One last night to dance and say goodbye. Evening Program:

21:00h Opening doors. 

21:30h Welcome: Roda de Samba

22:30 h Showcase: Paulinho Boca singing Novos Baianos

23:15 h DJs. Festival staff play their loved music . Everything for everyone.

As we are also a little demonic, we’re repeating our London’s Backstage All Night Marathon on the night of October 31st. Three epic concerts filmed by Murray Lerner at the Isle of Wight will headline.

24:15h

 Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 

Murray Lerner - USA – 2009 – 66' 

A mystical, longhaired Leonard Cohen stars in a new Lerner rehash of the Isle of Wight 1970 universe. Further gone than his audience, the poet that loved women unfolds his charms and freezes anarchy in a whisper. Be afraid. 

01:45h

 Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at The Isle of Wight 

Murray Lerner - USA – 2002 – 118'

The Apocalypse Now-like chaos of the Isle of Wight 1970 is the rugged landscape before which the great, black guitar-hero burns in his concert on August 31st, at 2am. From "God Save the Queen" to "Purple Haze" in 118 unforgettable minutes of acid rock engulfed in flames. 

04:10h

Listening to You: The Who at The Isle of Wight Festival

Murray Lerner - UK – 1970 – 86'

A thousand thrashes and two thousand guitar slashes. 85 minutes of the world's greatest group let rip against everything. Classics, Tommy, rock'n'roll and jazz standards ("Young Man Blues") and even an unreleased number ("Water"). Fringes to the wind and drums shredded to ribbons. Unforgettable, dear friends. 

Since the last Beefeater In-Edit, three other In-Edits have taken place around the World (Chile, Brazil and Germany). The winning documentaries in their respective national sections are screened in a special, free session.

18:00h

Music From the Moon

Carsten Christochowitz, Christian Hund, Uwe Wältring / Germany / 2009 / VOSI

A travelling puppeteers show (Hypno Theatre) visits Iceland and Greenland with its art. Their voyage echoes music (with Sigur Ros, Mum and Emiliana Torrini) but also cookery, education, beliefs and Nordic character. Intimate sounds and postcard-perfect landscapes. 

Presentation with the three directors

20:00h

Electrodomésticos: el frío misterio

Sergio Castro / Chile / 2009 / VOSI

The saga of Santiago de Chile's most unusual (and immortal) band, from 1982 – under dictatorship – until today, transformed into an elegant commentary on community, secrecy and innovation. The coldest and most modern trio of Chilean new wave. 

Presentation with Sergio Castro

22:30h

Filhos de Jôao, O admirável mundo Novo Baiano

Henrique Dantas / Brazil / 2009 / VOSE

The evangelism of the emblematic group, Novos Baianos. Hedonist freaks, football and rock addicts, the NB's would become the most successful group in Tropicalism. Original footage and witnesses like Tom Zé chime in to create a moving and passionate narrative. 

Presentation with Henrique Dantas

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American musical documentaries, Murray Lerner’s face would figure among those of Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker and Martin Scorsese. His capacity to furnish us with some of the most electrifying, visionary and inspiring moments in popular music is outstanding. And the list, heartstopping: Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Who, The Doors, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix... And, without avoiding the contexts and conjunctures in which they took place: the creation of a new musical culture, aesthetic, and political, surrounding the Newport Festival in Festival!, the conflict between art and money, music and business  in Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival, or the dark – and delirious – side of the Chinese cultural revolution in  From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. In a moment of particular exacerbation with the visual culture, it becomes especially interesting to discover the role that avant-garde poetry plays in his conception of the documentary, or how directing has led him to write, film and edit almost all his films, not just for the DIY element, but moreover for the command of materials typical of any creator worth their salt.

In 2009, Fermín Muguruza made Checkpoint Rock. Canciones desde Palestina, a documentary that shortly after its premiere, earned him a passionate assignment from Al Jazeera: to document the Arab world in eight monographic documentaries. From Morocco to Lebanon, from Egypt to Yemen, via Tunisia or Sudan. The result is Next Music Station, an exploration of the traditional and emerging sounds, rhythms and contexts of the Arab world. Almost a year of shooting and over eighty interviews reveal the extraordinary diversity, the richness of the cultural legacy and the vitality of its musicians, which, in some cases, draw us into its atmosphere and the conflicts these countries experienced before the Arab Spring. Following a screening of the documentaries on Wednesday November 2^nd and Thursday 3^rd, Muguruza will chat about the project with Montaser Marai, producer of the series for Al Jazeera, in an encounter chaired by Lidia Martorell.

TUNISIA

Fermín Muguruza / Spain, Qatar / 2011 / 52’

The extraordinary Tunisian musical legacy through the great performers of traditional music, styles like Malouf, Taraab chants and a new generation that perceives its music and their roles as musicians in political terms. 

EGYPT

Fermín Muguruza / Spain, Qatar / 2011 / 100’

The sonic landscape of the Arab cultural giant, from Aswan to Luxor and Asiut, from Cairo to Port Said: from its rich tradition of chanting and improvisation to hip hop and rock, passing through rhythms with flamenco roots, Sufi mysticism, Zar and Dervish dances.

In 2009, Fermín Muguruza made Checkpoint Rock. Canciones desde Palestina, a documentary that shortly after its premiere, earned him a passionate assignment from Al Jazeera: to document the Arab world in eight monographic documentaries. From Morocco to Lebanon, from Egypt to Yemen, via Tunisia or Sudan. The result is Next Music Station, an exploration of the traditional and emerging sounds, rhythms and contexts of the Arab world. Almost a year of shooting and over eighty interviews reveal the extraordinary diversity, the richness of the cultural legacy and the vitality of its musicians, which, in some cases, draw us into its atmosphere and the conflicts these countries experienced before the Arab Spring. Following a screening of the documentaries on Wednesday November 2^nd and Thursday 3^rd, Muguruza will chat about the project with Montaser Marai, producer of the series for Al Jazeera, in an encounter chaired by Lidia Martorell.

We knew about Michael Nyman’s love affair with film, through his collaborations with Peter Greenaway (The Draughtsman’s Contract; The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover), Michael Winterbottom (Wonderland, Tristram Shandy: a Cock and Bull Story) and Jane Champion (The Piano). Less well known is his role as filmmaker, as a man glued to his camera. He reveals this side to us today in this encounter, in which we see fragments of Cine Opera and Nyman with a Movie Camera, his two documentaries to date. The first takes its name from a run-down cinema in Mexico City, it’s a collection of short pieces that takes the form of a visual diary, alternating between spontaneity and the footnote at the base of the page, fruit of his gallivanting around half way around the world, and all set to music by the man himself. Experimentation and the “a day in the life of” articulate the second, a recreation of the classic by Dziga Vértov, inventor of cine-eye and Nyman’s director fetish. An opportunity to enter the world of this prolific composer and pianist, musicologist and orchestra director, through his own words and his own eyes. 

We enter the kitchen of El rosari de l'aurora, a journey through the musical imaginary and ups and downs of Adrià Puntí, one of the most unique and inimitable creators of Catalan pop. A production as frenetic and surreal as its star, which Xavier Puig, Raimon Fransoy and Marc Ruiz began embracing more than three years ago, and which today divulges the ins and outs and delicious unseen footage. As production is in full swing, its dossier reveals all the habitual – and essential – letters of support for the project to seek funding, this lifestage of every documentary that transforms it, once completed, into a miracle, and in most cases, into an odyssey. Out of all of them, we particularly dig one by Quimi Portet, in which he highlights what he calls the “inescapable” importance of this documentary “its poetic temple, linguistic brilliance and exquisite musical inspiration make (from Punti’s work), an essential testament to our contemporary culture, and constitute a powerful antidote against the boredom that our secular political sadness and the precariousness of our cultural activity project on the lyrical segregations of this country.”

Paloma Concejero claims that the first time she heard the recordings of the conversations between Antonio and Bosco Ussía, author of the singer’s biography, she felt “so excited it sent shivers up my spine”. This documentary provides a similar sensation, earning its title from the chorus of the song “Persiguiendo sombras”, with the subtitle “Vega como no lo has visto antes”. If the recordings in question were the first brick of this building, the second consisted of throwing the Manichaeism of catastrophe, the tortured legend that surrounds Vega, overboard, with the intention of revealing the lesser-known and more unusual aspects of his personality. As such, it relies on the complicity of his family and also his adopted families: his musicians and those who gave him shelter and hospitality at some moment of his life. Abundant unseen footage – recordings in Super 8, graphic testimonies and photos from his personal archives, oh and incursions into the places that defined and inspired his songs complete this ambitious portrait of one of the greatest figures in Spanish pop.

No decoro filmes con música; la música ha de sobrevivir en sus propios términos

Parecería que la frase la ha encargado alguno de los miembros del equipo de Beefeater In-Edit a fin de resaltar la importancia que la música tiene como motor de múltiples manifestaciones humanas. La música, así, en un singular que en realidad es plural pues al hablar de música en Beefeater In-Edit siempre hablamos de músicas, es, son, nuestro sentido. Pero no queremos olvidar que la música se expresa también por medio de las imágenes, aquellas instantáneas y secuencias, aquellas historias y narraciones, con las que los documentalistas arrojan alimento a nuestra curiosidad. La música y la imagen caminan, pues, juntas. Eso somos, eso es Beefeater-In Edit: la imagen que documenta la música y a los músicos. La imagen que nos documenta como productores de cultura.

En su novena edición, el festival quiere abrir sus salas al público precisamente con un documental que narra la historia de un músico que se ha dado a conocer por las partituras que ha escrito para las imágenes de muchas películas. Michael Nyman, explicado en sus aspectos personales y humanos, profesionales y musicológicos, se convierte en protagonista de “Michael Nyman In Progress”, un documental que muestra el proceso de construcción de una obra, el mismo Nyman, aún inacabada. Como el propio Beefeater In-Edit, un festival en marcha, una idea dibujada en una pantalla, un proceso sin fin, una estimulante complicidad. Queremos implicarte. Te esperamos.

"No decoro filmes con música; la música ha de sobrevivir en sus propios términos."                                               

Michael Nyman

Para la sesión inaugural contaremos con la presencia de Silvia Beck (directora) y Michael Nyman.

Thursday 28th
Wanted
(Samba vs. Funk)

Friday 29th
Fredrik Egerstrand + José González (djs)
(To mark the occasion of the premiere of The Life of José González)

Saturday 30th
Louie Louie djs

Sunday 31st
In-Halloween con Harry Callahan & "Boppin' Djs"

Monday 1st
Desparramendian: K**O & Ho$oi
(To mark the occasion of the premiere of Simple Graces)

Tuesday 2nd
Especial Creation Records: Quique Ramos + Miqui Otero djs
(To mark the occasion of the premiere of Upside Down)

Wednesday 3rd
Joan S. Luna vs. Raül de Tena

Thursday 4th
Especial Limbo Starr:

David López dj + Abraham Boba (solo), Tachenko (Sergio Vinadé y Sebas Puente) and Ornamento y Delito showcases
(To mark the occasion of the premiere of Limbo Starr)

Friday 5th
Harry Callahan & Machito

Saturday 6th
Clasura I

Sunday 7th
Clausura II 

Friday 28th

"There's a band in town. We've arrived, we're here and we're Los Cicatriz." Jorge Tur responded to the challenge of this extraordinary short with a particular tour de force: to shoot and edit a documentary diary on Vitoria in a mere three days. He chose one of its most emblematic groups, the defunct Cicatriz, famous '80s punk band and authentic hurricane in their day, whose trail is reconstructed through encounters with those who knew them and those who ask them to sing their songs. The result is a moving tale of a generation, time and city that have disappeared. 

Beefeater In-Edit is close to the end and it's time to unveil the winners of the 9th edition (the prize of the audience will know on Sunday night).

In our traditional closing ceremony (really informal) we'll announce the winners of the two sections under competition and continue with the premiere in Spain of Ray Davies - Imaginary man.

By chance, Beefeater In-Edit and Barcelona start with the same letter. Not by chance, from the get-go one of our main interests has been reflecting the pulse of Barcelonese and Catalan music through documentaries. This means maximizing the moments in which the vitality and vigor of new generations of musicians awaken the support of new audiences.

As festival followers have already noticed, memory has an important role at Beefeater In-Edit, given that in life, like in art, we're the result of what others were before us. That's why, this year, for the eighth edition of the festival, we're proud to include a documentary like "Barcelona era una fiesta (Underground 1970-1983)" to inaugurate a new Beefeater In-Edit.

With this documentary, we want to express that we form part of a tradition, an urban tradition that vitally and creatively exploded not so long ago. We can trace the lines of what we are today from what we were in the not so distant past, within the context of a city that rewrites itself everyday, just like Barcelona itself. And we want to stick around and keep re-writing it. A warm welcome to you all.

We are delighted to welcome Morrosko Vila-San-Juan, director of the documentary, and some of those who star in it to the inauguration. 

Friday, october 28th

Attention!

Our last Crocanti was one month ago, so this means just one thing: This friday a new Crocanti comes. And even more, it's gonna be also a Beefeater In-Edit meeting point night. 

And playing, Miqui Otero, a rara avis since the mythical Our Favourite Club closed. His tricks? latin soul, nu yorica sounds and a lot of boogie.With him, Ari Up will be also playing her classic bombs made of dancehall, funk, disco and even some old school hip hop. And, of course, some gipsy rock made in Spain. 

Archive images and cranky concerts, musical peaks and troughs, devoted fans and interviews with elders, recognition of I was there and predilection for I'd have given my right arm to be there... It's clear that the music documentary has its own rules, and each one is different. A generation touched by the experimental and the televised, by poetic justice and parody in unequal doses. Indescribable flag-bearers of post-patriotic humour, Venga Monjas give a conference on how to make the ideal music documentary. What to do and what not, in a session filled with surprises. 

Don't bother sleeping on the night of October 31st because the festival will offer an all-night selection of historical concerts by British bands. We'll revive the flavour of the first editions of the festival by selling single tickets and also offering all-night passes (with their corresponding access-all-areas wristbands. Programming: 

24:15h Listening to you

02:00h Let's Spend the Night Together

04:00h The Song Remains the Same

Thanks to the collaboration of La Filmoteca de Catalunya, the Pennebaker-Hegedus homage is bigger, and more of their documentaries have been programmed, including some that don't focus on music. Titles included in the extension of the homage are as follows: 

Kings of Pastry (Spanish Premiere) - Tuesday 2nd (19:30h) & Saturday 6th (19:00h + Q&A)

Coming Home + Searching for Jimi Hendrix - Monday 1st (19:30h) & Saturday 6th (22:00h)

The War Room - Monday 1st (22:00h) & Friday 5th (22:00h)

Town Bloody Hall - Wednesday 3rd (22:00h) & Friday 5th (19:30h)

From october 29th to november 5th

Beefeater In-Edit 2010 pays homage to D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, two of the big names in music documentary, by screening some of their most important films. Pioneers of live cinema - the American version of cinema verité, apostles of meditative observation, fans of Fellini, perfect incarnation of being in the right place at the right time and authors of titles as indispensable as Dont Look Back (1967), Monterey Pop (1968), Only the Strong Survive (2002) or Depeche Mode 101 (1989), the directors give a master class. 

We change the format for this edition. On Saturday November 6th, the four winning documentaries will be screened in succession, free of charge. This presentation will take place at the Auditori de la Facultat de Comunicació Blanquerna. 
 

17:00h - Surdesarrollo capítulo I (In-Edit Argentina)

18:30h - Dzi Croquettes (In-Edit Brazil)

20:45h - A Tempo Real (In-Edit Chile)

22:00h - Su Mercé (In-Edit Mexico)

Sunday, October 30th

Jaume Bellmunt (aka Mayfield) has been sharing his music through differente venues in the city (and around). Probably you've seen him at Heliogàbal, Sifo, Marula or Faraday. Only suitable for demanding ears.

Monday, 31st

Dj Evripidis

November 1st

Wednesday, November 2nd

Louie Louie was born just a couple of years ago when Louie Louie Costa and S. Ceprián coincided by chance in Las Vegas. Vintage and old musics...

November 3rd

Friday, November 4th

DJ Evripidis

Friday, november 4th

Due to the screening of the documentary They Call it Acid Nitsa Club will support a special dj-set dedicated to acid music with Fra DJs and Marc Piñol.

Nitsa Club
DJ FRA + MARC PIÑOL
Vj: Entter

La [2] De Nitsa
JOAN CABOT (Badtiming/ Mallorca)
+ DJ COCO

November 5th