The film programme presents various examinations of club culture in Europe. »The Sound Of Belgium« by Jozef Devillé ^BE explores the history of dance music in 'the battleground of Europe', and Piers Sanderson’s »High on Hope« ^UK tells the story of acid house’s arrival in Thatcher’s recession-hit, 1980’s Britain. Notably, the programme will premiere »Nine Futures: Sounds Fragmenting« by Nathan Budzinski & Theo Cook ^CA/UK, an ECAS-commissioned documentary film that charts the European project’s 9 festivals in their collaborative efforts to support ever-emerging sounds on the continent.

»The Sound of Belgium« by Jozef Devillé ^BE
Screening followed by RAVE-Mixtapes session
MONDAY 27.4.2015 // begin 21:15 // 6€

»Nine Futures: Sounds Fragmenting«
world premiere with a Q&A with the directors
TUESDAY 28.4.2015 + WEDNESDAY 29.04.2015
begin 21:15 // 6€

»High on Hope« by Piers Sanderson
UK 2010, 72min, Original Version
Q&A with the festival organiser Thomas Smith ^UK
THURSDAY 30.4.2015 // begin 21:15 // 6€

Music Documentary by Nathan Budzinski & Theo Cook
UK 2015, ~60 min, world premiere with a Q&A between directors Nathan Budzinski & Theo Cook ^CA/UK & Nadine Bors. TUE 28.4. + WED 29.4. 2015
Tuesday Screening followed by RAVE-Mixtapes session

The final ECAS documentary film »Nine Futures: Sounds Fragmenting« will have its international premiere screening in Dresden. Its directors, Nathan Budzinski and Theo Cook, were guests at all nine of the ECAS partner festivals and collected audiovisual impressions from the festivals’ home cities, and their various protagonists and artists’ projects.

Thalia Cinema // MON to THU 21:15
Dresden-Neustadt
Görlitzer Strasse 6
Tram 13
Stop Görlitzer Strasse / Nordbad

www.thalia-dresden.de

Music Documentary by Jozef Devillé ^BE
BE 2012, 85 min
MON 27.4.2015 // Thalia Cinema // 21:15 // 6€

»The Sound of Belgium« explores the multifaceted yet untold story of Belgian dance music. From dancehall with its Decap organs to Popcorn’s golden age; from EBM and new beat to Belgian house and techno. A chronicle of singular pop music, “The Sound of Belgium” is devoted to searching for the spirit of a nation and for the people who danced to that spirit.

http://watch.tsob.be/

Music Documentary by Piers Sanderson
UK 2010, 72min, Original version
THU 30.4.2015 // Thalia Cinema // 21:15 // 6€
Plus Q&A with the festival organiser Thomas Smith ^UK
in conversation wtih Nadine Bors ^DE

»High on Hope« uses original footage from warehouse parties and and alternates it with interviews, news archives, and animation to portray what took place when Chicago’s acid house music scene arrived in Northern England at the time of the recession under Margaret Thatcher in 1980.

www.highonhope.com | www.pierssanderson.com