Langham Research Centre – Muffled Cyphers (2014)

Thanks to CM’s continuing Support and Development Programme Dedicated to My Ears & to a Lesser Extent My Eyes (CM’s SDPDMYLEME, in its second year and still without Creative Scotland core funding like so many of our essential institutions making an impact on the ground), I’m watching, then listening to, then watching Langham Research Centre‘s…

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Raw (2017)

Aaahhh, cannibalism. Who doesn’t rate it as the most reasonable alternative to veganism? As long as it’s amongst friends. An old chum once observed that, if in an ‘Alive’ situation, I’d be tucking into the frozen dead before the airplane ready-meals had run out. Maybe that’s why I enjoyed Julia Ducournau’s Raw then. More a coming…

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Per Aspera Ad Astra (1981)

My preferred translation of this Russian title is To the Stars, the Hard Ways*. Watch it with English subs here. ‘The action of this film, *whose Latin title translates as Through the Thorns to the Stars, is based on a screenplay by cult Soviet sci-fi writer Kir Bulychev and is set in deep space and…

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Annihilation – Alex Garland – 2018

Annihilation is a far less anaemic film than Ex Machina and the casting’s perfect. The Thing, Stalker, The Crystal World each get a nod and there’s a very, very frightening bear. Lucky I caught it before I rainbow-ed my own current work in progress…

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Margaret Salmon, Mm & Sacred Paws @ The Tramway

Live score for Margaret’s Salmon’s Mm by Sacred Paws was exciting! Mm showing Berwick Speedway lads transforming from ordinary to adonis-y over a day, reduced to 30 minutes here. Sacred Paws caused dancing and warm feelings of admiration, made even cosier by the presence of favs. L and L.

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I See You Man @ Celine

I need to get back sharpish to see the rest of I See You Man at Celine, featuring favs. such as Sophie Macpherson and Clare Stephenson… From Celine’s site is this great introductory text by Nadia Hebson – Plus reading group/events on March 31st… I See You Man 25.02.2018 – 31.03.2018 Celine is happy to…

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Alchemists and alchemical-like types…

…seem to spring up everywhere once you you get your eye in – all part of its symbolic mutability and whatnot. This week I have mostly been watching & reading, with Eggs and Aliens for The Curios Society as the excuse… The Holy Mountain, The Colour of Pomegranates, El Topo, Picnic at Hanging Rock, A…

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Spoorloos (1989)

From under a snow-topped blanket, I loved Spoorloos (The Vanishing), George Sluizer’s film is reminiscent of much of Eric Rohmer’s 80s output. Or maybe it’s a fashion thing? ‘Based on Time Krabbe’s The Golden Egg, The Vanishing is a deeply disturbing psychological thriller about a young man’s search for his girlfriend after she disappears at…

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Eggs and Aliens

You’d never know it, but…there has been action. Trapped in Glasgow by snow, I hastily re-wrote my contribution to this sold-out event The Curios Society at the Whitechapel (Saturday 3rd March, 3pm, Whitechapel), so that Eggs and Aliens was delivered by ‘Fiona’, the ‘Scottish’ digital Word voice, who, when slowed down as far as she…

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