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Peter & nou – The Book(s)
Here’s my publication, Peter & nou (2018). Matt and Jess at Good Press organised this and Matthew Walkerdine designed it too. It’s element heavy, with a sticker of a lab rat in a kaleidoscopic space/time-travelling tunnel included for you, gratis. It comprises a book called Peter (like the film Peter, 2014), a book called nou…
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Here’s my new publication, Peter & nou. Matt and Jess at Good Press organised this and Matthew Walkerdine designed it too. It’s element heavy, with a sticker of a lab rat in a kaleidoscopic space/time traveling tunnel included for you, gratis. You’re welcome. It comprises a book called Peter (like the film Peter, 2014), a book…
Read MorePlease accept my apologies, readers of blogs
I know, I know, we are all very busy people, but I’ve gone all unbloggy and we all know that one should try to remain as bloggy as possible in these times of share and overshare. I’ve been busy working on nou, a new film, which had its first outing at GI (Glasgow International) in…
Read MoreEggs and Aliens (2018)
This text was adapted to be part of a performance that happened as part of Alchemy: The Curios Society at Whitechapel Gallery in 2018. The text was read by Fiona, the digital Scottish Female voice found in Word, slowed down as far as she goes. Prof. Robert Williams progressed the slides on Fiona’s command. Robert…
Read MoreThings are coming together…
…but for what, and who is nou?
Read MoreExperiments In Cinema v13.6
Screen Used will be showing at this film festival on Wednesday. Go Alburquonians… Experiments In Cinema v13.6 will be held April 10–24, 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This year is the “Black Material Edition”. Films from the USA and 36 other countries will be presented at Guild Cinema and the African American Performing Arts Center during…
Read MoreWanderers and other Nomads: Ecologies of Place brought to Mind
A new video Untitled (For Naomi and Ursula) (2018) is in this group show, curated by Patti Lean. Wanderers and other Nomads: Ecologies of Place brought to Mind, a show of new work on an environmental theme, by Fine Art students and staff – foundation to undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and academic staff – in the Vallum…
Read MoreRaw (2017)
Aaahhh, cannibalism. Who doesn’t rate it as the most reasonable alternative to veganism? As long as it’s amongst friends. An old chum once observed that, if in an ‘Alive’ situation, I’d be tucking into the frozen dead before the airplane ready-meals had run out. Maybe that’s why I enjoyed Julia Ducournau’s Raw then. More a coming…
Read MorePer Aspera Ad Astra (1981)
My preferred translation of this Russian title is To the Stars, the Hard Ways*. Watch it with English subs here. ‘The action of this film, *whose Latin title translates as Through the Thorns to the Stars, is based on a screenplay by cult Soviet sci-fi writer Kir Bulychev and is set in deep space and…
Read MoreAnnihilation – Alex Garland – 2018
Annihilation is a far less anaemic film than Ex Machina and the casting’s perfect. The Thing, Stalker, The Crystal World each get a nod and there’s a very, very frightening bear. Lucky I caught it before I rainbow-ed my own current work in progress…
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