A FILM featuring the music and ideas of Biffy Clyro is the People’s Gala event at Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF).
Balance, Not Symmetry, described by the EIFF as director Jamie Adams’s “beautiful cinematic tribute to art, music and Scotland”, features original new music from the popular Scots rockers, who last month digitally released a 17-song soundtrack album, also named Balance, Not Symmetry.
Biffy Clyro also worked on the film’s storyline, which follows a recently bereaved student at Glasgow School of Art.
Featuring a cast of Scottish actors including Kate Dickie, Shauna Macdonald and Freya Mavor, the film screens at EIFF’s £5 People’s Gala at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.
It’s one of three key films related to Scotland’s music culture at this year’s EIFF, which runs from June 19 to June 30.
In Schemers, Dundee-born writer/director David McLean recalls his early years in the city’s music business as a rookie promoter. Shot exclusively around Dundee, the seventies-set film stars Conor Berry as Davie, a young man determined to avoid “a real job” through his increasingly ambitious gambles.
That latter phrase recalls Bill Drummond, the artist, musician and writer unlikely to be forgotten for having burned £1 million in 1994 after worldwide success of The KLF, his chart-beating pop outfit with Jimmy Cauty. And yes, the affable Queen of the South fan regrets it.
In Best Before Death, Irish documentary-maker Paul Duane follows Drummond over a two-year period as he takes his art and ideas to local communities in the US and India.
Scottish actor and activist Tam Dean Burn will join other guests in a special event before the EIFF screening.
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