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Our British Sea Power video goes LIVE
Had the delight of being asked to co-write a script for the new music video for the band British Sea Power by the videos director Rob Savage and it's now online!
It has already grabbed the attention of PROMO NEWS who described it as "Superbly achieved on a minuscule budget" and as “The video of the moment.” by the British Music Boom
Fun Fact: They also let me act in it, you can catch me for a few seconds at the very end as "The Visitor". Not to spoil anything but it involved me spending most of the day at ARRI, in a latex mask on my hands and knees in a room of men, while Rob shouted orders at me. I think this means I've made it.
The video is for the single “A Light Above Descending,” a track off of sixth studio album Machineries of Joy, which was released last year. The video stars Sammy Williams (Wild Bill) and Izzy Meikle-Small (Never Let Me Go), who are real actors.
Hope you like.
LIVEWIRE Comedy night championing women headliner Isy Suttie (Peep Show) I produced, tickets now on SALE
Internet friends, family and strangers! LOCO and UNDERWIRE (and Kate) present LIVEWIRE, a night of live and filmed with a selection of the best funny short films new and old, and live sets from Britain’s brightest stand-ups.
This years live acts include our host the fantastic Rachel Stubbing’s; the mysterious Miss L who will be escaping her secret identity for one night; Phoebe Walsh from cult sketch group Oyster Eyes; your new favourite Canadian Monica Heisey; and the ever-brilliant Isy Suttie.
AND featuring shorts by filmmakers including award-winning filmmaker Destiny Ekaragha; awesome collective Jackal Films made up of Alice Lowe and Jacqueline Wright; born-liar Kate Herron; the very busy and important Louisa Fielden; comic geniuses Cariad Lloyd and The Blaine Brothers; and fantastic animator Brook Morgan.
It’s also a chance to meet other young comedy writers, performers and filmmakers. LiveWire is part of LOCO’s ongoing partnership with Underwire, celebrating women in comedy. Last year was our first year and we sold out very quickly so buy your tickets sooner rather than later to not disappoint.
It’s all going down next week, buy your tickets HERE
More details HERE
Open House to screen at LOCO London Comedy Film Festival
My short ‘Open House’ will be screening this Sunday at the London Comedy Film Festival in the Short Film Showcase alongside other great comedy shorts including Mustapha Kseibati’s excellent Painkiller, produced by Michael Berliner.
The London Comedy Film Festival’s aim is to kickstart the next generation of British-based comedy film-makers. They take over the London BFI every January for a week showcasing comedy feature films, shorts and talks.
‘Open House’ is an improvised short which was made with comedians Paul Foxcroft (Monkey Toast,Horse Aquarium, Catch-23), Charlotte Gittins (Monkey Toast), and Briony Redman (Shortlisted for the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum at the New York Television Festival 2012) and Dean Kilbey (ITV TAKE THE MIKE: Finalist, BBC TALENT ACTING UP: Winner) and creatives Chris Andrews, Luke Wicker and Wilf Eddings.
It has been recommended on blogs/newsletters run by Raindance, ShootingPeople and London Improv.
Open House has been described as, "Bloody Impressive" – Holly Walsh (Mock the Week, Never Mind the Buzzcocks) and "Funny and entertaining" – Raindance Film Festival.
Kate Herron's Top Films 2012
Mondays are sad and I had an hour to kill so here are my top films of 2012.
I think that these films are important works of art and it would be a shame if you missed out on them this year.
As André Bazin once said, ‘The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires”, which leads us onto my first top film:
DESIRE
We all have desire don’t we? Yes we do. Running just under 5 hours using just black and white portraits of important people with faces much nicer than most, not since La Jetée has a montage of still images stirred up so many emotions inside me.
Accompanied by a haunting soundtrack, composed entirely on the theremin, with snippets of poetry on the soul by 7-year-old children, this truly is unlike anything you will see all year.
Dir. Unknown. It’s more mysterious that way…just a little inconvenient when it comes to awards season.
SMALL STORAGE
Andrew Reetle (Michael Shannon) leaves his young son in an IKEA play area only to return with his flat pack shelves and be told his son never existed. What unravels is a tense two-hour thriller set entirely in the Swedish nightmare prison of fluorescent lights and free tiny pencils.
Nicolas Winding Refn brings us the best thriller I’ve seen in years. It’s like being shot in the face with a gun and the gun is called entertainment.
101 DALMATIANS III: PUPPY FARM
Werner Herzog brings us quite possibly his best film yet, picking up ten years on from where 101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure ended. Roger and Anita, both killed tragically in a scented candle fire, leaves the Dalmatian estate in ruin.
Step in their wayward cousin and Dracula impersonator, Eric Smalls (Alan Arkin). Smalls through a lifestyle of heavy drug use actually believes he is Dracula and hires the 101+ dogs as his hounds of hell. Now just to find some maidens.
It’s like the film Snow Dogs promised but never actually delivered on.