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Jac Leirner – Add It Up
Popped in to the Fruitmarket to see this (superbly installed I should add) show. Upstairs was more interesting than down – smoking allowed. More on the show here.
Read MoreCarradale and the Mull of Kintyre
…ohmistrollininfromtheseamadesire… Off on a road trip with S to track down the (eventual) home of Naomi Mitchison. Denied access to Carradale House, we had to make do with a caravan park owner bored of folk asking, two grumpy dogs and a decent cat. Emergency bird book bought in Campbelltown added fact to speculation, Saddell Abbey…
Read MoreBlade Runner on the Stairs
Watch this little Hospitalfield moment here.
Read MorePeggy Awesh
An email has told me that at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival this year, this will be happening: ‘New York-based artist Peggy Ahwesh‘s first major presentation in the UK will include an exhibition and three screenings devoted to her vast span of work from the 1980s to the present. In a career that began with Pittsburgh punk and working on…
Read MoreA summer comes to an end…
…and, bar a research trip to Carradale, thoughts must, inevitably, turn to the education of others. This summer I’ve not watched much, but I have read things. Here they are. A Naomi Mitchison obsession develops. Walter Tevis’ Mockingbird turns out to be wonderful. Ballard – no more required. Love, communication and rabbits were all on…
Read MoreHospitalfield – A Pamphlet…
…and a taste of things to come…
Read MoreFrench Windows – Ian Emes 1972
This is pretty incredible – 1972, Ian Emes. After French Windows was shown on the Whistle Test, Pink Floyd picked up the phone… French Windows
Read MoreSedmikrasky (Daisies) 1966
After a morning of psychedelic drifting, mask learning/making, killing fruit flies, I’m watching Věra Chytilová‘s Daisies today. Watch it too!
Read MoreThe Human Voice
Ever had a bad break-up? Well, at least you didn’t hang on the phone, calling them darling and agreeing to keep the dog (although, you should always keep the dog). Watch this (made-for-tv 1967) version of Cocteau’s 1930 play La Voix humaine, The Human Voice right here, with the wonderful Bergman. One of the great one-person gigs……
Read MoreRecital – Sarah Forrest
I like everything that Sarah makes, but Recital, which I was looking at yesterday, is unbelievably great. Recital (2016) Sarah on Vimeo
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