April 2011
27 posts
A SEMIOTIC ECONOMY OF PARAPRAXES (symptomatic...
On Martin Arnold’s THE CINESEIZURE:
In its seizure, the image nauseates. From the void calm of the opening title, the image leaps into motion. It stutters and spits, the lens-eye in a rhythmical frenzy tracks back and forth over the minutiae of movement. It is sending pulses of affect to the audience, who begin to rock in their chairs, along to the broken robotic eroticism before them,...
Dub brings to bass the kind of sonic unconscious that Walter Benjamin was talking about with the camera.
Walter ‘with the close up space expands, with slow motion movement is extended…so, too, slow motion not only presents familiar qualities of movement but reveals in them entirely unknown ones’. Dub understands bass so well that it produces, in certain tracks, a sense of the bass line folding in...
Pirate Radio- radical alternative or necessary...
Is Zizek right is stating that ‘rare are those who even dare to dream utopian dreams about possible alternatives…’ (Zizek 2009: 77)? In the FM context, this is clearly not so, for pirate radio does just this. By hacking the institutional and infrastructural ubiquity of FM airwaves, it positions itself as a powerful alternative to mainstream culture, exemplified in the use of home-grown...
First film by a Rwandan filmmaker ever, premiering... →
WatchHere, Ros Gray speaks about relational geographies, socialist friendship and the national cinemas of Mozambique, Guinea Bissau and Angola.
WatchVideo of THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION, an event I helped to curate at Gasworks Gallery in London, February 2011.
This event attempted to track the relationship between Soviet Cinema and emerging African national cinemas in the independence era, particularly in Mozambique, Guinea Bissau and Angola. This event was conceived as an extension of the exhibition displayed at Gasworks at the time by artist...
I’m pressing my ears close to your words.
Seamus Heaney writes about beautiful Polish poet... →
Brecht wanted feedback
Radio is one sided when it should be two. It is purely an apparatus for distribution, for mere sharing out. So here is a positive suggestion: change this apparatus over from distribution to communication. The radio would be the finest possible communication apparatus in public life, a vast network of pipes. That is to say, it would be if it knew how to receive as well as transmit, how to let the...
Free Kevin- hacker screening series →
