Alice by Jan Svankmajer

22.03.10
Alice, Jan Svankmajer As visually arresting as Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is, Czech stop-motion ace Jan Svankmajer’s Alice beats Burton’s hands down for the most inventive use of animation to tell the monstrous tale that Lewis Carroll imagined. In this scene, young Alice watches in disbelief as the stuffed rabbit in her room tears itself up from its mount and dons a courtier’s robes. And ...
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Give Up Yer Aul Sins – Story of Saint Patrick by Brown Bag Films

15.03.10
Give Up Yer Aul Sins Wednesday, 17th March being Saint Patrick’s Day it seemed appropriate to bring you this charming account of the story of Saint Patrick. Created by Dublin based Brown Bag films, Give Up Yer Aul Sins is a series based on the original recordings taken by Peig Cunningham in Dublin schoolrooms from the 1960′s, (subsequently re-discovered and released by EMI record) The ...
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! by Russ Meyer

08.03.10
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Russ Meyer For your own safety… see Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! We celebrate International Women’s Day with a celebration of women who get what they want. I think we may be missing the point of IW’sD, as this is a bunch of psycho go-go dancers who like big cars and big men… It’s not unlike the APEngine office.
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Sleep Furiously by Gideon Koppel

01.03.10
Sleep Furiously, Gideon Koppel As it’s St David’s Day, today’s featured movie is Sleep Furiously. The feature is set in the fading Welsh rural community of Trefeurig, where director Gideon Koppel spent his childhood years. Shot on 35mm and featuring many stunning time-lapse sequences the film paints a delicate portrait of the changing landscape of of a small farming community. As the extract shows the film ...
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The Bridegroom Stripped Bare, Alexander McQueen

22.02.10
The Bridegroom Stripped Bare, Alexander McQueen The Bridegroom Stripped Bare offers a delightful and rare glimpse of Alexander McQueen performing a design metamorphosis. The bridegroom is transfigured into the bride in a whirlwind of gaffer tape, glitter and gloss paint. The finale piece to a series of transformations that happened at SHOWStudio in July 2002, the performance was originally broadcast live via webcam. I saw this ...
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15th February by Tim Webb

15.02.10
15th February, Tim Webb Love gone wrong in 294 cuts. Tim Webb’s film is a wonderful antidote to the horror of the annual festival of misery that is Valentine’s Day. Here Tim Webb captures the madness of love in six minutes; where the anxiety around sending a Valentine’s card degenerates into a disturbing revelation of the psyche of its sender. The mix of live action and animation ...
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Julie Ruin: Aerobicide by Sadie Benning

08.02.10
Julie Ruin: Aerobicide by Sadie Benning Here’s a cynical swipe at those corporate America advertising types, selling their wares to young female consumers. The video was shot by experimental filmmaker Sadie Benning for Julie Ruin – one of the many musical projects of Riot Grrrl Kathleen Hanna, which in time morphed into punk/dance band Le Tigre, (featuring none other than Sadie Benning herself). If you, like ...
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