Adored Wooster Group's 'Nayatt School Redux' at Coronet Theatre tonight; so clever, so skilful and yet so simple. About memory + the moment, video + theatre, time present + time past, and above all the possibilities of performance.
Wonderful (and sold out).
www.thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/the...
Adored Wooster Group's 'Nayatt School Redux' at Coronet Theatre tonight; so clever, so skilful and yet so simple. About memory + the moment, video + theatre, time present + time past, and above all the possibilities of performance.
Wonderful (and sold out).
www.thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/the...
Someone explain to me why on earth I should vote Labour on 7 May…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The Sunday dozen
The late, great David Bordwell, '90s corporate thrillers + '70s British animation; Radu Jupe, George Orwell + Angela McRobbie; the new LACMA + Queen Elizabeth II's style; The Beach Boys + the late, great Mike Westbrook; and more...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...
The Sunday dozen
The late, great David Bordwell, '90s corporate thrillers + '70s British animation; Radu Jupe, George Orwell + Angela McRobbie; the new LACMA + Queen Elizabeth II's style; The Beach Boys + the late, great Mike Westbrook; and more...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...
I love this building and its miraculous windows; it is less well-known than it ought to be, despite being easy to reach in the Paris suburbs.
Another plug for this, which in addition to its specific tale attempts to start a discussion about the importance of seeing film and television histories as intimately entangled - and in this way reshaping the ways in which these histories have to date been largely developed separately.
THE CULTURES OF EARLY TELEVISION
Registration is now open for this two-day University of Westminster conference about television before the WWII in Britain, the United States, continental Europe and the Soviet Union.
Registration is free via Eventbrite here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cultur...
The conference should be of interest not only to media historians, but also to those concerned with mid-century culture more broadly, to social historians, and to those with a general interest in the development of television.
One central focus will be early television’s intermedial entanglements with radio, cinema, theatre, dance and visual arts of the first half of the twentieth century. Parallel to this will be a concern to develop a transnational dialogue for a field that has largely developed along national lines.
The conference brings together scholars and archivists from Britain, Europe and North America to explore imaginings and understandings of early television, and its productions and people, rather than its technologies, which has been the dominant construction of this history to date.
THE CULTURES OF EARLY TELEVISION
Registration is now open for this two-day University of Westminster conference about television before the WWII in Britain, the United States, continental Europe and the Soviet Union.
Registration is free via Eventbrite here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cultur...
Shot looking up at Art Deco facade of office building.
Scaffolding all down from one of my favourite London facades, Tournament House at Paddington.
Shot looking up at Art Deco facade of office building.
Scaffolding all down from one of my favourite London facades, Tournament House at Paddington.
Book cover for Magic Rays of Light held up in front of the painting used on the cover, Harry Rutherford’s Starlight, 1937, at the BBC Written Archive Centre.
Very happy to reunite Magic Rays of Light with the original of the painting used on the cover, Harry Rutherford’s Starlight at BBC Written Archive Centre, Caversham.
Book cover for Magic Rays of Light held up in front of the painting used on the cover, Harry Rutherford’s Starlight, 1937, at the BBC Written Archive Centre.
Very happy to reunite Magic Rays of Light with the original of the painting used on the cover, Harry Rutherford’s Starlight at BBC Written Archive Centre, Caversham.
Transmitter mast at Alexandra Palace against a blue sky dotted with white clouds r
A fine morning for an AP visit
Thanks - lots more about both issues in my Magic Rays of Light. The G-B relationship is pivotal right through the 1930s.
Another plug for this, which in addition to its specific tale attempts to start a discussion about the importance of seeing film and television histories as intimately entangled - and in this way reshaping the ways in which these histories have to date been largely developed separately.
British television in the endtimes of silent cinema, 1928-30
My words at Friday's British Silent Film Festival Symposium, arguing for the need to see cinema and TV histories as intimately entangled, in the late 1920s but also from the late 19C to today.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/british-tele...
The Sunday dozen for Monday
Bruce and (Richard) Brody, the 1930s Film Society and Jia Zhangke, Mint and The Pitt, the General Strike and Virginia Woolf, Artemis II and Altman, a story about French road signs, and a great cover of John Cage, and more...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...
British television in the endtimes of silent cinema, 1928-30
My words at Friday's British Silent Film Festival Symposium, arguing for the need to see cinema and TV histories as intimately entangled, in the late 1920s but also from the late 19C to today.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/british-tele...
The Sunday dozen
Mint and The Pitt, a modernist brochure and an AI video, Virginia Woolf and the General Strike, Artemis II and road signs in France, and a pitch-perfect cover version of John Cage.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...
The Sunday dozen
Mint and The Pitt, a modernist brochure and an AI video, Virginia Woolf and the General Strike, Artemis II and road signs in France, and a pitch-perfect cover version of John Cage.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...
Worse than limited opening hours, it's the withdrawal of 2/3 of the archive for curiosity-driven research that is the real scandal for what is supposed to be a public-service organization.
Delighted to be going today to the British Silent Film Festival Symposium at the wonderful Cinema Museum to talk about... television.
cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/br...
Facade of office building in sunshine with large windows and two rows of lettering.
Had never noticed before the wonderful lettering on the Mount Pleasant sorting office building; London locations on top; British places below. Glorious.
