MOVE, is a short film fusing the worlds of traditional Highland pipe music and urban hip hop, shot on location in Mid Argyll, filmed and edited by Dave Dunbar, Director of Photography and Editor of BAFTA winning film Bulb.  MOVE will be screened prior to main features in the Screen Machine mobile cinema for a two month period as it tours Scotland from 30^th July 2010.

This dynamic short film is the result of a unique collaboration with Wild Biscuit, Mid Argyll Pipe Band and Scotland’s No1 Hip Hop Crew, Random Aspekts whose credits include choreography and performances with Black Eyed Peas, Scottish Ballet, David Guetta and Kelly Rowland at the MOBO Awards in Glasgow’s SSEC, and the Strathmore Water television ad campaign.

Wild Biscuit worked with members of the Mid Argyll Pipe Band over a period of eight weeks in preparation for a dance workshop and performance day, taking the band into new territories of music and movement. The music for MOVE is an urban beat re-working of a familiar pipe tune, recorded by Wild Biscuit’s musical director John Saich, who gained his trad stripes in his eleven years as member of Scots Gaelic band Capercaillie.

He says: “We hadn’t intended to develop the project into a film, but had the gut feeling that this was going to be something that really needed to be recorded. To our great fortune, Dave Dunbar was as intrigued by the idea of this cross discipline project as Random Aspekts were, so we decided to commission and produce this short film, mainly as a piece of work in its own right but also as a legacy of what we believe is something quite unique.” 

As Tony Mills of Random Aspekts said on the day: “Mid Argyll Pipe Band has the groove, we hope to add some funk” and that’s exactly what they did.  On screen Tony is joined by two of his Random Aspekts crew Bilal Oussellam and Ashley Jack, performing highlights of a bespoke three-part routine that he choreographed for the day.

You can watch MOVE now in HD at:www.youtube.com/TheWildbiscuit

or visit www.wildbiscuit.com for links.

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