Archive for the 'I’m Ready for my Closeup' Category

Electric Sheep Podcast: Cult animation

Electric Sheep Podcast: Cult animation Alex Fitch talks to a pair of directors of innovative short animated films; to Oscar winner (2011 co-director Short Animated film) Shaun Tan about the adaptation of his acclaimed picture book The Lost Thing and to web animator Jonti Picking about his cult animated series Weebl and Bob as well [...]

Electric Sheep Podcast – Pulp Fiction: Low budget British genre films

Electric Sheep Podcast – Pulp Fiction: Low budget British genre films Alex Fitch talks to director Tom Guerrier about his short film Cleaning Up, featuring Doctor Who stars Mark Gatiss and Louise Jameson as a hitman and his landlady; and to Adam Hamdy, co-director, and actors Jay Sutherland, Gavin Molloy, Simon Burbage and Lee Ravitz, [...]

Panel Borders: Neil Gaiman – Worlds of Wonder

Panel Borders: Neil Gaiman – Worlds of Wonder Continuing our month of shows about genre, it’s a science fiction double feature as Alex Fitch chats to author Neil Gaiman about examples of SF in his work such as Doctor Who, American Gods, Babylon 5 and Sandman: Endless Nights. Plus, in an extract from a talk [...]

Electric Sheep Podcast: Wicker Man / Buried Land

Electric Sheep Podcast: Wicker Man / Buried Land In this special Halloween themed episode of the Electric Sheep Magazine podcast, Alex Fitch talks to three directors who have made films about man’s relationship with the land. At this year’s Frightfest, Robin Hardy discusses his classic horror film The Wicker Man and its new, belated thematic [...]

I’m ready for my close-up: Simon Rumley on Red White and Blue

I’m ready for my close-up: Simon Rumley on Red White and Blue Virginie Selavy talks to Simon Rumley, director of the excellent, unpredictable murder ballad Red White and Blue, which tells the complex, violent tale of an emotionally reluctant girl and an edgy loner. One of the best thrillers of 2010 and a great take [...]

Reality Check: Autumn Sci-Fi – Source Code and Witch Mountain

Reality Check: Autumn Sci-Fi – Source Code and Witch Mountain As the Autumn nights start to draw in, we have a couple of recommendations of DVDs worth staying in for, as Alex Fitch interviews a pair of directors who have both earned cult followings for their work in the SF genre. Duncan Jones talks about [...]

Panel Borders: Gosh! It’s Electric Man!

Panel Borders: Gosh! It’s Electric Man! Concluding our month of shows looking at comic book shops, Alex Fitch talks to Andrew Salmond and Josh Palmano, the proprietors of Gosh! Comics in London which, after 25 years, has relocated from Great Russell Street to the heart of Soho and to Dave Barras, director, and Scott Mackay, [...]

Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Kosmos – Polish and Russian Sci-Fi cinema

Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Kosmos – Polish and Russian Sci-Fi cinema Electric Sheep Magazine editor Virginie Sélavy talks to Russian scholar Sergei Kapterev (Institute of Cinema Art in Moscow) about Soviet science fiction and the connection between SF cinema and politics, the impact of the space race and the Cold War period, and Roger Corman’s [...]

Reality Check: Of ships and men

Reality Check: Of ships and men In a pair of Q and As recorded at Sci-Fi London 10 (April 2011), Alex Fitch talks to the directors of two very different SF movies about the pilots of spaceships and their relationships with the craft and crew. Nydenion, directed by Jack Moik is a new German ‘Space [...]

Reality Check: Apocalypse (cinema) now

Reality Check: Apocalypse (cinema) now In a pair of on stage interviews recorded at this year’s Sci-Fi London festival, Alex Fitch talks to a couple of film makers about their recent takes on the apocalypse in film; Dekker Dreyer whose film The Arcadian stars Lance Henriksen and Brian Thompson, and mixes the iconography of shamanism [...]