2009
2009
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY at Garden of Rest, Floriana, Malta
Kinemastik and Stagedive Malta have invited ‘Bonnie Prince Billy’ to perform in Malta at Garden of Rest, an old British Cemetery. It was a great pleasure to host these people and probably one of the most remarkable concerts ever and ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDvEDfc3R4Y
5th Kinemastik International Short Film Festival
The Kinemastik International Short Film Festival entered its fifth edition this year.
This year the festival was held over two nights and offered three distinct programmes projected concurrently on different screens.
Runar Runarsson’s film 2 birds won the Audience Award at 5th Kinemastik Short Film Fest in Malta. Kinemastik waves congrats to Mr Runarsson from the rock!
Jess Wolfsberg, a second year student at the Danish Film School, coordinated a three-day Sound in Film workshop, which was held at St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta.
EXPLODING CINEMA IN MALTA
Exploding Cinema had a show in Malta Saturday 30th May for a one night only show organised by Kinemastik.
Founded 16 years ago in the disused ‘Cooltan’ suntan oil factory in Brixton by a collective of media
outsiders seeking to stage their own screenings of isolated and disenfranchised media, Exploding Cinema
has since screened more than fifteen hundred unfunded films.
Attending an Exploding Cinema event is an unspoken rite of passage to underground cinema. Following in
their tracks, since the early nineties a No Wave of cinema groups has emerged, including, Omsk and Kinokulture the group Films That Make You Go Hmmmm, The Halloween Society and many others.
The EXPLODING is also a key organiser of the VOLCANO!!! Underground Film Festival (1996-2000) an annual event in which most of the London Underground film groups come together for two weeks to stage a London wide multi venue celebration of low/no budget underground film and video.
Exploding Cinema have collaborated with various other international underground film festivals and toured
with other film groups such as Kino Trotter from Belgium and Filmgruppe Chaos from Germany, who also
came to Malta through Kinemastik in 2007.
Exploding Cinema is voluntary and democratic; anyone can contribute and anyone can join. The group is
non-profit making, all work is voluntary, no wages are paid and all the money made is used to run
screenings and to buy collectively owned equipment.
Bark Bark Disco will had their debut concert right after the screening followed by DJ Bob and DJ Vinc on decks.
Kinemastik’s Wandering Cinema
On 1st March Kinemastik announced an open call for short film submissions for The Wandering Cinema- 3 months of mobile cinema screenings across Malta and Gozo. Kinemastik invited the public to send their short film in any format: film, mobile phone, web cam, animation. There are 3 themes on which the films were based: Migration, Felicity or Monsters.
