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Ultra Violet Neon Planet, dir. Jashan Walton, UK 2024, 18 min.
A shared voice with no words.
Ultra Violet Neon Planet, dir. Jashan Walton
Ultra Violet Neon Planet is a film documenting the cultural origins of bleep, a subgenre of house and techno developed in Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford in the late 1980's.
Using a mixture of interviews and archival film provided by Memory Dance, the documentary explores the transatlantic connection between South Yorkshire and the midwestern cities of Chicago and Detroit, unraveling the subconscious influences that shaped the sounds of bleep.
What a Sound Can Do, dir. Ashley Holmes
An experimental short film and visual poem by multidisciplinary Sheffield-based artist Ashley Holmes. Written, edited and soundtracked by Holmes and narrated by Jamaican-British poet Danae Wellington, What Your Sound Can Do ruminates on the DIY ethos, and historical impact of sound systems occupying public space. Consisting of 35mm film photography and warped audio recordings, Holmes brings together a range of his interests around Dub and post-war Britain, illuminating the inner workings and relationships between displacement rootedness and locality.
The short film questions how encounters with the past are constantly reappearing in contemporary society, meditating over the crucial ways in which Black communities in cities across the UK have constructed social spaces that allow people to exist, imagine and relate to one another in a different type of way.
Untitled (To Describe You), dir. Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh
Manchester-born visual artist, poet and filmmaker Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh and Space Afrika's Joshua Inyang and Joshua Tarelle’s short is a cinematic audit of identity and ancestry. Sanoh works hard to visually illustrate an honest and vulnerable picture of her soul moving through the contrast of interiority with exteriority. Inyang and Tarelle respond by doing the same with sound. Warped field recordings, overdriven rhythmic pressure, syrupy pads and disorienting vocals are cut and pasted over each other, generating a living, breathing study of the duo's Northern working class Black British reality.
Ultra Violet Neon Planet, dir. Jashan Walton
Ultra Violet Neon Planet is a film documenting the cultural origins of bleep, a subgenre of house and techno developed in Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford in the late 1980's.
Using a mixture of interviews and archival film provided by Memory Dance, the documentary explores the transatlantic connection between South Yorkshire and the midwestern cities of Chicago and Detroit, unraveling the subconscious influences that shaped the sounds of bleep.
What a Sound Can Do, dir. Ashley Holmes
An experimental short film and visual poem by multidisciplinary Sheffield-based artist Ashley Holmes. Written, edited and soundtracked by Holmes and narrated by Jamaican-British poet Danae Wellington, What Your Sound Can Do ruminates on the DIY ethos, and historical impact of sound systems occupying public space. Consisting of 35mm film photography and warped audio recordings, Holmes brings together a range of his interests around Dub and post-war Britain, illuminating the inner workings and relationships between displacement rootedness and locality.
The short film questions how encounters with the past are constantly reappearing in contemporary society, meditating over the crucial ways in which Black communities in cities across the UK have constructed social spaces that allow people to exist, imagine and relate to one another in a different type of way.
Untitled (To Describe You), dir. Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh
Manchester-born visual artist, poet and filmmaker Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh and Space Afrika's Joshua Inyang and Joshua Tarelle’s short is a cinematic audit of identity and ancestry. Sanoh works hard to visually illustrate an honest and vulnerable picture of her soul moving through the contrast of interiority with exteriority. Inyang and Tarelle respond by doing the same with sound. Warped field recordings, overdriven rhythmic pressure, syrupy pads and disorienting vocals are cut and pasted over each other, generating a living, breathing study of the duo's Northern working class Black British reality.
Jashan Walton is a filmmaker whose versatile body of work spans film, installation, and photography. His current film projects are experimental documentaries that creatively explore archival practices, covering diverse themes such as music history and athletics. In photography, Jashan has collaborated with the likes of XL Recordings, Young, Worldwide F.M. and his work has been shown at Tate Liverpool and Sheffield Docfest.
Ashley Holmes is a Sheffield-based artist, DJ, and sound-based researcher with an interdisciplinary practice that blends elements of visual art, sound, and music. His research interests centre around the embodied knowledges of social, political and historical elements of Black music, examining relationships between multiple diasporic locations that emerge in different local contexts.
Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh is a filmmaker, visual artist, and writer. Her work often explores new narratives about working class beauty, documenting intimate moments through visual representation and humanising personal experiences. She frequently collaborates with musicians and artists across various disciplines.
Ashley Holmes is a Sheffield-based artist, DJ, and sound-based researcher with an interdisciplinary practice that blends elements of visual art, sound, and music. His research interests centre around the embodied knowledges of social, political and historical elements of Black music, examining relationships between multiple diasporic locations that emerge in different local contexts.
Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh is a filmmaker, visual artist, and writer. Her work often explores new narratives about working class beauty, documenting intimate moments through visual representation and humanising personal experiences. She frequently collaborates with musicians and artists across various disciplines.
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Cinema 2
- Both our Cinemas have step free access from The Mall and are accessible by ramp
- All seats are hard back, have a crushed velvet feel and they do not recline
- These are our seat size dimensions: W 42 x D 45 x H 52
- Arm rest either side of the seat dimensions: L 27 x W 7 x H 20
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- We have a removable seat to create a wheelchair allocated space, please contact to organise this prior to the date and time of the screening
- We have unassigned seating. If you require a specific seat, please reserve this in advance
- Free for visitors where ticket prices are a barrier, please email
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