Fast Film, Slow Burn: Uncommon Singularity -Short Film Programme Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Any good short film screening will have an eclectic mix and the animated shorts programme (Fast Film, Slow Burn: Uncommon Singularity) at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh had just that. In total 10 films were screened for a range of countries such as Canada, Estonia, Russia, France and Hungary....
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I Write the Bee Sides…
Trawling junk shops, getting covered in chalk & charcoal, scavenging for a drum kit. These are probably not the usual activities of someone preparing for a book launch. But with seismic changes afoot (that’s right I used the word seismic), the literary world is throwing the traditional tweed manual for correct behaviour out of the...
Review: Chasing Ice at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival opened on Wednesday night with a Gala screening of Chasing Ice by Jeff Orlowski. Premiering at Sundance Film Festival in January, the film has garnered awards from various film festivals including Canada’s Hot Docs. A perfect fit for Berwick’s festival theme Pictures in Motion the film follows National Geographic...
Mike Peters – Lying and Liars / B.S. Johnson’s Paradigm @ Collective Gallery Edinburgh
Collective Gallery present a joint exhibition from Glasgow based sculptor Mike Peters and avant garde writer and film maker B.S. Johnson (1933-1973). Taking on the concept that all fiction is lying, the exhibition showcases the illustrative sculptures of Mike Peters in tandem with the experimental film Paradigm (1969) from Johnson. Johnson’s film looks to ask...
The Weird and Wonderful World of Wes Anderson
WARNING: Serious praise ahead, DO NOT read if you are sensitive to to admiration! ..doing my best to convince you to watch.. Wes Anderson, an auteur. A writer/director unlike any other, unique and enthralling, his stories are fantastical adventures of self-discovery, loss, and understanding with flashes of dark humour and heart-wrenching sympathy. His ability to...
Mixing It Up – An Intergenerational perspective
How are artists coping – financially, emotionally, politically – with this gloomy economic period? How are their practices reacting to its challenges? Can an intergenerational dialogue open a route into the opacity of our time? New Work Network and Artquest explored these questions through the five–film project ‘Mixing It Up – An Intergenerational Perspective’. Five short...
Edindocs: Documentary Film Festival in Edinburgh. The highs, the lows and the winners…
Allow me to introduce Irma, a charismatic bundle of contradictory feminine charms, masculine strength and one extraordinary sense of humour. Sit down and relax while this former world champion of women’s professional wrestling sings you her story. You’re smiling aren’t you? I knew you would be, everybody loves Irma, but what about recovering addict Dick...
