CINECITY returns in November for it’s sixth edition. Presented in Partnership by The Duke of York’s Picturehouse and The University of Brighton, CINECITY features a global mix of UK premieres and previews, treasures from the archive plus the latest digital adventures and artists’ moving image.

CINECITY screens right across Brighton and Hove in all the city’s cinemas and a host of other locations.

We are accepting submissions for the 2008 festival in a number of categories through Withoutabox. Please use the link below for category information and to submit a film.

CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival Submission Form

Well, tonight was indeed the final CINECITY event for this year but the Addictive TV team made sure that we all went out fighting. Thanks to everyone who came down to the party and for any of you who want to see what you missed, click on the picture above to watch a clip of the boys in action.

Until next year...

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Tonight we came to the end of the 2007 incarnation of CINECITY, but thanks to the Addictive TV team we got to go out dancing. Thanks to everyone who came down to the party and for any of you who want to see what you missed, click on the picture above for more stills or grab the final episode of the CINECITY Podcast to watch a clip of the boys in action.

Until next year...

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Well, after more than two weeks packed full of the best that cinema has to offer past, present and future, it all comes down to this the final day of CINECITY, which ends with the fantastic ADDICTIVE TV closing party. We hope that you've all enjoyed it as much as we did and you now consider the various venues around town your second home after spending so much time in them.

If you want to relive the festival or hear from some of the filmmakers whose films you watched, remember that you can always checkout the CINECITY Flickr page and our podcasts for a quick reminder.

We'd like to thank everyone involved in putting on CINECITY this year and thank you all for continuing to make the festival the success it is - you'll be pleased to know we're already thinking about how to make next year's CINECITY even better!

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Taking inspiration from Harry Smith’s compilation, Anthology of American Folk Music, Alex Reuben's dance road-movie ROUTES is a voyage of discovery through the lesser-known forms of American culture and the extraordinary dancing Americans of the Deep South. We caught up with Alex at the launch of South East Dance's Dance for Camera Festival.

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We know that this is going to be hard for you to hear, but be strong for a minute or two...we are, we're afraid to say, heading into the final weekend of CINECITY! However, there's no way we'd let the festival finish on a down note and in fact this weekend's so pack full of screenings and events that it's going to be impossible to have any time to get maudlin.

Dance for Camera is in full force across the weekend with several events - have a listen to our podcast interview with Vicky Bloor, Head of Screen Dance to find out more details and to hear from some of the featured artists. Our Val Guest Retrospective comes to a close with THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE, a masterful merging of the thriller and science fiction genres. While director Pavel Giroud's Havana set, relationship drama between three generations, THE SILLY AGE plays at Lewes Cinema who we've been very proud to add as a new CINECITY partner venue this year.

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One of the strands of this year's CINECITY programme that we're most proud of is our new partnership with Sout East Dance, which has enabled us to include the Dance For Camera Festival 2007 as part of CINECITY. We spent some time finding out just what Dance For Camera means to Head of Screen Dance Vicky Bloor, and two of the artists included in the festival.

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Filmmaker Grant Gee is well know for his work on music promos as a director, cinematographer and producer and perhaps must recognised for his 1998 Radiohead tour documentary, Meeting People Is Easy. His new project JOY DIVISION is an exploration of the iconic band and the city of Manchester which itself had a role in shaping their unique sound. We spent a morning with Grant to discuss the project.

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Brighton's Lighthouse regularly holds an evening called Cineville, which brings together filmmakers and industry professionals to discuss issues and share ideas vital to getting films made and seen. As part of CINECITY, a Cineville dedicated to online film distribution brought together a panel of Andrew Sparrow (New Media Lawyer and Author of Film & Television Distribution & The Internet: A Legal Guide For The Media Industry), Tracey Gardiner (Fulcrum TV and Producer of SURVEILLANCE), Heather Millard (Film Sales & Distribution, Spier Films) and Marie Foulston (Online Co-ordinator, Soda Pictures) with Screen South's Miranda Robinson chairing the event.

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As promised we managed to track down the globe trotting Addictive TV guys for a few minutes of Podcast chat to discuss just what wonders they have in store for the CINECITY Closing Party on Sunday 2nd December. The show will be the duo's first in Brighton and is guaranteed to be a future "Were you there?" conversation staple for a while to come, so you may want to grab your tickets sooner rather than later.

To wet your appetite click on the video above and see Hendrix, T-Rex and Bowie given the Addictive TV treatment.

It's been good to see the ticket competition entries still coming through thick and fast. There'll be a couple more over the next few Newsletters, but for now congratulations go to Jackie Blackwell who answered KT Tunstall to grab the RUBY BLUE tickets and to Zoë Dibb who won her seats for IMPORT EXPORT with Hundstage.

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The third film in CINECITY's unofficial Coming of Age quartet, director Celine Sciamma talks to MarBelle of Directors Notes about jumping in to the deep end of directing with her début feature WATER LILIES

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With only a few CINECITY days left ahead of us instead of feeling glum, I put a call in to Graham Daniels and Toll, better known as Addictive TV, to see what audio/visual remix goodness they have in store for the CINECITY closing party.

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Any film festival worth its salt knows how to programme films that challenge as well as entertain an audience. That's certainly the case with director Ulrich Seidl's unflinching portrait of New Europe, IMPORT EXPORT. We caught up with Ulrich to discuss his approach to creating stories focussed on the hardships of life.

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Although traditionally considered a documentary director, Nick Broomfield's new film BATTLE FOR HADITHA, is a dramatic retelling of the events surrounding the Haditha killings and follows his previous dramatisation of real life tragedy, GHOSTS, which played as part of CINECITY 2006. We were happy to welcome Nick back to CINECITY and left him in the capable hands of film programmer Jason Wood for the post screening Q&A.

- Thanks to Esther at the Duke of York's for recording the Q&A's audio and images.

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In our attempt to make CINECITY ubiquitous in all parts of your life, including those dubbed 2.0, you may want to point your browser to the CINECITY Flickr page for festival images, our CINECITY Facebook group for alerts and links, and CINECITY MySpace if you'd like to befriend us - and yes, we did just use the festival name four times in one sentence.

You should also subscribe to our podcasts (for free) for filmmaker interviews and Q&A sessions to experience the festival in full, and remember you can let us know what you love or hate by emailing infor@cine-city.co.uk or by completing an Evaluation Form.

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The Sallis Benney Theatre played host to the UK première of Daren Bartlett's Brazilian shot O Zelador, an exploration of the life of Mestre Russo and his use of Capoeira as a philosophy to help him endure a life fraught with hardships and danger. Duke of York's film programmer Jason Wood presented the Q&A which you can hear in this podcast episode.

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Speaking of which, if you're one of our CINECITY Newsletter subscribers, then you'll know that it's plastic wrap new for this year and has had a couple of teething problems with subscriber replies and bounces getting broadcast out to all on the list. Sorry about that! Our web geeks have been tinkering away over the past few days and hopefully it's all fixed now, but if you're still having problems please drop a line to admin@cine-city.co.uk.

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In this episode of the CINECITY podcast we catch up with Brighton-based filmmaker Oliver Hodge, whose directorial début GARBAGE WARRIOR explores the extraordinary story of Michael Reynolds, the radical US architect and originator of the ‘Earthship’.

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Even though the name above the door reads CINECITY, there are many events throughout the festival that just wouldn’t be possible without the strong partnerships we’ve created with our various supporters and fellow film innovators; Billy Cowie’s 3D installation, In the Flesh, as part of the Dance for Camera 2007 festival , presented by our friends South East Dance , being amongst them. Here are a few reasons why you should set a date for it in your festival diary:

This unique magical installation took 12 months to create and has already been seen by hundreds of people internationally. To experience In the Flesh the viewer must first put on 3D glasses, take position on top of a wooden box and then watch the space directly in front of them. As the whir of the projector starts up, a life-size performer appears before the viewer on a zebra print rug. Dancer, Sara Popowa moves fluidly before your eyes with subtle stretches and movements. Popowa is an experienced Butoh dancer, and the discipline and control exercised in this Japanese artform is reflected in her movements. Haunting music, composed by Cowie provides the backdrop, as the viewer is taken on a captivating, almost voyeuristic journey.

Cowie explains, ‘I wanted to get the performer into the space, so it feels like she’s really with you.’The suspension of disbelief is emphasised as Popowa stretches out her arm and looks up from the rug in one fluid move that feels like she is looking directly at you, as the viewer, fusing the relationship between audience and artform.

The size of the dancer depends on the amount of space available and the angle of the projection. When In the Flesh was exhibited at the Paradiso club, a converted church in Amsterdam, the installation was half the size, giving the dancer a doll like quality and creating a completely different experience for the viewer.

Cowie’s poem, Permafrost , provides the final element to the piece which is spoken over the top of the music. The text has been translated into several European languages for accessibility at international tours.

Cowie has worked as a practicing artist for the last 25 years and is celebrated as a choreographer, musician, poet and filmmaker. When asked about his varying and extensive skills, Cowie proclaims, ‘I’m a jack of all trades! I do enjoy taking part in the whole process though, that way you can ensure everything fits together perfectly’.

His first 3D piece was a collaboration with Liz Aggis three years ago called Men in the Wall. The installation, which toured internationally, comprised of four screens, each ‘housing’ a different man. The viewer wears the signature 3D glasses and watches as the four miniature men come to life, singing, chatting, playing musical instruments and interacting with each other.

As a Brighton based artist for over three decades, Cowie is delighted to début In the Flesh as part of Dance for Camera 2007 festival . He said, ‘it is fantastic to have the UK premier in Brighton. South East Dance and Arts Council South East have been so supportive of my work.’

The free installation will be exhibited at the Lighthouse Digital Lounge , 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, from Wednesday 21 November – Sunday 2 December between 10am- 9pm.

For more information about Billy Cowie, visit: www.billycowie.com

We're very pleased say that CINECITY 2007 has well and truly launched, with the opening night screening of LUST, CAUTION playing to a sold out crowd. If you didn't manage to get a ticket, you can experience it vicariously through the CINECITY Flickr! pictures, which will be the visual record of this year's festival. This weekend is jam packed with excellent films beginning with Brad Pitt's star turn in THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD, which has a soundtrack composed by renowned musician and CINECITY patron Nick Cave, with his long-term collaborator Warren Ellis, who discusses his creative process on the CINECITY podcast.

Finally, what's better than a festival of stunning cinema stretching out ahead of you? Perhaps the chance to experience some of it for free! Yes you read that right, over the weekend we'll be offering the chance to win the first pair of free tickets to one of the CINECITY screening events exclusively through the Newsletter, so even more reason to sign up and keep those eagle eyes peeled.

We are delighted to welcome director Nick Broomfield for a Q&A after the screening of his latest film BATTLE FOR HADITHA at the Duke of York's on Sun 25 Nov at 6.30pm.

"Co-curated by the Duke Of York's Picturehouse and the University of Brighton, Cine-City returns for its fifth edition between 15 November and 2 December. In addition to a raft of previews, the programme also includes a tribute to the underrated British director Val Guest and a special focus on the Austrian avant-garde.

A number of the mainstream features have a biographical feel and the most remarkable is Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which stars Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Dominique Bauby, the charismatic editor-in-chief of French Vogue, who developed a blinking alphabet to communicate with the outside world after he was stricken with `locked-in syndrome', following a massive stroke at the age of 43. The theme of acceptance is shared by Kasi Lemmons's Talk to Me, in which Don Cheadle plays Ralph Waldo 'Petey' Greene, who overcame drug addiction and a spell inside for armed robbery to become an advocate for civil rights and one of Washington's most prominent media personalities in the 1960s."

Visit the Empire Festivals and Seasons page to read the entire piece (scroll to the bottom of the page for the link).

As we move into the launch week for the start of this year's festival, it may seem odd that we're already looking ahead to the Closing Event with such relish, but once you've had a chance to experience the DVD turntablist, mash-up skills of the Addictive TV team, you'll see why we've chosen this perfect marriage of music and movies to play us out of the festival with a bang. Keep an eye on the CINECITY Podcasts too as we'll be featuring a 'behind the smoke and mirrors of ADDICTIVE TV' interview with the guys.

If you'd like to see the masters at work, click on the video above and if that doesn't hold you until the 2nd Dec event, we suggest you check out the Addictive TV YouTube Channel in the meantime.

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Welcome to the first instalment of the 2007 CINECITY Film Festival podcast.

For this year’s first CINECITY Podcast, we kick things off with an interview with author and musician (and CINECITY patron) Nick Cave, who sat down with author and film programmer, Jason Wood, to talk about the process of composing the soundtrack of Andrew Dominik’s, THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD with his long-term collaborator Warren Ellis. The film previews during CINECITY on Fri 16 Nov.

The soundtrack is available now from Mute Records.

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14/11/2007: Gardening Leave

13/11/2007: Kinescope Polish Film Club

03/10/2007: CINECITY Festival Round Up

04/09/2007: Short Film Deadline (doc)

If you listen closely you can faintly hear the final touches being put to the fresh set of CINECITY podcasts, which will be rolling out very soon. As well as bringing the festival Q&As and special events to your ears, we'll be spending time with some of the most interesting people involved film and CINECITY 2007, so you can experience the festival at home or on your way to and from the screenings.

Coming up we have: an exclusive interview with Nick Cave about writing the score with Warren Ellis for THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD. An interview with Austrian film director, writer and producer Ulrich Seidl about his new film of economic adversity IMPORT EXPORT, and we get together with French filmmaker Celine Sciamma to discuss her directorial debut WATER LILIES, a tale of burgeoning teenage, female desire set against the world of synchronised swimming.

Please note: Unfortunately the screening of Mark Jay's new feature DOLPHINS as part of the CINECITY BRIGHTON SCREENING DAY has been cancelled. However there're still five other excellent films showing so be sure to come along.

Please note: The screening of RUBY BLUE starring Bob Hoskins at Cineworld on Sun 25 Nov has been brought forward to 7pm so that we can fit in a Q&A with director Jan Dunn and producer Elaine Wickham after the film.

With the programme of events in place and CINECITY festival tickets now available, we’ll be kicking things off with our official press launch tomorrow evening. That also means the printed programme will be available from this weekend at the various CINECITY venues and dropping through the letterboxes of everyone who requested a copy.

Now it's over to you so the really hard work of deciding what to see and when can begin.

We are pleased to announce that you can now get your tickets for all CINECITY events:

Through the CINECITY website By telephone 0871 704 2056 or In person at the Duke of York’s

Also, buy tickets for 3 films in NEW FEATURES or RETROSPECTIVE programmes and get a ticket for a 4th film free!

Guidelines Length: 15 mins max Format: DVD, Beta SP, mini-DV Made in the last 12 months

Deadline 30 September 2007

You can submit your film by downloading a submission form. Send the completed form and a viewing copy of your film – on DVD only – to:

CINECITY The University Of Brighton Grand Parade Brighton BN2 0JY

The essential qualities of cinema – light, movement, time, space – have been rigorously explored by filmmakers from Vienna. Probably more than any other national artists’ cinema, these Austrian filmmakers have engaged with the materiality of film to create a cinema of purity and intensity.

Experimental and avant-garde cinema has a status in Austria not really found anywhere else in the world. The country made a major contribution to international cinema in the late '50s and early '60s with the first wave of pioneers including Peter Kubelka, Kurt Kren and Valie Export. The ceaseless innovation can be seen in the rich tradition of Austria’s history of radicalism across the arts.

This special programme for CINECITY focuses on two of the key figures of Austrian avant-garde cinema, Peter Tscherkassky and Gustav Deutsch and we are delighted to welcome both of these seminal figures to CINECITY to present masterclasses.

Since 1996, Gustav Deutsch has been scouring film archives around the globe, retrieving fragments of film including test shots and discarded edits and adding them to an ongoing project called Film Ist. “Like a dream book, Film Ist. makes one imagine an archive that Jorge Borges might have assembled.” (Tom Gunning)

Peter Tscherkassky is one of the world’s most acclaimed experimental filmmakers. His spectacular projects such as The Cinemascope Trilogy are marked by a mastery of technique and intense theoretical approach. His cinema is both jubilant and sinister and while acknowledging the end of the celluloid era, his works draw their power through effects that can only be created by film. “There are three factors that influence my work permanently: working with found footage, working directly on the film stock (together with the possibility of physical manipulation of the film) and, in general, the capacity of the film medium to evoke a dreamlike atmosphere”.

Supported by Arts Council England, Austrian Cultural Forum, Sixpack Film and the University of Brighton

As a tribute to the British director Val Guest who died last year, we'll be presenting a short season including his own favourite works.

Brighton, London, Manchester and Bath were the settings for a powerful series of city-set films made by Guest between 1960 and 1963. All evocatively shot on location by cinematographer Arthur Grant, the films explore these British cities as sites for the criminal underworld, quarantine and disease and environmental catastrophe.

Starring Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasance, Maxine Audley, Billie Whitelaw. UK 1960. 96mins.

A gritty and uncompromising noir thriller shot on the mean streets of Manchester. Cinema great Stanley Baker stars as hard-boiled Inspector Harry Martineau tracking down an escaped villain who has broken out of jail and headed back to Manchester to get revenge. Shot entirely on location, Guest approached it ‘almost as a semi-documentary, as if we were a newsreel team’. With Arthur Grant’s beautiful black and white ‘Hammersccope’ cinematography, he makes terrific use of Manchester's streets, rooftops and surrounding moors. Stanley Black's stylish jazz score expertly propels the film and Guest surrounds Baker with top-flight supporting actors, including a young Donald Pleasence and Billie Whitelaw.

Starring: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo Mckern, Michael Goodlife. UK 1961. 98mins.

London is sweltering in record temperatures and the River Thames has dried up. The Sahara has flooded, New York is suffering unseasonable blizzards and there are tornados in Russia. A strangely prescient vision of climate change and global warming, THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE was made at the height of the Cold War and highlighted the idiocies of the nuclear age. Guest’s Bafta-winner follows the repercussions of superpowers USA and Soviet Union detonating nuclear bombs simultaneously at the North and South poles, spinning the earth off of its axis and sending it hurtling toward the sun. Combining the thriller and science fiction genres to great effect, newspapermen Bill Maguire (Leo Mckern) and Peter Stenning (Edward Judd) dig deep to uncover the terrible truth. The images of the capital’s empty streets are the setting for a tense and gripping disaster movie prefiguring more recent work such as Danny Boyle’s SUNSHINE.

Starring Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, with John Le Mesurier. UK 1962. 107mins.

A murder mystery shot on location all over Brighton (and briefly in Lewes) starring Jack Warner of TV’s DIXON OF DOCK GREEN fame. The Brighton constabulary painstakingly assemble the jigsaw of clues as they attempt to track down the murderer of a woman found in an isolated house. Jigsaw is marked by an unprecedented level of co-operation between police and filmmakers in a screenplay inspired by the Brighton Trunk Murders of the 1930s.

Starring: Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe, Cyril Cusack. UK 1963. 113mins.

New Year’s eve celebrations are brought to an abrupt halt when a case of smallpox plunges the city of Bath into quarantine. Dr Steven Monks (Richard Johnson) attempts to locate the source of the outbreak whilst trying to hold together his disintegrating relationship with his wife Julie (Claire Bloom) a dedicated nurse. The epidemic forms the backdrop for a melodrama featuring sickness and adultery but Guest blends documentary elements and an impressive use of location to instil a sense of realism.

CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival will launch on November 15th with a preview screening of LUST, CAUTION the latest feature from Ang Lee whose BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN won him the best director Oscar two years ago.

Set in war time Shanghai LUST, CAUTION is both an espionage thriller and tragic melodrama in which a pair of lovers are pitted against forces beyond their control, but unlike BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN the film takes a much darker view of love and romance. Based on a short story by Chinese author Eileen Chang, it stars Asian cinema icons Tony Leung and Joan Chen with newcomer Tang Wei in the pivotal role.