Here's a playlist + commentary I did for 4:3 (Boiler Room's platform for underground film + video + docs) on the subject of anti-drug films and commercials. I particularly commend to your eyeballs + eardrums "Curious Alice", "The Maggot", and "Illusions", but the whole thing is worth a peruse, as indeed is the rest of the stuff up at the site.
Here are some extra drug-scare films that didn't make the cut.
[A history of drugs] from I•HATE•THIS•FILM on Vimeo.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Monday, July 16, 2018
"visual music" talk at Tate Modern July 27 ++++ Post Punk events in Italy - Locorotondo (July 21-22), Milan (23), Rome (24)
Presented by 4:3 as part of the Uniqlo Tate Late series, on July 27 I'm giving a YouTube illustrated talk about "visual music" - a subset of 20th Century experimental animation - with particular focus on alliances between film makers and musique concrete composers, and on animators who created their own electronic scores.
The event is free, but requires a ticket - these can be picked up from 17.00 hrs onwards on the day of the event at the Level 0 Ticket Desk at the Tate Modern.
UNIQLO TATE LATE
TATE MODERN - FRIDAY 27 JULY 2018
Visual Music
Starr Cinema, Boiler House Level 1
19:10: doors open
19:30 - 21:00 talk + films
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Before arriving in London, I'm participating in the LOCUS FESTIVAL in Locorotondo (near Bari, in the Apulia region of S.E. Italy) and doing events in Milan and Rome based around the minimum fax republication of Postpunk 1978-1984 (aka Rip It Up and Start Again).
LOCOROTONDO
Saturday July 21
19:00 hrs, Largo Mazzini
POST-PUNK 1978-2018: 40 anni di musiche, cultura e società .
The event is free, but requires a ticket - these can be picked up from 17.00 hrs onwards on the day of the event at the Level 0 Ticket Desk at the Tate Modern.
UNIQLO TATE LATE
TATE MODERN - FRIDAY 27 JULY 2018
Visual Music
Starr Cinema, Boiler House Level 1
19:10: doors open
19:30 - 21:00 talk + films
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Before arriving in London, I'm participating in the LOCUS FESTIVAL in Locorotondo (near Bari, in the Apulia region of S.E. Italy) and doing events in Milan and Rome based around the minimum fax republication of Postpunk 1978-1984 (aka Rip It Up and Start Again).
LOCOROTONDO
Saturday July 21
19:00 hrs, Largo Mazzini
POST-PUNK 1978-2018: 40 anni di musiche, cultura e società .
Gli ultimi decenni di musica negli scritti di
Simon Reynolds.
Con Simon Reynolds, Vittorio Bongiorno, Nicola Gaeta ed Enzo Mansueto
Con Simon Reynolds, Vittorio Bongiorno, Nicola Gaeta ed Enzo Mansueto
Sunday July 22
18:00 hrs, Casa Locus, Locorotondo (Ba)
WRITING
MUSIC: scrivere la musica
Workshop con Simon Reynolds. Incontro esclusivo ravvicinato su tecniche e metodi del giornalismo musicale.
Posti limitati, prenotazione gratuita RSVP su http://bit.ly/scriverelamusica
Workshop con Simon Reynolds. Incontro esclusivo ravvicinato su tecniche e metodi del giornalismo musicale.
Posti limitati, prenotazione gratuita RSVP su http://bit.ly/scriverelamusica
MILAN
July 23
7 pm Post Punk event at Verso libri bookshop
In conversation with Giulia Vavaliere.
Translator Michele Piumini.
July 24
11 - 12.30 - playing records on Radio Raheem
ROME
July 24
8 pm - Post Punk event at Monk
In conversation with Chiara Colli.
Translator Michele Piumini