PRESENTS

THE OLD CORONER’S COURT

STOKES CROFT
 Dare you delve into the topsy-turvy
PRESENTS
world of the Compass Festival of
Lunacy!? In this lunatic world prepare
to be shocked, delighted, appalled,
and entertained! We invite you to step
behind the looking glass, and into the
rabbit warren of the mind. Come and
cavort in our dreamscapes and frolic
in our fantasy lands, as we present
to you a fascinating programme of
world cinema, performance, cabaret,
burlesque, live music, silent film,
DJs, and visuals.

Compass Film CIC is a volunteer-run,

not-for-profit Community Interest Company
committed to grassroots programming born out of
collaboration. We aim to programme exciting and
interactive encounters that challenge audiences
to experience diverse forms of art and culture.
Through our multidisciplinary approach, we hope
to widen participation in the arts by recruiting
new audiences to get involved! Increasingly we
deliver additional events and encounters outside
of the annual festival space, from across Bristol to
the fields of summer festivals!

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FESTIVAL PROGRAMME Launch
Party
Thu 21 Oct Thu 28 Oct —
Thu 21 Oct 19.00h
Launch Party 5 Minutes of Madness Free Entry!
19.00h Short Film Competition
Free Entry! Screening: 19.30h
Fri 22 Oct Fri 29 Oct
Film Screening: Rhymes Spoken Word
Waking Life Night + Open Mic As the doors to the Old
(Linklater, America) Performance 20.00h – 23.00h Coroner’s Court fly open
for the first time in recent
+ Live Band Sat 30 Oct history, Compass presents
Screening 20.00h the first event of a two-
Halloween Howler!
week Festival of Lunacy!
Sat 23 Oct VJ/ DJ Party With a programme of
Film Screening: Plus guest performance by live music creamed from
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Steven Severin (Siouxsie the best of our Shambala
(Wiene, Germany) Tent of Lunacy, and with
and the Banshees) a few Bristol institutions
Silent film with Fancy Dress: Escapees thrown in for good
Live Piano, plus the from Horror Films measure, rarely will you
Carnivalesque Cabaret! 20.00h – late
find such a hot musical
line-up FOR FREE!! Come
Fancy Dress: VJ Performances: 21.00h
and dance, drink, indulge
Carnival Freak-Chic Sun 31 Oct in our lunatic installations,
20.00h – 23.00h (Screening 20.00h) and take stock of what is to
Film Screening: unfold across the festival!
Sun 24 Oct Alice (Svankmajer,
Film Screening: Czech Republic) + Intro
Hour of the Wolf Screening 19.30h
(Bergman, Sweden) Festival bar opens nightly at 19.00h;
+ Intro by Kim Newman stay after the show to drink, dance and
party! Licensed bar, munches, live music
Screening: 19.30h
and installations.
 Film Screening

WAKING LIFE
America : Linklater : 2001 : 99m

+ Live Band
Fri 22 Oct Screening 20.00h £5/ £4
“Sanity is a madness put to good uses;
waking life is a dream controlled”

So says philosopher George Santayana, a maxim explored in this

psychedelically Van-Goghian piece of cinema. An enquiry into
the nature of reality, Waking Life explores the world of dreams
and multiple states of consciousness as experienced by our semi-
lucid protagonist. Continually waking into yet another dream, he
encounters a series of dialogues and theses on existentialism, free
will, reincarnation, and post-humanity. Using the ‘rotoscoping’
technique, Waking Life is live action transformed, minutely
drawn-upon and exquisitely animated, to create a visual explosion
with real-time immediacy. Cascading through the rabbit warren
of the mind, we encounter countless versions of ‘truth’, leaving
us reeling with ideas, and swimming in a psychedelic sea of
philosophical possibility!

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Film Screening

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI

Germany : Wiene : 1920 : 71m

WITH LIVE PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT

Sat 23 Oct 20.00h – 23.00h (Screening 20.00h) £5/ £4
Fancy dress: Carnival Freak-Chic
Roll up, roll up for all the fun of the fayre, the carnivalesque
menagerie, where Dr Caligari will present you with a host of
depraved and debaucherous delights…!
1920’s acclaimed silent film The Cabinet of Dr Caligari is presented
to you with live piano accompaniment. Considered to be one of the
greatest horror films of all time, Cabinet was one of the key leading
cinema pieces of the German Existentialist movement. Where the
hoots and horrors of the carnival intermingle with the dreaded
Asylum, we follow the fortune-telling somnambulist and his
master, for a foray into the depths of a wildly lunatic world…

PLUS THE CARNIVALESQUE CABARET!

After the screening, prepare for film and reality to entwine as the
carnival spills over the edges of the silver screen. As members of
Caligari’s Carnival Cabaret escape the confines of fiction, you are
treated to a rare performance extravaganza… Burlesque beauties,
craven circus crackerjacks, sleepwalking singers and mad-hatter
magicians… The Carnivalesque Cabaret will have you bouncing
all the way to Bedlam! Noémie Ducimetière
Gentle Mystics
Presented in partnership with Bristol Silents & Watershed Photo mikemike.co.uk
 Film Screening

HOUR OF
THE WOLF
Sweden : Bergman : 1968 : 90m

+ INTRO BY KIM NEWMAN

Sun 24 Oct Screening 19.30h £5/ £4
On an isolated island in the Baltic Sea a troubled artist and his
lover carve an existence, a sanctuary in the solitude. But demons
that populate the tortured artist’s mind begin to haunt their
waking life… In constant fear of sleep, and of that most dangerous
hour of the night ‘the hour of the wolf’, the two become lost in
a frightening and surreal world, incapable of deciphering between
the spectres that stalk their souls and those that stalk their shores.
As their solitude makes their minds grow together, it becomes
unclear if the phantoms are passing from one consciousness
to the other. Peppered with Freudian fiends and gothic ghouls,
Hour of the Wolf represents Bergman’s classic Gothic-horror
genius, brought to the big screen in Bristol’s ancient mortuary,
for one night of demon-dancing and haunting!

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Short Film Competition

5 Minutes of
Madness
Thu 28 Oct Screening 19.30h £5/ £4
Using madness as their muse, an exciting selection of short-
filmmakers showcase their intriguing cinematic morsels. This is
your opportunity to take part in an event where filmmaking talent
from across the globe converges on Bristol in one exceptional night
of cinematic creativity. Judged by a panel of industry professionals,
awards will include Best Film, Best Local Filmmaker, and the
Youth Award, plus an Audience Award for you to decide! Meet
expert judges and filmmakers in the bar afterwards as DJs play
some deliciously deranged beats!

RHYMES
SPOKEN WORD NIGHT WITH OPEN MIC
Fri 29 Oct Performance 20.00h – 23.00h
£5/ £4 (free for contributors to the open mic)
Showcasing some of the Southwest-and-beyond’s finest
wordsmiths, Rhymes challenges these passionate syllable-
slicers to call forth their comments, their codes, their
symbols and their odes. Whether dub-poet, sonnateer,
rapper, or thought-catcher, come and share your words.
Budding lyricists are invited to enter the open mic.

Contact tara@compass-film.co.uk or sign up on the night.

 Halloween
Howler! A night of visual decadence in the mortuary!

With guest performance

by Steven Severin
(Siouxsie and the Banshees)
Presented in partnership with Ujima Radio
Sat 31 Oct 20.00h – late (VJ Performances 21.00h) £5/ £4
Fancy Dress: Escapees from Horror Films
In a horror-movie-meets-club-night live art extravaganza, we
showcase a shortlist of VJs creating visual frights and delights for
this Halloween fancy-dress party!

Steven Severin’s audio-visual show The Cesare Variations present

an uncanny reworking of 1920s classic German horror flick, The
Cabinet of Dr Caligari. Severin’s brilliantly re-scored performance
of this Halloween classic mixes wild sounds with images of the
murdering somnambulist Cesare.

The VJ Competition will unfold to present a hot line-up of

moving-image magicians from across the country, come to
conjure up their Halloween visuals for this one moment of
musical madness.

As DJs spin demented beats, come enter the shadows of the

Old Coroner’s Court for a night of lunar deviance on this most
frightening of nightly celebrations!

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Halloween 4

Film Screening

Alice
Czech Republic : Svankmajer : 1988 : 86m

+ intro
& performance installations
Sun 31 Oct Screening 19.30h £5/ £4
Based on Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,
Svankmajer’s Alice is a disturbing surrealist fantasy in which the
dream world and reality overlap and are ultimately entwined.
Using a combination of live action and stop-frame animation
Svankmajer’s Alice inhabits a frightening world peopled with
grotesque hybrid creatures and inanimate objects brought
disturbingly to life… Here we meet toy dinosaurs spliced with the
skulls of creatures escaped from the science lab, formaldehyde-stiff
fish with Santa hats atop decayed heads, a slithering joint of meat,
and a Mad Hatter whose particular brand of automaton-insanity
lends an uncanny edge to an already disturbing atmosphere.
Phantoms, recognised-but-transformed from Carroll’s original, are
joined by other new demons found in the Freudian backwaters of
consciousness and nightmare. Together they chase Alice through
the film to its frightening judgement scene and the threat of a
beheading at the hands of the Queen of Hearts. An alternative
Halloween flick that will send you home to a sleep shadowed by
the most sinister of spectres….!
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Venue
All festival events are held at

THE OLD CORONER’S COURT

(BEHIND LAKOTA)
Backfields, Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS2 8QP

Housed in a Tudor Gothic Grade II listed building,

the old coroner’s court and mortuary still
ooze a macabre atmosphere. Amongst these aged
bricks and mortar we present a series of encounters, Photo Steve Lewis

hauntings and imaginings. Do you dare to be the

first through these ancient re-opened doors?
Where better to experience a Festival of Lunacy than
in this shadowy vault, amongst the city’s spirits? Tickets
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Limited parking available All Events:
For queries about venue access, or for any £5 Full/ £4 Conc. + bf
other query, contact 0117 902 9554 or Concession: any claimant
info@compass-film.co.uk – please bring proof

Tickets available from:

Walk 3 mins from St James Barton Roundabout & Cabot Circus
Cycle Bicycle parking available on the corner of Upper York Bristol Ticket Shop
Street & Stokes Croft 26 Union Street
Train 7 mins walk from Montpelier train station, 20 mins Broadmead
walk from Bristol Temple Meads train station BS1 2DP
Bus Any local bus to Bristol City Centre will get you within ten 0117 929 9008 / 0870 44 44 400
minutes walk of the venue. Closest main stop is Haymarket www.bristolticketshop.co.uk
3 mins walk away. National buses arrive into Marlborough
bus station 3 mins walk away from venue
On the door
Drive At the end of M32 take the 3rd exit onto Stokes Croft, hard Subject to availability
right onto Upper York St, then second right onto Backfields.

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Company Info Sponsors & Special Thanks
www.compass-film.co.uk
info@compass-film.co.uk
Company Directors / Festival Organisers Tara Sachdeva
Nicky Bucher Primary Festival Partner
Barney McGrath
Programme Design Rich Webster
Programme Illustration Ben Newman
Marketing Officer Emma Church
Press Officer Alice Gillam
Marketing & Press Support James Thatcher
Installation, Art & Décor George Hearne Sound Sponsor
Eddie Sandford
Al Reffell
Geoff Wright
Megan Thomas
Website Design Emma Church
Sound Daniel Shapley
Visual Sponsor
Projection Dan Yeomans
Accountant Temesgen Mowos
Photography Nicki Musgrove
Filming Oliver Purches
Catering Barney McGrath
Programme Advisors Sam Love
Kathrina Glitre
Mark Bould
Birgit Beumers

Special thanks to…

Martin Butcher, Gil Sandford, Bentleigh Burgess, Sean Hales,
Steve Haines, Peter Snowman, Chris Daniels, Graeme McGrath,
Satish Sachdeva, Rosie Armistead, Ruth Essex, Pav Heire,
Andrew Youdell at the BFI, Kathy Butcher, Tommy Hickman,
Pam Sachdeva, Maddy Harris, Sally Butcher, Corinne Armistead.

To become a festival patron or to enquire about

creative events that Compass can offer you,
email info@compass-film.co.uk

© 2010 Compass Film CIC Registered No. 06091041