Things I am into
Experiments 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 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 MoreMargaret Salmon, Mm & Sacred Paws @ The Tramway
Live score for Margaret’s Salmon’s Mm by Sacred Paws was exciting! Mm showing Berwick Speedway lads transforming from ordinary to adonis-y over a day, reduced to 30 minutes here. Sacred Paws caused dancing and warm feelings of admiration, made even cosier by the presence of favs. L and L.
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 More“The best Blade Runner sequel is Peter by Jane Topping.” Matt M. Lloyd
I thought I was done and dusted with Facebook, and then Matt, director of the Glasgow Short Film Festival, posts this smashing endorsement of Peter. I’m hoping my new video, working title Peter 2049 of course, will turn out to be the best Blade Runner sequel sequel. Thanks Matt! http://glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-short-film-festival
Read MorePye Corner Audio: Stasis
I’m aye late to the audio party, but this is fantastic (and only a year old). Not sludgy or maudlin, Stasis is my current favourite to wiggle to. Less ‘creeping dread’ and more ‘dreamy disco with an otherworldly twist’ (thank you Holly Dicker). Buy it here. Listen to it here.
Read MoreSex Symbols in Sandwich Signs – Stephen Sutcliffe
This is the Sutcliffe show you’ve been waiting for. Get to it… “Sex Symbols in Sandwich Signs takes its title from a damming review of David Storey’s novel ‘Radcliffe’, which was critical of all the qualities Sutcliffe admires, namely its bleak, alienating narrative and ‘garrulous’ characters. The exhibition pulls at the seams of identity, expanding…
Read MoreRecital – Sarah Forrest
I like everything that Sarah makes, but Recital, which I was looking at yesterday, is unbelievably great. Recital (2016) Sarah on Vimeo
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