Electric Sheep podcast: Modern silent movies A new series of Electric Sheep Magazine podcasts begins with a chat between Alex Fitch and Virginie Selavy about the phenomenon of modern silent movies (or rather films without dialogue), inspired by the release of the new Argentine fantasy movie ‘La Antena’. Other films discussed include early surrealist films, […]
Alex Fitch concludes his interview with artist, novelist and lecturer at The Royal College of Art, Andrzej Klimowski about his graphic novels ‘The Depository’, ‘The Secret’ and ‘Horace Dorlan’ plus his work on the ‘Introducing…’ / ‘…for beginners’ books. Alex and Andrzej talk about the latter’s artistic influences focussing in particular on his interest in […]
It’s the one year anniversary of “I’m ready for my close-up“, so to celebrate the occasion we have a couple of shows about the birth of cinema and how it is still relevant and appreciated today. In the first show, Alex Fitch is talking to Alex Hogg from the band Minima who are touring the […]
I’m ready for my close-up – Silent horror and cinematic opera to be broadcast on 30/10/08 as part of the 8pm Clear Spot on Resonance FM A special podcast episode of I’m ready for my close-up: Alex Fitch talks to Robert Rider, cinema programmer at the Barbican centre in London about their season of silent […]
I'm ready for my close-up: Silent horror and cinematic opera [ 31:54 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadContinuing our spurious anniversary month, tonight’s show coincidently coincided with the 8oth anniversary of the release of Hitchcock’s film ‘The Lodger’, so, to celebrate: having teased you with excerpts of our interview with Matthew Sweet – the writer and presenter of Silent Britain and Shepperton Babylon – for the past two weeks, “I’m ready for […]
Alex Fitch interviews two curators of very different kinds of cult entertainment. Robert Rider is a programmer at the Barbican cinema in London which has gained reknown for a variety of different events and festivals throughout the year. 4th October saw the start of their Brazillian film festival and November the yearly Children’s film festival […]
Electric Sheep podcast: Experimental film as performance art Interviews originally broadcast as a Clear Spot, 30/10/08 and I’m ready for my close-up, 12/02/09 on www.resonancefm.com Alex Fitch talks to Tania Glyde and Kim Morgan about the films of Jeff Keen and to Wajid Yaseen about Ear Cinema and Late Noon Sun…
Electric Sheep podcast: Experimental film as performance art [ 44:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download