In a show recorded live at the inaugural Resonance FM / Electric Sheep Magazine monthly film club at the Roxy Bar and Screen in London’s Borough High Street, Virginie Sélavy introduces a talk and Q & A conducted by Joel Karamath.
Joel, host of the ICA’s Uncut film night, looks at the career of Melvin van Peebles and his seminal film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.
Category Archives: I’m Ready for my Closeup
I’m ready for my close-up: ‘Bolly Horror’ and the making of “Hell’s Ground”
In the second of this month’s podcasts about horror movies, Alex Fitch interviews Pete Tombs, producer of Zibahkhana (Hell’s Ground)* and writer of Mondo Macabro plus Tejinder Jouhal, a film programmer at the ICA about their month of ‘Bolly Horror’ movies. (mp3 format, 28.4mb)
*technically this is ‘Lolly Horror’ as the film was made in Pakistan, but I’m going with the ICA’s name for their season…
I’m ready for my close-up: London Frightfest 2007
Alex Fitch interviews video shop manager Michael Hall about his thoughts on the horror genre and previews he’s seen of this year’s Frightfest horror film marathon in London, including reviews of Black Sheep, Daywatch and Disturbia. Also, in an interview conducted a year ago, Alex talks to film student Greta Mills about her perspective on last year’s Frightfest including George Romero’s (then) Zombie tetralogy and its unnecessary ‘sidequel’ Day of the Dead 2: Contagium!
I’m ready for my close-up: The art of Paper Rad
Alex Fitch interviews Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman, members of the band Extreme Animals. Jacob is also a member of the art collective Paper Rad (for whose videos David has supplied sountracks) and while they were in Europe touring with their band Alex spoke to them about the Paper Rad exhibition showing at Sketch Gallery in London which Jacob curated. Paper Rad are famous for their low-fi DIY videos, art and comics which mix fanzine indie aesthetics with the detritus of our generation’s pop culture…
As their exhibition closes Saturday evening and IRFMCU is being podcast only this month, in a break from tradition, this week’s I’m ready for my close-up is available to download now (30 hours early) to give our listeners a chance to get down to Conduit Street and check out the installation…
(mp3 format, 27.4mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com
Links: Wikipedia’s page on Paper Rad
Sketch Gallery’s press release about the show: PDF format / HTML format
Sketch Gallery’s website
Paper Rad and Deitch Projects‘ Super Mario Movie
N.B./ The following links are not suitable for viewing if you suffer from epilepsy; if you choose to click on them, it is your responsibility!
Paper Rad‘s website
Paper Rad comics
Extreme Animals‘ myspace page
I’m ready for my close-up: Running Stumbled with John Maringouin
Continuing I’m ready for my close-up‘s exclusive run of online podcasts*… Virginie Sélavy interviews John Maringouin, director of the documentary Running Stumbled, whose film is a semi-improvised recreation and document of the self destructive relationship between the director’s father and his partner. The first part of the interview was included in last month’s Art-House Podcast and tonight’s show is edited by Alex Fitch… Originally podcast 9th August 2007 (mp3 format, 42.4mb)
*While Resonance FM moves studios across London… The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM in the Autumn
Links: Official movie homepage
Read a partial transcription of Virginie’s interview in Electric Sheep Magazine
Info about the remaining screenings of the film at the ICA
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com
Panel Borders: The art of Steve Yeowell
Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview artist Steve Yeowell, a 2000AD veteran who has worked on both sides of the Atlantic. Yeowell achieved early fame collaborating with Grant Morrison on the superhero epic Zenith and the first storyline in The Invisibles plus more esoteric titles such as The new adventures of Hitler, Sebastian O & Skrull Kill Krew. More recently Yeowell has returned to 2000AD working with Ian Edgington on such scripts as Detonator X and The Red Seas…
In comics news: This weekend it’s Caption Fest 2007 in Oxford where small press artists and writers present their work and there’re workshops presented by awawrd winning graphic novelist Al Davidson (The Spiral Cage).
Also: The Observer has launched a competition to find new comics artists and writers so if you think you can create a short story using pictures, word balloons and captions that fits on a single page of A4, visit Random House’s Graphic Novels website for more details.
As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can stream today’s show now… (mp3 format, 12.3mb) For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com
Links: Wikipedia entry on Steve Yeowell Interview with Steve at 2000adreview.co.uk
Excerpts from The new adventures of Hitler at Scans Daily
Tashkeel Comics’ website
I’m ready for my close-up: Larger than life part two
Continuing I’m ready for my close-up‘s exclusive run of online podcasts*, it’s the second of two shows looking at the largest of large screen cinemas. In part two, Alex Fitch interviews Dennis Laws, the technical and general manager of the BFI London IMAX cinema, about the eclectic mix of films shown at the IMAX cinema, from ‘after dark’ presentations of classic and cult movies, the current interest in IMAX prints of Warner Bros. (comic book) movies and the possible future of the format…
Original podcast: 2nd August ’07 (mp3 format, 27.4 mb)
*While Resonance FM moves studios across London… The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM in the Autumn
Links: Wikipedia page on IMAX
What’s on at the BFI London IMAX?
The official IMAX homepage
Article from The Observer about how American creationists are objecting to IMAX science documentaries
Article on the closure of the @Bristol IMAX cinema
Giant Screen Cinemas Association website
Article on recent films converted to the IMAX format
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com
Art house Cinema: Podcast #4
Yes, we know it’s really late again, but you can now hear Resonance FM‘s latest Art House cinema podcast featuring reviews of films released in July at ‘Art House’ cinemas in London and is presented by Alex Fitch, Virginie Sélavy (editor of Electric Sheep Magazine) and Jessica Fostekew (a member of the comedy improv group The Institute, who is in a variety of shows at the Edinburgh festival)…
Films reviewed include Edmond, Taxidermia, Buy it now and Running Stumbled.
Links: You can read print versions of Jess and Alex’s reviews at backprojection.com and Virginie’s in Electric Sheep Magazine
For more info and a variety of formats in which you can listen, please visit the home of this podcast at archive.com (mp3 format, 30mins / 29.3mb)
Panel Borders: Transformers – …and now!
With the new Transformers movie currently in cinemas, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott conclude their interview with the writer (Simon Furman) and one of the most acclaimed artists (Geoff Senior) of the seminal British Transformers comic from the 1980s looking at Furman’s continuation of the mythos for a variety of publishers, Senior’s new career as a graphic designer and what they think of the live action movie…
In other comics news: The Observer has launched a competition to find new comics artists and writers so if you think you can create a short story using pictures, word balloons and captions that fits on a single page of A4, visit Random House’s Graphic Novels website for more details.
Panel Borders is currently podcast only and this episode went ‘live’ on July 30th 2007… (mp3 format, 13.5mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com
Links -Â Wikipedia entries on: Transformers comics, cartoon, Simon Furman and Geoff Senior
Simon’s blog
Geoff’s website
Titan Publishing’s new UK Transformers comic by Simon & Geoff
Dynamite Entertainment’s new Terminator 2 comic by Simon
Underground Online‘s guide to Transformers
Monzo and Jhiaxus’ guide to obscure Transformers comics
I’m ready for my close-up: Larger than life part one
Tonight, as I’m ready for my close-up goes podcast only for the next four weeks*, it’s the first of two shows looking at the largest of large screen cinema. In part one, Alex Fitch interviews David Strohmaier, director of the documentary Cinerama Adventure which looks at the rise and fall of the seminal 1950s big screen format from its initial use as a military application, how the revolutionary three camera and projector format was used for nature documentaries and feature films, to its disuse and legacy in other large screen formats.
Original podcast: 26th July ’07 (mp3 format, 29.9 mb)
 *While Resonance FM moves studios across London… The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM in the Autumn.
Links: IMDb entry for Cinerama Adventure
David’s website
Wikipedia page on Cinerama
Info about Bradford’s Cinerama and 70mm cinema, the National Media Museum and the next screening of This is Cinerama
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com