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I See You Man @ Celine
I need to get back sharpish to see the rest of I See You Man at Celine, featuring favs. such…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Read MoreWe 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…
Read MoreNew Look does Blade Runner 2049
It’s not just the jacket. There’s Joi and Luv too…
Read MoreBlade 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…
Read MoreAleksandra 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…
Read MoreSue Tompkins – Country Grammar
… while over the road it was like stepping back to 2004, to experience Sue’s incredible delivery of heart-jerking banalities.…
Read MoreMartin Boyce – Light Years
Over at the Modern, exhausted 1920s sex workers of standard lamps slumped in 2001…
Read MoreIlana Halperin – Geologic Intimacy
A treat to catch Ilana’s work, especially since the show is officially down, and all the wonderful folk of PFP…
Read MoreSara 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…
Read MoreGoMA – 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…
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…
Read MorePicnic 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…
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,…
Read MoreOresteia: 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…
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…
Read MoreNudes 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…
Read MoreJac Leirner – Add It Up
Popped in to the Fruitmarket to see this (superbly installed I should add) show. Upstairs was more interesting than down…
Read MoreCarradale 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…
Read MoreBlade Runner on the Stairs
Watch this little Hospitalfield moment here.
Read MorePeggy Awesh
An email has told me that at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival this year, this will be happening:…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreHospitalfield – A Pamphlet…
…and a taste of things to come…
Read MoreFrench Windows – Ian Emes 1972
This is pretty incredible – 1972, Ian Emes. After French Windows was shown on the Whistle Test, Pink Floyd picked…
Read MoreSedmikrasky (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!
Read MoreThe Human Voice
Ever had a bad break-up? Well, at least you didn’t hang on the phone, calling them darling and agreeing to…
Read MoreRecital – Sarah Forrest
I like everything that Sarah makes, but Recital, which I was looking at yesterday, is unbelievably great. Recital (2016) Sarah…
Read MoreSpiders vs. Bee
Watch Spiders vs. Bee. No one dies.
Read MoreHome (2009)
Here’s a link to Home, a 2009 BBC TV version of Ballard’s The Enormous Space, with Antony Sher. Just not…
Read MoreJGB does Advertising
Following on from his 1958 Project for a New Novel, Ballard made this series of five ‘Advertiser’s Announcements’ created and published…
Read MoreInto 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…
Read MoreBack to Ballard
Writing and reading on a train for 12 hours or so this weekend, and post a re-read* ‘n’ watch** of…
Read MoreTopping 2016 – Munich
Thank you to experimental ear owner (the ears are real, their preferred MO avant-garde) CM for this spot of my…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreHospitalfield – 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…
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreSome 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…
Read MoreWasting Time on the Internet
Reading Wasting Time on the Internet by Kenneth Goldsmith this week, and planning workshops to test the resolve of the…
Read MoreTwists 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…
Read MorePeter 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…
Read MorePeter 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…
Read MoreTwilight 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…
Read MoreBlade 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…
Read MoreBerlin Report
Ably assisted by the students of University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, I saw some things in Berlin. A…
Read MorePeter 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!…
Read MoreHospitalfield 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…
Read MoreOne 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…
Read MoreDirty Screen Shot
Thanks Dr Mark Wilson
Read MoreANTIPHON – 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…
Read MoreFamily History – Gillian Wearing
I love this work and this book. I love GW. More on Family History here.
Read MoreSpolia – 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…
Read MoreRoger Hiorns at the Ikon
Thanks to a University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts related trip South, I got to see the Hiorns show…
Read MoreWill Internets Eat Brain?
Probably. Very pleased to have caught Gillian Wylde’s performance at the CCA last week – all part of the GFF.…
Read MorePeter 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,…
Read MoreSans Soleil
Revisiting Marker’s 1983 Sans Soleil this weekend was like visiting an old friend who has aged beautifully and is more…
Read MoreKate Davis – Charity
Thanks to Kate Davis, I popped along to the World Premier of Charity, the film made with the support of the…
Read MoreGorgomancy
Is Chris Marker’s collage/collection of all sorts of works. Respectfully clunky, but maybe the only way to see Immemory without…
Read MoreIt Follows
The trailer for this 2014 tense horror makes it appear bland and ordinary, but things are going on in David…
Read MoreSaturday 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…
Read MoreChat 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…
Read MorePuce Moment 1949
I think this is what La La Land was trying to get at. Anger does old Hollywood glamour to perfection…
Read MoreRabbit’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…
Read MoreDichterliebe – 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…
Read MoreDavid 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)
Read MoreDavid 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.…
Read MoreIman walking in the 80’s
Watch for a minute here.
Read MoreBruce Nauman’s corridors…
…come in many forms. Here’re two: Live Taped Video Corridor (1970) Walk with Contrapposto (1968) And here he is doing…
Read MorePhillip Jeffries
In other words, barely there David in Fire Walk with Me. Look, this film is just not as disastrous as…
Read MoreThank you Soft Machine…
…for Thank You Pierrot Lunaire. Listen to this, with some footage of the band on tour with Hendrix, right here. The…
Read MoreOliver 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…
Read MoreTony 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…
Read MoreKate 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…
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…
Read MoreWe see it once
Just noticed this photo of Ace City Racers, pausing in front of my video, Women: 8 Films. From, erm, 2014…
Read MoreSecond 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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreVideo 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…
Read MoreBBC 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…
Read MoreHito Steyerl – Politics of Post-Representation
This is good: Hito Steyerl – Politics of Post-Representation
Read More12-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…
Read MoreStreetwise – Martin Bell – 1984
After an hour of scrambling around in that internet last week, big thanks to Calum and Stasia for pointing out…
Read More25 years of Reeves & Mortimer: The Poignant Moments
Vic and Bob – Vic and Bob – Vic and Bob. 25 years though – how the hell did that…
Read More12 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:…
Read MoreStories We Tell – Sarah Polley
Enjoyed this film last night. The family are so literate and handsome, it makes it even more tricky to identify…
Read MoreRob Kennedy – Play Dis
Dying to get to see Rob’s show (screening & discussion at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh) – at Talbot Rice – not…
Read MoreBruce 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…
Read MoreAhhhh, 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…
Read MoreWords – in pictures
Here’s what I’ve been reading, in no particular order.
Read MoreScreen Used on F’Bk
Take a look at some details & the Press Release right here.
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