Archive for February 2017
Peter at Kochi-Muziris Biennale with Lux Scotland
Peter is getting an outing next week – as part of Lux Scotland‘s curated Artists’ Cinema at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerara, India. Cheers Nicole and Lux Scotland…
Read MoreScreen Used (2016)
Some images & the videos from the solo show Screen Used, Patricia Fleming Projects November 18 – December 17 2016. All photography by Ruth Clark. Here’s the PR: The current exhibition at Patricia Fleming Projects is Screen Used, a solo exhibition of new video and prints by Jane Topping. Topping’s work examines the ever-developing relationship…
Read MoreSans Soleil
Revisiting Marker’s 1983 Sans Soleil this weekend was like visiting an old friend who has aged beautifully and is more inspirational than ever. Sigh. Watch it here. Screenshots – Sans Soleil…
Read MoreKate Davis – Charity
Thanks to Kate Davis, I popped along to the World Premier of Charity, the film made with the support of the 2016 Margaret Tait Award and Lux Scotland. Great to see a chum’s work in Cinema 1 at the GFT, and a full house. More about Kate and her work here.
Read MoreGorgomancy
Is Chris Marker’s collage/collection of all sorts of works. Respectfully clunky, but maybe the only way to see Immemory without Macintosh OS9. Gorgomancy Here’s a little thing about formats.
Read MoreIt Follows
The trailer for this 2014 tense horror makes it appear bland and ordinary, but things are going on in David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. Carpenter and Romero influenced (there’s a lot of it about) but also cinematography straight from Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #92 & #167. After effects similar to those experienced post Exorcist III/Ringu.…
Read MoreSaturday Night and Sunday Morning
Working for six days on the trot has clearly resulted in a feeding frenzy for my eyeballs. Here’s one for Iain, a turner, though presumably, a well behaved one. Directed in 1960 by Karl Reisz from Alan Sillitoe‘s novel. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (credits only)
Read MoreChat écoutant la musique – Chris Marker
In honour of Method’s appreciation of The Soft Machine earlier today, here’s the first of three Chris Marker films… Chat écoutant la musique From his collection Bestiaire aka Petit Bestiaire (1990), consisting of three ‘video haikus’. And now for owls and the zoo… An Owl is an Owl is an Owl Zoo Piece
Read MorePuce Moment 1949
I think this is what La La Land was trying to get at. Anger does old Hollywood glamour to perfection in a yoof-friendly six minutes. No tap dancing. Instead, multiple dogs. 1949? – it seems impossible. Puce Moment On Puce Moment
Read MoreRabbit’s Moon (1972 version)
Also on today’s revisiting list is the 16-minute version of Kenneth Anger’s Rabbit’s Moon. Here’s his 1979 version; speeded up and with the A Raincoat’s “It Came In The Night” looped…
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