
Brighton Film Club - Comedy
Showcasing a selection of comedic short films from around the world.
Showcasing a selection of comedic short films from around the world.
For Listen Club #23 Will Montgomery will explore the rich history of text-sound interaction in radical C20 and C21 soundworks, with a particular focus on poetic constellations of text and on the cross-talk between score and poem.
A blend of virtuosic players & poets unite to create a unique & infectious musical & spoken performance. To raise awareness & consciousness for the people of Palestine. Beginning with soulful jazz, rock and concluding with spellbinding poetry.
Iconic artist and political activist from Somaliland brings her rocking band (members of Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp) to us for a night of grooving bangers that combine traditional Somali folk songs with heavy modern instrumentation. These are songs of celebration and dance, love songs, political demands and Sahra's voice deploys all its warmth, its ornaments, its mystery and its dignity in an unforgettable way!!
EP launch from instrumental outfit Hekatones: instrumental rhythm section performing original music inspired by ska, rocksteady, roots reggae and dub - with influences from jazz, folk and psychedelia. Hekatones will be joined by some special guests on the night.
Come for the disco, stay for the rave, be in bed by 10pm. YUSSSSS
Toad Lickers Film Club presents Penda’s Fen. Get ready to delve into the mid-century English countryside, summer 1955, and pastor's son Stephen must come to terms with his queer identity amid societal pressure, religious guilt and his own imaginings.
A unique night of films, talks and candle-lit performance themed around local rivers, magic, folklore, goddess worship, our industrial heritage and queer ecology. With David Bramwell and Vera Zakharov.
A trio of three acclaimed improvisors( saxophones, double bass & drums)
Support from In Threads.
Brighton EMOM brings you open mic for electronic and experimental musicians, this month with Mcloud +, Em Dash, and Zizo. get in touch if you are interested in performing, either via Instagram @Brighton_EMOM, or email us at BrightonEmom@gmail.com.
Landing on the moon and travelling through space remain awe-inspiring achievements, and are reflected here in experimental films, offbeat documentaries, vintage adverts and movie trailers. From Gemini and Apollo missions with electronic soundtracks, to space oddities and animations, prepare for lift off as Synch Pulse blasts its way across a galaxy of unusual and rarely seen shorts.
Debut UK show from Beirut-based duo Snakeskin, fresh off the release of their acclaimed sophomore album ‘They Kept Our Photographs’ via London’s Mais Um.
Hey everyone , we mean you! Feel the need to let loose, shake it out and party ?
Come and dance together with your community to the best selection of DJ’s in town. Rose Hill Dance Party is our new inclusive friendly night for moving to !
Comedy PowerPoint presentations from Chris Parkinson and Ben Bailey, taking a nerdy deep dive into the minutiae of politics and pop culture.
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.
Part 1 of 8 || Start the weekend at our Mehfil – e – Rose Hill experience with four distinct performances from seven artists, from the north to the south of South Asia.
Part of Brighton Festival 2025
Part 2 of 8 || You are invited to come and get to know some of the fundamentals of South Asian raag melody and rhythms. You will learn about melody, structure, form and mood pertinent to individual raagas.
Part of Brighton Festival 2025
Part 3 of 8 || Start the evening gently with a double bill performance by renowned 'Khayal' vocalist Prabhat Rao, who will be accompanied by Himmet Bahra on tabla. Jonathan Meyer, UK leading sitarist will perform a raga to the mood of the early evening. A sensitive and masterful expression of sitar by Jonathan, accompanied by the artful Denis Kucherov. Expect fabulous melodic improvisation by Jonathan and Denis’ mastery of tabla.
Part of Brighton Festival 2025
Part 4 of 8 || Get immersed as we go into the late evening with two distinct performances of artful South Asian sounds, led by two British women of Bangladeshi origin.
Part of Brighton Festival 2025
Part 5 of 8 || A perfect way to end your Saturday evening. Stay up with us into the early hours to experience (very) late night ragas over three performances.
Part of Brighton Festival 2025
Part 6 of 8 || Be gently invited into the sun with the bansuri, bamboo flute of south Asia. A morning’s programme of bansuri, veena, sitar and sarod, tabla and mridangam – with accomplished artists of diverse backgrounds offering you a delightful way to start your day.
Part of 8 Mehfil events taking place at The Rose Hill for Brighton Festival 2025.
Multi-save tickets available.
Part 7 of 8 || Come and learn from leading exponent of Khayal training in the UK. Prabhat Rao will show you the fundamentals of khayal / ‘imagination’ singing - one of the main elements of vocal tradition south Asian musical tradition.
Part of Brighton Festival 2025
Part 8 OF 8 || Experience a true ‘Mehfil’ - a purposefully small intimate setting for South Asian classical music - where a musician and their audience aim to reach the ‘rasa’ – a state of engagement when they become ‘one’ in emotion and intent. Performance and jam session with Mehfil – e – Rose Hill artists: Guiliano Modarelli and friends
Since winning NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest in 2016, violinist, singer and songwriter Gaelynn Lea has captivated audiences with her haunting original songs and new takes on traditional fiddle tunes.
A camp one-man Cabaret using the songs of Jacques Brel to explore the simultaneous urge to be, be with and behead powerful men...
FAKE ESCAPE YES!! Friday night and Saturday day and night 2 floor extravaganza bringing in some of the best local collectives, artists and musicians for a night of fantastic and fascinating music to be found nowhere in The Great Escape
Comedy PowerPoint presentations from Chris Parkinson and Ben Bailey, taking a nerdy deep dive into the minutiae of politics and pop culture.
Experimental film and video provides a platform to play with and reorder both picture and sound, by using fragments of pre-existing material to generate new combinations and meanings. Found footage from the amateur or commercial world is repurposed and reimagined, and regular soundtrack conventions are disrupted. This Synch Pulse will focus on a range of short films which recycle existing film and video, and explore audiovisual cut-ups and collage.
Two duos from well-seasoned improvisors visiting from London and Hastings: sax and cello, and electronics and cello.
Celebrate the start of summer! Exchange your pre loved party clothes for a new (ish) outfitGet yourself some amazing new clothes while saying 'no thanks' to fast fashion. Join us for a Party Clothes Swap at The Rose Hill with Sew Fabulous and Brighton Fashion Collective.
Two trios featuring renowned players from Brighton's free music scene.
Brighton's unique night for performance makers of all disciplines to share work in progress and connect with each other
ERIC CHENAUX is a Canadian guitarist, songwriter, singer and sound sculptor. He has released seven solo albums of experimental song on the Montréal-based imprint Constellation. “This guys sounds like nothing else we had heard before - his vocals sound as sweet and perfect as Chet Baker mixed with Nick Drake and a bit of beloved Stevie - and a whoozy groovy guitar that draws you into a spellbinding deep listening experience!”
An evening of invocatory sound and song to herald the solstice.
Appearing in avant-garde short films far less often than in commercial mainstream cinema, there are nonetheless various examples of androids in offbeat documentaries and animations backed by experimental electronic sounds. For this Synch Pulse the focus will be on a mix of vintage and contemporary shorts where robots and cyborgs take centre stage.
Electric Jalaba explore the entrancing overlap between electronic dance music and traditional Moroccan gnawa with Lead singer Simo Lagnawi at the helm.
One of the original torch-bearers for the revitalized young British jazz scene, Led Bib released their twelth album in August this year. Previous Mercury Prize nominees and this newly down sized four-piece pride themselves on side-stepping convention with incendiary results, tearing apart the jazz world with their avant-jazz-euphoric-rock explosions of improvisation.
With her Right Here, Right Now Quartet Charlotte Keeffe enables raw musical ingredients and individual expressions to come together and flow. She is captivated by trumpeters like Jaimie Branch, Peter Evans, Tomasz Stańko, Nate Wooley and Lester Bowie, and inspired by abstract painters – referring to her horns as ‘Sound Brushes’.
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.
For the final event of this season’s programme, Other Asias and the University of Sussex presents: FEMINISTS, INSHALLAH: THE STORY OF ARAB FEMINISM (2014) Reclaiming a buried legacy, the bold, often-overlooked history of Arab feminism pushes back against the tired trope of feminism as a Western export. Exposing the paradox of liberation and repression this compelling documentary charts how as women’s voices grew stronger, so did the structures designed to contain them. LOOKING FOR OUM KULTHUM (2017) Shirin Neshat’s meta-cinematic exploration follows an Iranian filmmaker attempting to make a biopic about beloved, iconic Oum Kulthuom, only to find herself ensnared in the same patriarchal structures that shaped the singer’s life. Fiction and reality collapse, revealing tensions between visibility and control, reverence and restriction, past and present.
Six Organs of Admittance - a moniker of Ben Chasny - have built a prolific and diverse body of work over the last 20+ years. Ben Chasny's project is an experimental amalgam of new and psychedelic folk, drone music, percussion and strange textures, with Chasny delivering an outpouring of eclectic releases in the early 2000s for various small labels before finding a longstanding home on Drag City.
Experimental Brighton/Bangkok label and collective Ceremonial Laptop returns once more with an excellent triple bill. From live vinyl tatooing/looping to anti- pop vocals & lofi grooves and more ! Always good vibes this lot!
Synch Pulse - the monthly free entry themed experimental film night represented by archive and contemporary shorts, animations, documentaries and more with a strong emphasis on electronic music and experimental soundtracks. Compiled and presented by artist, musician and filmmaker Ian Helliwell.
A daytime DIY Zine Fair with 15+ stallholders. Come meet local artists and craft makers!
[Barley's LP] 'Marionette perfects a curious kind of organic minimalism on accoustic instruments in the vein of Moondog or Lonnie Holley' - The Guardian
Debut UK performance of interspecies musician David Rothenberg’s Secret Sound of Ponds. Get your ears down to the Rosehill for a concert and talk that will tune you in to the unexpected acoustic delights of our tiny freshwater friends.
Come join us for Listen Club #22; Sound Atmospheres, curated by composer Jean Martin. Some sounds and soundscapes seem to evoke a stronger sense of atmosphere than others. But each of us may experience and articulate what we have heard differently. A small number of atmospheric pieces will be played– some composed music, some environmental soundscapes – so we can discuss what happens to us while we’re listening.
This March, Brighton Film Club celebrates the creativity, vision, and storytelling brilliance of Female Filmmakers.
An afternoon gathering with our local Ukrainian community, sharing music, food and friendship.
The Digital Music and Sound Arts students at The University of Brighton present an eclectic mix of experimental music and noise performances. Always exciting, always fresh - come down and discover your new favourite.
Khayal - Hindustani vocal. Delight and allow your imagination to flow as you experience "Khayal" vocals by Dr Shishir Rao. Shishir will be accompanied by skilful Himmet S Bahra on tabla, during this night of 'Mehfil - e - Rose Hill'
Brighton's unique night for performance makers of all disciplines to share work in progress and connect with each other
Toad Lickers Film Club presents a screening of the 1971 cult documentary The Moon and the Sledgehammer which follows the eccentric lives of the Page family living off-grid in rural West Sussex.
Your fave tropical disco is back! Boogie on down to the best Afro-Latin grooves with DJs Chicha Morada and Nick Subtle, accompanied by live psychedelic visuals from Benedict Sheehan.
Mr Vast – aka Henry Sargeant – previously frontman for the legendary Wevie Stonder, dubbed by the BBC as “the Monty Python of electronic music”. Expanding on the same brand of anarchic comedy and wild fusion of musical influences, Mr Vast is a one-man show that resists easy definitions: a slapstick cabaret, a surrealist happening, an avant-garde concert, a tragicomic carnival, an ecstatic ritual.
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.
The Sandpit Collective, in partnership with the University of Sussex, presents,'بابا عزيز Bab'Aziz: The prince who contemplated his soul' by artist, poet and cineast Nacer Khemir. The final instalment of Khemir's desert triptych centres around the journey of a blind dervish, Bab Aziz and his granddaughter, Ishtar, traveling across the desert towards an immense Sufi gathering that only happens every 30 years. In a deliberate attempt to imitate the structure of Iranian Sufi visions and dances, the film follows their encounter with several strangers who impart them with stories of their own mysterious and spiritual quests in the path to love.
The cornet duo features the mechanical sound sculptures of Pierre Bastien & the avant - Jazz improvisation & virtuosity of Louis Laurain. Plus support from live vinyl tattooing sound artist Furrowed.
Synch Pulse - the monthly free entry themed experimental film night represented by archive and contemporary shorts, animations, documentaries and more with a strong emphasis on electronic music and experimental soundtracks. Compiled and presented by artist, musician and filmmaker Ian Helliwell.
re / shape / sound, curated by I AM FYA returns for its final instalment of the season, featuring Supernormal Fest 2024 faves - hybrid rock-rap outfit THIRD KULTURE, ‘hyper-soul’ and ‘Nordic noir electronica’ queer duo DIGITAL ROSES and an extended DJ set from the curator herself, I AM FYA. Take radical action and support this ground-breaking new series [the first of it's kind] championing Black and Brown experimental artists.
Brighton EMOM brings you open mic for electronic and experimental musicians, this month with special guest appearances from critically acclaimed Planet Mu released artist Xylitol and local electronic breakbeat hero, Alien Alarms.
Sound sparks are ideas or thoughts sparked through listening. Field recording and soundscape compositions tend to be solo explorations - but in what ways can we listen with others to our surrounding environment, and what can we learn together?
Brighton Film Club invites you to an evening of short films exploring the highs and lows of the heart with Love & Heartbreak.
A community party in Brighton, inspired by the spirit of the 1970s’ ‘utopian’ dance scene including David Mancuso’s The Loft, the Paradise Garage and the Gallery – expect sultry disco divas, afrobeat, euphoric house, funk, soul, balearic, balloons, disco balls, apricots, bubbles, ‘lofting’ and love.
Elliot Galvin will be touring the UK and EU with his new album 'The Ruin' featuring renowned bassist and vocalist (and Rose Hill fave) Ruth Goller, Patti Smith/Damon Albarn collaborator and drummer Sebastian Rochford, violinist Mandhira de Sarah and himself on Piano and live electronics. Prepare to free-flow between serpentine piano, modular synth lines, ephemeral vocalisations and deceivingly groove-heavy percussion.
Jim White, noir- Americana luminarie, gets around. When he’s not releasing his own critically acclaimed solo albums he splits time producing records for other artists, exhibiting his visual art in galleries and museums across the US and Europe and publishing award winning fiction.
Mary toured in 40 countries with previous releases, recorded and produced with Canadian Psych guru King Khan and Hans Joachim Irmler of Krautrock pioneers Faust, and featured collaborations with avant-garde legends Felix Kubin, Die Tödliche Doris and Julia Kent, among others.
Inside his modest, sparsely-furnished home on the barren, windswept Dungeness coastline, Derek Jarman dreams.
Join us in February to take a journey down the coast this LGBTQIA+ History Month in Derek Jarman's The Garden.