Glasgow Film Festival 2010: Music and Film

1. Zombie Zombie’s John Carpenter Tribute

Parisian electronica act Zombie Zombie, led by Etienne Jaumet and Cosmic Neman (from Herman Dune), will be performing a specially commissioned tribute to the music of film director (and composer) John Carpenter, famed for such creations as Halloween. They will explore emotions of fear and terror through sound and rhythm or as they put it, the feeling “like in a horror movie when the car won't start and you give it one last try." Their performance will be accompanied by video projections for the ultimate AV horror experience.

18 Feb, 8.00, Mono

2. Pere Ubu

Pere Abu return to Glasgow following their successful live score to the 3D version of They Came From Outer Space which took place at the Arches a few years back. David Thomas and his band will stage a unique performance combining electronic ambience, choreography, connective dialogue and animations by the renowned stop-motion animators The Brothers Quay. In an event described as rock music and theatre “engaged in a bloody fight to the death”, Thomas adopts the persona of the fated Pere Ubu. It’s influenced by the absurdist play “Long Live Pere Ubu” by Alfred Jarry which first played in Paris in 1896 and promptly led to riots and a national scandal. We wonder whether Pere Ubu’s esoteric creation will have the same effect in 2010?!

20 February, 8.00 pm, Classic Grand

3. Thomas Truax : Songs from the films of David Lynch

Truax has been wowing critics with his recently released album of cover versions of songs from the films of David Lynch. And like Lynch he has a fondness for the bizarre, something he incorporates into his live performances where he uses a collection of hand-made instruments to create unsettling songs which have been described as more Lynchian than Lynch.

23 February, 8.00pm, Mono

4. Burning

Vincent Moon has accumulated a dedicated following of music and film fans with his charming ‘take away shows’ – short video clips of musicians performing one of their tracks often in low-key locations in his native Paris. Here he teams up with Nathanaël Le Scouarnec to document the Brooklyn show of Glaswegian experimentalists Mogwai. The film, which has a working title of Burning, will be followed by the band playing a live DJ set.

(Exact dates TBC – keep an eye on www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk)

5. Do you love me like I love you: The Good Son

British artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard have created a tribute to Nick Cave and the Bad Seed’s acclaimed album The Good Son. Their 40 minute documentary is a collage of interviews from a whole spectrum of admirers featuring former Bad Seeds Kid Congo Powers, Blixa Bargeld, the producer Flood, Yeah Yeah Yeah's guitarist Nick Zinner, The Pogue's Spider Stacey, Interpol's Paul Banks, Mudhoney's Mark Arm, Mute's Daniel Miller and actor Noah Taylor. Expect a captivating combination of humour and poignancy.

(Exact dates TBC – keep an eye on www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk)