Michael Robinson: Victory over the Sun

23.11.09
Michael Robinson, Victory over the Sun It having rained a lot so far this month is our (fairly flimsy) excuse for posting Michael Robinson’s majestic Victory Over the Sun, a meditation on irony, progress and loss which, among other things, asks viewers to take Guns ‘n’ Roses absurdly overblown ballad November Rain seriously. Snippets from a bunch more of Robinson’s films are viewable on his website, ...
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Bruce LaBruce’s Otto; or, Up with Dead People trailer

16.11.09
Otto; or, Up with Dead People, Bruce LaBruce It isn’t (one presumes) always easy being undead, especially if you’re gay. It’s not even easy promoting movies about how difficult it is to be undead and gay, and the trailer for Bruce LaBruce’s Otto had to be re-cut after violating Youtube’s arcane terms of service. With a few Frankenstein-style chops, stitches and sutures it’s been once more ...
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Pearl Jam: Do the Evolution

09.11.09
Pearl Jam: Do the Evolution by Kevin Altieri and Todd McFarlane To celebrate the return of the 6th Comica Festival, our movie this week is the music video for American grungers Pearl Jam and their fantastic track, Do the Evolution. The video was co-directed by Kevin Altieri, the director responsible for animations including The Real Ghostbusters and Batman: The Animated Series, and legendary comic book artist ...
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1000 Voices, Ctrl.Alt.Shift winner

02.11.09
Ctrl+Alt+Shift 1000 Voices is one of the five winning films from Ctrl.Alt.Shift’s recent Short Films competition. Filmmakers were invited to write a treatment based around one of three global issues: War + Peace, Gender + Power and HIV + Stigma. For 1000 Voices, competition winner Tim Travers Hawkins was teamed up with the talents of Shynola Director Chris Harding and comedian Adam Buxton to create a ...
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T.G. Hamilton’s Photos of Ectoplasm

26.10.09
Spirit photography by T.G. Hamilton To mark all hallow’s eve, a video showing some of T.G. Hamilton’s incredible photographs of seances and ectoplasmic manifestations. Taken in the 1920s and ’30s in the custom-built seance cabinet he had fitted with a dozen cameras, Hamilton’s photos depict all manner of milky, gauzey and gelatinous ghosts. The images might not be especially convincing as evidence of the hereafter ...
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Stare Into The Sun by Ian Stevenson

19.10.09
Stare Into The Sun by Ian Stevenson Come, journey into the fantastical world of artist Ian Stevenson‘s playful, yet somewhat disturbed creatures. The soundtrack by Grafitti 6, (which you may recognise as previously having featured in an advert for a tabloid newspaper) has redeemed itself here, accompanying the unhappy hero of the tale as he bounds about the fantastical forest. And who wouldn’t be smiling after a ...
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Kustom Kar Kommandos by Kenneth Anger

12.10.09
Kustom Kar Kommandos, Kennth Anger Kenneth Anger’s best known for his fondness for Lucifer, as expressed in gorgeous sorcery’n'Satanism epics like Scorpio Rising.  But – it not being Hallowe’en just yet – we’ve chosen instead to showcase his 1965 hymn to automobile upkeep, Kustom Kar Kommandos. Plotwise, there’s not much going on here: a boy tunes and preens a hotrod to the strains of the Paris ...
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