Archive for September 2018
Last chance to see – An Introduction at The Pharmacy Sat. 6th Oct. 11-3pm
Make sure you get along to a special opening of An Introduction – our group exhibition of work by students, alumni and staff of Fine Art, UoC Institute of the Arts. Thanks to the curators of The Pharmacy, the space will be open from 11-3pm on Saturday 6th Oct. 2018. By popular demand after a…
Read MoreIntroducing… Blade Runner at Borderlines Book Festival, Carlisle
I’ll be introducing a screening of Blade Runner (Director’s Cut, 2007) at Borderlines Book Festival on Friday. Now as you know, I’m no film theorist, so I’ll be talking about the film’s relationship to PKD’s Do Andoids Dream of Electric Sheep, production gossip and why Blade Runner is great fun to play with. And if…
Read Morenou Screening at The 16th edition of International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris
Delighted to be screening nou in Paris in a couple of weeks time. It’s the 16th Edition of the International Festival Signes de Nuit, the very first festival to screen Peter, way back in the yesteryear of 2014, so it’s particularly special that nou, Peter‘s sequel, will be seen in this context. The festival runs…
Read Morenou screening at The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, NY
nou, will be making its North American Premiere at The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival in at The Producer’s Club, New York, on Saturday 6th Oct. Loads of interesting performances going on, including ‘THE PSYCHEDELIC MAESTRO’, Simon Boswell playing at the Mercury Lounge. A huge thank you to Dan Abella, Jon Stevens and the team…
Read MoreNigel Kneale
Thinking about the smooth and the rough, about the digital and the analogue and cutting things up has sent me down a Nigel Kneale route. Here’s a link to The Stone Tape (1972) – everyone raves but it’s too overwrought for me, and I like a bit of Bronte, as you know. Here’s a link…
Read MoreMy Life in the Bush of Ghosts – Byrne/Eno
This is what I’m listening to as I work today, after Cary Wolfe‘s essay on analogue/digital has got me all spectral, listening for crackle, needing some jerky texture… Listen to it here.
Read MoreThe Bear
Close the internet! This is my colleague R’s new housemate. I kid you not. This is The Bear. As of today, no further cats are required.
Read MorePamela Doove, amongst others
Always a risk to go see telly live but The League of Gentlemen was pretty perfect. Pamela Doove’s audition Review of show on The Guardian here.
Read MoreDylan Moran in Edinburgh
He has actual jokes, which is sort of confusing now, though they are good jokes. And he has stopped drinking and obviously, we should be supportive of such decisions. And yet, and yet… Maybe I went to see Bernard Black and saw Dylan Moran. Must happen a lot. I mean, that must be a huge…
Read MoreHymns for Robots – Noctium Theatre at Carlisle Fringe
When do I ever get to Carlisle Fringe? Never. So this year I made sure I caught Hymns for Robots, at The Old Fire Station. I hadn’t even realised that Delia Derbyshire had lived in Cumbria. Some interesting interpretations of interviews with Derbyshire and quite a few magical moments of sound, though I would have…
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