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Glastonbury Festival 2009
The Groovy Movie Picture House Solar Cinema returned to Glastonbury Festival for the tenth time, running all night every night from Wednesday evening till Monday morning
The Groovy Movie Picture House Solar Cinema was of of the main attractions in the Green Futures Field of Glastonbury Festival. We ran a diverse programme which, as well as screenings of independent film. Thursday night began with Brickabrac Theatre's Richard's Love - a live theatrical performance featuring puppetry, masks, quick change, mime and audio visual effects. Richard's Love is currently touring theatres throughout the UK to much critical acclaim
Images from Brickabrak Theatre's performance of Richard's Love in the Solar Cinema at Glastonbury Festival - Click on a thumbnail to enlarge
Acclaimed Singer, songwriter, comedian and festival legend Hattie Hatstar performed her multimedia musical comedy show, developed in collaboration with the Solar Cinema Video Crew. A crazy mix of Hatties catchy funny songs, with big screen visual gags, accordion, ukelele and double bass, plus some ridiculous hola hoop stunts.
Films screenings included the Glastonbury Premiere of Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues at midnight on Saturday Night. A matinee screening of the award winning independent Documentary Three Miles North of Molkom preceeded the films' release at independent cinemas across the country. The Undercurrents team screened alternative news and independent media, Bristols' Bluescreen showed award winning shorts and JunkTV from Brighton presented the Quick Flicks Film Festival.
Live music and comedy continued with performances from Cosmo and Sleepy Ed Hicks
Early Hours entertainment came in the form of the Solar Cinema Video Cabaret - a fast, funny, original, clever, satirical, eyepopping, foottapping, ribtickling combination of live video remixing, mashups, dance routines, anarchic animations, rare musical clips, short comedies and assorted high quality audio/visual nonsense. "if only TV could be like this. The Groovy Movie Picture House is the best place at Glastonbury" said one satisfied customer.
The Solar Cinema Selectors, our live Video Jockeys, at this years Glastonbury were A/VJs Riddles and Monochrome, Syzygy, some Vjamm Allstars and Gav Spav. The venue was maintained by our stunning staff - Captain Love and his long suffering spouse Sally, the Mighty Grimble, Nancy, Camilla, Dell, Grace, Flo, Kev, Frank and many many more
