Monthly Archives: October 2007

I’m ready for my close-up: Cult entertainment for Autumn

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 not to mention regular screenings of Silent movies with live accompaniment and their regular Anime slot.
Alex Geairns is a director of the Cult TV festival taking place in Oxfordshire from the 19th to the 22nd of October which is a gathering of fans, creators and stars of Cult TV from the 1960s to the present day and features such guests as Sylvia Anderson (co-creator of Thunderbirds), Matthew Graham (creator of Life on Mars) and Antonio Fargas (Huggy Bear in Starsky & Hutch)…

Originally broadcast 04/10/07 (mp3 format, 28.7 mb)

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Panel Borders: The art of Andrzej Klimowski part 2 (Putting silent movies on the page)

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 silent movies.

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 4th October as part of Strip! (mp3 format, 15.1mb). Panel Borders is Alex’s contribution to Strip! and will vary from week to week as a multiple of 15 mins within the hour…

To listen to the first half of the interview, please click here.

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Hooting Yard: The Numan Question

A generation ago, the aeroplane pilot and sage Numan asked “Are friends electric?” It was pertinent then, and is perhaps more so now. Over the years, many thinkers have grappled with Numan’s question, but it is fair to say that none has been able to give a satisfactory answer. Much publicity was generated when Pilbrow published his big fat Symposium on the problem. The garlanded laureate of pseudo-sci fi hermeneutic psychobabble persuaded over a hundred movers, shakers, and hysterics to respond to the poser put by Numan, and then toured the radio and television studios giving inaccurate summaries of their replies.

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