TRAILER TIME
Here’s a trailer for ‘The SEVEN Wonders’ ‘and the show below – in just under 45 seconds…
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THE DARK HORSE MOVING PICTURE SHOW
Friday April 5th
Doors Open 7.30pm – show starts 8.00pm sharp – £4.00
The Dark Horse Moving Picture Show is a Film and Live Performance event by Jennet Thomas and Paul Tarragó featuring special guest Leo Chadburn (a.k.a. Simon Bookish). It will premiere brand new Film/Performance/Music works by all three artists, as well as explore work from their extensive back catalogues of films and songs. This rich and strange cocktail of aesthetic pleasures, urgent ideas and cerebral experimentations will explore new hybrid territories that include a Mystery Event, plus Quiz with Prizes …
at
The Horse Hospital
Colonnade, Bloomsbury
London WC1N 1JD
Tube: Russell Square
Bus: 7, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
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EVEN NewER in print
For the past few months I’ve also been beavering away pretty intently with words and – come April time – will be revealing/releasing a book: ‘The Mascot Moth and several other pieces’. This is a collection of eighteen pieces of writing – mostly fiction (and no scripts). Images, extracts, where to get it etc. will be forthcoming then.
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Forthcoming events
I was cheered to hear that ‘The SEVEN Wonders’ – the latest in the Badger series - was an award winner at FLEX 2013 last week. This has jolted me into mentioning a couple of forthcoming screenings for it:
March 8th in the US at the Chicago Underground Film Festival in the programme ‘It’s the Arts’
April 5th it has its UK premiere in a very special show Jennet and I organising at the Horse Hospital. Full details (and a trailer) to follow very SOON.
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New in print
A new piece of writing by me appears in Five Years Gallery’s latest publication This Is Not A School. Book.
It’s a spin off from the event described below, and my submission/entry/chapter is a kind of documentary and fiction hybrid – with several pictures included! The book can be ordered from (or viewed for free on) Five Years’ site.
For convenience sake, and as a taster, a pdf of my piece can be downloaded here.
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THIS IS NOT A SCHOOL: The Fun of Failure
As part of Five Years’ programme of participatory activities responding to the phenomenon of the ‘alternative education project’ I ran a session combining balloon folding activity with round-table seminar discussion on the notion of ‘falling short’. Lively documentation and further details available here.
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Record of response
‘Record of response’ (experimental fiction piece with a hint of fact) published in the latest issue of 2HB
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I’m currently filming the latest episode in the Badger series, entitled ‘The Seven Wonders’ (this is a production still so the blue screen and skirting board won’t be visible in the finished piece). Once complete the episode should last 15-18mins and be free-standing i.e. a self contained narrative, although I’ve been working on some installation ideas along the way …
Themes? Living in the culture of the copy; originality and ownership; inexplicable illness; life on other planets. And wonder, times seven. Filming will carry on into late 2011 but the aim is to complete it before the year is out.
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Before then I shall complete this piece which has been happening in the background for the past few months. It’s been a kind of ‘corrective’ side project, shot on Super 8. For 10 years of my filmmaking this was the gauge that I shot everything on – so a return to it felt overdue. Its finished form shall be as a projected 16mm print, with vinyl record backing audio, performed with live voice over. The film’s shot, the edit worked out, and the audio has been track laid; even the voice over has been written. So what’s left to do? The optical printing which I have sworn to do in the coming month, and which I’ve crowded out with other tasks throughout the Summer. But those tasks are largely done now, and optical printing is fun … possibly.
The finished film with live soundtrack will last 11 mins and form a companion piece to another series (non Badger related). The beginnings of an explanation towards this can be found here.
