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ABOUT US Fed up with the toothless platitudes of mainstream media? Like your cinema offbeat and left-field? Electric Sheep is the film magazine that doesn't toe the line. We celebrate the celluloid dreams of the most outlandish, provocative and visionary directors, the marginal and the transgressive, the overlooked and the underrated. Every month the Electric Sheep team offer uncompromising reviews of the best new films and DVDs, take another look at forgotten works and interview the fantasists and mavericks of the film world. Join us on MySpace and Facebook! For any enquiries, comments or submissions, contact thepuppetmaster [at] electricsheepmagazine.com |
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WE ARE... Editor – Virginie Sélavy: After completing a PhD on Hollis Frampton’s Zorns Lemma Virginie hotfooted it out of academia so she could write about film joyously, frantically and disrespectfully. Her work has been published in The Guardian, Sight&Sound, What’s On, Frieze and Little White Lies. Art Director – Emerald Mosley: Dividing her time between design, dancing and felt birds... Assistant Editor – Sarah Cronin has been dabbling in writing for the better part of her life. After deciding at age 12 that she didn't have enough life experience to finish her novel, she tried her hand at script-writing, with similar results. Now, after two divorces and a bankruptcy she's thinking of trying again. CONTRIBUTORS Caroline Blinder: Following the old adage that those who can't write teach, Caroline is a lecturer in American Literature at Goldsmiths. She has previously taught on crime cinema and American photography and documentary practice from the 1930s and onwards. She has written on Henry Miller, Georges Bataille, James Agee and other politically suspect figures, and hopes to continue to do so. Ben Cobb is Editor-at-Large of Wonderland magazine and the author of Anarchy and Alchemy: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (Creation Books). He released his debut feature film Banshee in 2003. Nick Dutfield works for one of the UK's beleaguered entertainment retail companies. During the early weeks of 2007 he used his influence to propel the Rocky Story soundtrack CD into the outer outskirts of the national album charts. He occasionally claims to have invented berets and Stephen Hunt. Alex Fitch: Alex Fitch used to present I'm ready for my close-up on Resonance FM and is now the main contributor to their show Strip! which is podcast as Panel Borders. Alex has been nominated for an Eagle Award for his services to mankind / comic books (delete as appropriate) and is working on both his first novel and his first graphic novel. He studied art at Goldsmiths, film in New York and clowning at the University of Life. Along with Virginie, he is one of three hosts of the Electric Sheep / Resonance FM film night - Hectic Peelers - currently held at the Roxy Bar and Screen. Jeff Hilson: When he's not on study leave Jeff Hilson teaches Creative Writing at Roehampton University. He's a poet whose most recent publication is stretchers (Reality Street Editions, 2006). He is currently writing a prose poem sequence on British birds and compiling an anthology of experimental sonnets which will be published, again by Reality Street, later in the year. When he's not writing he runs Crossing the Line, a monthly poetry reading series in Central London. Paul Huckerby: Although cruelly limited to a mere seven and half hours of television a day by his bookish parents Paul nonetheless developed an obsession with the moving image. He studied film and television at university and has appeared on BBC1’s Animal Hospital with his sick cat, Barbara. James Merchant studied his little heart out at Goldsmiths College, from which he graduated in 2006. He is now the Assistant Producer of London’s Raindance Film Festival, which runs annually in October. One of his many tasks includes letting over 1000 filmmakers know that their films haven’t made it into the festival, but he makes up for this apparent lack of compassion by writing candidly about films he actually likes. One day he hopes to write a feature of his own. Siouxzi Mernagh: Siouxzi is a film writer and filmmaker and was the Festival Coordinator for the Sydney Underground Film Festival in 2007. Her most recent ventures include a 10-mins David Lynch inspired 16mm short titled Third Eye Open and two new shorts on the way titled Swallow My Pride and The Dangers. A few years back, Siouxzi also wrote and directed two award-winning 16mm shorts, Two White Lines (a Natural Born Killers inspired mini road movie), and Jet Black (an experimental horror piece shot in her haunted house). She has also written a feature-length screenplay (an experimental road movie) and a novel about a young filmmaker researching for a horror film in Iceland, White Tales. Peter Momtchiloff is editor for philosophy books at Oxford University Press. He has played guitar in many bands, including Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Marine Research, the Would-be-goods, and Scarlet's Well. Mark Pilkington runs Strange Attractor Press and edits Strange Attractor Journal. He has written for numerous magazines and anthologies in the UK and USA. A collection of his weird science columns for the Guardian newspaper, Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science's Outer Edge is available now. His first full-length book, Mirage Men, is due in 2009. Stephen Thomson: Embracing academia like a lost puppy, Stephen has taught at the University of Reading for a decade. His PhD at the Uni of Glasgow was on children's literature, educational theory and social control, but work since has been on Derrida, Flaubert, Beckett, and others. Currently working on book on sleepwalking. Lindsay Tudor is studying for a degree in film but hopes to one day run her own cinema where you can see great films for £1. She is also currently co-writing a script that will undoubtedly become the best British film since Billy Elliot. Lisa Williams’ dream was to be like Patricia Franchini, reporting from the parlour to the gutter of Godard’s Paris. Now here she is in London, reporting on school fêtes and health scares by day, and strange films and music by night. Philip Winter was born in South Wales in June 1962, he has served in the Royal air Force as a pilot and has been in a St.John's ambulance as a patient. For fun he occasionally works on building sites. In December 2006 his debut novel Denim For A Solo Leg was published by Ampersand & Ampersand. For money, Winter produces mediocre announcements for in-store public address systems and writes tepid, weak-tea articles for The Guardian and The South Wales Argus. Presently he is completing his second novel Yeti Necrotic, due to be published by Hodder & Stoughton in Winter (of course). Philip Winter likes a drink, if you meet him buy him a stout! Philip Winter marvels at banality and has no freckles. Jason Wood is a film programmer, contributor to Sight and Sound and The Guardian and the author of several film books including The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema and 100 Road Movies. |
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