What’s next for The Duke?

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So with DukeFest over we’re now looking at what other film chaos we can unleash this Summer, here’s a breakdown of what else we’ve got coming up for you in the next few months:

Monday 27 July – 8^th Birthday Blow Out Film Party!

Yes we turn 8 this year and we’re celebrating a month early due to the Camden Fringe Festival taking over The Phoenix all through August. Come and join us for a night of the unknown as we guide you into the most outer reaches of film weirdness with an evening of shorts, trailers, clips, found footage, oddities, giveaways and more.

Friday 7 August – Sunday 9 August – Nine Worlds Geekfest

We’re really pleased to be heading back to the amazing Nine Worlds Geekfest for 3 days of film fun starting with us going super late night on the Friday with an 11PM to 3AM show, they won’t know what’s hit ‘em! The Saturday we’ll be running a board game slot in the afternoon before hosting a Sci-Fi shorts section that we’ve programmed in the evening. Rounding off the Sunday, Night Of The Trailers will be hitting the audience with a Best Of Trailers & Found Footage show.

Saturday 29 August – FrightFest

We’re back at FrightFest with a killer double bill! Join us at 8.30PM for the UK premiere of the amazing Turkish cult film documentary Remake, Remix, Rip Off which lifts the lid on all those wild Turkish action films and remakes that we love so much. Then at 10.45PM join us for the Duke @ FrightFest Late Night Party, where we’ll have as many special guests from the festival as possible joining us on stage to show you their favourite trailers, clips, scenes or anything else they want to bring along!

Monday 21 September

We’re back at the Phoenix and slightly earlier this month simply due to both of us heading off to Austin for FantasticFest. We’ve not decided the theme for the night yet, but we’ll let you know as soon as we’ve got it all set up.

London 0 Hull 0

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You asked for it, so here it is! One of the highlights from DukeFest 2015 was our Hull remix video, sit back and let your mind melt…

DukeFest – Miss at your own peril!

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On Sunday 28th June at Prince Charles Cinema we’ll press start on Dukefest 2015 – a year-long labour of love!

And as we are on the precipice of the exciting moment, I wanted to stand up and invite those who are still not committed:

Dukefest is an intense labour of love: it is hours of works, millions of email, thousands of movies, hundreds of debates – every single inch of this festival is born out of us – no corporate sponsors, no assistants, no helpers, no volunteers. But there’s one element without which it would not work: you!

This is a chance for you to come join us in what we think is the best and weirdest and strangest and shocking and entertaining material out there – to find out what other film clubs around the world have sent for Found Footage Worldwide, to discover New York’s best unknown cable talent show, to experience Eleganza and of course to bathe in the sleaze of Private Spy. This is a chance to support independent cinema and exhibition in London, to show that there IS room out there for more variety, more exploration and more wonder!

There’s nothing out there like The Duke and Dukefest – come and find out why for yourself!

So who is the DukeFest Mystery Man?

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If you’ve been following us for a while then you’ll have seen a certain mysterious character on all our DukeFest promotions, but just who is he?

Well the answer is: Gary Wayne. We found these negatives one day on ebay while just digging around and instantly knew he’d be the perfect image for Dukefest this year. Turns out Gary was a psychic from Texas and the pictures were taken in 1979, the only other solid info about him we can find is that he co-wrote the book Unlocking Your ESP in 1977 with Jeanie Linders. Interestingly the Amazon listing credits his actual name as PSYCHIC Gary Wayne, not sure how he ended up with the word PSYCHIC in his name or why it has to be in capital letters but it’s a fun side note at least.

There’s about 30 negatives of him in the set, we’ve had a few scanned in to use for DukeFest, but now I’m tempted to get them all done, just to pay tribute to such a cool looking cat.

Something to look out for is Gary’s new age pendant which can be seen in two of the pictures, what’s actually on the pendent? It’s hard to see but to me it looks like some sort of Alien, anyone else got any ideas of what it is?