The opening party for Spill http://spillfestival.com/ saw machine
spirits in the name of Siren, a night train through Ipswich, a man surrendering
by staple gunning a white flag to his arm and clashing Asian and Britishness in
the form of Bishi – most excellent – all with chips and sparkling wine. 20,000
days on earth http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2920540/
is a stunning film that explores the idea of creativity – its a joy to behold
within today’s miss-guided skewed version of creativity – ploughing his own
furrow Nick Cave is important – important that he exists to point out what we should
be concerned with, or at least to provide a model, a route – the film will want
to make you collaborate with the nearest sentient being after you have gone out
and listed to the back catalogue. Baraka http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103767/
– is a stunning film – a Koyaanisqatsi http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/
for 2014 – its a wide ranging set of images that explore the world we live
in/on – no narrative or voice-over to tell you what to think just stunning
images - there is a particular shot of the Kuwaiti oil fields burning
accompanied with bagpipes and drumming that is haunting. The shots of mass
production of food juxtaposed with people on escalators going underground is
something we’ve seen before but here there is a new spin with multiple images
and incredibly speeded up film so that almost the souls of the people are
filmed rather than their physical self
