Jan 6, 2012 | Comments Off | ByEmily Seed
WOW @ South Bank Centre, March 2012
Happy New Year to the BEV family and supporters! We hope this finds you well-fed, well-rested and well-entertained over the hols, and with a spring in your step for 2012.
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Mar 15, 2011 | 4 Comments | ByLouise Forbes
Imogen Heap DVD
We’ve been blown away by the response to our Sound and Silents extravaganza on Friday night at Southbank Centre – and if you were there we’d love to know what you think too! We have a copy of Imogen’s new DVD Everything In-Between – The Story of Ellipse to be won for the best review: all you have to do is tell us what you thought about the Sound & Silents performance in the Comments box below (or post a link to a piece on your blog) by Friday 25th March. We’ll then put the names of the commentators in a hat, and one will win a copy of the DVD!
Everything In-Between – The Story of Ellipse goes behind the scenes and explores Imogen’s three year journey to make Grammy Award winning album, Ellipse, including her writing and recording process and the building of her recording studio. Find out how she creates the unique sounds of her album from dismantaling pianos to evening birds in the woods (and including a clip of her performance from Birds Eye View Film Festival 2008).
Mar 10, 2011 | No Comments | ByWill
Fashion Loves Film
Packed crowds greeted us for the second day of the 2011 Birds Eye View film festival, from fashionistas dressed to the nines for the spectacular Fashion Loves Film to toe-tapping jazz fiends at our first Sound & Silents gig with pianist Lola Perrin. Also on hand throughout a packed second night were Bridget Jones and Harry Potter actress Shirley Henderson, photographer and BEV Festival Party headliner Wendy Bevan, and Vogue Art Director Jaime Perlman – plus we star-spotted Dominic Cooper of Phyllida Lloyd’s Mamma Mia in the BFI bar!
Mar 4, 2011 | No Comments | ByLouise Forbes
Imogen Heap
This time next week Birds Eye View embarks on our most exciting venture yet: brand new scores to seminal silent films composed and performed by four pioneering contemporary musicians - Imogen Heap with the Holst Singers, Micachu, Tara Busch and Seaming – for a groundbreaking Sound & Silents extravaganza at Southbank Centre. BEV caught up with the musicians for a sneak preview of what’s in store…
Feb 25, 2011 | 1 Comment | ByBen
Kelly Reichardt's 'Meek's Cutoff'
Thinking about the films in this year’s programme, some outstanding images keep flickering through my mind: The naked woman wearing a Kafia in a cool NY hangar, welcoming her Iraqi relatives who have just fled the troubled region (The Imperialists Are Still Alive!); Hidelgaard von Bingen consumed by her visions, leading her fellow nuns into the second Millennia with ideas and determination that could easily be dubbed radical feminism, only they took place nearly 1,000 years before the term was coined (Vision); mothers standing next to their sons as they read their last statements before leaving on suicide missions (Women of Hamas); a boy running through Kibera slum in Nairobi in an attempt to save his father from evil spirits (Soul Boy); three pilgrims isolated and lost on the Portland-Oregon trail (Meek’s Cutoff); and oh, the one I really struggle to get out of my head – Daddy’s Girl engaged in a culinary extravaganza where Daddy is the main course (Horror Shorts)… Read the full story
Jan 25, 2011 | No Comments | ByWill
Rosamund Pike at the BEV2011 launch
From 8–17 March 2011, Birds Eye View returns with our seventh annual celebration of women filmmakers. The Festival programme – announced by actress Rosamund Pike in London last night – is an electric and eclectic showcase of the most inspiring, enchanting and challenging work by women across the world. Opening on the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Birds Eye View 2011 takes place at BFI Southbank, Southbank Centre, the ICA and other venues across London.
