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MALICE
IN WONDERLAND
Imperial Hotel Llandudno - Friday 29th June 2001
Real
Institute / Rêl Institiwt hosts a night of independent film, music,
visuals and comedy – headlining the Llandudno Fringe Festival.
‘Malice In Wonderland’ taps into and neatly subverts the Lewis
Carroll ‘Alice’ story which has been so successfully requisitioned
by the Llanduno tourist industry.
Concentrating on the frankly weird and surreal aspects to Alice’s
adventures to provide a loose theme for an exciting, high-profile and
up-beat evening.
‘Malice In Wonderland’reflects the global status of Caroll's
texts and the well-established international credentials of the Fringe
Festival while making a significant inclusion of Welsh based music and
film.
At the venue, theatrical installation, atmospheric decoration, blurs the
distinction between audience and performance.
Bringing the whole evening into some kind of disorder is wry compere
and European performance artist Bedwyr Williams. Resident compere
at both Real Institute film nights and other special events including
Monkey Biscuit, Bedwyr will maintain the rather unreal atmosphere with
his unique and oddly endearing humour. The evening includes a separate
comic performance of his own.
Sounds are provided by gentleman DJ and lounge-chameleon DJ
Ryan, spinning halcyon tunes from the days when tunes where tunes
and record sleeves gratuitous appeals to our baser instincts.
Extensive Visuals are supplied by in-house team 'Real Visuals'
and will run throughout the evening as true filmic wallpaper.
Among other works, an installation of twelve super-8 loops will project
idiosyncratic and perhaps iconoclastic entertaining interpretations of
the wonderland legend.
Selected by Real Institute and central to the evening is a programme of
ten film shorts inspired by the ‘Malice in Wonderland’ theme
- a bizarre selection from the surreal to the serene predominantly made
by contemporary directors both well established and emerging.
The shorts are explicitly and extensively international in flavour while
containing a significant proportion of Welsh filmmakers.
Driving the evening’s music are two high profile live bands:
Fresh from their BBC Radio 1 Peel Session, Welsh super-group and ‘Battle
of the Bands 2000’ winners ‘Dau Cefn’ play an exciting
and dynamic score of neu-feelgood-electronica. While from the ashes of
90’s super-stars ‘Gorkey’s Zycotic
Mynci’ emerges the pheonix of John Lawrence’s ‘Infinity
Chimps’ with a stimulating blend of alternative-experimenta.
PRESS RELEASE - 15 May 2001
