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Vicki 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.
Read MoreBlade Runner UK print ad, 1982
Born in Flames
Watch Lizzie Borden‘s 1983 fictional documentary Born in Flames. Feminist pirate radio and the unfulfilled promise of a peaceful socialist revolution – what’s not to like? It’s all on YouTube right here, so there’s no reason to put it off a moment longer. Whistles out and on yer bike.
Read MorePlayTime
The reissue of Tati’s PlayTime at GFT 1 last Tuesday was a treat for 2 generations of Toppings. Watch the new trailer here.
Read MoreKittens, Inspired by Kittens – and Hollis Frampton
Ok. This is not the place to post cute cat videos, I know, I know. But Kittens, Inspired by Kittens is, well, inspired. And I can’t help but think it has been secretly influenced by Hollis Frampton’s (nostalgia). Watch them both and decide! (nostagia) Kittens, Inspired by Kittens
Read MoreMy Wife! My Family!
Chuckling along to Avaryl Halley’s Harrison Ford compilation this morning. Watch it here.
Read MoreVicki and Alex, Like the Clouds: Melissa Edit (2014)
Between the now lost Vicki and Alex, Like the Clouds: Couples Edit (2014) and the Final Edit (2015) came this. Vicki and Alex, Like the Clouds: Melissa Edit is named for and stars the screenwriter Melissa Mathison (1950 – 2015).
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