CQAF2025 - Film Archives

Doc’n Roll Films presents “We Are Fugazi From Washington, DC”

Posted on 14th February 202528th March 2025 by site_admin

Created to commemorate the 20 plus years that have passed since DC-based post-hardcore band Fugazi’s last live appearance (4th November 2002, at London’s Forum), the incediary WE ARE FUGAZI FROM WASHINGTON D.C. comprises crowd-sourced, fan-recorded live shows and rare archive footage of Fugazi curated by Joe Gross, Joseph Pattisall and Jeff Krulik.

Explicitly billed as a “non-documentary”, the film pays tribute to Fugazi’s prowess as a live act – for old fans to remember and for a new generation to discover what they missed. This unique archival assemblage celebrates the fans and their cameras, as much as the band itself – a collision/collusion of the ephemeral moment on stage, and the moments captured on camera.(Photograph: Shawn Scallen)

“Fan-sourced film captures legendary US punks in all their glory!

Even plucked from the archives, these are the best gigs you’ll see in 2025″ Tara Brady, IT Review

“The film shows that live music can be a weapon for change. It’s hard to imagine a better cinematic way to pay homage to the band. Smart, artful, and alive — a remarkable cinematic representation of a band that could only be Fugazi.” LOUDER THAN WAR

Profits from the event will be donated to a local charity

Black Sunday: 8mm screening

Posted on 21st March 202528th March 2025 by site_admin

Join Ghouls on Film for a spellbinding 8mm screening of Mario Bava’s gothic masterpiece! Witness Barbara Steele’s iconic dual role in this haunting tale of witchcraft and vengeance. A rare chance to see this horror classic in all its grainy, celluloid glory. One night only—don’t miss it.

Projection by Simeon Costello

I Am Martin Parr

Posted on 20th March 202528th March 2025 by site_admin

Presented by QFT, CQAF and Source Magazine. Martin Parr joins us for a Q&A following the screening.

Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times, forcing us to take a hard look at how consumer society has shaped our lives. Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip across England with the uncompromising Parr, whose subjects, frames and colours have revolutionised contemporary photography.

One of the most controversial photographers of his time, Martin Parr’s images often have the power to both amuse and leave us ever so slightly uncomfortable, caught between laughter and the uneasy recognition of ourselves in his uncompromising portrait of consumer society.

Though he’s now celebrated, collected and exhibited worldwide, Parr’s early work did not find an easy public and was highly criticized for trivializing the working class. Yet, in retrospect, perhaps he was just observing what we often overlook – forcing it into the spotlight as an essential topic of discussion. I Am Martin Parr is the definitive portrait of an extraordinary photographer who revolutionized contemporary photography by inventing a political, humanist and accessible photographic language.

Ebony and Ivory

Posted on 14th March 202528th March 2025 by site_admin

A hallucinatory fever dream of a film, Ebony & Ivory reimagines the fabled first meeting between Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder as an absurdist, grotesque, and utterly baffling descent into comedic madness. Think Reeves & Mortimer at their most unhinged, soaked in the sinister weirdness of The League of Gentlemen, all wrapped up in a kaleidoscopic, off-kilter vision from director Jim Hosking (The Greasy Strangler).

Paul (Sky Elobar) welcomes Stevie (Gil Gex) to his remote Mull of Kintyre farmhouse—via rowing boat, naturally—for what might become the greatest plea for racial harmony ever recorded. Between hits of “doobie woobies” and a complete annihilation of Linda McCartney’s vegetarian ready meal range, the two musical legends spiral into increasingly bizarre conversations about sheep, the meaning of true genius, and the terrifying weight of artistic immortality.

What follows is an anarchic, unsettling, and wildly funny two-hander that veers between surrealist farce and nightmarish fever dream. It’s a world where reality fractures, comedy curdles, and the line between genius and gibberish is so blurred you may need your pulse checked by the time the credits roll.

A deranged cult classic in the making—utter nonsense, absolute brilliance.

Ebony and Ivory is absolute nonsense and absolute brilliance, and if you don’t start choke laughing at some stage, get the person next to you to check your pulse – In Session Film

Ebony and Ivory delivers in abundance. It’s an almost theatrical two-hander that gives both actors their time to shine – Starburst

Personality Crisis Screening + Sabrejets remember Johansen/New York Dolls/Johnny Thunders

Posted on 20th March 202528th March 2025 by site_admin

With David Johansen’s recent passing, we felt it fitting to screen this 2023 film by Martin Scorcese, a wonderfully intimate film which is both a testament to a lost New York and to an artist who remained fresh and exciting to the end.

Following the screening, local rock ‘n rollers Sabrejets will be channelling the spirit of David Johansen, the New York Dolls and Johny Thunders in a specially commissioned festival show.

Roll Bus Roll: A Jeffrey Lewis Documentary

Posted on 28th February 202528th March 2025 by site_admin

Roll Bus Roll spotlights the life and art of Jeffrey Lewis, one of the most prominent musicians associated with New York City’s anti-folk scene.

It opens with an exploration of anti-folk, offering a look at a unique movement that challenges traditional folk conventions. We meet Lewis, a self-deprecating genius, on tour across cities and continents, and come to see him via contrasting narratives: his own modest self-assessment, and the views of fans and fellow artists such as Adam Green.

The film reaches its emotional climax as he talks about lost love, revealing the impact of his mental health struggles on the relationship.

Dir. Ilya Popenko, US, 2024, 73 mins

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