I’ve written an article in the current April issue of The Wire on the excellent video installations of Elizabeth Price (formerly of 80′s indie pop group Talulah Gosh). Her show at Newcastle’s Baltic Centre runs through May and she has another in the works for London’s MOT International gallery, sometime at the end of April. [...]

In early February 2012 I interviewed John Akomfrah, film maker and co-founder of the Black Audio Film Collective. We spoke mostly about his new film, 9 Muses, his film making methods (unsurprisingly for the man who made Handsworth Songs, he takes an improvisational and musical approach) and his experiences making films for TV in the [...]

With: Me, Benedict Drew, Benedictions (Patricia Lennox-Boyd and Jamie Stevens featuring Jeremy Glogan, Steve Kado and Morag Keil). My segments are the ‘Personal Places’ bits. They were performed by the amazing Saul Reichlin (who only insisted upon a few changes to the script). A massive thanks and congrats needs to go out to Kate Cooper, [...]

TV by artists, for artists you say? Well, why not?! Saturday 24 September, 8pm at an artist-run project space near you!. Come down to the Magick Old Kentish Road on the night or watch live online at the above link.

An excerpt from Preston Sturges’s excellent 1941 comedy Sullivan’s Travels. It’s the story of a fluff film director John Lloyd Sullivan ‘The Caliph Of Comedy’ (played by Joel McCrea) who – to the horror of his studio bosses – wants to make a film about poverty in America. Dressed in bespoke rags made by his [...]

Doing my part for internet conservation: Uploaded from a Google Video with a description: “Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan expound on violence, alienation and the electronic envelope. The clash of two great minds. (1968)” I thought I’d re-up it here as Google has been slowly shutting down their video section and it’d be a shame [...]

I thought that since I wrote the damn things, I’d post some of the essays I stitched together over the past year. This rather rushed one is about the historian and pundit Niall Ferguson, specifically his series on the British Empire. Ferguson has a taste for authority but I have to say, having recently watched [...]

“The film maker and journalist Adam Curtis talks to [ME] about pop trash, posh documentaries and writing with archives.” Not included in the interview is the fact that he has a large bag with a picture of a cow on it and says “YEAH” to the TV series Game Of Thrones.

“For the past four years Matmos have been re-enacting experiments into telepathy that were done in the 1960s. They were basic sensory deprivation set-ups in which the experimental subjects were unable to hear or see. The subjects were asked to recognise different shapes being transmitted to them from a table of graphic sigils. In Matmos’s [...]

My research has been running off of the vague idea of ‘edutainment’, that being a mixture of entertainment with education, a kind of sugar coated pill to help people learn more effectively; going by the reasoning that if one enjoys an experience, one will remember it more effectively. This term is used predominantly for television [...]