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May 17, 2013, 10:05:50 AM5/17/13

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Dear all,

here's info about radio shows I'm involved in this week.

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I'm ready for my close-up: Kristinia Buozyte on Vanishing Waves

In an interview recorded at Sci-Fi-London earlier this moonth, Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte talks to Electric Sheep Magazine editor Virginie Sélavy about her film Vanishing Waves, a hypnotic, sensual sci-fi experience in which a scientist connects with the brain of a comatose patient with whom he has increasingly intense neural encounters that gradually reveal what happened to her.

5pm, Friday 17th May, repeated 8am, Tuesday 21st May 2013, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast at http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/events

Panel Borders: Exhibiting Comics (2013)

As part of Panel Borders' month of shows about fine art and comics, we have our yearly look at how art from comic books is displayed in the gallery space. At OCCUPY MY TIME GALLERY, Deptford, Alex Fitch talks to gallery owner / curator Sue Cohen, and artist Sarah Lightman, about the latter's exhibition "The Book of Sarah", which previews her forthcoming graphic novel from Myriad Editions.
Also, at Phoenix Brighton, fine art lecturer Sue Gollifer, curator Karin Mori, exhibition designer Ben Thomson, and artist Iain Paxon (Hamilton Yarns) talk about the gallery's exhibition of artists' books "Press and Release".

"The Book of Sarah" is on display at OCCUPY MY TIME GALLERY, Enclave 9, Resolution Way, Deptford, London SE8 4NT (Weds - Sat) to 1st June, 2013

"Press and Release" is on display at Phoenix Brighton, 10-14 Waterloo Pl., Brighton, East Sussex BN2 9NB (Weds - Sun) to 9th June 2013

8.30am, Monday 20th May, repeated 3pm, Thursday 23rd May 2013, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com

The Thread: Wrath (of the dead)

In the second of series of eight shows about the Seven Deadly Sins, the weekly discussion show run by PhD students from The London Consortium looks at the concept of Wrath and its connection to zombie culture. Guests include: Dr. Richard Barnett, a Fellow at the Wellcome Trust and host of 'Sick City', Alex Fitch, the presenter of Resonance FM's Panel Borders and an assistant editor of Electric Sheep Magazine, and Dr. Jill Critchley, psychotherapist, member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies and accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Psychotherapist. Host: Lauren Sapikowski

7pm, Monday 20th May, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / more info at: http://thethreadradio.org/?page_id=550

recent podcasts

Panel Borders: Barbara Nessim - a (comics) artful life

Continuing a month of shows about the connections between fine art and comic books, Alex Fitch talks to acclaimed artist and graphic designer Barbara Nessim about her work and the many connections it has with sequential art, as its influence and subject. A selection of Nessim's work is currently on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, with her Wonder Woman analogue "Star Girl Banded with Blue Wave" (1966) being used as the focus for the marketing of the show; Alex talks to her about this work, the use of panel based sequential images in her "Flag" series and others, and her unlikely appearance in a anti-drugs fumetti, facilitated by Gloria Steinem and published in Warren Magazines' Help! periodical in the 1960s.

https://panelborders.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/panel-borders-barbara-nessim-a-comics-artful-life/

Reality Check: Apocalypse Miao

In a pair of Q and As recorded at the London Science-Fiction and Fantastic Film Festival (SCI-FI-LONDON), Alex Fitch talks to the creators of two new low budget portrayals of the apocalypse on screen. Stars Alan Bagh and Thomas Favaloro, writer / director James Nguyen and producer Jeff Gross discuss the B movie spoof Birdemic II: The Resurrection and co-writer / star Vera Miao talks about her excellent mid-apocalyptic road movie Best Friends Forever. (Originally broadcast 3rd May 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

https://panelborders.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/reality-check-apocalypse-miao

online magazine:

Electric Sheep Magazine issue 73: Running from the Past - Byzantium, Baron Blood, Mud

From the search for El Dorado in Werner Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God, to a cut-throat Mexico in John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Thomas Arslan's Canadian-set Gold, we explore the failed adventures of some of cinema's cursed protagonists in our latest theme.

Out in cinemas this month, there is some dazzling horror on offer in Neil Jordan's Byzantium and Ryuhei Kitamura's No One Lives. In Pedro Almodóvar's latest comedy, I'm So Excited, a plane is doomed to fly in circles above Spain, while a Danish cargo ship is overrun by pirates in Tobias Lindholm's tense thriller A Hijacking. We follow Matthew McConaughey running from the past in Jeff Nichols's Mud, and we also have a review of classic 1970s drama The King of Marvin Gardens.

Out on DVD/Blu-ray, dreams are dashed in Billy Liar, while Carlos Saura's Cría Cuervos offers a haunting reflection on memory, loss and history. We trace the sinister characters in Mario Bava's Baron Blood and Black Sabbath, and take a look back at the Polish cinema classic Illumination and Henri-George Clouzot's The Murderer Lives at 21.

In features, we have a special interview with John Hawkes. In Reel Sounds, Robert Barry explores the music-less soundtrack of Bruno Dumont's Hors Satan, while in our Comic Strip Review we revisit the wildly weird Marebito. We report from Sci-Fi-London and the Istanbul Film Festival, and in Alter Ego author Kate Worsley's filmic alter ego is Commander Ericson in The Cruel Sea

www.electricsheepmagazine.com

recommended events

Image Duplicator at Orbital Comics

Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein currently has a show on at the Tate Modern. While the public is intimately familiar with his work, what they may be unaware of is that many of his images were directly “appropriated” from comic artists like Irv Novick, Russ Heath, Jack Kirby, John Romita and Joe Kubert, who received no fee or credit.

Is this an act of brilliant recontexturalisation? The elevation of commercial “low” art to “high” art? Art world snobbery? Artistic licence? Gallery shortsightedness? Cultural annexation? Or something else entirely? This show brings together real comic-book artists and other “commercial artists” – illustrators, designers, cartoonists – to ask these kinds of questions and share their views, via their work.

Each artist was asked to “re-reappropriate” one of the comic images Lichtenstein used: to go back to the source material and twist it into something interesting and original, and in the process to comment on the act of appropriation.

Money raised from selling prints and originals will be donated to the Hero Initiative, which helps down-on-their-luck comic book veterans.

Take Back the Art!

16th May - 31st May 2013, Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA

More info: http://www.orbitalcomics.com/image-duplicator16052013-to-31052013

Society screening, Brighton

CINE EXCESS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON PRESENTS:

A SPECIALLY REMASTERED SCREENING OF CULT HORROR CLASSIC, SOCIETY

FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH DIRECTOR/PRODUCER BRIAN YUZNA

The Cine Excess International Film Festival and the University of Brighton’s Faculty of Arts are delighted to welcome myth-making director/producer Brian Yuzna to the region, where he will present a special screening of his cult film classic Society, as well as to give a career talk to film students studying at the University’s Hastings Campus the following day. He will be interviewed on stage by Cine Excess Director, Dr. Xavier Mendik, Lecturer in film studies at University of Brighton and author of BFI’s 100 Cult Films.

Society (1989) is a deliciously dark satire on the darker underbelly of modern life.Billy (Billy Warlock) is feels he’s different to the rest of his family. They seem to relish an upper class life of social parties whilst he prefers to be more down-to-earth.His suspicions extend to his own girlfriend but when David (Tim Bartell) his sister’s boyfriend, dies mysteriously after showing him a tape, he returns home to find a bizarre party in full swing which reveals the true horrors of his upbringing, a heritage he’s now expected to embrace.

THURSDAY 23rd MAY TIME: 9.15pm

DUKE’S CINEMA at KOMEDIA, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton BN1 1UN

More info / tickets: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Dukes_At_Komedia/Whats_On

Thanks for listening,

Alex

iTunes "New and noteworthy" podcaster, November 2011 - http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/id390974029
Programme maker, Resonance 104.4 FM (Arts Council) - www.resonancefm.com
Assistant editor, Electric Sheep Magazine - www.electricsheepmagazine.com