Seasons

Half a century ago, The Damned and the Sex Pistols released their first singles, and everything shifted. A nihilistic and violent reaction to the grim artifice of late capitalism, social conformity, and lost future.

This year, The Nickel will explore punk filmmaking in all its forms, from raw DIY independent filmmaking to features that incapsulate the chaotic refusal of order.

Punk cinema is less about style than stance. It refuses polish, refuses comfort, refuses explanation. Fifty years in, these films are still raw and alive.

The Final Film Festival is a multi-venue event comprising new independent releases from across the world, exciting and unusual repertory presentations and emerging artists from the UK and beyond. TFFF was created by independent film programmers Jack Hewitt and Kit Ramsay, for more information including the entire programme, please see tfffestival.co.uk or @Tff_Festival on Instagram.

Shrime Time, now in its first orbit round the sun, continues to serve prime pedigree chum for the eyeball in your bum.

Anime and Japanese experimental animation. Offensive, reductive, perverse, bizarre, abrasive, gratuitously contentious, depraved and unhinged—rarely sentimental, always beautiful, mental and morose. Ninety minutes no warranty.

Masterpiece and disaster-piece are bedfellows here. The rectacular spectacle operates in the shadows, every film a mystery film. No holes barred: mecha, mutant, mafia, tentacles and torture, saccharine sweetness and vapid vaudeville slapstick combine to enshrine the Shrime.

The name comes from the Shirime, a yokai whose entire reason for existing is flashing samurai with an eyeball where the sun daren’t shine. No warning. No context. Just b-cinema’s whole philosophy, distilled into a single grotesque wink.

Nothing evades the all-seeing rectacular spectacle.

All hail the nickel and all who sail with her. The time is Shrime.