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unfoldingwalksandwatching

Work in terms of engaging with students on synthetic anatomy at Kings has started, online has made the work more focused and less ‘roaming’ we will see if the experience will be as rich – for both the participants and the teaching team – so far so good. The bookness course at Leicester Print Works continues. There is some exciting work created and even more, so the conversations are positive. after listening to Historian David Olusoga on Desert Island Discs (the most excellent tracks) Fela Kuti - Zombie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5x6pbJMyU Bob Marley & The Wailers - You Can't Blame The Youth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3pi-6fInng Dr. Alimantado - Just The Other Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay1c_oQUVUg I thought I would check out his work  - a house through time can be watched on iplayer - excellent - check out your history and privilege https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7829950/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_1. American utopia https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11874226/ if you love talking heads and David Byrne you will love this but even if you do not there is much to enjoy. One Night in Miami - icons meet to explore and discuss https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10612922/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Nomadland – truly harrowing and dysfunctional but lots to learn here Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love – dubious unless you like Leonard Cohen but great landscapes Bridgerton – good frocks in between the sex if that’s your thinghttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt9770150/ finally a desolate portrayal of Oscar Wilde by Rupert Everett in The Happy Prince. Meanwhile in between walking I have become interested in the folding narratives encountered within packaging!

walkingandlookingand

the break has been all about long walks around Walberswick, Lowestoft and Southwold - managed to see an evening of projections at Snape Maltings, animating the buildings.  onto films - The threatening humour of The Green Butcher's https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342492/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 The glorious and thoughtful Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9760516/ Love and monsters - effectively the odyssey with giant CGI insects men and chicken - twisted darkness that will make you feel a little tainted https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3877674/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Adams apples - is a dark dark dark experience of what holds us together when what holds us together is taken away https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418455/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Another Round - a twisted tale of lost men trying to find themselves in a dystrophic whirlwind of madness https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10288566/ Spree - new ways of presenting new ways of being https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11394332/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0