Stereo 3D arrives at Encounters Film Festival

17.11.09
Encounters Festival 2009 Date: November 18 2009, 13:30-15:30pm | Location: Showcase Cinema de Lux Bristol It’s not just the likes of Pixar and Dreamworks that are excited about Stereoscopic 3D. Interest is spreading across a range of media, and with serious backers like BSkyB, Sony and Blitz Games all creating product for the medium it won’t be long before images will be leaping out of your screen ...
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Bruce LaBruce’s Otto; or, Up with Dead People trailer

16.11.09
Otto; or, Up with Dead People, Bruce LaBruce It isn’t (one presumes) always easy being undead, especially if you’re gay. It’s not even easy promoting movies about how difficult it is to be undead and gay, and the trailer for Bruce LaBruce’s Otto had to be re-cut after violating Youtube’s arcane terms of service. With a few Frankenstein-style chops, stitches and sutures it’s been once more ...
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Bruce LaBruce

15.11.09
LA Zombie, Bruce LaBruce Bruce LaBruce talks to Rosemary Heather about his upcoming movie LA Zombie, radical porn, and the end of the world. Now we’re in business.  Hi. Is the record light on? Yeah, yeah. What would you like to know? I’ve looked at your LA Zombie blog, where you say “Continuity is bourgeois.” I said that actually on the DVD commentary of Otto. So that reminded me of that ...
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Sharon Haward Chasing Shadows exhibition and walk

13.11.09
Sharon Haward, Chasing Shadows Dates: 21 November – 12 December 2009 | Location: Centurion House Box Gallery, Bench Street, Dover Dover Arts development  has announced Chasing Shadows, a project by Sharon Haward to be shown in the Centurion House Box Gallery and on the BBC Big Screen in the Market Square. Part of  resider/reside, an Anglo-French ‘cross border’ collaboration,  Chasing Shadows will entail Sharon conducting a walking ...
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Aurora Festival: Social Networks & Campfire Stories – Richard Wright

12.11.09
Bank of Time, Richard Wright, image courtesy of the artist APEngine talks to Richard Wright, who’ll be discussing networks at this year’s Aurora Festival in Norwich. Also taking part are Gareth Evans, Jem Cohen, Jamie King and Andrew Kötting. In the 90s you were making films -  for festivals and broadcast – and installation work – and started making ‘media art’: your Bank of Time screensaver, where ...
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Ubuweb

12.11.09
Ubuweb UbuWeb is ‘a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.’ A volunteer-staffed digital archive of avant garde artwork spanning various genres, the site boasts an impressive (and totally free) range of film and video work. The list is far to long to recount but expect to find material by and/or about Cocteau, Debord, Burroughs and Ballard, Godard, Yoko ...
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Rosemary Heather on Toronto International Film Festival 2009

11.11.09
Face, Tsai Ming-Laing Rosemary Heather writes for APEngine on Ernie Gehr, Harun Farocki, Apichatpong Weersethakul, Tsai Ming-Liang and Harmony Korine at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. For all their stately elegance and clarity of intent, on the whole, the films I saw in the Wavelengths section of TIFF, a series of screenings devoted to avant-garde film, were not involving. The comments I jotted down tell the ...
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