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Throwback Friday #72 Blue Chapel (2016)
In the old house, No. 351, there is, remarkably, and old internal chapel, with blue walls and stained glass. The whole set-up is filmic and theatrical, like something from a children’s book, in which amazing… Read more
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Throwback Friday #71 ‘Monster Face’ (2015)
Back in early December 2015, I travelled out to Hirson, France, to oversee the screening of this animation in concert with the Orchestra de Picardie. It was coming up to the end of the autumn… Read more
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The Two Rivers Café Podcast / Wine Doesn’t Agree With Me
Last year, composer Andrew Fisher very kindly agreed to write the theme for my audiobook adaptation of my first children’s book, Chimera Book 1. Andrew nailed it first time out, taking all the inspiration he… Read more
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Scars (2021)
I’ve got a number of scars on my forty-six year old body; the ubiquitous BCG crater on my arm, a hernia scar from when I was a tiny baby, a ‘hole’ between my eyebrows where… Read more
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The Kick-About #35 ‘Souvenir’
Our last Kick-About together was illuminated by Marie Menken’s experimental film, Lights. Made in 1966, the glow coming off Menken’s film is as much powered by a certain nostalgia for a particular time and place,… Read more
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Lights (After Menken) #9 (2021)
And finally, a last few dribs and drabs from my fantasia on a theme of Marie Menken – and with a hint of Gatsby glamour! Read more
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Lights (After Menken) #8 (2021)
So things took a monochromatic turn this time out – with some suitably atmospheric results! There’s a nicely weird mix of ultrasounds, spooks and radiowaves in the mix here, reminding me of the opening titles… Read more
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Lights (After Menken) #7 (2021)
Batch No.7! I told you I was having fun. More Kick-About #34 -derived in-camera experiments, using only a sheet of painted glass and whatever light sources were in arm’s reach. Read more
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Throwback Friday #70 ‘Stair Hoop’ (2016)
Another glimpse into the other-worldly realm of house number 351, where I spent one long sleepless summer night in the gameful pursuit of spectral anomalies, and finding this one poised perfectly in the old dark… Read more
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Lights (After Menken) #6 (2021)
“Let there be lights!” And there were lights. More photographs deriving from my creative Kick-About inspired by the experimental film-maker, Marie Menken, Read more
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