Saturday 31st October 2015, 10pm.
Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG

Join us on Hallowe'en for our Atmosphere of Häxan (1922) with live score by the improv ensemble of the Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra. Based partly on a study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German treatise on the prosecution of witches, Häxan is a study of how superstition and misunderstanding can lead to hysteria.

Director Benjamin Christensen's lengthy and meticulous production period made the film the most expensive Scandinavian silent film ever made. Banned in the United States and heavily censored in other countries for what were considered at that time graphic depictions of torture, nudity and sexual perversion. Bring it on.

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Saturday 4th April 2015, 7:30pm. RSVP
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh EH1 1JF

Greetings program. Welcome to the Grid.

Kick off the 2015 LateLab season by playing games to decide which of these two films gets the Atmosphere treatment in this special expanded cinema event to complement the Game Masters exhibition on display.

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Be transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer where interaction between programs good and malicious is the only way to get back out. Behind the smoke and mirrors, watch out for the bits and bytes.

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Friday 10th October 2014, 8pm. £12/£10
Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB

As part of the BFI 'Days of Fear and Wonder' Sci-Fi season Peaches Christ introduces an Atmosphere screening of Roger Vadim's 1968 classic 'Barbarella' with an out-of-this-world pre-show starring San Francisco's own Lady Bear.

Additional roles will be filled by fellow San Franciscan bon-vivants Hugz Bunny and Shemantha, UK performers the Ultra Violets, Cheddar Gorgeous and Anna Phylactic plus local guests from Glasgow. Dress Code: 41st Century Chic.

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Saturday 5th April 2014, 9:30 for 10pm.
Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Make room, make room! Atmosphere is back, but wait a minute, it's now 2022. Earth is overpopulated, polluted and malnourished. Soylent Industries has a solution. They take plankton from the sea and make food, Soylent Green. It's far more appetising than their red or yellow varieties too.

Starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, this 1973 science fiction classic was directed by Richard Fleischer. Guest augmentologists will respond with ideas about algaculture and synthetic biology. The tasty twist in the tail will undoubtedly have you gripping the furniture.

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Friday 12th August 2016, 9pm. £10
Assembly Rooms, 54 George St, Edinburgh EH2 2LR

"A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then that it is the year 10,191. The Known Universe is ruled by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, my father. In this time, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange."

The spice enables travel to any part of the universe without moving, by folding space. Join a star studded cast on a journey helmed by messianic Kyle MacLachlan to control the desert planet of Arrakis, the source of the spice.

At the Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival, Matt Collings and Sean Williams will present their new 7.1 electronic sound mix of David Lynch’s film adaptation. The original sci-fi novel is the world's best-selling, ever.

Friday 5th August 2016, 9:30pm. £10
Assembly Rooms, 54 George St, Edinburgh EH2 2LR

With a focus on analogue, electronic and digital sound technology, Atmosphere is coming to the new Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival this August. Toby Jones stars as a sound engineer working on the special effects for a 1970s Italian giallo film, 'The Equestrian Vortex'.

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However, a case of life imitating art unfolds in this terrifying take on the Englishman abroad drama. Guest foley artists will work on live analogue special effects throughout the screening, bringing the mechanics behind the film firmly into view with a virtuoso slice and dice.

11th & 12th October 2019. RSVP
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

As part of BFI Musicals! The Greatest Show on Screen, a UK wide celebration of movie musicals, we're returning our Atmosphere screening programme to its birthplace, Inspace, for the first time in six years. Back in 2013, on the invitation of the Year of Natural Scotland, we first screened Brigadoon and it became our most fabled Atmosphere.

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Shot entirely on a sound stage in Hollywood after director Vincente Minnelli found Scotland wasn't Scottish enough. Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse star in this 1954 MGM musical. Guest augmentoligists returning include Pyrus Botanicals. Anything is possible... even miracles. The mists will once again clear, to reveal the mythical village.

Friday 28th June 2013, 8:30 for 9pm. £5
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Whilst moving to a new neighborhood, ten-year-old Chihiro Ogino's family think they've stumbled upon an abandoned amusement park, but it turns out to be an alternate reality inhabited by spirits, gods and monsters.

After her parents are transformed into pigs by the witch Yubaba, Chihiro befriends a boy, Haku. She takes a job working in Yubaba's bathhouse to find a way to free herself and her parents and escape back to the human world.

We're delighted to welcome back guest augmentologist Ericka Duffy of Gorilla Perfume, who along with Paul Tvaroh of Lounge Bohemia and a new addition to the team, Jelly & Gin will arouse your senses tonight.

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Friday 21st June 2013, 7.30-8.30pm. £9 (£7.50)
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

The Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra is back at the lab! Edinburgh’s only orchestra entirely devoted to performing film and TV music will be further expanding its repertoire with some suitably cinematic music from video games.

The concert features music from Grammy nominated composer Austin Wintory (Journey), Jessica Curry (Dear Esther), Simon and Andrew Hale (LA Noire), Robert Holmes (Gray Matter) and Jacob Pernell (Deep Blue Sky).

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Friday 21st June 2013, 10am-5.30pm. £6 (£5)
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

This symposium examines the phenomenon and music of video games, and will look at developments in current independent video game productions. Game developers will be in attendance, including Yann Seznec of Lucky Frame and Alexander Mathew of USC Interactive Media.

L.A.-based composer Jeff Rona (God of War III) will be interviewed, and there will be a panel of video game composers including Jessica Curry (Dear Esther), Simon Hale (LA Noire) and others. Presented by Edinburgh University with EIFF and New Media Scotland.

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