Category Archives: Cube Cinema History

Mu Year

Some playful, preposterous & plain pretentious penpersonship on “KLF_01_01_2017_WTF_FOUND” and where it sprang from. image c/o Turboisland, inspired by the event in question. questions c/o Super Weird Substance   >What motivated you to put the video together originally? The motivation was simple, … Continue reading

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Bluescreen’s 15th Birthday Bash!

Bluescreen was 15 on April 26th and we had a Party! Not only celebrating 15 years of screening locally produced Short Films but also being the longest running event at The Cube and also the longest running Open Screen Short … Continue reading

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Our JULY 2015 Origami Programme Trailer

Here’s the Cinema Trailer for our, at the time of writing, latest Programme. Whatever’s next – a flyer for the poster archive!?? Well, you just never know with Cube! Anyway, find the foldable fiends across the city in those unusual … Continue reading

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Bristol Arts Centre October – December 1968 Scans

Tonight we’re showing ‘Daisies‘ (Dir. Vera Chytilová, 1966, Czech Republic, 74 minutes) This was in the programme from 1968 we showed you some scans of back in March. Also – in case you missed them – we recently(ish) posted memories … Continue reading

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Bristol Arts Centre memories

In the late sixties till about mid seventies, this was the sole Arts Centre in Bristol, and had to cope with both film and small-scale live performances, possibly even ballet. This was the era when you reverently went to see … Continue reading

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Film at the Bristol Arts Centre – October to December 1968

My mate John’s parents were regular visitors to the Bristol Arts Centre – forerunner to the Cube – in the sixties. They kept a small collection of Bristol Arts Centre programmes from that time. There’s more to come, but here’s … Continue reading

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Cube Roots

(Article from VENUE MAGAZINE, 1999 – on our 1st birthday) “You’ve heard of BYO restaurants. Well, how about a BYOF cinema, as in Bring Your Own Film? Sounds crazy, but the Cube have already done it, to marvellous effect. And … Continue reading

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Abandoned “New” Cubewebsite from half a decade ago . . .

While employing some advanced google searching to try and find evidence of the early and influential “Film Jam” events The Cube did, basically to prove we were always well head of the curve – in the previous century in fact … Continue reading

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History Transmission

Below is a picture of something that has really inspired me. It is Cinema Nova’s entire programme Archive. Cinema Nova is in Bruxells and is perhaps our closest sister Cinema project, in terms of its ethos, style, spirit, local status … Continue reading

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Sister Blog

Check out what’s happening with the Haiti Kids Kino Project at our sister blog here . . . http://nanoplex.cubecinema.com/blog/

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