Andrew Kötting talks to Gary Thomas

04.06.10
Andrew Kotting Photo: Aonymous Bosch Ivul opens the UK at the Curzon Renoir, London, on Friday, 23 July 2010. Off Ground He, a multi-screen installation, is showing at The Gallery, Sketch, 9 Conduit Street, London W1, from 5 June to 17 July 2010. We’ve known each other quite a while… 1874 we first met. Well, 1988. You were a skinhead and I had an Afro and you kept chasing me ...
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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 WT1_1 = { params : { wmode : "opaque", allowscriptaccess ...
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Finisterrae for Sonar 2010

17.05.10
Finisterrae for Sonar 2010 The commissioned artwork for this year’s Sonar festival is Finisterrae (end of the world), an episodic film of two ghosts journeying from limbo via the Way of Saint James to the land of the living. This journey is an apt celebration of the expansion of this year’s music and multimedia art festival, which is being held simultaneously in its traditional location of ...
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Simon Pummell

09.05.10
Bodysong, Simon Pummell Simon Pummell tells APEngine about how he got started, working across animation and film, features that don’t get made, and how everything’s transmedia now… You came to film relatively late didn’t you? You didn’t go straight out of school and train? No, absolutely not. I went and did an English degree, which I guess was partly just to do with my family. There was ...
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Melanie Gilligan at Chisenhale

29.04.10
Popular Unrest, Melanie Gilligan From 7 May to 20 June Chisenhale Gallery premieres a new film and installation commission by Melanie Gilligan. Gilligan works in video, performance, text, installation and music. Her new film Popular Unrest is a multi-episode drama set in a future much like the present that explores a world in which the self is reduced to physical biology. All exchange transactions and social interactions ...
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Lessons from Lars von Trier by Daniel Fawcett

27.04.10
The Five Obstructions, Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth “This is therapy, not a film competition with yourself. You’ve made the best film, I assume the best was the first. We are using it to go back in time, to see where we can go and examine it.” Lars von Trier, The Five Obstructions Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player. var WT3_3 = { params : ...
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Raya Martin talks to George Clark

23.04.10
Indepencia, Raya Martin Filipino filmmaker Raya Martin has established himself in recent years with a complex body of work that employs a reflective use of media in order to explore the colonial past and fraught national history of the Philippines. His sixth feature film Independencia,  premiered in Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, is the second part of a proposed trilogy following his ...
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