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Made for balance. Must. Write. Now…
Read MoreTouch Screen Technicolour & Buzz
Once more adhering to my habit of making something when I should be writing something, here are a couple of super-short films I made in bed this morning. Think of them as screen savers (to come).
Read MoreShivers (1975)
This is basically High-Rise, but with an infectious mechanism – and the set dressing isn’t retro, it’s straight out the box. Trailer for Cronenberg’s 1975 body shock sexploitation flick here. It’s his first full length film. ‘Everything is erotic, everything is sexual, you know what I mean?’
Read MoreFelicity Hickson and Michael Eaton on High-Rise design
In this month’s Creative Review: Inside High-Rise
Read MoreBrick-Rise!
After Brickjest comes… Brick High-Rise!
Read MorePeter (2014) as a paper object
This is kind of the shooting script and the start of making Peter exist as an object as well as a video. Started ages ago, I should really do something with this. Peter as a paper document
Read MoreBecause I should be writing…
…I am therefore watching, reading and posting about High-Rise. But I am thinking. How to connect Buffy’s Beljoxa’s Eye to Baudrillard’s collected object..?
Read MoreThe Atrocity Exhibition BBC film (1970)
Made 3 years before Crash was published, 5 before High-Rise came out.
Read MoreHigh-Rise
High-Rise achieved. Spilt me Pimms down me raincoat. Go again! Will Self on Ballard transcriptions here. Wheatley interview here. On Ballard’s Inner/Outer life & buildings here. Ps – Went again this morning (Monday). Canny get enough slick, smooth, gleaming, taut slippage into a new way of living. My flat’s only one up. Method not yet…
Read MoreTransit #3 Last night
From Marcus Jack: Thanks to everyone who made it down to TRANSIT #3 at the @GlasgowSFF – here’s a little behind the scenes footage. https://t.co/Bh2cCZMNBh
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