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Read MoreANTIPHON – Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, Kerala, India
Delighted to be involved with this exciting event: Friday 3 March – Tuesday 7 March LUX Scotland presents ANTIPHON, a series of five screenings bringing together a selection of Scottish artists’ moving image work and titles from the LUX collection. Evolutionary Jerks & Gradualist Creeps Friday 3 March A screening of Duncan Marquiss’ recent documentary film…
Read MoreFamily History – Gillian Wearing
I love this work and this book. I love GW. More on Family History here.
Read MorePeter at Kochi-Muziris Biennale with Lux Scotland
Peter is getting an outing next week – as part of Lux Scotland‘s curated Artists’ Cinema at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerara, India. Cheers Nicole and Lux Scotland…
Read MoreScreen Used (2016)
Some images & the videos from the solo show Screen Used, Patricia Fleming Projects November 18 – December 17 2016. All photography by Ruth Clark. Here’s the PR: The current exhibition at Patricia Fleming Projects is Screen Used, a solo exhibition of new video and prints by Jane Topping. Topping’s work examines the ever-developing relationship…
Read MoreSans Soleil
Revisiting Marker’s 1983 Sans Soleil this weekend was like visiting an old friend who has aged beautifully and is more inspirational than ever. Sigh. Watch it here. Screenshots – Sans Soleil…
Read MoreGorgomancy
Is Chris Marker’s collage/collection of all sorts of works. Respectfully clunky, but maybe the only way to see Immemory without Macintosh OS9. Gorgomancy Here’s a little thing about formats.
Read MoreIt Follows
The trailer for this 2014 tense horror makes it appear bland and ordinary, but things are going on in David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. Carpenter and Romero influenced (there’s a lot of it about) but also cinematography straight from Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #92 & #167. After effects similar to those experienced post Exorcist III/Ringu.…
Read MoreChat écoutant la musique – Chris Marker
In honour of Method’s appreciation of The Soft Machine earlier today, here’s the first of three Chris Marker films… Chat écoutant la musique From his collection Bestiaire aka Petit Bestiaire (1990), consisting of three ‘video haikus’. And now for owls and the zoo… An Owl is an Owl is an Owl Zoo Piece
Read MorePuce Moment 1949
I think this is what La La Land was trying to get at. Anger does old Hollywood glamour to perfection in a yoof-friendly six minutes. No tap dancing. Instead, multiple dogs. 1949? – it seems impossible. Puce Moment On Puce Moment
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