Panel Borders and other podcasts

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Reality Check: State of the Art adaptation

February 27, 2009

Reality Check:
Reality Check logo
State of the Art adaptation

Originally broadcast 03/03/09 on Resonance FM as a “Micro Clear Spot”

Iain Banks and Paul Cornell at Newcon 4

Iain Banks and Paul Cornell at Newcon 4

Alex Fitch talks to writer Paul Cornell about dramatising Iain M Banks’ novella “The State of the Art” for the afternoon play on Radio 4 (to be broadcast 2.15pm 05/03/09) with a cast including such luminaries as Anthony Sher and Patterson Joseph… Alex and Paul also discuss the author’s adaptations of his own work – novelising the internet cartoon Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka and conversely dramatising his novel Doctor Who: Human Nature for TV.

For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London

Links: For more info about BBC radio’s SF season, please click here
For Paul’s blog, please click here
Wikipedia pages on Paul Cornell, Iain Banks and The Culture

For more podcasts with Paul Cornell, as guest and interviewer, please click here

In association with: Sci-Fi London logo

I’m ready for my close-up: The films of Rex Bloomstein

February 27, 2009 — 1 Comment

I’m ready for my close-up: The films of Rex Bloomstein

Rex Bloomstein filming An Independent Mind

Rex Bloomstein filming An Independent Mind

A special episode of Resonance FM’s film show I’m ready for my close-up. Alex Fitch talks to director Rex Bloomstein about his films Traitors to Hitler (1979), KZ (2006) and An Independent Mind (2008) in advance of a screening of Traitors… at the Imperial War Museum as part of a weekend of films (28/02/02+01/03/09) and talks about the 1944 Bomb plot to kill Hitler (including a screening of Valkyrie starring Tom Cruise); Alex and Rex talk about documenting persecution and freedom of speech on film and notions of psychogeography in the documentary process.For more info about this podcast and a variety of different formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Rex’s website
Interview with Rex following a screening of KZ at the Sundance Film Festival
Rex’s page at the “British Documentary Website” dfgdocs.com
Rex’s filmography at the University of Leicester website
Imperial War Museum website

Today’s shows: The art of Philip Spence / Traitors to Hitler

February 26, 2009

Today on Resonance FM:

Strip!: The art of Philip Spence

Ninja Bunnies by Philip Spence

Ninja Bunnies by Philip Spence

Concluding Indie comics month on Strip!: Alex Fitch talks to artist Philip Spence about his self published mini-comics / web comic The Adventures of Ninja Bunny. Mini-comics are an offshoot of the zine and small press comics scene, measuring approx 9cm square and have a more collectible appearance for causal comics browsers who may pick up the titles in art fairs and markets. Philip has recently branched out from his minis into regular sized autobiographical titles and talks about his interest in fine art prints and the production process.
(Please note, the interview with Richy K Chandler has been delayed for a little while and will be included in a future episode of “Strip!” / “Panel Borders”)

5pm 26/02/09, repeated 11.30pm 01/03/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com

Links: Phil’s website
Interview with Phil at Forbidden Planet International‘s blog
Info about the UK Web and Mini Comix Thing where Phil will next be selling his wares on 28th March

I’m ready for my close-up special*: The films of Rex Bloomstein

Alex Fitch talks to director Rex Bloomstein about his films Traitors to Hitler (1979) and KZ (2006) while deal respectively with the 1944 Bomb plot against Hitler and the last concentration camp to close at the end of the Second World War. “Traitors to Hitler” is showing this Saturday and Sunday at the Imperial War Museum as part of a weekend of films and talks about the Bomb plot (including a screening of Valkyrie starring Tom Cruise); Alex and Rex talk about documenting persecution and freedom of speech on film and notions of psychogeography in the documentary process.

6pm 26/02/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / www.electricsheepmagazine.wordpress.com

*(N.B./ This is an extra edition today of IRFMCU at the unusual time of 6pm as well as the regular 10.30pm show)

Links: Rex’s website
Interview with Rex following a screening of KZ at the Sundance Film Festival
Rex’s page at the “British Documentary Website” dfgdocs.com
Rex’s filmography at the University of Leicester website
Imperial War Museum website

Panel Borders: The work of David Baillie

February 19, 2009 — 5 Comments

Panel Borders:

The work of David Baillie

Originally broadcast 19/02/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Extract from A Dogs Tale by David Baillie

Extract from A Dogs Tale by David Baillie

Continuing Indie comics month on Panel Borders: Alex Fitch talks to writer and artist David Baillie about his experiences in the comics industry. David has been self publishing comics since the beginning of the 2000s and has recently produced his first graphic novel – Tongue of the dead – a pastiche and welcome update of 1970s and 80s Sword and Sorcery comics such as Conan the Barbarian. David also has worked as a comics commentator for various publications, is working on a 3D site specific graphic novel with Daniel Merlin Goodbrey displayed on the walls of a children’s hospital in France and has just seen his first “Future Shock” published in the venerable British periodical 2000AD.

To download or stream the show in a variety of different formats, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: David’s website and blog
The first page of David’s Future Shock at the Forbidden Planet International blog
David’s 24 minute comic on flickr
Short fiction by David at the daily writing blog “Elephant Words”

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Comics news:

Brighton ‘zine fest February 2008

…will be taking place over the weekend of 21st/22nd February. Workshops, talks and bands will be on the Saturday (@ The Cowley Club) and zine stalls, acoustic acts and a few other mystery things will be on the Sunday (@ West Hill Hall).

More info at www.brightonzinefest.co.uk

Reality Check: Being Bruce Campbell

February 19, 2009 — 4 Comments

Reality Check:
Reality Check logo
Being Bruce Campbell

Originally broadcast 19/02/09 on Resonance FM as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up

Bruce Campbell in My name is Bruce

Bruce Campbell in My name is Bruce

Alex Fitch talks to legendary ‘B’-movie actor Bruce Campbell about his new film My name is Bruce which sees the actor directing, producing and playing a fictionalised version of himself on screen. My name is Bruce sees Campbell kidnapped by a fan and taken to the small town of Gold Lick, Oregon (pop. 333) to save the locals from an ancient Chinese demon prefaced by his own country and western musical numbers… Alex and Bruce also talk about the actor’s career so far, appearing in memorable films by Sam Raimi such as the Evil Dead and Spider-Man trilogies, and his experience of dealing with fandom over the years…

For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London

Links: Watch the trailer for My Name is Bruce
Bruce’s website
More info on the My name is Bruce DVD

In association with: Sci-Fi London logo

Electric Sheep podcast: Experimental film as performance art

February 19, 2009 — 2 Comments

Electric Sheep podcast: Experimental film as performance art

Interviews originally broadcast 30/10/08 and 12/02/09 on www.resonancefm.com

 

A Home Movie by Jeff Keen

A Home Movie by Jeff Keen

In this episode we’re looking at how experimental cinema and experimental approaches to cinema recycle and reuse intriguing images from the past. Later in the podcast 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 the 18th of February 2009 and for future performances please visit www.earcinema.co.uk for more info.

Also, we’ve reunited the presenters of Resonance FM’s long missed radio show Midnight Sex Talk for a preview of the short films of experimental filmmaker Jeff Keen which are about to be shown at the BFI southbank and elsewhere and released in a new definitive box set.,
MST co-presenter Kim Morgan joins us later in the show and for the rest of the time we’re talking to presenter Tania Glyde who also worked as the agony aunt for Time Out magazine and has recently written the book “Cleaning up, how I gave up drinking and lived”, which has just been published in paperback.

Jeff Keen’s films mix found footage of pop culture items and iconography combined with experimental scenes of domesticity, landscapes and violence. There are four compilations of Jeff’s work being shown at the BFI Southbank over the next two weeks and in March at various cinemas in Bristol, Hastings and Belfast, more info about which you can find at bfi.org.uk and also in March a definitive 4 DVD box set is being released on their label. For this podcast’s review of his work,Alex Fitch sat down with Tania and we watched 7 of Keen’s films in a row with Kim joining us for the 8th and stopped after each one to record our immediate thoughts on what we’d just watched.

Screenings of Keen’s work are on at the BFI Southbank on the 17th, 19th, 25th and 27th of this month February 2009, and you can find more info at www.bfi.org.uk

For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
To find out more about Electric Sheep Screenings, please click here and for the magazine, please visit www.electricsheepmagazine.com

Links: Jeff Keen- More info on the BFI’s Jeff Keen season and DVD box set
Listen to Kim’s previous film reviews
Tania’s blog and info about her book Cleaning up, how I gave up drinking and lived
Alex’s early radio appearances on episodes of Midnight Sex Talk concerning “Movies”, “Censorship”, “Death” and “Psychos”!
Visit the archive of Tania and Kim’s previous shows at www.midnightsextalk.com
Wajid Yaseen - His cinema / theatre group’s website www.earcinema.co.uk including info on Late Noon Sun
Wikipedia page on “3D Sound”
Listen to Alex’s interview with Peter Greenaway

In association with: Electric Sheep Magazine logo

Electric Sheep news:

Tom Humberstone exhibition at Orbital

The comic shop Orbital which Marc Ellerby waxed lyrical about in a recent Panel Borders, have relocated to 8 Great Newport Street, WC2H 7JF (previously the Photographer’s Gallery).
Orbital appropriately now also have an exhibition space, which opened with a selection of new art pages by Tom Humberstone from the latest issue of his Eagle award winning title: How to date a girl in ten days.

More info at www.orbitalcomics.com / www.ventedspleen.com

and…

Here’s Johnny Screening on More4

The excellent documentary Here’s Johnny about artist John (Nemesis the Warlock, Judge Dredd) Hicklenton’s battle with multiple sclerosis is being shown tonight (17/02/09) at 10pm on More4. The film includes great examples of his work and interviews with the likes of Pat Mills and Glenn Fabry…
More info about the film on its official site.

Today’s shows: Comics by David Baillie / Being Bruce Campbell

February 19, 2009

Today on Resonance FM:

Strip!: The work of David Baillie

Advert for The Belly Button Bubble Chronicles by David Baillie

Advert for The Belly Button Bubble Chronicles by David Baillie

Continuing Indie comics month on Strip!: Alex Fitch talks to writer and artist David Baillie about his experiences in the comics industry. David has been self publishing comics since the beginning of the 2000s and has recently produced his first graphic novel – Tongue of the dead – a pastiche and welcome update of 1970s and 80s Sword and Sorcery comics. David also has worked as a comics commentator for various publications, is working on a 3D site specific graphic novel with Daniel Merlin Goodbrey displayed on the walls of a children’s hospital in France and has just seen his first “Future Shock” published in the venerable British periodical 2000AD.

5pm 19/02/09, repeated 11.30pm 22/02/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com

Links: David’s website
The first page of David’s Future Shock at the Forbidden Planet International blog
David’s 24 minute comic on flickr

I’m ready for my close-up: Being Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell in My name is Bruce

Bruce Campbell in My name is Bruce

Alex Fitch talks to legendary ‘B’-movie actor Bruce Campbell about his new film My name is Bruce which sees the actor directing, producing and playing a fictionalised version of himself on screen. My name is Bruce sees Campbell kidnapped by a fan and taken to the small town of Gold Lick, Oregon (pop. 333) to save the locals from an ancient Chinese demon prefaced by his own country and western musical numbers… Alex and Bruce also talk about the actor’s career so far, appearing in memorable films by Sam Raimi such as the Evil Dead and Spider-Man trilogies, and his experience of dealing with fandom over the years…

10.30pm 19/02/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended (sweary!) podcast online now at www.sci-fi-london.com/audio

Links: Watch the trailer for My Name is Bruce
Bruce’s website
More info on the My name is Bruce DVD

Comics News:

Brighton ‘zine fest February 2008

…will be taking place over the weekend of 21st/22nd February. Workshops, talks and bands will be on the Saturday (@ The Cowley Club) and zine stalls, acoustic acts and a few other mystery things will be on the Sunday (@ West Hill Hall).

More info at www.brightonzinefest.co.uk

Panel Borders: The work of Adrian Tomine

February 12, 2009 — 2 Comments

Panel Borders:

The work of Adrian Tomine

Originally broadcast 12/02/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Extract from Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine

Extract from Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine

Continuing Indie comics month on Panel Borders: Eagle Award winning writer and artist Tom Humberstone talks to American comic book creator Adrian Tomine who writes and draws the comic book Optic Nerve, originally self published and now serialised by Drawn and Quarterly. Collections of short stories from the comic, entitled Summer Blonde and Sleepwalk, have just been published in the UK by Faber and Faber.
Adrian is also the editor of a series of collections of the work of underground manga creator Yoshihiro Tatsumi including Abandon the old in Tokyo and The Push Man and other stories. Tom and Adrian talk about working in comics, Adrian’s artistic influences and interests, his graphic novel Shortcomings and his involvement in bringing Tatsumi’s work to the attention of a new generation in the West.

To download or stream the show in a variety of different formats, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Adrian’s website
Buy Adrian’s books from Drawn and Quarterly, Faber and Faber and Forbidden Planet International
Article on Summer Blonde in Time Magazine
Wikipedia page on Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Tom’s website
This podcast is part of our occasional Creators Talking series in which one comic book creator talks to another…
Listen to Alex Fitch and Tom Humberstone chat about David Lynch, Dark City and Tom’s comics

Comics news:

Here’s Johnny Screening on More4

The excellent documentary Here’s Johnny about artist John (Nemesis the Warlock, Judge Dredd) Hicklenton’s battle with multiple sclerosis is being shown next tuesday at 10pm on More4. The film includes great examples of his work and interviews with the likes of Pat Mills and Glenn Fabry…
More info about the film on its official site.

and…

Brighton ‘zine fest February 2008

…will be taking place over the weekend of 21st/22nd February. Workshops, talks and bands will be on the Saturday (@ The Cowley Club) and zine stalls, acoustic acts and a few other mystery things will be on the Sunday (@ West Hill Hall).

More info at www.brightonzinefest.co.uk

Today’s shows: Tom Humberstone talks to Adrian Tomine / The short films of Jeff Keen‏

February 12, 2009 — 2 Comments

Today on Resonance FM:

Strip: The work of Adrian Tomine

Extract from Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine

Extract from Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine

Continuing Indie comics month on Strip!: Eagle Award winning writer and artist Tom Humberstone will be talking to American comic book creator Adrian Tomine who writes and draws the comic book Optic Nerve, originally self published and now serialised by Drawn and Quarterly. Collections of short stories from the comic, entitled Summer Blonde and Sleepwalk, have just been published in the UK by Faber and Faber.
Adrian is also the editor of a series of collections of the work of underground manga creator Yoshihiro Tatsumi including Abandon the old in Tokyo and The Push Man and other stories. Tom and Adrian talk about working in comics, Adrian’s artistic influences and interests, his graphic novel Shortcomings and his involvement in bringing Tatsumi’s work to the attention of a new generation in the West.

5pm 12/02/09, repeated 11.30pm 15/02/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com

Links: Adrian’s website
Buy Adrian’s books from Drawn and Quarterly, Faber and Faber and Forbidden Planet International
Article on Summer Blonde in Time Magazine
Tom’s website
Listen to Alex Fitch and Tom Humberstone chat about David Lynch, Dark City and Tom’s comics

I’m ready for my close-up: The strange short films of Jeff Keen

A Home Movie by Jeff Keen

A Home Movie by Jeff Keen

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 film maker Jeff Keen, whose work is about to be showcased in 4 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.
Tania, Kim and Alex look at the variety of images and found footage in Keen’s work and try to answer the inevitable question: “What does it all mean?”…

10.30pm 12/02/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast 18/02/09 at www.electricsheepmagazine.wordpress.com

Links: More info on the BFI’s Jeff Keen season and DVD box set
Listen to Kim’s previous film reviews
Tania’s blog and info about her book Cleaning up, how I gave up drinking and lived
Alex’s early radio appearances on episodes of Midnight Sex Talk concerning “Movies”, “Censorship”, “Death” and “Psychos”!
Visit the archive of Tania and Kim’s previous shows at www.midnightsextalk.com

Panel Borders: Comica 2008

February 11, 2009 — 7 Comments

Panel Borders:

Comica 2008

Originally broadcast 05/02/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Extracts from comics by Julian Hanshaw and Isabel Greenberg, entries in the Observer / Jonathan Cape Graphic Short story competition

Extracts from comics by Julian Hanshaw and Isabel Greenberg, entries in the Observer / Jonathan Cape Graphic Short story competition

Starting a month of shows on indie comic book creators, Dickon Harris presents a trio of interviews recorded at last autumn’s Comica festival at the ICA; Dickon is talking to the winner – Julian Hanshaw – and runner-up – Isabel Greenberg – of 2008’s Observer / Jonathan Cape Graphic Short Story competition about their strips: “Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms” and “Cheer up, love, it’s only a credit crunch”. Dickon also talks to author Tim Pilcher about his books on Erotic Comics and how the changing landscape of censorship and appreciation of graphic novels as literature, has altered the reception of adult comics over the years.

To download or stream the show in a variety of different formats, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Isabel Greenberg’s website and entry for the Graphic Short Story competition
Julian Hanshaw’s NFTS profile, website and entry for the Graphic Short Story competition
Ilex Press, publishers of Tim’s books on erotic comics
Tim’s bebo profile…

Comics news:

Here’s Johnny Screening on More4

The excellent documentary Here’s Johnny about artist John (Nemesis the Warlock, Judge Dredd) Hicklenton’s battle with multiple sclerosis is being shown next tuesday at 10pm on More4. The film includes great examples of his work and interviews with the likes of Pat Mills and Glenn Fabry…
More info about the film on its official site.

and…

Brighton ‘zine fest February 2008

…will be taking place over the weekend of 21st/22nd February. Workshops, talks and bands will be on the Saturday (@ The Cowley Club) and zine stalls, acoustic acts and a few other mystery things will be on the Sunday (@ West Hill Hall).

More info at www.brightonzinefest.co.uk

Hectic Peelers screening: Azur and Asmar – The Princes’ Quest

February 8, 2009

Hectic Peelers screening: Azur and Asmar – The Princes’ Quest

Image from Azur and Azmar by Michael Ocelot

Image from Azur and Azmar by Michael Ocelot

TUESDAY 10 February, Roxy Bar and Screen, 7:30pm, FREE: For the first Electric Sheep / Resonance FM film club of 2009 we have a screening of Michel Ocelot’s acclaimed Azur et Asmar / The Princes’ Quest, a CGI tale of feuding brothers involved in a magical quest worthy of Scheherazade. After the screening, Electric Sheep assistant editor Alex Fitch will be talking to former animator Grant Rogers (DuckTales, Dogtanian, Father Christmas) about Ocelot’s work such as Kirikou and the Sorceress and the continuing interest in cut-out animation. (With thanks to Soda Pictures for their permission to show the film)
7.30pm, 10/02/09, Roxy Bar and Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street London SE1 1LB

Hectic Peelers

To find out more about other Electric Sheep Screenings, please click here and for the magazine, please visit www.electricsheepmagazine.com

Links: Azur and Asmar / The Princes’ Quest official home page
Buy the DVD from sodapictures.com

In association with: Electric Sheep Magazine logo

I’m ready for my close-up: Julien Temple’s Eternity Man

February 7, 2009 — 2 Comments

I’m ready for my close-up: Julien Temple’s Eternity Man

The Eternity Man presentation at the Locarno film festival -  Julien Temple, Director; Christa Hughes, actress; Rosemary Blight, producer
“The Eternity Man” presentation at the Locarno film festival – Julien Temple, Director; Christa Hughes, actress; Rosemary Blight, producer

In an interview recorded just before a theatrical screening of The Eternity Man at the Barbican, Alex Fitch talks to director Julien Temple about his film of the modern opera by Dorothy Porter and Jonathan Mills. The Eternity Man tells the true story of Arthur Stace who wandered the streets of Sydney for two generations, writing the word “Eternity” in chalk on a myriad of surfaces and Temple’s film vividly brings to life this modern avatar of the Wandering Jew. Alex and Julien also talk about the director’s other work from Absolute Beginners to Pandaemonium and notions of combining fact and fiction on screen.

For more info about this podcast and a variety of different formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Info about forthcoming screenings (next: on sunday night / monday morning on S4C)
Watch clips from The Eternity Man on youtube
Wikipedia pages on
Julien Temple, Dorothy Porter and The Eternity Man

Comics news:

Tom Humberstone exhibition at Orbital

The comic shop Orbital which Marc Ellerby waxed lyrical about in last week’s Panel Borders, have relocated to 8 Great Newport Street, WC2H 7JF (previously the Photographer’s Gallery).
Orbital appropriately now also have an exhibition space, which opened with a selection of new art pages by Tom Humberstone from the latest issue of his Eagle award winning title: How to date a girl in ten days.

More info at www.orbitalcomics.com / www.ventedspleen.com

and…

Brighton ‘zine fest February 2008

…will be taking place over the weekend of 21st/22nd February. Workshops, talks and bands will be on the Saturday (@ The Cowley Club) and zine stalls, acoustic acts and a few other mystery things will be on the Sunday (@ West Hill Hall).

More info at www.brightonzinefest.co.uk

Today’s shows: Comica 2008 / Julien Temple’s Eternity Man

February 5, 2009

Today on Resonance FM:

Strip: Comica 2008

Extracts from comics by Julian Hanshaw and Isabel Greenberg, entries in the Observer / Jonathan Cape Graphic Short story competition

Extracts from comics by Julian Hanshaw and Isabel Greenberg, entries in the Observer / Jonathan Cape Graphic Short story competition

Dickon Harris presents a trio of interviews recorded at last autumn’s Comica festival at the ICA; Dickon is talking to the winner – Julian Hanshaw – and runner-up – Isabel Greenberg – of 2008′s Observer / Jonathan Cape Graphic Short Story competition and to Tim Pilcher about his books on Erotic Comics.

5pm 05/02/09, repeated 11.30pm 08/02/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com

Links: Isabel Greenberg’s website and entry for the Graphic Short Story competition
Julian Hanshaw’s NFTS profile and entry for the Graphic Short Story competition
Ilex Press, publishers of Tim’s books on erotic comics
Tim’s bebo profile…

I’m ready for my close-up: Julien Temple’s Eternity Man

The Eternity Man presentation at the Locarno film festival -  Julien Temple, Director; Christa Hughes, actress; Rosemary Blight, producer
“The Eternity Man” presentation at the Locarno film festival – Julien Temple, Director; Christa Hughes, actress; Rosemary Blight, producer

In an interview recorded just before last week’s screening of The Eternity Man at the Barbican, Alex Fitch talks to director Julien Temple about his film of the modern opera by Dorothy Porter and Jonathan Mills. The Eternity Man tells the true story of Arthur Stace who wandered the streets of Sydney for two generations, writing the word “Eternity” in chalk on a myriad of surfaces and Temple’s film vividly brings to life this modern avatar of the Wandering Jew. Alex and Julien also talk about the director’s other work from Absolute Beginners to Pandaemonium and notions of combining fact and fiction on screen.

10.30pm 05/02/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Info about forthcoming screenings (next: on sunday night / monday morning on S4C)
Watch clips from The Eternity Man on youtube
Wikipedia pages on
Julien Temple, Dorothy Porter and The Eternity Man

Comics news:

Tom Humberstone exhibition at Orbital

The comic shop Orbital which Marc Ellerby waxed lyrical about in last week’s Panel Borders, have relocated to 8 Great Newport Street, WC2H 7JF (previously the Photographer’s Gallery).
Orbital appropriately now also have an exhibition space, which opened with a selection of new art pages by Tom Humberstone from the latest issue of his Eagle award winning title: How to date a girl in ten days.

More info at www.orbitalcomics.com / www.ventedspleen.com

and…

Brighton ‘zine fest February 2008

…will be taking place over the weekend of 21st/22nd February. Workshops, talks and bands will be on the Saturday (@ The Cowley Club) and zine stalls, acoustic acts and a few other mystery things will be on the Sunday (@ West Hill Hall).

More info at www.brightonzinefest.co.uk