Touch 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).

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Shivers (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?’

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Peter (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

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Because 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..?

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High-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…

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Transit #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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