This week on(line): Cast and Crew of Nightbreed discuss the director's cut / Morgan Boecher on What's normal anyway? webcomic
Alex Fitch
here's info on my shows etc. this week:
I'm ready for my close-up: Reconstructing Nightbreed
Ahead of its tour of America, in a panel discussion recorded in Welwyn Garden City, actors Simon Bamford (Ohnaka) and Nick Vince (Kinski) plus restoration producer Russell Cherrington and restoration editor Jimmy Johnson discuss the reconstruction of the director's cut of Clive Barker's Nightbreed, which is being presented at various venues to help fund a high definition print. The panel discuss the edits imposed on Barker by the studio, the disappointment felt by many of the bowdlerised version released in 1990 and how with the help of various formats and sources a reedit of all the existing footage was mounted to restore the film to its original version.
Panel Borders: What's normal anyway?
Concluding a month about LGBT comics, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Morgan Boecher about his humorous webcomic What's normal anyway? which depicts the travails of a transgender male. Morgan discusses the autobiographical elements of his comic, his history as an artist and future plans for the narrative. (Last in the current series)
8.30am, Monday 29th July on Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Panel Borders: Educating with autobiography – Comic Nurse and Erika Moen
Continuing a month of shows about lesbian and gay comics, Alex Fitch talks to MK Czerwiec and Erika Moen about their work. MK discusses her alter-ego Comic Nurse and narratives about nursing in her sequential art which include elements of autobiography and how this has led to curating zines and illustration work about her home city of Chicago. Erika talks about her webcomic Dar! which gave her a space to discuss her relationships and sexuality on the net, plus her collaborations with Jeff Parker on Bucko, published by Dark Horse, and Matthew Nolan on sex education strips. Originally broadcast 22nd July 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
https://panelborders.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/panel-borders-educating-with-autobiography-comic-nurse-and-erika-moen/
Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: Reinventing the portmanteau film
Alex Fitch talks to two directors of short films – Lee Hardcastle and Mitch Jenkins – about contributing to longer portmanteau works. Lee discusses his seminal short “Pingu’s The Thing” and “T is for Toilet”, his contribution to the new horror movie The ABCs of Death. Mitch talks about his collaborations with Alan Moore on the photo novella Unearthing and series of short films Jimmy’s End which he’s currently using a kickstarter campaign to fund its concluding chapter “His Heavy Heart”. Originally broadcast 12th July 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
https://panelborders.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/electric-sheep-magazine-podcast-reinventing-the-portmanteau-film/
Three fabulous black-and-white films hit UK screens this July, starting with Ben Wheatley’s surreal A Field in England, set during the English Civil War, along with the wonderful Spanish silent fantasy fairytale Blancanieves and Noah Baumbach’s infectiously witty NYC broken-dreams-fable Frances Ha, starring Greta Gerwig as the feisty lead.
Austrian cinema proves strong, with the resonant one-woman drama The Wall and Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Faith also arriving in theatres this month. We revisit Ciaran Foy’s dystopian shocker Citadel, finally getting a UK release, while Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Cleopatra returns as well as The Enigma of Kasper Hauser and its star, Bruno the Black. Also making a long-awaited comeback are Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder 3D, reviewed in comic strip form by Paul O'Connell, and the groundbreaking cyberpunk anime classic Akira.
Out on Blu-ray/DVD, more brilliant classics are unleashed, including David Cronenberg’s The Brood, Jack Hill’s Spider Baby, Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, and the original French zombie horror The Returned. Also Alex Fich reviews a new collection of children’s film classics titled Weird Adventures.
In features, we report on Punchdrunk’s cinematic production of The Drowned Man and follow Robert Redford adrift at sea in All Is Lost. The Jukebox comes from Scott and Charlene’s Wedding, while Daisy Hildyard’s alter ego is Werner Herzog. This month's Reel Sounds is on Dementia, and festival reports come from Cannes and Edinburgh.Brighton Beach Reads: Graphic Novel Show & Tell Weds 7 Aug 3.30-5pm
Alex Fitch of Resonance FM in conversation with Myriad graphic novelists Kate Evans, Woodrow Phoenix, Hannah Eaton, Nye Wright as they show and tell their favourite graphic novel beach reads.Weds 7 Aug 3.30-5pm
David Shenton Exhibition
These Foolish Things: Shenton’s cartoons are often camp but they’re not just camp, and they’re not that awful apolitical offensive camp, but a light, knowing, meaningful camp; their first task is to entertain and to make the audience laugh – and often they do much more because the liberation politics that informs his work means that with the laugh there is an acerbic point – a wry observation on how we live or a satirical comment about society and a wider political context, contained in the lives and musings of plausible and likeable characters. Or sometimes it’s just a silly joke.
1 June to 27 July 2013
Space Station 65 Gallery, Building One, 373 Kennington Road, London SE11 4PS
More info: www.spacestationsixtyfive.com
Cats and comics
Some
at Orbital claim this forthcoming exhibition is a combination of two of
the best things ever (cats and comics!). The exhibition features some
of the top names in alternative comics with a whole lot of kitties too.
The show includes work by: Jeffrey Brown, Lucy Knisley, James
Kochalka, Liz Prince, Sara McHenry, Gemma Correll, John Porcellino, Lizz
Lunney, Dan Berry, Rus Hudda, Sara Lindo, Yasmine Surovec, Seo Kim, and
Martin Tomsky.
July 13th - August 12th 2013
Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA
More info: www.orbitalcomics.com
Steadman @77 exhibition
The Cartoon Museum is proud to present a selection of Ralp Steadman's iconic cartoons to celebrate his 77th birthday. To accompany the exhibition there is a programme of events and talks, these include:
Brian Sibley talks about steadman's adaptations of classic texts such as Alice in Wonderland - 27th June, 6.30pm
Anita O'Brien discusses the use of the weird in Steadman's work - 4th July / 3rd September, 6.30pm
Exhibition continues until Autumn 2013, more info at http://cartoonmuseum.org
The Cartoon Museum, 35 Little Russell Street, London WC1A 2HH
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Programme maker, Resonance 104.4 FM (Arts Council) - www.resonancefm.com
Assistant editor, Electric Sheep Magazine - www.electricsheepmagazine.com