BRISTOL RADICAL HISTORY WEEK 2007 - LAUNCH EVENT
(sat 27th / 7.30pm / 3/4 of your English Pounds)

An introduction to Bristol Radical History Week 2007, a series of lectures, films, gigs and events, which this year concentrates on the themes of Witches, Pirates and Smugglers. Who were these outcasts? Why are we so fascinated by them? And do their villainous representations carry clues as to their real nature.
Merry Hell: From Jolly Roger To Old Roger

A singular conflagration of live music and moving pictures to launch Bristol Radical History Week into fair winds. The Cube Orchestra will accompany exceptional films with improvised scores.

Pirates created an upside down world of anarchist organisation and festival, with violence and death ever present. Through the satanic imagery of their flags, skulls, skeletons, grim reapers and hourglasses, they expressed their defiance of death itself. Pirates shunned Christian myths of paradise and proposed a different destination calling their flag the Old Roger, a popular name for the devil, as well as the Jolly Roger. This merry devil united sex and death in a similar manner to the supposed debauched practices of the witches? covens.

Polly II: A Plan For Revolution. Writer/Director: Anja Kirschner, UK, 2006, 30 Mins.
As a result of global warming London's flooded Docklands have becomes a haven pirates. The film imagines a future insurrection coloured by the legacy of dispossessed peasants, political radicals, whores, sailors, pirates, and former slaves whom once inhabited East London and fought a daily battle
against their subjection to poverty, displacement and judicial terror.
Exerts from Hexan: Witch Craft Through the Ages (1922) and swash buckling pirate films with an improvised score played live by The Cube Orchestra.

Race With The Devil. Director: Jack Starrett, 1975, USA, 88 Mins, Staring Peter Fonda and warren Oats.

This terrifying and nihilistic '70s film follows the desperate attempts of a "cookies and milk" allAmerican family to escape a relentless cult after accidentally stumbling into a satanic ceremony. Accompanied by the Cube Orchestra.
So will you join compare Randall Brantly for a good rogering and a dance with the devil? Or will you turn and run like hell.