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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 Originally made of paper/card=trees, for shows I was in in 1999.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…
Words – in pictures
Here’s what I’ve been reading, in no particular order.
FOMO#3
Eye Eye, a gif of mine will be part of FOMO: a night that brings together electronic music, short film…
Screen Used on F’Bk
Take a look at some details & the Press Release right here.
Screen Used…
…opens tonight at Patricia Fleming Projects… Here is what you can expect…
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.…
AMIF 2016 – evening session…
Managed to get to Tramers in time for the last three events of the Sarah Tripp curated Saturday bit of…
Free Fire
Here’s a trailer for the new Ben Wheatley/Amy Jump film Free Fire. Just like early High-Rise, reviews are not good,…
Ali Smith on Pauline Botty
This sharp wee piece on Botty is a good read (thank you Rodge). Plus a link to Adam Curtis’ blog…
Not sure where I’m going with this dentist/Deckard thing…
Is it simply a trick of film vs video, both turned to digital image that connects these aesthetically, or maybe…
Voigt-Kampff – Notes on PKD’s use of language
The naming of machines in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by James Reich here.
They Live
It had been years, and my excuse was the dissemination of Carpenter paranoia to the Fine Art students of the University…
Access Main Computer File
This Tumblr site posts screens from TV and film. That’s it. What else could you want it to do? Exactly.…
Other Waste Material – Bickerton Pub launch @ Good Press
This afternoon… It folds, it unfolds…
New Adam Curtis is 16 days away
Acclaimed filmmaker, Adam Curtis brings his new epic film, HyperNormalisation to BBC iPlayer this October. The film will premiere at…
Trigger Words @ The GPS
How smashing of Ross Sinclair to invite us in as he finished installing his work in this group show. Sorry…
John Samson @ GoMA
Popped in with the UoCIoA students – thanks to Will Cooper. Hit it at the rubber point. ‘1975–1983’ presents the…
If you like Easter Island’s Heads…
…then you’ll love Jane Topping’s T-shirt. Available on Culture Label. It’s following my Googlelife.
Milano Chow – Egg and Tongue
And also dropped into Mary Mary to see Milano Chow’s solo show.
Jo McGonigal – SHIFT
Popped in to see this show at Patricia Fleming Projects last night…
Katy Dove at DCA
A memorial exhibition of drawings, collages, paintings, prints and animations by much-loved artist Katy Dove (1970 – 2015). A former…
Targeted 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…
Transit Zines – Aye Aye Books – CCA
You can now grab any of the Transit publications for £5 at Aye- AyeBooks in CCA Glasgow, or online at transitarts.bigcartel.com…
Three Cats…
…are surely better than no cats at all? Went to Nicolas Party’s opening at the Modern on Friday.
The 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…
Kathryn Elkin – Television
It’s the last week of Kathryn Elkin’s show Television at the CCA. Get along to see it. And here’s Kathryn…
Pizza – Neil Bickerton
I lay my cards on the table: there’s nothing Neil Bickerton does that I don’t like, artwise, certainly. And here…
That 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…
John (2016)
Here are a few screenshots of my new video, John, made using Episode 1 of Exile, a short series made…
The Gouster
Coming soon. It’s too sad to get too happy about, but there it is.
Fa fa fa fa fashion
This week I have been wearing fur pants and bin man’s jacket to enjoy… Prêt-à-Porter Bill Cunningham New York Unzipped
IKFF – NoBudget Jury Statement
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IKFF – other Favourites – the NoBudget selection team!
Sarah Adam, Anja Ellenberger, Felix Piatkowski, Sandra Lösel, Cristina Tudose. Thank you for a superb programme.
IKFF – Other Favourites – Servicing Guide… by Carmine Grimaldi
Full title of this film is Servicing Guide: Fannie Mae Single Family, Subpart A4-2.1-02, Property Inspection Vendor Management and Oversight…
IKFF – other Favourites – We Need New Names – Onyeka Igwe
Watch a trailer for this fantastic video essay on the filmmaker’s Nigerian female identity here.
IKFF – other favourites – Brainbows by Karin Fisslthaler
Karin’s details at Galerie Raum mit Licht here.
IKFF – other favourites – (Auto)exposiciones by Florencia Aliberti
Watch a clip of this film here. Be concerned for the children who, I have heard, are the future.
IKFF – other favourites – Mad Ladders by Michael Robinson
Read about this film here.
Mirror
Went to the GFT to see Mirror on the big(ish) screen and had an informative chat about it before hand…
About an hour of Christian Marclay’s The Clock
Because all montage brings you here. Isn’t interesting how we try to watch this, the most precise of works? Out…
Ben Rivers – Terror! (2006)
If you are in a brightly lit room and not overly delicate this am, I recommend watching Terror! ‘You’re all…
Ben Rivers at Hamburg Kunstverein
Nowhere near finished my Hamburg Report. At the Kunstverein was a Ben Rivers show. The first film, with a struggling…
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To ensure delivery, add no-reply@vimeo.com to your address book. Hello Jane Topping, A Vimeo moderator marked your account for…
Hito Steyerl – How Not to be Seen A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File 2013
Just reading Steyerl’s short essay A Thing Like You and Me, so this retort-titled video is the perfect accompaniment. Watch it…
Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
Climb into your expedition jumpsuit, kick off your deck shoes and enjoy Incident at Loch Ness. Herzog, you are a…
The Nabokov Paper Returns
There will be a small installation of The Nabokov Paper at Forms of Criticism, organized by Kaja Marczewska of the…
IKFF – An impeccable jury team
I was hugely fortunate to team up with Siegfried Alexander Frauhauf and Christoph Girardet as the NoBudget Jury. Smart conversation…
IKFF – Other Favourites – D.^^.$.® by Samuel Fouracre
D.^^.$.® by Samuel Fouracre is the best film about relationships now I’ve seen since Francis Stark’s My Best Thing. After…
IKFF continued II
And here, watching and announcing at the presentations for the winning films.
IKFF continued
Spot the Topping – here I am on the opening night and at the first NoBudget Screening at the NoBudget…
32nd Hamburg Short Film Festival (IKFF)
There’s too much to squeeze into one post about my time on the NoBudget Competition jury, so here’s the first…
Peter screened with Transit
‘For its third episode, the roving screen presented a selection of moving image work by Dorine Aguerre, Miles Joseph, Lucie…
32nd Hamburg International Short Film Festival
Remember they screened Peter in this festival last year? Well they know a good thing when they, ahem, meet her, so…
David – No reason
“It’s not a tool, it’s an alien life form.” A year after this interview, the brew bought me an imac.…
You Must Remember This
This is interesting. Perfect for Sunday morning listening… “You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast about the secret and/or forgotten…
and everything crooked will become straight – £4 only…
…while stocks last – Get your very own copy of Transit’s excellent zine, which accompanied Transit #3. Thank you to…
The Hollow Crown – Series 1
Sighs all round. Ben Wishaw goes from weedy to stately, but too late in Rich 2. Jezza Irons rages in…
3016 – Aniara Omann
I love the current Project Room show – go see Aniara’s radioactive alien thangs immediately. Lush and dangerous. Website here.…
Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966)
Piled out of The Old Hairdresser’s and onto the sleeper to this symposium at the Whitechapel a couple of weeks…
Moyra Davey – Notes on Blue
It’s back. Watch Davey’s auto/biographical video essay here. Not sure how long the Walker will have it up, so watch…
Fantom Cinema
For the whole Fantom Cinema program at the Old Hairdresser’s, look here.
Vernon & Burns
At the Old Hairdresser’s on Thursday for Vernon & Burns’ latest – and it was magic. As was Torsten’s digital wallpaper…
British Art Show 8
Apart from the superb contribution by long time/term fav. & friend of the podcast Ciara Phillips, I was pretty underwhelmed…
Cardiff and Miller
Road Trip (2004) is actually hilarious – nothing to do with memory, family or cancer really. It’s relationship critique genius.…
Heathers (1994) – Karen Kilimnik
I know, I know. I knew about this, but now I’m finally watching it… Scrunchies on repeat here. Too long for…
Liz Magic Laser
Maybe because I’ve been watching Inside Obama’s Whitehouse for the last month, I also liked this this morning. Interview with Liz…
She Had Her Gun All Ready 1978
“She Had Her Gun All Ready” by Vivienne Dick with Lydia Lunch and Pat Place (1978)
An alternative view…
…of our favourite woodland, from Professor Mark Wilson.
Superhero Kit
Thank you Jacqui!
Not Only Choice Parts
It’s a video which is made of Harrison Ford fanzines and a Gina Lollobrigida performance. It does exist, just not…
Consumed – David Cronenberg
Thinking about my work this week, I realise that Cronenberg’s Consumed (2014), his first novel, is actually kinda pivotal. Two lovers connecting…
Eye Eye – A gif for you
Feel free to download this. I own about a 30th of the object, so it’s a 30th OK.
Waves! Whitby! 2011!
An old film made again. But weren’t you meant to be matching research framework wheel codes onto blog posts this…
Transit #3 Zine online
Read the brilliant zine right here. Thank you Marcus Jack.
Society of the Spectacle 1973
And now I am cramming, erm watching, this film Guy Debord made of his 1967 book. The image/subtitle quality is pretty…
Joyce Wieland
Here she is on UbuWeb. Gerbils at a Canadian Cherry Festival in Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968)!
Paul Sharits
On a Structuralist Film bent this am. Here are a few links, never to the films I want to see in particular of…
Touch Screen Sizzle
Made for balance. Must. Write. Now…
Touch Screen Technicolour & Buzz
Once more adhering to my habit of making something when I should be writing something, here are a couple of super-short films I…
Keren Cytter
Onto Keren’s Vimeo Channel this am to watch Video Art Manual (2011) and Corrections (2013), but of course I took…
Camille Henrot
Much revisiting going on this week. Realised that I’ve not posted any Camille Henrot love. Grosse Fatigue images hint at…
Katalin Varga (2009)
Thinking about Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy (2014) today, so I watched his 2009 ‘revenge flick’ Katalin Varga. Watch it,…
Shivers (1975)
This is basically High-Rise, but with an infectious mechanism – and the set dressing isn’t retro, it’s straight out the…
Felicity Hickson and Michael Eaton on High-Rise design
In this month’s Creative Review: Inside High-Rise
Brick-Rise!
After Brickjest comes… Brick High-Rise!
Peter (2014) as a paper object
This is kind of the shooting script and the start of making Peter exist as an object as well as…
Because I should be writing…
…I am therefore watching, reading and posting about High-Rise. But I am thinking. How to connect Buffy’s Beljoxa’s Eye to…
High-Rise – The Movie
Here’s another version of High-Rise, by Mike Bonsall.
The Atrocity Exhibition BBC film (1970)
Made 3 years before Crash was published, 5 before High-Rise came out.
The Atrocity Exhibtion (2000)
On a Ballardian kick, this morning I am watching Jonathan Weiss’ The Atrocity Exhibition, 2000. It feels like the book…
High-Rise
High-Rise achieved. Spilt me Pimms down me raincoat. Go again! Will Self on Ballard transcriptions here. Wheatley interview here. On…
Transit #3 Last night
From Marcus Jack: Thanks to everyone who made it down to TRANSIT #3 at the @GlasgowSFF – here’s a little…
Near-rise
I am so excited about the Wheatley/Ballard combo, I’m posting about nearly seeing High-Rise. In a few hours I shall…
White Wash Death Watch – It happened
WWDW screened last night. Fact. And actually, it looked good, like a nostalgic painting of Deathwatch. Thanks GSFF and audience, particularly invited…
Transit No.3 Publication
Seen here, alongside the contents of my pockets, is the TRANSIT No.3 Zine. My contribution ps 22-33. Cover definitely red, not pink.…