Boy Wonders Looper – A Review
Looper is the latest film from director Rian Johnson (Brick), starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and a prosthetic nose as Joe, along with Bruce Willis also as Joe, only slightly older. I actually really like this film even when it’s being really stupid. I also like the fact that Bruce Willis has monopolised the time travel genre;...
Papercut @ Manipulate, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Papercut is a one woman show that is heavily influenced by classic Hollywood cinema, film noir and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Yael Rasooly is definitely not a blonde Hitchcockian victim, but is in total control of her unique world populated by paper cut outs and an innovative use of objects. Papercut is the second...
Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys – The ‘Lost’ Photographs @ Summerhall Galleries Edinburgh
The viewer is presented with a photographic exhibition that showcases a voyeuristic insight to a party given by Andy Warhol to his friend Jospeh Beuys. This in itself may not seem worthy of an exhibition in its entirety, however Beuys relationship with Edinburgh and the ongoing interest in his and Warhol’s work, makes the exhibition...
Cloud Eye Control @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Los Angeles based theatre group Cloud Eye Control have developed 3 short theatre pieces that involve animation, motion graphics and innovative use of projection and shadow. This is the American troupes first trip to the UK and it is part of the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. The first performance...
Snapshots – The Making of Longbird – Short Film Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
The Making of Longbird was the fourth and final screening during the Snapshots strand at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. What made this screening so significant was that the animation screen 24 hours before it won the Bafta award for Short Animation., a fine triumph for a recent graduate...
Snapshots – I am Tom Moody – Short Film Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
I am Tom Moody (2012, Directed by Ainslie Henderson) is a short animated film screened as part of the Snapshots strand at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. The short was introduced by Ian Gardner who chose the film as part of the strand, highlighting the work of recent graduates...
Snapshots – Tea Party – Short Film Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Snapshots is a unique strand within the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. Showcasing short animated films from recent graduates from the Edinburgh College of Art animation programme, we are treated to a delightful short animation and a conversation between director/animator Vitalij Sichinava and animator/curator Iain Gardner. Gardner has chosen a...
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....
