[imc-scotland-film] Launch today (Sat 19th Nov 2011) at Ace of *DoleKult Cinema*

[Bunny]

Dolekult cinema presents a series of experimental and cult films for skivers 
and dreamers, exploring the tyranny of wage labour and 
the colonisation of everyday life by capitalism.  Countering this world with 
pugilistic celluloid and video from local and international filmmakers, 
ranging from art-house cinema to spaghetti westerns and TV plays.
 
Launch night Saturday, 19th November, 7.00pm, at A.C.E (Autonomous Centre of 
Edinburgh), 17 West Montgomery Place (off Leith Walk).

Free entry and Bring Your Own Booze
 
Dolekult cinema presents 3 films by the immediate broth.
 
The immediate broth is writer and filmmaker Neil Gray and artist and filmmaker 
Sacha Kahir.  The immediate broth is micro and zero budget filmmaking 
from below, which utilises a blend of documentary, fiction and concrete 
poetry, to explore an urban environment subordinated to the market place.
 
Followed by a discussion and an exhibition of textual artwork by John 
Barker (writer, former political prisoner, and much loved comrade of many 
anarchists and communists), which explores a myriad of global symptoms that 
created the present crisis. 
 
Palimpsest
Neil Gray |UK | 2010 | 11 minutes
Palimpsest is composed of ten one-minute theses forming an interrogative essay 
on the constructed face of urban erasure in the West Midlands. 
The film focuses on The Public, a multi-purpose arts, community and business 
space designed by Will Alsop. While city boosters hail the ‘creative 
advantage’ 
offered by The Public, the film investigates another possibility: that West 
Bromwich is “neither Shoreditch nor Manhattan”, and cultural regeneration 
policy 
merely marks the emulation of losing formulas; in a zero-sum game.
 
The Process
Sacha Kahir | UK | 2010 | 21 minutes
The Process is a ghost story, made with non – actors, (ex-homeless people in 
Dunfermline), and set in a non-place somewhere between a ghost town 
and a clinic. The film explores themes of memory and identity on both a 
personal and social level. Examining the industrial warehousing of the poor 
in 
institutions and sink estates, it uses distanciation to create a constantly 
shifting narrative, where the various subjective experiences of those involved 
intertwine.
 
Vaguing in Oppidanus aka 2 or 3 things we know about Dumbiedykes.
Neil Gray / Sacha Kahir | UK | 2010 | 20 minutes
In 18th century Edinburgh, the Presbyterian Taliban would seize idlers for 
‘vaguing’ on the sabbath. This film takes a vague and runs (slowly) with it, 
drifting it’s way across the atomised spaces of Edinburgh. As one online 
viewer remarked “This is the worst Stoic sophist based communist propaganda 
that I have ever witnessed. 
This is the KGB at its best, reaching out and subverting the young people who 
speak english. Only mindless, about to become slaves, would listen to this 
Marxian drivel. 
Follow the advice here and you will wind up in chaos, which will end in a life 
of communism."
 
Next Sat 26th Nov 2011
 
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri 1969)
 
During a crackdown on political dissidents of the day, a suave, psychopathic 
Roman police inspector (Gian Maria Volonté) slashes the throat of his 
masochistic mistress (Florinda Bolkan). 
Perversely put in charge of the investigation, the inspector plants clues, 
which implicate him and then craftily diffuses them, ostensibly to prove his 
invincibility. 
A biting critic of Italian police methods and a psychological study of a 
budding crypto-fascist, the film outraged the Italian Right, but proved a huge 
box office success.
 
http://www.eliopetri.net/eng/indagine.html
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