Band to perform live film score

Other Soundtrack Festival highlights:

Shame

Wednesday 16 November 8:30pm, Cineworld, Cardiff

Steve McQueen’s film about the nature of need, how we live our lives and the experiences that shape us, with a powerful score from composer Harry Escott entwined with a soundtrack including Blondie, Tom Tom Club, John Coltrane and Chic.

The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of José González

Thursday 17 November 11.30am, Newport Film School

An intimate portrait of the eccentric Swedish musician. Free screening; bookings at Newport@soundtrackfilmfestival.com

Until The Light Takes Us

Thursday 17 November 7:30pm, Newport Film School

A film that examines the complex and oft misunderstood principles and beliefs involved in black metal, a music genre largely known for suicides, murders, and church burnings. Free screening; bookings at Newport@soundtrackfilmfestival.com

X Banned: A Clockwork Orange

Saturday 19 November, Chapter Arts Centre

In celebration of the 40^th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s controversial A Clockwork Orange, the event will feature an exclusive exhibition of documents from the Stanley Kubrick Archive (5 – 8pm), a screening of the film (8-8:30pm) and a discussion panel with guests including Nigel Galt, Sound Editor on many Kubrick films (10.30-11:15pm).

Sound It Out

Sunday 20 November 3:30pm, Chapter Arts Centre

A documentary portrait of the very last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, Sound it Out documents a place that is thriving against the odds and the local community that keeps it alive. A Q&A with director Jeanie Finlay, and Spillers Records’ Ashli Todd follows.

Punk Attitude

Sun 20 Nov 6pm, Chapter Arts Centre

A screening of Don Letts’ 2005 film tracing the evolution of punk from the burning embers of Jerry Lee Lewis’ piano, via New York’s Bowery, the English explosion, No Wave, Hardcore, Grunge and in to the melting pot of contemporary rock.

Following the screening Don Letts will take part in an “In Conversation” regarding his career as a filmmaker and the influence of punk rock on his work.

The indie band Guillemots are to perform a one-off “film rescoring” as part of this year’s Soundtrack Film Festival.

The Mercury-nominated four-piece will provide an improvised score to the as-yet unnamed movie at the Coal Exchange on 18 November.

Soundtrack Festival’s Marcus Lawry said: “Guillemots are not your average band, and they have form in live rescores, which ticked our box immediately”.

The festival takes the form of a series of events showcasing the innate relationship between film and music. “I believe a great score needs to enhance the message that the director is trying to convey to the audience”, said Lawry.

Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys performs at a past Soundtrack Festival (photo courtesy Marcus Lawry)

Festival organisers are keeping quiet about which film will be rescored, but the films previously rescored by Guillemots — David Lynch’s nightmarish Eraserhead and Park Chan Wook’s ultra-violent revenge thriller Oldboy – may provide some indication as to what to expect.