Archive for December 2016
Tutu Woodhouse – a thing I almost made…
I’m determined to make this not good thing into something else, and so something better, during the next three weeks. It’ll involve a complete re-write, new approach, but I’m so game. A video about walking, hats and violent Smurfs. But this video is currently password protected, for vanity’s sake.
Read MoreWe see it once
Just noticed this photo of Ace City Racers, pausing in front of my video, Women: 8 Films. From, erm, 2014 or something?
Read MoreSecond Chance Man – Christoph Girardet
A chat with Jamie Simpson this morning reminded me of chum Christoph Girardet’s participation in the Tindersticks’ The Waiting Room Project. Christoph made Second Chance Man. Nothing to do with sigur rós at all, sorry Jamie.
Read MoreA 13 Point Script for a YouTube Unboxing Video, 2016
Here’s a link to the text bit of a performance I gave at the NAFAE conference in July at the University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts. The performance is called… A 13 Point Script for a YouTube Unboxing Video And here’s the visual bit – a silent video… A 13 Point Script for a…
Read MoreVideo Festival – Transmission – 10 & 11 December
Vicki and Alex, Like the Clouds is in day two of Transmission’s Video Festival. Lots of other treats in store too… Come join us at Transmission for a mini-festival of members’ video work, over two days! This is one of the most exciting parts of our current film screening programme, and is not to be…
Read MoreBBC AS ECHO CHAMBER: A REVIEW OF “HYPERNORMALISATION” by Robin Parmar
Here’s the real reason Curtis’ latest was so depressing: BBC as Echo Chamber – thanks Torsten. And yet there’s a huge problem with Robin’s critique and that’s the presumption that Curtis believes what he makes his narrator say. No one can believe that. No one, anywhere, ever. And is it so wrong to want certainties? Time to…
Read MoreHito Steyerl – Politics of Post-Representation
This is good: Hito Steyerl – Politics of Post-Representation
Read More12-Hour Action Group at The Cooper Gallery
In fine, fine company, I attended this whole bally affair, bar a nip out for a noodle and red wine tea. Amelia Jones was slick and professional, though I could have done with more… Laura Mulvey delivered from her couch, and, as ever, was clear as a bell, speaking my language… Fun-filled performances by Linder,…
Read MoreStreetwise – Martin Bell – 1984
After an hour of scrambling around in that internet last week, big thanks to Calum and Stasia for pointing out to me that this whole, heartbreaking, documentary is on YouTube here.
Read MoreProject X
Watch this terrifying study of a journey and a building here. “A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, and based on classified NSA documents, Project X reveals the inner workings of a windowless skyscraper in downtown Manhattan. This…
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