Screen Social @ The Book Club
This week Angela and I went along to The Book Club, a neat little venue in Shoreditch to check out “Screen Social“, a new series of charity Audio Visual events where Music Videos, Animation, short films & experiments are spliced with movie ‘soundtracks of your lives’. The events are hosted by Cannes in a Van and enables upcoming animators and film-makers to have their work shown in front of a live audience. Many if not all of the work shown was new to everyone who attended.
In addition, there was a performance by special guests “The Winchester Club” of their new album Negative Liberty. The album was inspired by the seminal documentary series “The Trap: What Happened to our Dream of Freedom” by Adam Curtis. Curtis’s series was split into three one-hour programs, and attempted to explore the development of our idea of what it is to be free, and the reality of the freedom we believe we have now.. including the concepts of positive and negative liberty.
In keeping with the evening, sections of the documentary were projected onto the backdrop screen behind the band as they played, combining visual with live audio. The group’s own impressive instrumental post-rock felt right at home with the theme of life-changing soundtracks, each track gradually building into an intense crescendo of melody and rhythm. For all fans of the genre, take note of these guys..
Finally, there was a preview by Fo//ow Me, the crowd-support video program for creative projects.
The next Screen Social is February 15th, with music from The Title Sequence, soundtrack DJs The Sound of Film, and Rushes Soho Shorts, Straight 8 & MovieScope magazine. If you can, make sure you check it out!
