JUNK TV Friday 27th April 2001. At Cinematheque, Brighton Media Centre, Middle Street, 8pm. 1 hour 30 min £2.50. Junk TV celebrates the making of its 100th film with a series of screenings of new absurd comedies, pop promos, anti-ads and dark Digital moments. Featuring new Channel 4/Coldcut commission and freaky message film 'Ansaphone', 'Mootrix' - a supershort 3D animated cow version of the Matrix, 'Tutu' - suicide ballet transvestitism, 'Hello Pudding' - a comedy about a cannibalistic 4 year old who listens to fish. 'Quiet Mary Fish Momma' - a quiet film about Mary, suicide, mermaids and abandoned children starring Aaron Schwartz (fresh from working with Nic Roeg, Portishead and Meatloaf). The evening will end with a UK premiere of US Sleaze Steele's latest smear of video trash poetry 'True Reality': concerning an alcoholic doctor's attempt to hacksaw a hellish thanksgiving turkey from the forearm of an emergency room patient.

Expect to see mad men hunting wild cakes in the Black Forest, Mongolian Council Estate Poetry, shockingly fake beggars, the legendary Marty as a revolutionary pensioner, lonely boy knicker sniffing, and the latest in Flash animation, DV music promos and visual mixing.

Junk TV & the Radio Sqat Sound System will also be hosting the main bar at the Concorde II, Madeira Drive on Saturday 12th May as part of the monthly Experiments Night, and holding a FREE party and film show at the Sanctuary Café, Brunswick Street East on Wednesday 23rd May from 8.30pm.

FILM: Junk TV have been busy finishing off new films. 'Quiet Mary Fish Momma' shown in demo form at the Old School Xmas Shindig (see below) has now been trimmed to a glossy 18 minutes. The first part of the 'Internals' trilogy entitled, rather concisely, 'In Every Big Man a Little Boy in awe of his Mother' (see picture left) has now been finished and features a rather unsettling 2 minute scene of a man sniffing his wife's knickers. The subsequent two films concern a woman who decides to live out the rest of her life in her closet, and a group of men who, quiet literally, believe that they have become trapped inside a woman.
It's all strange, it's all funny.
The first part will be premiering at the forthcoming Junk TV shows: April/May at the Cinematheque, Brighton, May at the Red Rooms, Baltimore, and Saturday 12th May at the Concorde where Junk TV will be showing news films and visuals in the front bar as part of the monthly 'Experiments' night.

Junk TV have begun shooting 'Last Conversation', a DV Music Promo for Flux (Tim Saul ex-Earthling) which concerns an odd character called Clive Blank finding out the hard way that he doesn't exist. Warning: this film will feature gratuitous and extended scenes of TVs, VCRS and CD players being pummeled into micro-pieces. The piece should be finished in late spring.

On the other side of the murky pond, our US/East Coast Rep, Steve 'Sleeze' Steele is applying final touches to his Gothic Slapstick trailer park masterpiece, 'Eel Leonard and The Haunted Icebox'. The story goes something like this: While Eel Leonard is sitting on a mattress in the back lot behind the plumbing supplies store, waiting for drunk old Madge LeBouef to show up for their weekly Friday afternoon tryst, The Damballa Kid is relating the story of how his Uncle Paul, the dogthief, convinced his friend Norm J. Flutey to let him use his empty icebox for dead dog storage because Paul was so fast at contract dogstealing that he needed somewhere to keep the overflow of chiens. After a few weeks of this the icebox became haunted and had a radical personality change that drove Norm J Flutey quite mad ... mad enough to go on a blood frenzy with a machete. After this [and after snorting copious lines of Tinactin], the dogthief and his accomplice would never be the same again.

Got that straight?

Junk TV are taking names for the next round of Thursday Evening Workshops for young people to be held at Old School Studios, 28 Gloucester Street, Brighton, BN1 4EW. Tel. 01273 600811. The evening runs from 5.30pm-8.30pm, costs £10 each week and enables attendees to indulge their filming, editing, acting, animation and musical whims, with the aim of producing a final film at the end. The workshops will start in February 2001 following refurbishment of the studios.

Hove Museum and Art Gallery are now taking bookings for the Make-A-Movie-in-a-day worshop for 8-16 year olds. The workshop will be held on Tuesday 10th April at the Museum. The times run from 10.30 - 3.30pm. Cost is £10.