Things I am into
Oliver Herrmann’s Pierrot Lunaire
So much of what I’ve enjoyed and been non-plussed by in film over the last two years suddenly has a context, all names withheld for parity’s sake. I’m not sure there’s a better way into Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire Op. 21 than this bit of One Night. One Life directed by Oliver Herrmann – made in…
Read MoreTutu Woodhouse – a thing I almost made…
I’m determined to make this not good thing into something else, and so something better, during the next three weeks. It’ll involve a complete re-write, new approach, but I’m so game. A video about walking, hats and violent Smurfs. But this video is currently password protected, for vanity’s sake.
Read MoreThey Live
It had been years, and my excuse was the dissemination of Carpenter paranoia to the Fine Art students of the University of Cumbria Institute of Arts (in a rare mention here), so we watched They Live. It is virtually perfect. It’s not The Thing, but it’s close. More influential than you remember/was at the time you last…
Read MoreAccess Main Computer File
This Tumblr site posts screens from TV and film. That’s it. What else could you want it to do? Exactly. Access Main Computer File
Read MoreTargeted Advertising becomes an Ouroboros
While footering around, asking the net yet more questions about Blade Runner, I was targeted by my own t-shirt. I’m strangely proud. If you like Blade Runner, then you’re bound to like… Click to make big…
Read MoreThe Brontës, how are they doing?
With a Keeprese salad (thank you Darbyshire) and a bottle of red wine in the boot, it was off to the Parsonage, to catch up on the latest. Actually, the museum has had a shot of cash and there was a great wee temporary curation by Tracy Chevalier of some of Charlotte’s works and bits,…
Read MorePizza – Neil Bickerton
I lay my cards on the table: there’s nothing Neil Bickerton does that I don’t like, artwise, certainly. And here is his latest, presented by gas-tower.com at the CCA and streamed live on YouTube. Around an hour of tense, often funny, always revealing, pizza-threaded stuff. This is who’s using the internet and this is how…
Read MoreThat Which Remain – Mount Stuart
Another triumph from Lorna Macintyre in the ludicrous, palatial, often edible environs of Mount Stuart. Also featuring excellent works, old and new by Kate Davis, Lucy Skaer and Monya Flannigan and, as they say, much much more. Visit the website here: That Which Remain No images emerging as yet, so here’s a beauty of Lorna’s made for the…
Read MoreIKFF – other Favourites – We Need New Names – Onyeka Igwe
Watch a trailer for this fantastic video essay on the filmmaker’s Nigerian female identity here.
Read MoreMirror
Went to the GFT to see Mirror on the big(ish) screen and had an informative chat about it before hand with a woman in Sleazy’s who had once failed an exam on it. Of course, the wind in the field is stunning, but so is the scene of panic as Margarita Terekhova searches for a typo at…
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