SCHEDULE OF

EVENTS
SEPTEMBER Saturday 11, 18.30
Magicianship: The Art Explored
PRE-FEST CREATIVE & Screening of The Prestige
ART WORKSHOPS
Saturday 13, 13.00 Sunday 12
Sunday 14, 13.00 17.00 Tango Alchemy Workshop
19.00 Illusions of Grandeur
LAUNCH
Saturday 27, 19.00 COMPASS FILM WEEKEND
Thursday 16, 19.00
OCTOBER SOUTH: SOMALIA
Easton, Easton (short), Road in My Life
POETRY (short) & Araweelo (feature)
Thursday 2, 19.00
Youth Poetry Slam Friday 17, 19.00
WEST: ARGENTINA
Friday 3, 19.00 Bristol Has Changed My Life (short)
Rhymes: Community Poetry Event & Death and the Compass (feature)

SHORT FILM Saturday 18, 19.00

Saturday 4, 19.00 EAST: PAKISTAN
Five Minutes of Mystery: Mr. Amir Ahamed’s Story (short)
Short Film Competition & Hell’s Ground (feature)

PERFORMANCE & MAGIC Sunday 19, 18.00

Friday 10, 19.00 NORTH: POLAND
Theatre Slam The Story (short), Survivors (short)
& The Saragossa Manuscript (feature)

All events at Mivart St Studios

Venue open an hour before performance start time; food & drink served
See back page for ticket prices & directions
Check out our website – www.compass-film.co.uk – for updates!
 The Compass of
Mystery
Festival 2008
Mivart St Studios, Easton, Bristol
27 September – 19 October 2008
Brace yourselves for The Compass
of Mystery: a journey across the
parameters of mysticism and
magic, down passages of intrigue
and suspense, through curtains of
uncertainty and illusion, to half-
glimpsed truths, unveilings and
revelation!
Compass Film takes this year’s festival
of cinema and Arts in a new and
mysterious direction… Inhabiting
an unused space, a hidden gem in
an urban landscape, the Compass
crew will transform their venue into
a magical world to house this year’s
festival.
In a month of film, poetry, visual
art and performance, the festival
will explore the depths and dusty
cobwebbed corners of the theme of
mystery, inviting you, the explorer, to
throw down your backseat viewing
apparatus and shake off the shackles
of spoon-fed culture, to walk hand-
in-hand with us through a glistening
gateway and experience the world
beyond!
Amongst the labyrinthine halls and
corridors of Mivart St Studios you
will discover art and beauty aplenty.
From within this world we invite you
to partake of a multitude of films, of
theatre, circus, magic and poetry,
music, dance, fine foods, drinks, and
all in such excellent company! From
within this new physical and intellectual
framework we bring a plethora of
viewpoints around our theme, with
seminars and talks from magicians,
psychologists, academics and thinkers.
The programme will culminate in
Compass’s trademark programme
of international cinema. This year’s
compass directs us to an exciting
selection of films from Poland (North),
Pakistan (East), Somalia (South) &
Argentina (West), showcasing the
creative wealth of these communities
sampled from our own and more
distant shores. Framed by the insights
of local migrant community members,
as well as the discussions of audience
and panellists, each screening will offer
illumination into far-flung worlds and
our Bristol home, assimilating the new
and the old through the eyes and ideas
of our own communities and other
more remote ones.
THE SPACE
MIVART ST STUDIOS
In a time in which urban
organisation can represent control,
and the prioritisation of money
and agenda over community and
creativity, the spaces and places
we choose to practice, present
and perpetuate art and community
become vital.
create a vital artistic, dynamic and
community-led space, freed from
the constraints of more established
venues, and offering a unique
audience experience: a world into
which the viewers invest as soon as
they enter the venue, and not just at
the moment the lights go down.

In a move to try and reach new Community members are invited to

audiences, involve diverse and
marginal communities, and to
promote a less city-centric approach
to the enjoyment of quality Arts &
Culture, we have moved our festival
to Easton, one of the most ethnically
diverse and creatively vibrant
communities in the South West.
Through a city-wide collaboration of
individuals, organisations, creative
bods and volunteers we aim to
author this space and contribute to
the world being created within. As
a blank canvas, the festival venue
and the events within it are waiting
for you to make you mark. Free of
assumptions, the month’s activity
– and the two weeks ‘creation time’
that precede it – will represent
an organic chain of contribution,
reaction and response. At the
end of the festival the world will
disintegrate… until next year!

About the building

Mivart St Studios occupy a former Victorian factory squeezed into a
residential street off St. Marks Road in Easton. The large, red brick building
has housed various industries over the last hundred years including aircraft
construction and clothing manufacture. Today it is home to an eclectic mix of
artists, makers, designers, performers, musicians, furniture makers and small
businesses, some of whom will be contributing to, and exhibiting as part of,
The Compass of Mystery Festival.
 MIVART
ARTISTS’ EXHIBITION
Mivart Artists are diverse and
sometimes elusive, due to the
labyrinthine building they inhabit
and their passion for the hard work
of making art. They will respond
to the festival with both mystery
and imagination. Exhibiting artists
will include Jon Bentley, Brandon
Chambers, Marilyn Marshall, Niamh
Collins-Jackman, Tristram Tyler and
Ruth Piper.
Although very different in their
approach Jon and Brandon are both
figurative painters. Their work contains
a strong narrative quality that, like
dreams, are open to interpretation.
Marilyn’s dreamily remembered places
Ongoing / Free
or events are realised through a skilled
use of paint. Niamh’s abstract oil
paintings are often a response to an
emotional situation. They incorporate
unusual printing techniques and
sometimes make reference to land and
sea. Tristram’s strange atmospheric
landscapes are a contemporary
take on a traditional genre. Ruth
constructs bright acrylic paintings in a
diagrammatic format that explore the
delicate balance between freedom and
control.
Contact Mivart Artists
Ruth Piper
07711541852
www.mivartartists.co.uk
POETRY
Poetry: a communicative conjuring trick; a riddle with
millions of meanings; a glimpse into the mystery that is
humanity; similes for reality; an attempt to answer the
questions that lurk at the fringes of our vision at every
moment; an escape from mundanity.

Join some of the South West and London’s best and bravest
wordsmiths, let them take you on their journeys, carry you
away on magic-carpets of metaphor, as they draw back the
curtain with the promise of a peek into hidden universes…

Poets to include Excentral Tempest, Poet Malusi, Steven

(Blessed) Duncan, Katie Kerr, and many, many more…

Now over to you: rapper, dub-poet, sonneteer, MC, lyricist:

we wanna hear it!

YOUTH POETRY SLAM

Thursday 2 October 19.00
£4 / £3

First half: Poet Performances

Second half: Youth Poetry Slam (open to Under 25s)
Want to enter? Email tara@compass-film.co.uk, or register at least half an
hour before the event start time. Please provide name, age and any info
on your material.

Rhymes
Friday 3 October 19.00
£4 / £3
First half: Poet Performances
Second half: Open Mic (entry open to all)
Want to register? Email tara@compass-film.co.uk, or register
at least half an hour before the event start time.
FIVE MINUTES
OF MYSTERY
Short Film Competition and Exhibition
Saturday 4 October, 19.00
Lose yourself in a world of intrigue,
wonder and confusion where
meaning is left suspended and reason
unexplained. Have your judgement
clouded and your perception
challenged as you attempt to decipher
the meaning behind these mysterious
mini movies. This year the Compass
Festival has tuned to the theme of
mystery and all that is enveloped by
it. Five Minutes of Mystery delivers
some of the best pieces of mysterious
filmmaking both home grown and
internationally hand picked. Join us
in an evening of filmic delight that
tests your very comprehension of what
£4 / £3
is played out on screen as the films‘
creators take on the concept of mystery
in its broadest sense.
Awards are available for Best Film,
Audience Award, Local Filmmaker
and Youth Award. The films will be
judged by a panel of experts in the
field who will offer their insight into the
mysterious world that is the cinema.
Enjoy an evening of film cloaked in
ambiguity, with a side of musical
mystique taking place in the Lounge.
Here you can also meet the filmmakers
and attempt to uncloak their cinematic
mysteries.
PerformancE
As the velvet curtain rises on the
Compass run of performance, we
invite you to enter this delightful world
of theatre and illusion. As thespians
swoop down from magical worlds to
invite you, the audience, to step inside
their dramas, we challenge you to
suspend your disbelief and enter into
the magic! From theatre to circus, from
magic to dance, the gate-keepers of
this enchanting world will not fail to
enrapture!
Theatre Slam
Friday 10 October, 19.00
£4 / £3
A night of performance shorts and
tantalising theatrical trinkets presented
by your fabulous host & compère,
Miss Evie Manning. Vocal duo
experimentàle Iain Morrison and Leiza
McLeod are The Glamorous, literally
dividing audiences wherever they
perform. Check out also our mysterious
installation shed for A Very Private
View, led by Luci Gorell Barnes. Enter
into a secret chamber for a unique
interactive experience where you
choose the view!
See our website for full
performance listings
Tango Alchemy:
Dance Workshop
Sunday 12 October, 17.00
£4 / £3
Eduardo Bozzo has been dancing the
Tango Argentino since he learnt it in his
native Buenos Aires fifteen years ago.
Learning the passion for the dance from
some of the old maestros, he has met
such tango legends as Elvira Virulazo,
Mayoral & Elsa Maria, and Rodolfo &
Maria Cieri. With a decade’s worth of
experience performing and teaching
in Argentina and worldwide, allow
Mr Bozzo and his dance partner Ms
Caroline Pope to whisk you away on
this most mysterious and sensuous of
dances! www.tangoalchemy.co.uk
If you buy a ticket for Tango Alchemy plus the
evening performance, Illusions of Grandeur,
you can claim £2 back, plus a free drink, on the
door.
Illusions of Grandeur
Sunday 12 October, 19.00
£4 / £3
A night of dance, magic, circus and
burlesque! Feast your eyes on Eduardo
Bozzo’s sensual Argentine dance
performance, Tango Alchemy. Gasp
at amazing feats of circus silliness
and sense defying sorcery as you are
entertained by magicians, circus folk
and burlesque beauties! A tantalising
triumph in tomfoolery!
 Magic
& Illusion Saturday 11 October, 18.30
£4 / £3
With a cry of ‘Abracadabra’ we invite you to step inside the
enigmatic world of Magic & Illusion, and allow you a peek into the
underworld of the uncanny, into the far-reaches of the realms of
magicianship, and rarely-allowed glimpses into the hidden histories
and the subconscious secrets of the Art… Enter if you dare!

Psychoanalysis & Illusion

Dr Graeme McGrath is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapist from Manchester. He is also a lifelong movie
enthusiast. This workshop offers an opportunity to discuss the
relationship between the aesthetic of illusion, magic and enthusiasm
using psychoanalytic theory illuminated by movie references,
including of course The Prestige.

Magician: Kieron the Mighty

In this evening dedicated to magicianship & conjury prepare to be
shocked, amazed and appalled, as reason is cheated, sanity makes
way for sorcery and normality surrenders to necromancy! What
better way to immerse yourself in the shifting world of magic than
under the auspices of this night dedicated to the Art, and under the
spell of this wizard performer, this alchemical creator,
Kieron the Mighty!

FILM SCREENING: The Prestige (12)

(Nolan, 2006, 130m)
A dark drama about two rival magicians (Christian Bale & Hugh
Jackman), so committed to their art that they will fight for supremacy
to the death, or so it seems... This adaptation of Christopher Priest‘s
novel is a murky and mysterious tale that twists and meanders
through the dark streets of late-19th Century London, skirting stranger
horizons before winding back to its perplexing, terrifying finale. The
film will be introduced by Prof. Mick Mangan (Exeter University),
author of Performing Dark Arts (Intellect: 2007).
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 Between Heaven and Hell: the Films of Ulrich Seidl
Tue 23 – Sun 28 Sept
To mark the October release of Ulrich Seidl’s second feature film Import Export
Export, this retrospective showcases the
development of Seidl’s dispassionate, often shocking but always deeply humanistic concern with the dark corners and
crevices of society which has earned him the reputation as one of Europe’s most distinctive and provocative filmmakers.
In addition to screening his six previous films, we are delighted to welcome Seidl to Bristol to present a preview of
Import Export followed by a Q&A.

Loss Is to Animal Love Import Export preview The Bosom Friend Models Dog Days Jesus, You Know
be Expected Wed 24 Sept, 1800hrs + director Q&A Fri 26 Sept, 1800hrs Sat 27 Sept, 1500hrs Sat 27 Sept, 1800hrs Sun 28 Sept, 1800hrs
Tue 23 Sept, 1800hrs Thu 25 Sept, time TBC

Import Export opens at Watershed on Fri 3 Oct / FFI: watershed.co.uk/seidl

All titles in the season are certificate 18
Ticket prices: All Tickets £6.00 full and £4.50 concessions. 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TX
Season Deal: Buy tickets for any three titles for the price of two (excluding Import Export preview). Tickets available in advance online: watershed.co.uk or from Box Office (0117) 927 5100

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FILM
EVENTS
Mystery is a chameleonic breed of
film… shifting, elusive, and ever
changing its form. Exclusively at the
Mivart St. Studios this autumn, it can be
spotted in the shadow of gallows, the
dancing diamonds of the harlequin’s
costume, the velvet folds of a conjurer’s
cape, the unsung and undiscovered
magicians of the camera…
The Compass film weekend (16–19
October) gathers together the elusive
cinematic treasures of four physically
disparate countries from the corners
of the globe. This year the Compass
eye fixes its stare upon Poland in the
North, Pakistan in the East, Somalia
in the South and Argentina in the
West, framing each screening with a
critical introduction. This is a festival
for the people of Bristol. The focus
countries form a substantial part of
the multi-ethnic DNA of this diverse
city. We aim to promote international
and homegrown cinema and uncover
the talent that courses through Bristol’s
creative veins.
Compass looks to stretch the cinema
experience beyond its primary focus,
catapulting you into a world of your
own making. Experience the arena of
cinema beyond the screen, and lose
yourself in the labyrinthine passages
of Easton’s very own magical mystery
tour…
Thursday 16 October, 19.00
£4 / £3
SOMALIA Araweelo
(Olol Productions,
2006, 97m)
(18)
Suspicion and intrigue lie at the heart
of this rollercoaster tale of romantic
harmony thrown into chaos. The film’s
iron grip squeezes an Achilles Heel of
loyalty, fidelity and trust. What happens
if your new wife is a serial killer? Or
maybe that’s just what your best friend
thinks? Newly weds Jama and Samira
are in marital bliss but their happiness
is blighted by Yonis, Jama’s untrusting
best friend. Yonis muses suspiciously
over the situation, believing the new
wife to be a brutal nymphomaniac.
The feverish mystery at the film’s core
reaches a climax when a sudden turn
of events changes their lives forever,
and all three are flung into a deadly
race for the truth.
Araweelo
(Soo-Saarida Olol,
2006, 97daqiiqo)
(18)
Shaki iyo shirqool waxa uu dhexyaalaa
wadnaha sheeka-xariirtaan taas oo
ah heshiis qiyaali ah oo lagu dhex-
tuuray jahawareer. Filinkan fahmadiisa
birta’ahu waxa eey majuujineysaa
maskiinimada iyo jilacsanaanta.
Maxaa dhaca haddii xaaskada
cusubi eey tahay dilaa weyn? Ama
saxiibkaada kowaad uu ku fekeraaya
sidaas? Arooska cusub ee Samira iyo
Jama waa guur farxad-leh laakiin
waxa hortaagan Yonis kaas oo
saaxiibka kowaad ee Jama laakiin
aan aamin gelin. Yonis fekradiisu
waa mid xeel-dheer oo ku saleysan
xaalad shaki ah asigoo aaminsan in
xaaska cusubu tahay mid galmada
ku waalan. Dahsoonida kulul oo uu
filinkan salka ku haayo mid gaareysaa
xaraarada ugu sareysa marka xaalada
noloshoodu eey si kedis ah isubedesho
ayadoo sedexdoodu wada gelayaan
loolan adag oo eey ku tiigsanayaan
runta.
SOUTH
Easton, Easton (15)
(Sharif/Bristol, 2007, 2m)
Abdullah Sharif tells us why the colours,
smells and sights of Easton make it
his favourite part of Bristol. This story
was made at a workshop for students
studying English as a Foreign Language
at City of Bristol College. It was led by
Harriet Brennan, Aikaterini Gegisian
and Paddy Uglow and was supported
by Bristol’s Museums, Galleries &
Archives.
Abdullah Sharif waxa uu noo sheegay
in Easton ka mid tahay meelaha uu
ugu jecel-yahay magaalada Bristol
sababtuna tahay midabka, urka
iyo muuqaalka. Sheekadan waxaa
sameeyey arday ajnebi oo baranaayey
luuqada Ingriiska ayagoo tababar ku
qaadanaayey maxadka Magaalada
Bristol (City of Bristol College).
Waxaana hogaaminaayey Harriet
Brennan, Aikaterini Gegisian, Paddy
Uglow taageerayeena Matxafka Bristol,
Bandhiga Farshaxanka iyo Xasuus
Dhowrka.
LOCAL FILM
Road in My Life (u)
(Ali, 2007, 10m)
Mohammed Ali imaginatively explores
how a painting holds the story of one
man’s journey from Somalia. The film
was produced by Firstborn Creatives
for Screen Shift. Screen Shift is
designed to encourage collaborations
between Afrikan Caribbean and Asian
artists in the South West wishing to
explore cross artform practice.
Mohammed Ali si mala ah ayuu u
bartay sida loo naqshadeyo sheeko
kus saabsan socdaal nin ka-yimid
somaliya. Filinkaanu waa curintii
ugu horeysay oo uu soo saaro filin
qaadahu. Curintaanu waa mid loogu
tala galay in lagu dhiiri geliyo wada-
shaqeyn dhexmarta curiyayaasha ka
kala socda Afrika iyo Cariibiyaanka ee
Koonfurta Galbeed kuwoos oo jeclaan-
lahaa in eey sii baaxiyaan xirfadooda
farshaxnimada.
Friday 17 October, 19.00
£4 / £3
ARGENTINA
Death and
the Compass (15)
(Cox, 1996, 96m)
Death and the Compass, one of
Cox’s most ambitious, inspired and
visually stunning films, is a deliciously
dark adaptation of the short story by
acclaimed Argentine writer Jorge Luis
Borges. In a totalitarian metropolis
of the future, Erik Lönnrot is a gifted
detective investigating a series of
strange murders and disappearances
that seem to implicate the insane crime
lord Red Scarlach. Enlisting the help of
Alonso Zunz, a principled journalist,
Lönnrot believes that he has uncovered
a labyrinthine occult conspiracy.
However, has the investigator’s
brilliance merely precipitated his own
destruction?
Muerte y El
brújula, La (15)
(Cox, 1996, 96m)
La Muerte y el Compás, una de las
películas más ambiciosas, inspiradas
y visualmente brillante de Cox, es
una adaptación de un relato corto del
famoso escritor argentino Jorge Luis
Borges. En una metrópolis dictatorial
en el futuro Erik Lönnrot es un perspi-
caz detective investigando una serie de
extraños asesinatos y desapariciones
que parecen estar vinculados al crimi-
nal Red Scarlach. Con la ayuda de
Alonso Zunz, un periodista con altos
principios, Lönnrot cree haber descubi-
erto una compleja conspiración oculta.
Sin embargo, ¿Puede su propia bril-
lantez precipitar al investigador a su
propia destrucción?
WEST
Bristol Has Changed My Life (15)
(Rumeo/Bristol Stories, 2007, 2m)
Ariel Rumeo’s father thought he was
crazy to come to Britain, but he came
anyway! This is a film about personal
growth and falling in love. This story
was made at a workshop for students
studying English as a Foreign Language
at City of Bristol College. It was led by
Harriet Brennan, Aikaterini Gegisian
and Paddy Uglow and was supported
by Bristol’s Museums, Galleries &
Archives.
LOCAL FILM
El padre de Ariel Rumeo pensó que
su hijo estaba loco por querer venir
a Inglaterra, pero él vino de todos
modos. Este es un corto sobre como
desarrollarse como persona y sobre
como enamorarse. La historia se
creó en un taller para estudiantes
extranjeros de ingles en el City of
Bristol College dirigido por Harriet
Brennan, Aikaterini Gegistan y Paddy
Liglow y contó con el apoyo de Bristol’s
Museums, Galleries & Archives.
Saturday 18 October, 19.00
£4 / £3

PAKISTAN Hell’s Ground

(Khan, 2007, 78m)
(18)

The very first modern horror film to be

(18)
(Pakistan)

/
78min 2007 (Khan)
shot in Pakistan – a groundbreaking
display of contemporary Pakistani
film talent, breaking all the rules of
local productions and made entirely
independently with no film industry
or government assistance. In the spirit (E.C.)
of the E.C. horror comics of old, the
film tells the story of five teenagers
who, after losing their way to a rock
concert, are menaced by flesh eating
mutations and then fall into the clutches
of a family of backwoods killers. The
film gorges itself on copious helpings of
gore alongside a splattering of social
commentary and several slices of dark (Lucio Fulci)
humour. It is best seen as a tribute to
(Geor ge Romero)
the cinema of Lucio Fulci and George
Romero, but viewed from a distinctly
Pakistani perspective. The film is
directed and co-written by former film (Omar Ali Khan)
critic Omar Ali Khan. Its cast combines
some of the country’s most exciting new
talent alongside Pakistani film veterans
such as Rehan and Najma Malik. (Najma Malik) (Rehan)

EAST
Mr. Amir Ahamed’s Story (15)
(Ahamed/Bristol Stories, 2007, 2m)

Mr Ahmed reflects on the two major U

migrations in his life, first as an eleven 2min 2007 /
year-old Muslim – a passage from
(Mr Ahmed)
India to the newly formed Pakistan
– followed by a migration to the UK. 11
This story is part of Independence
Stories and was made in a five day (UK)
workshop at Easton Community Centre (Easton
with members of the Asian Day Centre.
(Asian Community Centre)
The workshop focused on the personal
‘Independence’ stories of Bristol-based 5 Day Centre)
people from South Asian backgrounds,
reflecting life in India and Pakistan,
and the legacies of partition. The
workshop was led by Bristol-based
digital animation artist Tajinder Dhami,
Aikaterini Gegisian and Paddy Uglow (Tajinder Dhami)
from the Bristol Stories team, with extra (Aikaterini Ge gisian)
support by Nathan Hughes. (Paddy Uglow) (Bristol Stories)
(Nathan Hu ghes)

LOCAL FILM
Sunday 19 October, 18.00
£4 / £3
The Saragossa
Manuscript (15)
POLAND (Has, 1965, 180m)
This film has been dubbed the darling
of Bunuel, Scorsese and Francis Ford-
Coppola, who have all described
The Saragossa Manuscript as their
favourite film. The film unveils a
heady world of mystic eroticism and
unnerving supernatural antics as we
see young army captain, Alfons, in
Spain during the Napoleonic Wars.
He discovers an old book telling the
story of how his grandfather, Alfons
van Worden, sought the shortest route
through the Sierra Morena mountains.
Inevitably, the shortest route reveals
itself as a wild, unruly path and leaves
the audience tumbling, like Alice in
Wonderland, down some unknown
chasm. Dream-like worlds and
unearthly characters – ghost princesses,
demon possessions and blinded crazies
– leap out of the storyline and wreak
havoc over the screen. David Lynch
described this magical cinematic
concoction as ‘simulateously horrific,
erotic and funny… this is one mother of
a film’. Sit back and watch the madness
play forth!
Rkopis Znaleziony
w Saragosie (15)
(Has, 1965, 180m)
Ten film znany jako ulubiony film
Bunuella, Scorsese i Francisa Forda
Coppoli, opisywany jest przez nich
jako ich faworyzowane dzielo filmowe.
Film odkrywa oszalamiajacy swiat
mistycznego erotyzmu i nadnaturalnych
dziwow. Mlody kapitan – Alfons,
przebywajacy w Hiszpanii podczas
Wojen Napoleonskich, znajduje stara
ksiege opisujaca historie poszukiwania
przez jego dziadka Alfonsa van
Wordena najkrotszej drogi przez gory
Sierra Morena.Ta najkrotsza droga
okazuje sie byc dzika, nieobliczalna
sciezka i powoduje, ze widzowie, jak
Alicja w Krainie Czarow, wpadaja w
nieznana odchlan. Swiat jak ze snu,
nieziemskie zjawy – duchy ksiezniczek,
demony i oslepiajace szalenstwo
– zachodzace na siebie opowiesci sieja
spustoszenie na ekranie. David Lynch
opisal te magiczna kinowa mieszanine
jako ‘rownoczesnie straszna, erotyczna
i zabawna... jedyna recepta na film’
Siadzcie wygodnie i patrzcie jak toczy
sie to szlenstwo.
NORTH
The Story (15)
(Gladysz/Bristol Stories, 2007, 2m)
Polish bus driver Pawel takes a
philosophical look at the world from
the seat of the Number 77 bus. This
workshop was based around the
Number 77 First Bus service which
runs between Henbury and Hartcliffe.
Three passengers and two drivers
came together to share their stories
and experiences, with the help of
Aikaterini Gegisian and Paddy Uglow
and support from Bristol’s Museums,
Galleries & Archives.
Survivors (15)
(Zaba, 1998, 35m)
A hidden generation of 250,000 Polish
people, forgotten by history, have lived
in Britain since an Iron Curtain across
Europe stopped them from returning
home to Poland in 1945 after exile,
war and loss. Using rare archive foot-
age and eyewitness accounts, two
Bristolian Poles share their astonishing
story for the first time.
LOCAL FILM
Polski kierowca autobusu Pawel
spoglada filizoficznie na swiat z
siedzenia autobusu numer 77. Ta forma
oparta zostala na kusujacej pomiedzy
Henbury i Hartcliffe linii 77 First Bus.
Wystepuje tam troje pasazerow i
dwoch kierowcow opowiadajacych
swoje historie i dzielacych sie
doswiadczeniami, z pomoca Aicaterini
Gegisian, Paddy Uglow oraz z
poparciem Bristol’s Museums, Galleries
& Archives.
W Wielkiej Brytanii zyje ukryta,
zapomniana przez historie generacja
250,000 Polakow. Zelazna Kurtyna
przecinajaca Europe uniemozliwila
im powrot do Polski w 1945 roku, po
wygnaniu,wojnie i stratach. Uzywajac
unikalnych materialow archiwalnych
i zeznan naocznych swiadkow, dwaj
Polacy z Bristolu dziela sie po raz
pierwszy swoja zdumiewajaca historia.

OTHER TREATS
& EVENTS
COMPASS OF MYSTERY
FUNDRAISER
Saturday 13 September
Until 04.00
Take Five Café, £3
A night featuring underground pioneers
of the new Bristol dance-floor scene:
Gatekeeper (Skull Disco), October
(Caravan), and Damien Schnieder
(Cuisine). Come and dance til dawn
to the freshest dubstep and minimal
techno at another legendary Compass
party!
LAUNCH
Saturday 27 September, 19.00
Mivart St Studios, Free
Come and help us celebrate as we
open the doors for the very first time to
the magical world of the festival! Music,
visuals, performers, graffiti, food, art,
merriment and magic!
Film Installation: Easton Voices
A conversation about diversity, culture
& immigration between the many
cultures that mix, blend and sometimes
clash in Easton, Bristol. Using interviews
from Action Time Vision’s ‘Night in
Easton‘ project, it poses questions about
culture, stereotypes and nationality to
See www.compass-film.co.uk for
further info and updates
“The
the
participants from Guyana, Somalia,
Ireland, England, Pakistan, India and
Mauritius.
Live Bands: Electro-glam-pop duo
Chew Magna cut up the dance floor
with their molten rock beats and
basslines, whilst Cheap Bent Electrode
take no hostages, souping it up with
their vocal electropomp.
ART, DÉCOR & DESIGN
Screen prints, wall hangings, paintings,
sketches, graffiti… Jump into this
wonderland of beauty and wildness!
Full art/exhibition notes available.
THE LOUNGE
Check out Qu Junktions & Blackout
Arts Mystery Slots in the Lounge…
Music also brought to you by DJs
BarrySteppa, From Da Bricks & friends.
Be prepared for live music, impromptu
theatre and wandering magicians! Ava
FOOD & DRINK
Thanks to The Runcible Spoon, Café
Maitreya, The Thali Café, and the
many other supportive local businesses
we have to thank for all the ravishing
refreshments!
“The goriest film yet! Mixes in devices from AvAilAble Now
the slasher, zombie and Hammer genres.”
– film threat

In the tradition of Friday the 13th and The Texas Chainsaw

Massacre, Pakistan’s first splatter flick delivers spine-tingling
thrills when an attractive group of teens drive straight into
a night of savage, demented horror!

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Company Info
Compass Film Community Interest
Company began its life in 2006 with
two friends who, in their search for fun
and frolics on the Bristol scene, felt the
pull of new creative tides and decided
to take the plunge!
Through the trademark motif of the
compass, we hope each year to bring
forth to you, the people of Bristol,
a festival that highlights the cultural
diversity and creative wealth of this
fair city, representing our communities
whilst reflecting a truly international
perspective. Over the past three years
we have garnered support from local,
national and international creatives,
which we hope will continue to
lend a breadth and diversity to the
consideration of art and culture that
underpins our activity.
Each year, through the choice of a
different theme or genre we are able
to pursue a diversity of ideas and
readings of the theme, as well as
present a range of cultural reactions
and interactions. It is through such
exploration of difference in cultural
response that we hope not only to
celebrate diversity but to crystallise
notions about our own complex and
rich identities.
As a volunteer run, not-for-profit
company we are committed to bottom
up, grassroots programming born
of collaboration. We aim to enable
as wide a participation in our events
as possible, keeping prices low and
incentives high, and programming
marginal cultural practice alongside
that which is popular and widely
acclaimed. As such we are
always open to new partnerships,
contributions, collaborations and new
ideas. Visit www.compass-film.co.uk
to find out more about opportunities in
collaboration, sponsorship, patronage,
volunteering or partnership.
We hope you enjoy the festival!
Compass Film CIC
Øivind Hovland
Company no: 06091041
19 Albany Rd, Bristol, BS6 5LQ
E: info@compass-film.co.uk
W: www.compass-film.co.uk
Special Thanks
Thank you to each and every artist, performer
and contributor to The Compass of Mystery
Festival, and to the amazing Compass team,
who all donate their time on a voluntary basis,
and without whom, it is no exaggeration to say,
we would have nothing.
Company Info
Festival Director: Sam King; Festival Director:
Tara Sachdeva; Festival Officer: Nicky Butcher;
Grants Officer: Abi Isherwood; Designer: Rhys
Prosser; Illustrator: Ben Newman; Press Officer:
Gabriella Joswiak; Website Designer: Aneta
Gorka; Advisor: Kathrina Glitre; Advisor: Mark
Bould; Advisor: Birgit Beumers; Musical Events
Coordinators: Barney McGrath & Daniel Love;
Commercial Sponsorship Officer: Neil Ferguson;
Management Accountant: Matt Whitford
And Also...
Rosie Armistead, Siobhan McKeown, Crystal
Kershaw, Pavan Heire, Laura Calvert, Melanie
Harrison, Laurie Marshall & Verity Gough
Special Thanks To…
Abi Isherwood, Kathrina Glitre, Ruth Piper, Sally
Reay & all at Mivart St. Studios, Barbara Orme,
Birgit Beumers, Mark Bould, Aikaterini Gegisian,
Sarah & Chris King, Graeme McGrath, Daniel
Lindvall, Martin Degrell, Rhys Prosser, May Yao,
Barney McGrath, Daniel Love, Ben Newman,
Rosie Armistead, Gabriella Joswiak, Satish
Sachdeva, Masoud Yazdani, Chiz & all at
Blackout Arts, Evie Manning, June Burrows,
Nico Boritch, Damien Schnieder, Madeleine
Probst, Naomi Smyth, Christina Zaba, Louise
Lynas, Jeremy Routledge, Rosie Gilmour, Iain
Morrison, Jake (Take Five Café), Johnny Palmer,
Sunita Ahuja, Abdisalam Mohamed, Abdulkadir
Ahmed Said, Alex Cox, Jyotsna Kapur, Tamara
L. Falicov, John King, Dorota Ostrowska, Louise
Gardner, Amy Sinclair, David Buttle, Andy
Starke, Johnny Palmer, Jennifer Arndt-Johns,
Niccolo Milanese, John Sansom, Ed Jenks,
Jess Neill, Laura Calvert, Chanelle Brodie,
Bobby Blackstock, Bug & Miranda, and all our
wonderful friends & families!
Translation Services
Many thanks to Humberto Perez-Blanco, Dr.
Wladyslaw Jozwiak, and Bristol City Council for
providing translation services to the festival.
Bristol City Council Community
Services: Community Cohesion
Bristol has a changing population. New
and growing communities are settling in the
inner city areas and beyond, bringing both
advantages and new challenges around
cohesion and integration. Working with partners
from across the Council and the voluntary
sector, the Community Cohesion Team leads
the Council’s community development response
to working with new and settled communities.
The ‘bottom up’ approach is at the heart of the
work, enabling local residents and organisations
to take responsibility in addressing change in
their neighbourhoods. Further information and
getting involved:
www.bristol.gov.uk/communitydevelopment.
The Community Cohesion Team, 6 York Court,
Wilder Street, Bristol BS2 8QX
Email: communitydevelopment@bristol.gov.uk
Tel: 0117 90 36415
Fax: 0117 90 36408
Sponsors & SUPPORTERS

Primary Production/
Technical Sponsor
TICKETS
Single Entry Tickets
£4 (full) / £3 (concessions)
Festival Tickets
4 for the price of 3!
£12 (full) / £9 (concessions)
Fancy dress and mysterious
creations will be rewarded!
Concessions apply to full-time
students, claimants, asylum seekers
and over-60s. Please produce proof
of eligibility and proof of age where
applicable when purchasing a ticket.
Please see individual events for age
restrictions. Limited availability on
tickets – book early!
Limited tickets available on the door.
Buy your tickets here!
Thali Café
64–66 St Marks Rd
Easton, Bristol
BS5 6JH
w: www.onestopthali.co.uk
t: 0117 951 4979
Venue and Lounge open one hour
before performance start time and
close at 11pm. Please arrive at least
fifteen minutes prior to performance
start. Late ticket sales and entry
will be granted at the discretion of
the steward. We regret that due to
the age of the building the festival
venue has no wheelchair access.
Seating type varies in the theatre; if
you require upright seating please
reserve in advance; contact
tara@compass-film.co.uk or
07760454696
Bristol Ticket Shop
Broadmead Gallery, 28
The Galleries Shopping Centre
Bristol, BS1 3XB
e: sales@bristolticketshop.co.uk
w: www.bristolticketshop.co.uk
t: 0117 929 9008
(subject to booking fee)
By Foot:
DIRECTIONS TO
Mivart St Studios can either be
MIVART ST STUDIOS
approached from the city centre via
Old Market or St Pauls.
From Old Market: past Trinity Centre,
up Old Market St, over Easton Way
junction. Go up Stapleton Rd, right
down St Marks Rd, Mivart St is on the
left hand side.
From St Pauls: up Ashley Rd, go under
underpass along Warwick Rd. Turn
left on Stapleton Rd, turn right onto St
Marks Rd, turn left onto Mivart St.

By Bus:

From Bristol Town Centre: catch the no.

48 or 49 bus. Get off along Stapleton
Rd at the bus stop just after you go
under the bridge. Cross the road and
turn up St Marks Rd (Lloyds Bank is on
the corner). Walk up St Marks Rd until
you see Café Maitreya, turn left on to
Mivart St. Walk to the top of the road
and Mivart St Studios is on the right.
By Car:
By Train:
From the M4 Junction 19, exit onto
From Bristol Temple Meads, Clifton and M32 toward Bristol. At Junction 2, exit
Clifton Down: catch the Severn Beach toward B4469/Fishponds/Horfield.
Line. Get off at Stapleton Rd, cross over Merge onto B4058/Stapleton Rd
the footbridge and walk down the path (signs for Easton/B4058). Go over
to St Marks Rd. Turn left and walk up St one roundabout. Turn right at A432/
Marks Rd, when you see Café Maitreya Stapleton Rd. Turn left at St Marks Rd.
turn right up Mivart St. Walk to the top Turn left at Mivart St. Parking available
of the road and Mivart St Studios is on on nearby roads. No dedicated
the right. parking – residential area.