Alex Forge is currently editing The Solvents Undiluted - an expressionist documentary that follows The Solvents plunging into the bowels of the Edinburgh Fringe 06, the biggest theatre festival worldwide. He has collected 50 hours of tape, when he followed the company in their daily, professional and private life last August at The Fringe. The documentary portrays The Solvents in a moment of crisis, as they face the commercialization of their work, facing the reality of having to promote one show amongst 1800.

As the members of the company perform *COSMIC FAMILY* day after day for one month, we’re assisting to their slow transformation - being haunted by the imprint the Fringe ‘machine’ is making on their moods, relationships, creative processes, and bank accounts. After two weeks of performing stunts, re-designing, printing and plastering new posters, chasing reviewers, creating facsimiles of news papers, getting naked on stage and giving pills out instead of flyers - to attract more punters, they feel like headless chickens. They decide to eradicate problems of communication by cutting their tongues off and allise with the other Fringe performers The Freaks in the Box and Supercomedian Reggie Watts to take the rein over their Fringe demons, by storming venues turned into wild pigs.

You can now watch a 3 min trailer of ‘The Solvents undiluted’ online! http://alexforge.net/undiluted2.html

Documentary to be released in Winter 07. 20 minute version premiered at BAC 20-25 February, after Cosmic Family.