The chap with the bald head and elvish beard, buzzing around with equipment at Ukelear Meltdown, was Finnish film-maker Arto Polus.  The result of his labour is a fantastic 30 minute film - UKELEAR MELTDOWN: THE MOVIE.

Featuring the Dulwich Ukulele Club, Molly and Me, Eilidh Macaskill, Cat Green Bike and Staggerin' Jon Lee, the film looks at the phenomenal success of the second national festival of extreme Ukulele and the big personalities with small instruments.

Come and see if you can spot yourself!

And due to popular demand (and the permission of director William Preston Robertson) we're showing UM: THE MOVIE as a double bill with ROCK THAT UKE - the film that started it all.

ROCK THAT UKE is a quirkily philosophical cinematic love poem that examines the near mystical allure of the ukulele and the recent wave of alternative and experimental musicians who have taken up the four-stringed underdog of the music world to incorporate it not just into their raucous and irreverent original compositions, but into a counter cultural/post-punk ethos.

ROCK THAT UKE asks (among other probing questions), “Is there a ukulele personality?” and “What compels someone to amplify and distort this little instrument to play loud, aggressive music?” The answers reveal a fascinating Zeitgeist of irony, angst and impotent rage that transcends the subject. In ROCK THAT UKE, the ukulele becomes an unexpected metaphor for the human experience.

ROCK THAT UKE explores the big questions by asking the small ones. It's a peek at human nature through a very tiny sound hole.

http://rockthatuke.com/

Tickets free to Ukelear Meltdown badge holders. £1 to everyone else.