AUTO/ANTENNA MUSIC VIDEO SHOWCASE
Tues Dec 10, 8.30pm tickets £5 (£3.60)
1 hr 30 mins approx

Auto festival and Antenna join together for an evening to screen fresh, innovative work from new and established talents associated with making the most creative and lesser seen music videos for artists and labels involved in Auto 2002. Antenna is an exciting new initiative that offers the chance to see rarely broadcast, inspirational videos made by the world's freshest directing talent and the opportunity to discuss the work, and the issues faced by the industry, with the people on the front line of the scene. This 90-minute screening will be chaired by Jordan McGarry, assistant editor of the music video industry bible, "SHOTS" and accompanied by a panel of industry luminaries and will end with a Q&A session with the audience.

VINYL

Wednesday 11 December at 8.30 tickets £5 (£3.60)
Canada 2000 Dir. Alan Zweig 1 hr 50 mins

A hilarious/disturbing docu-feature from Canadian Alan Zweig about obsessive record collectors. Partly a diary film and partly a survey of the neurosis of record collectors, it's covert theme is that life is the sum of choices a person makes about what to hold on to and what to let go. Introduced by Mark Webber of Pulp. Auto asks everyone attending to bring a vinyl record. The records will be redistributed to attendees. A collection of 15 Auto artists’ compact discs will be won by a ticketholder after the screening.

JOHN SMITH AND JARVIS COCKER

Thurs 12 December at 8.30

1 hr 30 mins approx tickets: £7 (£5 concessions)

The films of John Smith conduct a serious investigation into the combination of sound and image, but unlike many formal filmmakers, Smith does so with a sense of humour that reaches out beyond the traditional avant-garde audience. By blurring the perceived boundaries of experimental film, fiction and documentary, Smith never delivers what he has led the spectator to expect. Jarvis and John Smith will present and discuss the films together. John taught at St Martins College 1989-91 when Jarvis Cocker studied Fine Art and Film.

MY WRONGS 8245-8249 AND 117

Friday 13 December at 8.20 & 9.15

Programme length 30 mins approx All Tickets: £2.50

The new short film by Chris Morris is about a man who no longer uses his name because he's decided he's ceased to deserve one, and a dog called Rothko. Imogen found me in the car park at Sainsbury's. A paper sack had cornered me by the bins. "I've got a job for you" she said as she drove us through the park. I was in the back because Rothko was on the passenger seat. "he likes to see out" said Imogen. I don't so that was OK. "I'll be away for a week" she said... "Don't answer the phone but do take Rothko for a walk - if you don't run him off he'll shred the sofa". She also left labels on parts of the house like "tap" and "cupboard" because last time I'd been sick in a drawer. That was four days ago. Rothko's sitting on the chair again. Occasionally he looks at the telly. Mostly he's looking at me looking at the telly. Its 2pm. He doesn't want me here. And I haven't taken him out once... Chris Morris has emerged as one of the most perceptive and controversial satirists of his age. With credits such as On the Hour, The Day Today, Jam and Brass Eye, his brand of humour is frequently dark and uncomfortable.

Plus:
COME ON MY SELECTOR
UK 7.5 mins 1997
Directed by Chris Cunningham , a rare screening of this short film featuring a dog, a girl and a children's mental hospital in Osaka, made for the release of the Squarepusher track of the same name in 1997.
And:
ITSU
UK 3.5mins 2002
A film for Plaid's track Itsu on Warp Records. Created by the Pleix, this work examines our consumer society and its hysteria, with a visual language that blurs relationship with reality provoking a strange unease. Pleix is a French collective of digital artists.

Following the screening Warp DJs will play the Showroom Bar. Bar open to 1am, admission free

Links:    Sheffield Showroom    Auto