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 [...]

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.

“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.

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 [...]

The ending sequence from episode 11 of Jacob Bronowski’s excellent 1973 series, The Ascent Of Man. It was commissioned for the then new BBC Channel 2 by David Attenborough as a scientific counterpoint to 1969′s Civilisation

Alex Jones on Greencine Podcast at SXSW Fest, Austin Texas [0'50 - 2'03] [ 1:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

An excerpt from an interview with broadcaster, film maker and all round impassioned theorist of the [a] New World Order Alex Jones as he drives through Austin, Texas with a bullhorn. It’s from Greencine’s regular podcast series at the SXSW fest in Austin… There’s just been a film made about Jones, called New World Order [...]

“Many of the people who make television programs have run out of ideas. They haven’t got anything more to say. So what they do is they entertain the masses by making reality TV. It’s as much their fault as it is the fault of the masses. They’ve run out of confidence. They haven’t got the [...]