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A 35mm 208-ish Frame Version of Blade Runner For a Phone (2017) and Others
Made from memory and scraps of 35mm, this silent 26-second video begat (that’s what I said) a whole bunch of others. First shown on a phone that was passed around an audience. Later shown in locations around Hospitalfield House. I’ve thrown them all together below…
Read MoreI Love Dick on the telly
And I can’t be the only one. Lots to love in Jill Soloway’s TV version of Kraus’ novel. Excruciating in its accuracy of artists and desire. Hilarious of course. Some episodes directed by Andrea Arnold! Local fact: Ciara Philips has been in a lift with K. Bacon.
Read MoreThe Handmaid’s Tale 2017
This 1985 Atwood has never shifted from my top ten, and, like 1984, it works because there’s nothing in it that isn’t happening right now, to someone, somewhere. While Orwell’s future is made richer with language (it includes a glossary), Atwood’s uses small, creeping increments of privation in the hope our ears prick up a…
Read MoreSome Press about Peter
Three mentions of Peter, and some ‘professor’… ITV News, 2 June 2017 at 6:00pm and Outer Places 12 June 2017 and not forgetting Cumbrian Crack (really) 26 May 2017
Read MoreWasting Time on the Internet
Reading Wasting Time on the Internet by Kenneth Goldsmith this week, and planning workshops to test the resolve of the most share-hungry student… Oh, and I’m also wasting time on the internet.
Read MoreTwists in the Cord (or) Other Extensions of the Telephone
Before I head up to Hospitalfield in time for FIELDWORK International Summer School – Summer Festival, and thanks to a purchase of Civic Radar, a massive monograph of Lynn Hershman Leeson, I’m gorging on all things LHL today. Here’s a link to her 1994 ‘history of the telephone docudrama’, if you can believe the pigeon-holing, Twists…
Read MorePeter wins Best PKD Short Film at the 5th Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival 2017
Thank you to Dan Abella, the PKD crew and to all the filmmakers I met this week. A superb festival… I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. No really, at one point I was surrounded by alien abductees… Here’s a Facebook thang. Now, how to wear those laurels..?
Read MorePeter in The 5th Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival…update…
The full programme has been announced, and it looks fascinating… Peter screening details are: Monday, May 29, 2017, The Producers Club, THE COURTHOUSE THEATRE, 358 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036. Full Programme here.
Read MoreFree Fire
The new Ben Wheatley/Amy Jump film is so well written, there’s not a bullet that doesn’t count. The only downside for me is genre, but that’s a personal thing, init. When there’s a Wheatley/Jump American high school film out… Free Fire Trailer but don’t watch this before you get to the pictures… Interview here.
Read MoreTwilight City, 1989
Made for Channel 4, Black Audio Film Collective’s Twilight City is the absolute, no question, stand-out work at the CCA’s The Sky is Falling show. Get along, get comfy and watch it all… Trailers for three other Black Audio Film Collective works here.
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