Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Satanic Panic, Festival Screenings

Electric Sheep Magazine editor Virginie Sélavy talks to author Kier-La Janisse about her book on the 1980s ‘Satanic Panic’ phenomenon, in which subculture, cult film and teenage rebellions were erroneously classified as having supernatural connections. Virginie also chats to film critic and cartoonist Mark Stafford about films they saw at this year’s London Film Festival, including: High Rise, The Witch, Evolution, Der Nachtmahr, The Invitation, Men and Chicken, The Lobster, Green Room, James White, Desierto and The Forbidden Room. Plus classic tracks by Sparkle Moore with Dan Belloc and his orchestra, and The Sonics. (Edited by Alex Fitch)
Partially broadcast as a ‘Clear Spot’, 22nd October 2015 on Resonance 104.4 FM

Satanic Panic cover / LFF logo / Mark Stafford, photo by Sarah McIntyre

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Links: Electric Sheep Magazine website
Info about “Satanic Panic” by Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe
Mark Stafford’s website

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Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Cult Screenings, Hardware, Squirm

Electric Sheep Magazine assistant editor Alex Fitch talks to directors Jeff Lieberman and Richard Stanley, and composer Simon Boswell about cult cinema screenings.
Fitch and Lieberman discuss the latter’s classic horror films Squirm, Blue Sunshine and Just Before Dawn during the director’s visit to Cine-Excess 2014 at the University of Brighton, and bookending a 25th anniversary screening of Hardware at SCI-FI-LONDON, Stanley and Boswell explore the genesis of their film, the former’s plans to direct an adaptaion of H.P.Lovecraft’s “The Colour out of Space” and the latter’s scores for other genre classics such as Sante Sangre and Shallow Grave. Plus classic tracks by R Dean Taylor, and PiL (with live accompaniment by Simon Boswell).
Partially broadcast as a ‘Clear Spot’, 22nd October 2015 on Resonance 104.4 FM

Still from Hardware / Norwegian video cover for Blue Sunshine / still from Squirm

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Links: Electric Sheep Magazine website
Cine-Excess website and tickets for this year’s event
Info about the 25th anniversary screening of Hardware at SCI-FI-LONDON
Listen to Alex’s interview with artist Kevin O’Neill about the strip Shokk which inspired Hardware

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Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: The Female Gaze, the Forbidden Room

In the start of a new series, Electric Sheep Magazine editor in chief Virginie Sélavy and assistant editor Alex Fitch preview the London Film Festival and talk to filmmaker Prano Bailey-Bond, whose short film NASTY is screening as part of the Cult section. Sight and Sound production editor Isabel Stevens joins them to talk about the new Female Gaze issue of the magazine. Plus extracts from Evan Johnson’s interview with Guy Maddin, whose latest, The Fobidden Room, is showing at LFF; a sample of William Fowler’s lecture on guerrilla filmmaker Antony Balch at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and classic tracks by Hank Mizell, Shirley Ellis, Nina Simone and Piney Brown.

Still from Nasty by Prano Bailey-Bond, Sight and Sound September 2015 cover, still from The Forbidden Room by Guy Maddin

Originally broadcast as the ‘Clear Spot’, 16th September 2015 on Resonance 104.4 FM

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Links: Electric Sheep Magazine website
Prano Bailey-Bond’s website
BFI pages on the London Film Festival and Sight and Sound Magazine
Listen to Alex Fitch’s 2008 interview with Guy Maddin about My Winnipeg

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