Sensoria is delighted to announce the bulk of its 2014 line-up. With additional announcements to be made on September 1st 2014…
ESBEN & THE WITCH: LIVE SCORE OF LA ANTENA (PG)
Saturday 27 September 7.30pm
Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street S1 2LG
Esben and the Witch provide a live accompaniment to a surreal sci-fi tale about a city reduced to silence after an evil media tycoon has stolen the residents’ voices.
KAFKA CHIC: FESTIVAL RADIO BROADCAST
Sunday 28 September 3.30pm
Resonance 104.4FM and Sheffield Live 93.2FM
Radios will be available at various cafes including Steam Yard Café and Café No. 9. FREE
A special radio broadcast of a newly commissioned radio docu-drama, written and produced by Michael Somerset Ward and Dean Honer, contrasting the music industry and scene of the 80’s with now – featuring Graham Fellows as narrator and a stellar cast of Sheffield musicians.
STOP MAKING SENSE (PG)
Sunday 28 September 7.30pm
Furnace Park, Doncaster Street S3 7BD
30th Anniversary outdoor screening. Jonathan Demme captures the groundbreaking Talking Heads at their peak. Shot over 3 live shows at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, this concert film has enjoyed universal critical acclaim.
UK PREMIERE: ALIVE INSIDE (18)
Tuesday 30 September 6.30pm
Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row S1 2BX
Winner of Sundance Festival’s Audience Award, this uplifting documentary explores music’s capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity. With an introduction from Professor Annalena Venneri, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at The University of Sheffield.
METALHEAD (18)
Tuesday 30 September 8.15pm
Heeley Institute, 147 Gleadless Road S2 3AF
Hera is a young girl growing up in a remote rural area of Iceland. She witnesses her beloved brother Baldur – a long haired heavy metal fan – killed in a horrific accident. Emotionally trapped and unable to move on, she takes on Baldur’s wardrobe, and takes up the guitar, channelling her anger into unrepentant rebellion, masking the fact that she is lost and sinking fast.
ROVING WOMEN: NAT JOHNSON PLAYS CONNIE CONVERSE (WORLD PREMIERE)
Wednesday 1 October 7.30pm
Cutlers’ Hall, Church Street S1 1HG
40 years after her disappearance, we invite you to an evening of music and film, celebrating Connie Converse and the kitchen recordings she made in 1950s New York. Sheffield songwriter Nat Johnson will be performing several of Connie’s songs, both with her band and the Stannington Brass Band.
Includes: ʻWe Lived Aloneʼ short film screening + Q&A
EDWARDIAN SHEFFIELD
Thursday 2 October 7.30pm
Weston Park Museum, Western Bank S10 2TP
National Fairground Archive 20th Anniversary celebrations Wireless headphone screening. Large-scale projections of local interest archive films onto Weston Park Museum – featuring music by In The Nursery plus the premiere of newly commissioned scores by composers Phil France and Liam Ward. Commentary by Prof. Vanessa Toulmin, Director of the National Fairground Archive and Head of Cultural Engagement at The University of Sheffield.
A LIFE IN THE DEATH OF JOE MEEK (18)
Thursday 2 October 8.30pm
Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row S1 2BX
This feature documentary chronicles the rise, fall and resurrection of maverick pop producer Joe Meek. Contributors to the film include Jimmy Page, Edwyn Collins, B-52s, Franz Ferdinand and Super Furry Animals.
SENSORIAPRO INDUSTRY DAY
Friday 3 October 10am – 4.30pm
Electric Works S1 2 BJ
An informal gathering of music, film, games professionals and students all under one roof to discuss the latest developments in music and the moving image. Sessions include Sound Design in Games, Publishing in Audio Visual Media and the Sensoria Scoring Contest.
JOLLY LAD: A MENK ANTHOLOGY
Friday 3 October 6.30pm
Golden Harvest, Cambridge Street S1 4HP
Talk and reading by music critic and mauvais vivant John Doran.
In association with Off The Shelf
THREADS (15)
Friday 3 October 7.30pm
Sheffield Amphitheatre, South Street Park S1 2BP
Tickets £6 from Showroom Cinema
Outdoor headphone screening of 1984 docu-drama being shown against a backdrop of the city’s skyline. The film, showing the effects of a nuclear attack on Sheffield, sent shockwaves throughout the country at the time of release and is still starkly relevant today.
JOHNNY WINTER: DOWN AND DIRTY (UK PREMIERE)
Saturday 4 October 6pm
Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row S1 2BX
“LEMMY” co-director/producer Greg Olliver provides an intimate portrait of the late, great Winter whilst on tour over the course of two years.
CARTER TUTTI PLAYS CHRIS & COSEY
+ WRANGLER
Saturday 4 October 9pm
Picture House Ballroom, Abbeydale Road S7 1FS
Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti have long been pioneers of electronic and experimental music, fundamentally giving birth to the genre of ‘Industrial Music’ via the unique vision and sound of Throbbing Gristle in the 1970s.
‘Carter Tutti plays Chris and Cosey’ is a reworking and re-imagining of their 1980s Chris and Cosey material.
SCENTED CINEMA: ALICE IN WONDERLAND (PG)
Sunday 5 October 5pm
Trafalgar House, Trafalgar Street, S1 4JT
Tickets £6 full price / £4 concessions (including under age 16)
Sensoria heightens your senses, bringing an added dimension to the animated Disney adaptation of this classic story – one with added fragrance supplied by Gorilla Perfume.
IN ABSENCE OF THE SMOKY GOD
27 September – 8 November 2014
Tuesdays to Saturdays 11.00 – 5.30
Site Gallery, 1 Brown Street S1 2BS FREE
A major new commission by artist Matt Stokes. A two-screen video and audio installation, the work is inspired by hidden Sheffield locations, sci-fi literature and Barry Hines’ 1984 BBC TV production Threads. Collaborating with composer Ben Gaunt and a cast of 10 Sheffield-based vocalists, Stokes creates a futuristic world in which the human voice and other functions have been affected by radiation sickness and environmental diseases. Co-commission with Site Gallery.
Plus the Sensoria Drive In, back by popular demand. Tickets on sale 1st September
Best wishes from all at Sensoria XX
