Popped into this Glasgow Film Festival compilation of film and video at the Tramway yesterday and caught these: THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY (15.55– 17.10) Provocative filmmakers in the early 1980s pursued occult interests, treating the moving image like a mirror or a crystal ball; a surface of divination to remap perception and question distinctions between…

Yesterday I loved and was occasionally baffled by Merlin‘s show at the CCA. It’s an absolute must. So clever, still warm.

I was working out how to best shorten a film, then I saw Chantal Akerman’s No Home Movie and have started to think better of it. Kicked off by an excellent introduction by an academic whose name I didn’t catch & whom I can’t find mentioned elsewhere (sorry), Akerman’s last film really does make you…

Once I decided that this wasn’t metaphorical and that the characters were actually living at the end of the world, the fear became almost unbearable for this idiot. I remember laughing at times, but now I’m not sure why. I’m no suds aficionado, but this pair are clearly wasted on Corrie. CO-PRODUCTION BETWEEN CITIZENS THEATRE…