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Wednesday, March 29th 2006 :: |
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:: A TRAIL OF PICTURES - Director 'Emie' - 4 mins ::
Since October 2004, artist Ben Wilson has been practicing a new art form in High Barnet, North London. After losing much of his work in a fire, his took his art in a radical new direction by embarking on an extended period of painting the discarded chewing-gum on his local high street - creating a trail of original mini-pictures in the process.
Recently featured in C4's 'Fourdocs' collection of short documentaries. |
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:: OASIS - 'STOP CRYING YOUR HEART OUT' - 5 mins (2002) ::
'Fuck! How easily Oasis should be critically dissected in mere handfuls of unkind adjectives and sprinkled Beatles references. And how embarrassingly plod-rock have the most famously eye-browed brothers in music become over their last few offerings? From reliably rock 'n' roll, they've morphed into a laughably derivative circus with maximum bravado and minimum tunes. And there's no Definitely Maybe about that.
'How does Stop Crying Your Heart Out fit into all of this? Well forget momentarily that you won't find such a startling lack of originality this side of Ocean-fucking-Colour Scene. Because the second single from upcoming make-or-break opus 'Heathen Chemistry' is memorable, anthemic, bathed in laddish emotion and wouldn't sound out of place alongside anything from the afore-mentioned celebrated debut album. Which could be because the chorus is so close to that of Slide Away that fans the world over will be made to look foolish in botched attempts to sing along. Like corrupt politicians and income tax, Oasis will seemingly always exist. Better get used to them then.' Review courtesy 'Drowned In Sound'
Oh, well, you can't win them all. Great video, though. |
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YOB - THE STORY OF GENESIS P-ORRIDGE (PARTS 1 & 2)
- Director Nicolas Jenkins - 14 mins (US) ::
The UK premiere of another fascinating documentary from cult NY director, Jenkins, this time a work-in-progress looking at the bizarre world of Genesis P-Orridge, radical visionary, agent-provocateur, cross-dresser and co-founder of the seminal band, Throbbing Gristle. P-Orridge has worked with the likes of William S. Burroughs, Derek Jarman and Dr. Timothy Leary and
in this film, he talks about gender identity, technology
and the cult of body modification. Parts 3 - ? to
follow...
Genesis P-Orridge and his wife are currently engaged in a long-term project in which they are turning into the same person through surgery and hormone treatments. They celebrated Valentine's Day 2004 by getting matching breast implants. |
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