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31st Hamburg Short Film Festival June 2015
Peter has been selected for the No Budget Competition of the 31st Hamburg Short Film Festival. I’ll be introducing 2 screenings on the 10th and the 12th June 2015. Here’s a little bit about the festival: HAMBURG INTERNATIONALE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL No other form of cinematic art is as open, experimental, fast, courageous, abstract, hard,…
Read MoreO Yes at the art school
This – 6 Minutes – and perfectly crafted. Led by Ellen van Schuylenburch, for The Inventors of Tradition II, Panel and Atelier E.B recreate a dance from Michael Clark’s I am Curious, Orange as a series of four short performances within the iconic and atmospheric space of The Assembly Hall at The Art School, Glasgow. I…
Read MoreSpring/Summer 2015 @ DCA
What a start to the summer! Get yersel’ to the seaside pronto and up to DCA for the neon splattered, martini drenched exhibition of work by Maripol, Clare Stephenson and Zoe Williams. Heavenly and disco blasted.
Read MoreTEEEEE shirts. Get your totalitarian PE Kit referencing Teeeee shirts…
Get to Culture Label and buy yourself the perfect spring/summer garment for your top half. There ain’t many left…
Read MorePower Suit Yourself: Is the Power Suit Dead?
Part of the Glasgow Film Festival, was this little panel discussion, at the CCA on Saturday: ‘Since the heyday of shoulder pads in the 1940s, costume has been used to illustrate female power on screen. But when Sarah Lund’s woolly jumpers hit the headlines, did perceptions shift? A panel of guests will discuss wearable power…
Read MoreBitter Lake
Hurrah! New Adam Curtis is available – and about time too. Released last Sunday at 9pm on iplayer. Find it here until the beeb take it away. Adam’s Blog is here. And here’s a randomly selected short of his, from Charlie Booker’s Weekly Wipe: A Film about how all of us have become Richard Nixon.
Read MoreVicki and Alex, Like the Clouds: Final Edit (2015)
Ostensibly about the interrogation of a hardly noticeable prop detail in Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982), Vicki and Alex, Like the Clouds: Final Edit is a conversation between cyber folk and a study of a heteronormative pose, of holding and ownership.
Read Moredial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
While you’re in the mood for a bleak look at Our Mediated Life, watch Johan Grimonprez’s dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y here.
Read MoreNo Maps for These Territories
I have the creeping suspicion that I should be doing something other than watching No Maps for These Territories on Christmas eve. The insertion of 2 members of U2 and the mention of the Oklahoma City bombing situates this documentary of William Gibson in the back of a limo in another era entirely. Made by…
Read MoreF for Fake
Watch Orson Welles’ film essay F for Fake here. A documentary of forgery, biography and a small monkey.
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