Bitter Lake

By admin | January 31, 2015

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.

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Vicki and Alex, Like the Clouds: Final Edit (2015)

By admin | January 5, 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.

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dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

By admin | December 24, 2014
dial 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.

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No Maps for These Territories

By admin | December 24, 2014
No Maps for These Territories, Mark Neale, 2000.

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…

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F for Fake

By admin | December 19, 2014
Still from F for Fake, Orson Welles, 1974

Watch Orson Welles’ film essay F for Fake here. A documentary of forgery, biography and a small monkey.

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Born in Flames

By admin | December 8, 2014
Born in Flames, Poster.

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.

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PlayTime

By admin | November 28, 2014

The reissue of Tati’s PlayTime at GFT 1 last Tuesday was a treat for 2 generations of Toppings. Watch the new trailer here.

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Kittens, Inspired by Kittens – and Hollis Frampton

By admin | November 25, 2014

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

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