White Wash Death Watch (2015)

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Death Watch (1980) is a film by Bertrand Tavernier, filmed in Glasgow and the west coast of Scotland. The film uses the decrepit, pre-gentrified state of my home city to signal a future in decline, two years before Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner would ‘invent’ the post-modern cityscape. In Death Watch, Katherine Mortenhoe (Romy Schneider) is…

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Glasgow welcomes refugees – Queens Park

Glasgow Welcomes Refugees

Managed to catch Lumboo Baig, Gummy Stumps and Richard Youngs at this grand day out, south-side style. They raised over £1000 in support of Glasgow Night Shelter’s ongoing work and their efforts towards a Women’s Night Shelter for asylum seekers in Glasgow.http://glasgownightshelter.org/womens-shelter/ 1.00PM Kaspar Hauser1.25PM Beketi1.50PM Bad Aura2.15PM Sharptooth2.40PM Smack Wizards3.05PM Tut Vu Vu3.30PM Sick…

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Lanark at the Citz

Lanark

This production was fantastic in pretty much every way and made particularly moving by a discussion between Lanark and Alasdair Gray’s brain. Plus it was the Citizen’s s 70th birthday, so cake all round. See more about the production here. And EVERYONE should read Lanark – buy it here. Read about and listen to Lanark here and here.

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LUX Scotland’s AMIF The programme

If you’re in Glasgow, this seems essential this weekend: Programme #AMIF2015 examines the role of collective thinking and making. Presenting collaborative forms of production and research, this year’s festival considers what it means for a group to constitute a single body of work and, inversely, how one can speak on behalf of collective thought or action.…

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Artists Moving Image Festival 12-13 Sept. 2015 Tramway

Transmission says: This coming weekend, it is TRANSMISSION’s pleasure and privilege to present  <<< FILM OPEN 2015 >>> as part of Tramway’s Artist Moving Image Festival (#AMIF2015), presented by LUX Scotland. Jane Topping, Teeth, (2014) (film still) courtesy the artist Film Open is a new artist film screening programme of artist films, featuring twenty recent works selected from…

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Artists Moving Image Festival 12-13 Sept. 2015 Tramway

LUX Scotland says: LUX Scotland Artists Moving Image Festival Saturday 12 – Sunday 13 September, Tramway, GlasgowTickets available from the Tramway box office: 0845 330 3501Day Pass: £6/£5 Festival Pass: £10/£8 For #AMIF2015, Tramway and LUX Scotland present two days of screenings which examine the role of collective thinking and making in moving image work. Presenting collaborative…

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Artists Moving Image Festival 12-13 Sept. 2015 Tramway

It’s complicated, but good complicated. FILM OPEN, hosted by Transmission is now part of LUX Scotland’s Artists Moving Image Festival 12-13 Sept. 2015 at Tramway, Glasgow. This means I can tell you about it in at least 3 ways – and no one has agreed on the apostrophe. Tramway says: Artists’ Moving Image Festival 2015Tickets available…

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