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Sci-Fi London: Apocalyptic podcast

VirginieSelavy — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:39:22 +0000

The Gerber Syndrome

10th Sci-Fi London Festival

23 April – 2 May 2011

Various venues, London

Sci-Fi London website

To complement our Apocalypse theme this month, you can listen to Alex Fitch’s podcast on the Sci-Fi London website, 3.16 – Apocalypse (cinema) now. In a pair of on-stage interviews recorded at this year’s Sci-Fi London 10 festival, Alex Fitch talks to a couple of filmmakers about their recent takes on the apocalypse in film: Dekker Dreyer, whose film The Arcadian stars Lance Henriksen and Brian Thompson, and mixes the iconography of shamanism with elements of the road movie in a post-apocalyptic setting; and Maxi Dejoie whose film The Gerber Syndrome is an Italian take on 28 Days Later…, using a pseudo-documentary style to follow a member of a biohazard clean-up crew who is scouring the streets looking for the contagious, and is the first overtly political zombie film in a long time. In the latter interview, Alex and Maxi are also joined by Gerber producers Claudio Bronzo and Lorenzo Lotti.

Reality Check: Female action heroes

VirginieSelavy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:27:06 +0000

Reality Check: Female action heroes

To coincide with the release of updates of the Terminator franchise and Blood: The last Vampire, Alex Fitch talks to actress Linda Hamilton about her career, working with Arnold Schwarzenegger and becoming a feminist icon. Alex also talks to anime expert Helen McCarthy about the various incarnations of Blood: The Last Vampire, the Japanese version of Buffy which has moved from TV animation to manga, video games and now live action cinema.

http://www.sci-fi-london.com/audio 03/07/09

REALITY CHECK: PARK CHAN-WOOK

VirginieSelavy — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:11:54 +0000

Alex Fitch interviews Park Chan-wook about his latest film, the romantic fantasy I’m A Cyborg.

Podcast at Sci-Fi London or here.

REALITY CHECK: THE MARTIAL MUSEUM OF TERRESTRIAL ART

VirginieSelavy — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:32:27 +0000

Alex Fitch talks to curator Lydia Yee about The Martian Museum of Terrestrial art, an anthropological look at modern art currently on display at The Barbican in London. Mixing famous and not so famous examples of modern art from the last 50 years with a tongue-i- cheek audio guide and layout that recalls The Hitch-hiker’s guide to the Galaxy, the exhibition uses sci-fi text and graphics to provide an unusual look at a difficult subject.

Online at www.sci-fi-london.com/audio this weekend

REALITY CHECK PODCASTS ON SCI-FI LONDON

VirginieSelavy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:04:45 +0000

Check out Electric Sheep’s collaborator Alex Fitch’s podcasts on Sci-Fi London:

Episode 1: The Smoking Cabinet
Alex Fitch talks to curators Claire Cook, Simone Pyne and Kate Grove about the Curzon’s Burlesque season of silent cinema, live acts and talks which featured an eclectic mix of Edwardian titillation, melodrama (The Blue Angel) and circus performers.

Episode 2: Nostalgia and Cult TV
Two interviews recorded at last summer’s Cult TV Weekender: Alex talks to actor Philip Glenister (DCI Gene Hunt) and writer Matthew Graham about “Life on Mars” / “Ashes to ashes” and to Alan Shubrook, writer of the coffee table book “21 Century FX” about his time working on “Thunderbirds” in the 1960s.

Episode 3: Other Cinema DVDs
Alex talks to Noel Lawrence, founder of the “Other Cinema” DVD label about their range of esoteric / underground movies and collections of short films such as ” The Net – The Unabomber, LSD and the internet”, “Experiments in Terror”, “Decasia” and “Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y”…

Episode 4: M.R.James’ Ghost stories at Christmas
Alex talks to Dexter O’Neil, head of Fantom Films, a new company that have been producing cult CD and DVD releases over the last year or so, including a new range of M.R. James audio books featuring the best of his “Tales of the Supernatural” read by the likes of Geoffrey Bayldon. Includes an extract from “There was a man dwelt by a churchyard” read by Gareth David Lloyd (Torchwood).

Download them from sci-fi-london.com/audio

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