For this week’s Something for the Weekend Music Video we have a song and performance from the filmmaker herself, Shauna Osborne-Dowle, with her timeless tale of loss, fear and belonging that is Ankor. Shauna spoke to D+CFilm about the video.
A rare Walt Disney collection of original animation drawings on celluloid has been donated to the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, at Exeter University. Plus, there’s a free talk from a man who knew Disney himself, on Friday, May 29 at 11am.
Kudos to Exeter University, which is holding a special Screen (as in the film studies journal) 50th anniversary symposium tomorrow (Saturday, April 25).
Talent, enthusiasm and naivety: Geoff Hodgkinson got in touch to explain the emergence of the Hatherleigh Media-Rich Film Festival.
An archival film and music project will take place at Dartington in February when the South West Music School will compose soundtracks to six short films from the Dartington Trust archive.
Phig Billy gives his low-down on the latest Batman flick, The Dark Knight. Granted, as a comic book artist myself, I’m a fan of comic books in general and Batman in particular, and if you’re well and truly fed up with the recent spate of superheroic spandex silliness at your multiplex then you may react…
You know you’re getting old when archive footage starts looking contemporary – and when policemen start looking dandy. So it’s refreshing to hear Plymouth Arts Centre is offering you a sofa and a biscuit to watch rare archive footage of Plymouth and the surrounding area. There are around 70 clips to choose from, of between…
The most savvy of the cinematic scribes have been scurrying back from Cannes early this week for the launch of the Flipside Film Festival, which kicks off tomorrow (May 21) at 6pm at PCAD’s renown Viewpoint gallery with ‘a private view and cinema preview screening of a programme of films made by emerging film artists’….
The Motion Plymouth festival steps up a gear today, with another fist fulla fab film-type thingies. First up, you can check out the wealth of moving imagery held in the Plymouth-based South West Film and Television Archive at a special shindig in The Lounge, above The Treasury, Royal Parade at 2pm, 3pm and 4pm. Elayne Hoskin delivers insights on this…
Fifty years ago, Hammer Films released their first horror movie, The Curse of Frankenstein, beginning a series of flicks which changed the face of cinema. Over the years Hammer has been the subject of loadsa books, essays and documentaries. Now, Hammer has given active backing to a fully-authorised history of the company. Compiled with unlimited access…
In order to make art more accessible to ver proles via new media, Tate Media has created a new BT Tate Player, which helps people worldwide access unique archive footage from the Sixties to the present day. The material ranges from rarely-seen archive film of Barbara Hepworth, Christo and Joseph Beuys to recent discussions with artists including Howard…
A new web-based video channel called Big Picture TV gives viewers the (wait for it) big picture on the environment offering hundreds of free, thought-provoking clips of global experts in sustainability – with startling warnings, commentary and practical ideas and solutions. Most startling of all is an exclusive video message from a haggard-looking Annie Lennox who launched the…