Exploding Cinema

I have had an email from Exploding Cinema, a group who puts on independently -made films in London.

http://www.explodingcinema.org/

They started in 1991. Disillusioned by the fact you  were either in the commercial film industry, or constantly applying for funding from the arts council, they set up Exploding Cinema as a non-profit platform for films to be seen. Absolutely anyone can a show a film and they will show any film. Even if it is bad in many ways, so the audience must be active and critical.

Because it does not rely on funding it must rely completely on ticket sales at each show. This also means that it an only continue if people want to see what is on offer.

They need new members- I would really like to join the group. I can help them put on nights and I can propose projects that they can get involved with.

This Saturday there is a free show from local young artists of VHS tape work in an old Blockbusters in Catford that was looted in the riots.

I think this interesting as another film screening programme in London, Future Shorts, is showing "la Haine' (for free) at a Housing estate in Totenham, where the 2011 London riots first erupted. The show will be free, and employ people from the estate to help set it up. Also, a real life cow will be present.

I think it is really important to engage with the issues around cuts in public spending and the fact that the government haven't really acknowledged that as a major factor in the build up to the riots.