Peter And The Wolf (u) + Kings Chamber Orchestra

Opera House

PETER AND THE WOLF - THE FILM, DIRECTED BY SUZIE TEMPLETON

On the edge of the vast forests of Russia, where wolves still roam, lies a little cottage surrounded by a big, high fence. This is where Peter lives with his grumpy Grandfather. Grandfather will not let Peter go out into the forest. "What if a wolf comes? What then?"

This much-loved tale has resonated deeply with over five generations of children, enchanted by its power and sense of fun. This fantastical new version, by prize-winning director Suzie Templeton, will be accompanied by the Kings Chamber Orchestra live in the spectacular setting of the Jersey Opera House, and is sure to delight a whole new audience. BreakThru Films’ innovative animated film version of Prokofiev’s classic work was produced at the Oscar ®-winning Se-ma-for Studios in Poland using stop-frame model animation (the technique popularised by Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman Animations) and state-of-the-art digital technology.

Price: £15-25

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Warp Party

Branchage Spiegeltent

THE OSCILLATION + BROADCAST DJ set + VELOFAX + visuals by JULIAN HAND

Following the screening of the first release from Warp Films’ new Warp X low-budget feature fund, A COMPLETE HISTORY OF MY SEXUAL FAILINGS, is the Warp party.

The Oscillation: The brainchild of multi instrumentalist and producer Demian Castellanos, The Oscillation has risen out of the ashes of the critically acclaimed Orichalc Phase (two 12” only releases for DC Recordings in 2006). Having already worked with such luminaries as producer Tim Holmes from Death In Vegas, as well as a new forthcoming project with a member of Chrome Hoof, Castellanos’ position amongst the cream of the UK’s music fraternity will seem inevitable to anyone who hears The Oscillation.

Broadcast (DJ set): Birmingham’s Broadcast are the electronica outfit whose dark and resonant sound has seen them release four full-length albums on Warp Records. Here at Branchage they’ll be playing music from their cooler-than-ours record collections.

Velofax: These musical alchemists fuse elements of experimental kraut-rocking disco grooves with prog technicality. The band originates from Jersey, France and London. With the force generated by this heady geographical cocktail they are able to coax the manifestation of a parallel universe out of their instruments!

With visual accompaniment from the brilliant light show artist Julian Hand, as well as an eclectic set of leftfield electro from Rough Trade's Phil Adams, well known in the island from his sub:ject days.

Price: £15

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Rojo & The Tassel Club Present... La BordÉe D'branchage

Branchage Spiegeltent

'La Bordée d'Branchage' will have a Burlesque Cabaret theme, making the magnificent Spiegel Tent the ideal venue for the Saturday night festival party. Headlining will be the exciting new Epic records act Paloma Faith, with full backing band. Paloma will provide glamour, stunning costumes and improvised theatrics along with her heart-felt, Billie Holiday influenced songs, with support from female performance and DJ duo The Broken Hearts. With their glamorous identical costumes, The Broken Hearts provide a spectacular experience for the ears and eyes, drawing inspiration from a golden age of Hollywood and circus sideshows. As well as the music, Burlesque artiste Miss HoneyLulu will be performing teases to tantalise the audience and the amazing Desirée Kongerød will be showing off unbelievable feats of contortion. All introduced by Jersey's own suited and booted 1920's themed compére Mr John Henry Falle.

Price: £25

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Le Gun Presents Crime & Punishment

Old Magistrates Court & Prison Cells

Guest illustrators Le Gun will be hosting an exhibition lasting for the week of the festival, entitled Crime & Punishment.

This will be taking place in the disused cells at the Old Magistrate's Court where each lock up will be transformed into an artistic display depicting the escapades of real life and imaginary petty crooks and villains. It will feature a real life double agent, fruity sailor prison loves and a possessed Irish ventriloquist.

More information can be found at www.legun.co.uk

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN KINDLY SPONSORED BY MOTHER LTD

Shooting People Presents The Future Of Producing

Branchage Spiegeltent

Hosted by James Mullighan (Creative Director, Shooting People).

Following today's Producers Seminar, this panel includes top-name UK producers who will talk about new models and new directions in the UK film industry as regards finance and funding.

Shooting People is the international networking organisation dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmaking. Over 37,000 members in the UK and the US share tips, recommendations and news, and cast their films using the nine Shooting People daily bulletins: UK Filmmaker, UK Casting, UK Documentary, UK Animation, UK Music Video and Film Music, Global Script Pitch and Screenwriters, New York Filmmakers, and San Francisco / Los Angeles Filmmakers. Over 200 films are cast and crewed each week using the services. Members can create their own unique profile, and upload their work.

Shooting People also maintains the Independent Film Calendar, hosts lots of interviews, podcasts and free filmmaking resources, and members-only special offers.

Shooting People: Get your film made and seen. www.shootingpeople.org

The Memory Band Vs The Wicker Man (18) Live Soundtrack

Gorey Castle

Nu-folksters The Memory Band (who feature members of UK folk royalty bands such as The Accidental and Adem) bring their stunningly beautiful live soundtrack to the 1970's cult film THE WICKER MAN.

Having previously performed the soundtrack at UK music festivals such as the Big Chill and Latitude, and in a wood in Devon, the band arrive at Branchage to perform in the suitably desolate setting of the spectacular Gorey Castle. WICKER MAN expert Jonny Trunk will introduce the event, as he was one of the first to tell the world of Paul Giovanni's beautifully composed soundtrack to the cult film. This is one exclusive and unmissable event never to be repeated, and space is limited, so book now! For Memory Band info see www.myspace.com/hungryhill


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THE ANGEL OF HISTORY (Sarah Wood) vs. Zan Lyons, War Tunnels

An integral part of Jersey’s heritage, the German Occupation of Jersey left an indelible mark on Jersey’s landscape between 1940 and 1945, and the tunnels of Ho8 is a poignant reminder of the occupying forces’ presence. Originally built to be a bomb proof artillery barracks, the War Tunnels were later converted to an emergency hospital in the weeks leading up to D-Day.

The Tunnels will be the setting for a fascinating screening of a film THE ANGEL OF HISTORY made by UK filmmaker Sarah Wood using the Jersey Film Archive footage, accompanied by a grandiose live soundtrack provided by the atmospheric classical electronic artist and viola player Zan Lyons. www.zanlyons.com

THE ANGEL OF HISTORY (Sarah Wood)
“His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.” – Walter Benjamin

Home movie making bridges the gap between the impetus to record spectacle on
a grand scale and to record the fragility of everyday domestic survival and change. It shifts in focus both in mechanical and aesthetic terms between the widescreen and the close-up. It brings into question what history really means. As we are propelled forward, as Walter Benjamin suggests, by the storm of progress, how do we experience history? Moving image offers us sequences from time. Frame follows frame as second follows second. But do we witness a growing pile of debris? Is history shaped by parades and pageants, or is it more truly measured by, say, the repeated first snowfalls winter after winter, the return of the flowers year after year?
THE ANGEL OF HISTORY explores the fragile relationship between personal and cultural history using footage from the Jersey Film Archive.

We would like to thank Jersey Film Archive and Channel TV for help with this event.

Concession: £7
Full Price: £10

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The Branchage Sunday Lunch Film Quiz

Branchage Spiegeltent

Hosted by James Mullighan (Creative Director, Shooting People)

For pub quiz aficionados, much of this event will be familiar: punters divide into teams, there are six rounds of eight questions across four categories, spot prizes, some audio visual challenges, the odd sherbet, and 10s and 10s of pounds of prizes to be won. Meet new friends in the filmmaking industry, and test your wits against the Branchage quizmasters.

Being able to sing is an advantage.

Islanders Award / Bootcamp Event

Jersey Arts Centre

On the final day of the festival, we will be unveiling the winners of both the Islanders Film Prize and the Branchage Bootcamp. Teaming up with Defiant, the Islanders Film Prize will be rewarding the Channel Islands’ best up-and-coming filmmakers with a first prize of £10,000 and two runner-up prizes of £2,000, and the winners’ films will be screened at this event.

Black, the short film made by last years winner J Francis, will also be screened.

The nominated films are as follows:

2AM - Tim Osgood and Tom Lenoir
BAD PENNY - Matt Fackrell
BLACK - J Francis
BROAD BEAN DOWN - Andy Evans
FIRST IMPRESSIONS - Edward Williamson
I AM RALPH - Michael Harris / Matthew Marsden
IS THAT A COWBOY OUTFIT? - Lucy Keany
JACK BLOND - Rebecca Coley
LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO MY HEART - Michael Pearce
MAGRUGDA - Michael Pearce
MARK - James Harrison
MY FAVOURITE TIME OF DAY - Mike Hallett
THE PROJECTIONIST - Matt Fackrell
TOURNEY - The Renowned Baker Miles
WHAT AM I GONNA DO? - The Renowned Baker Miles
WILD GUERNSEY - Sue Daly
WILD WEST JERSEY - Sue Daly

THE ISLANDERS FILM AWARD JURY:
Rebecca Mark-Lawson(Lifesize Pictures / UK Film Council)
James Mullighan (Shooting People)
Deputy Kevin Lewis (Jersey Forum Cinema)
John Davey (Spearpoint Ltd)

Secondly, the entrants into the Branchage Bootcamp, run in conjunction with Channel Television, will have their endeavours revealed to the public. Having put young, budding filmmakers together with experienced mentors on a crash course in the technical and industrial aspects of filmmaking, the end product is a film by each, which will be screened at this event.

An integral part of the festival, this event is a celebration of young, raw talent, and is a great way for the festival to look to the future of film.

Full Price Ticket: £6
Concession Ticket: £4.50


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Jonny Trunk Presents Ost On Resonance Fm

Branchage Spiegeltent

Jonny Trunk is a writer, broadcaster, and vague entrepreneur. In 1995 he started Trunk Records, the cult British record label that has brought us some of the most beautiful unreleased film music of all time - including THE WICKER MAN, KES, THE CLANGERS and DEEP THROAT, and help making him one of the Britain's leading experts in film music. He also has the only dedicated film music radio show in the UK, OST, which goes out on Resonance FM, based in London, to a fine and loyal following. On Sunday 28th September he’ll be presenting this very radio show live from the Branchage Spiegeltent in Jersey. So expect to hear a considerable collection of rare recordings and anecdotes.
www.trunkrecords.com

Resonance 104.4FM is a London based non-profit community radio station set up by the London’s Musicians Collective with a licence to cover "practicing artists and engaged consumers and persons standing outside mainstream media". The coverage area is a 5 mile radius of the studios, but of course is available to listen on line. Originally put together for a four-week programme of radio art as part of John Peel’s Meltdown Festival in 1998, the station was launched in Denmark Street in 2001 before moving to larger premises in London Bridge in 2007.
www.resonancefm.com

The Smoking Cabinet

Branchage Spiegeltent

The Smoking Cabinet Festival of Early Cabaret and Burlesque Cinema (1894-1933).

Following a sold out run at the Curzon Soho in London in December 2007, The Smoking Cabinet presents an exotic array of films that epitomise the flair, eroticism and joie de vivre of burlesque, fin de siecle follies, the machine age, and modernist cabaret for Branchage Festival. We celebrate various forms of decadent entertainment from the belle epoque to the end of the Weimar Republic - the cinematic history of the subversive - and tonight we’ll take a peak into the seductive, sultry and downright bizarre with a series of rarely-screened shorts. Come and prepare yourself for the work of Man Ray, Percy Smith and William K. L. Dickson as well as music hall acts, early exotic dancers and performing animals plus a live sound track from local pianist Duncan Miller.

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Gallery Silent Disco Presents...warpvision

Branchage Spiegeltent

Warp Records have been at the forefront of visual imagery in creative music video since the label was founded in 1989, now looking forward to their 20th anniversary in 2009.

Setting the standard with early promos for dance acts LFO, Nightmares On Wax and Sweet Exorcist, Warp then became known for Chris Cunnigham's groundbreaking work for Aphex Twin and Squarepusher which havent been bettered. The Warp roster also includes the likes of Jamie Lidell, Autechre, Broadcast, Plaid, Luke Vibert, Prefuse 73, and Jimi Tenor, from directors that defined music video such as Lynn Fox, Ed Holdsworth, Jarvis Cocker, Douglas Hart, and Designers Republic. More recently visual work for new Warp signings such as Pivot and Maximo Park have caused a stir alongside Warp Films music videos for non-Warp acts such as Vampire Weekend.

Here's a chance to join forces with Jersey's Silent Cinema to experience the stunning visual extravaganza headphone-stylee in this unique screening event.