LISTEN !!
ALL YOU NO BUDGET FILM MAKERS, VIDEO SCRATCHERS AND UNDERGROUND MEDIA SLACKERS
The British media industry is an incestuous slag heap and the only way to the top is by climbing up on the heads of your friends. At the top of the heap the fat cat media executives are hauling in the cash whilst at the bottom the rest of us are kept broke and paranoid and then they have the nerve to steal our ideas and tell us that it's really 'happening' to make films on the dole.
The 'Independent' media administrators drivel on about 'access' and 'cultural democracy' but they've got their industry organised like the New Model Army with their gaffers, grips, script girls and focus pullers.
And wise up creatures ......the media industry learned how to defuse and appropriate underground film in the seventies, now the only radical media project is to build a totally integrated industry of our own......
It's EIGHTEEN years since the Exploding Cinema was founded in a stone cold bunker at the back of a squatted sun tan oil factory in Brixton. At that time it was a gathering of media misfits rejected by the `Independent' film/video establishment who decided that rather than griping about the fucked up state of the industry they would stage their own screenings in cafes, pubs and disused buildings and would set about fusing together the isolated and disenchanted fragments of the underground media. The Low/No Budget film is the source of so much talent and creativity, but they need a place to be shown. Not a sterile, unfriendly "arthouse" but a relaxed, open environment where the audience can watch, chat, discuss the film and meet film/video makers.
