Mezz #14: Jayne Parker and Evan Parker
Saturday 4th June 7.30pm-late

Mezz #14 brings together film-maker Jayne Parker and free improvising saxophonist Evan Parker for the first time. Introducing her films: Blues in B-flat (featuring cellist Anton Lukoszevieze), Cold Jazz (featuring saxophonist Kathy Stobart) and Catalogue of Birds: Book 3 (featuring pianist Katharina Wolpe), Jayne Parker will talk about how music helps her to think about film structurally, posing the questions: how can I reflect the form and rigour of the music? How can film embody music? Does what I see change what I hear? This will be followed by a solo performance by Evan Parker, a legendary pioneer in the field of improvised music. With a lexicon of techniques he has devised over forty years from circular breathing to cross fingering, the sounds that resonate from the body of the saxophone seem to have shape, his intense performances oscillating from the harsh and raw to a swirling, fluttering web of contrapuntal tones. “In Evan Parker’s music” writes Stuart Broomer “thought and breath are continuous, each the instrument and measure of the other”.

£10 Tickets from SVA or on the door 01453 751400

Negative Space Presents: Film In A Van 'Trash Humpers'
Wednesday 8th June 7.30 and 9pm

Meet at SVA 4 John Street,Stroud GL5 2HA

"It sendeth acid rain on the just and the unjust… reviving the spirit of Tod Browning’s Freaks and the ice-cold vision of Diane Arbus." Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian". Yanked from a fetid pit of provocation and hellish home movies comes Trash Humpers, the latest feature by Gummo director Harmony Korine. Shot on lo-fi video, the film is a satanic satire on the deprivations of 21st century consumerism seen through the eyes of three maniacal social outcasts as they satisfy their savage appetite for violence, disaffected poetry and, yes, humping trash! Happy to embrace the sordid? Willing to have your sensibilities affronted, afflicted and thoroughly trashed? Then hop onto the only slightly soiled mattresses in the back of the SVA van, shut the doors and enjoy a 78-minute Afflict-o-thon…
£3. Tickets on the door

Baggin' it. Stories from Mik Artistik
plus film: 'Who is Mik Artistik?'
Friday 17th June 8pm

In 1983 Mik Artistik began his ‘Brown Paper Bag’ series, where he would approach strangers, including, once, Paul Weller to ask if he could draw their portrait in biro on a paper bag. He would then sell the paper bag to the sitter. "Then one day I was in the laundrette with a mate of mine and I started to draw, I thought, shit I’ve just drawn somebody in pen. This is what I’m gonna do, I’m gonna make a living doing portraits. I thought I’m gonna go to Seacroft and see if I can sell some portraits. If I can make a living in Seacroft on a Friday night, I can make a living anywhere. We got off the bus at Seacroft and went into this pub. There’s a guy sitting opposite in commando pants and boots, I thought I’m gonna ask him if he wants a portrait doing. He said yeah, so I drew him, showed him what I had, and he went ‘it’s good that’. Basically it went from there, I just wandered round bagging people".
£5 Tickets from SVA 01453 751440

Negative Space Presents:
The Posters Came From The Walls
Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Nick Abrahams
Thursday 23 June, 7pm

Premiered before a sell-out audience at the 2008 London Film Festival, The Posters Came From The Walls is a documentary film co-directed by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller and filmmaker Nick Abrahams. Taking as its subject obsessional followers of the band Depeche Mode, the montage of interviews and archive footage from around the world forms a fascinating, moving and often very funny reflection on global fandom. Nick Abrahams studied Art and English Literature at Exeter University and came to filmmaking via directing pop videos for bands such as Leftfield and Huggy Bear. He is currently working on a feature film script about a boy walking home through the British countryside.
Screened in a lounge setting with music and bar.
£5 Tickets on the door.

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