Addictive TV

09.12.09
Addictive TV's Graham Daniels APEngine talks to Addictive TV‘s Graham Daniels about life as an audiovisual artist. How did it all begin… how did you come to set up Addictive TV – and why? I started my creative life working in a studio that made music promos and all kinds of bizarre corporate videos, and later began working in film as an assistant director, then later a ...
Stuart Croft

26.11.09
Stuart Croft, The Stag Without a Heart (2009). Image courtesy of the artist. APEngine talks to Stuart Croft about how, as an artist, he makes films that explore the language of cinema – for the art gallery context… touching on Hitchcock and Hammer along the way. How and when did you start making film work? Did you train in filmmaking? I went to art school. I was a ...
Peter Burr on Cartune Xprez

20.11.09
Hooliganship at Cartune Xprez APEngine talks to Peter Burr about the Cartune Xprez roadshow. What is Cartune Xprez? We’re an experimental animation project from Portland, Oregon. We organise screenings, exhibitions, publications, performance events and whatever combinations we can weave together around a youthful cartoon spirit. It started about four years ago in Pittsburgh with me, Christopher Doulgeris, and Cassandra C Jones. We were collaborating on a cartoon performance ...
Bruce LaBruce

15.11.09
LA Zombie, Bruce LaBruce Bruce LaBruce talks to Rosemary Heather about his upcoming movie LA Zombie, radical porn, and the end of the world. Now we’re in business.  Hi. Is the record light on? Yeah, yeah. What would you like to know? I’ve looked at your LA Zombie blog, where you say “Continuity is bourgeois.” I said that actually on the DVD commentary of Otto. So that reminded me of that ...
Aurora Festival: Social Networks & Campfire Stories – Richard Wright

12.11.09
Bank of Time, Richard Wright, image courtesy of the artist APEngine talks to Richard Wright, who’ll be discussing networks at this year’s Aurora Festival in Norwich. Also taking part are Gareth Evans, Jem Cohen, Jamie King and Andrew Kötting. In the 90s you were making films -  for festivals and broadcast – and installation work – and started making ‘media art’: your Bank of Time screensaver, where ...
Let Me Feel Your Finger First talks about Uncle Hans-Peter and those homo zombies

09.11.09
Uncle Hans-Peter APEngine talks to comics project Let Me Feel Your Finger First. The Uncle Hans-Peter Party is at the ICA, London, on 17 November 2009,  as part of Comica,  the London International Comics Festival. All guests get a mask, a copy of the new comic, Das Familienoberhaupt, and a CD featuring Escapade, the Uncle Hans-Peter Theme by Fil OK. What or who is Let ...
Adam Pugh, Director of Aurora Festival

08.11.09
The Wooden Lightbox: A Secret Art of Seeing (Alex MacKenzie) Adam Pugh, Director of the Aurora Festival, talks to us about this year’s event, and why it’s the last. Aurora has always explored intriguing themes – this year it’s Common Ground – what the thinking behind that? I usually start with a core idea – it might be quite insignificant or fleeting at first – and work from ...