SpeechMotion Season One

SpeechMotion runs every last Tuesday of the month–starting on Tuesday 28th July 2009 until June 2010 (2009: July 28th, August 25th, September 29th, October 27th, November 24th; 2010: January 26th, February 23rd, March 30th, April 27th, May 25th, June 29th)
Cost: £4/3
Time: 7pm (open mic/screen performers/filmmakers get in FREE).
Location:  The Horse and Groom
Address: 26 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3NZ
Phone: 0871 984 1312

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October 27, 2009 lineup:

The main acts for the October 27th 2009 are resident and published poet, Super Pennie, a hero with ability to wake the absent from their nothingness.

SpeechMotion’s guest poet, Jennifer Warren, is the extremely funny and slightly odd Canadian, who will have you laughing in seconds.

Guest filmmakers are Marianna and Daniel, who will be screening their new film, Longbridge.

Feature performer is comedy poet, Neal Zetter, who has been performing since 1989 at over 100s gigs in the West End comedy and poetry scene (clubs, arts centres, theatres, Soho Theatre, pubs, schools, youth centres, libraries, Royal Festival Hall Euro 96 Poetry Fest) as well as private parties, youth offending teams, NHS (mental health, drug and alcohol rehab groups) and a funeral.  Neal also runs a poetry writing and performance workshops.

Featured filmmaker is the Italian film director, Andrea Lodovichetti, winner of the Best Short Film Golden Globe and the Looking for Genius Award (Babelgum Online Film Festival). SpeechMotion is honoured to screen, The Devil, a short about an old peasant woman is at death’s door. Her son refuses to give her assistance and decides to put her in the care of Donna Cesira, for a fixed payment. Donna Cesira believes she’s struck a fine deal, but the days pass and the old woman won’t die…

September 29, 2009 lineup:

The main acts for the 29th September 2009 are resident & published poet Super Pennie. SpeechMotion’s guest poet is Catherine Brogan, the winner of the Belfast Poetry Cup.

SpeechMotion’s feature performer is Canadian comedian Jennifer Warren, described by Time Out as being “extremely funny and slightly odd…and will have you laughing in seconds.”

Guest film is a short entitled Firebird, written by Calvin Archbold and John Russell. The story focuses on Floyd Tyler, who has recently lost the love of his life and is now haunted by her ghost. Floyd believes the only way to move on is to undergo an experimental treatment which eradicates memories, however the outcome of the procedure reveals surprising consequences.

Andrea Lodovichetti (featured filmmaker) is the winner of the Best Short Film Golden Globe and the winner of the Looking for Genius Award (Babelgum Online Film Festival). SpeechMotion is honoured to screen Sotto il mio giardino aka Under My Garden which has already won several prizes all around the world. The story is about Marco, a 10-year old boy who has a passion for insects, which lead him to discover a murder in his own back garden. He decides to carry out some investigations before involving the police.

Also in the lineup, we have poets Christopher Bateson, Janette McGinty, and Zoe Gilbert.

August 25, 2009 lineup:

Super Pennie (our resident and published poet): for more information and full performance list, please visit Super Pennie’s MySpace page.  You may also visit Super Pennie onYouTube.

Timea Halasz (Xperi Mental Psychedelic Juggling Visual Theatre)  The show is a “mixture between dance, Tai chi chuan, and juggling with Poi and small sticks.”

George Hollywood-Smith (filmmaker) “I’m a graduate student from Southampton Solent University. Since 2006, I have been running my own production company–RAGO Productions–making different documentaries, films, and music videos.”  Two of Hollywood-Smith films will be shown at SpeechMotion: Retribution – RET. RI. BU. TION and Immigration.  Retribution – RET. RI. BU. TION (written/directed/produced by George Hollywood-Smith, John Saunders, William McCready, and Lewis Henderson/2 minutes, 22 seconds). “This short film was created as a university project and part of RAGO Productions. It was filmed in Southampton. We wanted the audience to get a real feel of the pain and sorrow you would go through if a loved one had been hurt.”  Immigration (written/directed/produced by George Hollywood-Smith and Sway/41 seconds). “This is a skit taken from Sway’s album this is my demo. It has had over 95,000 views on YouTube and has become a bit of an Internet cult classic.”

Sullivan Coredo (featured filmmaker) The Wizard/Le Magician. In the words of the filmmaker, “The Wizzard is a nightmare who tell about the nightmare, full of meanings but unreadable.”  Sullivan Coredo “was growing up in some almost undiscovered mountains in the south of France. He always wanted to make films but wasn’t able to find any idea at all. As he was a brutal and heartless man, he decided to enslave three of his oldest friend (a bear, a troll and the ghost of his grandmother) in a cave and forced them to write script for him. From that time he directed seven shorts films and hopefully, it’s going to go on.” 

SpeechMotions feature poet is Northerner, The Ruby Kid, who is a lyrical wordsmith with an impressive performance history for someone so young. The Ruby Kid has performed in front of over 500 people at Sheffield’s The Plug (in support of grime megastars Wiley and Skepta) to intimate spoken-word sets at The Library House squat in Brixton. He has shared bills with Al Baker, Babar Luck, Master Shortie, Kid Acne, and Rodney P–to name a few–and will be performing tracks from his latest EP, Winter in The City.

July 28, 2009 lineup:

Camila Fiori is our featured poet for the month for July. “An actress with a mixed arts background, I’m developing creative projects using my writing.  After winning a LifeFm/Young Creatives writing competition and radio reading last year, I gradually started performing my poetry and playing with different ways of sharing it–through interactive performances and installations based on the poems.  From the London Poetry Festival to the Whitechapel Gallery, Southwark Playhouse to underground bars…it’s an exploration…” Some online links: Camila’s MySpace page (click on “photos” to see images of some recent projects), Red Velvet Curtain Club (click on “people” and “artists E-H”), Camila’s Spotlight page, Camila’s Casting Call Pro page

Super Pennie is our guest poet this month.  For more information and full performance list, please visit Super Pennie’s MySpace page.  You may also visit Super Pennie onYouTube.

Feature filmmakers include Emily Stein (a documentary photographer and film-maker who runs photography workshops for teenagers) and Charlotte Rodrigues (an assistant producer for broadcast TV documentaries). They will be screening The Original Woodstockers, a short documentary about the original Woodstock veterans who refuse to give up their hippie lifestyle. Check out The Original Woodstockers via this link.

C.B.Legge (filmmaker) The Robbery (6 minutes, 11 seconds) “This work explores how stories we create around other people’s lives become reflections of ourselves; the more we strain to understand others the more something of ourselves is revealed.”

Production Team

Festival Producer: Lennie Varvarides
Film Programmer: Chryssanthi Kouri
PR: Pennie Varvarides
General Assistant: Ersilia Cilenti
Website/Graphics Designer & Website Manager: Amy Schulz