It’s Resonance FM‘s latest Art House cinema podcast featuring reviews of films released this month at ‘Art House’ cinemas in London and also showing at the Raindance Film Festival… This show is presented by Alex Fitch with contributions from Virginie Sélavy (editor of Electric Sheep Magazine) and Michael Hall (video shop manager and lead singer [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Art house Cinema: Podcast #6 – Raindance special
Published by September 26th, 2007 in Electric Sheep Magazine podcast. 0 CommentsPanel Borders: The art of W. Heath Robinson and the work of The Cartoon Museum
Published by September 24th, 2007 in Clear Spot and Panel Borders. 0 CommentsAlex Fitch interviews Anita O’Brien, curator at The Cartoon Museum in London about their current exhibition on W. Heath Robinson and the ongoing work of the gallery… Originally broadcast as a clear spot at 4.30pm, 24/09/07 on Resonance FM (mp3 format, 13.9mb) Please note: The exhibition – Heath Robinson’s Helpful Solutions – ends on October [...]
I’m ready for my close-up: The weird(sville) films of Allan Moyle
Published by September 21st, 2007 in I'm Ready for my Closeup. 1 CommentAlex Fitch interviews Allan Moyle, the cult film director of such classic movies as Pump up the Volume and Empire Records about his career + his new film Weirdsville which opens next week’s Raindance Film Festival. (mp3 format, 27.7mb)
Marvin Suicide : 135 – Its been nice knowing you…
Published by September 21st, 2007 in Marvin Suicide. 0 Comments…but then I look forward to meeting you again sometime. An episode to tide things over whilst marvin suicide has a bit of a rest and tries to figure out why the advertisements on digital television are louder in volume than the programmes they infest. Here is the tracklisting for this episode including links to [...]
Panel Borders: The art of Andrzej Klimowski part 1 (Putting the novel into graphics)
Published by September 17th, 2007 in Panel Borders. 1 CommentAlex Fitch interviews 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 literary and artistic influences as well as the evolution of his artistic [...]
I’m ready for my close-up: New female directors
Published by September 14th, 2007 in I'm Ready for my Closeup. 0 CommentsIn a show recorded at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Alex Fitch talks to two new female directors who have made two very different debut feature films. In I for India Sandhya Suri has collated 40 years of home movie footage of her family in Britain and India that tells the poignant tale [...]
Panel Borders: Putting the graphics into novels
Published by September 10th, 2007 in Panel Borders. 0 CommentsAlex Fitch talks to David Brawn from Harper Collins about their range of graphic novels which include comic book adaptations of the works of J.R.R.Tolkein, Agatha Christie & C.S.Lewis as well as original fantasy and horror titles such as Abadazad and The Nightmare Factory.
I’m ready for my close-up: Looking back at “Sweetback”
Published by September 6th, 2007 in I'm Ready for my Closeup. 2 CommentsIn 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 [...]
Panel Borders: Hine and Irving’s Silent War(s) part 2
Published by September 3rd, 2007 in Panel Borders. 0 CommentsAlex Fitch and Duncan Nott conclude their interview with artist Frazer Irving and writer / artist David Hine, looking at politics in comics, writing Spawn, artistic influences on pencillers and inkers, plus their recent collaboration on Marvel’s Silent War.