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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…
Read MoreAlchemists and alchemical-like types…
…seem to spring up everywhere once you you get your eye in – all part of its symbolic mutability and whatnot. This week I have mostly been watching & reading, with Eggs and Aliens for The Curios Society as the excuse… The Holy Mountain, The Colour of Pomegranates, El Topo, Picnic at Hanging Rock, A…
Read MoreSpoorloos (1989)
From under a snow-topped blanket, I loved Spoorloos (The Vanishing), George Sluizer’s film is reminiscent of much of Eric Rohmer’s 80s output. Or maybe it’s a fashion thing? ‘Based on Time Krabbe’s The Golden Egg, The Vanishing is a deeply disturbing psychological thriller about a young man’s search for his girlfriend after she disappears at…
Read MoreEggs and Aliens
You’d never know it, but…there has been action. Trapped in Glasgow by snow, I hastily re-wrote my contribution to this sold-out event The Curios Society at the Whitechapel (Saturday 3rd March, 3pm, Whitechapel), so that Eggs and Aliens was delivered by ‘Fiona’, the ‘Scottish’ digital Word voice, who, when slowed down as far as she…
Read MoreA new thing, finally made…
…all part of a larger thing still underway, ready for a showing at Glasgow International later this year. Because of that, there’s no title as yet, but think of Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman, rabbits and a trip to the dentist and you may as well take the evening off come April. Watch it…
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