War Room And Director Adam C. Briggs Collaborate To Bring Live Music & Film Together
"I instantly registered an approach, cinematic sensibility, and humanity in accordance with this project," director Adam C. Briggs says of the collaboration.
Film poster for "BOOGIE BOBBY" (Supplied)
Moviejuice is back.
The Adelaide-based film collective has long been a beacon of community-driven and community-upheld creativity. First formed in 2022, Moviejuice has been a mainstay of artistic cross-pollination and resolute creative passion and innovation here in South Australia. Though their main commitment is to the screening, distribution, and celebration of alternative and experimental cinema, they ultimately prioritise telling stories - in whatever medium these stories may come in.
On Saturday, March 29th, Moviejuice is returning with a major event: the South Australian premiere of BOOGIE BOBBY, to be held at Adelaide’s beloved Mercury Cinema.
BOOGIE BOBBY is the newest work from acclaimed film visionary Adam C. Briggs, known for his features PARIS FUNERAL, 1972 and A GRAND MOCKERY, the latter of which won the Best Feature Film prize at SXSW Sydney last year.
The premise of his latest film is simple and intriguing: “Bobby goes on a final drinking bout with his only friend, Steve, before he flies home to Canada. The last lonely teardrop of a friendship.”
The premiere will include a special presentation accompanied by a live score from local post-punk luminaries, War Room - whose recent debut album, Please Don’t Fight In Here, is maximalist and fearless. At the Mercury Cinema, the five-piece will showcase their lucid, lawless sound with a brand new score composed especially for the film.
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When asked what initially drew him to War Room’s music, director Adam C. Briggs said, “Cinema is traditionally a finite medium, and with this film, which harboured volatile and vertiginously collaborative spirit throughout each stage of its creation, we wished to subvert this notion. Craning, a Brisbane band, crafted an improvised score for the film, and our concept was to invite other musicians to reform that score to be played live when the film screened in their town. Like the film, this is an experiment and a means to disrupt the usual machinery of film presentation.
“I met War Room members Thea and Louis last year and instantly registered an approach, cinematic sensibility, and humanity in accordance with this project. Thea was particularly generous in creating a text score from the original score, which will guide other bands with their own iterations of this film’s sound.”
The screening of the film will be followed by a Q&A with Briggs and star/co-writer Robert "Bobbie Bott" Vagg.
In a previous interview with The Music, Daniel Tune, one of the founding members of Moviejuice, expanded on the distinctive intersectionality between film and music as creative mediums, saying, “I think music and film both have a unique potential to work on their audiences on a level that is both time-based and (at least partly) pre-verbal… For me, at least, living in the worlds of my favourite music helped me to conceptualise a world of my own in film - and I know the same can happen in reverse.”
He went on to say, “In general, we would all just like to see more cross-pollination between the forms and the people who make their art in them…I think in my little personal utopia, everyone would view film, music, and every other art form not as separate pursuits but as parts of a whole.”
The premiere of BOOGIE BOBBY will take place at the Mercury Cinema on Saturday, 29th March. Doors will open at 4 pm. The screening will begin at 5 pm. Tickets are available to purchase online here.
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