SEE FOG ALL
Friday 21st May 2004 Memorial Hall, Betws-y-Coed

Comedy quiz show and film finalé

As the finalé to an enormously successful season of Alternative Film Nights Real Institute presents its very own unique comedy quiz “See Fog All”.

See Fog All is a comedy quiz about all things weather related in which two teams compete live on stage for unique weather related prizes and the prestigious title of quiz winners.

Rounds include:
“Rock around the fog” – A musical round where contestants identify songs with weather related titles which is heavily disguised by the sound of wind and rain.
“Reservoir Fog” – a film round where contestants are given clues to films with weather related titles
“Spot the fog” – An audience round where the audience try to guess the location of fog on a specific date

See Fog All is hosted by Real Institute’s very own comperes the wry European performance artist Bedwyr Williams, Old Colwyn’s answer to Ned Sherrin, and filmmaker extraordinaire Ryan Jones, Caernarfon’s answer to a question.

The quiz will be followed by film, “So Is This”, by director Michael Snow.


‘So Is This’ by Michael Snow

....an experimental film, odd, delightful, full of humour and sentience.

"...extraordinary as Michael Snow's new film is, it's best described briefly-the better to keep its surprises intact... Snow manages to de-familiarize both film and language, creating a kind of moving concrete poetry while throwing a monkey wrench into a theoretical debate (is film a language?), that has been going on for 60 years... he creates a visual dynamo that loses nothing in motion for its absence of pictures."
J. Hoberman, Village Voice

‘… a filmmaker of subtle genius.’
Michael Ethan Brodzky, Arts Canada

Michael Snow’s brief biography
Born in 1929 in Toronto, Michael Snow’s is a filmmaker, musician, visual artist, composer, writer and sculptor. As Canada’s best-known living artist, Snow is also one of the world’s two most highly acclaimed experimental filmmakers (the other being Stan Brakhage,US). Although Michael Snow practiced as a visual artist in Toronto in the 1950s, Canadian art critics as a whole only began to champion his work after he moved to New York City with his wife, Joyce Wieland, in 1962. In the 1960s, he developed a reputation for being an important innovator in the fields of Pop and Minimalist art, with his “Walking Women” series, and with his film work.

Press contact and tickets : Tracey Page 01492 573 518


Real Institute will be back in Betws-y-Coed in the Autumn with more Alternative Film Nights.


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