Art house Cinema: Podcast #6 – Raindance special

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 of the band Nebraska…

In this episode there’s also an exclusive interview with Suzanne Ballantyne, lead programmer of the Raindance Festival.
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Panel Borders: The art of W. Heath Robinson and the work of The Cartoon Museum

Alex 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 7th and the museum is closed on Mondays.

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Marvin Suicide : 135 – Its been nice knowing you…

…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 where all the items were freely and legally downloaded from the internet:

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Panel Borders: The art of Andrzej Klimowski part 1 (Putting the novel into graphics)

Alex 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 style.

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I’m ready for my close-up: New female directors

In 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 of loved ones separated by land and culture, while in Gypsy Caravan Jasmine Dellal has created an epic concert movie with the cinematographer of Monteray Pop that showcases Romany music that will hopefully prove to be this decade’s Buena vista social club… (mp3 format, 26.4mb)

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I’m ready for my close-up: Looking back at “Sweetback”

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.

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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…

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