Experimental film night compiled and presented by Ian Helliwell, screening alternative and unusual shorts based around a specific theme – this month focussing on the subject of Bodies and People Watching.
The fascination of observing people on screen in dramatised narratives or in real life documentary situations, is fundamental to much of cinema. The human body has been depicted in all manner of different scenarios, and beyond the confines of conventional storytelling, it can appear as the central focus of a film or as one visual element amongst many others. Individual viewers decide where their own boundaries of taste, exploitation, and voyeurism are drawn. This Synch Pulse seeks to celebrate the human body – clothed and disrobed – in a programme of offbeat and eye-catching, experimental shorts.
A free film night packed with weird and wonderful films and music, Synch Pulse features a different theme for each programme, represented by archive and contemporary shorts, animations, documentaries, vintage adverts, and trailers, with a strong emphasis on electronic music and experimental soundtracks.