Sensoria’s guests so far have included Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley, Nitin Sawhney, Mark Kermode, John Robb, The Comsat Angels, Reverend and the Makers, Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire), British Sea Power, Julien Temple and many more. Events have taken place across the city and at venues including Sheffield Cathedral, Grosvenor House Hotel, the historic Butcher Works courtyard, guerilla-style projections around the city, Sheffield Law Courts and an underwater music system in Ponds Forge swimming pool. Sensoria has launched many new films including Eve Woods’ The Beat Is The Law.

The festival crosses musical genres and has celebrated everything from Americana/folk, indie and electronica through to rockabilly.

Call For Entries
Sensoria is now looking for exciting new work in the realms of music, film and digital – this can include fiction features or short films with an innovative soundtrack or score, music related biopics, music documentary and truly exceptional music video. Films should have been completed after 2008.

Sensoria is particularly looking for music-related submissions that outline how their proposed project or performance includes an innovative, exciting use of visuals.

There is no submission fee.
Submissions should include a CD/DVD/MP3, short synopsis, two production stills and full contact details and arrive no later than 19 November at the following address:

Sensoria submissions, Bank Street Arts, 32 – 40 Bank Street, Sheffield S1 2DS.
For any enquiries regarding submissions please email info@sensoria.org.uk

www.sensoria.org.uk
www.uncommonpeople.co.uk

Dir. Don Letts UK 2010 58mins

+  live music from special Strummerville guests

Joe Strummer’s untimely death in December 2002 sent shockwaves around the world of music and beyond. Yet friends and family were determined that his spirit would live on. In this documentary, Grammy award-winning filmmaker Don Letts shows how Joe’s unique contribution to the music world is manifesting itself through a charity set up in his memory – Strummerville.  The film features contributions from supporters and founders of the charity, including Billy Bragg (interviewed at Sheffield’s own Showroom Cinema) and Damien Hirst, plus wonderful footage of Strummer himself.

Following the screening there will be a Q&A with Beans On Toast and Trish Whelan director of the Strummerville charity. There will be live sets from Strummerville bands Smokey Angle Shades, Beans On Toast, The Riff Raff and Nimmo & The Gauntletts.

www.strummerville.com

Don Letts interview @ SXSW 2010

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Dir. Peter Care 60mins
With introduction by Ken Hollings
Peter Care’s controversial short film, ‘Johnny YesNo’, was made in 1979. Its original soundtrack, recorded and produced by Cabaret Voltaire, was released as an album two years later. This year, Mute will be releasing a box set, of film and music, comprising the original compilation , a re-imagining of the film, additional footage and bonus material, all featuring new remixes by Richard H. Kirk. This is a special presentation of the original, extract from Johnny YesNo Redux and a series of short new works.

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Dir. Gilles Weinzaepflen   France  2008   52mins  Subtitled

Jean-Jacques Perrey, now enjoying his Alpine retirement, was a pioneer of electronic music in the early 1950s. With the patronage of  Jean Cocteau and Edith Piaf he left France for the US where his career really took off.  The documentary interviews the likes of Angelo Badalamenti, Air and Michel Gondry all of whom have been greatly influenced by Perrey’s groundbreaking electronic pop.

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Dirs. David Giese & Iacopo Patierno  Sweden  2009 1hr 1min

An entertaining account of the Scandinavian electro skweee music scene.  They called it skweee because it reflected the need to squeeze everything out of cheap, homebuilt, lo fi equipment.  This engaging film follows the skweee players from the Stockholm suburbs to a soundclash at Sonar festival.  We guarantee Call It Skweee will have you warming to the individuality and unique charm of these bleep-and-squeak music pioneers.

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The Black Dog have developed the project from over 200 hours of field recordings from airports in an effort to explore the ideas and associations that people have with them today.Previously associated with club appearances/performances, The Black Dog will now bring a new live event to an art gallery environment.

This is a world premiere event on Saturday 24 April at Millennium Galleries and will then tour to art galleries around the world.

UPDATE – the legendary Richard H. Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire) will be Guest DJ at this event.

Tickets on sale HERE.

Dir. Stuart Watts UK 2009 1hr 30mins

The story of one of the most important record labels of the 20^th Century. Keep on Running features a myriad of artists all ready and willing to pay tribute to the work of one man, Chris Blackwell.   To all intents and purposes Island Records is Chris Blackwell and his love of Jamaican music was his main motivation for starting out.  His first foray into music artist management was with Millie Small and from this point on, not only did his career soar, but he vowed to look after artists as a long term relationship rather than for short term gain. It is this ethos that has carried the Island Records brand and engendered an artist loyalty rarely seen in an often fickle industry. It’s common knowledge that Island signed the likes of Bob Marley and U2 but their roster also included artists from Frankie Goes to Hollywood to Pulp to Amy Winehouse.

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Dirs. Sufjan Stevens & Reuben Kleiner USA 2009 40mins

The UK premiere of musical genius Sufjan Stevens’ film, commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music and inspired by the stop start motion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway – and also the Hula-Hoop. The result is a widescreen triptych ode to a potholed, serpentine trunk road that doesn’t really work. New York’s “other boroughs” are captured by utilising time-lapse photography and post-production mirror effects to transform urban blight into beautiful compositions. Accompanied by Stevens’ band and a chamber orchestra, the soundtrack is inspired by Gershwin, Terry Riley, Charles Ives and Warp Records’ Autechre. Sufjan Stevens “The B.Q.E” licensed courtesy of Rough Trade Records Ltd and New Jerusalem Music.

www.roughtraderecords.com / www.newjerusalemmusic.com

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Dir. Paul Windridge UK 2009 8mins Quadroscopic split screen

On this night time underground, overground train journey we travel in a time-altered, mirrored world which turns reality, quite literally, on it’s head and motivates us to view it in a completely different way.

Dir. Sidney Lumet US  1957 1hr 36mins

The defence and the prosecution have rested and the jury files into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty of murder. What seems like an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors’ preconceptions about the accused and each other. The film is entirely set in the claustrophobic jury room on a hot summer’s day. Nigel and Klive Humberstone join forces with saxophonist Rob Skeet to create a complementary, minimal score to this classic courtroom drama.

Sensoria is renowned for taking events into unusual venues and this year we’re pleased to have gained access to Sheffield Law Courts for this unique presentation.

* Please note – there is a limited capacity for both screenings, so book early to avoid disappointment.

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Dir. Morgan Neville  US 2010  45mins

With “Raw Power”, Iggy & The Stooges reinvented themselves and set out to conquer the world, but the world had other plans. The album crashed and burned along with the band. But “Raw Power” survived as a sacred talisman of proto-punk fury, spurring young rockers to take up the fight. This documentary tells the unlikely story of the fall and rise of “Raw Power”. Featuring interviews with Iggy Pop, Johnny Marr, Chrissie Hynde, Henry Rollins and others; plus never-before-seen 1973 concert footage.

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A programme of computer-generated, screen-based artworks exploring the relationships between sound, image and extreme temporality. Three artists (Mark Fell, Theo Burt and Ernest Edmonds) working with computational processes present a programme of works exploring exceptionally close correlations between digital sound synthesis, colour, geometry and time. The event includes rare high-definition and 8.1 surround sound versions of the works; and a lecture by the eminent computer artist and theorist Professor Ernest Edmonds.

Curated and produced by snd for Sensoria 2010.

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Dir. Quentin Tarantino  US  1994  2hrs 34mins

Voted by Exposed readers as their most popular movie soundtrack, Pulp Fiction is the quick-witted 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino. The winning combination of cast (John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson. Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth and Bruce Willis), confident script, interwoven narrative, cool music and sharp cinematography soon propelled Pulp Fiction to cult status. The soundtrack is an eclectic assortment of surf music, rock and roll and soul – a true Tarantino mix tape.

Introduced by Phil Turner, Editor of Exposed Magazine,

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Dir. Vikram Jayanti UK 2008 1hr 44mins + interview

Phil Spector is the American music producer who created the Wall of Sound and had an immense impact on popular music today. His life has been no less extraordinary. The film was made in 2008, before Spector was pronounced guilty of homicide. In this, his first on-screen interview, the recluse also spoke of the musical instincts that led him to create some of the most enduring hit records of all time including ‘You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin’.   Following the screening Adrian Wootton, CEO, Film London will interview Anthony Wall, Series Editor, Arena. A hugely respected, leading figure in broadcast television, Anthony Wall has worked on the mutli award-winning Areana strand for thirty years. He will discuss the music programmes over the years, his highs and lows and what, given the opportunity, he might have done differently during the course of his career in television production. The interview will feature clips from other Arena Music documentaries and there will be an audience Q&A.

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Dir. Stan Warnow   USA  2008  1hr 40mins

One of the most prolific, pioneering figures in 20th century music, Raymond Scott’s career started with a 1930s swing jazz quintet and continued through to the avant garde electronic music of the 1970s.  Scott was quoted as the man that ‘made cartoons swing’ – his music was used in Warners’ Bugs Bunny and Road Runner animations. He later invented the electronium, a prototype fax machine and worked for Motown as their Head of R&D. Still largely unknown to the general public, this documentary tells the story of Scott’s life and career from the perspective of his son Stan Warnow.

Director Stan Warnow will be interviewed by Martyn Ware (Future of Sound/Heaven 17) and give a Q&A following the screening.

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Dirs. Vincent Moon & Nat Le Scouarnec  Scotland 2009 49mins

A stunning, raw performance film stylishly shot in monochrome that captures Scottish band Mogwai performing an incandescent show in front of a mesmerised audience. Expect a wall of Mogwai sound with immersive visuals.

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