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The Acid Real
Startling New Film from John Evans
Premieres this week

Tuesday 10 August, 7.30 pm
Cardiff Arts Institute, Cardiff
Free Entry

From pits to punk, post-industrialisation to pastoral this new film journeys through the postmodern South Wales landscape. John Evans' film The Acid Real is based on his critically acclaimed book of the same name, which was published by Underground Press in 2009.

Evans is a former frontman for Wales' premier punk band, 'The Tax Exiles', and as a solo artist recorded for legendary indie label 4AD. Now an author and film-maker, he has been described as "one of Wales' most talented and original artists and writers". He is also a well known activist, campaigning on social, cultural and environmental issues.

The film, which was shot in Cardiff and the South Wales Valleys, has an original soundtrack by experimental composer, Mike Kennedy, camera-work by rising star Hywel Griffith and includes readings and voice over by John Evans. Global warming, war on terror, vivisection, unemployment, social deprivation, wildlife and the natural world, loneliness and loss, beauty and love, are just some of it's themes.

John Evans said, "the film is a postmodern documentary, a journey through Cardiff and the South Wales Valleys. The Acid Real juxtaposes urbanisation with the natural world, and hopelessness and alienation against beauty and the power of love. It shows how the local has now become the international and the international has become the local."

"The film is the product of an exciting collaboration, bringing together word, music and image in a way I've not seen before. The film is something like a wildlife and planet earth documentary, meets David Lynch, or punk meets Zen Buddhism. It's contemporary art, for contemporary Wales"

For more information on John Evans click here to visit his website.