Melvin Van Peebles for his bloody-minded determination to make Sweet Sweetback Baadasssss' Song the way he wanted no matter what. Soledad Miranda, Meiko Kaji and Tura Satana - the baddest, meanest girls in movie history!
Directors
Seijun Suzuki, Tod Browning, Louis Feuillade, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Mario Bava, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Yasuzo Masumura, Fritz Lang, Mamoru Oshii, David Lynch, Georges Franju, Guillermo del Toro, Park Chan-wook, Jess Franco, Roman Polanski, Sergio Leone, Kim Ki-duk, Jean-Luc Godard...
About me:
Fed up with the toothless platitudes of mainstream media? Like your cinema offbeat and left-field? Electric Sheep is an online + print film magazine that doesn't toe the line. We celebrate the celluloid dreams of the most outlandish, provocative and visionary directors, the marginal and the transgressive, the overlooked and the underrated. Every month we offer uncompromising reviews of the best new films and DVDs, take another look at forgotten works and interview the fantasists and mavericks of the film world. Join us for a rave and a rant - and for a spin of our very exciting Film Roulette!
The brand new Electric Sheep Magazine in print, published by Wallflower Press, is now out! Our summer issue is a cinema and jazz special to coincide with the re-release of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, a heart-rending, soulful monochrome gem. To celebrate the belated recognition of one of American independent cinema’s greats, we look at the influence of jazz on film in the US with articles on Shirley Clarke, John Cassavetes, Jim Jarmusch and Beat cinema among others. Plus features on the Edinburgh Film Festival, Cine-Excess II, manga and film, reviews of forthcoming films, including Savage Grace and Nic Roeg’s latest, Puffball, as well as interviews with Charles Burnett and Tom Kalin. For more information about where to buy the magazine or how to subscribe, please email amanda[at]wallflowerpress.co.uk.
Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris), Donkey Punch, Memories of Underdevelopment, Savage Grace, Origin: Spirits of the Past, Puffball (Nic Roeg), The Case.
DVD REVIEWS:
Violence at High Noon, Chrysalis, Zizek!
SHORT CUTS: straight 8
FILM JUKEBOX: Bochum Welt
FILM ROULETTE:
We have 5 DVD copies of Guy Maddin’s The Saddest Music in the World, a funny, poignant, magical musical melodrama starring Isabella Rossellini. To enter the competition, just spin the Film Roulette! Closing date for entries: Friday 25 July.
Who I'd like to meet: Alejandro Jodorowsky when he comes to London in April. And we did! Read the interview here!
DEADLINE EXTENDED CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ONEDOTZERO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL TOUR 2008/09 DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 JULY 2008!
FREE TO SUBMIT
onedotzero presents up-and-coming visual talent alongside the work of world-leading creative luminaries, revealing future directions in moving image. inaugural shows at the prestigious bfi southbank in london uk and centro cultural recoletta in buenos aires argentina followed by extensive global city tour.
free to enter, onedotzero seek innovative digitally inflected works across music video, animation, motion graphics, narrative shorts, experimental work, documentaries, live audio visual performances, processing, interactive works and installations. introducing new categories based on the concept of 'citystates', an engaging exploration of city life.
KAIDAN is the term used for the Japanese ghost stories, and, extensively, for the J-Horror culture. The Buddhist moralizing stories were rapidly transformed into international shockers; people wanted more frightening monstrosities and oddness, with no direct connection with the Western horror.
Manga, anime, movies and the subcultures developed around them competed in shicks and panic. If you really want to know why on the Japanese horror movies is written 18+, take a look at the next issue of Otaku Magazine. Nevertheless, is our duty to warn you that all who looked inside certain pages of this issue have disappeared shortly after. Still, it might be just a story to send the children to sleep for good.
thanks, i've picked up a copy of your magazine a few times, good to see someone champion something different rather than all the usual boring mainstream films that bog down cinemas up and down the land.
FOUND FOOTAGE: MOVING IMAGE, FILM, VIDEO SUBMISSIONS SOUGHT
"Found footage is a filmmaking term which describes a method of compiling films partly or entirely of footage which has not been created by the filmmaker, and changing its meaning by placing it in a new context. It should not be mistaken for documentary or compilation films. It is also not to be mistaken with stock footage. The term refers to the "found object" (objet trouvé) of art history". From Wikipedia
popup are looking for short (15 mins max duration) artists moving image, film and video work which utilises appropriated or found visual source material for a special curatorial project and screening.
What we're looking for:
We are not looking for a particular theme - but rather an approach to making and the use of source materials.
We are looking for filmmakers and artists who produce new and compelling moving image work incorporating appropriated/found visual/sound footage. This might take the form of an artists utilising available public domain films/video and cutting them up and re-editing them or re-shooting footage from several appropriated sources and combining them to create alternative narrative structures or critical formal arrangement. Originally the work can have been created in any format (that is moving image, film, animation or video based).
To apply: Email a short written description of the work you would like us to consider; You can submit up to three works on DVD (or CD) in a Quicktime compatible format; i.e .avi, .mov, .XviD, .DivX, .MP4. (or the URL of your website if we can see your work there); Your c.v, including your contact details.
Send these either by email to popupfilms@btinternet.com or by post to popup, 63 Nelson Street, Cross Roads, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD22 9EA
Deadline for application: Monday 26th November 2007
Return of work: If you want your work to be returned to you, you must include with your submission
GHOST SCHOOL IS NEXT THURSDAY! celebrating the death of summer and heralding in those shorter darker days. baked goods, disco dancing the best new live acts around; what more could you want! see you there, polar bear!
Congratulations on the printed version. It's a triumph. Good to see a mag covering the full cinematic scope: from Jean Painleve through to 'Handy Warmhole'. And it's free! Bx
