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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…
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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…
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Voigt-Kampff – Notes on PKD’s use of language
The naming of machines in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by James Reich here.
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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.…
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Other Waste Material – Bickerton Pub launch @ Good Press
This afternoon… It folds, it unfolds…
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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…
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Trigger Words @ The GPS
How smashing of Ross Sinclair to invite us in as he finished installing his work in this group show. Sorry…
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John Samson @ GoMA
Popped in with the UoCIoA students – thanks to Will Cooper. Hit it at the rubber point. ‘1975–1983’ presents the…
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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.
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Milano Chow – Egg and Tongue
And also dropped into Mary Mary to see Milano Chow’s solo show.
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Jo McGonigal – SHIFT
Popped in to see this show at Patricia Fleming Projects last night…
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Katy Dove at DCA
A memorial exhibition of drawings, collages, paintings, prints and animations by much-loved artist Katy Dove (1970 – 2015). A former…
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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…
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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…
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Three Cats…
…are surely better than no cats at all? Went to Nicolas Party’s opening at the Modern on Friday.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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John (2016)
Here are a few screenshots of my new video, John, made using Episode 1 of Exile, a short series made…
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The Gouster
Coming soon. It’s too sad to get too happy about, but there it is.
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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
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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.
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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…
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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.
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IKFF – other favourites – Brainbows by Karin Fisslthaler
Karin’s details at Galerie Raum mit Licht here.
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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.
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IKFF – other favourites – Mad Ladders by Michael Robinson
Read about this film here.
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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…
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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…
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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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Attention Required on Your Vimeo Account
To ensure delivery, add no-reply@vimeo.com to your address book. Hello Jane Topping, A Vimeo moderator marked your account for…
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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…
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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…
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The Nabokov Paper Returns
There will be a small installation of The Nabokov Paper at Forms of Criticism, organized by Kaja Marczewska of the…
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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…
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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…
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IKFF continued II
And here, watching and announcing at the presentations for the winning films.
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IKFF continued
Spot the Topping – here I am on the opening night and at the first NoBudget Screening at the NoBudget…
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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…
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Peter screened with Transit
‘For its third episode, the roving screen presented a selection of moving image work by Dorine Aguerre, Miles Joseph, Lucie…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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3016 – Aniara Omann
I love the current Project Room show – go see Aniara’s radioactive alien thangs immediately. Lush and dangerous. Website here.…
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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…
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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…
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Fantom Cinema
For the whole Fantom Cinema program at the Old Hairdresser’s, look here.
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Vernon & Burns
At the Old Hairdresser’s on Thursday for Vernon & Burns’ latest – and it was magic. As was Torsten’s digital wallpaper…
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British Art Show 8
Apart from the superb contribution by long time/term fav. & friend of the podcast Ciara Phillips, I was pretty underwhelmed…
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Cardiff and Miller
Road Trip (2004) is actually hilarious – nothing to do with memory, family or cancer really. It’s relationship critique genius.…
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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…
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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…
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She Had Her Gun All Ready 1978
“She Had Her Gun All Ready” by Vivienne Dick with Lydia Lunch and Pat Place (1978)
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An alternative view…
…of our favourite woodland, from Professor Mark Wilson.
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Superhero Kit
Thank you Jacqui!
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Waves! Whitby! 2011!
An old film made again. But weren’t you meant to be matching research framework wheel codes onto blog posts this…
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Transit #3 Zine online
Read the brilliant zine right here. Thank you Marcus Jack.
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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…
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Joyce Wieland
Here she is on UbuWeb. Gerbils at a Canadian Cherry Festival in Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968)!
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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…
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Touch Screen Sizzle
Made for balance. Must. Write. Now…
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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…
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Keren Cytter
Onto Keren’s Vimeo Channel this am to watch Video Art Manual (2011) and Corrections (2013), but of course I took…
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Camille Henrot
Much revisiting going on this week. Realised that I’ve not posted any Camille Henrot love. Grosse Fatigue images hint at…
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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,…
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Shivers (1975)
This is basically High-Rise, but with an infectious mechanism – and the set dressing isn’t retro, it’s straight out the…
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Felicity Hickson and Michael Eaton on High-Rise design
In this month’s Creative Review: Inside High-Rise
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Brick-Rise!
After Brickjest comes… Brick High-Rise!
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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…
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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…
Read MoreHigh-Rise – The Movie
Here’s another version of High-Rise, by Mike Bonsall.
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The Atrocity Exhibition BBC film (1970)
Made 3 years before Crash was published, 5 before High-Rise came out.
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The Atrocity Exhibtion (2000)
On a Ballardian kick, this morning I am watching Jonathan Weiss’ The Atrocity Exhibition, 2000. It feels like the book…
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Transit #3 Last night
From Marcus Jack: Thanks to everyone who made it down to TRANSIT #3 at the @GlasgowSFF – here’s a little…
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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…
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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.…
Read MoreScottish Competition – I’m Deranged
White Wash Death Watch was one of the least deranged of this selection. To be fair, I’ve made more engaging…
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Transit #3
Of course the highlight was Peter, of course it was. But also great were Miles Joseph’s Remediation (2010), Do Not…
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Ohna Falby Masterclass at GSSF
Highlight of this GSSF session with producer Ohna Falby was Jane and Louise Wilson’s The Toxic Camera. Plus, I now know…
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TRANSIT#3 Invitiation
Transit Arts are delighted to invite you to TRANSIT #3: and everything crooked will become straight Thursday 17th March,…
Read MoreCCA: GSSF Info
Visual art, performance, film, music, Gaelic culture, literature and more… Hello! Trees are blooming, frogs are spawning and the huntsman Orion is…
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ICA Film Open – Archive page
Artists’ Film Club: Film Open 11 Nov 2015 Film Open, a new screening programme of artist films, featuring twenty recent…
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