Sofia Olins’ doc tells the story of the festival’s mythical party area where drag, drugs and debauchery were unrivalled
Here is a documentary that should provide a balm of sorts to anyone pining for Glastonbury in a fallow year for the festival – though one whose charms might be somewhat lost on non-attendees. It tells the story of new-age traveller Roy Gurvitz, who in the early 2000s founded the bacchanalian late-night area Lost Vagueness, a move that invigorated the festival just as it was lurching into irrelevance.
Featuring everything from ballroom dancing to drag shows and gruesome displays of body horror performance art, the area soon became the stuff of legend among festivalgoers – not to mention tabloid editors, who thrilled to the (false) rumours that Kate Moss and Pete Doherty had got hitched in the area’s Chapel of Love. Soon Lost Vagueness was an all-purpose alternative party behemoth in its own right,...
Here is a documentary that should provide a balm of sorts to anyone pining for Glastonbury in a fallow year for the festival – though one whose charms might be somewhat lost on non-attendees. It tells the story of new-age traveller Roy Gurvitz, who in the early 2000s founded the bacchanalian late-night area Lost Vagueness, a move that invigorated the festival just as it was lurching into irrelevance.
Featuring everything from ballroom dancing to drag shows and gruesome displays of body horror performance art, the area soon became the stuff of legend among festivalgoers – not to mention tabloid editors, who thrilled to the (false) rumours that Kate Moss and Pete Doherty had got hitched in the area’s Chapel of Love. Soon Lost Vagueness was an all-purpose alternative party behemoth in its own right,...
- 6/1/2018
- by Gwilym Mumford
- The Guardian - Film News
Marketplace pitch and competition winners also announced; 2016 dates set.
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence has won the Audience Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 5-10).
The documentary, in which a survivor of the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of his brothers, is the follow-up to Oppenheimer’s The Act Of Killing.
Matt Houghton’s Dear Araucaria won the Audience Award for best short while Disney Animated, co-directed by Dave Bossert and Theodore Gray, won best interactive.
Sheffield Doc/Fest, which held its main awards on its closing night last week, has set the dates for its 2016 edition as June 10-15.
This year’s edition saw international delegate numbers rise to more than 3,400, from 3,263 in 2014, according to the festival.
Public numbers were on track to beat last year’s record of 26,700, bolstered by an increase of almost 50% of the festival’s Doc/Lovers wristband, which gave people access to all the films...
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence has won the Audience Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 5-10).
The documentary, in which a survivor of the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of his brothers, is the follow-up to Oppenheimer’s The Act Of Killing.
Matt Houghton’s Dear Araucaria won the Audience Award for best short while Disney Animated, co-directed by Dave Bossert and Theodore Gray, won best interactive.
Sheffield Doc/Fest, which held its main awards on its closing night last week, has set the dates for its 2016 edition as June 10-15.
This year’s edition saw international delegate numbers rise to more than 3,400, from 3,263 in 2014, according to the festival.
Public numbers were on track to beat last year’s record of 26,700, bolstered by an increase of almost 50% of the festival’s Doc/Lovers wristband, which gave people access to all the films...
- 6/16/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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