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IN THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE UFO PHENOMENONA
Thanks to Prof. Robert Williams and Bryan McGovern Willson, I introduced a screening of my films nou and The Man Who Fell to Millom at the symposium In the Cloud of Unknowing: Encounters with the UFO Phenomena at Mildred’s Lane, Pensilvania, USA (17-18 July 2024). The symposium came at the end of Robert & Bryan’s…
Read MoreHow Many Electric Sheep? Yet Another Adaptation of Blade Runner (v2024)
Delighted to deliver this paper at Transitions – the 2024 SFRA conference at the University of Taru, Estonia (7-11 May 2024). Thank you to all who supported this work, including the distribution of flick books… The 2024 annual conference of the Science Fiction Research Association seeks to discuss all kinds of transitions as the thematic,…
Read MoreShit Hair (2024)
Made for Queer Materialities Live! at GSA, March 2024, this wee packet of dubious origin that you picked up off the lecture theatre floor, was filled with one of two kinds of something… Just say no.
Read MoreThe Man Who Fell to Millom Jellyfish
Here’s a link to a smashing wee reel showing my favourite bit of my film The Man Who Fell to Millom when it was part of Murky Waters, Art Walk Porty back in 2022… Cheers for posting. https://www.facebook.com/artwalkporty/posts/820835072257649/
Read MoreDrew Barrymore’s Island Hotel from Hell
A solo show of new work at Patricia Fleming Gallery 3 November – 16 December 2023. Private View: Thu, 2 Nov, 6-8pm Patricia Fleming GalleryOxford House, 4 Oxford Lane, GlasgowG5 9EP We are delighted to invite you to Drew Barrymore’s Island Hotel from Hell, a solo exhibition of new work by Jane Topping. Denim pillars frame…
Read MoreFiction Machines IV
Excited to be contributing to Fiction Machines IV symposium in at Bath School of Art, Film & Media on 20th July! I’ll not be performing however – that task will be passed to the alien/human hybrid nouJane. It’s about time they started pulling their weight… Loads of great sessions to look forward to and tix…
Read MoreFeminist Histories of the Future…
…happened in the past. Clearly updating this site is not a priority. I’d like (?) to tell you that’s because I’m all about the socials these days but I’m really not, as you well know. But I should tell you about this symposium to which I contributed back in May. I shared some gossipy gems…
Read MoreThinking of Spells…
… I remembered Salem. Here he is. This is what’s informing practice. I am fine with this.
Read MoreNope
Meant to mention how much I loved Jordan Peele’s Nope. A dusty Jaws with a gorgeous alien and a hilarious Keke Palmer. That’s all.
Read MoreThe Hypnotised Machine by Francesca Zappia
The Hypnotised Machine Francesca Zappia When I was a child, I was hypnotised by my dentist. The hypnosis went like this: “Dentist George W. Fairfull Smith attached 4 balls of cotton wool onto the length of rotary dental drill. These, he said, were three little rabbits, being chased by a hungry fox. Needing a place…
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