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A new thing, finally made…
…all part of a larger thing still underway, ready for a showing at Glasgow International later this year. Because of…
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We Are All Completely Free – Women Artists and Surrealism, Museo Picasso, Malaga
Oh boy. It’s been weeks, simply weeks hasn’t it? Still in my brain is this incredible show that I caught…
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New Look does Blade Runner 2049
It’s not just the jacket. There’s Joi and Luv too…
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Blade Runner 2049 – Propsummit Stirs…
Yes, there are lots of ways to capture the new BR, particularly from a home-wear and footwear p.o.v. Propsummit is…
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Aleksandra Vajd & Markéta Othová: What Is Life?
Aleksandra Vajd & Markéta Othová: What Is Life? – Street Level Photoworks “This exhibition presents current work by two eminent figures…
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Sue Tompkins – Country Grammar
… while over the road it was like stepping back to 2004, to experience Sue’s incredible delivery of heart-jerking banalities.…
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Martin Boyce – Light Years
Over at the Modern, exhausted 1920s sex workers of standard lamps slumped in 2001…
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Ilana Halperin – Geologic Intimacy
A treat to catch Ilana’s work, especially since the show is officially down, and all the wonderful folk of PFP…
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Sara Barker – The Faces of Older Images
Just caught the last of Sara’s show at the v. New Yorky new Mary Mary space. Thank you Hannah. “This…
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GoMA – umpteen things to see last week
The excuse was UoC Institute of the Arts education of the minds of others, the host was a possibly frazzled…
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“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…
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Picnic at Tornado Sands, Arcade East, 23rd Sept. 2017
I’m chuffed to be showing John (2016) in great company as part of Picnic at Tornado Sands, Arcade East, London, opening…
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Pye Corner Audio: Stasis
I’m aye late to the audio party, but this is fantastic (and only a year old). Not sludgy or maudlin,…
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Oresteia: This Restless House @ the Citz
Now this is more like it. Four and a half hours of angst and bloody violence. Some of row B…
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Sex 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…
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Nudes Never Wear Glasses – Kate Davis
And still in Edinburgh, Stills are showing Kate’s new work, alongside her video Charity. Get along to see the show…
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Jac Leirner – Add It Up
Popped in to the Fruitmarket to see this (superbly installed I should add) show. Upstairs was more interesting than down…
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Carradale and the Mull of Kintyre
…ohmistrollininfromtheseamadesire… Off on a road trip with S to track down the (eventual) home of Naomi Mitchison. Denied access to…
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Blade Runner on the Stairs
Watch this little Hospitalfield moment here.
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Peggy Awesh
An email has told me that at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival this year, this will be happening:…
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A summer comes to an end…
…and, bar a research trip to Carradale, thoughts must, inevitably, turn to the education of others. This summer I’ve not…
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Hospitalfield – A Pamphlet…
…and a taste of things to come…
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French Windows – Ian Emes 1972
This is pretty incredible – 1972, Ian Emes. After French Windows was shown on the Whistle Test, Pink Floyd picked…
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Sedmikrasky (Daisies) 1966
After a morning of psychedelic drifting, mask learning/making, killing fruit flies, I’m watching Věra Chytilová‘s Daisies today. Watch it too!
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The Human Voice
Ever had a bad break-up? Well, at least you didn’t hang on the phone, calling them darling and agreeing to…
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Recital – Sarah Forrest
I like everything that Sarah makes, but Recital, which I was looking at yesterday, is unbelievably great. Recital (2016) Sarah…
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Spiders vs. Bee
Watch Spiders vs. Bee. No one dies.
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Home (2009)
Here’s a link to Home, a 2009 BBC TV version of Ballard’s The Enormous Space, with Antony Sher. Just not…
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JGB does Advertising
Following on from his 1958 Project for a New Novel, Ballard made this series of five ‘Advertiser’s Announcements’ created and published…
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Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction
Popped into the Barbican (a beautiful Ballardian thing if there ever was) on Friday for Into the Unknown: A Journey through…
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Back to Ballard
Writing and reading on a train for 12 hours or so this weekend, and post a re-read* ‘n’ watch** of…
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Topping 2016 – Munich
Thank you to experimental ear owner (the ears are real, their preferred MO avant-garde) CM for this spot of my…
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A 35mm 208 Frame Version of Blade Runner for a Phone
I biked, I read, I made this wee video out of 35mm scraps. Felt the need to get working here…
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Hospitalfield – there’s something happening here…
Shoulder to Shoulder – FIELDWORK International Summer School co-programmed with Cicely Farrer and Gordon Douglas Harp Celebration Day to mark…
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I Love Dick on the telly
And I can’t be the only one. Lots to love in Jill Soloway’s TV version of Kraus’ novel. Excruciating in…
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The Handmaid’s Tale 2017
This 1985 Atwood has never shifted from my top ten, and, like 1984, it works because there’s nothing in it…
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Some Press about Peter
Three mentions of Peter, and some ‘professor’… ITV News, 2 June 2017 at 6:00pm and Outer Places 12 June 2017 and…
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Wasting Time on the Internet
Reading Wasting Time on the Internet by Kenneth Goldsmith this week, and planning workshops to test the resolve of the…
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Twists in the Cord (or) Other Extensions of the Telephone
Before I head up to Hospitalfield in time for FIELDWORK International Summer School – Summer Festival, and thanks to a…
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Peter wins Best PKD Short Film at the 5th Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival 2017
Thank you to Dan Abella, the PKD crew and to all the filmmakers I met this week. A superb festival… I’ve…
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Peter in The 5th Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival…update…
The full programme has been announced, and it looks fascinating… Peter screening details are: Monday, May 29, 2017, The Producers Club, THE COURTHOUSE…
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Twilight City, 1989
Made for Channel 4, Black Audio Film Collective’s Twilight City is the absolute, no question, stand-out work at the CCA’s The Sky…
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Blade Runner 2049
Here’s the trailer. Here’s an nme article. It looks like it’s a geekfest of refs – Officer K indeed! I’m…
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Berlin Report
Ably assisted by the students of University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, I saw some things in Berlin. A…
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Peter in the Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival 2017
Peter will screen as part of the 5th Philip K. Dick Film Festival in New York this May. Get in!…
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Hospitalfield Summer Residency 2017
I’m incredibly excited to be taking up the Hospitalfield Summer Residency 2017. Incredible artists to hang out with, in ludicrously glorious…
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One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
I’m spending a bit of this day in my life being wowed by Marker’s essay on Tarkovski. Trailer here. Marker’s…
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Dirty Screen Shot
Thanks Dr Mark Wilson
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ANTIPHON – Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, Kerala, India
Delighted to be involved with this exciting event: Friday 3 March – Tuesday 7 March LUX Scotland presents ANTIPHON, a series…
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Family History – Gillian Wearing
I love this work and this book. I love GW. More on Family History here.
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Spolia – Lorna Macintyre at Cample Line
What a beautiful day it was to be motoring through parts of the country I normally only glimpse from a…
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Roger Hiorns at the Ikon
Thanks to a University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts related trip South, I got to see the Hiorns show…
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Will Internets Eat Brain?
Probably. Very pleased to have caught Gillian Wylde’s performance at the CCA last week – all part of the GFF.…
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Peter at Kochi-Muziris Biennale with Lux Scotland
Peter is getting an outing next week – as part of Lux Scotland‘s curated Artists’ Cinema at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale,…
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Sans Soleil
Revisiting Marker’s 1983 Sans Soleil this weekend was like visiting an old friend who has aged beautifully and is more…
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Kate Davis – Charity
Thanks to Kate Davis, I popped along to the World Premier of Charity, the film made with the support of the…
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Gorgomancy
Is Chris Marker’s collage/collection of all sorts of works. Respectfully clunky, but maybe the only way to see Immemory without…
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It Follows
The trailer for this 2014 tense horror makes it appear bland and ordinary, but things are going on in David…
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Working for six days on the trot has clearly resulted in a feeding frenzy for my eyeballs. Here’s one for…
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Chat écoutant la musique – Chris Marker
In honour of Method’s appreciation of The Soft Machine earlier today, here’s the first of three Chris Marker films… Chat…
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Puce Moment 1949
I think this is what La La Land was trying to get at. Anger does old Hollywood glamour to perfection…
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Rabbit’s Moon (1972 version)
Also on today’s revisiting list is the 16-minute version of Kenneth Anger’s Rabbit’s Moon. Here’s his 1979 version; speeded up…
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Dichterliebe – another part of Herrmann’s One Night. One Life
A more straightforward performance/recording from director, Christine Schäfer and Natascha Osterkorn on piano this Schuman. This is the second part of One…
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David Bowie – Crystal Japan – Promo – 1980
Last David post of the day. Must be something in the air this morning. Stare at this: Crystal Japan (1980)
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David and Peter Frampton Search for a Beer in 1987
Oh David. Nice skipwork. For me though, Frampton never really comes alive. Thanks to Bickerton. David smoking in Madrid here.…
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Iman walking in the 80’s
Watch for a minute here.
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Bruce Nauman’s corridors…
…come in many forms. Here’re two: Live Taped Video Corridor (1970) Walk with Contrapposto (1968) And here he is doing…
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Phillip Jeffries
In other words, barely there David in Fire Walk with Me. Look, this film is just not as disastrous as…
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Thank you Soft Machine…
…for Thank You Pierrot Lunaire. Listen to this, with some footage of the band on tour with Hendrix, right here. The…
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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…
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Tony Bevan & Richard Youngs
Had my brain fried by Bevan and surprise (to me) guest Youngs yesterday at t’Hairdresser’s. Heard some noises I’ve never…
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Kate Davis at the GFT
An early 2017 treat and a great way to become excited about Kate’s forthcoming film, a result of the Margaret…
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Tutu 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…
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We see it once
Just noticed this photo of Ace City Racers, pausing in front of my video, Women: 8 Films. From, erm, 2014…
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Second Chance Man – Christoph Girardet
A chat with Jamie Simpson this morning reminded me of chum Christoph Girardet’s participation in the Tindersticks’ The Waiting Room…
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A 13 Point Script for a YouTube Unboxing Video, 2016
Here’s a link to the text bit of a performance I gave at the NAFAE conference in July at the…
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Video Festival – Transmission – 10 & 11 December
Vicki and Alex, Like the Clouds is in day two of Transmission’s Video Festival. Lots of other treats in store…
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BBC AS ECHO CHAMBER: A REVIEW OF “HYPERNORMALISATION” by Robin Parmar
Here’s the real reason Curtis’ latest was so depressing: BBC as Echo Chamber – thanks Torsten. And yet there’s a huge…
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Hito Steyerl – Politics of Post-Representation
This is good: Hito Steyerl – Politics of Post-Representation
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12-Hour Action Group at The Cooper Gallery
In fine, fine company, I attended this whole bally affair, bar a nip out for a noodle and red wine…
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Streetwise – Martin Bell – 1984
After an hour of scrambling around in that internet last week, big thanks to Calum and Stasia for pointing out…
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25 years of Reeves & Mortimer: The Poignant Moments
Vic and Bob – Vic and Bob – Vic and Bob. 25 years though – how the hell did that…
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12 Hour Action Group – Cooper Gallery, DCA, Saturday 3rd Dec.
Just look at the contributors to this DCA Cooper Gallery event… uhHuh. I’m very excited about this indeed… Keynote Speakers:…
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Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley
Enjoyed this film last night. The family are so literate and handsome, it makes it even more tricky to identify…
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Rob Kennedy – Play Dis
Dying to get to see Rob’s show (screening & discussion at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh) – at Talbot Rice – not…
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Bruce McLean does the Friday Event
I’m so often not gatecrashing a GSA@GFT Friday Event, that when I do it’s like being a student again, except…
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Ahhhh, the past is another country
And here are two flyers proving just that. Originally made of paper/card=trees, for shows I was in in 1999. Thank…
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Words – in pictures
Here’s what I’ve been reading, in no particular order.
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Screen Used on F’Bk
Take a look at some details & the Press Release right here.
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Screen Used…
…opens tonight at Patricia Fleming Projects… Here is what you can expect…
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Michael Snow interviewed in 1983
Snow’s mellow tones are perfect for a Sunday morning. Watch this interview that Channel 4 made and broadcast in 1983.…
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AMIF 2016 – evening session…
Managed to get to Tramers in time for the last three events of the Sarah Tripp curated Saturday bit of…
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