calling All VJs - Halloween Howler Competition!

2010-08-22T11:27:00.000+01:00

Calling all VJs, pioneers of visual arts on the BIG SCREEN, here is your opportunity to take part in a night of visual expression and musical creativity. Part of the Compass Festival of Lunacy, Halloween Howler will bring together VJs from accross the country to exhibit their work here in Bristol this autumn, as part of a fancy-dress musical-visual explosion of a night!

Enter via resume to tara@compass-film.co.uk with reference to any online content that may support your entry - no later than 16 September 2010. Successful applicants will be invited to come to Bristol to showcase their work on Saturday 30 October 2010.

Calling all creative and expressive film producers..

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Five Minutes of Madness Call for Submissions!

Calling all creative and expressive film producers, flamboyant cultivators of the moving image!

Five Minutes of Madness challenges you to create and submit short films around the theme of Lunacy. Part of ‘The Festival of Lunacy’ Presented by Compass this year. Five Minutes of Madness will bring together film-makers from far and wide to exhibit their work here in Bristol.

We are exploring the realms of Lunacy in the broadest possible sense. Use as your muse anything inspired by this theme: notions of reality, the world of dreams, deviations from the quotidian, whether physical, psychological, or social; from filmic interpretations including experimental film, to mythical or historical interpretations. Judged by a panel of industry professionals, awards will be given for Best Film, Audience Award, Local Film-maker and Youth Award.

Entries must be no longer than five minutes in length. Submissions will be accepted in the following formats: DVD, Mini DV or as full quality DV QuickTime files.
For more information and an entry form email nicky@compass-film.co.uk. Entries must be sent to: Five Minutes of Madness, Compass Film CIC, 16 Cromer Road, BS6 6JX - no later than
Friday 1st October 2010.

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KEEP YOURS EYES OUT FOR NEWS ON OUR TENT AT SHAMBALA THIS YEAR AND OUR AUTUMN EVENTS!

http://www.shambalafestival.org/

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COMPASS ST PATRICKS DAY EVENTS!

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COMPASS ST PATRICKS DAY EVENTS!

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Please scroll down for Valentines menu...

Valentines Menu
Courtesy of The Runcible Spoon

Starter
Grano Padano & herb risotto cakes, with red onion confit

Mains
Sweet potato, rosemary and (Runcible's own home-made) Ricotta Ravioli
with rocket, sun-dried tomatos, and toasted brasil nuts

Dessert
Triple-layer chocolate brownie, raspberry cheesecake

Gluten free option available if notified in advance. Please notify of any special dietary requirements prior to evening.

Licensed Bar

No credit card facility

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Compass Valentines Events

Screening: Casablanca
@ Mivart St Studios, Easton.
Sat 13 Feb, doors 7pm, film 7.30 - £4
Live music and serenades! Entry via Cato St. Dress code: Black & White
Snacks and drinks available.

3-Course Veggie Valentines Dinner
at St Werburghs City Farm Cafe, with live music. Sun 14 Feb, doors 7pm, dinner served 7.30pm promt. Full menu coming soon! £16. Licensed bar.
Book early via the cafe, email info@compass-film.co.uk or call 07760454696.

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Love Me Up!

Compass does Valentines with...

Sat 13 Feb - Film screening at Mivart St Studios - title to be announced
Sun 14 Feb - 3 course Valentine's supper w live music at the St Werburghs City Farm Caf

Watch This Space...

Compass Burns Night fun for cold winter nights!

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Sat 23 Jan
Compass Screening: Whiskey Galore! @ Mivart Street Studios, Easton 7.30pm, £4

Come and let your cockles be warmed and your winter spirits lifted with a rare screening of this classic Ealing Comedy.
Dress Code: Tartan
www.compass-film.co.uk / www.mivartartists.co.uk

Mon 25 Jan
Compass Burns Night Supper @ St Werburghs City Farm Cafe

3-course veggie supper (£12) 7pm prompt, trad Scottish tunes, poetry, live music and whiskey! Anna Freeman, Gaz Death, Mr Hovis, and much more!
Limited spaces, book early on cityfarmcafe@yahoo.co.uk, or call 07813078940.
Licensed bar. Entry-only £5 from 8.30pm.
www.compass-film.co.uk

'But mark the Rustic, haggis fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll mak it whissle;
An' legs an' arms, an' heads will sned,
Like taps o' thrissle'

Wow!!

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Another fantastic year for the Compass Festival! Hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did! Check out the full slideshow of photos on our photostream. And please let us know what you thought by commenting on our blog!

Compass will be programming a series of year-round events in 2010, so please WATCH THIS SPACE. The Bristol scene just got a bit more exciting!

THE COMPASS OF DESIRE FESTIVAL

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3 - 24 OCTOBER 2009
TRINITY CENTRE BRISTOL

Enter the Compass den of desire, a world of libidinous lovin’,romantic encounters, sordid, sexy, beautiful and beastly! We explore our theme through the rose-tinted corridors of nostalgia, up the dizzy heights of aspiration, plummeting ﬁnally to the murky underbelly of the dark sides of impulse and desire. Through a series of encounters, performances and ﬁlm screenings artists, magicians, performers and academics will come together.

Using the directional points of the compass to navigate our way across the globe, the programme will take us from a sexy French burlesque cabaret to the island of Cuba, then to the seedy depths of an American speakeasy, before arriving in the country of Lebanon. Come, join the fun,
and taste the treats within!

FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE

Sat 3 Oct - Rhymes Spoken Word Event
St Werburghs City Farm Cafe - 20.00h

Fri 9 Oct - Trinity Launch Party
Trinity - 20.00h - Free

Sat 10 Oct - Compass North (France)
Fancy dress: Burlesque Beauties & Mustachioed Monsieurs - Trinity - 19.30h

Sun 11 Oct Compass South (Cuba)
Memories of Underdevelopment + Strawberry & Chocolate - Trinity - 18.30h & 21.00h

Sat 17 Oct - Compass West (America)
Fancy dress: Gangsters & Molls - Trinity - 19.30h

Sun 18 Oct - Compass East (Lebanon)
Caramel + Waltz with Bashir - Trinity - 18.30h

Sat 24 Oct - 5 Minutes of Fire: Short Film Competition
Cube Microplex - 20.00h

Lost? Find out where we are - here

Tickets
£5 / £4 (double bills £6 / £5) + bf
Available from:

Bristol Ticket Shop
www.bristolticketshop.co.uk
0117 929 9008 / 0870 44 44 400

Genesis Musik & Clothing
226 Stapleton Road, Easton
0117 935 5764

Confused about the prices? Click here

See our Press Release here
email: info@compass-film.co.uk
Contact with us: Twitter - Facebook - Flickr

Sunday 18th October - Compass East (Lebanon)

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Compass East (Lebanon)
Trinity - 18.30h & 21.00h. Evening ends 23.00h
Film screenings:
Caramel +
Waltz with Bashir
Plus intro & Leba-knees-up - Live music from Troika!

Sukkar Banat / Caramel (PG) (Labaki, 2007, 95m)
Set in a beauty salon in modern-day Beirut, Caramel is a heartwarming romantic comedy about a group of Lebanese women whose respective turmoils in love and life are borne through the friendship that binds them. Caught between the traditions and expectations of an older Lebanon (represented by their parents and family homes) and the realities and contradictions of a new modern age, they are all in some sense at a turning point. On the cusp of change, the women
face different futures each, alone, but in the company of those they love most.

Vals Im Bashir / Waltz with Bashir (18) (Folman, 2008, 90m)
Folman’s animation is a beautifully paced, exquisitely drawn masterpiece using as its theme the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. An Israeli ﬁ lm told from the point of view of an Israeli soldier present in the conﬂict, Waltz with Bashir is a starkly honest investigation into memory and the psychological effects of trauma and guilt on human beings. Driven by desire to uncover his lost memories of the war and the part he played, the protagonist seeks out various other service people that served alongside him. These real recorded interviews, attributed to the drawn characters that people the ﬁlm, lend an honesty to this testimonial of the realities of the conﬂict, and can be thought of as contributing to an understanding of the atrocities wreaked in Lebanon
during this time.

(click here for the map to the Trinity Centre)

Compass Film Festival Press Release

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BRISTOL'S COMPASS OF DESIRE FESTIVAL 2009

Festival dates: 3–24 October 2009

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

Desire – explored through the cultural lens of Cuba, Lebanon, America and France – represents the thematic heart of the fourth Compass Festival in Bristol. Using the conceptual points of a compass to navigate the festival’s narrative, the programme will offer up an impressive menu of film screenings, poetry, music, dance, magic and discussion, taking audiences from French burlesque cabaret to the island of Cuba; from the seedy depths of an American speak-easy to the eastern shores of Lebanon.

Warm-up event Rhymes Spoken Word sparks the fires of the Compass bonanza on Saturday 3 October with an evening of live spoken word and poetry from some of Bristol's finest wordsmiths, plus London-based lyricist Kate Tempest (and open-mic spot for local budding talent to showcase their rhymes).

Following an initial launch party on the Friday 9 at festival venue Trinity, offering up tantalising tasters of festival highlights, Compass kicks off in full swing on Saturday 10, transporting audiences to the glittering lounges of French cabaret and burlesque. Alluring acrobatics, sumptuous striptease and captivating can-can all recreate the raucous atmosphere of the Moulin Rouge, alongside a programme of cinematic delights including a feature screening of L'Invitation au Voyage (Dulac, 1927), and a programme of French shorts donated by the Institut Français-Ciné Lumière including animation Les Crayons (Barcelo, 2004) and French Kiss (Peretjatko, 2004).

Moving westward on Sunday 11, the Compass gaze swings to the exotic island of Cuba for another double-bill film bonanza. First up: Memories of Underdevelopment (Alea, 1968). Set historically in the period between the Bay of Pigs offensive and the Cuban Missile Crisis, a middle-class Cuban, Sergio, tries to understand the new Cuba and his place within it through a serious of romantic relationships. After a lively interval showcasing local Cuban salsa talents, the final film of the festival is Fresa y Chocolate (Alea, 1994). Cast in the faded grandeur of Havana’s crumbling colonial facades, Fresa y Chocolate examines freedom of expression, tolerance, revolutionary watchfulness, and the flaws of revolutionary Cuban society.

On Saturday 17, the festival throws the spotlight on America, casting audiences back into the era of sleazy 1920s Prohibition. The evening’s bill shows off dancers, singers, magicians and circus performers as well as some of the sexiest films of the day in a specially curated programme of silent movies in collaboration with Bristol Silents and the Watershed, accompanied by live piano.

Finally the festival axis turns to Lebanon on Sunday 18, with a feature double bill screening. Caramel (Labaki, 2007) is served up first: a heart warming romantic comedy about a group of Lebanese women, whose respective turmoils in love and life are borne through the friendship that binds them. Following this, the widely acclaimed hallucinatory remembrance of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon – Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 2008). Folman’s animation is a beautifully paced, exquisitely drawn masterpiece exploring themes of trauma and guilt through a soldier’s memory.

For a final helping of amorous creativity, Compass gives budding short-film makers a chance to sizzle the silver screen with bite-size cinematic treats at Five Minutes of Fire Short Film Competition on Saturday 24. Films will be judged by panel of experts, with an audience award for the favourite.

OTHER COMPASS EVENTS

Compass at Shambala Festival – 27th–30th August

The Compass of Desire Tent presents a smorgasbord of weird and wonderful acts, surreal encounters and libidinous beats in the sumptuously sexy world of their late-night boudoir at Shambala Festival.

Highlights to include

• The words and beats of London-based lyricist Kate Tempest (plus live hip hop from Sound of Rum)

• Take a trip into wild world of Victorian micro-rave, smoke emitting gramophones and time machines with festival favourites, Vexkiddy

• KaraUke – karaoke with a live Ukulele backing band. You sing, They play!

• Plus, burlesque, magic, and foodie treats provided by The Runcible Spoon

FESTIVAL VENUES

Main festival venue

The Trinity Centre

Trinity Road, Bristol, BS2 0NW

Rhymes Spoken Word

St Werburgh's City Farm Cafe

Five Minutes of Fire Short Film Competition

Cube Microplex Cinema

TICKETS

Single Events: £5/ £4 +b.f.

Double Bill Films: £6/ £5 +b.f.

Tickets available from Bristol Ticket Shop (01179299008 / www.bristolticketshop.co.uk) and Genesis Musik & Clothing (01179355764)

PROVISIONS

Fully licensed bar. Hot food and snacks available courtesy of The Runcible Spoon

FOR ALL PRESS ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT:

Marcus Siddall
07812808749
marcus.siddall@gmail.com
www.compass-film.co.uk

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ABOUT COMPASS FILM CIC

Compass Film CIC is an established not-for profit organisation striving to present cultural events that are fresh and imaginative in Bristol. The company’s main activity is the preparation and delivery of the annual themed arts & film festival. Each year they choose a different concept through which to explore local and international cinema and wider arts.

Please visit the Compass website for all information on tickets, venue and directions: http://www.compass-film.co.uk

Saturday 17th October - Gangsters & Molls

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Compass West (America)
Trinity - 19.30h- 22.00h
Fancy dress: Gangsters & Molls
A seedy 1920’s speakeasy hosts a night
of magic, acrobatics, and silent film with
live piano accompaniment

In the seedy cellars and back allies of 1920s America, gangsters and molls gather in town’s hottest speakeasy where the Madame, matriarch of the house, waits to welcome her guests, including some of the hood’s most notorious characters… Roxanne props up the bar, as the
local mobsters gamble at a table in the corner…

On the bill tonight are dancers, singers, magicians and circus performers as well as one of America’s most intriguing prohibition-era pieces of silent cinema. The live piano accompaniment will extend to performances and acts on this most electric of evenings… A slick night out in the city was never so enticing!

(click here for the map to the Trinity Centre)

Saturday 24th October - Five Minutes of Fire

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Five Minutes of Fire: Short Film Competition
Cube Microplex - 20.00h
Plus Analysing Desire - an investigation
into the psychological theories of Desire

A night of ﬁve-minute cinematic treats, as entrants to the Compass short ﬁlm competition explore the theme of desire in all its guises. Films will be judged by a panel of experts, with an audience award for your favourite. Come and fan the ﬂames of creativity and see what today’s hottest ﬁlmmakers have to offer!

Analysing Desire
Graeme is a festival regular, holding forth each year about psychology, psychoanalysis, movies and his cat. A psychiatrist and psychotherapist with a longstanding love of cinema he will brieﬂy review psychological theories of desire and link them to ﬁlms in the festival. Erudition with fun!

(click here for the map to the Cube Multiplex)

Sunday 11th October - Compass South (Cuba)

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Compass South (Cuba)
Trinity - 18.30h & 21.00h
Film screenings:
Memories of Underdevelopment +
Strawberry & Chocolate
Plus intro & live Cuban salsa
(Spanish?? Read it here)

These ﬁlms have been kindly donated by the ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute). We ask you support our gift to ICAIC, of ofﬁ ce materials in short supply due to the trade embargo, by making a small donation either on the event front desk or at the bar.

Memorias del Subdesarrollo / Memories of Underdevelopment (15) (Alea, 1968, 97m)
Sergio, a middle-class Cuban intellectual, decides to stay in Cuba despite his wife, family and friends joining the exodus to Miami in the wake of the Revolution. Set historically in the period between the Bay of Pigs offensive and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Sergio tries to understand the new Cuba and his place within it.
Ultimately cast as an outsider, he ponders the state of his country whilst engaging in a series of relationships with women. Alea uses Sergio’s relationship with each woman as a means of approaching a consideration of aspects of Cuba’s own underdeveloped nature. Using elements of documentary footage of historical moments in Cuba’s near past, Memories of Underdevelopment was one of the most sophisticated movies to come out of Cuba at its time, and remains a cinematically exciting enquiry into a fascinating moment in Cuba’s recent history.

Fresa y Chocolate / Strawberry & Chocolate (15) (Alea, 1994, 108m)
Set against the faded grandeur of Havana’s crumbling colonial facades, Strawberry & Chocolate was one of Alea’s last ﬁlms, and continues to present a real investigation into the nuances and complexities of the country he loves. Set one year before the Mariel boatlift exodus, Strawberry & Chocolate is the story of a friendship between two very different Cubans. Diego is a ﬂamboyant, cultured gay man and an ardent lover of the arts; David is a serious, naïve Marxist
driven by loyalty to the regime, and intention to report Diego to the authorities for his counter-revolutionary behaviour. “I knew he was a homosexual,” David says of their initial meeting in the ice-cream parlour, “there was chocolate, and he chose strawberry.” But the more time the two men spend together, the more David’s certainties become effaced. A ﬁ lm about tolerance,
Strawberry & Chocolate examines freedom of expression, surveillance, and the ﬂaws of revolutionary Cuban society.

Since this ﬁlm was made Castro has formally apologised for Cuba’s policy on homosexuality, which is now legal.

(click here for the map to the Trinity Centre)

Saturday 10th October - Compass North (France)

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Compass North (France)
Trinity - 19.30h
Fancy dress: Burlesque Beauties & Mustachioed Monsieurs
Enter the Moulin Rouge for a night of sexy striptease,
circus, performance & cinematic snippets
(French?? Translation here)

Grab your feather boas and suspender belts and come on down to the glittering lounges of the Moulin Rouge for a moustache-twitchingly mouth watering night of circus, burlesque, dance and cinema. As the lights go down on this sumptuous cabaret sit back and watch the treats unfold.

Sexy striptease, alluring acrobatics, and captivating cancan all recreate the raucous atmosphere of the underground cabaret, alongside a programme of some of France’s most desirous cinematic delights.

(click here for the map to the Trinity Centre)

Friday 9th October - Trinity Launch Party

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Trinity Launch Party
Trinity - 20.00h - Free
Live music, wandering performances,
interactive magic, arty installations and
delicious food

The Compass Festival at Trinity kicks off with a right old knees up! Come and help us celebrate! Take this opportunity to see what has been bubbling away behind the doors of desire. Sample snippets of the rest of the fest with bands, DJs, wandering performances, art, ﬁlm and installations…

Kick back, step up, and enjoy the ride

(click here for the map to the Trinity Centre)

Saturday 3th October - Rhymes Spoken Word Event

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Rhymes Spoken Word Event
St Werburghs City Farm Cafe - 20.00h
Best of Bristol’s wordsmiths plus
London-based lyricist Kate Tempest

Rhymes brings you an evening of live spoken word and poetry from some of Bristol’s ﬁnest wordsmiths, plus London-based lyricist Kate Tempest. Also on the bill, open mic spot to entice Bristol’s budding rhymers into the limelight. Food and drink provided by The Runcible Spoon.

To register for the open mic email tara@compass-ﬁlm.co.uk, or register on the night.

(click here for the map to St Werburghs City Farm)

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

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THE COMPASS OF DESIRE FESTIVAL
3 - 24 OCTOBER 2009
TRINITY CENTRE BRISTOL

Enter the Compass den of desire, a world of libidinous lovin’,
romantic encounters, sordid, sexy, beautiful and beastly!
We explore our theme through the rose-tinted corridors of
nostalgia, up the dizzy heights of aspiration, plummeting
ﬁ nally to the murky underbelly of the dark sides of impulse
and desire. Through a series of encounters, performances
and ﬁ lm screenings artists, magicians, performers and
academics will come together.

Using the directional points of the compass to navigate our
way across the globe, the programme will take us from a
sexy French burlesque cabaret to the island of Cuba, then
to the seedy depths of an American speakeasy, before
arriving in the country of Lebanon. Come, join the fun,
and taste the treats within!

FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE

Sat 3 Oct
Rhymes Spoken Word Event
St Werburghs City Farm Cafe - 20.00h
Best of Bristol’s wordsmiths plus
London-based lyricist Kate Tempest

Fri 9 Oct
Trinity Launch Party
Trinity - 20.00h - Free
Live music, wandering performances,
interactive magic, arty installations and
delicious food

Sat 10 Oct
Compass North (France)
Trinity - 19.30h
Enter the Moulin Rouge for a night of
sexy striptease, circus, performance
& cinematic snippets
Fancy dress: Burlesque Beauties
& Mustachioed Monsieurs

Sun 11 Oct
Compass South (Cuba)
Trinity - 18.30h & 21.00h
Film screenings:
Memories of Underdevelopment +
Strawberry & Chocolate
Plus intro & live Cuban salsa

Sat 17 Oct
Compass West (America)
Trinity - 19.30h
A seedy 1920’s speakeasy hosts a night
of magic, acrobatics, and silent film with
live piano accompaniment
Fancy dress: Gangsters & Molls

Sun 18 Oct
Compass East (Lebanon)
Trinity - 18.30h & 21.00h
Film screenings: Caramel +
Waltz with Bashir
Plus intro & Leba-knees-up!

Sat 24 Oct
Five Minutes of Fire:
Short Film Competition
Cube Microplex - 20.00h
Plus Analysing Desire - an investigation
into the psychological theories of Desire

Tickets
£5 / £4 (double bills £6 / £5) + bf
Available from

Bristol Ticket Shop
26 Union Street, Broadmead
www.bristolticketshop.co.uk
0117 929 9008 / 0870 44 44 400

Genesis Musik & Clothing
226 Stapleton Road, Easton
0117 935 5764

Programme

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Desire Trinity

Compass at Shambala Festival – 27th–30th August

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The Compass of Desire Tent presents a smorgasbord of weird and wonderful acts, surreal encounters and libidinous beats in the sumptuously sexy world of their late-night boudoir at Shambala Festival.

Highlights to include
• The words and beats of London-based lyricist Kate Tempest (plus live hip hop from Sound of Rum)
• Take a trip into wild world of Victorian micro-rave, smoke emitting gramophones and time machines with festival favourites, Vexkiddy
• Mr.Woodnote & the Bonobo Hobos take us on a musical journey of live hip-hop and instrumentation
• KaraUke – karaoke with a live Ukulele backing band. You sing, They play!
• Plus, burlesque, magic, and foodie treats provided by The Runcible Spoon

Visit the Shambala website for further info: http://www.shambalafestival.org/

More Money Information

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Tickets
Single Events £5/ £4 + b.f.
Double Bill Films £6/ £5 + b.f.
Tickets available from:

Bristol Ticket Shop
26 Union Street, Broadmead
www.bristolticketshop.co.uk
0117 929 9008 / 0870 44 44 400

Genesis Musik & Clothing
226 Stapleton Road, Easton
0117 935 5764

Tickets available on the door subject to availability

Concessionary tickets are available to students, pensioners, and all claimants. Please bring proof of eligibility as you will be required to present it on the festival ticket desk.

Doors open one hour prior to performance start

Licensed bar. Hot food and snacks available
courtesy of The Runcible Spoon

For firther information on availability, access or for any
other enquiries please call 0117 902 9554 or
email info@compass-film.com

Where are we?? Festival Venues

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Festival Venue
The Trinity Centre
Trinity Road, Bristol, BS2 0NW

Walk: Five minutes walk from Cabot Circus and the Bristol
Post & Press Building

Cycle: Three minute cycle from Bristol – Bath cycle path

Drive: Two minutes drive from Junction one off M32

Bus: Number 48/49 from the town centre

http://3ca.org.uk/about-us/contact-us

The Trinity Community and Arts Centre is a beautiful
large early 19th century church. It is covenant protected
ensuring that solely community, arts and education
events take place within it.

The Trinity Centre is an accessible venue. Please call ahead (0117 902 9554), or notify a steward on arrival, if you require assistance or directing to the lift, in order to access the festival space

Please note: late arrivals will be admitted into the performance space at an appropriate moment and at the discreton of the festival organisers. The festival venue will be closed at 11pm.

Please note main compass-point events are held at Trinity.

Rhymes Spoken Word event will be held at St Werburghs City Farm Café
Watercress Rd
St Werburghs
Bristol
BS2 9YJ
0117 942 8241

Five Minutes of Fire will be held at Cube Microplex

Find The Cube at : Dove Street South, Bristol BS2 8JD

Find Kings Square along Jamaica St. or Dighton St. Go to the top of Kings Square and turn left on to Dove Street. On your left you will see a car park in front of the cube cinema's main entrance.

http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html

FRENCH - Compass North (France)

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Attrapez vos Boas en plume et vos bretelles, et venez aux salons paillettés du Moulin Rouge pour une nuit de cirque, de burlesque, de danse et de cinéma qui vous mettra l’eau à la bouche et vous chatouillera les moustaches ! Quand les lumières descendent sur ce somptueux cabaret, asseyez-vous et regardez ce spectacle se dévoiler à vos yeux. Le strip-tease, les acrobaties et le cancan recréent l’atmosphère des cabarets clandestins, au côté d’un programme de plaisir cinématographique français des plus désirés.

Films

Les films suivants ont été généreusement donnés par l'Institut Français-Ciné Lumière et sont tous interdits en-dessous de 15 ans.

Les Crayons (Barcelo, 2004, 3m)
L’histoire d’amour entre deux enfants qui vous mène à une inquiétante conspiration de mort et de destruction!

Le Baiser (Le Lay, 2005, 4m)
Dans le style des films muets du 19ème siècle, cette petite comédie vous raconte l’histoire de deux amoureux, déchirés par une bobine de film cassée…

Le Bon Numéro (Charbonnier, 2005, 4m)
Une jeune fille malade d’amour cherche son âme-soeur. Animation.

En Tus Brazos (Goby, 2006, 5m)
Cette belle petite animation Française vous raconte l'histoire de la danse du Tango et l'amour d'un couple.

Voluntary Part-Time Press Officer for Compass of Desire Festival

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Compass Film CIC is a vibrant, not-for profit cultural organisation based in Bristol. We are committed to showcasing marginal film culture, as well as community Arts, and after three hugely successful festivals, and a host of other exciting creative events, we look forward to expanding our team for the exciting year ahead.

Bristol-based, you will assist the festival directors and core staff in all areas of developing and promoting Compass festival events. In particular, you will help to develop the festival's press & publicity schedule, and manage its implementation in the lead up to and over the festival period. The main objective is to increase profile and visibility for the festival by getting it into local, national and international media such as newspapers, websites, forums & radio. You will have had some previous experience in this area. You will need good organisational skills, initiative and to be a good communicator with an eye for opportunities.

Duties will include:
∝ Acting as official media contact for the festival, identify resources, writing and sending out press releases, managing email promotions, e-bulletins, festival listings, banner exchanges and reciprocal links.
∝ Handling all press enquiries
∝ Publicising the festival throughout Bristol
∝ Help in organising and promoting Compass fundraisers
∝ Distributing promotional festival material in the city
You will be introduced to the role by the current Press Officer, who will pass her contacts and links on to you.

Closing date for applications is Monday 3 August. We will contact you on this date if you have been successful in getting to the interview stage. Interviews will be held in central Bristol in the evening on the Thursday 6 August. Please send a CV & covering letter to nicky@compass-film.co.uk, and links to any examples of your previous work. Please also clearly indicate how much time a week during the period of employment you are willing to dedicate to the job when applying. We ask that you think carefully when discussing availability to ensure that you are able to commit to this role.

Please note Compass is a not-for profit organisation and roles are voluntary.
www.compass-film.co.uk

SHORT FILM COMPETITION: FIVE MINUTES OF FIRE

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Calling all fanatical and passionate film producers, flamboyant cultivators of the moving image! Five Minutes of Fire challenges you to create and submit short films around the theme of Desire. Part of ‘The Compass of Desire Festival’, Five Minutes of Fire will bring together film-makers from far and wide to exhibit their work here in Bristol.

We are exploring the realms of desire in the broadest possible sense. From sex, lust and love to commodity obsession and a deep nostalgia for the past. Judged by a panel of industry experts, awards will be for Best Film, Audience Award, Local Film-maker and Youth Award.

Entries must be no longer then five minutes in length. Submissions will be accepted in the following formats: DVD, Mini DV or as full quality DV QuickTime files. Submission to be accompanied by the Entry Form, and sent to: Five Minutes of Fire, Compass Film CIC, 10 Ashley Road, St Pauls, Bristol, BS6 5NP - no later than Monday 3rd August 2009.

Download the guidelines and submission form here:
FMF Entry Final

FMF Guidelines

CALL FOR ARTISTS AND CREATIVES

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Compass seeks artists and creatives to collaborate on the creative transformation of their festival space, ready for this autumn’s festival The Compass of Desire! We seek to transform the festival space into a dynamic, interactive and fabulous world, in which aspects of the theme of desire are explored and developed. This space will provide the backdrop for the festival programme of performance, a cultural extravaganza of film, performance, music and poetry.

Whether you would like to work on an individual installation, work as part of a team, or have an existing piece you would like to include, we are interested in hearing from you. Whether you would like to develop an idea alone, or be part of a creative process that explores a range of ideas, we can accommodate you.

The festival runs from 25th Sept – 4 Oct, but the space will be available from the beginning of Sept at the very latest, to begin the build. Compass Film CIC is a not-for profit organisation run entirely by volunteers. Whilst the creative roles described will be voluntary, there will be limited budget available for materials Please send proposals/ ideas/ questions to tara@compass-film.co.uk.

SPANISH - Compass South (Cuba)

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Domingo 11 de octubre
£5/£4 cada pelicula - £6/£5 programa doble
18.30h (entrada 17.30h) con salsa cubana en vivo

Fresa y chocolate (15)
(Alea, 1994, 108 minutos) 21.00h + introducción

Ambienta en la grandiosidad de las fachadas coloniale s que se están desintegrando de La Habana, Fresa y Chocolate era una de las últimas películas de Alea, y sigue presentando una auténtica investigación sobre los matices y las complejidades del país que quiere.

Ambienta un año antes del éxodo del Mariel, Fresa y Chocolate es la historia de una amistad entre dos cubanos muy diferentes. Diego es un homosexual culto y exuberante, un amante apasionado de las artes; David es marxista, serio y ingenuo, motivado por su lealtad al régimen, y su intención de denunciar a Diego a las autoridades por su comportamiento contrarrevolucionario. “Sé que era homosexual”, dice David acerca de su primer encuentro en la heladeria, “hubo chocolate y escogió fresa.”
Pero cuanto mas tiempo pasan juntos, mas David empieza a perder sus certezas sobre el regimen.

Una película que se trata de la tolerancia, Fresa y Chocolate examina la libertad de expresión, la vigilancia y los defectos de la sociedad cubana revolucionaria.
Desde que fue hecha esta pelicua, Castro se disculpo por la política cubana contra la homosexualidad, que hoy en día es legal.

Memorias del subdesarrollo
(Alea, 1968, 97 minutos) 18.30h + introduccion
Estas peliculas fueron donadas por el ICAIC (Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematografico). Les rogamos que sostengan nuestro regalo al ICAIC, de materiales administrativos que escasen a causa del embargo de las importaciones, por dar un pequeno donativo en la taquilla o al bar.

Sergio, un intellectual cubano de clase media, decide quedarse en Cuba a pesar del hecho de que su mujer, familia y amigos se van a Miami tras la revolucion.
Ambienta historicamente en el periodo dentro del ofensivo de la Bahia de los Cerdos y la crisis de los misiles, Sergio intenta entender la nueva Cuba y su lugar en el pais.
Asigna como un afuerano, reflexiona sobre el estado de su pais mientras que tiene una serie de relaciones con mujeres. Alea utiliza la relacion que Sergio tiene con cada mujer como un medio para considerar los aspectos del caracter subdesarrollado de Cuba. Utilizando elementos de secuencias documentales de los momentos historicos en el recien pasado de Cuba, Memorias del subdesarrollo era una de las peliculas mas sofisticadas que salio del pais dentro de esa epoca, y permanece como una averiguacion cinematicamente emocionante sobre un momento fascinante del recien pasado de Cuba.

Compass Festival

BURNS NIGHT

Compass Presents... Doppelgänger

Doppelgänger

Coming Soon...

Doppelgänger is the long awaited collaboration between Compass and The Motorcycle Showroom. It will take place on the weekend of 25th/ 26th November.

Look out for more details appearing here soon!

Once again Compass will bring its magic to Shambala Festival..

Compass at Nozstock

Compass Film Presents... A BALKAN NIGHT

Venue's TOP FILM FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR

Compass Presents.. Burn's Night

News :: The Winners of the Compass Festival of Lunacy Film & VJ Competitions

News :: Fundraiser for Palestine, 25th November

Call for Artists! – Compass Festival of Lunacy Build

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THE COMPASS FESTIVAL OF LUNACY!

Calling All VJs - Halloween Howler Competition!

Calling all creative and expressive film producers..

Compass Burns Night fun for cold winter nights!

'But mark the Rustic, haggis fed, The trembling earth resounds his tread. Clap in his walie nieve a blade, He'll mak it whissle; An' legs an' arms, an' heads will sned, Like taps o' thrissle'

Wow!!

THE COMPASS OF DESIRE FESTIVAL

Sunday 18th October - Compass East (Lebanon)

Compass Film Festival Press Release

Saturday 17th October - Gangsters & Molls

Saturday 24th October - Five Minutes of Fire

Sunday 11th October - Compass South (Cuba)

Saturday 10th October - Compass North (France)

Friday 9th October - Trinity Launch Party

Saturday 3th October - Rhymes Spoken Word Event

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Programme

Compass at Shambala Festival – 27th–30th August

More Money Information

Where are we?? Festival Venues

FRENCH - Compass North (France)

Voluntary Part-Time Press Officer for Compass of Desire Festival

SHORT FILM COMPETITION: FIVE MINUTES OF FIRE

CALL FOR ARTISTS AND CREATIVES

SPANISH - Compass South (Cuba)

'But mark the Rustic, haggis fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll mak it whissle;
An' legs an' arms, an' heads will sned,
Like taps o' thrissle'