PRESENTS

THE OLD CORONERS COURT

STOKES CROFT
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Dare you delve into the topsy-turvy
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 lm,
DJs, and visuals.
PRESENTS
Compass Film CIC is a volunteer-run,
not-for-prot 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 elds of summer festivals!
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FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
Thu 21 Oct
Launch Party
19.00h
Free Entry!
Fri 22 Oct
Film Screening:
Waking Life
(Linklater, America)
+ Live Band
Screening 20.00h
Sat 23 Oct
Film Screening:
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
(Wiene, Germany)
Silent lm with
Live Piano, plus the
Carnivalesque Cabaret!
Fancy Dress:
Carnival Freak-Chic
20.00h 23.00h (Screening 20.00h)
Sun 24 Oct
Film Screening:
Hour of the Wolf
(Bergman, Sweden)
+ Intro by Kim Newman
Screening: 19.30h
Thu 28 Oct
5 Minutes of Madness
Short Film Competition
Screening: 19.30h
Fri 29 Oct
Rhymes Spoken Word
Night + Open Mic
Performance 20.00h 23.00h
Sat 30 Oct
Halloween Howler!
VJ/ DJ Party
Plus guest performance by
Steven Severin (Siouxsie
and the Banshees)
Fancy Dress: Escapees
from Horror Films
20.00h late
VJ Performances: 21.00h
As the doors to the Old
Coroners Court y open
for the rst time in recent
history, Compass presents
the rst event of a two-
week Festival of Lunacy!
With a programme of
live music creamed from
the best of our Shambala
Tent of Lunacy, and with
a few Bristol institutions
thrown in for good
measure, rarely will you
nd such a hot musical
line-up FOR FREE!! Come
and dance, drink, indulge
in our lunatic installations,
and take stock of what is to
unfold across the festival!
Launch
Party

Thu 21 Oct 19.00h

Free Entry!
Sun 31 Oct
Film Screening:
Alice (Svankmajer,
Czech Republic) + Intro
Screening 19.30h
Festival bar opens nightly at 19.00h;
stay after the show to drink, dance and
party! Licensed bar, munches, live music
and installations.

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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!
1920s acclaimed silent lm The Cabinet of Dr Caligari is presented
to you with live piano accompaniment. Considered to be one of the
greatest horror lms 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 lm and reality to entwine as the
carnival spills over the edges of the silver screen. As members of
Caligaris Carnival Cabaret escape the connes of ction, 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!
Presented in partnership with Bristol Silents & Watershed
Nomie Ducimetire
Gentle Mystics
Photo mikemike.co.uk
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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 artists 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 ends and gothic ghouls,
Hour of the Wolf represents Bergmans classic Gothic-horror
genius, brought to the big screen in Bristols 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-
lmmakers showcase their intriguing cinematic morsels. This is
your opportunity to take part in an event where lmmaking 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 lmmakers 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-beyonds nest
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-lm.co.uk or sign up on the night.
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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 Severins audio-visual show The Cesare Variations present
an uncanny reworking of 1920s classic German horror ick, The
Cabinet of Dr Caligari. Severins 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 Coroners Court for a night of lunar deviance on this most
frightening of nightly celebrations!
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Halloween
Film Screening
Alice
Czech Republic : Svankmajer : 1988 : 86m
+
intro
& performance installations
Sun 31 Oct Screening 19.30h 5/ 4
Based on Lewis Carrolls novel Alices Adventures in Wonderland,
Svankmajers 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
Svankmajers 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
sh 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 Carrolls original, are
joined by other new demons found in the Freudian backwaters of
consciousness and nightmare. Together they chase Alice through
the lm to its frightening judgement scene and the threat of a
beheading at the hands of the Queen of Hearts. An alternative
Halloween ick that will send you home to a sleep shadowed by
the most sinister of spectres.!
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Coming Soon
Compass Presents
Fundraiser for Palestine
A Night of Film
& Discussion
In partnership with Leftbank
Thu 25 Nov 2010 19.00h 6/ 5
Film Screening
The Heart of Jenin Geller/Vetter : 2008 : 89m
Baving witnesseu his son's ueath, a shooting in the stieet
by an Isiaeli soluiei, Ismael ueciues to uonate his chilu's
oigans to othei chiluien acioss the iegion. This uocumentaiy
exploies his jouiney to meet those, Isiaeli anu Palestinian,
whose lives have been affecteu by his actions.
As a uiiect iesult of the film being maue in this wai-toin West
Bank town, Pioject Cinema }enin was launcheu in oiuei to
cieate, not only a place to scieen the uocumentaiy, but also
a vital physical anu iueological space wheie Palestinian anu
Isiaeli chiluien coulu come togethei to piouuce cieative woik.
Thiee months on fiom its histoiic opening, come anu invest
in the pioject by showing youi suppoit, speaking to some
of the inuiviuuals inteiesteu in its launch, anu watching
the uocumentaiy that has inspiieu such hope in the
iegion anu beyonu.
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(All proceeds go to Project Cinema Jenin)
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Venue

All festival events are held at
THE OLD CORONERS COURT
(BEHIND LAKOTA)
Backelds, Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS2 8QP
Housed in a Tudor Gothic Grade II listed building,
the old coroners court and mortuary still
ooze a macabre atmosphere. Amongst these aged
bricks and mortar we present a series of encounters,
hauntings and imaginings. Do you dare to be the
rst through these ancient re-opened doors?
Where better to experience a Festival of Lunacy than
in this shadowy vault, amongst the citys spirits?
Limited parking available
For queries about venue access, or for any
other query, contact 0117 902 9554 or
info@compass-lm.co.uk
Walk 3 mins from St James Barton Roundabout & Cabot Circus
Cycle Bicycle parking available on the corner of Upper York
Street & Stokes Croft
Train 7 mins walk from Montpelier train station, 20 mins
walk from Bristol Temple Meads train station
Bus Any local bus to Bristol City Centre will get you within ten
minutes walk of the venue. Closest main stop is Haymarket
3 mins walk away. National buses arrive into Marlborough
bus station 3 mins walk away from venue
Drive At the end of M32 take the 3
rd
exit onto Stokes Croft, hard
right onto Upper York St, then second right onto Backelds.

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Tickets

All Events:
5 Full/ 4 Conc. + bf
Concession: any claimant
please bring proof
Tickets available from:
Bristol Ticket Shop
26 Union Street
Broadmead
BS1 2DP
0117 929 9008 / 0870 44 44 400
www.bristolticketshop.co.uk
On the door
Subject to availability
Photo Steve Lewis
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Sponsors & Special Thanks
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-lm.co.uk
Company Info
www.compass-lm.co.uk
info@compass-lm.co.uk
Company Directors / Festival Organisers Tara Sachdeva
Nicky Bucher
Barney McGrath
Programme Design Rich Webster
Programme Illustration Ben Newman
Marketing Ofcer Emma Church
Press Ofcer Alice Gillam
Marketing & Press Support James Thatcher
Installation, Art & Dcor George Hearne
Eddie Sandford
Al Reffell
Geoff Wright
Megan Thomas
Website Design Emma Church
Sound Daniel Shapley
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
2010 Compass Film CIC Registered No. 06091041
Primary Festival Partner
Visual Sponsor
Sound Sponsor
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