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We hear you - "Sellouts! Why are you featuring a News post about a football film? You're a f*cking trainer website." Stop your whining. Firstly, what we saw of 'Cadencia' - Darren Bartlett's film, inspired by his time in Rio was sick. Like the recent No Mas 'Rumble in the Jungle' films, some fantastic animation is employed here too, alongside some beautifully shot video and photography (for the geeks, and we know you're aaaaaaall photographers these days, it uses Canon EOS 5D MRK II and not an Argos-bought Halina 110) and a deliberately ultra-spartan dubstep soundtrack that makes sense, and doesn't feel tacked on for hipster points. Again what we saw seemed like a labour-of-love - we'll come clean - we missed a lot of it and are blaming London Underground for disorientating us. Forget some tacky targeted "viral" - Nike were bang on the money by funding this film (our DVD's in the post so we can watch it in its entirety), and it's important that our view of Brazil isn't hindered by the admittedly guilty but grim pleasure that was 'Elite Squad', bleak documentaries like 'Bus 174' or a certain classic crime-laden epic whose title has been overused in any piece of world cinema with a hint of youth violence's poster press quotes. So we won't mention it again here. This is something very different, and embodies the country's passion for the game in an unconventional, but powerful way. Unless we missed a section with CGI robots destroying a warehouse, which is doubtful.

As part of the global Nike Stadiums happenings, 1948 is housing a tie-in exhibition, and the space has had another makeover that brings out the potential of the place again. We like to see folk thinking outside the box when it comes to World Cup tie-ins rather than "oi oi! saveloy" foolishness, and this got it right. We might have missed some of the film, but we were there, scoffing canapes, freeloading and looking at people's feet, as is our way. Tie-in workshops to coincide with 'Cadências launch have been taking place there too, and on Thursday, David Kennedy and Adrian Corker will be performing an interpretation of their score there, and Darren Barlett will be there to talk an audience through the film's production a week later. After the bells and whistles of the Battersea Superfly sequel launch, this one feels a little more artistic, but we knew the swoosh would work the angles to make its presence felt this summer. A solid accompaniment to those physical reinterpretations of an edgier World Cup fever in the shape of the Footscape Fly Motion, Lunarlite Rejuven8 Mids and Lunar Woven Chukka. What we saw was good. More please...