Iain Sinclair's Blog, page 28

Andrew Kötting presents: work in progress By Our Selves

From here

London Hackney Picturehouse – Wed 9 July @ 18.45

We bring you a special preview of Andrew Kötting, Iain Sinclair and Toby Jones’s work in progress BY OUR SELVES, with a presentation of spoken texts, previous works by Kötting and Sinclair, and a [...]

A message from Andrew Kötting

THANK YOU to all of you who have already helped the film by pledging money. There are plenty of new prizes and rewards and whatnots left on the kickstarter site.To see what it’s all about please click on the button above. There are just ten days left before the campaign closes after which if we [...]

Alejandro Jodorowsky: Film, comics and conversation

Fri 4 Jul 2014, 18.00-21.15

Conference Centre, British Library

£15, (£12 Over 60s) and £10

A unique visionary, Alejandro Jodorowsky is the director behind cult western El Topo, the John Lennon-backed The Holy Mountain and first attempts to film Frank Herbert’s Dune. He is a prolific creator of comics, many illustrated by [...]

Running and academia: the intellectual aspect of pounding the pavements

I found this article on The Guardian.

“Running has become socio-cosmic,” anthropologist Allen Abramson announces to his attentive audience, a group of artists, academics, writers and, collectively, runners, gathered at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.

Read the article

An interesting albeit unheard of (at least by me) meeting of academia and running. incidentally [...]

“American Smoke” paperback coming soon to your bookshop

A sneak preview to the cover of the paperback edition of “American Smoke”, which should hit the bookshops in July.

 

By Our Selves kickstarter – update nr. 2 – Alan Moore

Check out Alan Moore’s plea in support of the kickstarter campaign for the John Clare movie – By Our Selves.

Besides shooting this (short) message, Alan has also offered several rare books and comics, authored by him and others, as rewards.

 

Click here for the kickstarter page

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By Our Selves – Notes from the field – photo gallery

Iain just sent photos from the set of “By Our Selves”.

If you would like to help get this movie completed and distributed, you can contribute to the kickstarter campaign launched by Iain and Andrew. And a secret guest (not so secret).

 

 

PS: If you see an annoying message, please ignore it. Come [...]

BY OUR SELVES: FIELD NOTES FROM A ROAD TRIP WITH JOHN CLARE & THE STRAW BEAR OF WHITTLESEY – by Iain Sinclair

‘Get up, you maggot!’

‘He’s dead.’

‘It’s a reconstruction. In the wrong place.’

Toby Jones, fresh from acclaimed impersonations of Alfred Hitchcock and Truman Capote, sprawls in the gutter of a Stevenage foot tunnel, channelling John Clare. And resting his weary head on a portable typewriter. Words leak everywhere. Toby has [...]

Notes from location: nr. 01

We have received a note from Iain sent from location while shooting the new movie – and did I mention that you could contribute to making this movie happen by taking part to the kickstarter campaign?

“Amazed to discover character of ‘Norton’ on the cover of the latest gathering of ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’, [...]

American Smoke shortlisted for the Dolman Best Travel Book of the Year

We’ve just heard that American Smoke has been shortlisted for the Dolman Best Travel Book of the Year.

Congratulations to Iain.