Today’s shows: The Fate of Eddie Campbell, Peter Greenaway, Ear Cinema and silent horror!

October 30, 2008

Today on Resonance FM:

Strip: Eddie Campbell – the life and many deaths of the artist

In the fourth of four episodes of Panel Borders looking at the work of artist Eddie Campbell, Alex Fitch talks to Eddie about his books The Fate of the Artist, The Black Diamond Detective Agency and The Amazing, Remarkable Monsieur Leotard. Alex and Eddie also touch on film to comic adaptations and vice versa and the lack of heroes at the beginning on the twenty first century via consideration of his comics From Hell, Bacchus and Alec…
(With thanks to Oli Smith for putting Alex in touch with Eddie Campbell)

5pm 30/10/08 Resonance 104.4 FM,
repeated 11.30pm 02/11/08

Clear Spot: Silent horror, cinema of the Ear and murder mysteries in paint

In a special Devil’s night broadcast Alex Fitch talks to Peter Greenaway about his new film Nightwatching which postulates that Rembrandt hid the clues to a murder mystery in one of his most famous paintings. Alex also talks to Robert Rider (cinema programmer at the Barbican) about his season of silent horror films that continues tonight with The Man who Laughs and to Wajid Yaseen about his spooky theatre experience Late Noon Sun which combines cinema projection and performance to unsettling effect.
(With thanks to the Raindance film festival for organising the interview with Peter Greenaway.)

8pm 30/10/08 Resonance 104.4 FM

Links:
Eddie Campbell – Eddie’s blog
First Second books, publishers of Eddie’s three most recent books
Wikipedia page on Eddie Campbell
Buy From Hell from www.topshelfcomix.com (U.S) or Knockabout comics (U.K.), who also stock Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s other collaboration: ‘A disease of language’
Listen to Oz Comics’ Grant Stone talk to Eddie about The Fate of the artist

Robert Rider – Silent horror films and Met Opera at the Barbican
Daily Telegraph article about silents at The Barbican
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Robert Rider and previous podcasts on silent movies

Peter Greenaway – Info on the Raindance screening of Nightwatching
IMDb page on Nightwatching
Wikipedia pages on Peter Greenaway, Rembrant’s Nightwatch and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Wajid Yaseen – His cinema / theatre group’s website www.earcinema.co.uk including info on Late Noon Sun
Buy tickets to see Late Noon Sun at the ICA
Wikipedia page on “3D Sound”