The Unsolved Murder of Bunny Eve, Part 2: notes on serial killers, by Sarah Miles

08.12.09
Sarah Miles, A Bunny Girl’s Tale. image courtesy of the artist. In her 1998 film, A Bunny Girl’s Tale, Sarah Miles explored the story of the British Playboy Bunny and how the ‘Bunny Girl’ persisted in the collective imagination. The film included references to the 1975 murder of Eve Stratford. Ten years later, the cold case was reopened, and Sarah got a call from a detective… The ...
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The Unsolved Murder of Bunny Eve, Part 1: a re-visit, by Sarah Miles

03.12.09
Bunny by War Memorial, John Miles. Image courtesy of Sarah Miles. In her 1998 film, A Bunny Girl’s Tale, Sarah Miles explored the story of the British Playboy Bunny and how the ‘Bunny Girl’ persisted in the collective imagination. The film included references to the 1975 murder of Eve Stratford.  Ten years later, the cold case was reopened and Sarah got a call from a ...
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Watching Paint Dry or Dorian Gray by Jo Ann Kaplan

18.11.09
Watching Paint Dry, Jo Ann Kaplan Jo Ann Kaplan: Self-Portrait… or… Watching Paint Dry… or Watching Dorian (become) Gray. A Diary… or… A Film… Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player. var WT1_1 = { params : { wmode : "opaque", allowscriptaccess : "always", allownetworking : "all", allowfullscreen : "true"}, flashvars : { file : "http%3A%2F%2Ffilms.animateprojects.org%2Fdocs%2Fjoannk.flv", volume : "80", bufferlength : "5", controlbar : "over", backcolor : "1FD0C8", screencolor : "FFFFFF", 'logo.hide' : "false", title : "Watching%20paint%20dry", linktarget : "_self"}, attr ...
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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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Competition: Peter & the Wolf Live on Stage

06.11.09
Suzie Templeton's Peter and the Wolf Dates: Monday 28, Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 December, at 4pm and 6pm | Location: Southbank Centre, London After its sold-out debut at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall earlier this year, Peter & the Wolf Live on Stage returns this Christmas. Produced by Hugh Welchman and written and directed by Suzie Templeton, the beautiful stop-motion film won an Oscar for Best ...
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Watching the watchers – programming the Urban Screens Festival, Amsterdam

28.10.09
Andreas Templin, As if to Nothing, 2008 María Palacios Cruz on presenting work in public spaces. Since 2007, CASZ has been presenting the work of contemporary audiovisual artists on a 40 square metre urban screen in the Zuidas district in Amsterdam – a business district, where the World Trade  Centre is located. Situated right next to the train Amsterdam Zuid train station, the screen is in full ...
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Competition: Conference – animated conversations created live by Javier Mariscal

22.10.09
Conference: animated conversations created live by Javier Mariscal On 2 November renowned Spanish designer and artist Javier Mariscal will be performing at the BFI Southbank in London. By creating and controlling animation film footage in real time, Mariscal has devised his ‘Conference’ which is the spontaneous and instantaneous application of his creative thinking onto the silver screen. In this energetic live performance Mariscal manifests the ...
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