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Win tickets to the UK Premiere screening of Sufjan Steven's The BQE 06/04/10 in Sufjan Stevens
We have some tickets to give away for the UK premiere of Sufjan Stevens’ The BQE film at the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield on Sunday April 25th at 5:30pm. If you would like to go please leave a comment at the bottom of this news story.
Sensoria is the UK’s festival of music, film and digital and the 7-day hive of activity takes place 23 – 29 April. In association with Rough Trade, the festival is proud to announce a special screening of The BQE by musical genius Sufjan Stevens.
UK PREMIERE SCREENING
THE BQE
Sufjan Stevens’ film was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and inspired by the stop-start motion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway – and also the Hula-Hoop. The result is a widescreen triptych ode to a potholed, serpentine trunk road that doesn’t really work. New York’s “other boroughs” are captured by utilising time-lapse photography and post-production mirror effects to transform urban blight into beautiful compositions.
Accompanied by Stevens’ band and a chamber orchestra, the soundtrack is inspired by Gershwin, Terry Riley, Charles Ives and Warp Records’ Autechre.
On this night time underground, overground train journey we travel in a time-altered, mirrored world which turns reality, quite literally, on it’s head and motivates us to view it in a completely different way.
I really want to see the BQE crafted by sufjan stevens hands and mind and the fellow who helped him. hope i can go to this- Love
— joy simpson · 07/04/10 07:05 PM · #
Whoo! It would be awesome to see Sufjan Stevens’ new project. And even better to see it in the UK.
— jordie · 08/04/10 10:54 AM · #
BQE! BQE! Sufjan rules, please pick me!
— Davey · 08/04/10 11:07 AM · #
Yay! My dream of seeing The BQE on the big screen has come true!! Please may I have some tickets?
— Nic Smith · 08/04/10 06:49 PM · #
stop giving hope! you ain’t gonna throw one of the tickets to me anyway, are ya?
blimey!
— Syamsurizal · 09/04/10 02:39 AM · #
Asked my kid if he’d like to come with me to watch BQE. He suggested that if I put Sufjan on the ipod and went down to Brocco Bank, I could watch the same thing. And it would be interactive – I could become part of the art.
I think he’s wrong. The skies are bluer in NYstate.
And he should have said Derek Dooley Way.
— Ida · 09/04/10 05:46 PM · #
oh i’d really really love to see this… i hope you’re not picking people on the merits of their witty (or not) comments cos i’ve been in the library for almost 12 hours and i’ve got nothing… except that a break to see a wonderful bit of film would be VERY welcome and that i’d truly appreciate every second…
pleeeease?!
x x x x
— Natalie · 13/04/10 04:52 PM · #
This would really brighten up an otherwise glum month! I’d love to win tickets please! x
— Lisa · 13/04/10 10:45 PM · #
I’d love to see this as Sufjan stevens is one of the few people who’s lyrics resonate and allow you to understand the emotion and feeling with the music wrapping you up like a blanket to keep you secure.
PLEASE, PLEASE, let me go
— Stephane Jones · 14/04/10 10:39 AM · #
You need me.
— Johanna Middleton · 23/04/10 05:38 AM · #