Friday 20 May, 5-5:30pm, Resonance 104.4 FM
Horror maestro Kim Newman will discuss the new, updated edition of his essential book Nightmare Movies: Horror on the Screen since the 1960s with Electric Sheep‘s Virginie Sélavy.
Friday 22 April, 5-5:30pm, Resonance 104.4 FM
Virginie Sélavy will host a discussion on secret societies on film in anticipation of the East End Film Festival’s themed day of screenings on May 2. With her guests, Strange Attractor Press editor Mark Pilkington and horror film expert Richard Bancroft, she will discuss the links between crime and the occult, looking at Jack the Ripper and the Masons theory among other things.
Electric Sheep will present a double bill of films and an evening of talks as part of the East End Film Festival’s ‘Secret Societies’ day on Monday 2 May. The East End Film Festival will screen From Hell, Dark Days and Brotherhood of the Wolf in a Masonic Lodge. More details soon!
With more and more people wanting to download movies off the internet, a new company has come along to help people do this legally with a wide range of films that includes British gems and cult classics. Alex Fitch talks to James Rowley-Ashwood about indiemoviesonline.com: they discuss how the collection of films on the site were curated – from Evil Aliens to the site’s one paying movie A Serbian Film, short films by Lotte Reiniger and the Brothers Quay and back catalogue titles from Peter Greenaway and Alex Cox, some of which are out of print on DVD – and how the site’s funding and distribution are achieved.
Friday 25 March, 5-5:30pm, Resonance FM 104.4
Today Resonance 104.4fm transmits a prelude to the anti-cuts actions taking place on March 26. A huge explosion of class hatred and anger broadcasts from 8:00am – 5:30pm. Featuring contributions from W.A.G, Dan Hind, Sean Gittins, New Left Project, Ian Bone, Martin Wright, VOLANT, C’est Destin, Sven Kylie, William English, Anax Karphosporos, The Carrot Workers, Deptford Action Group For The Elderly, The Space Hi-Jackers, Tom Beastly, Virginie Selavy, Radical Schick, Ignes Fatui, Alice Bloch, Ukuncut, and many more.
From 5 to 5:30pm, Richard Thomas and Virginie Sélavy will talk about cinema and politics, including among other things a discussion of Jean-Luc Godard and Lettrist cinema.
To coincide with the Birds Eye View Film Festival’s focus on women in horror, Virginie Sélavy leads a discussion with three women filmmakers working in this traditionally male-dominated genre. Her guests are: Melanie Light, director of Switch, Kate Shenton, director of Bon Appetit, and Jennifer Eiss, co-director of Short Lease. All three shorts screened as part of the Horror Shorts programme of BEV on Saturday 12 March at the ICA.
Alex Fitch talks to director Ivo van Hove about his innovative theatrical production The Antonioni Project, which combines elements of cinema and theatre as it blends three screenplays by Michelangelo Antonioni with the latest technological achievements. The Antonioni Project is at the Barbican, London, from February 1 to 5.
In the first Electric Sheep Podcast of 2011, Alex Fitch presents a Q&A conducted by Jasper Sharp with director Tetsuaki Matsue recorded at the Zipangu festival at London University School of Oriental and African Studies, November 2010. The director discusses his work in independent documentary cinema, focusing on his two most recent films, Annyong Yumika (2009), a documentary portrait of the adult performer Yumika Hayashi following the discovery after her death of an obscure low-budget Korean oddity in which she starred, and Live Tape (2009), the one-guitar, one-camera, one-tape and one-take live concert film of Kenta Maeno’s street performance that won the 2009 ‘Japanese Eyes’ Best Picture Award at Tokyo International Film Festival.
In a Q&A recorded live at this year’s Sci-Fi London Oktoberfest, Alex Fitch talks to British director Gareth Edwards about his genre-crossing film Monsters, which features a photo-journalist escorting a spoilt rich girl across Mexico following an alien invasion. Gareth Edwards discusses his use of special effects and the pros and cons of shooting guerrilla-style with a small cast and crew South of the Border.
To complement this month’s theme, we present a pair of Q&As recorded at Electric Sheep film club screenings. Alex Fitch talks to Zoe Baxter, the presenter of Resonance FM’s radio show about Asian culture in the UK and they discuss the epic ‘wuxia’ film Hero, which featured memorable roles for female action heroes Maggie Cheung and Ziyi Zhang. In the main interview, Electric Sheep editor Virginie Sélavy talks to Brixton-based filmmaker Rebecca Johnson, director of Top Girl, about the classic ‘blaxploitation’ film Foxy Brown, starring Pam Grier.
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To coincide with the start of a month of horror film releases in the cinema and on DVD in the run up to Halloween, Alex Fitch interviews two veterans of horror cinema, Joe Dante and Tobe Hooper. Dante talks about his two latest projects, Splatter, starting on the Horror Channel (Sky / Virgin / Freesat) 24/09/10 and continuing over the next two Fridays, and his new 3D film currently in UK cinemas The Hole. Also, in an interview recorded at last month’s FrightFest horror festival in London, Alex Fitch talks to Tobe Hooper, following a retrospective screening of his first two films Eggshells and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which depict the end of the summer of love and the loss of America’s innocence in the 1970s.