The Alcohol Years by Carol Morley

21.12.09
The Alcohol Years, image courtesy of Carol Morley Carol Morley’s highly acclaimed documentary The Alcohol Years is a courageous, moving and often funny account of five self-destructive years of her life in early 1980s Manchester. It’s a poetic retrieval in which Carol’s rediscovered friends and acquaintances recount tales of her drunken and promiscuous behaviour. Carol’s search for her lost self and the conflicting memories and viewpoints ...
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Multichannel 2010: Variable Economies

20.12.09
ArtSway Multichannel 2010 is a screening programme of artists film and video, organised and curated by ArtSway and SCAN in ArtSway’s galleries, 2-11 April 2010. This year Multichannel is in association with Animate Projects. The theme – Variable Economies – implies the current global economic downturn, decreased availability of resources influenced by human intervention in the natural environment, shifts in national and global political emphasis, and formally ...
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BBC Film Network

18.12.09
bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork The BBC has recently relaunched the Film Network site, and it’s had a glamorous new makeover. The video player has at last been upgraded to match the usability of the BBC’s iPlayer, making it a much more enjoyable way to watch all the interviews, festival reports and most importantly the shorts. If you’ve never visited it before and you’re a British filmmaker then take a ...
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Jeff Keen – Instant Cinema

18.12.09
Jeff Keen, Marvo Movie (1967). Image courtesy of the BFI Daniel Fawcett on the great artist filmmaker, Jeff Keen. I met experimental filmmaker Jeff Keen this week; he is now 86 and sadly ill with cancer. I went to his house and met him and his wife Jackie. We talked for several hours about art, Brighton, their life together and of course his films. They have found themselves ...
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Competition: Win GAZWRX, The Films of Jeff Keen

18.12.09
Jeff Keen, Marvo Movie (1967). Image courtesy of the BFI Jeff Keen began making films at the age of 37 when his art school film society needed things to show. And so began over forty years of unique, imaginative, irrepressible filmmaking. The BFI has published this delightful four DVD retrospective of Keen’s work that contains over nine hours of films and videos by the visionary filmmaker from ...
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London Short Film Festival Lineup announced

16.12.09
Ben Rivers, I Know Where I'm Going Dates: 8-17 January 2010 | Location: London The programme for the 7th London Short Film Festival has been revealed. It’s a packed lineup; screenings, events and workshops will be taking place at venues across the city, and works by some of APEngine’s favourite contemporary filmmakers – including Max Hattler, Tal Rosner, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Sarah Cox, Laurie Hill ...
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Ian W Gouldstone

16.12.09
15-Pixel Street Fighter, Alaskan Military School APEngine put a few rapid fire questions to Ian W Gouldstone, award-winning filmmaker and design Drill Sergeant at the Alaskan Military School. Can you sum yourself up in one sentence? Ian W. Gouldstone is a designer, writer, and filmmaker based in London, UK. So what do you take your inspiration from in your work? I grew up in a house full of engineers and ...
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