Hackney Film Festival launches record label

Detail from cover of HFF (Vol.1)

Hackney Film Festival is to make an unexpected return this month with the launch of a record label, Psyche Tropes.

At a launch event at Apiary Studios on 29 August, the fledgling label is to release a limited edition triple vinyl compilation entitled ‘HFF (Vol. 1)’, which comes with a 16mm film strip and includes tracks by a clutch of audio-visual artists who live and work in Hackney.

Aboutface, Dave Draper, Some Truths and Spatial are among the featured artists, and Sally Golding’s sound artwork ‘Ghost – Loud and Strong’, which debuted at the 2012 festival, is also set to feature.

The label is to focus on the intersections between film and music. Festival contributor Stuart Heaney describes the release as “a crucible of images that begets sounds…in search of a new synthesis”.

The visual component to ‘HFF (Vol.1)’ sees analogue frames of great smoking chimneys spliced with birds of the River Lea, a field recording in Springfield Park and a train carriage travelling from Stoke Newington to Liverpool Street in real time.

Those who have already bought the record need only bring along their 16 mm strips of film to gain entry to the event, which will feature live audio-visual performances from the likes of Doffy Weir, whose film Lesney’s Ghosts centres on reflections in the River Lea and Hackney Cut, accompanied by a soundtrack by Dave Draper.

See here for tickets and details of the Psyche Tropes launch event at Apiary Studios on 29 August.