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Read MoreExperiments In Cinema v13.6
Screen Used will be showing at this film festival on Wednesday. Go Alburquonians… Experiments In Cinema v13.6 will be held April 10–24, 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This year is the “Black Material Edition”. Films from the USA and 36 other countries will be presented at Guild Cinema and the African American Performing Arts Center during…
Read MoreWanderers and other Nomads: Ecologies of Place brought to Mind
A new video Untitled (For Naomi and Ursula) (2018) is in this group show, curated by Patti Lean. Wanderers and other Nomads: Ecologies of Place brought to Mind, a show of new work on an environmental theme, by Fine Art students and staff – foundation to undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and academic staff – in the Vallum…
Read MoreLangham 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…
Read MoreRaw (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…
Read MorePer 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…
Read MoreAnnihilation – 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…
Read MoreMargaret 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.
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreAlchemists 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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