Things I have seen with my eyes
F for Fake
Watch Orson Welles’ film essay F for Fake here. A documentary of forgery, biography and a small monkey.
Read MoreBlade Runner UK print ad, 1982
Oscillate: Metamodernism & the Humanities
Did I mention that I had popped along to this great wee conference at the University of Strathclyde (16/09/14)? Interesting to hear perspectives from the creative writing sphere, papers by Emma Sullivan and Craig Pollard being the highlights for me. Here’s a Frieze Video: What is metamodernism? Philosophers Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen talk about…
Read MoreBorn in Flames
Watch Lizzie Borden‘s 1983 fictional documentary Born in Flames. Feminist pirate radio and the unfulfilled promise of a peaceful socialist revolution – what’s not to like? It’s all on YouTube right here, so there’s no reason to put it off a moment longer. Whistles out and on yer bike.
Read MorePlayTime
The reissue of Tati’s PlayTime at GFT 1 last Tuesday was a treat for 2 generations of Toppings. Watch the new trailer here.
Read MoreKittens, Inspired by Kittens – and Hollis Frampton
Ok. This is not the place to post cute cat videos, I know, I know. But Kittens, Inspired by Kittens is, well, inspired. And I can’t help but think it has been secretly influenced by Hollis Frampton’s (nostalgia). Watch them both and decide! (nostagia) Kittens, Inspired by Kittens
Read MoreEighty Circles through Canada (the last possessions of an Orcadian mountain man)
After giving a talk to Willie Nelson’s Visual Arts Studio at Tramway today, I popped in to see another Nelson. “Mike Nelson is best known for his labyrinthine architectural installations that unfold as narrative structures, where the viewer moves through rooms like a reader turns pages in a novel. For Tramway, Nelson presents a recent work, Eighty…
Read MoreMy Wife! My Family!
Chuckling along to Avaryl Halley’s Harrison Ford compilation this morning. Watch it here.
Read MoreJohn Waters: This Filthy World Vol. 2
Easily the naughtiest event of the weekend was John Waters’ new stand up show. John was resplendent in his new Commes des Garsons tartan troos. I thought I was up to date on bad taste matters, but this filthy mind learnt a thing or two. Wanna compare blossoms? Read an extract from his new book…
Read MoreHaris Epaminonda – Chronicles
Also as part of Tramway Artists’ Moving Image Festival last night was a new performance by Haris Epaminonda with Kelly Jayne Jones and Pascal Nichols. Soothing. Dreamy. ‘Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda investigates anthropological forms in her film and paper-based work, often recontextualising existing material. For this screening she presents a new composition of the film installation Chronicles (2008) set…
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