CALDEWGATE 1991-2015

Caldewgate show

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.

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A postcard

Tight Postcard Detail

Here’s a thing I made on Monday. I’ve missed rubber. Maybe this is a Muriel Spark and rubber summer?

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The Driver’s Seat – National Theatre of Scotland

NTS - The Drivers Seatwr

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…

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Peter at 31st Hamburg Short Film Festival

Peter Hamburg screen times

Peter is screening twice at 31st Hamburg ISSF – times below… No Budget Competition 2 Remember When… Five films investigate how history is written and examine the relationship between memory and history. Found, researched and personally filmed footage confronts us with the past. Formats and frames dissolve, analogue and digital images are modified, blurred, morphed, rendered, edited…

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Teeth (2014) & Teeth II (2015)

Teeth II Screen Shot

Teeth (2:19 mins) inserts the artist, literally and amusingly, into the Blade Runner world. The video is an edit of a sequence in Blade Runner during which the female lead and love interest, Rachael (Sean Young), watches Deckard (Harrison Ford) get cleaned up after a fight. This section of the film is important as it…

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Let’s Not Talk About Money (2015)

Let's Not Talk About Money Screen Shot

Repeated viewing of films and the possibilities of delay, pause and reflection afforded by digital viewing offer Laura Mulvey’s possessive spectator the opportunity to hold onto favourite moments, fragmented from linear narrative. Mulvey claims that ‘In this delayed cinema the spectator finds a heightened relation to the human body, particularly to the star’. While it…

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31st Hamburg ISSF – No budget competition

NO BUDGET COMPETITION – GENERAL The NoBudget-film is both the festival’s origin and its laboratory. It creates an environment for radically subjective views, for experimenting, marginal, borderline, demanding, non-commercial and innovative short fi lms. NoBudget puts attitude and the creative process into the limelight. There are two prizes in this category: One is awarded by…

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