nou screening at The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, NY

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nou, will be making its North American Premiere at The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival in at The Producer’s Club, New York, on Saturday 6th Oct. Loads of interesting performances going on, including ‘THE PSYCHEDELIC MAESTRO’, Simon Boswell playing at the Mercury Lounge. A huge thank you to Dan Abella, Jon Stevens and the team…

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Nigel Kneale

Thinking about the smooth and the rough, about the digital and the analogue and cutting things up has sent me down a Nigel Kneale route. Here’s a link to The Stone Tape (1972) – everyone raves but it’s too overwrought for me, and I like a bit of Bronte, as you know. Here’s a link…

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The Bear

Close the internet! This is my colleague R’s new housemate. I kid you not. This is The Bear. As of today, no further cats are required.

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Pamela Doove, amongst others

Always a risk to go see telly live but The League of Gentlemen was pretty perfect. Pamela Doove’s audition Review of show on The Guardian here.

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Dylan Moran in Edinburgh

He has actual jokes, which is sort of confusing now, though they are good jokes. And he has stopped drinking and obviously, we should be supportive of such decisions. And yet, and yet… Maybe I went to see Bernard Black and saw Dylan Moran. Must happen a lot. I mean, that must be a huge…

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Peter & nou – new images

Shot by designer Matthew Walkerdine for his website, I’ve half inched these gorgeous new images of Peter & nou. All those ‘corrections’ in Peter – the scoring out, line by line – were drawn by me and then scanned and overlaid on the original text by Matt, and he didn’t bat an eye. Matt is,…

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Scraps

Oh, the thinking really came together last night… Carlsberg.

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Immemory

I know I’ve mentioned this CD-Rom work of Marker’s from 1997 before, but not sure that I’ve ever watched this – a walkthrough if you like – of the whole thing. Thanks to the patience of Guillaume-en- Égypte: Immemory on YouTube

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A 35mm 208-ish Frame Version of Blade Runner…

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…for the Harp Room (2017). I’d forgotten about this film, made at Hospitalfield this time last year. Like the other 35mm 208-ish Frame films (and there are around 20 of them, you can see them if you are fortunate at www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com) it’s made with scraps of an original 35mm copy of Blade Runner.

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