Sound Affects: Talks about music, subcultures & film

Video Affects is a night of talks and conversations about all things film. Organised by documentary filmmakers Jak Hutchcraft (Right Here, Right Now) and Jason Bick (20,000 Days on Earth), you can expect fun informal talks and Q&As by superfans, filmmakers, actors and crew. Dive into cult classics, weird theories, DIY filmmaking, unknown gems, tales from the movie set, Hollywood guilty pleasures, and much more.

Guest speakers:
Exploding Cinema Collective - For the last 3 decades, this unfunded gang of radical cinema activists have been staging regular monthly open access nights of short D.I.Y. underground film in pubs, clubs and squats across London; turning shabby interiors into temporary convivial utopias that seethe with multiple moving projections. Their new book BOOM! tells the secret history of the Exploding Cinema told by its key activists. It charts the emergence of the collective from the art squats of Brixton to international infamy, from the analog machines of the nineties to the contemporary digital online cinema.

Matt Hopkins: An award-winning director specialising in powerful, human-centred storytelling. From his long-running documentary project England Your England - a decade-long chronicle of extraordinary lives across the UK - to his diverse body of commercial work - Matt’s films consistently uncover the human side behind every story. Alongside this, he continues to explore film and broadcast projects as part of an ongoing search to make work with lasting meaning and bring overlooked voices and untold perspectives to the screen. A Brighton local, Matt gave a brilliant talk at Video Affects last year and returns this year to share reflections and insights on his latest documentary, The Film I’ll Never See (BBC One + iPlayer), a deeply moving account of Dave Steele’s (AKA The Blind Poet) final years of sight.

Lauren Midwinter: Writer/director known for bold, sensitive, character-driven storytelling. A BAFTA Connect member, her performer-centric approach shines in Glimpses (British Arrows Best Director nominee, SHOTS shortlist, BAFTA-qualifying Aesthetica selection) and Tailing (Kinsale SHARK nominated, launched with Our Streets Now). Lauren directs story-rich, emotionally resonant commercials for brands such as Samsung, Google, and the NHS. As she transitions into long-form, Lauren has directed a branded series for UKTV, shadowed Emmy-nominated director Adam Randall (Slow Horses, Apple TV+), and is currently developing her debut feature film, The Thunderclap.

Doors at 7pm, the event starts at 7.30pm.

It's upstairs at the East Street Tap in Brighton.

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Sound Affects is a night of talks about music and subcultures, how sound affects us and how music changes the world. Hearing from writers, musicians, artists, superfans, photographers, filmmakers and everyday music lovers, we dive into personal stories, esoteric bands, fan communities, punk, pop, social change and much more. It's organised and hosted by journalist and documentary filmmaker Jak Hutchcraft.

Speakers:
Dorothy Max Prior - Writer and artist--London born and bred but currently living in Brighton. As an artist she works in performance, spoken word and sound installation. In her new book, 'Sex is No Emergency: Adventures in a Post-Punk Wonderland' , Max recalls her days as a ball room dancing tutor in South Kensington, drumming and touring with infamous experimental pansexual psychedelic rock group Psychic TV, exploring London and New York City's queer clubbing undergrounds, the tangled worlds of the UK’s indie music scene at the height of its influence, performance art, and parenting.

Kate Magic - DJ and writer. Her new book '88: The Untold Story of a Revolution' reclaims the ecstatic, political, and spiritual roots of the UK rave movement. Kate was there in those early heady days, and subsequently spent a long time asking herself, "What really happened?" This book is her attempt to answer that question, drawing on interviews with nearly 100 people who were there too, in the fields and the basements, hands in the air. Acid house wasn’t just a party. It was a revolution.

One more speaker TBC

Doors at 7.30pm, it begins at 8 and is over by 10.30pm.

East Street Tap in Brighton.

Follow @SoundAffectsNight on Instagram.

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS. Sound Affects presents a special event at the Old Market all about death and the afterlife. A night of talks, live music, film and live art. At Halloween, the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. OBLIVION is dedicated to death's past, present and future, in art and culture.

Featuring:
David Bramwell - Musician, broadcaster and author who's written and made programmes about psych music, The Residents, time travel, Ken Campbell, and many more weird and wonderful topics. His books include The Haunted Moustache, The Cult of Water and The Longman and Friends: Sacred Sussex. He runs Brighton's Catalyst Club as well as hosting the Adventures In Nutopia podcast. David will be guiding us into the Hellmouth on this evening.

Jak Hutchcraft - Journalist and filmmaker with an interest in music and subcultures. He directed the Fatboy Slim: Right Here, Right Now documentary on Sky TV, and runs the monthly Brighton salon Sound Affects. He's written for The Guardian, VICE, The Quietus, Kerrang! and other publications. At OBLIVION, he'll deliver an illustrated audio-visual talk, What Does Dying Sound Like?, which is about music and near death experiences.

Sapphire Goss - An artist who uses obsolete media and fragile processes of decay and revival to explore time, mortality and memory. She draws on early photography and film where the boundaries between science and magic seemed thinner, such as Optographs, thought to capture the last image seen in a dead person’s eye.

Mike Sefton - Electronic music composer and filmmaker. His latest project is Twitching Dreamers, an 18-track album of music set at the end of this century, featuring the voices of the living, the dead... and those without a body. Playing live, with films and voices from 70 years hence.

Plus four deathly short films from Exploding Cinema, a screening collective that emerged from the underground art squat scene in 1991.

Doors: 18:15
Starts: 19:00
Ends: 22:30

Sound Affects is a monthly night of talks about music and subcultures, how sound affects us and how music changes the world. It's organised and hosted by journalist and documentary filmmaker Jak Hutchcraft.

Follow @SoundAffectsNight on Instagram.