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Read MoreWhite Wash Death Watch (2015)
Death Watch (1980) is a film by Bertrand Tavernier, filmed in Glasgow and the west coast of Scotland. The film uses the decrepit, pre-gentrified state of my home city to signal a future in decline, two years before Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner would ‘invent’ the post-modern cityscape. In Death Watch, Katherine Mortenhoe (Romy Schneider) is…
Read MoreGlasgow welcomes refugees – Queens Park
Managed to catch Lumboo Baig, Gummy Stumps and Richard Youngs at this grand day out, south-side style. They raised over £1000 in support of Glasgow Night Shelter’s ongoing work and their efforts towards a Women’s Night Shelter for asylum seekers in Glasgow.http://glasgownightshelter.org/womens-shelter/ 1.00PM Kaspar Hauser1.25PM Beketi1.50PM Bad Aura2.15PM Sharptooth2.40PM Smack Wizards3.05PM Tut Vu Vu3.30PM Sick…
Read MoreLanark at the Citz
This production was fantastic in pretty much every way and made particularly moving by a discussion between Lanark and Alasdair Gray’s brain. Plus it was the Citizen’s s 70th birthday, so cake all round. See more about the production here. And EVERYONE should read Lanark – buy it here. Read about and listen to Lanark here and here.
Read MoreArtists Moving Image Festival 12-13 Sept. 2015 Tramway
Transmission says: This coming weekend, it is TRANSMISSION’s pleasure and privilege to present <<< FILM OPEN 2015 >>> as part of Tramway’s Artist Moving Image Festival (#AMIF2015), presented by LUX Scotland. Jane Topping, Teeth, (2014) (film still) courtesy the artist Film Open is a new artist film screening programme of artist films, featuring twenty recent works selected from…
Read MoreArtists Moving Image Festival 12-13 Sept. 2015 Tramway
LUX Scotland says: LUX Scotland Artists Moving Image Festival Saturday 12 – Sunday 13 September, Tramway, GlasgowTickets available from the Tramway box office: 0845 330 3501Day Pass: £6/£5 Festival Pass: £10/£8 For #AMIF2015, Tramway and LUX Scotland present two days of screenings which examine the role of collective thinking and making in moving image work. Presenting collaborative…
Read MoreCALDEWGATE 1991-2015
Here’s how Vicki and Alex, Like the Clouds looked in the CALDEWGATE 1991-2015 exhibition. An incredible celebration of Fine Art’s time on campus. Genevieve Kay-Gourlay and students past and present get all the credit.
Read MoreA postcard
Here’s a thing I made on Monday. I’ve missed rubber. Maybe this is a Muriel Spark and rubber summer?
Read MoreThe Driver’s Seat – National Theatre of Scotland
This was such a good production, I rushed out and bought the novel. It’s going to be a Muriel Spark summer… From the Tramway’s website… Adapted for the stage for the first time, The Driver’s Seat is one of renowned novelist Muriel Spark’s most gripping and disturbing books. At the centre of this taut, darkly comic thriller…
Read MorePeter – British Council Film Directory
Peter seems oh so official now… BFC.
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