{"id":1576,"date":"2011-01-15T20:28:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T19:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/news\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2014-05-27T07:25:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T06:25:21","slug":"lsff-the-cursed-cassette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2011\/01\/15\/lsff-the-cursed-cassette\/","title":{"rendered":"LSFF: The Cursed Cassette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1578\" href=\"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/news\/2011\/01\/15\/lsff-the-cursed-cassette\/review_cursedcassette\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1578\" title=\"The Cursed Cassette\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/review_cursedcassette.jpg?resize=474%2C265\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just returned from the London Short Film Festival&#8217;s Music and Video shorts at the Roxy Bar and Screen, a smorgasbord of playful and elaborate musical and visual delights. Look out for the write-up next month but in the meantime you can check out one of the films in the programme below, Paul Cheshire&#8217;s very brief but brilliantly strange <em>The Cursed Cassette<\/em>. There is still one day of LSFF left, with some very exciting stuff going on, such as the Leftfield and Luscious programme, which we previewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/features\/2011\/01\/03\/london-short-film-festival-2011-leftfield-and-luscious\/\">here<\/a>, and the Salon des Refus\u00e9s and Rich Pickings events. For more information, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/2011.shortfilms.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">LSFF website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Virginie S\u00e9lavy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch a scene from <em>The Cursed Cassette<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9B18rl7Ec64?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Paul Cheshire&#8217;s very brief but brilliantly strange <I>The Cursed Cassette<\/I>, which screened at LSFF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[53,660],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-check-it-out","category-festivals","tag-music","tag-short-film"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/purUP-pq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3831,"url":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2013\/11\/16\/the-counsellor\/","url_meta":{"origin":1576,"position":0},"title":"The Counsellor","author":"Pam Jahn","date":"November 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Ridley Scott's latest offering is an authentic film maudit - a cursed film, spluttering on the fumes of its own demise. 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