Archive for May, 2010

Panel Borders: From Wonderland with love

Panel Borders: From Wonderland with love In the last of this month’s shows about ‘cross-cultural comics’, Alex Fitch talks to Steffen P. Maarup about the collection of Danish comics he’s edited and translated into English: ‘From Wonderland with love – Danish comics in the third Millennium’, an anthology that surveys the current comics scene in [...]

I’m ready for my close-up: A lifetime of Cult films by Joe Dante

I’m ready for my close-up: A lifetime of Cult films by Joe Dante Coinciding with veteran genre film maker Joe Dante receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Cine-Excess Cult film festival in London, Alex Fitch talks to the director about his career so far, concentrating on his new / old film The Movie Orgy [...]

Reality Check: The Arthur C. Clarke Awards 2010

Reality Check: The Arthur C. Clarke Awards 2010 In the first of this year’s podcasts recorded at the most recent Sci-Fi London Festival, Graham Sleight and Alex Fitch talk to nominees for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke awards for SF literature and Graham also discusses this year’s short list with critic Niall Harrison. Authors discussing [...]

I’m ready for my close-up: Shooting Paradise

I’m ready for my close-up: Shooting Paradise Alex Fitch talks to Michael Almereyda about his new film Paradise, which is currently screening at the ICA and shows the director’s typically avant-garde approach to the travelogue film by collating his home movie footage from the last decade into a thematic sequence of vignettes about the modern [...]

Hooting Yard: That Awful Mess At Sludge Hall Farm.

In a cardboard box on a wooden shelf in a broom cupboard behind a door in a corridor on the ground floor of a shabby house on an ill-lit lane winding towards the sea in a land whipped by blizzards and gales, there is an old picture postcard, stuffed in among a jumble of papers [...]

Hollingsville: Episode 5, Dreams – While the City Sleeps

Episode 5: Dreams: While the City Sleeps Welcome to the fifth episode of ‘Hollingville’. My studio guest is Julian House of Ghost Box. Be on the lookout for deep-water soundings, lurking sea monsters, phantom sonar activity, the ruins of Atlantis and spectral dream broadcasts from beyond. Specially commissioned musical interludes will be by David Knight [...]

Panel Borders: Manga Jiman 2010

Panel Borders: Manga Jiman 2010 Continuing ‘cross cultural comics month’ on the show, we’re looking at the winners of last year’s Manga Jiman (Pride in Manga) competiton run by the Japanese Embassy in London to find the best new Japanese style comics made in the UK. Dickon Harris talks to the runners up – Zarina [...]

Art Monthly 14th May 2010

It Was What it Was: Modern Ruins- Gilda Williams discusses her feature in the May issue of Art Monthly pinpointing the difference between a building that has become a ruin and one that has become derelict.  She uses examples of artists that have made works that hinge on this difference. She is joined by Maria [...]

Bermuda Triangle Test Transmissions – October 22nd 2009

“Which is the Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission’s investigation of Interiority.” Sending out from the inside. Immersed in concentration. Slow and deliberating. Time re-establishes in the present moment again and again. Are we moving at all or are we static? It has perceivably slowed into contemplation concentration time. Readings on Gilles Deleuze/Interiority proceed. Sound re-animates the [...]

Hooting Yard: Tull, Cloth, Eel.

Cadmium! So soft, so ductile, so bluish-white, so bivalent, so high in fatigue resistance! And yet so toxic! Is there a better metal with which to electroplate your bird table? Tull, Cloth, Eel. Cadmium-Electoplated Bird Table Woolworth’s Is No More In The Slimy Feculence Battles Against Foes Thrills & Spills With Zig Et Puce This [...]