Little Jewel Cinema Diamond Season Oct 06 - Jan 07

Beep rebels against the idea that you have to keep your phone off and keep quiet in the cinema. Inviting the audience to turn on their phone to provide the score is a solution to the problem of printing sound on film because it’s intended to be projected on film. A ‘beep’ is the noise that happens at the same time as the number 2 is reached in a film’s countdown leader and the noise all our mobile phones make.

meow stars Bob the cat and is an example of in-camera trick photography inspired by Melies and other early cinema pioneers. It is film as a technicians medium - but executed by an artist without the means to do it properly which lends it an extra strange quality. It’s the kind of special effect which blows it’s own cover so it can’t be accused of trying to fool you just encouraging you gently into a surrealistic funny world.