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The plasticity of memory is a familiar dramatic subject, the stuff of sci-fi tentpoles (Total Recall), indie thrillers (Memento) and genre hybrids (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). On a more everyday level, that neural malleability suggests something fragile and vulnerable. For the two couples at the center of The Almond and the Seahorse, both affected by traumatic brain injury, there’s nothing theoretical about being stuck in a broken memory loop — it’s a sad and draining reality. How do you maintain a relationship with someone whose memory of your life together is fractured, erratic, deteriorating? That’s the painful challenge facing Sarah and Toni, characters played, respectively, by Rebel Wilson and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Apparently her first non-comedic big-screen role was life-changing for Wilson — a paradox given that the drama onscreen comes to life only in fits and starts. An adaptation of...
The plasticity of memory is a familiar dramatic subject, the stuff of sci-fi tentpoles (Total Recall), indie thrillers (Memento) and genre hybrids (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). On a more everyday level, that neural malleability suggests something fragile and vulnerable. For the two couples at the center of The Almond and the Seahorse, both affected by traumatic brain injury, there’s nothing theoretical about being stuck in a broken memory loop — it’s a sad and draining reality. How do you maintain a relationship with someone whose memory of your life together is fractured, erratic, deteriorating? That’s the painful challenge facing Sarah and Toni, characters played, respectively, by Rebel Wilson and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Apparently her first non-comedic big-screen role was life-changing for Wilson — a paradox given that the drama onscreen comes to life only in fits and starts. An adaptation of...
- 12/15/2022
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: A new stage play adaption of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is being developed with an eye toward the West End and Broadway. The Tony- and Olivier Award-winning Rob Ashford is set to direct.
The announcement was made today by producer Antonio Marion. Current plans are for the play to be developed in London prior to West End and Broadway stagings.
Written by British writing team Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel, the new Sherlock Holmes play is described as an original tale offering a “deeply theatrical exploration of the mind of the famous detective,” while remaining faithful to the world created by Conan Doyle. Akram Khan will serve as choreographer/movement director.
Staged as “a mystery within a mystery,” the new play is described by producers as involving a case presented to Holmes that forces him to confront his own murky past: “But is the unravelling of...
The announcement was made today by producer Antonio Marion. Current plans are for the play to be developed in London prior to West End and Broadway stagings.
Written by British writing team Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel, the new Sherlock Holmes play is described as an original tale offering a “deeply theatrical exploration of the mind of the famous detective,” while remaining faithful to the world created by Conan Doyle. Akram Khan will serve as choreographer/movement director.
Staged as “a mystery within a mystery,” the new play is described by producers as involving a case presented to Holmes that forces him to confront his own murky past: “But is the unravelling of...
- 4/12/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Update 3/29/2021: BTS have transformed their global art project into an e-book. Connect, BTS: A Glimpse of the Global Public Art Project will be a 400-page look into the 22 art installations that the band helped fund around the world last year. Connect, BTS is now available for purchase.
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BTS announced on Tuesday that they will be funding 22 art installations throughout the world in the coming months as part of a “global project” across five cities.
Conceived and curated by Daehyung Lee, the Connect, BTS project will oversee sculpture and experimental art installations in London,...
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BTS announced on Tuesday that they will be funding 22 art installations throughout the world in the coming months as part of a “global project” across five cities.
Conceived and curated by Daehyung Lee, the Connect, BTS project will oversee sculpture and experimental art installations in London,...
- 3/29/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
A new Martin Scorsese joint is coming to screens. Ok, it may not be Killers Of The Flower Moon, but fans will be intrigued by the prospect of a self-shot short made in the filmmaker’s NYC home. The project has been commissioned for the BBC’s Lockdown Culture with Mary Beard and will premiere in the UK on BBC Two May 28.
The short will explore what lockdown has meant to Scorsese, and will also feature fellow filmmaker Lee Daniels explaining why he believes the current shutdown in Hollywood could be a radical creative opportunity for filmmakers.
The final episode of the series, which has been spun off the BBC’s flagship arts programme Front Row (and was previously titled Front Row Late), will also feature artists Gillian Wearing and Michael Landy with their first collaboration in more than 20 years, photographer Don McCullin reflecting on a career spent risking his...
The short will explore what lockdown has meant to Scorsese, and will also feature fellow filmmaker Lee Daniels explaining why he believes the current shutdown in Hollywood could be a radical creative opportunity for filmmakers.
The final episode of the series, which has been spun off the BBC’s flagship arts programme Front Row (and was previously titled Front Row Late), will also feature artists Gillian Wearing and Michael Landy with their first collaboration in more than 20 years, photographer Don McCullin reflecting on a career spent risking his...
- 5/27/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The horror-film choreographer’s new show, Vessel, weaves spells with writhing limbs, menacing ritual figures and a cauldron of gloop. He explains its origins
‘A sculpture contains an energy,” says Damien Jalet. “But as a choreographer, I unleash something in the body of the dancer.” For years Jalet has combined his passions for these contrasting artforms. In his 2010 show Babel, the company danced inside five giant steel-framed cubes, designed by Antony Gormley, that were rattled, spun and stacked on stage. Three years later, in Les Médusés, Jalet’s trio of dancers cut loose in the Louvre among classical statues. “It’s the art that is closest to eternity,” he says of sculpture, drawing a comparison with the ephemeral nature of dance. “We were doing a performance that would only live in the moment.”
For his new production, Vessel, the Belgian choreographer has collaborated with visual artist Kohei Nawa. At the...
‘A sculpture contains an energy,” says Damien Jalet. “But as a choreographer, I unleash something in the body of the dancer.” For years Jalet has combined his passions for these contrasting artforms. In his 2010 show Babel, the company danced inside five giant steel-framed cubes, designed by Antony Gormley, that were rattled, spun and stacked on stage. Three years later, in Les Médusés, Jalet’s trio of dancers cut loose in the Louvre among classical statues. “It’s the art that is closest to eternity,” he says of sculpture, drawing a comparison with the ephemeral nature of dance. “We were doing a performance that would only live in the moment.”
For his new production, Vessel, the Belgian choreographer has collaborated with visual artist Kohei Nawa. At the...
- 4/8/2019
- by Chris Wiegand
- The Guardian - Film News
Get your cheque books out - Antiques Roadshow has found its most valuable item in its 38-year history.
Producers have described the secret item as "a world famous piece owned by a sporting institution", discovered during filming in North Yorkshire. It has been appraised at over £1 million.
Sadly we won't find out what the item is or how much it is worth until the spring, but the previous record holder - a model of the Angel of the North - was valued at £1m in 2008.
Filmed at Harrogate's Royal Hall, the BBC One show will be broadcast in April 2016.
A spokesman for the programme said: "An item seen at the Antiques Roadshow in Harrogate is the highest valued object ever to appear on the show in its 38-year history.
"It is a world-famous piece owned by a sporting institution. The final valuation given will be revealed when the programme airs...
Producers have described the secret item as "a world famous piece owned by a sporting institution", discovered during filming in North Yorkshire. It has been appraised at over £1 million.
Sadly we won't find out what the item is or how much it is worth until the spring, but the previous record holder - a model of the Angel of the North - was valued at £1m in 2008.
Filmed at Harrogate's Royal Hall, the BBC One show will be broadcast in April 2016.
A spokesman for the programme said: "An item seen at the Antiques Roadshow in Harrogate is the highest valued object ever to appear on the show in its 38-year history.
"It is a world-famous piece owned by a sporting institution. The final valuation given will be revealed when the programme airs...
- 10/29/2015
- Digital Spy
The Chapman brothers head lineup of artists whose works will be auctioned to raise funds
Some of the most famous names in British art – including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Rachel Whiteread – have stepped forward to bring the experiences of poor and abused children in South Africa and Rwanda to a bigger stage.
The Chapmans, the controversial brothers nominated for the Turner prize in 2003, were the first to sign up to help a charity set up by the film and stage director Danny Boyle. Their new image, My Father's Suicide, was created after the pair listened to a recording of a 16-year-old South African girl, Kgopotso Mere, talking about the discovery that her father, an Aids sufferer, had committed suicide shortly after being discharged from a hospital stay. Their painting will be auctioned on Wednesday, along with that of 10 other leading artists.
Recalling how happy she...
Some of the most famous names in British art – including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Rachel Whiteread – have stepped forward to bring the experiences of poor and abused children in South Africa and Rwanda to a bigger stage.
The Chapmans, the controversial brothers nominated for the Turner prize in 2003, were the first to sign up to help a charity set up by the film and stage director Danny Boyle. Their new image, My Father's Suicide, was created after the pair listened to a recording of a 16-year-old South African girl, Kgopotso Mere, talking about the discovery that her father, an Aids sufferer, had committed suicide shortly after being discharged from a hospital stay. Their painting will be auctioned on Wednesday, along with that of 10 other leading artists.
Recalling how happy she...
- 11/24/2013
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Little wonder our great creative talents despair as dark falls on regional theatres, libraries and the humanities
Given their lifetime's experience in generating applause, it is mystifying how brilliant directors can often struggle, when it comes to defending their own cause, to elicit the desired response. In theory, no one is better qualified to win the argument for the arts. In practice, the words evidently glance off or, to judge by online comments, even alienate, the very people they want to engage.
As a champion of regional theatres, the great director Danny Boyle recently stressed their importance as an alternative from "Wetherspoon and Walkabout pubs and Mario Balotelli and John Terry". Maybe it was modesty that stopped him dwelling, or dwelling for long enough, on his own Olympic opening ceremony, which touched and spectacularly united the nation. Instead, Boyle identified the privately funded cultural practices – sport, going to pubs – that...
Given their lifetime's experience in generating applause, it is mystifying how brilliant directors can often struggle, when it comes to defending their own cause, to elicit the desired response. In theory, no one is better qualified to win the argument for the arts. In practice, the words evidently glance off or, to judge by online comments, even alienate, the very people they want to engage.
As a champion of regional theatres, the great director Danny Boyle recently stressed their importance as an alternative from "Wetherspoon and Walkabout pubs and Mario Balotelli and John Terry". Maybe it was modesty that stopped him dwelling, or dwelling for long enough, on his own Olympic opening ceremony, which touched and spectacularly united the nation. Instead, Boyle identified the privately funded cultural practices – sport, going to pubs – that...
- 12/2/2012
- by Catherine Bennett
- The Guardian - Film News
Plus Hockney's spite, ostrich stomachs and James Franco as shopkeeper – all in your weekly art dispatch
Exhibition of the week: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012
Who can tell what is good and promising in brand new art? Who can choose the most promising people graduating from art schools? The judges of New Contemporaries, that's who, and they have been taking on this challenge since 1949 (well, not the same judges, obviously). This is a tremendous event, a real chance to encounter artists you have never heard of and see what the latest generation is up to. Great to see it at the Ica for the third year running. Go, get your art raw and wild.
• Ica, London SW1, from 28 November until 13 January 2013
Other exhibitions this week
Furniture
Is furniture art? Of course it is, from 18th-century chairs to modernist tables, and this new gallery will give the V&A collection the star billing it deserves.
Exhibition of the week: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012
Who can tell what is good and promising in brand new art? Who can choose the most promising people graduating from art schools? The judges of New Contemporaries, that's who, and they have been taking on this challenge since 1949 (well, not the same judges, obviously). This is a tremendous event, a real chance to encounter artists you have never heard of and see what the latest generation is up to. Great to see it at the Ica for the third year running. Go, get your art raw and wild.
• Ica, London SW1, from 28 November until 13 January 2013
Other exhibitions this week
Furniture
Is furniture art? Of course it is, from 18th-century chairs to modernist tables, and this new gallery will give the V&A collection the star billing it deserves.
- 11/23/2012
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
From Batman to Spider-Man, Wireless to Green Man and Carousel to Götterdämmerung, the Observer's critics pick the season's highlights. What are you most looking forward to? Post your comments below
Download a pdf of this calendar here
July
1 Pop The Stone Roses
The third resurrection of the Roses has already swung from thrill to farce. Fans gibbered with joy at their surprise Warrington gig in May, but by Amsterdam Ian Brown and Reni were at loggerheads. This last of three homecoming gigs at Manchester's Heaton Park will not be uneventful.
3 Film The Amazing Spider-Man
Marvel Comics' flagship superhero, the red-and-blue clad "web-slinger" Spider-Man, gets a Hollywood reboot not 10 years after the character was last blockbuster-ised. Impressive Brit Andrew Garfield plays Spidey this time; Marc (500 Days of Summer) Webb directs. Early reviews: amazing.
4 Dance Dance Gb
English National Ballet, Scottish Ballet and National Dance Company Wales join forces in a high-velocity...
Download a pdf of this calendar here
July
1 Pop The Stone Roses
The third resurrection of the Roses has already swung from thrill to farce. Fans gibbered with joy at their surprise Warrington gig in May, but by Amsterdam Ian Brown and Reni were at loggerheads. This last of three homecoming gigs at Manchester's Heaton Park will not be uneventful.
3 Film The Amazing Spider-Man
Marvel Comics' flagship superhero, the red-and-blue clad "web-slinger" Spider-Man, gets a Hollywood reboot not 10 years after the character was last blockbuster-ised. Impressive Brit Andrew Garfield plays Spidey this time; Marc (500 Days of Summer) Webb directs. Early reviews: amazing.
4 Dance Dance Gb
English National Ballet, Scottish Ballet and National Dance Company Wales join forces in a high-velocity...
- 7/2/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
An opportunity to spend the day sea fishing with Dermot O’Leary, before cooking up the catch of the day together in his Brighton restaurant Fishy Fishy, is among the lots on offer at the return of Terrence Higgins Trust’s Lighthouse Gala Auction.
Sponsored by Prudential plc, the annual event will see an exciting range of items and ‘money can’t buy’ experiences – including dinner at The Goring with Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and a black cab tour of Fleet Street with queen of the media Janet Street-Porter – go under the hammer to raise funds for the HIV and sexual health charity.
This year, the auction will include stunning artworks by Tracey Emin (who has donated one of her famous neons), Antony Gormley, Alison Jackson, Michael Craig Martin, and Rachel Whiteread. Luxury holidays to Los Angeles and the Maldives, a supporting artist role in the final series of Poirot,...
Sponsored by Prudential plc, the annual event will see an exciting range of items and ‘money can’t buy’ experiences – including dinner at The Goring with Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and a black cab tour of Fleet Street with queen of the media Janet Street-Porter – go under the hammer to raise funds for the HIV and sexual health charity.
This year, the auction will include stunning artworks by Tracey Emin (who has donated one of her famous neons), Antony Gormley, Alison Jackson, Michael Craig Martin, and Rachel Whiteread. Luxury holidays to Los Angeles and the Maldives, a supporting artist role in the final series of Poirot,...
- 2/16/2012
- Look to the Stars
The strength of this directorial debut by an experienced producer resides in the warm friendship it establishes between its central characters, the 15-year-old Liverpool schoolboys Robbie (Josh Bolt) and Ziggy (Eugene Byrne), both newcomers to acting. However, the story in which they appear is a little tricky and at times somewhat distasteful: Robbie, who has an incurable heart disease and is determined to lose his virginity before his imminent death, persuades his chum to find a woman to have sex with him for love, money or feminine duty. There is a likable performance from Liza Tarbuck as the big-hearted nurse in charge of Robbie's hospital ward, but the direction is often uneasy and the acting tentative.
A couple of years ago, Mark Herman's Purely Belter, a lively tale of the friendship between two Tyneside teenage lads, made impressive use of Antony Gormley's steel sculpture Angel of the North.
A couple of years ago, Mark Herman's Purely Belter, a lively tale of the friendship between two Tyneside teenage lads, made impressive use of Antony Gormley's steel sculpture Angel of the North.
- 12/5/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Dancer and choreographer Akram Khan tells Luke Jennings how a chance encounter inspired his new work
Akram Khan is telling me about the genesis of his new work, Vertical Road. Returning to his hotel by taxi after a recent performance at the Sydney Opera House, he suddenly felt impelled to call his father in London. "We spoke and when I'd finished, the taxi driver asked me in Bengali, 'Is your father's name Mosharaf Khan? Was he born in a village in Bangladesh called Algichor?' I was really spooked. Was this man from the CIA? And then he started to cry. It turned out that he and my father had grown up together, 30 years ago. It taught me that what we call chance isn't chance. Despite the chaos, we're all connected."
We're sitting in the rehearsal studio of the Curve theatre in Leicester. Around us, warming down, are the dancers of his company.
Akram Khan is telling me about the genesis of his new work, Vertical Road. Returning to his hotel by taxi after a recent performance at the Sydney Opera House, he suddenly felt impelled to call his father in London. "We spoke and when I'd finished, the taxi driver asked me in Bengali, 'Is your father's name Mosharaf Khan? Was he born in a village in Bangladesh called Algichor?' I was really spooked. Was this man from the CIA? And then he started to cry. It turned out that he and my father had grown up together, 30 years ago. It taught me that what we call chance isn't chance. Despite the chaos, we're all connected."
We're sitting in the rehearsal studio of the Curve theatre in Leicester. Around us, warming down, are the dancers of his company.
- 9/11/2010
- by Luke Jennings
- The Guardian - Film News
From My Beautiful Laundrette to The Queen and his latest, the much-praised Tamara Drewe, the director boasts a reputation for impatience as well as one of the most diverse outputs of any British film-maker. Famously interview-shy, he talks here of his dislike of agents, the glory days of the BBC, and why he is no auteur
Not liking to be interviewed probably starts with the reluctance to submit yourself to an alien, unpredictable critical gaze, but in Stephen Frears's case it has flowered into a bizarre art form. He'll answer questions in fits and starts, gnomically, in obscure one-liners or by means of silences punctuated by cigarette puffs or plaintive grunts. Always courteous and welcoming, he would just rather you didn't ask questions. "Have you got enough?" he asks at the end of a session, in the full knowledge that you haven't. So you arrange to meet him again...
Not liking to be interviewed probably starts with the reluctance to submit yourself to an alien, unpredictable critical gaze, but in Stephen Frears's case it has flowered into a bizarre art form. He'll answer questions in fits and starts, gnomically, in obscure one-liners or by means of silences punctuated by cigarette puffs or plaintive grunts. Always courteous and welcoming, he would just rather you didn't ask questions. "Have you got enough?" he asks at the end of a session, in the full knowledge that you haven't. So you arrange to meet him again...
- 8/14/2010
- by Nick Fraser
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Graves and Moshe Safdie try out some (classy) sin-city indulgences on one of the most uptight places around.
After a 45-year ban on casinos, Singapore is getting back into the gambling business by rolling the dice on a couple starchitects. Their mission: Keep sin classy.
So we have one casino from Moshe Safdie, the Israeli-born Boston architect most famous for designing the cubist-like Habitat 67 housing complex in Montreal and another from Michael Graves, whom you might recall from his days making teakettles for Target and, to a lesser extent, his bad (really bad) '80s buildings.
What they're creating aren't just casinos; they're "resorts." They're costing billions to build, and they include all sorts of un-casino-like flourishes, from a marine-life park and a luxury hostelry, to high-art installations and, hilariously, jogging paths. All of which must go a long way toward keeping visitors amused and, moreover, convincing cane-wielding Singapore...
After a 45-year ban on casinos, Singapore is getting back into the gambling business by rolling the dice on a couple starchitects. Their mission: Keep sin classy.
So we have one casino from Moshe Safdie, the Israeli-born Boston architect most famous for designing the cubist-like Habitat 67 housing complex in Montreal and another from Michael Graves, whom you might recall from his days making teakettles for Target and, to a lesser extent, his bad (really bad) '80s buildings.
What they're creating aren't just casinos; they're "resorts." They're costing billions to build, and they include all sorts of un-casino-like flourishes, from a marine-life park and a luxury hostelry, to high-art installations and, hilariously, jogging paths. All of which must go a long way toward keeping visitors amused and, moreover, convincing cane-wielding Singapore...
- 6/28/2010
- by Suzanne LaBarre
- Fast Company
Amongst all the MTV Movie Awards hoopla on Sunday, June 6, did you know there was another awards show happening? The 63rd annual British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
"American Idol," "Britain's Got Talent" and "X Factor" judge Simon Cowell (pictured left being cheeky with fiance Mezhgan Hussainy) was honored with a special award recognizing his development of new talent. Check out his acceptance speech below. And apparently Simon Cowell is not finished with merely conquering the U.K. and U.S.
According to London paper the Sun, Cowell wants to start taking contestants from all the "Got Talent" franchises from around the world and pitting them against each other in a global competition. The Sun cites a source close to the mogul saying, "This has been Simon's dream. It will be the biggest reality show the world's seen."
This is a British paper, so take it with a grain of salt.
"American Idol," "Britain's Got Talent" and "X Factor" judge Simon Cowell (pictured left being cheeky with fiance Mezhgan Hussainy) was honored with a special award recognizing his development of new talent. Check out his acceptance speech below. And apparently Simon Cowell is not finished with merely conquering the U.K. and U.S.
According to London paper the Sun, Cowell wants to start taking contestants from all the "Got Talent" franchises from around the world and pitting them against each other in a global competition. The Sun cites a source close to the mogul saying, "This has been Simon's dream. It will be the biggest reality show the world's seen."
This is a British paper, so take it with a grain of salt.
- 6/7/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Manolo Valdés’s Reina Mariana sculpture in New York City’s Columbus Circle. So far this spring we’ve witnessed public displays of art ranging from British sculptor Antony Gormley’s “Event Horizon,” 31 statues of atomically correct naked men standing on roof ledges and street corners in New York City’s Flatiron neighborhood, to the “Elephant Parade,” 250 life-size painted elephant sculptures positioned throughout central London. Now we can add another installation to the list of this year’s big P.D.A.’s: Spanish artist Manolo Valdés’s exhibition “Monumental Sculptures on Broadway,” 16 bronze sculptures situated along Broadway from Columbus Circle to 166th Street, in New York City. The word monumental is no exaggeration; some of the works are more than 12 feet tall, while others weigh in at more than 2,000 pounds. The show, a collaboration of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the Broadway Mall Association, Marlborough Gallery,...
- 5/20/2010
- Vanity Fair
Merchants Of Bollywood, London
This kaleidoscopic dance and music chronicle of the history of Bollywood has been touring the world since 2005, but it makes its first appearance at the Peacock this month. Written and directed by Toby Gough, it is based on the story of the Merchant family, a dynasty of choreographers who led the evolution of Bollywood into one of the world's largest film industries. It's nominally based around the story of a feud between a young woman and her grandfather as she sets out to pursue a career in the movies, but the story is simply an excuse for the all-singing, dancing, acting cast to cull the best of Bollywood style. Choreography is by Vaibhavi Merchant in a mixture of folk, classical and disco sounds and among the song list are blockbuster hits from the Bollywood back catalogue that include Lagaan, Devdas, Musafir and Dhoom.
Peacock Theatre, WC...
This kaleidoscopic dance and music chronicle of the history of Bollywood has been touring the world since 2005, but it makes its first appearance at the Peacock this month. Written and directed by Toby Gough, it is based on the story of the Merchant family, a dynasty of choreographers who led the evolution of Bollywood into one of the world's largest film industries. It's nominally based around the story of a feud between a young woman and her grandfather as she sets out to pursue a career in the movies, but the story is simply an excuse for the all-singing, dancing, acting cast to cull the best of Bollywood style. Choreography is by Vaibhavi Merchant in a mixture of folk, classical and disco sounds and among the song list are blockbuster hits from the Bollywood back catalogue that include Lagaan, Devdas, Musafir and Dhoom.
Peacock Theatre, WC...
- 5/14/2010
- by Judith Mackrell
- The Guardian - Film News
Outrace is a sextet of robotic arms, the kind you normally find in car plants the world over, that will be controlled by members of the public to draw light sculptures in the air around Trafalgar Square, using specially-developed software. The installation by Kram/Weisshaar is coming to the London Design Festival in September, reports Dezeen.
Last year, the square, in the heart of London, played host to an amazing project by sculptor Antony Gormley. An empty plinth beneath Nelson's Column was the site of a four-month live art show called One and Other, in which individual members of the public were invited to spend an hour atop the plinth.
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Outrace, while not quite as far down the road as One and Other (which was very hit and miss) is another example of the "democratization of art," as Gormley calls it. The light traces will be filmed and shown online once the festival is over.
Last year, the square, in the heart of London, played host to an amazing project by sculptor Antony Gormley. An empty plinth beneath Nelson's Column was the site of a four-month live art show called One and Other, in which individual members of the public were invited to spend an hour atop the plinth.
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Outrace, while not quite as far down the road as One and Other (which was very hit and miss) is another example of the "democratization of art," as Gormley calls it. The light traces will be filmed and shown online once the festival is over.
- 5/13/2010
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
From Crosby beach to a big match at Anfield, actor David Morrissey takes Amy Raphael on a tour of his hometown – and explains why it has inspired him to direct a new film
Past the Hillsborough memorial and beneath the legend "You'll Never Walk Alone" atop the Shankly Gates, through the creaking turnstile and into the main stand. A subdued Liverpool team warm up on the pitch. Freezing fog swirls in the floodlights. David Morrissey warms his hands on a cup of hot chocolate and wishes he hadn't left his gloves back home in north London. Two officials stare and nudge each other, but no one else even glances at him.
We are sitting five rows from the pitch and, for the first half of this Premiership game against Birmingham City, all the action is at the other end as Liverpool attack the Kop. Morrissey – 6ft 3in, broad of shoulder,...
Past the Hillsborough memorial and beneath the legend "You'll Never Walk Alone" atop the Shankly Gates, through the creaking turnstile and into the main stand. A subdued Liverpool team warm up on the pitch. Freezing fog swirls in the floodlights. David Morrissey warms his hands on a cup of hot chocolate and wishes he hadn't left his gloves back home in north London. Two officials stare and nudge each other, but no one else even glances at him.
We are sitting five rows from the pitch and, for the first half of this Premiership game against Birmingham City, all the action is at the other end as Liverpool attack the Kop. Morrissey – 6ft 3in, broad of shoulder,...
- 3/3/2010
- by Amy Raphael
- The Guardian - Film News
Venice International Film Festival
VENICE, Italy -- Although director and writer Penny Woodcock's post-apocalyptic fable "Exodus" wears its heart on its sleeve and occasionally staggers under the weight of its earnestness, it's an engaging piece of work.
Woodcock places the story from the second book of the Old Testament in a future England where Pharoah (Bernard Hill) is a local politician and Moses Daniel Percival) is his adopted son. It's a time when anyone not lilywhite has been lumped together -- minorities, asylum-seekers, rebels, criminals, deviants -- and walled into a place called Dreamland.
It's a ghetto familiar from films such as "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" and "Children of Men", and Moses ends up there when he causes the death of a guard who is threatening a young woman.
All the key points of the Biblical story are touched upon as Moses stands up to Pharoah and strives to free what have become his people. Well-made and acted with enthusiasm, the film is another Channel 4 production and should do well at the boxoffice on its travels abroad. It screened in the Horizons sidebar of the Venice International Film Festival.
Daniel Percival is Moses, a young man first seen as a baby abandoned for safekeeping on a beach by his Romany mother. He is found by Batya Mann (Ger Ryan) whose husband Pharoah becomes the leading politician 20 years later when the world is in uproar.
Moses is a marine scientist with only academic plans, but when he visits Dreamland he becomes a changed man. Not only does he learn about his real background from activist Aaron (Anthony Johnson) but also he falls in love with the woman he saved from the guard, Zipporah (Clare-Ashitey, from "Children of Men").
The population of Dreamland is deprived, hungry and constantly threatened by the roaming "pest control" -- soldiers with masks and rifles. Moses negotiates with Pharoah for the walls to be pulled down, but it takes measures of Biblical proportions before something happens.
Woodcock invents clever modern variations on the Old Testament plagues involving poisoning the ocean and spreading viruses on the Internet. Production designer Christina Moore created Dreamland in a disused funfair that had the same name in the seaside town of Margate, Kent, that was once a haven for working-class holidaymakers. Cinematographer Jakob Ihre captures it well. There's also an impressive bit of business involving a 25-meter tall funeral pyre in the figure of a man made from trash and old furniture created for the film by artist Antony Gormley. Such images help the film overcome its occasional awkwardness and tendency to preach.
EXODUS
Artangel, Channel 4
Director, writer: Penny Woodcock
Producer: Ruth Kenley-Letts
Executive producer: Michael Morris
Director of photography: Jakob Ihre
Production designer: Christina Moore
Music: Malcolm Lindsay
Costume designer: Suzanne Cave
Editor: Brand Thumim
Cast:
Pharoah Mann: Bernard Hill
Moses: Daniel Percival
Batya Mann: Ger Ryan
Zipporah: Clare-Hope Ashitey
Aaron: Anthony Johnson
Jethro: Delroy Moore
Yardman: Michael Tulloch
Loony preacher: Justin Smithers
Dada: Matthew Smith
No MPAA rating, running time 11 minutes...
VENICE, Italy -- Although director and writer Penny Woodcock's post-apocalyptic fable "Exodus" wears its heart on its sleeve and occasionally staggers under the weight of its earnestness, it's an engaging piece of work.
Woodcock places the story from the second book of the Old Testament in a future England where Pharoah (Bernard Hill) is a local politician and Moses Daniel Percival) is his adopted son. It's a time when anyone not lilywhite has been lumped together -- minorities, asylum-seekers, rebels, criminals, deviants -- and walled into a place called Dreamland.
It's a ghetto familiar from films such as "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" and "Children of Men", and Moses ends up there when he causes the death of a guard who is threatening a young woman.
All the key points of the Biblical story are touched upon as Moses stands up to Pharoah and strives to free what have become his people. Well-made and acted with enthusiasm, the film is another Channel 4 production and should do well at the boxoffice on its travels abroad. It screened in the Horizons sidebar of the Venice International Film Festival.
Daniel Percival is Moses, a young man first seen as a baby abandoned for safekeeping on a beach by his Romany mother. He is found by Batya Mann (Ger Ryan) whose husband Pharoah becomes the leading politician 20 years later when the world is in uproar.
Moses is a marine scientist with only academic plans, but when he visits Dreamland he becomes a changed man. Not only does he learn about his real background from activist Aaron (Anthony Johnson) but also he falls in love with the woman he saved from the guard, Zipporah (Clare-Ashitey, from "Children of Men").
The population of Dreamland is deprived, hungry and constantly threatened by the roaming "pest control" -- soldiers with masks and rifles. Moses negotiates with Pharoah for the walls to be pulled down, but it takes measures of Biblical proportions before something happens.
Woodcock invents clever modern variations on the Old Testament plagues involving poisoning the ocean and spreading viruses on the Internet. Production designer Christina Moore created Dreamland in a disused funfair that had the same name in the seaside town of Margate, Kent, that was once a haven for working-class holidaymakers. Cinematographer Jakob Ihre captures it well. There's also an impressive bit of business involving a 25-meter tall funeral pyre in the figure of a man made from trash and old furniture created for the film by artist Antony Gormley. Such images help the film overcome its occasional awkwardness and tendency to preach.
EXODUS
Artangel, Channel 4
Director, writer: Penny Woodcock
Producer: Ruth Kenley-Letts
Executive producer: Michael Morris
Director of photography: Jakob Ihre
Production designer: Christina Moore
Music: Malcolm Lindsay
Costume designer: Suzanne Cave
Editor: Brand Thumim
Cast:
Pharoah Mann: Bernard Hill
Moses: Daniel Percival
Batya Mann: Ger Ryan
Zipporah: Clare-Hope Ashitey
Aaron: Anthony Johnson
Jethro: Delroy Moore
Yardman: Michael Tulloch
Loony preacher: Justin Smithers
Dada: Matthew Smith
No MPAA rating, running time 11 minutes...
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