Monty Python’s Silly Olympics

24.05.10
Silly Olympics, Monty Python As there’s been much hoo-ha recently about the rather bizarre London 2010 mascots, fashioned from the steel used to make the Olympic stadium(?!?!), we bring you an equally absurd film from Monty Python. This sketch comes from 1972, a time long ago when Britain had a steel production industry and no one imagined the Olympics would be staged in London. Here’s the Python ...
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Who you gonna call?
22.05.10
With economic downturn and government imperatives to tackle the deficit, it’s more important than ever that the public cultural development bodies are fit to robustly champion us lot at the coalface. Arts Council England’s latest restructure of its organisation, announced over a year ago, is now in it ‘final stages’. The new structure may have been in place on 1 April, but there are still posts waiting ...
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Outcasting

19.05.10
Mona Lisa, Lauren Moffatt on Outcasting Outcasting is an online moving image gallery run by artist Michael Cousin. A voluntary organisation it offers a platform for practitioners of the moving image. Artists, filmmakers, animators and documentary makers are selected for screenings of their work in bi-monthly seasons that are then archived on the site. The organisation also distributes selections of the work to screenings and events ...
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onedotzero
19.05.10
Filmmakers should send their innovative short films, installations, interactive work and live audiovisual performances to onedotzero to be considered for their annual showcase at the BFI Southbank, London, UK, 10-14 November 2010 before touring internationally. The five-day festival is the first stop on onedotzero’s extensive worldwide network of events. Submissions are free and can include work in the following categories: Animation + short form: progressive work of ...
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Sarah Cox

19.05.10
BAFTA-winning Mother of Many, Emma Lazenby, produced by Arthur Cox Sarah Cox, of ArthurCox, produced this year’s BAFTA winning animated short, Mother of Many. Congratulations on the BAFTA… Thank you very much. Though technically it’s not my BAFTA – I haven’t got the best man! It’s an ArthurCox Film but Sally (Arthur) produced it and Emma Lazenby directed it. So it’s theirs. But ArthurCox being my company – ...
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Iain Simons talks to Ian W Gouldstone

18.05.10
15 Pixel Street Fighter, Alaskan Military School, commissioned by GameCity Ian W Gouldstone spoke with Iain Simons, Director of Nottingham’s inspiring videogame festival, GameCity. What’s the big idea behind GameCity? I’m not sure I’ve ever been asked that quite so directly before, which is embarrassing because it feels like there should be some kind of high-level single answer to the question. In the years since the festival ...
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Filmmakers in Wonderland by Daniel Fawcett

17.05.10
Alice, Jan Svankmajer “I think it worked quite well but not entirely as I expected, thought Alice to herself.” Jan Svankmajer (1988) Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010)  is the latest in a long line of film adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s books, the first being a splendid twelve-minute short made in 1903. Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player. var WT2_2 = { params : { wmode : "opaque", allowscriptaccess ...
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