Branchage

Branchage is a film festival held in the Channel Island of Jersey. The festival was founded in 2008 by filmmaker Xanthe Hamilton to bring film and arts to the island. It is a mix of site-specific film screenings held across the island in churches, castles, barns, & bunkers alongside more conventional arts spaces and cinemas, alongside film & art commissions, live soundtracks to film, short film programmes, industry networking and spectacular themed parties mixing live performance, name DJs and cabaret.

Branchage is a not for profit organisation.

The inaugural Festival opened with a screening of the Oscar-winning documentary feature Man on Wire (dir: James Marsh) in the Jersey Opera House, followed by a Q&A with producer Simon Chinn; Simon became patron to the Festival in 2009.

The Branchage Spiegeltent was erected in Weighbridge Square, St Helier, for the first time. Saturday night saw the first Bordée de Branchage, a party inspired by burlesque cabaret and circus sideshows, featuring a live performance from Paloma Faith alongside DJ duo The Broken Hearts. Friday night saw a Warp Records themed party with a live set from The Oscillation and DJ set by Broadcast, in celebration of the Warp Films release: A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (dir: Chris Waitt). Saturday afternoon saw local Jersey musicians perform live as part of the Beat Happening Sessions, and Sunday afternoon saw broadcaster and writer Jonny Trunk transmit a live film soundtracks radio show for Resonance FM.

Electronica composer Zan Lyons was commissioned to create a live score to a commissioned film by artist/filmmaker Sarah Wood using Jersey archive footage, called Angel of History, to premiere in the Jersey War Tunnels.

The Kings Chamber Orchestra performed a live score to Suzie Templeton's animated version of Peter and the Wolf 1,200 local school children watched the event in the Jersey Opera House, followed by an evening public evening performance.

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