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Electric Sheep Film Show January 2017

ES Film Show Jan 17
The Seinfeld Matrix © Paul O'Connell

audioComics and Film: In the first Film Show of the new year, Alex Fitch talks to Paul O’Connell about remixing images from The Matrix and other films to create satirical fumetti strips, while actress Jessica Martin discusses her comic book tributes to Hollywood starlets and the Golden age of Cinema. Also, in a Q and A recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, Alex talks to Gene Ivery, the director of immortality drama Tourbillon.

The Electric Sheep Film Show is broadcast every third Wednesday of the month, 5.30-6.30pm at Resonance FM 104.4. Next date: Wednesday 15 February 2017.

This show was first broadcast on Wednesday 18 January 2017.

Clear Spot – 18 January 2017 (Electric Sheep) by Resonance Fm on Mixcloud

Electric Sheep Magazine Summer 09

Substitute is the theme of the summer 09 issue of Electric Sheep, with articles on the fraught relationship between Takeshi Kitano and ‘Beat’ Takeshi, the various cinematic incarnations of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley, interchanging identities in Joseph Losey’s films, the dangers of false impersonation in Danish neo-noir Just Another Love Story, the paradoxes of black and white twins in offbeat lost classic Suture, not to mention cross-dressing criminals, androids and body snatchers.

The magazine is no longer available and we are no longer published by Wallflower Press.

Also in this issue: interview with Marc Caro, profile of whiz-kid animator David OReilly, comic strip review of Hardware, and The Phantom Band’s favourite films!

Jeff Keen + Ear Cinema

A Home Movie by Jeff Keen
A Home Movie by Jeff Keen

I’M READY FOR MY CLOSE-UP
For one night only (unless we inveigle them into doing more), the team of Resonance’s long missed Sunday night show Midnight Sex Talk are reunited on air for a special episode of I’m Ready for My Close-Up
Alex Fitch talks to Tania Glyde and Kim Morgan about the films of experimental filmmaker Jeff Keen, whose work is about to be showcased in four programmes at the BFI Southbank over the next couple of weeks and in a definitive DVD box-set. Keen’s work ranges from comic book-inspired free-for-alls featuring cameos by The Flash, The Spirit and Mickey Mouse, to vaguely erotic scenes of debauchery in squats, and apocalyptic visions in ancient quarries.

10.30pm 12/02/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Screenings of Keen’s work are on at the BFI Southbank on the 17, 19, 25 and 27 February 2009 – more info on the BFI website.

audio Listen to the podcast of the discussion of Jeff Keen’s work + Alex Fitch talks to Wajid Yaseen, the artistic director of Ear Cinema, about their touring project Late Noon Sun, which uses silent movie tropes and iconography in a haunting theatrical installation about murder and magic that combines projection and performance in an immersive 360-degree experience.

Late Noon Sun is next on at The Colchester Arts Centre on 18 February 2009. For future performances visit the Ear Cinema website for more info.

For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links:
BFI’s Jeff Keen DVD box-set
Listen to Kim Morgan’s previous film reviews
Tania Glyde’s blog and info about her book Cleaning Up: How I Gave up Drinking and Lived
Archive of Tania Glyde and Kim Morgan’s previous shows at www.midnightsextalk.com
Ear Cinema

Electric Sheep Magazine Autumn 08

In our autumn issue we look at cruel games, from the politics of human blood sport in the Corman-produced ultra-violent Death Race, to sadistic power play in the disturbingly funny Korean thriller A Bloody Aria, fascist games in German hit The Wave and Stanley Kubrick’s career-long fascination with game-playing. Plus: interview with comic book master Charles Burns about the stunning animated film Fear(s) of the Dark, preview of the Raindance Festival, reviews of Tarsem’s The Fall and Wong Kar Wai’s Ashes of Time Redux. And don’t miss our fantastic London Film Festival comic strip, which surely is alone worth the price of the issue!

The magazine is no longer available and we are no longer published by Wallflower Press.

Also in this issue: Compass of Mystery Festival, Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr, Jan Å vankmajer’s Alice and a Seeing Double review of Alex Proyas’s Dark City!