Slow Film
Posted: 07/05/15 05:09 | 16 Comments
I ask only this of you. Don’t be tempted to fast forward. Settle down, switch off other appliances and remove all distractions. This season may never be repeated.
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The French are back in town
Posted: 28/04/15 09:35 | 8 Comments
The Cannes Film Festival is many things; spectacle, charade, always contentious and a cultural event that bathes, as it does, on the shoes of the Mediterranean, in lively, often scandalous and always guaranteed contentious discourse. Yet, for the most part, what films the festival loves are not always ones an audience does. However, in my view, it is always worth seeing as many films that have won gongs at Cannes as one can
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Study Visit: Brighton Festival
Posted: 21/04/15 09:24 | 0 Comments
Join Angela on the 23 May. It’s a fantastic opportunity for students who are interested in exploring the different ways artists materialise ideas; nothing is very obviously ART this year but overall there’s lots to experience and discuss.
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Looking at Adverts: 8
Posted: 09/04/15 09:57 | 9 Comments
The next instalment of Dawn’s blog; “If a great poster can win an election, what can we hypotheses about the outcome on the 7 May?”
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Now we are all broadcasters
Posted: 08/04/15 07:16 | 6 Comments
The very first commercially produced film camera, the cinematograph, designed and built by the Lumiere Brothers in Paris at the dawn of cinema in the last years of the 19th century were of such huge social and cultural significance because they became the principal means by which the very first film makers, ordinary men and […]
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Being inspired
Posted: 23/03/15 02:53 | 0 Comments
Some years ago I was invited to sit on a panel at the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) then being held in Adelaide. I had been making a number of anthropological documentary series in the former USSR, the UK and Israel and was in the thick of a European project working with young film makers […]
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Fluid Pictures
Posted: 20/03/15 02:58 | 0 Comments
In a 2002 interview featuring several eerily prescient observations concerning the future of the record business, David Bowie noted that music was ‘going to become like running water or electricity’. Almost chilly in its matter-of-factness, this was a vision of a digital future where music would exist as a taken for granted utility that listeners […]
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It's all about the money
Posted: 15/03/15 05:15 | 2 Comments
So why is the business of film so important to understanding and appreciating film culture? I make no apology for returning to this subject and I will do so again when I think there is something interesting to help focus the mind on this question. Last week the BBC broadcast the final episode of a […]
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Looking at Adverts: 7
Posted: 27/02/15 11:46 | 6 Comments
In psychoanalysis fetishism is a form of sexuality in which a single aspect of a person, such as their hair colour or foot size, becomes the dominant source of attraction for the fetishist. Sometimes the real body of another is dispensed with entirely, and an inanimate object, such as a shoe, is desired instead.
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Going, going, going…
Posted: 26/02/15 09:41 | 2 Comments
It’s a familiar refrain and I make no apology for quoting it, but, “Art for art’s sake, money for God’s sake,” for which we have to thank the 1975 hit by band 10CC and the penmanship of lyricists Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart comes to mind as we wave farewell to the Oscars. One only […]
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