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Resfest: Rock the Bells plus Blacktronica After Party (18)
Dir: Casey Suchan/Denis Henry Hennelly
113 mins, 2006, USA
Please note: this is an old screening, first shown in Oct 2006
For his Rock the Bells music festival, Chang Weisberg wants to reunite the Wu-Tang Clan - the Staten Island hip-hop mavericks whose 36 Chambers album redefined the genre. It's not an impossible dream, but it's by no means simple, either. For one thing, there's so damn many of them; for another, he's running out of time. And finally, there's the issue of Ol' Dirty Bastard, the group's (damaged) heart and soul, who's in no fit state to perform (he died just four months later)... Detailing the preparation for the performance, this rapid-fire, multi-strand documentary delivers all the chaos, insanity and excitement of the gig: busted equipment, overwhelmed security, an overcrowded venue, a crowd about to riot... With performances by Redman, Dilated Peoples and, of course, finally, unforgettably, the Wu themselves, it's a trip. www.rockthebellsmovie.com
Blacktronica After Party
To celebrate the Bristol premiere of the documentary Rock the Bells. RESFEST are delighted to be teaming up with this acclaimed London club night for a fifth Blacktronica's birthday tour. DJ Charlie Dark and friends will storm the bar for a night of music without borders, from Carl Craig to Coltrane and everything in between. A free bottle of Guinness® Foreign Extra Stout is available to all ticket holders, courtesy of Guinness.
Fee: Screening Only: £6.00 full / £4.00 cocessions Party Only: £4.00 advance / £5.00 on the door Buy a combo ticket for: Rock the Bells + Shorts Three (for Thu 26 Oct screening, subject to availability) + Blacktronica Party: £9.00 full / £7.00 concessions.
Please note: The advertised times are the actual starting times of each programme for all RESFEST screenings.
Resfest
Please note: this is a old season with no further events to see
Watershed welcomes back RESFEST, the global, travelling festival of innovative film, music, art, design, fashion, culture and technology.
Past screenings and events that were part of this season
| Radiohead, the Visionaries: A Decade of Breaking New Talent | Wed 25 & Fri 27 Oct |
| A Decade of RESFEST: Ten Seminal Short Films | Thu 26 - Fri 27 Oct |
| Rock the Bells plus Blacktronica After Party | Thu 26 Oct 20:30 |
| Blacktronica After Party | Thu 26 Oct 22:00 |
| Shorts Three: Fear and Trembling | Thu 26 & Sun 29 Oct |
| Videos that Rock | Fri 27 - Sat 28 Oct |
| The Host | Fri 27 Oct 18:45 |
| Unsung Heroes: Gems from the Archive | Thu 26 - Fri 27 Oct |
| loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies | Fri 27 - Sat 28 Oct |
| Cinema Electronica | Sat 28 - Sun 29 Oct |
| Coldcut: Sound Mirrors Videos & Remixes. DVD Preview | Sat 28 Oct 18:50 |
| Shorts One: State of the Art | Sat 28 - Sun 29 Oct |
| Random Function | Sat 28 Oct 20:50 |
| Black Gold Screening + Panel | Sun 29 Oct 14:50 |
| Everything Under The Sun: Filmmaking with A Purpose | Sun 29 Oct 19:00 |
Filmic
A festival of film and music
We're mad about music and film. So much so we've created a new festival dedicated to this most enduring of relationships, and this month there's a focus on the music of the maestro Ennio Morricone.

