Tomorrow’s show: Independent Filmmakers

April 18, 2017 — Electric Sheep Magazine

Tomorrow at 5.30pm on Resonance FM and DAB, Electric Sheep Film Show: Independent Filmmakers

Posters for Mad to be Normal / The White King / The Eyes of My Mother

The monthly show about world cinema and cult titles. In this episode we’re looking at the work of four independent filmmakers whose work celebrates eclectic personalities and mixes genres to beguiling effect. Electric Sheep Magazine assistant editor Alex Fitch talks to husband and wife directing team Jörg Tittel and Alex Helfrecht about their dystopian debut film The White King starring Jonathan Pryce and Agyness Deyn, and to Nicolas Pesce about the influences on his monochrome thriller The Eyes of my Mother, from Béla Tarr to Tobe Hooper.

Also, in a Q&A recorded at Chichester Cinema, Film Festival programmer Roger Gibson interviews Robert Mullen about his exploration of R.D. Laing’s anti-establishment psychiatric facility Kingsley Hall in Mad to be Normal. With music by Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, Puddles Pity Party, The Ramones and The Zombies.

5.30pm Wednesday 19th April, repeated 6am Sunday 23rd April 2017, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com

Links: Mad to be Normal website
Chichester Cinema website
The White King website
Listen to Alex’s interview with Jörg Tittel about his graphic novel Ricky Rouse has a Gun
Info about The Eyes of my Mother at parkcircus.com