CQAF2026 - Sound Archives

Max Cooper – 3D/AV Live

Posted on 13th March 202616th April 2026 by site_admin

3D/AV Live is Max Cooper‘s immersive audio-visual performance system.

Customised to every venue, with every show a unique experience, Max works together with architecture and space to deliver his unique blend of scientific and human stories that move off the screen to wrap the audience in sculptures of light and sound.

The tour will showcase Max’s latest album Feeling Is Structure plus material spanning Cooper’s celebrated catalogue, alongside new compositions that continue his exploration of the human experience through music.

Drawing on an extensive portfolio of conceptual album projects, the experience is catered to seated or standing events, classical or techno, given his rich catalogue of genre spanning musical and visual content. 3D/AV tells the story of the foundations of our world, and our place in it, as a living feeling experience.

Max Cooper is an electronic composer, multi-disciplinary artist, music label founder and former scientist who has carved out a unique space in music and visual art.

He holds a PhD in computational biology at the same time as being the first contemporary electronic musician to perform at the ancient Acropolis theatre in Athens and one of the first clutch of musicians to produce in Dolby Atmos.

Cooper has enquired for over 15 years through music, collaborations, and his label Mesh, to explore the intersections between the arts and sciences with installations, performances, immersive experiences, online media, music videos and live events. Anchored throughout is his emotive approach, connecting how ideas and forms feel, in a manner accessible to us all.

Support by Ryan Vail.

Jaw-dropping, and – the word is overused, but here it’s 100% valid – immersive:Sonar

Striking performances that are nothing short of pure spectacle –RA

Le Jackson Pollock de la musique – La Libre

Beautiful electronic music inspired by the natural world – Vogue

Astonishing… 90 exhilarating, life-affirming minutes – Electronic Sound

Epic to see live, totally immersive- Nemone, BBC6Music

Go see him live, it’s just an absolute wild experience – Thomas Ravenscroft, BBC Radio 6 Music

It’s a mighty explosion of colour and sound, like the universe is fragmenting before our very eyes – the sheer mind-bending array of imagery is astonishing… – Electronic Sound

Battlefield Earth

Posted on 25th March 20263rd April 2026 by site_admin

Join us for an evening of literally unbelievable science fiction with John Travolta’s BATTLEFIELD EARTH.

Film critic Roger Ebert said: “Sci-fi epics usually begin with a stab at impressive titles, but this one just displays green letters on the screen in a type font that came with my Macintosh. Then the movie’s subtitle unscrolls from left to right in the kind of “effect” you see in home movies.” and it just gets better from there…

Based on the novel by yer fella L. Ron Hubbard and brought to the screen with operatic conviction by big JT, the film imagines the year 3000 as a place where humans have misplaced both their sovereignty and their posture. The Psychlos loom. The camera tilts. Everyone has disgusting finger nails.

This special event embraces the film’s extravagant angles and thunderous declarations as artifacts of failed ambition – not so much space opera as planetary busking.

Hosting the evening is Joe Nawaz (Operating Thetan Level 8*), who will provide running analysis and L Ron-sanctioned live commentary, guiding us through its spectacle, excess, and, oh my god so much accidental comedy.

Expect an immersive atmosphere, a brief introduction situating the film in late-90s blockbuster optimism, and a post-screening conversation on cult afterlives.

Spiritual operating status neither verified nor required for entry.

Dance Freak

Posted on 6th March 202626th March 2026 by site_admin

CQAF and Normal Cinema Club are very excited and slightly scared to present the Irish premiere of Alan Resnick and Robby Rackleff’s DANCE FREAK.

A man on the edge gets pushed slightly further when his girlfriend breaks up with him. To make matters worse, he is confronted by his cavorting and contorting doppelganger (the titular Dance Freak) and is soon accused of crimes he didn’t commit. Thus begins a spiralling rabbithole of government conspiracy, lab experiments gone wrong, and surreal hyper-violence. With its finger on the pulse of our current dystopia of absurdist end-times, DANCE FREAK speaks truth to the power about the freaks really pulling the strings.

This nightmarish odyssey of corrupted identity is shot through with jet-black humour, aided by its starry cast of alt-comedy favourites including Stavros Halkias, Sarah Squirm and Normal Cinema Club favourite, Conner O’Malley. Their exploits are rendered in inky black & white, recalling the oozing discomfort of Eraserhead, yet updating that dreamworld for our terminally online world, pixels and digital noise abound. This lo-fi low-budget marvel was entirely crowdfunded, an inspiration to filmmakers, filmgoers and film-adjacents everywhere.

Who/what/why is Dance Freak? You’ll simply have to come and watch to find out.

The much-anticipated film from the team of Robby Rackleff and Alan Resnick (Unedited Footage of a Bear and This House Has People in It) has an absolutely stacked cast including luminaries of the alt-comedy scene and many past, present, and most likely future Baltimoreans: Robby Rackleff, Megan Koester, Sheila Mears, Jamel Johnson, Annie Donley, Stavros Halkias, Sarah Sherman, Allen Cordell, Adam Endres, Rachel Kaly, Conner O’Malley, and Nate Varrone.

Like their work for Adult Swim, Rackleff and Resnick’s film disorients the viewer in the best possible way. Dance Freak teleports us back to childhood sleepovers with friends, staying up way too late watching something warped, forbidden, and dangerously funny long after all the boring adults have retreated upstairs to bed. (Eric Allen Hatch)

Great Silence

Posted on 25th March 202626th March 2026 by site_admin

“Because wherever he goes, the silence of death follows”

On an unforgiving, snow-swept, frontier a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious ‘Loco’, preys on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named ‘Silence’ stands between the innocent refugees and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. But in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong aren’t always clear, and good doesn’t always triumph.

Featuring one of Ennio Morricone’s most haunting and melancholic soundtracks, director Sergio Corbucci (Django,Navajo Joe) was in a dark place, and he poured his cynicism at the world around him into this groundbreaking film. Starring two icons of cinema, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski,The Great Silence is a classic anti-western that echoes the political paranoia of Europe of the time, as the revolutions of the 60s became bathed in bloodshed.

The Great Silence will be introduced by Des O’Rawe, reader in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast.

The Lonesome Dove Cinema Club is dedicated to the screening of the finest westerns and also to building a community of western lovers in Belfast. The Club screens every two months.

https://www.lonesomedove.uk/

A Mighty Wind

Posted on 20th February 202626th March 2026 by site_admin

CQAF invites you to a very special screening of Christopher Guest’s mockumentary masterpiece, A Mighty Wind.

Following the passing of the incomparable Catherine O’Hara in early 2026, we gather to celebrate her most poignant comedic turn. As Mickey Crabbe, O’Hara didn’t just deliver jokes; she gave us the “emotional tightrope act” of the decade, perfectly balancing the absurdity of the 60s folk revival with a heartbreakingly real sense of lost love.

Whether you’re a lifelong fan of the “neuftet” sounds of the New Main Street Singers or you just want to see the Folksmen try to find the stage one more time.

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