This is happening ! Head to Headfirst . . .
The Cramps and the Mutants: The Napa State Tapes
Mon 10 June // 20:00 // £5
Dirs: Joe Target Rees, Mike Plante, Jason Willis. 1978/2023, USA, 72 mins, Cert: 18
On June 13, 1978, the soon-to-be legendary rock band The Cramps went to play Napa State, a psychiatric hospital in the small town of Napa in Northern California. Opening for them was The Mutants, an eclectic septet of art school punks from nearby San Francisco. Also in the van was seminal Bay Area art collective Target Video, there to capture the show using one of the first video cameras available to the public, democratising a medium controlled by mainstream media outlets.
What resulted may be the most unique punk show ever, as the two bands played for the residents at the hospital, a rehabilitation facility that was skimming the danger of being shut down by former California Governor Ronald Reagan.
Here for the first time ever: the long lost tape of The Mutants playing at Napa State and the full tape of The Cramps’ show, both unedited and fully remastered from the original reel-to-reel videotape. In between the shows is We Were There To Be There, a new short documentary about how the Napa State show happened and its lasting effect.
Tickets: https://www.cubecinema.com/programme/event/the-cramps-and-the-mutants-the-napa-state-tapes,13814/
Four Daughters (15) tonight at 8pm
Tonight at 8pm
Fact and fiction mix in FOURDAUGHTERS, the Oscar-nominateddocumentary from the award-winning filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania. Ben
Hania chronicles the true story of OlfaHamrouni, a Tunisian Women andmother to four daughters.
The Two elder daughters, Ghofrane andRahma, have fled to Libya to join theIslamic State, while her two youngerdaughters, Eya and Tayssir, remain. The
director introduces two professionalactors to fill the daughters’ absence,recreate their lives, and tell the familystory of how they got to where they aretoday.
What emerges is a boldly inventivedevice that renews the language ofreality in documentary and gives life tobrave and complicated women.
We have Todd Haynes's MAY DECEMBER screeing tonight at 8pm, tickets are £5 and will be available on the door.
On the magical date of 11/12/13 the community around the Cube raised the money to buy the building!
It's now TEN YEARS on!!
Tonight we screen The Film That Buys the Cinema an experiemental feature with 70 Directors (including the likes of Nicholas Roeg, Easton Cowboys and Hannah Godfrey - see full list here : https://www.cubecinema.com/film )
We will also be showing a new 10 minute short with 10 participants from the Cube's last 10 years, and holding an impromptu discussion to reflect on where we are and where we have been this last decade.
If that was not enough - it is also the launch of the first Cube 7" - sounds of The Cube Vol. 1
Further Information here : https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/the-film-that-buys-the-cinema-extras-and-discussion,12918/
THIS SATURDAY! Radiant repetition and harmonic ekstasis return to the Cube as Ex Easter Island Head unfold their lotus for us. Support from violin voyager Agathe Max, recently seen with Charles Hayward in their new band Abstract Concrete. Sat 16th Sep / 8pm doors / 🎫 Tickets via Headfirst: hdfst.uk/e93224 #bristolgigs #bristolmusic #experimentalmusic
Radiant repetition, percussive guitar formations, and harmonic ekstasis return to the Cube as Ex Easter Island Head unfold their lotus for us once again – a welcome return for one of our favourite experimental units and some of the most formidable rock ‘n’ roll beauty you will ever hear. Support comes from violin voyager and experimental stalwart Agathe Max, recently seen in ensemble Abstract Concrete with Charles Hayward. Saturday 16th September / 8pm doors / £12 advance / Tickets available from headfirstbristol.co.uk
Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie & Steven Byrnes performing at the Cube on Sat 22nd April !!
Tickets available here: hdfst.uk/E85902
The Quantum Horse has been created to lift the spirits, be maverick and entertaining, offering the chance to be transported to magical places by song, dance and wonderful looking and sounding entertainment.
The actors and crew are getting stuck in and doing beautiful things, Ergo Phizmiz is a wonderful, madly original writer and director and Tall's sets, costumes and inventions are a jaw dropping delight + live music, gags and loads of AM-DRAM love.
Come out, get warm and go on an adventure with #TheQuantumHorse at The Cube.
8 shows this February - 2nd / 3rd / 4th & 5th then 9th / 10th / 11th and 12th. Matinees on the Saturday and Sundays.
Tickets on sale: hdfst.uk/the-quantum-horse
#panto #pantomime #theatre #newtheatre #thequantumhorse #bristol#bristolevents #bristoltheatre @the_quantum_horse @cubemicroplex @bristollifemag @bristol_life
If you cannot come, you can buy a ticket for someone else or donate. You kindness will be treasured.
If you can come...look for the Horse. It's behind you!
11 12 13 !! WE BOUGHT THE CUBE !!
It's the 9th anniversary of 11-12-13!!
11-12-13!?
That was t h e day with all y o u r help we secured the funds to buy the Building that is currently T h e C u b e and guarantee it will be used for The Arts, in P E R P ET U I T Y, and that's a might long time . . .
Thank you all so much! Keep cubing!! Keep coming and keeping each other warm and wondering!!!
Xmas round the corner, but the QUANTUM HORSE cubist Pantomime is on the horizon for early 2023 (show in Feb)
get involved and email [email protected] if intriguing, you know you are intriguing . . .
ALL TOGETHER, LOVE LOVE LOVE, CAN'T GET ENOUGH!
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Lynch/Oz trailer
Take a trip over the rainbow with our double bill of The Wizard of Oz and Wild at Heart (only 5 tickets left) tomorrow (December 3rd) before we screen Lynch/Oz on Tuesday 13th December https://cubecinema.com/programme/view/lynchoz/
The Fence - trailer
A council estate kid in '80s Hartcliffe is out to settle the score after his motorbike gets nicked.
The Fence - Film comes to the 'plex on Nov 22nd with a Q&A from filmmakers Will Stone and Adam Pickford.
£5 tickets on sale now.
Mad God trailer
Phil Tippett's MAD GOD excavates the Microplex on Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th October. Tickets £5/£4: https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/mad-god,12588/
A nightmare 30 years in the making! Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Directed by Phil Tippett (STAR WARS, JURASSIC PARK), the world’s pre-eminent stop motion animator, every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques.
"This is undoubtedly a work of historic significance, made by a master in his field." - The Guardian
"This is a work of a genuine visionary, and has all the makings of an instant cult classic." - Sight and Sound
JERUSALEM IN MY HEART + Farida Amadou
Electroacoustic grief rituals + projections
Doors 7.30pm, Tickets via Headfirst
https://hdfst.uk/E72289
#bristolgigs #bristolmusic #bristolperformance
